Songs on My iTunes Wish List, Most of Which I Likely Will Purchase One Day When I Get Around to It

1. “#1 Crush,” Garbage
2. “Ain’t No Sunshine,” Bill Withers
3. “Automatic,” The Pointer Sisters
4. “Barking at the Moon,” Jenny Lewis
5. “Big in Japan,” Alphaville
6. “Bust a Move,” Young MC
7. “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” Kylie Minogue
8. “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You,” Lauryn Hill
9. “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You,” Frankie Valli
10. “Change of Heart,” Cyndi Lauper
11. “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),” U2
12. “Christmas in Hollis,” Run-DMC
13. “Christmas Wrapping,” The Waitresses
14. “Dance, Dance,” Fall Out Boy
15. “The Day We Caught the Train (BBC Session),” Ocean Colour Scene
16. “Deeper and Deeper (Long Version),” The Fixx
17. “Do You Hear What I Hear?” Whitney Houston
18. “Down to the River to Pray,” Alison Krauss
19. “Ever the Same (iTunes Originals Version,” Rob Thomas
20. “Finally Home,” MercyMe
21. “Gabriel’s Message,” Sting
22. “The Ghost in You,” The Psychedelic Furs
23. “Gives You Hell,” The All-American Rejects
24. “God Rests in Reason (Live from Montalvo),” Jason Mraz
25. “Here’s Where the Story Ends,” The Sundays
26. “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black),” Neil Young
27. “Hey Hey, My My (Live at Wembley),” Neil Young
28. “I Don’t Like Mondays,” The Boomtown Rats
29. “I Feel for You,” Chaka Khan
30. “I Know There’s Something Going On,” Frida
31. “I’ll Take You There,” The Staple Singers
32. “Iko Iko,” Cyndi Lauper
33. “Iris,” The Goo Goo Dolls
34. “Iris (iTunes Original Version),” The Goo Goo Dolls
35. “Lessons in Love,” Lever 42
36. “Let the Music Play,” Shannon
37. “Linus & Lucy,” Vince Guaraldi Trio
38. “The Little Drummer Boy,” Johnny Cash
39. “A Little More Love,” Olivia Newton-John
40. “A Living Prayer,” Alison Krauss & Union Station
41. “Long Way Down (Look What the Cat Drug In),” Michael Penn
42. “Love Is the Drug,” Roxy Music
43. “Lovely Day,” Bill Withers
44. “Money Changes Everything,” Cyndi Lauper featuring Adam Lazzarra
45. “Name,” The Goo Goo Dolls
46. “One Thing Leads to Another,” The Fixx
47. “Only Happy When It Rains,” Garbage
48. “Over the Rainbow,” Judy Garland
49. “Political Science,” Randy Newman
50. “Praise You in This Storm,” Casting Crowns
51. “Pretty in Pink,” The Psychedelic Furs
52. “The Rose,” Bette Midler
53. “Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground),” The Jacksons
54. “Sowing the Seeds of Love (iTunes Originals Version),” Tears for Fears
55. “Summer Wind,” Frank Sinatra
56. “Sweet Secret Peace,” Neil Finn
57. “Three Little Birds,” Bob Marley
58. “Time After Time,” Cyndi Lauper featuring Sarah McLachlan
59. “Turning Japanese,” The Vapors
60. “Unchained Melody,” Cyndi Lauper
61. “Under Pressure,” David Bowie & Queen
62. “Uninvited,” Alanis Morissette
63. “We Are the Normal,” The Goo Goo Dolls
64. “We Can Work It Out,” Stevie Wonder
65. “What’s Going On,” Cyndi Lauper
66. “When I Grow Up,” Garbage
67. “Why,” Annie Lennox
68. “Wild Horses (Live),” Alicia Keys & Adam Levine
69. “Wrong,” Depeche Mode
70. “Yes We Can Can,” The Pointer Sisters
71. “You Better Run,” Pat Benatar
72. “You Can’t Stop the Beat,” Nikki Blonsky, Zac Efron, Amanda Bynes, Elijah Kelly, John Travolta & Queen Latifah

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My Favorite Condiments (In Order of Preference)

1. Peanut butter (unsure if it's actually a condiment, but I'm counting it in anyway because I love it so much)
2. My husband's homemade chimichurri
3. Oyster sauce
4. Balsamic vinaigrette
5. Barbecue sauce
6. My homemade hummus
7. My homemade guacamole
8. Honey mustard
9. Heinz' no-salt-added ketchup
10. Sriracha sauce

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Things That I Have Started Doing This Year to Be More "Green" OR to Further My Inner-Hippie Agenda

