My Favorite Things

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings... These are a few of MY favorite things:

* RIO (how did I live without you for 23 years?!) * Teaching Junior High English (oh, the drama!) * Dashboard Confessional (you have STOLEN my heart) * Tomato Soup & Cheese Bread (the way to a woman's heart...) * Rain on my skylights in the middle of the night * The Color Purple (NOT the book, the COLOR!) * Crossword Puzzles (am I OCD if I can't go to sleep until I've done my crossword for the night??) * Edward Cullen (K, forget about Bella already--bite ME!) * My iPod (the love of my life, after Rio) * Running! Running! * Talking to my plants (THEY don't think I'm a crazy plant lady) * Hablas Espanol? (ah, Granada, mi corazon) * Superheroes * My Homemade Orange Marmalade (sinful) * Turquoise Jewelry * a Full Moon (and what a waste would that be without a slow kiss to go with it?) * C.S.I. (come on, Gil, are bugs REALLY that interesting?) * Reading a book I can't put down *