For Penny

1. Out of the four seasons, I anticipate the winter season most of all! This is for a few reasons..the main one of COURSE is CHRISTMAS! I love everything about it..the family, the friends, food, games, parties, gifts to and from people, the music, the movies, the decorations, the warm and fun clothes, you name I LOVE IT! As other have said before, the whole world just seems softer. Everybody tries to be a little nicer, regardless of where they come from, their religion, race, background. One of my favorite Christmas songs states another reason the season is my favorite..”The best time of the year, when everyone comes home.” How can a person help but love a season that brings us together? Even the snow seems like a welcome addition during the Christmas season..theres ice skating, skiing, snowmen and snowball fights and everything. After that, my favorite is summer.

2. If I had to be trapped in a TV show for a month, it would be tough. I love so many TV shows this is hard-but to be honest, while I love watching them all I wouldn’t want to be in most of them bc a good TV show usually has to much drama haha! The Price of Right would be nice, because then I could win all that awesome stuff and sell it, pay off my loans, and the with the extra travel the world! But in terms of a scripted show, I would say Avonlea, which is probably not a surprise, but heres why. Even when the rest of the world goes crazy, in and out of tv shows, everything in Avonlea is consistent. They live in beautiful Prince Edward Island, with the people they love most, in a time of charm and history, which in itself is romantic. There are definetly really hard times, but they tough them out together, as it should be.

3. Reading makes me lose track of time. Good books make you want to keep reading, regardless of the time. You tell yourself, I will take a break or stop reading as soon I finish this chapter, but then, its a cliff hanger so you can’t! And this pattern just keeps going, till its been like 5 hours and your whole day is shot, but you don’t really feel bad because it was worth it. A good book means that even after you take a break or stop reading, you can’t help but think about throughout the rest of the day. I love it. When I was in school, I didn’t have much time to do this, but now that I’ve graduated, I read daily.

4. I don’t know that I do most things differently then most people-I prefer square plates to circle plates and will almost always choose square if I have a chance. I like how that way everything can have its own corner...is that different then most people? I also think about words in sense of scrabble application lately. Like whether or not it would be good in scrabble or if it would get be alot of points..etc. I can’t really think of anything else..

5. Speaking of scrabble-for those of you who don’t know what halycon means its “Denoting a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful.” There are two specific times I can think of as halcyon in my life., and I don’t know which is the most. The first is my last semester at LDSBC. There will never again be another time in my life like that. We were wild, crazy, young and free. We felt we could do ANYTHING, go ANYWHERE and we did. We didn’t sleep, we ran on adrenaline and nothing felt impossible. I remember multiple times sitting on a mountain, or dancing at a party, or laughing hysterically, running everywhere, feeling like I owned the world. I was in charge and it was just me, my girls and the world to own. It was like sitting in the center of a wonderful, powerful, endless storm and and feeling at one with everything. I was invinsible and wonderful and I loved every second of it.

The second was on our honeymoon. For so long, so many years I had loved this boy. And in my heart I tried not to allow myself to hope against all hopes that things would work out and we’d be able to go to sleep together and wake up together. It seemed like everything, all the odds were against it. But finally, after all the years of hoping, and working and waiting, it was real. It was wonderful just spending all our time together, having no where to be, nothing to work on, but rather just being together. It seemed timeless, and although that part had to end, our happily ever didn’t. And here we are now!