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71
-The number of different characters that can be used with a standard English Keyboard, excluding uppercase letters.


Random Questions!!1!

1: What eye color do you find sexiest?
-In order; grey, blue, green.
2: White, milk, or dark chocolate mocha?
-White
3: If you could get a Sharpie tattoo on your back, what would it be?
-Anything fun or cool or meaningful draw on my a family member, friend or loved one.
4: Did you grow up in a small or big town? Did you like it?
-SLC is 'THE BIG CITY' in Utah. That always makes me laugh.
5: Your favorite adult as a child? (and not your parents, if they were your favorite)
-Three different friend's mothers, Craig's mom was just awesome all around and made great food, Ali's and Brad's mother dunno why just seem that way, and at times Brenda.
6: What kind of smoothie sounds really good right now?
-The PB one from the shop that use to be in Sears
7: Most embarrassing moment from your elementary school years?
-Barfing in kindergarten then my mother not answering the phone calls to get me then walking home at half day when kindergarten was over and barfing more then 5 times before I was a block away from school. Four or five times alone crossing the street.
8: Most embarrassing moment from your middle school years?
-My mother promising to show up to take me and three friends to the fun dome with passes I had for them from school and her not showing up for HOURS.
9: Most embarrassing moment from your high school years?
-Walking to English and having someone call me a pedophile because I was fat. I don't get it?
10: Pirates or ninjas? Why?
-Ninja pirates DUH!
11: Have you ever climbed a tree more than twenty feet off the ground?
-No. have always been scared of heights.
12: Did you like swinging as a child? Do you still get excited when you see a swing set?
-Yep helped my dad build the family swing set in the backyard. Eeeh kinda. I guess. I dunno.
13: If you could have any pet in the world, illegal or not, what would you get?
Just let me have my dogs and cats and be let alone. I'm good with that.
14: What's your most favorite part of your body?
-Eyes. They can't hide what I'm really thinking and feeling. Look close.
15: What's your most favorite part of your personality?
-Wit.
16: Madonna or Lady Gaga? Neither? Both? Who cares?
-Lady Gaga but I'm not gaga over her, thou she has some good and catchy songs.
17: Have you ever watched the Superbowl all the way through?
-Nope.
18: Have you ever watched any major sporting event drunk?
-Don't drink. So no.
19: What's the most delicious food you've ever eaten in your life?
-Can't think of it off the top of my head...
20: Margarine or butter? Which did you grow up with?
-Grew up on both but most of the time Margarine. I don't really care though.
21: Whole, skim, 1%, or 2% milk? (Did you know they make 1 1/2% milk?)
-2% and 1%
22: Which continents have you been on?
-Never been outside the USA. :( Trying to plan to have a day trip into Canada one of these SRT though.
23: Do you get motion sickness? Any horror stories?
-Nope
24: Backpacks or satchels?
-I LOVE messenger bags and sling packs but use backpacks the most for day to day use.
25: Would you wear a rainbow jacket? A neon yellow sweater? Checkered pants?
-I'd rather not.
26: What was your favorite cartoon growing up?
-Digimon
27: If you had to have a cow or a pig, which would you take? Why?
-Cow. Milk, butter etc.
28: If you had to look at one city skyline for the rest of your life, which would it be?
-I don't mind the SLC skyline. I'm alright being and staying here.
29: Longest plane ride you've ever been on?
-SLC to Denver? I think I was a baby and that is the only one I've been on.
30: The latest you've ever slept?
-29 hours. Crashing after being up almost two days in a row.
31: Would you buy a sweater covered in kitten pictures? Would you wear it if someone gave it you for free?
-Buy no, wear if a important person gave it to me yes.
32: Do you pick at scabs?
-Sadly when I'm nervous yes. Hate it.
33: Favorite kind of bean? Kidney? Black? Pinto?
-None.
34: How far can you throw a baseball?
-Dunno.
35: If you had to move to another country, where would you move?
-Scotland Ireland, UK, Canada, Netherlands etc.
36: Have you ever eaten Ethiopian food? Vietnamese? Korean? Nepalese? How was it?
-Not that I know of.
37: Small, liberal arts school or public university? Why?
-Public. I like big classes where I'm not centered out and has less (fail) group work/projects.
38: A relationship with love or one with sex?
-Love.
39: Do you eat enough vegetables?
-Hell no :/
40: Do you like horror movies? How about thrillers?
-Yes and yes. Horror but not gore.
41: Would you scratch a crotch itch in public?
-Only if no one is looking and even then ehhh...
42: Do you swear in front of your parents?
-Yep.
43: Coolest thing you've ever been for Halloween?
-Fat grim reaper lol.
44: If you could change your natural hair color, would you? To what?
-Sure. Some brown color most likely. I've died it blue before.
45: Do you want to get married? Have kids?
-Yep!
46: Do you use a reusable water bottle? If not, you should.
-Yeah.
47: City or nature person?
-Both. I like city ease but I need green spaces.
48: Have you ever used something other than "makeup" as makeup? (Like paint? Markers?)
-No.
49: Can you walk well in high heels? Even if you're a guy?
-I'm a chick and no not really.
50: Post 5 awesome things about yourself. BRAG AWAY!
-I hate these ones. Ummm.
-1) I have sharp wit most of the time.
-2) I can create characters and their back story really well.
-3) I'm a great listener.
-4) I can plan a great road trip.
-5) I tend to give good gifts.