1. Turning off my computer when I'm done using it instead of just turning off the monitor and leaving the computer on all day/night.
2. Using vinegar, water and baking soda for household cleaning instead of chemicals (works just as well, smells better).
3. Giving up coffee (even decaf!) and drinking lots and lots of herbal tea.
4. Using cloth dinner napkins instead of paper.
5. Using just Dr. Bronner's soap and a cheap moisturizer on my problematic (read: incredibly acne-prone) face instead of the expensive, time-consuming (three different products a day), antibiotic-laced cocktail of junk that my dermatologist was giving me prescriptions for (going well so far!).
6. Eating prunes and becoming a wee bit too obsessed with the state of my bowels.
7. Shredding all my junk mail and excess paper and using it as bedding in my ferrets' cage (they sleep in it more than they do their actual beds, which my husband and I make/sew ourselves).
8. Working at home one day a week (thanks, employer!).
9. Growing my own vegetables from seeds (just started it... Not going great so far, but I still have hope that I will have my own yummy tomatoes this summer, or at least a little cilantro... I love that stuff).
10. Using more parentheses (just kidding!) (not really, obviously).
11. Buying large amounts of produce from the local farmers' market and rediscovering my love of beets.
12. Taking lunch to work every day from home instead of buying it (same goes for the husband).
13. Buying reusable plastic or metal water bottles instead of a case of water a week (haven't done it yet, but will soon).
14. Baking my own bread.
15. Slowly but seriously trying to get rid of the clutter/junk in my apartment and have less things in general.
16. Considering buying a "season pass" to the NJ state parks for the summer. Yay, camping!
17. Accepting my deep and abiding love for animals of all sorts and no longer feeling ashamed of how happy Cute Overload makes me.
18. Trying to remember not to leave the water running the entire time I'm washing dishes.
19. Making my own reusable cloth grocery bags (also bought a few from the supermarket to supplement the supply).
20. Eating lots of nuts and raisins.

Places I Have Lived (In Order)

1. Rutherford, NJ
2. New Brunswick, NJ (Rutgers U.)
3. Rutherford, NJ
4. West Windsor, NJ
5. Somerset, NJ
6. Hoboken, NJ
7. Brooklyn, NY
8. Wallington, NJ
9. Jersey City, NJ
10. Wallington, NJ
11. Wallington, NJ (different apartment--okay, two floors down from #10, but still, different)

Items on My Desk at Work on a Typical Day

1. Merriam-Webster's Guide to Punctuation and Style, second edition, paperback
2. Three Yogi Tea Echinacea Immune Support tea bags
3. Two Ricola cough drops
4. One yellow mug with a dried up tea bag in it
5. A 20-ounce glass, purple tinted, full of water
6. One desk lamp, turned on
7. A 3x5 picture of my very handsome husband fishing at Stephens State Park, NJ, in a silver frame
8. A bottle of Ooh-la Hula lotion (lovely, strong jasmine scent)
9. My 1980s-themed make-up bag (featuring pictures of Boy George, the Pet Shop Boys and the like)
10. Three manila folders full of notes for books I'm writing, in a very sloppy pile
11. A white index card with the rules for differentiating "lay" and "lie" written on it in red ink.
12. My iPod, with earphones in a wad next to it
13. My cell phone, on vibrate
14. My desk phone--beige, beat up, hulking, straight from a receptionist's desk in 1980
15. A large, overstuffed, black plastic, canister-shaped pen holder
16. A calculator
17. Three packs of Post-it Flags
18. The computer monitor
19. A 1/3-full cup of Quick Chek coffee (2/3 hazelnut decaf, 1/3 chocolate macadamia nut regular, a little half-and-half), gone cold
20. My red proofreading pen

Topics I Will Write Lists About in the Future (Mostly Off the Top of My Head; Not Comprehensive)

1. Songs I Will Never Get Tired of Hearing
2. Pets I Have Had/Currently Have
3. Random Memories, Comical
4. Random Memories, Depressing
5. CDs I Listened to Obsessively When I First Bought Them
6. Things That I Would Like to Do Every Day Because They Make Me Happy
7. Places I Have Traveled To
8. Websites I Read Regularly
9. Books on My Bookshelf
10. A History of My Favorite TV Shows
11. Meals I Like to Cook
12. Things I Would Like to Learn How to Do
13. Descriptions of Dreams I've Had Recently
14. Things on My Perpetual To-Do List
15. Favorite Beverages
16. Job's I've Had
17. Places I've Lived
18. Best Internet Acronyms
19. Favorite Karate Moves
20. Contents of My Refrigerator