A peek into me

Someone special asked me these questions through email. I answered them and decided to post them here. What would your answers be?

Things that make me feel good (in no particular order):
Cienna, getting dressed up, getting naked, spring and fall, the moon, watching a great live band, rain (when it’s not destroying someone’s life), the smell of freshly-cut grass, cinnamon at Christmastime, real Christmas trees, making love next to/under a Christmas tree (which I have yet to do), John Lennon, the flaws in people not the perfection, a good movie, road trips, plums, peaches, grapes, bananas, pizza, ice cream, peas, brocoli, my gram, my best friends, that feeling you get when you meet someone new who is really really cool, writing, pink, New York City, a child’s laughter, the way freshly-fallen snow hides all the flaws, buying books, thunderstorms (when they’re not destroying someone’s life), innocence, wildness, music, dancing, when someone else drives, good stories

General interests (again, in no particular order):
music, artistic expression, being a good mom, writing, fashion, long dangling earrings, bags, baskets, art, travel, cocktails (especially vodka with diet 7-up and lime), beautiful girls who don’t hate other beautiful girls and actually embrace each other as friends, literature, journalism, lip gloss, pink, black, pink and black, finding a lesson and adventure in each day, learning to cook, good conversation, the view from Mt. Washington (it never gets old), twilight on 19 in Mt. Lebanon (it keeps getting better), the Point (especially the side along the Mon River), the Cultural District at 6 p.m., Saturdays for cartoons with Cienna and college football rivalries, Sundays for the Steelers and dinners I cook for others, having different cultures under one roof, buying women’s magazines at the supermarket, the streets of Providence at night, the beaches in Newport late summer, baseball stadiums, gardening, taking long drives when someone else is driving, fall, parades, holidays, Light-Up Night (the “happiest night of the year”), and my favorite event of all time which I never miss on television and will attend someday...the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Music (you got it):
Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, B.B. King, DMB, John Lennon, Tori Amos, Jimi Hendrix, Sarah McLachlan, The Sundays, The Cardigans, Sixpence None the Richer, The Beatles, Pearl Jam, The Doors, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, New Invisible Joy, Ani DiFranco, Radiohead, Prince, Bjork, The Cure, Cream, Fiona Apple, REM, Joni Mitchell, U2, Coldplay, Joel, New Order, Thompson Twins, Aimee Mann, Madonna, David Gray, Elvis Costello (the old stuff), Ella Fitzgerald, Beck, David Bowie, Ryan Adams, The Police, Neil Young, The Temptations, Counting Crows, Peter Gabriel, Patsy Cline, Frank Sinatra

Movies (uh huh):
When Harry Met Sally, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Goodfellas, Godfather, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Sixteen Candles, Serendipity, Gone with the Wind, Annie Hall, The Money Pit, Bull Durham, The Ref, Dazed and Confused, Greedy, Fight Club, Primal Fear, Edward Scissorhands, Pretty Woman, Casablanca, Steel Magnolias, St. Elmo’s Fire, The Breakfast Club, The Graduate, For Love of the Game, Top Gun, Color of Money, Major League, The Burbs

TV (thazz right):
CSI, House, Without a Trace, Sex and the City, The L Word, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, Seinfeld, 90210 (always and forever), Will & Grace, Friends

Books (go for it):
The Great Gatsby (the best piece of literature of all time), Hope for the Flowers, anything by SARK, Oh! The Places You’ll Go (and most other Dr. Seuss books), Catcher in the Rye, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, The Bell Jar, Little Women (especially if I read it in the winter), Miracle on 34th Street, Faking It, The Bridges of Madison County, Gone with the Wind, Memoirs of a Geisha, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Farenheit 451

Heroes:
Mike Royko, Tina Turner, Jocelyn, Madonna, my gram, my pap Ross, Kate Hudson, Joel, Lance Armstrong, Maria, Dr. David M. Jones, Bill Moushey