^See lame lol.

70
-In the Gospel of Matthew, 18:21-22, Jesus tells Peter to forgive people seventy times seven times.
-In the Gospel of Luke 10:1-24, Jesus appoints Seventy Disciples and sends them out in pairs to preach the Gospel.
-Seventy, a priesthood office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.



Nightmare: my life trying to find a doctor GP or Endo that works with T3 or desiccated thyroid! God give me strength but SL docs are dumb as mud and so are making my life a living hell. All I want is proper treatment for my thyroid symptoms. 'cuz T4 treatment is not cutting it.

Anyway enough shit about how I feel like death on rims. I meant nightmare like the when you are asleep.

I had a disturbing dream where a lil kid went all psycho/mad scientist on his family and turned them into a human/robot Rube Goldberg machine. O.o Like his dad's lower half was the needle that went up and down and his mom was something like the treadle foot thing that holds/passes the cloth through. Other people like his neighbors and baby siblings where used as well but lucky I only had to stumble across his parents and one adult neighbor messed up like this even though in the dream I just knew that his siblings where fucked up by him in the same way.

Ugh that was horrible, and where the hell did that dream come from. Disturbing as all get out.


I'm glad that I heard from a friend that I've been worried about. Glad that she is okay.

69
-The number 69 written in Western Arabic numeral notation can be rotated 180° and remain visually the same.
-The sexual position.


EDIT***

So it has finally happen. I have missed more weeks posting (IE 70) then weeks I have posted (69). Doh.

Anyway I've been thinking about my thyroid condition and since it won't settle down and is making my emotions run a muck I think that until it is settled and balanced for several months that I'm going to ask my psychiatrist that has been helping me with anxiety, anxiety that I'm almost 100% sure is brought on and link mainly with my thyroid, to prescribe some anti-depressants. I'm sick of this thyroid crap sending my emotions on a screaming trip through hell and until they settle now that I have a confident doctor and endocrinologist working with me on them maybe the balance that I had for most of my teen with this. The more that I read about Hashimoto's the more it brings up emotional highs and lows that the illness can cause. Say it with me now F-M-L. Anyway I just am sick of feeling random spikes of depressed views and mulling over the bad side of life when it comes.

God almighty I never wanted to be a pill head but if this is what it takes to help survive the leveling out process of Hypothyroidism/Hashimoto's then I am at the point that I will gladly take the help. Honestly part of being a strong smart person is knowing when you need some help and having the backbone to go forward with asking and then seeking that needed help.

One thing that does gnaw at the back of my head is like quiet a few people in similar boat (no matter how life brought them to the shore and shoved them into similar boats) is the fucking stigma of feeling the need to get this kinda help. I know I fear what others think of me being on meds. No matter what the meds are for and why you need them. Anyway I'm laying this out here and saying judge away. More important then what you think is what I know I need to get on with a happy, calm and productive life. Denying it would be like trying to keep your mind on work when you have a bursting bladder and yet refusing that you NEED to pee. You need to pee and you can't ignore it. Just like I need to be able to not feel random spikes of anxiety and depression because my thyroid is not sending enough of the needed chemicals to all parts of my body and brain. Nature needs those chemicals to function in the proper way and my luck at the genetic draw came up crumpled and missing part of the instructions. So with that being my lot in life I look now to God's gift of science and man's wisdom to fill in the missing gaps.

