We’ve been updating our Listographies!
Denise wrote about her favorite books, TV shows and songs.
Sunshine updated her Wish List.
Have you started your Listography yet?
A three year-old Fashion Plate 29 October 2010
D to S: These t-shirts are at Target and they come in XS! I almost bought the NYC one last week, but now they have a Paris one! And they come with little hats. 
S to D: OMG, these are sooo cute! I’m surprised we haven’t seen them cuz all Paper Clip wants to do is go to Target. LOL
The Never-Ending TO DO List 23 July 2010
Denise says:
Sunshine introduced me to the idea of a running “TO DO” list back in college, oh so many eons ago. (We are old.) Hers was in a little notebook, and she kept adding to it. I make mine on a piece of paper, usually errands for the weekend or occasionally what needs to be copied for school each day of the week. There really is great satisfaction in checking things off of the list. (I check off. Sunshine crosses out. Wonder what that means, checking vs. crossing?)
Then there are the lists that keep growing. What starts out as “grade papers, Post Office, Target” written in a neat, bulleted list becomes a scribbled, multi-colored mess.
Or last week, this:
It started as what needed to be done before going to Seattle for the PNWA conference. A few items got added to the back. Then I reiterated and added some details to my Alumni responsibilities on the yellow Post-It note. That also has some notes on the back, including the address and phone number for my hotel here. As the list got smaller, a few items kept escaping me so they were rewritten on the star Post-It on the very top (in red caps!).
Thankfully it’s done because I don’t have any Post-Its that are any smaller!
Sunshine says:
I do LOVE my running To-Do lists, even though they stress me out from time to time. There is great satisfaction in marking things off my list, but when things are constantly being added, it can become a bit discouraging at times. A new thing I find myself doing lately is creating new lists in addition to my primary running list. Don’t know why I’m doing it, but there wind up being duplicates when I compare the lists, and I just add the items to the original list anyway.
As far as the checking off items on the list vs. drawing a line (or several) through them, I use the drawing the line method because if an item is marked through, my eye is more quickly drawn to the remaining items I must complete. I’ve even started using an asterisk and highlighter to mark things I’d like to accomplish in a particular day. Not that I get it all done, but it makes me feel closer to getting it done. Crazy, I know!
Here’s a photo of my most current list, which I’ll be rewriting today. It’s a mess, but this is how they usually end up looking until I can’t stand it anymore and I rewrite them. I actually have two other smaller lists to add to this one, as well.
Furious Fuschia Challenger 8 July 2010
We are both totally in love with the redesigned Dodge Challenger. Denise had her heart set on an orange one (can you say, Dukes of Hazzard? ), until she saw this:
She’ll take the one with the skunk stripes. Thanks!!
Happy 2010! 1 January 2010
Happy New Year!
Who can believe it’s really 2010?
May this be the year all our writing aspirations come to fruition!
(Doesn’t that sound better than “dreams comes true”? 
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Bonne Annee Nouvelle!
Priceless 13 December 2009
2 cell phones
4.5 hours
100+ texts
2,500 miles
Feeling like you’re hanging out with your best friend?
Priceless.
A Little Too Late 12 December 2009
I guess we’re getting into this blog thing too late. I’m 100 pages into Julie and Julia, which is only Day 42 of her project, and she’s already being interviewed by a magazine (who is bringing Julia Child’s editor to her apartment!). She said she got 36 hits on her first day which was just before the first anniversary of 9/11. So, I figure we’re about seven years too late, and there are too many blogs, and that’s why it’s so hard to get people to follow. Sigh.
Go, Bill! 5 August 2009
We are so proud of Bill Clinton for bringing back Euna Lee and Laura Ling from North Korea. They say there was a lot of legwork done in preparation, but still. Bill rocks! He’s a badass. Yeah, totally! I’ve always thought so, and I haven’t done a very good job at hiding the gigantic crush I have on Bill, either. Honestly, I was a bit hurt when Monicagate/Lewinskygate broke. Why Bill? We coulda had OUR secret moment while you were in AZ, cowboy boots, and all! Eh… ahem, seriously, he’s an awesome person and you’d NEVER see Bushie Boy pulling something like that off… or even caring enough to even bother.
Remember walking down Mill to get to Gammage for the political rally? You had stayed over at my apartment, and we got up as early as we could (like 6? ), but there were already a ton of people. How lucky were we to even get that ticket to pass to the front?! Talk about being in the right place at the right time when that lady turned around to give it away! And thank goodness it was for two people – I can’t even imagine how that woulda gone down. Yeah, that coulda been ugly! Remember how we were crushed in the crowd just trying for the opportunity to shake his hand? Remember that really big, ugly guy that ended up so close (shoulder to shoulder) with us in our photo? LOL! I always forget him til you remind me. What a creep! I don’t remember if he was Secret Service, or not, but it was like, get your own limelight, big guy! I also recall a Secret Service Agent literally stepping on my foot at the same time he was trying to strongarm me away from my beloved Bill. Wherever you are, watch it, buddy!
The only thing I remember about his speech was Clinton saying how if he won, his Presidency would be “the bridge to the 21st century”, and referring to the bridge-like walkway at Gammage Center. (And me doing the math to see when his second term would be over, and if that would technically be in the new millennium. It was, by 20 days.) Oh yeah, and didn’t Juan Roqué, the Sun Devil football player, introduce him? (‘Cuz that’s the year we went to The Rose Bowl, baby! )
Speaking of the Rose Bowl, remember going to the autograph session with the players and how I got crushed against the tables they were sitting at and had to climb over the top of the table to escape? And, then promptly fell into the lap of one Mr. Juan Roqué? Remember how security came over and wanted to escort me out, but Juan was like, “Um, let go of her…she’s my sister”. You rock, Juan Roqué! Speaking of Mr. Roqué, I saw him doing a TV broadcast for the Cardinals last year. I yelled at my husband, “Hey, my bro’s on TV!”. Yeah, cuz you two look SOOO much alike… I was down aways trying to get the hot blond kicker’s autograph. And we both missed Jake Plummer cuz he snuck out early, what an ass.
We <3 Bill!
A Blog is Born 17 May 2009
We’ve been texting a lot since Denise’s trip to AZ a few weeks ago. We were like, “Why didn’t we think of this before?” As you know, we are both aspiring authors and dream of having a book on the shelves of Barnes and Noble. The idea of blogging has been bandied about for quite a while. Here’s what transpired this morning:
D: Blog idea: we are both admins and write stuff we write in emails, and our friends could comment.
S: The French actor is Jean Reno…I’ve always thought he was hot. Ever since I saw him in The Professional.
S: The blog ideas sound interesting. I need to start doing something productive. How would the first idea work?
D: Well I know on WordPress you can invite other users to post so we could both write things. We could just tell stories, like Get This or Remember This.
D: We could get Andrea and Maud to read it. Andrea comments on my school one a lot. Our other friends could read it. It’s taken almost a year but other ppl read
D: and comment on my school blog. We could do our reactions to stuff like pop culture and politics.
S: That sounds cool…and it could turn into a book!
Et voila, here we are!
Bienvenue! 17 May 2009
Welcome to Deux Filles! Follow the adventures and relive the good times of Sunshine and Denise, two BFFs who met during French class at Arizona State (yes, really, French class in the heart of Old Mexico) but now live 2,500 miles apart.
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