"And IIIII will always love youuuuu"

Here are three things that will never get old in my book. And oddly enough, I will start with a book of sorts as my number one (although these are in no specific order or ranking).

1. Coloring books. Today, my sister commented on how her daughter (also my niece) MG prefers coloring books over 'free drawing'. I admitted that I agree with the five year-old. I mean they give you such a sense of accomplishment. You colored all of that. Good job, you! I also think your preference for drawing or coloring is based on your artistic ability. Me, a drawer? Not so much. Now coloring something in and staying in the lines? Anyone over the age of, say 6, can do that! Now, not like I am still purchasing coloring books on my own but if I am out to lunch with my nieces and the infamous Gran's bag (filled with lots of goodies like coloring books, magnet games, and princess figurines) comes out and a coloring book is being neglected, I might pick up a crayon if the adult conversation isn't something I can contribute a lot to (ie politics). Aren't you just fighting the urge to fill this picture in with lots of pretty colors? I bet you are.

2. Ice cream cones. "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" Seriously, does any one treat define summertime more than an ice cream cone? I still get excited when we go to Bruster's. (I now realize that I am still very childlike in many aspects. I am the youngest so I guess it is hard to abandon that label after you've been conditioned to be "the youngest" for so many years. At least, this is what I am going to tell myself. Moving on...). Adults still get excited when they hear the ice cream truck jingle. Not like many of them are around these days. And the ones that are still rolling along, I gotta say, are extremely sketchy. By chance I pulled up to one at a stoplight yesterday and managed to discretely take a picture on my iPhone.

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Which one do you want your kid eating out of? Safety clown says: Run, run away from the sketchy van. And seriously? A white van? Don't those have some pretty bad connotations attached to them? Especially when it is a stranger feeding them candy and treats out of the back? Just a few suggestions to the Ice Cream Men of today: add a little color and maybe not have labels peeling off the side.

3. Friends. Honestly, I have seen every Friends episode at least three times and I still absolutely love it. I am still looking for a decent opponent in Friends Scene It. If you consider yourself worthy, bring it on. But it is hilarious and I simply adore it. I read the trivia on IMDB (another thing that will never get old) that Courteney Cox was the only cast member never to be nominated for an Emmy. That is ridiculous! She is the best one! Along with Rachel. And Chandler. Okay they all are the best ones. But that show was on for ten years, they could have thrown a nom her way once. That's all I'm saying. But I might be partial to Monica because I share some of her tendencies. I don't care. That show is awesome. And I have to say Jennifer Aniston has the best hair ever. I'm not even talking about "The Rachel". Her hair was at its absolute best, in my opinion, in season eight. Anyway, Friends will always make me laugh and here is one of the best scenes ever: (Yeah, youtube is lame and took it down. It was the scene where the boys went against the girls for the girls' apartment in a trivia game. Hysterical.)