it is bike riding season.

i couldn't be more thrilled.
cause, the sun.

also. i move this week.

packing. packing. & packing.

uh hi.

i have forgotten a bra three times in the last week.
how does that even happen?

i hit a cat with my car today.
killed it dead.
i can't go around killing cats.
                   i'm vegetarian.

summer is coming.

& with it a new life.

i miss you guys.
i'll answer questions soon.
. . . maybe. . .

xo.

leonardo is fine.

 i don't get why people say the mona lisa was leonardo da vinci's best work.
i thought he was pretty good in the titanic & in inception too.

answers.

--if i could be any animal i would pick two. an owl or a giraffe. an owl because they are a symbol of wisdom. owls probably read a lot & we just don't know it. plus. they are really cute. & giraffes because they are tall enough to have their own altitude. (i, being five foot, wouldn't know what that feels like.)

--good tunes. well. i used to listen to some really, really good music. but as my life got a little bit more dramatic so did my tuneage. so bear with me. but i promise some of this stuff is really good.
landslide - the smashing pumpkins
blue- first aid kit
tonight, tonight - the smashing pumpkins
broadripple is burning - margot & the nuclear so so's
pictures of you - the cure
getaways - big talk
crystal ball - pink
newfallen - a weather
heroes - david bowie
spaceman - the killers
i'll have to say i love you in a song - jim croce
give the devil back his heart - the barr brothers
body in a box - city & colour
another like you - hayes carll 
sandalwood - lisa loeb
my heart goes boom - miss li
young turks - rod stewart
hungry heart - bruce springsteen
homeward bound - simon & garfunkel
american pie - don mcclean
vincent - don mcclean
everything i own - bread
walking down the line- bob dylan
self esteem - the offspring
float on- modest mouse
create me - neil diamond
destiny - zero 7
numbers don't lie - the mynabirds
hello, i'm in delaware - city & colour
amber - 311
you never need nobody - the lone bellow
heartbreak - ry cuming
lazy eye- silversun pickups
sweet caroline - neil diamond
waste - foster the people

just a few. enjoy. or don't. whatever.

--top three favorite band/singers.
1. neil diamond. 
2. foster the people or the killers. (could never decide.)
3. pink.

--what are your feelings on socks? well. i am a chaco girl. but every night i sleep with socks on. so i guess i like em fine. fuzzy ones especially.

the answers to your book questions.

--what are some good reads? well. let me tell you this, i read a lot. & i have never read a book i don't like. it sounds cliche but i mean it. i have read great books & i have read good books. but i have never read a book i hated. but some good reads i have recently indulged in & would recommend are as follows:
* white oleander - janet finch.
* the secret life of bees - sue monk kidd.
* the art of racing the rain - garth stein.
* every day- david levithan.
* why we broke up - daniel handler.
* the dovekeepers - alice hoffman.
* tuesdays with morrie - mitch albom.
* the fault in our stars - john green.
* eat, pray, love - elizabeth gilbert.
* the history of love - nicole krauss.
* extremely loud and incredibly close - jonathan safran foer.
* the great gatsby - f. scot fitzgerald.
* anna karenina - leo tolstoy
to name a few. all are good, great books. i am currently reading prozac nation by elizabeth wurtzel which i am also in love with. i have yet to finish it but i think i have already fallen for the story. i could go on & on about great, good books but i will let it be.

--favorite feel good/empowerment books. (similar to jane eyre.) jane eyre is my hero. i mean it. but. i recently finished stephanie nielson's, heaven is here. oh. my. this book was so fantastic. i would certainly throw it towards the top of the list of favorites. probably. i bawled one second, cried the next, & felt sincere anger when things just didn't work out according to plan. so yes, read this book. now. another, p.s. i love you by cecilia ahern. this book is cheesy, very cheesy. but i read it during a very vulnerable time & i would read it again & again. (probably have.) tina fey's bossypants. its a laugh-out-loud-til-my-stomach-cramps kind of book. one that just makes you feel good. its kind of a funny story by ned vizzini & of course harper lee's to kill a mockingbird.

--favorite, favorite book of all time. to ask me my favorite book is to ask how many stars number the sky. but when asked this question to kill a mockingbird or wuthering heights always come to mind. i have never been so in love with a fictional character as i am with heathcliff or atticus finch.

--how do you feel about reading books twice? do it. i read tom sawyer every summer, wuthering heights every christmas vacation, jane eyre whenever life is rough, & to kill a mockingbird at least twice a year. every time i read a book i highlight as a read. & every time i read i see what jumped out to me the time before & i remember what i was going through. it is like a journal written in someone else's words. i read the same pages, the same passages, but never the same book twice. so read & re-read books. its fine. you should. in fact. . . please do.

--> i love books. i love being asked about books. i am afraid reading will one day go out of style. pray with me that it doesn't. thanks for asking me about my passion. 

you can ask me questions now.

hi.
i know i am not popular. or particularly entertaining.
but due to my two jobs & love of books i am quite lacking in a social life.
& answering your questions would make me smile.
& feel social.

so. . .
if you wanted. . . ask me anything you'd like.
please?
also. let me know who you are? cause i'd like that.

mmmmhhhhmmmm.

but really.
please.

these are my work clothes.

i like grey.
it fits my mood these days.
you ever feel like it is probably simply time to quit. . .
but you cannot bring yourself to do it?
yeah.