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Thirteen Songs I’d Sing If I Were Ever On American Idol
1. Then You Look at Me - Celine Dion
2. How Can I Not Love You - Joy Enriquez
3. You’ll Never Walk Alone - from Carousel
4. Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon
5. Can’t Smile Without You - Barry Manilow (you just nearly HAVE to have a Barry
song prepared.)
6. Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell (I’d want to slow it down quite a bit. Make people
pay attention.)
7. Don’t Get Me Wrong - The Pretenders
8. Where the Boys Are - Connie Francis (I’d knock ‘em dead.)
9. Listen to Your Heart - Roxette
10. Here You Come Again - Dolly Parton
11. Take It Like A Man - Chely Wright
12. Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson
13. Islands in the Stream - Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers (Hmm…I could do a super
duet with someone. Maybe an old contestant. Any ideas?)

Alternates: Jungle Fever - Stevie Wonder, It’s Raining Men - The Weather Girls,
Spinnin’ and Reelin’ - Creed Bratton

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Thursday Thirteen #28

Sep 27, 2007 Author: Elizabeth | Filed under: Listy, Meme, TV, Thursday Thirteen
In honor of the premiere of Season 4 of The Office
 
My Top Thirteen Favorite Episodes of The Office (US)
 

13. Christmas Party - Lots of sweetness between Jim and Pam. I
love it.
12. E-mail Surveillance - We get to see where Jim lives! Sidenote:
I absolutely cannot stand Michael’s improv scenes. They make me
feel so sad for him.
11. Ben Franklin - Dwight: I don’t care what Jim says, that is not
the real Ben Franklin. I am 99% sure.
10. Halloween - Dwight as a Sith Lord. So great.
9. Boys and Girls - Dwight: Remember on LOST when they meet
“the Others”?
8. Business School - A bat. In the office. Jim. As a vampire. And I
must admit that every time I see that poor kid’s text book getting
ripped up by Michael, I cringe. Because, my friends, that is real pain.
7. The Return - Andy [To Michael] - “I forgot to tell you the plan
for this Saturday. You, me, bar, beers, buzzed. Wings, shots, drunk!
Waitresses - hot! Football, Cornell-Hofstra, slaughter! Then quick
nap at my place, then we hit the tizzown.” And then there’s “Rockin’
Robin.”
6. The Carpet - There is poop on the floor. That is comedy, folks.
5. Drug Testing - Once again, Dwight in costume (well, uniform).
4. Casino Night - The night so many of us had been waiting for.
Sigh. Together at last…not.
3. Women’s Appreciation - See this.
2. Initiation - Dwight’s cousin Mose jumping out of nowhere to fight
Ryan is one of my favorite scenes, period. “What… is the DHARMA
Initiative?!”
1. The Injury - It’s been my favorite for a long time. Nothing has
been able to bump it out of its spot yet. Michael GRILLS his foot
on a George Forman Grill. “I like waking up to the smell of bacon.
Sue me.”

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Thursday Thirteen #27

Sep 12, 2007 Author: Elizabeth | Filed under: Kids, Meme, Memories, TV, Thursday Thirteen
Thirteen Favorite Cartoons (from my childhood) OR
The One Where Liz Shows Her Age, aka Not Really That Old

1. Duck Tales
2. TaleSpin
3. Chip & Dale’s Rescue Rangers
4. Captain Planet
7. The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible

8. Ren & Stimpy
9. Rocko’s Modern Life
10. Fievel’s American Tales
11. Batman: The Animated Series
13. Two Stupid Dogs

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Thursday Thirteen #26

Sep 5, 2007 Author: Elizabeth | Filed under: Meme, Thursday Thirteen
Thirteen Keys to My Heart

1. Delilah - Sick, sad, and true. I have listened to her show regularly since the fall of 1996. Dude.
I was 12! A call to the self-proclaimed “Queen of Sappy Love Songs” would definitely put a person
in my good graces.
2. Folklore roses - I adore orange/coral roses in many shapes and forms, but so far, this is my
favorite. Forget red roses. I’d pick these puppies over the most perfect red any day.
3. Seafood - Oh boy. I love it so much and haven’t found any creature who calls the sea its home
that I don’t find tasty. Mm-mm.
4. Old films - Many of my favorites came out when my Granny was my age. They’re the best. A
few that I really enjoy watching are Splendor in the Grass, Two for the Road, and Picnic.
5. Fairs - You know, of the county, state, whatever variety. I love them! It’s the nighttime atmos-
phere with all the lights, spilled bags of popcorn, discarded turkey legs, scary carnies, spinny rides
that make you throw up your fried Twinky…man. I love it.
6. Christmas lights - I. Love. Them. Oh my goodness. For the past few years I’ve always gone to
view them in Chickasha, Oklahoma and those are SO great. And this year I’ll get to go with Kevin!
7. “All I Want For Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey - I don’t know what it is about this song,
but it’s good any time of year for me. Whenever I hear it on the radio I become instantly happier.
8. Sephora - Sorry. Just had to throw that in there. On our (what was it?) 4th or 5th date Kevin
even went into one with me. See, he’s a keeper.
9. Chocolate & cherries - Good gracious. This is one deadly combo for me. I love cherries and
cherry flavored things, so add the chocolate (the darker, the better!) and you’ve got me. Black
Forest cake is a wonderful thing.
10. Children’s books - They are sweet and remind me of simpler times. While I don’t consider
Anne of Green Gables strictly a children’s book, any girl around the age of 11 should definitely
start reading the series. It (HONESTLY) changed my life.
11. COFFEE - Were caps necessary? YOU BET YOUR BRITCHES THEY WERE. I’ll take this stuff in
any form. IV drip is the preferred method.
12. Cream cheese & fake cheese - I couldn’t include one without the other. With the first you
have something that I consider to be a marketable alternative to your average candy bar (You
know, it comes in sticks and I could never understand why my mom wouldn’t let me eat it that
way. It’s possible that she was concerned about my saturated fat intake.) and the base of a very
special icing used on red velvet cake. Can’t go wrong there. The second is your key ingredient in
the very best ball game foods. Yum.
13. Kit Kat - The king of all candy bars. I cannot put into words what this fine piece of chocolate
means/does to me, so I’ll steal a line from Gilmore Girls (formerly a key to my heart until it was
CANCELLED), “The only way I could love you more is if you had a Kit Kat bar growing out of the
side of your head.” And my dears, that couldn’t be more true.
Sadly (for any interested parties) my heart is taken now. I have The Best Boyfriend in the World.
How could he not be? The guy covered numbers 3, 10, and 11 on the first date.

