{30-DC} Day 23: What is something you crave?

I like this question! It has lots of possible applications.

For instance, FOODS:
I crave Krave frozen yogurt (that's funny, isn't it). Pineapple Dole whip. Passionate About Peach. Chocolate. Blueberry. Mango.

I crave fresh produce--cantaloupe, strawberries, greens, celery, carrots, apples, oranges.

I crave chocolate chip cookies.

I crave dark chocolate--Ghirardelli dark, 72%.

Or STATES OF BEING:
I crave peace.

I crave comfort within my body, and a healthy body.

I crave adventure.

I crave order.

I crave light.

Or DREAMS:
I crave a house I own.

I crave family togetherness and family reunions.

I crave the gift of knowing just what I want and the ability to go after it.

I crave more time. For time to be stretched out so my babies quit growing up so fast, more time to become better at the things I need to improve on. More time to read, more time to lay in the sun, more time to clean and cook and exercise and just sit and breathe.

Hilarious sidenote: In the middle of writing this, I carried several bottles of nail polish to the trash can--colors I was tired of, or colors that had run out--and guess what I did? I dropped a bottle of polish on the tile kitchen floor. So it shattered. And painted part of the floor a muted pink. Nice, huh?

{30-DC} Day 22: What makes you different from everyone else.

I don't know. Questions like this always make me feel weird. I like feeling connected to others, and part of that (for me) is being able to find common ground. I could list a few things that I feel make me "different", but the truth is, a bunch of other people would probably feel set apart by the very same things. So....I opt out of this one. I'm such a rebel, I know. :)

Oh wait. I got one. Something somewhat unusual, I guess. I haven't lived in any one town longer than 3 years. It's rather amazing to me, in fact, that on May 25th, I will have lived in the state of Utah for 7 years.

And then a couple months later, we'll be moving again. But I'm not fully addressing that elephant in my living room yet. I want to organize my thoughts on the subject first. (Meaning, I'd like it to be more coherent than the hour-long sobfest I indulged in on Wednesday.)

P.S.-I know I fell behind. I don't care. Hopefully you don't care, either, and don't mind my efforts to gracefully catch up.

{30-DC} Day 21: Share a picture from your day.

This is actually a picture from yesterday. Today was filled with conference-watching, lounging around, and play-dough and a conference game I made up called Conference Eggs....it was a really good day.

Saturday picnic.

{30-DC} Day 20: If you had 3 wishes, what would they be?

*sigh*

I'm sorry to be so predictable. I really am.

I would wish for world peace.

Go ahead, plunk a Miss America crown on me, smear some red lipstick on my smoocher, and call it good.

I would wish for a million dollars. Or a trillion. Whichever. "If I had a million dollars..." (Have you heard that song?)

....and....I would wish...for superpowers. No joke.

This has got to be the most original 3-Wishes post EVER.

{30-DC} Day 19: Nicknames you have & how or why you have them.

Well, you know the background of my nickname, LuLu (which also happens to be the name of the blog...).

A long time ago, I called a guy friend of mine "Jill", and he called me "Fred"....and the nickname "Fred" came from my friend Megan ("George")....for no reason that I can remember!

And....my dear friend Kathryn called me "Joe" one day, and I called her "Peaches", and....that stuck. (Again, for no apparent reason)

And....my nickname, Rae--which I often feel is more my name than Rachel--is family-originated. Started with a relative, Anna Rebecca, being called Rae for short, and then my aunt Rachel was called Rae, and so...I am Rachel, called Rae!