50 Things I Love

Because Katie Langston and Kullervo and KatyJane made their lists, now it’s my turn. In no particular order:
1. My sister-wives
2. Cottage cheese & potato chips — together
3. Good horror movies
4. Jason Statham
5. Undersexed Mormon boys
6. The costume Milla Jovovich wore in Resident Evil: Extinction
7. Really good praise and worship sessions with acoustic guitars
8. When I’m in the bathroom doing my hair and my two year-old daughter helps me by standing on the toilet and handing me the clips
9. When I’m in the bathroom doing my make-up and my two year-old daughter insists on putting on some eyeshadow herself
10. Black nail polish
11. Putting black nail polish on my two year-old
12. Men in well-kept suits
13. Sex
14. Uptight Mormons who get worked up over women in sleeveless attire
15. Sleeveless attire
16. A good pair of jeans that fits me right and somehow manages to make it look like I have decent curves when I don’t
17. Push-up bras
18. Veggie Tales
19. Long skirts
20. Skirts that allow full mobility in your legs so that you can theoretically still kick someone in the head while wearing one. I call these Mistborn skirts.
21. Five Iron Frenzy
22. Writing a paper or blog post which I know kicks ass
23. Wtfpwning Blake Ostler in a debate. It hasn’t happened yet, but I know I’m going to love it when it does.
24. Dexter
25. The Trinity. I kind of enjoy watching the people who don’t believe in it get so bent out of shape over it.
26. LDS & Evangelical Conversations
27. Mark Hamill as the voice of the Joker in the DC Animated Universe
28. Polyandry. If the LDS church went back to practicing polyandry, I would convert in a heartbeat.
29. Sideshow Bob. “Attempted murder, now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?”
30. Little baby hair clips (see #8)
31. Doing cute things with my hair
32. Driving with the music cranked
33. Double-dipping
34. Thai food
35. AYBABTU
36. World of Warcraft. I don’t play it anymore, but I still love it.
37. The Nightmare Before Christmas
38. Dancing when I think no one is watching me. My husband has caught my dancing before. He calls it the “Jack-Dance.”
39. Hebrew. All of it.
40. Reading old journal entries and finding gems from my past I’d completely forgotten about.
41. Trolling people on teh Intarweb
42. Michael J. Nelson & RiffTrax
43. Sarah Palin. Yeah, go ahead and hate me, I still like her.
44. Kristin Chenoweth, best known as Olive Snook on Pushing Daisies and the original Glinda in Broadway’s Wicked
45. My husband, who has seen me at my worst and loves me just the same. As a bonus, he’s also really hot.
46. My daughter, who fights cancer (literally) and can light up the room with her kisses.
47. Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis
48. Mocha-flavored tinted lip gloss
49. Christians for Biblical Equality
50. Syllabi
Well, there ya go. If you didn’t make the list, don’t feel bad, I probably still love you. Maybe.
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50 Things I Love — 10 Comments

  1. You would join for polyandry on principle, or you like the idea of your own harem?
  2. Yay!!! 50 Things lists make me happy!!!
    Among my favorites…
    –Sex
    –Worked up Mormons
    –Kristin Chenoweth (what a surprising person to see on your list! My husband saw her and Idina Menzel in Wicked on Broadway. So jealous.)
    –Driving with the music cranked
    –Thai food (any good Thai restaurants in your neck o’ the woods? We should go!)
    –…And I’m afraid to admit this, but I actually kinda like Sarah Palin too
    I must say, I have some hesitation about cottage cheese and potato chips. Really?
  3. Derek ~ I’m just joking around. I would have to say it’s the male harem idea that attracts me. What can I say, I think men are fabulous; I’m not sure one is ever enough.
    Katie ~ Mmm, try salt & vinegar chips with cottage cheese, it’s delicious. Old redneck family favorite.
    We should totally do a Thai restaurant in Seattle. I’ll have to ask Brian if he knows of any, because I don’t know the Seattle area very well, though I know plenty in the Tacoma-Puyallup area.
    I’m not much of a theater buff, but my husband’s family is. His dad regularly writes and directs community theater plays and most of his family participated in them regularly throughout childhood. At least two of his siblings are angling to graduate from college as performing arts majors.
  7. Paul’s mostly from Sioux City, Iowa. His mother is from Nova Scotia though and he has dual citizenship with Canada. His mother is a dance instructor; I believe she was working on her MA in film or theater at BYU, but never finished it. His father is a neuropsychologist, but the entire family has always been very interested in theater, dance and performing arts.
    One of his brothers is currently some kind of theater major at BYU and his youngest sister just graduated from high school, I believe she’s going to Southern Virginia University in the fall as a theater major. Paul originally wanted to be a dance major at BYU, but he couldn’t get into the program.
    Now that the last kid is moving out, his father got a job working for the government in Hawaii and they’re moving there in a few months. So I might actually start looking for excuses to visit the in-laws more often. :)
    But yeah… the in-laws are very, very into theater and performing arts. Kind of weird to me. I played the main part of George Washington in an elementary school play, but that was it. I auditioned for a few plays in junior high and high school and did one semester of drama, but the directors only seemed interested in casting the popular, preppy kids, and I lost interest. Being taller than most of the men my age probably wasn’t helping my chances, either.
    So Paul and I were discussing Pushing Daisies the other day, and I said “Olive Snook sure sounds like Glinda in Wicked,” so we looked her up. I was delighted to learn that she’s a Christian. She seems so sweet.
  8. There was a recent interview on Fresh Air with Terry Gross in which Kristin talked about her faith and how it lead her to support certain causes and created some tension with her profession. I’m not particularly a fan of Kristin, but it was an interesting discussion.
  9. Derek, what an interesting interview. Having a theatre background myself (and being married to an actor), it’s always fascinating to me to see how other artists with faith navigate the waters.
    It really does create an inherent tension. Just this past year, L (my hubby) did Rabbit Hole, and some members of our ward walked out right in the middle of his performance because of the language. I had a similar experience when I was in Cabaret in college and sang Two Ladies.(Tamest version of that song I could find, for your readers’ safety. It looks like it’s in Spanish for a second, but it’s really in English.) ;)
    Fun that you’ve married into a theatre family, Jack. I always enjoyed growing up in a theatre family (my dad is an actor, too). It gets a little crazy sometimes, though. That’s why I gave it up. I told Lanny that one actor was more than enough for one household–and it could be him, because I have other things that interest me. Sometimes I wonder if I made a mistake when I said that, but I’m usually okay with it… :)
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