My Top Ten Restaurants

Here are my Top Ten Restaurants:

1. TGI Friday's
2. Culver's
3. Crumbs Bake Shop
4. Chipotle Mexican Grill
5. Subway
6. Yo-Go
7. Ben & Jerry's
8. Pizza Hut
9. Chili's
10. Caribou Coffee

My Top Ten Hobbies

Here are my Top Ten Hobbies/Interests:

1. Knitting
2. Crocheting
3. Writing
4. Horseback riding
5. Baking
6. Volunteering at the local library
7. Bike riding
8. Linguistics
9. Science
10. Photography

My Top Ten Actors/Actresses

Here are my Top Ten Actors/Actresses:

1. Johnny Depp
2. Robbie Coltrane
3. Jennifer Lawrence
4. Owen Wilson
5. Ian McKellen
6. Anne Hathaway
7. Leonardo DiCaprio
8. Gabourey Sidibe
9. Helena Bonham Carter
10. Emma Watson

My Top Ten Songs

Here are my Top Ten Songs:

1. Butterfly Kisses by Bob Carlisle
2. Free to Be Me by Francesca Battistelli
3. Can't Help Falling in Love by Andrea Bocelli
4. Bubbly by Colbie Calliat
5. Everything by Michael Buble
6. Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield
7. Single by Natasha Bedingfield
8. Obladi Oblada by the Beatles
9. Yellow Submarine by the Beatles
10. Paper Back Writer by the Beatles

My Top Ten Foods

Here are my Top Ten Foods:

1. Chocolate
2. Pasta
3. Tacos
4. Quesadillas
5. Shrimp
6. Cheesecake
7. Strawberries
8. Jalapeno poppers
9. Brussels sprouts
10. Chicken salad

My Top Ten Movies

Here are my Top Ten Movies:

1. Harry Potter
2. Lord of the Rings
3. The Hobbit
4. The Hunger Games
5. The Original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
6. Madagascar series
7. Twilight
8. Hotel Transylvania
9. The Help
10. A Christmas Story

My Top Ten TV Shows

Here are my Top Ten TV Shows:

1. The Simpsons
2. Cake Boss
3. Inside Edition
4. 19 Kids and Counting
5. Little Couple
6. Bonanza
7. The Three Stooges
8. Falling Skies
9. Lost
10. Switched at Birth

My Top Ten Bands

I saw this hash tag on Twitter, and thought I would write about it on here.

Here are my top ten bands (in no particular order):

1. Francesca Battistelli-Christian
2. Andrea Bocelli-opera/pop
3. Jonathan Antoine-opera
4. Michael Buble-pop/lite rock
5. Adele-pop/lite rock
6. Celtic Woman-Irish
7. Celtic Thunder-Irish
8. The Beatles-rock
9. Garth Brooks-country
10. Josh Groban-pop

69 Facts About Me

I saw this hashtag on Twitter, so I figured I would post on here some facts about me. Here goes:

1. I am the youngest of five kids.
2. I LOVE chocolate
3. I love baking
4. I love photography
5. I love writing
6. I have never had a cell phone until about two years ago.
7. I am very shy, although I am slowly breaking out of my shell.
8. I want to be a special education teacher
9. I want to be a professional photographer
10. I want to be a baker
11. I want to be an author
12. I am a HUGE Harry Potter fan
13. I am a night owl, and hate getting up before 9 a.m.
14. I love rainy days the best (as long as it is warm out)
15. I am a knitter and crocheter
16. I love volunteering (right now I volunteer at the local library three days a week)
17. I love animals
18. I want to live on a farm someday and own horses
19. I want to adopt children with special needs
20. My favorite food is pasta
21. I have never been outside of the U.S. before
22. My favorite color is purple (I also like green and blue)
23. I LOVE horses
24. My favorite musical artist is Andrea Bocelli
25. I love working with clay
26. I love making lists (I don't know why, I just do)
27. I am big Doctor Who fan
28. I am a big Lord of the Rings fan
29. I have lived in the same house, on the same block, in the same neighborhood, in the same city, in the same state, ever since I was born. I have never, ever moved in my life.
30. I do not like to exercise, but I am trying to get more into that now. I hope to do yoga, pilates, and a few other exercises.
31. I LOVE 3 Musketeers Bars
32. I love to travel and visit new places, as well as visit old favorites
33. I still love to use markers, crayons and colored pencils
34. I keep a dream journal
35. I love polar bears
36. I prefer long hair to short
37. I really do not like getting hair cuts, but I will get one if my hair is long enough for me to donate to Locks of Love, or any other good organization like that.
38. I prefer the country to city living, even though I grew up in the city.
39. I love calendars, and tend to have more than one up in my room at a time
40. I LOVE stickers
41. I love tie-die stuff
42. Baseball and ice hockey are my favorite sports
43. I am not an athletic person
44. I love seeing rainbows
45. I love flowers, and the smell of flowers
46. I have a learning disability, and I am starting to accept that it is a part of who I am
47. Math is my worst, and least favorite, subject
48. I love Sudoku
49. Summer is my favorite season
50. Winter is my least favorite season, although I do love to sled
51. I love spicy food
52. I love cheese (my favorite is Monterey Jack, and sharp cheddar is a close second)
53. My favorite flowers are carnations and roses, and maybe tulips
54. Cracker Barrel is one of my absolute favorite places to eat/shop
55. I love TGI Friday's
56. My favorite article of clothing is a tank top
57. I love the sound of cats purring
58. I prefer texting/emailing/blogging to face-to-face conversations/phone calls/speeches
59. I love shrimp
60. I prefer hugs over kisses
61. I have never worn makeup before, and I don't plan to, except for my wedding day
62. I'm a mix of tomboy, girly girl, and laid back in my fashion style
63. I love Astronomy
64. I love the smell of coffee, but hate the taste
65. Girl Scouts was the best part of school for me
66. I love Phad Thai
67. I don't really care for alcohol, though I will drink on very rare occasions.
68. I used to really hate wearing glasses, until college. It doesn't bother me nearly as much anymore.
69. I am a Hunger Games fan

100 Things I Love

I got the idea for this from a post on Pinterest, and I figured I would make my own list of 100 things I love.

Here goes:

1. My family
2. My friends
3. My spirituality
4. Knitting
5. Crocheting
6. Arts/crafts
7. Blogging
8. Writing
9. Reading
10. Chocolate
11. Pinterest
12. The local library
13. Volunteering
14. Animals
15. Olympics
16. Swimming
17. Bike riding
18. Roller blading
19. Girl Scouts/Boy Scouts
20. Traveling
21. Baking
22. Music
23. Movies
24. Painting/carving pumpkins
25. Dyeing eggs
26. Photography
27. Crayons
28. Markers
29. Colored pencils
30. Shopping
31. Board games
32. Card games
33. Harry Potter
34. Linguistics
35. Baseball
36. Foreign languages
37. Italian food
38. Mexican food
39. Best Buddies
40. Special Olympics
41. Big Brothers Big Sisters
42. Horseback riding
43. Rainy days
44. Plaid
45. Purple, my favorite color
46. Thrift stores
47. Adoptions
48. Cake Boss (a TLC show)
49. Joni and Friends (you can check them out here if you would like more information on Joni and Friends)
50. Real lemonade
51. Little Couple (a TLC show)
52. 19 Kids and Counting (a TLC show)
53. Yoga
54. Nature
55. Girls' night out
56. Calendars
57. Frozen yogurt
58. Picnics
59. Lists (I don't know why, but I just LOVE making lists!!)
60. Getting something in the mail (letter, postcard, present, etc.)
61. Irish/Celtic music
62. Warm weather
63. Mint chocolate chip ice cream
64. Mint chocolate brownies
65. Smoothies
66. Tagalongs (Girl Scout cookies)
67. Beading
68. Strawberries
69. Operation Beautiful
70. The World Needs More Love Letters
71. Pinatas
72. Chalkboard paint
73. People helping other people
74. People helping animals
75. People helping the environment
76. The sound of a cats' purr
77. My country
78. Wallace and Grommit
79. Stickers
80. Being able to go barefoot
81. Phad Thai
82. Doodling
83. Things that glow in the dark
84. The Museum of Science and Industry
85. Animated movies
86. Rolos candy
87. Bonanza
88. Cookbooks
89. Spicy food
90. Being an aunt
91. Dancing my own way
92. Sidewalk chalk
93. Hammocks
94. Sleeping in late
95. Finding new books that I love
96. Finding new movies that I love
97. Finding new music that I love
98. Best Buddies
99. Doctor Who
100. Movie nights