list 100 favorite memories

311. Thanksgiving in Quincy
312. American pinup
313. car doesn’t start in both mall parking lots, AAA
314. Zorro ring
315. chez pierre
316. danny kaye/murder she wrote
317. wild women of wretling
318. at last, a reason to keep breathing
319. madame cyprian
320. roundtable pizza

86) my college graduation
87) visiting the Illinois State Fair with my dad
88) visiting the Wisconsin State Fair with my parents
89) eating at the Robert E. Lee in STL for my honeymoon
90) my wedding reception
91) touring the old Busch Stadium in STL
92) visiting my brother’s church in Kirkwood, MO
93) playing chess in 6th grade
94) watching “Here Comes the Brides” with my cousin and sister
95) making homemade icecream when we were at my grandma’s farm
96) going to auctions with my parents as a kid
97) writing for the school newspaper in middle school and college
98) Christmas dinners with my family at Manor Restaurant
99) the “Good Time Wagon” puppet ministry in Baltimore
100) meeting at Carpenters Park in Carpentersville.

51) getting the new 2008 Baptist Hymnal
52) Uncle Lon giving me gum when I was a kid
53) Sitting under the trees on my grandma’s farm and listening to Uncle Lon tell stories of Jesse James
54) 1998 family reunion on my dad’s side of the family
55) trip to Field Museum with my cousins
56) youth group retreat when I was in high school
57) visiting my old youth leaders at their home in Bailey, CO
58) my mom’s 75th birthday celebration
59) visiting Stillman Valley with my dad in about 1996
60)seeing Beauty and the Beast at a Chicago theater
61) seeing Richard Chamberlain perform in the Sound of Music at a Chicago theater
62) visiting Broadview Baptist Church during an Acteens conference
63) swimming in the Finley River
64) playing tag in Water Tower place and almost getting kicked out
65) shopping at Ramey’s, as a child, in downtown Ozark
66) cherry coke’s at the Dairy Cup in Ozark
67) attending my mom’s 50th class reunion with her
68) singing with Tammy on the Amtrack train from STL to Chicago (we named ourselves the Soul Survivors
69) visiting Mount Vernon
70)hot dog days at school when I was a kid
71) eating at Al’s hamburger shop in Tulsa
72) Sunday drives to Colonial Ice Cream when I was a kid
73) visiting Bishop Hill at Christmas
74) playing “Eygptian Rat Kill” card game at my sister’s house in 1998
75) my LABC small group retreat at Streator
76) my personal retreat in Zion
77) my first memory of meeting my great grandma, Julia
78) seeing Uncle Pete march in the patriotic parades in Stillman Valley
79) the recipe shower at Butterman’s Restaurant, that my co-teachers gave me when I got married
80) visiting Wisconsin cheese shops with my ex-husband
81) visiting Taste of Home with my sister, mom, and my sister’s kids
82) a talk in the middle of the night in Hannibal, MO
83) seeing “Empire Strikes Back” with my cousin, in Springfield, MO
84) getting my guitars
85) women’s retreat at Streator

40) walks in my neighborhood with my ex-husband
41) walks with my sister
42) going with my friend, Tammy, to the 2000 Women of Faith conference
43) picnicking on deviled ham at the 2000 Women of Faith conference
44) Inner Harbor, Baltimore, MD – eating at Uno’s pizza
45) Clover and Scruffy
46)Tammy and Ken’s wedding day
47) singing with my nephews and nieces in STL, summer 2008
48) VBS at LABC
49) counseling at Lake Sallateeska, Pickneyville, IL
50) releasing balloons at Lake Sallateeska

I remember when I was about 13 years old fishing up in Alaska – river fishing…it was the best time that I have ever had fishing. I caught a big fish – I wish I had pictures still….perhaps my mom has them.

297. love at stake
298. you know how to get into this building or not?
299. a walk outside dilard’s
300. called toys r us every afternoon after school
301. the night fsu takes one from duke
302. what’s the difference between prescriptives and estee lauder?
303. 08/01; 11/05 burdine’s
304. orange park showroom
305. south beach dance
306. chance encounter in ft. myers
307. needed something for mom’s scalp
308. on the swingsets with mom and sisters
309. in Busch gardens line with dad
310. they moved out

289. ut3 necris ambient theme
290. Inner Tubes
291. Kate
292. Opal
293. 46-29
294. Arya takes out the garbage
295. A kiss between cousins
296. The Day I tinted the Bimmer

I love the beach. The first time we were in Crete we were staying at a hotel that was overbooked. So we got a shabby room and had to wait five hours for that… It was late afternoon when we arrived there after a two and a half hours flight and a 45 minutes bus ride in the hot summer sun. Anyways, my brother was starting to get really angry and bossy, so I searched for some short pants for us, we changed in the toilets, and then went to the beach. We stayed for an hour, and when my father came to check on us, the sun was just setting on the horizon. I’ll never forget this feeling, the ocean waves crashing on my legs, his arms around me and that view. Oh that view. As close to heaven that we will ever get on Earth.

Which, by strange coincidence was the day of my Jugendweihe. She was such a cute baby, always alert, looking around her, reaching for things. And pulling on my necklace and my glasses :D

I miss him so much – can’t explain it…he is the one person close to me that I lost. Earlier last year I lost my great grandmother – whom I really respected and loved but my uncles death hit me hard even though I was in Michigan. I remember me and TK in the kitchen making funny animals out of french bread – I remember us playing cards…I miss that man – too bad he was so miserable in this life that he decided to drink it away…I hope I never become that miserable.