Brookes’ Bytes

Fall: By far the best season, if not solely for the obvious…I was born in November, therefore the season is awesome. I love sweaters and pumpkin pie and leaves falling and hot cider and chilly weather without needing a coat, and corn mazes and Thanksgiving and CANDY CORN!!!! Who wouldn’t love this season? It’s not so unbearably hot that you want to strip and dance naked through the sprinkler on your lawn at night when no one’s watching. It’s not so cold that you need four pairs of socks to avoid frostbitten toes. And you can snuggle up under a blanket outside and look at the stars without falling over in a coughing fit from pollen. Fall is the best…

Family: It’s interesting who gets adopted into your family as you grow up. For me, family means the people that you feel comfortable being yourself with, while simultaneously being the people who are so close that they can rub you the wrong way. Family members are your posse. They are closer than friends, and you can’t get rid of them! I’ve got a few people I’d like to “honor” with my family name: Bekka P, Lauren C, and Michele H. These three ladies are dear to me in way that means they are constantly on my mind. They will never escape me. I won’t let them! They challenge me, allow me to BE and are good company. They are more then just friends, they are family. Thank GOD for giving me a family!

Fiction: There’s something magical about opening a book and being transported via imagination into some alternate reality that tells you just a little bit more about truth. I love reading fiction. Non-fiction is a big ole snoozefest. Give me a kids story any day. The escape of reality long enough to find some reality is AWESOME. Favorite fiction books? Well, so glad you asked! Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, The Small Rain, anything by Shel Silverstein, the Jasper Fforde Thursday Next books, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, The Inheritance Cycle (Eragon etc), and of course The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Get lost in fiction. It will rock your world…in a good way.

F.R.I.E.N.D.S: Season One, Season Two, Season Three, Season Four, Season Five, Season Six, Season Seven, Season Eight, Season Nine, Season Ten: 10 good reasons to watch the reruns over and over and over again. Friends is the TV show I watch when I need 20 minutes of brainless time. I’ve seen all the episodes at least five or ten times each. I have lines memorized. I even like to play the Scene It game: Friends edition…though Meg beat me! (grrrr) Sometimes it’s nice to just kick back and have a little zombie fest on the couch with some mindless humor…everyone needs a break. “We were on a break!!!!!!” “Oh my God, if you say that one more time, I’M gonna break up with you!”