i am thankful for...REUNIONS!

though everything has been pretty ridiculously beautiful on this dear little utah trip, there are a few things that deserve standing ovations. maybe things like the Inadvertent Navy/Navy TWINS!or, the return of the Great Action Shot Adventure (featuring new player ASHMAE! doing her one of the kind Russian folk dance/karate chop move)or, the audition for wikipedia's new fistpump image!or, making puppeteering dreams come true at kneaders:or, miraculously...

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these friends of mine

sometimes i open my email and see treasures such as this:which make me want to cry with delight (SO CUTE!) and pain (why am i not the one sitting next to that precious cargo!??) (PS this panda on a plane was so perfect because i just saw kung fu panda last night and it was awesome.)my dear friend spencer (don't mind the creepy photo), who now has a stellar beard a lovely wife who bakes delicious things in a bakery, started sending me unbearably cute...

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i am literally speechless

carrot clarinet = so freakishly c...

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how jason mraz saved my life tonight

if it wasn't apparent from my post on power pop ballads, it should be painfully apparent now: i am in love with top 40 pop. i do not know how this started, but i do know that every time i am the car i turn on the radio. tonight i actually listened to delilah. her breathy voice soothed my tattered little nerves and i sank into her tonally-imbalanced selection of love songs ("you're the one that i want" AND "everything i do i do it for you") with something that very closely resembled relief.i have a suspicion that my top 40 love started out ironically...

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steve martin = good

next song to learn on the ukulele:"tonight you belong to me" (remember steve and bernadette in the jerk?)this version is performed by fiona apple, jon brion, and nickel cr...

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honorary members of the genius list

a friend pointed out these two treasures that iTunes failed to put on the list (travesty!)Anything for Love - Meat Loaf (I was very surprised this didn't come up but I defintely watched it and the following Dr. Pepper commeercial last night to make up for it!)Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes (the real atrocity is that I don't actually own this song...easily remedie...

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iTunes genius IS a genius

i love how my computer knows me better than a lot of real people...oh algorithms, i trust you with my life. lia & trish both posted things on secrets and now i will reveal one of mine (not so secret, actually). i like--no, love, thrive--on power pop ballads. and the cheesier/sappier the better. much to my dismay, this once ironic indulgence has now become the real mccoy. you can only listen to "i would do anything for love" and "total eclipse...

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reason 409832 to love ukulele people

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good thing about snow days:

tonight i put the fire on and learned three new songs on my ukulele. then i went to emily & craig's who made me cocoa and i played them said new songs. if winter is going to be like this i'm totally ...

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tree climbing, pilfered images, etc.

This is what happens when you get a bunch of writers together after reading an essay that talks about tree climbing:Post-climb, scouting out the next tree, late afternoon falling in the meadow surrounded by treesFrom Thoreau's "Walking":I found my account in climbing a tree once. It was a tall white pine, on the top of a hill; and though I got well pitched, I was well paid for it, for I discovered new mountains in the horizon which I had never seen...

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thumbs up!

for ukuleles!my inevitable future winter nights just got a lot war...

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because i love sundays

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true love part 2

i am ridiculously excited about this:and i am 110% not ashamed about it...

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