The list

here i am again with another list. but its a very important list. and its actually famous amoungst my friend group, so there's that. anyways, basically its a scoring guide for how compatable a person is to me//all the significant qualities i'm looking for in an ideal guy. ready?

Can roll a sleeping bag perfectly	+5
Knows how to play chess	+5
Has goals	+5
Tells good jokes	+8
Wears nice cologne	+10
Bilingual	+10 (additional +10 for every language)
Likes gardening	+10
Appreciates the sky	+10
Reasonable taste in music	+10
Loves S’mores	+10
Dresses well/has fashion sense	+10
Appreciates art	+10
Can fix broken stuff Athletic	+15 +15 for every sport
Loves Mac&Cheese	+15
Tidy	+15
Will play board games	+15
Picks up trash	+20
Volunteers	+20
Really thinks about life	+20
Likes Starbs over Dunks	+20
Loves all forms of potatoes	+20
Decent dancer	+20
Has a dog	+20
Likes to read	+25
Good with kids	+25
Cooks (willingly)	+25
Is hilarious in general	+25
Tries hard to reach goals	+25
Cultured	+25
At/above my level of Tech skill	+25
Loves movies as much as I do	+30
Hella generous	+40
Musical	+40 (+5 for every instrument, +10 for piano)
Loves animals	+50
Pursuing career in the helping professions	+50
Outstanding music taste	+50
Hasn’t done the deed	+50
Deductions
Vegan	-10
Has a boring white family	-10
Insists on being right	-10
Indifferent to S’mores	-15
Won’t open doors for people	-15
Doesn’t like Disney	-20
Spits	-20
Sits spread eagle	-20
Sticks gum to things	-20
Is a Republican	-30
Talks trash	-30
Gotten in unnecessary physical fights	-30
Rage quits/poor sportsman	-30
Liters	-30
Insensitive	-40
Has no manners	-40
Has ever caused a car accident	-50
Reminds me of P Swayze	+/-50 (too good to be true or too painful)
Wears sweats in public	-75
Wears socks and sandals	-75
Voted for Trump	-80
If I have to compete with his mom	-100
Does drugs	-∞
Hurts animals	-∞
Abusive	-∞
Has ever cheated	-∞
Won’t stand up for anything so there it is. okie doke Sam, you're up	-∞

20 things you may or may not know about me

OMG she's posting again and its another list wow how original. Ok, I really do apologize, but I just can't stop talking about myself. I tried to write about like ten other things but it didn't work out. Enjoy these lesser known tidbits of my life.

1. I adore The Beach Boys (currently trying to convince my mom to let me go to the Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary concert with the Boston Pops, fingers crossed)
2. I can say the alphabet backwards
3. I have 20 moose stuffed animals and a ton of other moose paraphernalia and have no regrets about any of it
4. My favorite word is “bookkeeper” because of all the double letters in row, but also how cool is a keeper of books
5. I’m so bad at saving money
6. I have almost 800 songs on my phone and I don’t even like half of them
7. I love Trader Joe’s
8. I have no idea how I feel about avocados
9. I recently discovered that Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Scott Joplin are some of my new heros
10. Also on the hero list is James Herriot, and it saddens me that you probably don’t know who that is
11. More than half of my wardrobe is navy blue
12. I don’t own a single pair of sweatpants
13. My favorite flowers are daffodils
14. I love Valentine’s Day
15. I used to play the harp and Sam will never let that go
16. I hate country music and AM radio
17. I love animal fun facts  - especially animal group names
18. I am a true movie fanatic
19. I’m always listening to music and consider my music taste “unequivocally remarkable”
20. I know a bunch of really strange and random words like ultracrepidarianism and callipygian because of this book I read in elementary school that I can never ever forget (I highly recommend learning these words because they are wonderful and come in handy)

-C

25 Reasons to Live

When I was in the hospital, my very first “assignment” was to write out 25 reasons to live, and share them during our group session. Since the original copy is in a box somewhere, I’m making a new one. With the new year comes so many new challenges, and I know I’m going to want to look at this list every once in awhile (probably everyday, let's be real). I don’t know if I’ll get around to making a resolutions list, because first of all, I never have, and second, I’m really skeptical of my own ability to commit to a goal (how many years have I been trying to stop biting my nails again?). But I know for sure that in 2016, I can commit to staying alive for these reasons:

1. upcoming movies you literally cannot miss (i could write an entire post on this)
2. there are so many foods you haven’t tried yet
3. and so many foods are worth living for
4. your heart isn’t done growing
5. all those hours you spent on pinterest planning your wedding. don’t you dare let those go to waste.
6. concerts
7. a home of your own
8. there are lives to touch, guide, protect, heal, love, change, save
9. that moose watching adventure
10. so many dogs to be adopted
11. you don’t even truly know yourself, there’s good inside of you that you haven’t even seen yet
12. you have a date. eventually.
13. your future is probably full of joy
14. outlive the haters
15. to be a living, breathing, screaming invitation to believe better things
16. celebrations
17. you have so much to give
18. there’s such a lot of world to see
19. what if there’s a conversation waiting to happen that will change everything?
20. happy days
21. you really do care about people
22. people really do care about you
23. books to read
24. music you haven’t heard yet
25. you will refuse to end until you can reap no more serenity, courage, or wisdom from this planet

-C