It's All About Me 2Day

This artist's list of 25, for 2Day - the 2nd.

1 I wanna be like lots of other people when I grow up. Most brilliant people, that is. Including Xenia Hausner.
2 I don't play instruments. I can't even play air guitar.
3 I've lived in some towns that sound like foreign countries or states. Chana, Polo, Oregon.
4 I hate sale papers with end dates that are small as pinheads. Maybe I should just throw the paper out every week instead, huh?
5 I love pears, peonies, bleeding hearts, fiddle heads, ginkgos, hydrangeas, faces and dry toilet seats.
6 My youngest brother was born six months after me. Oh wait...
7 Favorite show during the summer? White Sox games especially if I'm watching them with John.
8 New Fav Motto (author unknown) "@!#! Shoes." I dread winter 'cause shoes are prisons on my feet. No Imelda for me.
9 I love snow that glitters even in the daylight, random gangs of wild turkeys visiting my brother's neighboring orchard and K State by default.
10 Favorite brush with greatness? I met someone long ago when my husband was acting with whom I felt an instant connection. But after awhile I sadly forgot her name. It just leaked out of my brain. But we had a blast and I kept a picture of us two. I later figured out that person is THE Frances McDormand. I JUST KNEW she was special. I was rightchaknow.
11 I love camping, family required, just as long as we get to revisit all the family stories by the campfire. Even if the campfire is a candle in the dead of summer's heat.
12 Favorite quiet, happy place to conjure up when I'm stressed is facing the lake at the end of the dock. The Shell Lake cabin dock, that is. Bare feet in the water, a given.
13 I'm sick and tired of being discriminated against.
14 My sister is my first and always, best favorite girl. Granddaughters have their own golden category.
15 Art is food for my soul. I never understood Klimt though. Yuck.
16 My biggest regret is not having that third child. Especially if it was to be a girl. If I were to have a daughter, I'd want her to be just like Krysta. Nothing to change except the state she lives in.
17 Can't figure out why rum isn't one of the four food groups. Think I'll go drink dinner. Just kidding. Dessert, here I come.
18 Top 5 songs are...

• "Guilty" by Bonnie Raitt


• "My Darling Hometown" or "Blue Umbrella" by John Prine


• "Mil Besos", "Long Road" or "Mary" all by Patty Griffin


• "Alabama" by Wet Willie


• "Dream Girl" by Dave Matthews Band - How can I leave out so many others like James Taylor's "Is That the Way You Look" or "You Can Close Your Eyes" or how about Ray Charles' "Busted" or Maht Wells' "Moon Topples" or "I'll Take You There" by the Staple Singers? And I love Bonnie's wicked "Gnawin' On It". I give. Okay. It's official. I can't do just the top five. Not no way, not no how.

19 Top 5 movies (for the moment) are... that's not possible to list, is it? I'll try. Here it goes:

• It's a Wonderful Life


• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington


• My Cousin Vinny


• Big Night


• Amelie - - - and (wanted to include Born Yesterday or City Desk here too) Want to "feel deeply"? Try "My Life" with Michael Keaton.

20 I've learned to live with my sentimental mushiness. It's my soulful "tell". Everything is more important if it's cried over or laughed upon.
21 Favorite serious self-written epitaph by Robert Howard -

All fled, all done, so lift me on the pyre; The feast is over and the lamps expire

Runner up serious epitaph:

"I had a lover's quarrel with the world" - Robert Frost

Favorite funny epitaph:

Here lies
Johnny Yeast
Pardon me
For not rising

22 Love all our inside jokes including: Chips, Anvil Lake Earthquake, Bonk, I was in the car, She's rightchaknow, 4 duck too much, honey, lly, all right what were they, i hear dat, can you hear me now, midnight, hooked on phonics and inaudible celebratory gestures.
23 I wouldn't trade my boys for the world even if I do have to put up with the Chicago Bears obsession and pats on the head. Small sacrifice for my prizes. Even the one that's not 6'4" can pat me on the head.
24 Kris wanted to name me Bessie Jo.
25 Did I mention that art feeds my soul? Hey, this list has a lot of references about feeding here. Even the epitaph... The list is done for now so I'll quit chewing the fat and put on the feed bag minus the long face and/or the shoes. duh