The List

So I was thinking (always something deadly for me to be doing) and I know that we always joke about just what would be on the list of things that people would have to do to understand us, so I started to compile the list. Feel free to edit this post and add in some of your own or take away some of mine, I just thought it’d be a fun thing to put together just to see how random we are.

Understand the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. You don’t have to live them, but you have to know every nook and cranny of them to understand the way we act some days.

Read Dante’s Inferno.

Read at least one of my books, preferably in hand written form.

Go to a synchronized swimming competition.

Take a tour of where we grew up.

Meet the Swans.

Be disowned in some way or another by their own family. There’s no other way that you can learn how we react at certain times unless you’ve had your family completely turn their backs on you. You may think you know what we’re doing, but unless it has ever happened to you, you just don’t know.

Talk a person out of suicide.

Talk a person out of getting drunk.

Talk a person out of driving after getting drunk.

Talk a person out of doing drugs.

Talk a person out of doing more drugs.

Try to convince a person that is doing drugs that a pen is a candy cane.

Celebrate Summer Solstice at least once.

Hate birthdays.

Sleep on a couch that is not your own, for more than a week.

Visit Sunrise pool.

Work as Sunrise pool for a minimum of one day (but preferably longer).

Get dominated at bumper pool, pool, or air hockey by a 8 year old at Sunrise rec-center.

Dominate that said 8 year old at any game within Sunrise rec-center (we’d suggest chess or paper rock siccors, chess they don’t know how to play, and prs they can’t cheat at)

Learn how to play Dungeons and Dragons.

Learn about all things marching band and orchestra.

Learn about cheer leading.

Read all articles on Glowsticking.com

Read Guilvers Travels, Handmaids Tale, Canturbry Tales, Dragon Sleeping, Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, and one book out of either one of our bookshelves that is not already listed on this list.

Have a ghetto personality. (Bonquifa and Chandaleer)

Understand why death is a good thing.

Watch at least 5 seasons of America’s Next Top Model, ‘just because’.

Watch at least two seasons of Grey’s Anattomy

Go to EDC.

Find the joy of sleeping for 10 hours.

Find the joy of sleeping for 10 hours during a 72 hour chunk of time.

Talk to missionaries for at least 9 meetings.

Don’t know most of your extended family due to either death or geographical separation.

Learn how to butt dive.

Watch Rent at least twice.

Learn at least some of the words to La Vive Bohem.

Watch Pimp Chronicles and American Hustle, and quote liberally.

Learn what a ‘dirty low’ is.

Learn how to hold your breath for more than a minute.

Make a person cry.

Stand up for the little guy.

Refuse to do something that everyone else is doing.

Do something that no one else is doing.

Do that something again.

Watch Legally Blond the musical because you have nothing else better to do.

Talk to yourself.

Cary a conversation with both of us at the same time in the same room for more than ten minutes without getting lost or confused.

Be okay with abuse and perpetuate it, but never actually mean it, and make sure the person receiving the abuse knows that it’s not serious as well.

Learn how ‘just being friends’ doesn’t mean that there’s no relationship.

Get sunburnt on more than 50% of your body at the same time.

Find the answer to the question, “Who am I?” and then focus on the answer to the question, “Who was I before this?”

Know how to cook.

Enjoy the burritos in the orange bag.

Floss, but don’t tell anyone about it.

Plan an intervention for a random habit or hobby of yours.