Hi All! Last night I was straightening up my room and I came across a Rubbermaid container under my bed that contained lots of stuff I had packed when I left SSU to move home for my interneship Spring of junior year. It was a great stroll down memory lane, cummulated by a bundle of cards and notes and things Ryan sent me long ago. His words still make me cry and bring a smile to my face. Anyway, I found a "fake" happy list and decided to share it with ya'll. It's a list of song quotes by someone who reads this (and I'm hoping she knows all the answers, 'cuz I don't! :) ). the first 13 are hers, the end ones are mine. Enjoy! (I'll post the answers I have...and any I might get that are correct in a later blog! :) )

1. you're my favorite thing, favorite thing to do
2. she has trouble acting normal when she's nervous.
3. Everytime she sneezes I believe it's love
4. when I wake the things I dreamt about you last night make me blush
5. learn to pretend there's more than love that matters
6. the more I know, the less I understand (Where's Erin when you need her?!?!?)
7. Falling in love - catching fire - I wanna be consumed
8. I'll hang and swap cliches all night, but I'm not in love with you
9. Ectasy ain't free, but compromise is chance...
10. If I had an hourglass, I'd save the grains of time I've spent with you
11. Been around the world a million times, and all you men are slime...
12. Truth is not kind, and you said neither am I
13. I don't believe you're leaving 'cuz me and Charles Mason like the same ice cream. I think it's that girl.
14. You say I'm a dreamer, we're two of a kind. Both of us searching for some perfect world we know we'll never find
15. but when I don't get your call, I go into withdrawl. You consume every thought, but if you called me I would tell you to **** off.
16. Had it been another day, I might have looked the other way...but as it is I'll dream of her tonight
17. I know they say if you don't come back again, then it's meant to be. Those words don't pull me through, cuz I'm still in love with u
18. I will show you you're so much better than you know .when you're lost and you're alone and you can get back again I will find u
darling and I will bring you home
19. and when I'm gloomy, please listen to me. til it's all, all talked away.
20. For this last one...here's just the verses (not the chorus) of one I listen to alot lately

thought i knew my mind
like the back of my hand
the gold and the rainbow
but nothing panned out as i planned
and they say only milk and honey's
gonna make your soul satisfied
well i better learn how to swim
cause the crossing is chilly and wide

twisted guardrails on the highway
broken glass on the cement
a ghost of someone's tragedy
how recklessly my time has been spent
they say that it's never too late
but you don't, you don't get any younger
well i better learn how to starve the emptiness
and feed the hunger

and there's always retrospect
(when you're looking back)
to light a clearer path
every five years or so i look back on my life
and i have a good laugh
you start at the top
go full circle round
catch a breeze
take a spill
but ending up where i started again
makes me wanna stand still
stepping on a crack
breaking up and looking back
til every tree limb overhead just seems to sit and wait
til every step you take becomes a twist of fate


Enjoy!