List #702: 5 Favorite Stuffed Animals

List #702: 5 Favorite Stuffed Animals (that I am thinking of right now)

1. Valley Fair Bear (blue teddy bear)

2. Rabbit with denim hat and bow tie

3. Snow Leopard

4. Baby Ewok

5. Li'l Rascal

List #662: Things I Read as a Teen or Young Adult That I Didn't Like

List #662: Things I Read as a Teen or Young Adult That I Didn't Like

1. Ethan Frome (but Age of Innocence was pretty good)

2. Beloved

3. Gary Paulson (sorry Minnesota, I couldn't get through 'Dogsong' either time)

4. Slave Dancer

5. The Tortilla Curtain (sorry Carleton College New Student Week Reading... at least you picked Persepolis a few years later)

List #660: 5 Book Series I Enjoyed in my Youth

List #660: 5 Book Series I Enjoyed in my Youth

1. The Baby Sitters' Club

2. The Dragonlance Books (I started with the Heroes trilogy, but my all-in-one "Chronicles" is one of the best christmas presents I ever got)

3. Encyclopedia Brown

4. The Hardy Boys

5. The Lord of the Rings (was scared by the cartoon of The Hobbit in 1st grade, so I resisted it until it was forced upon me in 5th grade. Can't imagine life not having read it)

List #467: Youth Hockey Memories

List #467: Youth Hockey Memories

1. My Teams: Wheeler (squirt D, C), Piedmont (Squirt B)

2. Collecting Hockey card stickers to put on my helmet

3. Crying so hard (at age 6) when I got my first penalty (because I was innocent) that I had to go home

4. Being offered a dollar for a goal and 50c for an assist from my grandpa (career lifetime salary <15$)

5. Awesome Fans

6. Hiding one of our players in a locker in the locker room after he punched someone in the handshake

7. Hanging out with friends between games at tournaments (and the little pom-poms the mom's would make)

8. Taking up skiing when it became clear that I wasn't good enough to keep playing on the same team as all of my friends would be on.

Bonus list: Things I don't remember

1. The outcome (Score-wise) of any game or tournament

2. It being un-fun, a waste of time, or a bad experience, even thought I quit

List #321: TV shows that I liked when I was very young

List #321: TV shows that I liked when I was very young that I remember liking

1. Sesame Street (I liked it a lot... A LOT)
2. Dukes of Hazzard
3. Fraggle Rock
4. Mr. Rogers' neigborhood
5. DtV (music Videos set to disney cartoons)
6. Bring 'em Back Alive
7. Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
8. Saturday Night Live
9. Super Friends
10. Pinwheel