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The Best Of

September 19th, 2004 · 5 Comments

Reading: The Murder List
Watching: As Good As It Gets
Pondering: Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. (Euripedes)

I got this from Keri’s blog and thought I’d give it a try.

Best curse word: Goddammit

Best movie line: “All things merge into one and a river runs through it…” from A River Runs Through It

Best line (sentence) from a book: You cannot always be torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be and to do. (J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings)

Best poem: He Wishes For Cloths of Heaven (William Butler Yeats), especially if the actor Sean Bean is reading it!

Best dessert: Canoli

Best restaurant: Noodles (Belagio Hotel, Las Vegas)

Best beach: Castaway Key (Bahamas)

Best piece of furniture to own: A reclining chair.

Best sheets: Anything that’s at least 300 thread count.

Best mascara: Don’t wear one so I can’t tell.

Best jewel: A set of pearls.

Best meal: Home-cooked.

Best composer(s): Howard Shore, Yann TIersen, James Newton-Howard

Best wood: Oak

Best flowering tree: Cherry blossoms

Best perennial: Tulip

Best rose: Yellow

Best nail polish color: Anything that is a shade of light orange or tan.

Best toenail polish color: Anything that is ashade of light orange or tan.

Best sweater: Best and only sweater I own is a black Ralph Lauren cable knit hooded sweater. The damn, tattered thing kept me warm - and dry - all over Europe.

Best shoes: Roots sneakers

Best China: Don’t know much about Chinas.

Best design era: Victorian

Best drink: Sangria

Best soft drink: Pepsi

Best salad: Cobb salad

Best pizza place: Can’t say I’ve been to many pizza places.

Best baseball team: I should say SF Giants but I don’t really like baseball.

Best gift: A 20 gig iPod from my dear sister.

Tags: Daily Musings

5 responses so far ↓

  • 1 mark // Sep 19, 2004 at 4:52 am

    Hi. :) Nice site. You have a penchant for saying things that chime with my feelings.

    I look forward to a visit sometime. Came here from Keri.

    See ya.

    Mark

  • 2 Lisa // Sep 20, 2004 at 8:58 am

    Thanks for visiting, Mark. You have a pretty slick blog yourself. ;-)

  • 3 Lisa // Sep 21, 2004 at 3:40 am

    Keri — are you sending Spam email to strangers?

    Look forward to the email. Thanks for visiting.

  • 4 Keri // Sep 21, 2004 at 10:02 am

    Hi Lisa!!!

    What a very cool list of things. I like the favorite movie and book lines. (I knew you’d have Tolkien in there!)

  • 5 Keri // Sep 21, 2004 at 10:03 am

    And I just sent you a long reply e-mail to some stranger named Lisa at gmail.com. Hope she enjoys it. :) Now I’ll copy it to you. *sigh* What a moron I be…

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