One Loves Food

and this topic is way too broad to answer. Someone else will have to go first and narrow the field. There are thousands of ways I could write about it. So instead I will post some food quotes that I found on chowhound.com:

Voltaire said, «Rien ne serait plus fatiguant que mangeant et buvant si Dieu ne leur avait pas fait un plaisir aussi bien qu'une nécessité. »...which translated into English is something like, "Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking, if God hadn't made them a pleasure as well as a necessity."

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality. ~Clifton Fadiman

Do vegetarians eat animal crackers? ~Author Unknown

A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~Old New York Proverb

I'll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal. ~Martha Harrison

Favorite/Good Songs by Four

I don't know what my favorite song is.  I love so many!!  I have a play list entitled, Obsessed.  I put in it songs that I heard and focused on for some reason or other.  It has 154 songs in it....  That's a little too many for a list like this... However, I'll try to explain a few of my favorites, not only from that list. I'm just looking through my iTunes at various play lists and telling you my thoughts on songs.  I guess my favorite changes from moment to moment.  There are probably many that I love that I'll miss.  Oh well...

Outside by Staind
I remember the first time I heard this song on the radio.  Wow!  It just spoke volumes to me about what people hide from the world, and present to the world.  I mean I think that we all have things we don't want people to see, but just kind of knowing that everyone has things makes it easier in a way...  hope that makes sense.
"I'm on the outside I'm looking in.
I can see through you See your true colors
Inside you're ugly Ugly like me
I can see through you See to the real you"

Perfect by Sarah Evans
Love this one.  It's like my life philosophy, well at least it sums up how I view many things.  It's kind of like, worry the appropriate amount about things.  There will be some things that aren't perfect or how it was expected, but they're still just fine.  Don't think I explained that too well...
"Baby, every piece of the puzzle doesn't always fit perfectly
Love can be rough around the edges, tattered at the seams.
Honey if it's good enough for you it's good enough for me."

My Favorite Mistake by Sheryl Crow
I love to sing this song.  It's one of my very favorite to just belt out.

Mary Jane's Last Dance by Tom Petty
I will always like this song, probably because I was riding in the car with Five and told him I didn't think he could sing all of the lyrics, and he proved me wrong, right then and there...  :D

Give Me One Reason by Tracy Chapman
I think this song is genius, if you haven't heard it, you should listen.  It's clever.  I like clever.
"Give me one reason to stay    and I'll turn right back around
...
I said I told you that I love you           and there ain't no more to say"

Comfortable by John Meyer
I'd love a comfortable love.  That's why I love this song.  It talks about a previous girlfriend compared to the current one. And also, there's harmony that's beautiful.
"Our love was comfortable, so broken in
She's perfect, so flawless
I'm not impressed!
I want you back!"

Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day
"I walk a lonely road  the only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes  but it's only me and I walk alone..."


White Flag by Dido
I watched this video over and over and over, just so I could hear the song.  I love love love this song.  Although funny enough I don't necessarily agree that I would go down with the ship [and ended relationship]

Unwell by Matchbox 20
Sometimes I do feel a little unwell..  Love this song.
"I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell
I know right now you can't tell
But stay a while and soon you'll see
a different side of me"

One Last Breath by Creed
I think it took a little while to understand the lyrics, so once I got them it just made me like the song more...
"Hold me now I'm six feet from the edge
and I'm thinking
Maybe six feet, ain't so far down."

Underneath it All by No Doubt
I just love a specific line in this song.  Love that concept.
"You see the colors in me   like no one else"

Set the Fire to the Third Bar by Snow Patrol featuring Martha Wainright
Amazing, Amazing harmony.

I Love You by Sarah McLachlan
Two reasons this song resonates with me.  When I love someone, everything else dulls when that person is around.  Also, there are many people I've loved and never told.
"But everytime I'm close to you,
There's too much I can't say
And you just walk away
And I forgot
To tell you I love you"

Celebrity by Brad Paisley [click on the title to watch video]
I love a good sense of humor.  And this song totally mocks celebrities that take themselves a little to seriously. Brad Paisley is totally my country crush.  I think I first really started liking this song after seeing the video which features both William Shatner and Jason Alexander (George from Seinfield).

SexyBack by Justin Timberlake
Good beat.  "yeah"  Just a fun song.  I wanted to mention JT because I love his voice, especially when he breaks into the falsettos.

Scenes by Burlap to Cashemere
Just a good, clean, fun song, which I haven't quite figured out yet.  But it quotes a long section of Shakespeare kind of in the background and I memorized most of it.

Kindness by Chris Tomlin
Hands down my favorite worship song.  God's kindness is a concept that I didn't start out with, but it's key.
"It's your kindness Lord, that leads us to repentance
Your favor Lord, is our desire
It's your beauty Lord that makes us stand in silence
and your love, your love is better than life"

Bubble Toes by Jack Johnson
Another one that I love for one line:
"If you would only listen,
you would realize what your missing
You're missing me!"

