Space Camp

Two of my favorites, Chan and Tony came by tonight to hang out. (I love them so much that I immediately forgave them for walking into the apartment of a dieter with Burger King bags!)

We watched "Stranger Than Fiction" which is one of those favorite movies you forget how much you love. Every time I watch it I resolve to become a novelist who is the epitome of dry-witted cynicism & creative genius. (And also to have an apartment as cute as Maggie Gyllenhaal's.)

In the movie Will Ferrel's best friend shares with him that his life long dream was to go to Space Camp. I felt the need to share with Chan and Tony (and I pray that they aren't judging me for it now) that I had in fact went to Space Camp when I was in Mrs. Pilkington's 4th Grade class and came back so excited because I had purchased gifts for everyone. (I mean pets included.)

I'm quite sure I came back with a Space Camp dog-bone for the puppy and one of those plastic globes for our hamsters to run around in. I got Michael a yo-yo and Stefan a plastic astronaut....and I definitely got my Mom a pleather Space Camp fanny pack. Looking back on it now, I'm pretty sure that is what caused the initial rift in our relationship.

Angi's Buried Life *To be continued....

The List...

1. Lead people to Christ
2. Learn to walk with just one crutch
3. Adopt LOTS of kids
4. Have an adventure
5. Go to Grad School to study Nonprofit Management
6. Learn to drive
7. Act in play
8. Found a Summer Camp for kids
9. Take a trip on a sail boat 
10. Plant a tree in every country in the world
11. Help change or create legislation so that it benefits impoverished nations
12. Learn Italian
13. Dance
14. Learn to swim
    
15. Go to a Cherry Blossom festival in Japan
16. Go to Manhattan to listen to Jazz at Birdland
17. Have something published
18. Help New Orleans
19. Learn to (really) paint
    
20. Take cooking classes
21. See a Broadway Play
22. Become a Fund raising coordinator for a nonprofit organization
23. Have a record collection and an old record player
24. Help someone's dream come true
25. Learn French
26. Find a place that feels like home
27. Take a road trip across the U.S.
28. Go to a Chicago Bulls game
29. See Cirque du Soleil
30. Travel to every continent
31. Spend at least 20 days each year volunteering
32. See if my wheelchair will roll uphill by itself at Spook Hill :-)
33. Go to Time Square for New Year's Eve
34. Help create a mural
    
35. Fund something for at least one impoverished community to help them utilize their talents and resources. (Computers/Livestock/Wells/Farming equipment...etc etc etc etc.) (etc.)
36. Be on a Game show
37. See Stevie Wonder live in concert!
38. Wear a pair of heels
39. See the Mouth of Truth in Rome
40. Become fluent in Spanish
41. Learn to shoot hoops (and make it!)
42. Grow a garden
43. Be an extra in a movie
44. Participate in yearly clothing and food drives
45. Go to a punk show at CBGB's if/when it reopens and dye my hair purple and pink and pierce my nose for the occasion
46. Spend a day with my brothers, Mike, Stef, and Alex together
47. Take flowers to Anna just because
48. Name a star after someone
49. Build a giant sand castle
50. Create a photo album of world travels
51. Visit Hawaii
    
52. Have a house with a window seat and a claw-footed bathtub
    
53. Ride in a hot air balloon
54. Have Breakfast at Tiffany's in New York with Hannah Rae
55. Go to a music festival like Bonaroo
56. See the Alvin Ailey Ballet Company perform
57. Take art classes 
58. Spend a summer in Europe

Oh Mango Sorbet!

FAVORITE SONG?  Today?? Pretty Wings by Maxwell

WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? Spiders & clowns (don't judge me).

HOBBIES? Pretending I know how to paint, reading, & volunteer work (love love love)

FAVORITE FOOD? Margherita Pizza, Cheerios, & Mango Sorbet

DRINK? Cherry coke

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SCENT? Pineapple Mango, Eucalyptus Spearmint, & Memoirs of a Geisha perfume by Fresh

ONE THING YOU WISH YOU COULD DO? Air flares & coin drops & head spins.

ONE THING YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE? Go to Italy and Japan.

FAVORITE BOOK? Here Kitty Kitty.

FAVORITE MOVIE? Cinema Paradiso. Oh I love that movie!

Pac Man & Moon, Miles, and other awesomeness

 

July

Painted toes

Tangerine kiss

Ska music

Perfumed magazine pages

Hot breezes

Bare shoulders

Silver chain

from that boy by my locker

White sand

Sugary sweet pop

12/09/08

Trinket box
Freely open
Remember, examine, question
Peek inside
Old wounds
Raw, bruised
Suspiciously subdued
Cautious? ...Exhausted
Spent.
Cold, Shining, Still
Reminders 
Love, dreams,
Pain
Will to fight
Freedom? Chains?
Conquered. Enslaved.
I remain, respectfully
Reverent
Pieces of me

Hurricanes
Curiously calm...
Tokens.
Stepping stones?
War cries?
Survival guide.
Warning signs?
Go home, girl.
Grow up, girl.
A lesson learned
A witness
A lie
And peace

Neon Lights

Warning signs
Written out
Diagram...map and key.
Dangerous

(Resplendent)

In neon lights
Gonna listen?
...not me.

Emotional hangover
Wreckage
Landmines
Fearless freedom, airborne, lifted, limitless.

(Rhapsody)

Reckless
Caution? The wind...

Worth the risk to Breathe.
Breathe

Unconditional everything.

Warrants no explanation
Silly girl. No hesitation.
No ceiling. None. Fly..

(Crash...and burn)