i'll have a poetry thursday/grateful friday combo, please...

first of all,
a generous helping of poetry thursday...

this will take you to
the first poem
i ever fell in love with.

i was in grade 5 or 6.
this poem was in one of texts
that we didn't have to read
but being the geek that i am proud to be,
i usually read all of my literature-type texts
from cover to cover...
heh.

i used to sit on the floor in the upstairs hallway
and read this out loud
in the most dramatic of voices.
in my head, i still read it the same way.

and finally, some gratitude for a
sweet dessert--

• a new mary engelbreit magazine waiting to be read
• my mom's confirmation that what i wrote in her
  mother's day card did indeed make her cry a little
  (mission accomplished, heh heh)*
• canned diet coke
• the hippies won!!!!
• mojo lost (heeheeheehee)(i despised mojo)
• this version of somewhere over the rainbow,
  thank you, liz, for sharing this :)
• freezie season!!!
• the freedom to stay home guilt-free which i
  have already gushed about
• memoirs of a geisha, which i watched last night
  and loved...i could not stop staring at the main
  character, she was that beautiful.
  

*just to clarify...i love my mom...i didn't make her cry
out of spite...just out of sweetness...heehee