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Thursday Thirteen #25

Aug 30, 2007 Author: Elizabeth | Filed under: Meme, Photos, Thursday Thirteen
13 Floral Photos (all taken at Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, PA)

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Thursday Thirteen #24

Aug 23, 2007 Author: Elizabeth | Filed under: Friends & Family, Meme, Photos, Thursday Thirteen
(because I’m lazy and ill) 13 Photos of Yours Truly

1. Holding Lulu when she was a little thing
2. At the 2006 OU Baptist Student Union Aloha Party
3. Me and Kevin at Glorieta, NM during Spring Break 2007
4. Me and Heather at our ballroom dancing final
5. Buying a new adapter for my iPod
6. Self-portrait that I did not realize featured a BOTTOM
7. Funny face during OU/texas weekend 2006
8. When life gives you lemons, put on black eyeliner and take pictures! Oops, dyed it black.
9. Summer 2004. I miss you.
10. Heather’s birthday, 2005. This is me stuffing an entire cupcake in my mouth.
11. Sitting in the fridge. One of my favorite things to do as a toddler.
12. Me and my younger (and at the time, taller) cousin Christian in our cousin Susan’s wedding,
January 1990.
13. Big ol’ eyes.

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Thursday Thirteen #23

Aug 15, 2007 Author: Elizabeth | Filed under: Meme, Thursday Thirteen
Thirteen names I just might give to my children (don’t worry, I’m not going to have 13!)

1. Caroline
2. Josephine
3. Laurel
4. Magnolia
5. Susannah

6. Carter
7. Nicholas
8. Paul
9. Garret
10. Michael
11. Louise
12. Marguerite
13. Some extras: Unity, Sabre, Adeliza, Helloe (all names of ladies in my family tree)

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Thursday Thirteen #22

Aug 8, 2007 Author: Elizabeth | Filed under: Meme, Thursday Thirteen
Thirteen things I get weird looks about when people find out I’m not a fan

1. Harry Potter
2. Peanut butter & chocolate when they are together
3. Will Ferrell
4. Johnny Depp
5. Pirates of the Caribbean

6. Guitar Hero
7. Desperate Housewives
8. GREY’S ANATOMY. Bleh. Die.
9. The A&E version of Pride & Prejudice
10. Tulsa, OK
11. Las Vegas
12. Matthew Fox. I love LOST, and I guess maybe

I do like him. Like to watch him CRY, that is. In every, single episode.

13. Shaving my legs. There. I said it.

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Thursday Thirteen #21

Aug 1, 2007 Author: Elizabeth | Filed under: Thursday Thirteen
Thirteen things I hope to accomplish in the next 21 years

1. One marriage
2. Five children
3. Four novels
4. Forty short stories
5. Two daughters. One named Josephine and the other Caroline. It will be an accomplishment
to successfully talk my future husband into these names.
6. Buy one house
7. Successful ministry for teen/college-aged young women
8. Sing in a musical
9. Teach Sunday School
10. Learn to knit (at the rate I’m going, it could take that long)
11. Never stop visiting home
12. Keep in contact with the ones who matter
13. Create a warm, welcoming home

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Thursday Thirteen #20

Mar 15, 2007 Author: Elizabeth | Filed under: Meme, Thursday Thirteen
Thirteen things I didn’t learn in college
As my last spring semester at the University of Oklahoma comes to a close (and attempts to murder my blog), I thought I would let you readers know a few things that college did not teach me.

1. Jerks are jerks. College does not change them. DO. NOT. DATE. THEM. (I can supply a list of names, it’s short, but informative.)
2. How to jump start my car.
3. Why I should go to class. (But I think I might have that one figured out now.
4. Worrying gets you nowhere.
5. Why Waiting for Godot is so stinkin’ important.
6. That throwing my hands in the air and joining the circus would be a bad idea.
7. Why math is important in my life. They try to tell you this lie in high school, kids. Don’t believe them. Become an English major, take Physics for Poets (actually, DON’T), and Math for Idiots and you are SET.
8. That I could be a successful human being. No. They stop telling you that after your Gateway class (freshman orientation).
9. That you should never tell your parents that you could possibly graduate early. Don’t do this. They like to hold you to things that can save them money.
10. My family is still absolutely the most important thing that I have.
11. How nice it is to drive home.
12. That anyone (aside from a few select professors and my wonderful advisor) cares about your well-being.
13. That mental health is a top priority. Don’t kid yourself.

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