Things I Love

I'm not sure why I feel the need to do this, but I want to talk about some of the things I love.

I love having a wonderful, close, supportive family. I have been very, very lucky in that respect.

I love hot tea.

I love the beach.

I love my wonderful girl-friends: Tori, Christi, Lauren, Leilani, Britt, Chynna, Xhenita, Mandy, and Shelby. You're always there for me. You look out for me and love me in spite of the way I am. I love our secrets, stories, and memories. I hope we make many, many more.

I love having a guy that I can really talk to. Thanks, Nic.

I love Tolkien, Lewis, Shakespeare, Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Bradbury, Lowry, Orwell, and Rowling.

I love George Lucas. The Star Wars saga and the Indiana Jones movies will always be near and dear to my heart. I love (American) football. I love Halloween. I love going out at night just to stare up at the night sky.

I love Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Peter O'Toole, John Wayne, Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley McClaine, Clint Eastwood, Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, and Maggie Smith. I adore Alan Rickman and Harrison Ford. I love Mark Hamill; his Joker voice is the best ever.

I love Batman and X-Men. I think Stan Lee is probably one of the coolest people who's ever lived.

I love Leonard Nimoy. Star Trek forever.

I love Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen.

I think Camelot is the most amazing musical in the history of ever.

I love Sean Connery. I think Medicine Man was a great movie. Lorraine Bracco was also amazing in that movie.

I love Michael J. Fox. The Back to the Future movies are wonderful. So is Christopher Lloyd. Christopher Lloyd also did an amazing job voicing Rasputin in the animated movie Anastasia.

I love Disney movies. Beauty and the Beast is my favorite, closely followed by The Little Mermaid and Peter Pan. The Sword in the Stone is great, too. Archimedes cracks me up! Heck...I just love Disney.

Die Hard is my favorite Christmas movie. It takes place at Christmas, so it counts. It is immediately followed by The Nutcracker Prince, which I have adored since infancy.

Top Gun is one of my favorite movies ever. I cry every time Goose dies, even though I know what's coming.

Pride & Prejudice and Jane Eyre are permanently tied for the position of my favorite book in the whole world.

I love how versatile an actor Gary Oldman is.

I love the version of Hamlet with Mel Gibson and Glenn Close. It is positively incredible.

The Taming of the Shrew is my favorite Shakespeare play, closely followed by Twelfth Night.

Edgar Allan Poe is my favorite poet. I also adore his short stories. They're amazing. The Masque of the Red Death is my favorite short of his, and The Raven is my favorite poem, period.

I love all things Nancy Drew.

Reading and writing are my two favorite things to do.

I do text role-plays online. I've met some of my favorite people in the world that way.

I love thunder-storms.

I think the scene with the pottery wheel in Ghost is the sexiest thing I've ever seen.

I love Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Fable, and many other fantasy RPGs. Riven drives me completely bonkers. I have yet to beat it, despite the fact that I own the strategy guide (I'm ashamed to say).

I love playing Trivial Pursuit and Apples to Apples. I love Clue.

I still play around on Neopets sometimes, and I'm addicted to Sutek's Tomb.

I like chess, but I stink at it.

I think Pyro and Shadowcat would make an amazing couple.

I love mystery, suspense, and anything to do with Alfred Hitchcock.

I'm a sucker for animals. I love my cats, Pookah and Little Man. I love my gerbil Stephanie, named after Stephanie Plum. I love my parents' cocker spaniel, and they made the mistake of letting me name her. She is forever stuck with Princess Leia.

Tigers and wolves are my favorite wild animals. They're so majestic and beautiful. It's really breathtaking to watch them. I have a mild obsession with drawing and/or painting tigers.

Fantasy and Sci-Fi are my bread and butter.

I'm addicted to anything written by Janet Evanovich.

I love to dance and sing, though I don't think I'm very good at either. Also, I think ballroom dancing is one of the sexiest things people can do in public.

I love it when someone makes me laugh and/or smile.

I love taking pictures. I like the pictures my friends (i.e. Tori and Nic) take much better than I'll ever like the ones I take.

I love psychology and am fascinated by the life stories of serial killers. Yes, I realize this is creepy.

I love the Scarecrow from Batman. He's my favorite character.

I love my friends' parents almost as much as my own.

I realize I've listed enough things for one night, but there will be more to come.