My Favorite Quotes

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions" – Rainer Maria Rilke

"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky" – Buddha aka Gautama Siddharta

"I don't want to earn my living; I want to live" – Oscar Wilde

"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation" – Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain

"Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think." – George Bernard Shaw

"I hate victims who respect their executioners." – Jean-Paul Sartre

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." – Albert Einstein

"It's better to light a candle then to curse the darkness." – Carl Sagan

"Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all, and others to persecute those who reason" - Voltaire

"This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul." – Walt Whitman

Some Things I Like

Henri Matisse, Rugby, Pajamas, computer geeks, A.S. Byatt, Sarah Brightman, Kenneth Brannagh, Colorado Avalanche, The Sims, Sumo Wrestling, Elephants & Giraffes, Aran Islands in Ireland, Joseph Campbell & Carl Jung, Foreign Films, Kate Winslet (except Titantic, yuck), Rare Books, MP3's, codes & puzzles, philosophy & religion, genealogy, Learn key stuff, Discovery Channel, Flintstones, old cartoons & anime, JK Rowling, Hello Kitty, stickers, Power Puff Girls, mountains, suns & moons, portraits, graphics & web design, Sex In The City, Barnes & Noble, Tori Amos, pens of all kind, Frederick Leighton, amaretto sours, Rocky Road, Diet Mt. Dew, colored glass, bamboo, Velour blankets, peridot, Celtic, jade, ice, cocktail pickles, chicken, turkey & fish only, Jaguar (the car), my family, cashews, wind chimes, sandals, big slouchy jeans, TechRepublic, painted toenails, Happy perfume, honeysuckle, green apples, all colors, Pride & Prejudice, Matrix, Margaret Cho, Thora Birch, Leonardo Da Vinci, rain, Chewbacca, purple tulips, Pink!, Sharon Stone, photography, video games, Kids in the Hall, Star Trek (all), Rainer Maria Rilke, techno, Vivaldi, reading in the tub, sci-fi, saris, cotton, laughing, Alan Rickman, autumn, Godiva, British humor, stained glass, Brady Bunch, eclectic stuff, American Gothic, mythology, good conversation, freedom, Lisa Simpson, stargazing, thunderstorms, low-maintenance, optimism, Dilbert, Gong Li, car trips, Broadway musicals, Law & Order junkie, CSI, Reading Rainbow, Jeopardy, Amy Tan, Disney soundtracks, Pixar Animation Studio, candles, trivial pursuit, Scottish Highlanders, User Friendly comics, George Orwell, Simone Weil, creativity, blogs, Trisha Yearwood & Garth Brooks, Seinfeld, Harry Potter, rivers, peaches, BOOKS, C.S. Lewis diaries, Anais Nin, frames, unusual toys, 12-month calendars, ladybugs, frogs, fat mermaids, magnolia trees, cherry blossoms, wooden swings, zebra & leopard material, wizards & sorcerers, walking on the beach on a cloudy day, mountains, whimsical stuff, crushed ice, Jewel, HGTV Channel, TLC Channel, garnets, Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders, Jennifer Ehle, Colin Firth, Jeremy Northam, Parker Posey, gothic cathedrals, Yorkshire, peanut butter pie, boston crème pie, Les Miserables, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Grease, tequila, red wine, Karen Armstrong, documentaries, Shane MacGowan, Maire Brennan, Neve Campbell, Susan Johnson, Bohemian lifestyle, The Blessing Stone, Robin Schone, hockey, Dylan Thomas, Buttered Almond ice cream, Dogma, Jewish rye bread, Glycemic Index, John Malkovich, Claude Monet, Gustav Klimt, Julian Bream, Evanescence, Strawberry Shortcake, Shakespeare, sleeping in a clean, cool bed, taking bubble baths, sandals, Dame Maggie Smith...

Things Husband Likes

Homer Simpson, Noam Chomsky, Playboy, Carolina Panthers, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Michigan Wolverines, Stephen King, Michael Connelly, Playstation2, PSP, golf, computer games, wrestling, The Progressive, being groomed, lasagna, steak, ESPN, Carolina Hurricanes, Colorado Avalanche, Puerto Rico, Garth Brooks, John Grisham, Intelligent women, The American President, When Harry Met Sally, The Beatles, reading, politics & philosophy, football, baseball, basketball, Cleveland Indians, soft-baked cookies, Cookie Dough ice cream, burritos, music, Internet, board games, solitaire, word games, history, sports books, family, mountains, NASCAR, cats, romantic comedies, Hamtaro, Wookies, chocolate, hard candy, Harry Truman, Family Guy, South Park, all colors, sandals & shorts, chewing gum, briefs, Big Dog clothing, Best Buy, Jennifer Lopez, John Feinstein, Salma Hayek, Howard Dean, Dilbert, Barnes & Noble, Virginia, reading about brothels, cynicism, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, massages, routines, reading in the bath, candles, darkness, Faith Hill, Leann Rimes, Gary Allan, Nina Hartley, apple cinnamon smell, coconut pie, bottled water, Drakar, trucks, trivia, Sue Grafton, White cheddar Cheetos, sugary cereals, Coors Light, Diet Mt. Dew and Diet Pepsi/Coke, Gatorade, Crown Royal, white chocolate cookies…

Aja

Name: Aja aka Puppus, Chong Dog, Poo, AHole, Puppalingalus, PupHole, Wookie Jr., Little Wook, E-ha, Turdkey, Brownie, the Baby, the Middle One, Tangella, and others to follow.

Likes: Mommy, carrying my Cesar bowls around, chasing MoJo, going to see Grandma & Lady, riding in the car, going with Mommy to work, cheese, growling, jumping on Mommy while she is sitting on toilet, aggravating Daddy by sleeping under the blanket, sleeping on Daddy's side, cuddling with Mommy, my pee-pee pads, my yard, and scratching.

Dislikes: Sharing my stuff, anyone outside my family, things that come near my yard, being made to stay at home, blowing in my face, being ignored, taking baths, taking medicine, and not being #1 in Mommy's life all the time.

MoJo - In Loving Memory

Name: MoJo aka Mojo Jo-Jo, the Youngest, Goofy, Crazy Cat, Scaredy Kat, Blackie, and others to follow.

Likes: Running the neighborhood, sitting under the Grandparent's bird feeder, going in and out of the house about fifty times a day, eating so fast I make myself throw up because I can not wait to get back outside, and sitting in a basket of clean clothes that are still warm from the dryer, Daddy.

Dislikes: Going to the place where they stick needles in me (the Vet), anyone except Chyna and I barely like her, running up a tree to escape something that could be there after me, any sudden moves that could scare me, necklaces that mom puts on me and everything else.

Chyna

Name: Chyna aka Kitty, Whitey, The Eldest, Turd, and others to be added.

Likes: Meowing, climbing on the computer, aggravating the Dog, tuna, going outside and then realizing that I am afraid of the outside, curling up with my sis in the cat house, sleeping on Daddy, and drinking out of Mommy's glass without her knowing.

Dislikes: Being tossed out of the bathroom, being told to "get down", having water splashed on me, and other things associated with the Dog.