nessun dorma

I first heard Nessun Dorma my freshman year in college
and it made me fall in love with Italian opera.

trapped

Sometimes I feel trapped.

flamingo

I decided that I needed a favorite animal...and that
the flamingo would be it.

memorial

As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.
-Julia Ward Home

stars

"And so it has been and so it is written on the
doorway to paradise that those who falter
and those who fall must pay the price."
-Alain Boublil

scientific

When I was in elementary school I won first place for my
science fair project. I was too ashamed to tell anyone
that I stole the idea from a Babysitter's Club book.

progression

I heard somewhere that you should take care
of a plant before getting a pet, and keep a pet
alive before having a baby. I tried it with orchids
last year and they didn't even last a month.

tools

My husband gave me power tools for my birthday
because I asked for them. He didn't mind at all.

flower duet

Dôme Épais from Lakme
-Léo Delibes

hot air

Someday I'd like to ride in a hot air balloon—
if I can overcome my fear of heights.

mondays

Hanging around, nothing to do but frown.
Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.

waimea falls

I saw some interesting flowers on a hike in Hawaii last year.

bass

Sometimes I'm doing stuff at 2:00 am and I
forget that most people are asleep by then.
I hope the neighbors don't mind my music.

kalamazoo

Your place on the map has faded away
Must've been lost in more than one way
-Ben Folds

swings

Would you like to swing on a star,
carry moonbeams home in a jar?

tootsie

Who's ever really licked their way to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

stress

Just as everything begins to slows down
there's always something new to worry about.

graffiti

I received a Barnes & Noble gift card for my birthday.
With it I bought a book of amazing photographs of
graffiti around the world. This passage was written
on a wall in Paris: Night falls, the walls of the city
speak of people who are not from here, who are
from elsewhere, from another night.

windows

We haven't put up curtains in the living room yet.
It makes watching Law & Order extra scary.

making lives better

Random stuff found in my wallet.

squid

I have always been fascinated by sea life.

timp

Mount Timpanogos is particularly beautiful right now.

word of the day

purloin \per-LOYN\ verb : to appropriate
wrongfully and often by a breach of trust

guess who?

I had a roommate who made a custom version
of Guess Who? with pictures of all our friends.

frenzy

We're moving out tomorrow and there's still so much to do.

sunday best

Sometime I wish that 'Sunday Best' still included
a fancy hat and gloves.

fifth wheel

Five is the loneliest number.

morning after the deluge

snow

I understand a few April showers lapsing over into May,
but snow showers?

blue

It's been two years since I really played the piano.
Amazingly, I sat down today and could still play
most of Rhapsody in Blue.

adversity

"Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be."
-Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha