2008 BESTS.

Marvin and I were playing 21 Questions related to 2008 bests:

and I realized a lot about the year.... and all of these things seemed to revolve around the realization that I ate A LOT of food, watched a ton of movies, and made a bucket-full of friends.

1. "What was the BEST food you've eaten this year?"
And after muuuuch pondering (because I've eaten at so many restaraunts this year) I told him it would have to be either nahn chu's (sp?) cheese-filled baby tomatos OR guu's deep fried cheese!
THEN I realized that I had forgotten about PaJo's FISH AND CHIPS! Aw man. If only they were open in the winter.

2."What was the best movie you've watched this year?"
Penelope. I don't know why...but it was so charming and so inspiring...and Shannon, Rona, and I cried! AND I also watched it with Marvin when we were still friends and that was fun. So I guess that's why.


(And I think he realized that that was why...so he asked me...)

3. " What's the best movie you've seen...that you HAVEN'T watched with me?"
Then I realized that there were no movies that I've watched without him. Because I'd watch them with my friends...and I'd want him to see them because they were normally really good. So that was a question we decided to "toss."

(But then I realize, now, that the best movie I've seen this year is Seven Pounds HANDS DOWN. The plot wasn't too complicated...it was simple when you step back from the emotional tidal waves and somehow, it still carried such an impact...such a driving influence. It was sad...but inspiring. And I think it's just what I needed to kick off 2009.)

4. "What's the BEST book you've read this year?"

And I easily answered Dear John by Nicholas Sparks. It wasn't really heavy (normally his books aren't) but it wasn't too light...it was perfectly dosed with enough touching moments to not drive me insane, and out of breath. However, it still left me thinking. And I found the notebook that I write quotes in and then I realized just how much some of the quotes applied to my life.

Here are some that I can relate to and some that I think you guys would like:

"I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be."

"Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed...it can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith...the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last."

"And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever."

“I read a lot, too. In the army, you have a lot of time to read, and people trade books back and forth or sign them out from the library until the covers are practically worn away. I don’t want you to get the impression that I because a scholar, because I didn’t. I wasn’t into Chaucer or Proust or Dostoevsky or any of those other dead guys; I read mainly mysteries and thrillers and books by Steven King, and I took a particular liking to Carl Hiaasen because his words flowed easily and he always made me laugh. I couldn’t help but think that if schools had assigned these books in English class, we’d have a lot more readers in the world.”

There were more, but those were the ones that I picked out from my notebook.

Anyways, those were some of the questions...I can't quite remember all of them. So, I'll ask Marvin what the rest of them were and update this later! Good night guys :)