It would be helpful to be able to feel at my best while I am trying to find a new job and finish school (another thing that took a hit thx to my illness) and change my health habits.

Sadly I can't wait until I talk to my doc about this. Though all the 'fun' side affects scare the living shit out of me. I honestly just want my normal boring life back right now. 'Cuz I am not a fucking yo-yo. But who knows I might have other needs for it. My dad's side has emotional issues on it and with all the bad genetic luck I've had in my short life I might be due for some more hits. Oi.




Anyway just thinking (typing) out laud. Peace, love and one big whopping bag of crazy signing out for now.

EDIT***
You know I've let my doctors cow me saying that my research is wrong or misinformed. But reading back over info about anxiety/depression linked to thyroid and specifically hypothyroid/Hashimoto's conditions I'm going to demand in a polite way that they lets me try a T3 supplement. If I don't need a antidepressant or even the anxiety meds I've been on since '09 then I'd love it. Also I'd love to be able to have all this under control and fixed. If I do need antidepressants and the T3 supplement does not work AFTER I HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO TRY IT then so be it and what must be must be to get back to feeling normal.

I'm just really mad over all this right now. I'm sick of feeling fucked up. I really hate thyroid problems. Since it is linked to major chemical control over your body/brain one lil blip and mess up (to high or, to low) or, not the right things in the right levels makes you feel like a crazy person or in extreme pain.

**SOME TMI STUFF AHEAD FYI.***
68

-In degrees Fahrenheit, the ideal temperature for developing black-and-white film.



So I've noticed that both my anxiety induced times have surrounded changes in my thyroid. Two years (give or take) when I went through the DP/DR (both anxiety problems). This new time my thyroid jumped from 1.9 to 4.1 while I was taking my meds like normal. The normal range is 0.3 - 3.0 so that is not good. Neither my regular GP doc or I don't have any idea why it jumped while I have not changed my meds. I went in a second time after I did my own research into thyroid problems (I have had Hypothyroidism since 9th/10th grade). For the most part I've had 200-250 mcg of Synthoid (synthetic thyroid replacement) but my GP Doc jumped it up to 400 mcg (O.O!!!) then down to 300 mcg. Anyway I went in after researching thyroid conditions and told him that I found that both anxiety and depression can be linked to rising or falling thyroid levels. Most of the time anxiety is linked to Hyperthyroidism which is a condition where your thyroid makes T4 and T3 at higher levels then you need or your body does not use the chemicals like they should. Hypothyroidism, the type I have is where your body does not make T4 and T3 and you need to take a thyroid supplement like Synthoid to replace them in your body. That is linked to Depression when the thyroid levels change. A Thyroid disease/autoimmune disease known as Hashimoto's can cause Hypothyroidism can cause both symptoms of hyper and hypo in that sometimes the non-working/'dying' hypo thyroid can start working again causing the person to have a hyper jump in the amount of thyroid chemicals being made and cause a person to have anxiety symptoms.

The thing is that not everyone that is Hypothyroid like me has Hashimoto's BUT everyone that has Hashimoto's has Hyperthyroidism. When I was diagnose with my thyroid condition I was told it was Hypothyroidism. Hell I did not even know about Hashimoto's until I started researching why I felt really horrible anxious each time I had a change in my thyroid these last 4-5 years.

Anyway I went into my GP (general practitioner) and told him what I had learned about conditions related to thyroid conditions and some I thought that where causing me problems and needed to get under control. **SOME TMI STUFF AHEAD FYI.***

Things I told him that where effecting me taking from thyroid info on the Mayo Clinic site:
-Anxiety
-Depression
-being un-normally tired
-heavy/long periods
-constipation/diarrhea
-pain in joints

I told him this and other detailed symptoms and that I'd like a full thyroid blood test panel run to check that my T4 and T3 and TSH where all in check and to test for Hashimoto's.

He also told me that Synthoid ALWAYS works and solves the needed void of T4 and always breaks down into the T3 that they body needs.

Heads up Doc but Synthoid is ONLY T4 and does not always break down into the lesser but also NEEDED T3, Studies have shown this. Sometimes a T3 substitute is needed with your Synthoid (or other T4 replacement).

Also he said that I most likely had (as in once upon a time...but not anymore) Hashimoto's but that it went away. Ummm Hashimoto's does not just go away. It is a autoimmune disease that slowly over years kills off your thyroid. It does NOT go away.

