ps i'm emotional

so, in light of my dear friend kate's recent blogging adventures, and the movie ps i love you, and a glass of wine, i've decided i should make a list of things in my life that i'm grateful for. all in all its a little bit harder for me to be happy so i figured this is a healthy self-examination thingy.

1. my big sister. this is the first time in i don't know how long i've been able to live in the same house as her and i'm grateful for these last couple months where we just get to be denny and mary's daughters eating dinner at 5141 Meadow Ridge.
2. My other big sister Katy who has befriended my real big sister. I don't get to talk to her as often as i used to but big sister 1 and big sister 2 do good things.
3. Manute and Muffin. its a beautiful thing to find people like them who understand you fully and love you for it. and they make me giggle.
4. tom hanks movies. no seriously. i want to fall in love w/ a man like tom hanks. not too attractive, but not ugly. kind. funny. poofy. balding.
5. jason mraz music. he sounds like he really knows how to love a woman.
6. i was saving this one for number 6. "seis of base" are a group of girls who i've known for all of my formative years. they may not understand me always, but they love me anyways. the 6 of us won't all be together again for over a year but i have faith that after our adventures we'll all end up sitting in my basement, all talking at the same time and laughing at an inside joke we don't remember but still find hilarious.

all right, i'm going to stop before i really regret this. good night, good luck, merry christmas.

eww.

so i spent all of yesterday somewhere in between my bed and the bathroom with the worst flu ever in the history of flus. you may think, how could you possibly know that it was the worst taylor? lots of people have the flu and it can be pretty bad and yours only lasted one day? well i'll tell you how i know it was the worst. its cuz it was happening to me.

i'm slowly recovering and beginning to venture away from the stricly saltine/diet canada dry diet. bring it on plain toast, i'm ready for you.

more than just a hair crush

i think that there should be a daniel day-lewis channel, completely dedicated to the man and the ponytail. it could air interviews and photo montages and much more.

it could play the last of the mohicans, the crucible and gangs of new york on repeat. this would be a glorious thing.

a time machine to 2006

so today i started my macy's job at the cosmetics counter, specifically clinique. today was also clinique's special "clinique happy" fragrance day. i'm gonna smell like 'happy' for the next month, which is coincidentally the scent i wore till junior year. another of many reversions back to high school happening over this break.

tonight i'm going to sadies. not actually the dance, i'm just chaperoning some lovely ladies afterparty. cuz i'm chaperone age now. when did i get old? (girls i know you read this and i'm actually super jazzed to help and seeing as you'll read this post dance, just to let you know i'm sure i had oodles of fun)

would you like a clinique happy fragrance sample ma'am? no? go f*&% yourself.

hippopotamus? no thanks...

what do i want this year for christmas? being a christmas freak, i've given this question a lot of thought in the past 4 months. now, if US weekly asked me because i was a big celeb, my answer would read like the lyrics to michael bubles "my grown up christmas list," buy everyone who really knew me would know that was bull poo. i'm here to give you some straight talk...john mccain style.

1. a jonas brother. i'm not particular about which one, but please not the bonus jonas, i'd have to fake a smile and a thank you if that was the one i received, like grandma's sweater from three years ago except, ya know, an eight year old boy.
2. the instant ability to play the piano really well. i don't wanna take lessons or practice, i just wanna be insta-awesome.
3. the knowledge that vampires exist in the real world. i don't need to fall in love w/ one cuz that sounds complicated but to know that they were real would be sweet, and if one of them wants to spend four books having super awesome sexual tension, i'd be open to that.
4. a puppy. i know its unlikely but i've been asking for one since i was 4 so it just seems appropriate to include that here. ya know, 16th times the charm.
5. Barry Manilow's cover cd "best songs of the 80's"

thats all. i'll leave you with this. If santa had to pick a favorite family band, which would it be? think about it.