Whatcha Gonna do with a Cowboy by Chris Ledoux and Garth Brooks
Fun, fun duet, I like to sing with Three.  Pretty much always makes me happy.
"Whatcha gonna do with a Cowboy, when he don't saddle up and ride away?"

This is a small random sampling.  There are many more songs that I love, some probably more than I've listed here.  Hope you like it....

One is Alive!

Hand me a pillow...today is the 12th anniversary since I fell down the mountain and tried to convince my guardian angels to meet my maker. And they said No. Did I ever tell you that they were two tall handsome men dressed in jeans and plaid flannel shirts? Sigh. I like that memory. I am thankful to be alive today and I am glad I had the chance to meet Patrick, Otis and Sofia. I guess they know what they're doing up there. I'm glad that you all have survived to this day also and I hope that you have joy and good pillows.

Seven's responses to One's comments

I thought One's comments on my previous post deserved [in a good way] more than a simple comment reply, so I decided to make this post in reply.

Quoted from One's first comment: "I might even have a touch of it [social anxiety] myself: ie, reading over the situations they listed their left me feeling stressed out and sick. IE: talking on the phone to anyone except those closest to me stresses me out and I usually have to pace for a while before I make the call running over and over what I am going to say. Then afterwards I go over and over what I said and I worry about what they thought, etc."

I do that exact thing with the phone, too! Also, the going over what I said thing, I do for pretty much every applicable situation, so I definitely know what that's like.

Quoted from One's first comment: "I am curious to know more about the cognitive behavioral therapy they talked about. Do you know anything about it?"

From what I understand of CBT, it is an attempt to replace negative thoughts with more positive, realistic thoughts.
Example of negative thought: "I said the wrong word, I should have said something else instead... Oh no, I bet I've offended her and now she's mad at me..."
Example of a more positive thought: "Okay, I misspoke, but she probably knows it was just a small error on my part, and it probably wasn't enough to offended her. After all, she knows that everybody makes little mistakes like that once in a while."

Quoted from One's second comment:"I'm interested to know more about the lyrics thing. Is it because of the poetic nature of songs (in which interpretation is left up to the listener) that you find the lyrics hard to understand? Or that you literally can't understand what they're saying because you're focused on listening to the musical patterns?"

Both, though I was mostly referring to the poetic/interpretation aspect.
*Edit* I realize that I got horrendously off topic here with my answer, lol. I can't play lyrics in front of someone because I don't know how they will interpret it. I don't want to play something that might offend someone, but I don't know what would offend someone, so I don't play anything, unless I am extremely sure that they won't be offended. So, umm, the rest of this post isn't so much about the original post I made, but more about how I see lyrics. *End of edit*
When I can make out the words, but don't know the meaning, that is what is bothersome. (Though with some songs, even knowing the meaning is bothersome.) When I can't tell what words they are saying, that does not bother me - though one annoying thing that has happened is, the radio will be on and the singer's voice will be unintelligible. But after listening for a while, my mind starts to 'sync' with the singer's words and decode them, and I suddenly understand the words. This drives me crazy, and usually ruins my enjoyment of the song (since the songs that are unintelligible are often rap or similar styles with un-tasteful lyrics). However, it is especially nice when the lyrics are not English, because my mind cannot 'sync'/decode them, and I can enjoy the whole song, guaranteed.
Allow me to explain. You know about my particular synesthesia, how I 'see' music? Each instrument/type of sound has a different shape, and it moves according to what notes it is hitting. The size is typically determined by how loud the sound is. 'Watching' music is where I derive nearly all of my enjoyment of music - these abstract shapes I see are very entertaining/absorbing/relaxing/whatever, unless it's a genre of music that I don't like. (For instance, I don't like country music - even if it didn't have lyrics - because the shapes tend to be rougher and grainier, and they tend to be brownish and boring.)
When I understand the words being said, my mind shifts away from the abstract shapes and more into a sort of 'music video' sort of thing. For instance, if it's about a guy breaking up with his girlfriend, I'll see some guy breaking up with his girlfriend (boring!), instead of those cool abstract shapes. Well, I shouldn't say instead, I should say that it really distracts me from the abstract shapes when my mind can understand the words and is trying to make sense of them.
However, when my mind does not understand the words (like, when it's in another language), then the voice simply becomes another part of the music and takes on its own shape and motion, and thereby adds to the music.
If I concentrate, I can see the voice as a shape, even when I understand the words. But my mind does not do this by default; I have to be choosing to do it the entire time I understand the words.

Umm, so I kind of rambled on that last one, hah. I don't know if you'll understand entirely, but, if you maybe get just a little more of an idea, it'd be worth posting it.