So more or less he told me that I was full of shit. He said that any emotional problems where not linked to the thyroid, menstrual problems where not linked to the thyroid. That my joint pain was just a coincidence and that being tired was from being fat and that since I was fat I had sleep apnea. All I can say is great brush off dumb ass!

I know somethings for certain he is wrong with since I have been dealing with a thyroid condition for more then a decade. Heavy and long periods are most defiantly linked if you are a woman. Also joint pain that spreads out from the elbows into the arms and is beyond painful is linked. Also being horribly tired for no reason what so ever is linked. I've had the horrible luck to be off my needed meds due to being strapped for cash and lacking insurance so I know that when you are off your needed thyroid meds these symptoms will rear their ugly and painful head. So telling me that I'm full of shit about that is soooooo very wrong.

More or less he refused to run a test for Hashimoto's and a Free T3 test (testing if and how much T4 is breaking down to T3) and told me a second opinion with an Endocrinologist was a expensive waste of time.

Link to the Mayo Clinic's page on Hashimoto's located here for symptoms and more.



So I got my parent's Doc (which upon hearing that I was having extreme anxiety symptoms among other things related to my thyroid) immediately referred me to an Endocrinologist. And tomorrow I get that second opinion and see just how much shit I am full of.

Scared but something I know I need to do. It would make me lividly enraged to find out that I did not need to go through all this anxiety and other emotionally disturbing crap if this was maintained like it should have been and had doctors that knew the symptoms to help me with this. (Another 'fun' fact is that is your anxiety or depression is link to a imbalance of your thyroid that psychological meds for the said anxiety/depression will not help until your thyroid is back under control. Thus might explain why my anxiety meds are not working to control this swell of unexpected anxiety that JUST HAPPENS to hit when my thyroid count jumps out of control from 1.9 to 4.1. Hmmm anyone else think that might be linked? Or am I full of shit??? >.>)


PS:
For anyone that does not know thyroid conditions are for the most part handled with the taking of one or two pills a day. All this sounds worse then it is (most of the time). With proper and knowledgeable doctors this is a very easy health condition to handle and live with. Up until these last 4-5 years I have only needed to take one thyroid hormone replacement pill to handle it. Shows how bad this new doctor of mine is. Oi.

67
-The highest two-digit odd number not presently designating any highway in the Interstate Highway System of the United States.
-In the US, *67 is a common prefix-code for blocking caller-id info on the subsequent call.


Have been slacking on most things right now. let the GAD get the better of me. Been awhile since I had this kinda anxiety so I'm not use to it. On the other hand I'm telling it to fuck off and getting slowly back into the swings of things. Money, family and life expectations and goals (lack of hitting certain goals) have gotten under my skin and are bugging me so the GAD decided to hit it into high gear. Bah FML when that happens. Been two year since I've felt this odd but no DP/DR so I'm happy on that front. With all the stress growing up I never thought that I'd be the kind of person to have anxiety problems because I always handled stress extremely well with no problems but I guess at some point even the toughest smuck crumbles and needs some help. Oh well nothing new for a 20 something to deal with stress. Do want to thank my siblings and friends for the ears as of late. I know when I'm keyed up I can be a bit erratic until things settle down. <3 ya'll you all help me feel less like a freak when keyed up.

Anyway music dump away.

Spinning Into Place - Younger Brother


We Found Love - RIHANNA



^Don't really dig the video but the song is cool. *shrugs*

Shelter Me - Tab & Lousiana's Leroux Benoit



^Guess what brought this song to my ears lol. Yeah I know Discovery rox thx Netflix! lol.

Shut Up And Let Me Go - The Ting Tings



Solitary Man - Johnny Cash



Dash Berlin did and dedicated this song to the wonderful Paul of http://www.anxietynomore.co.uk/ (http://anxietynomore.co.uk/blog/2011/06/15/198/). How awesome is that!?



^How could I not include this. Love Dash Berlin and the fact that they did this for Paul (not my bro fyi) and his God send of a wonderful site makes me love them even more.

Love Drunk - Boys Like Girls



Living in America - The Sounds



Beatbox - The Sounds



Arms - Christina Perri



Stereo Hearts - Gym Class Heroes ft. Adam Levine




Have others that I could share but that seems enough for now. haha.


Random quote stolen from twitter this last week: "I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay." – Dave Matthews Band

LOL also this from maybe two weeks back. Me: LOL if only life was such a easy choice.

