A Few of My Favorite Things

(Just insert Julie Andrew's voice here..)

1. Mango. Anything and everything about it. I love the smell. I love the taste. I've been on a mango-kick the past couple of weeks and have been indulging myself in mango sorbet. If you havn't tried it, I implore you to drive in your car as fast as you can and grab a pint of this "defining-sense-of self."

2. Anthroplogie. I walk through that store just about every day... and it inspires me. I get hit everytime with a serious case of creative-wanderlust. I start itching to think of new things to do.. from crafts to making jewelry and painting old tin cans. Something about that store... really sparks my need to make something. (Of course, I leave that store empty handed everytime... except for yesterday - I could afford the $25 purple sunglasses that were calling my name. Yes, purple.)

3. Elisabeth Elliot. I'm also on an Elliot-kick.. where I find myself drinking chai tea lattes and aggressivly pouring into her books with such a wonder over her simple thinking and her knowledge of the Truth. It speaks to me. It's not just words. (I want to be able to write like this...)

4. Nikon D60. I'm learning more and more about my incredible yet complex camera. I want to take more pictures.... good pictures. So, I'm kind of working on learning all that I can.. and see where that takes me. My brother sends me assignments each week of projects and things to take pictures of. (He took a photography class in college) I never thought that a fire hydrant could be beautiful and appealing with some photoshop and editing.

5. My dog. Yes, I have a dog. An extremely cute one at that. His name is Freckles and is the laziest cocker-spaniel you will ever meet. I laugh at him quite often. He also managed to sit on an entire chocolate cake in the backseat of a stranger's car. Yes, this is my dog.

6. Psalm 145. Read it.

7. Anything that starts with an 's' these days seems quite wonderful. Here is my to do list: Sleeping. Swimming. Shopping. Sugar. Sweets. Swinging. Sunbathing. Sunset-chasing. It's my break.. so what else am I going to do?

8. My sister. And her capability to fly to europe with her 2 best friends and travel and site-see everything and anything within France, Switzerland, and Germany. How I ache to go to places such as these.

9. My middle school girls. They are the bomb and I love them. I wish we could hang out more.

10. Colombia! I am going again in August :) And cannot even contain the excitement!! God is good. Just.. this time, I need to know a little bit more spanish. Spanish! Add that to my list of 's'.