my beloveds:
God, my family, friends, the Roses, ice cream (especially Half-Baked frozen yogurt), classical music, 75% off sales, Grant Wistrom, the Cardinals, the Rams, the Blues, St. Louis, ice skating outdoors on a cold winter night, kitsch lounge music, hello kitty, indie movies and music, bookstores, Billy Elliot, The Beatles, waking up early, zip sweaters, Wallace and Gromit, daisies, canadian chocolate, TMBG, the musical theatre, black shirts, listening to Ella Fitzgerald while driving at night, The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, toile, French literature and cinema, tap dancing, Cost Plus World Market, bass clarinets, voting, 50's decor and lifestyles, jazz, people watching, white chocolate mochas with caramel, tall shoes and fun socks, crepes with nutella and powdered sugar, Shonen Knife, Chicago, vintage clothes, 70 degree weather, being "one of the guys" (thanks BJ Pav.), and weird pants.

guilty pleasures:
reading Teen People, Abba's music (and all other Swedish pop), Saved by the Bell, Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill Wine, the Spice Girls, cover music, The Real World, Hanson, NPR, reading children's books, and seeing people with mullets and saying, "Mullet!"

not my beloveds:
hot dogs, thumb injuries that don't heal, teenyboppers, peas, appletinis, expensive gas, Branson, asthma, moth balls, cleaning my room, and caf food