"owlcity: Therapy is expensive. Bubble wrap is cheap. You choose."

Something that passed through my head a while back: It's not if the universe will call off the sh*t throwing monkey, but when. Until then just keep on shoveling.

As of the last week been sick with a stomach bug and since I had DP/DR being sick always kinda kicks up anxiety with being ill. Anyway this time it caused a panic attack and more anxiety then I've felt it almost two years. Kind of like a lil DP/anxiety after quack that I've been trying to put down this last week. I guess that anxiety is something I have not dealt well with since the DP/DR those years ago. So it can pop up no and again. Most times being passed with lil time or bother. This last week has not been one of those times. I'm getting over it more slowly but I have the tools to work it out like I did those years before. Though it is embarrassing and scary. It feels like a AA member having a relapse and thus is an embarrassment. Not that I should be embarrassed. People that would make fun or it or me would not be true friends and people I should care about. I know I would stick with my friends through any shit that comes into their life and I expect my friends to be just as caring. Not that I'm saying that they aren't.

Anyway just brushing up on the info on "Anxiety No More" and came across this video that some did that hits the nail on the head about how sever anxiety can feel. Not fun and a scary look into the jumble of panicked feelings in a person's head but at the same time in a odd way it feels comforting to know that you are not alone when you feel panicked. I think the worse feeling are feeling like you'll lose your loved ones; family, friends, girlfriends, boyfriends, job etc. over such anxiety. I know I've felt that was before think who would want to be around a nutter like me.

Rid from John Freddy Jones on Vimeo.

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I think that it comes from stress with home money and the chance of having to move back in with the parents so we can save money up to pay off larger bills and feeling like a failure. Add getting sick and it just exploded in a panic attack. Not fun. Not fun at all.

Oh well to moving forward and pass this back to normal.

66
-The designation of the historic U.S. Route 66, dubbed the "Mother Road" by novelist John Steinbeck
-The designation of US Interstate 66, a freeway that runs from Virginia to Washington, D.C.
-In Abjad numerals, The Name Of Allah (الله) numeric value is 66


Holy Hell it has been one week shy of two months with no update.

Well I just got lucky and snagged a miscast of Missmonster's half face werewolf mask that she is no longer casting and selling. It is unfinished and unpainted so I get to try my hand at some painting. I want to go for a rusted neglected look on it so I've been surfing the web for some ideas and know how.

I know I will be using drybrushing no matter what I want to do in the end.

Some links for recall when it get here in the mail:

Good old Deviantart. This looks very promising! :D
-http://fantasystock.deviantart.com/art/Create-Rusty-Metal-Finish-123961639

-In our shop we never use any sort of fancy products to simulate rust.

Its a matter of technique and you can make really convincing rust with simple acrylic paint. You can use an airbrush or just a paintbrush if you like.

Star with the bottom level of paint being metallic...whatever your base metal should be. You can use spraypaint or acrylic. Then you need to start a dark layer. Preferrably matte black. It should be in all the areas you intend to rust. Down in all the cracks and in the corners where rust would appear from trapped moisture.

Over that, a stippled layer of brown. Chocolate brown, rusy brown, whatever. It too should be as matte as possible. It should break up the black as a fine, subtle texture.

Over that, a watery wash of bright orange. REALLY watery.

Now here's a trick: If you want the rust to be really textural, you can start this process by stippling on your favorite putty compound. I use Bondo. By stippling it, you get a rough texture that simulates surface corruption by the rust. Go through the whole process above for painting it. Then, and this is the coup de grace, get yourself some nice chalky pastels. Use the orange pastel on the tip of your finger or a brush and brush across the tippy tops of the texture to pick them out in this bright orange.

That's the Minnefex industry secret of making rust for advertisng photography.

Your results may vary.

-Gordon

This is a fake rust paint set but I dunno if I want to do it that way. :/
-http://www.rustall.com/order-form

Honestly I don't dig this guy's stippling 'dry brushing' here as it looks to shoddy.




WOW! Much better and very simple. Though it felt like it was going in reverse using the red on the bottom. Hmm... More research is required here. Though it looks like this and the DA tutorial are the best shots right now.





Yes the above are tutorials for table top miniatures but the idea is the same.

I hate crying in front of people, most of all my family.

Just tonight I was hanging out and I pretended to trip Rachel and she came back over and kicked me in the lower leg as hard as she could. It hurt enough to vocalize the pain but not cry and then I had the feeling of the oncoming tears. I guess that the rest of the family could see the on coming tears as I tried to suck up the feeling of crying. In the end I ended up crying a lil bit. Before I wanted to get up and leave knowing what was coming and I wish I had.

Honestly I'm sick of feeling ashamed that I need to cry sometimes. Even worse when I've had a hard day or week or whatever and crying comes more easily due to the crappy stuff going on.

I hate crying and feeling like I'm being judged and deemed weak when I am forced to give in to the need.

One day I hope to find a person that I don't feel weak and embarrassed to cry in front of.

65

-A common speed limit, in miles per hour, for freeways in many U.S. states, primarily in the eastern United States (in the western United States, the common limit is 70 and in some places 75).


Ever since I got to try my hand at Papier-mâché while my advance art class made mask I have loved it. In fact I started to get really excited in 7th grade while walking past Mrs. Buttler's room and saw all the masks that her advance art classes had made past and present sitting on the display case. Made me hope even harder that I could get into the advance art class. I was so excited when I did get in to advance art with my other peers. That class was one of my favorite classes that year!

Anyway ever since I've wanted to do another Papier-mâché mask. The one that I did in advance art was a almost demon wolf. It had a fanged snout with a bull ring in the nose. It had two slender cone shaped horns that came from its head and a 'mane' like mohawk running along the middle of the head made of the coolest Faux fur/feathers that I got to use. (which was the greatest thing in Mrs. Butler's box of things to use on the mask IMHO!!) Out of the mouth I had a brass (?) snipped thin metal tongue that was like a snake tongue I made. Forked and bent in a wavy pattern. It was painted half black and half red and had a Chakotay-ish tattoo on the same area. (Chakotay was the first officer on Star Trek Voyager and I really loved the show and his tattoo was awesome in my POV and the first of the kind of face tattoos I'd see. I'd not had the luck to come across maori face tattoos yet.) One thing I over looked and kinda regretted not adding was the ears. lol oh well.

Anyway since then I've always wanted to do another mask. At first I wanted to do a much better and more realistic werewolf/wolf monster/demon mask.

Anyway as time has passed and I've expanded my interest certain things have stayed in my mind and influenced my likes.

Such as: mask, gas masks, animal mask, plague doctor mask and armored head coverings both old and futuristic. Whether real or fantasy it matters very little.

Things like replica Roman centurion helmets (notice the 'mohawk' theme lol) have always caught my eye and would be a great things to decorate with. Also if I could have a whole wall of Missmonster (Melita Curphy) masks I would. Seriously check her stuff out! I have one and I have pre-ordered another one. I still want to snag the werewolf half mask this next month before it is gone for good.

Anyway as you can tell I have a thing for mask and head wear. If you don't know check my FB pics for just a few shots. They are so fun to play around with.

...hmmmm maybe this stems from my love of hats?

I really want to try and make a Papier-mâché wolf themed fantasy plague doctor mask for my wall. It would be really fun and a cool project!





Oh by the way...


Been listening to this for a while today on loop. The beat is just so effen catchy. Also for a good laugh Youtube "Epic Rap Battles of History" for some good fun. ;) (fyi swearing)

Harry potter
Narnia
Fairy tales/myths/folklore
Hunger Games
Scary stories (Thou only mild ones depending on age, scare level and fear of dark/monsters wild imagination. Though being totally and I mean uber freaked of the dark and a horrible wild imagination never stopped me from loving scary stories and anything along those lines.)
Fableheaven
Goosebumps
Berenstain bears
Eyewitness Books
Animal books
Disney books

(More or less in that kind of order)

All the lil kid books that I loved when I was little. My parenst always took us to the library. Not having a ton of money it was a place that we went often so we always had tons of library books. I think my upbringing just helped shape my love of books, imagination and exploration and how things work (yes the book by the same name was really neat).

I honestly don't recall my parents reading to me when a I was a really lil girl but they feed my imagination. We where at the library so much that the librarian knew us by name and asked us how we where and what we had been up to. Normal list of books for me from the library was something like the fallowing; chapter books from fav series at the time, drawing books, cooking books, myth/monster/scary story/ghost story/fable etc., books from the "Eyewitness Books" series and books on animal care, also videos like BBC's Narnia, Berenstain bears.


That kind of stuff. I want my kids and nieces, nephews to love reading and all the imagination that is stokes within the mind. I know I loved it!