Hi I’m Lilo and this is my stream of consciousness.
Things you can group into twelves:
(with personal examples)
Wardrobe—
- Twelve shorts
- Twelve pants (trousers)
- Twelve short sleeve shirts
- Twelve long sleeve shirts
- Twelve jackets & outerwears
- Twelve pairs of underwear
- Twelve pairs of socks (x2 if you’re cheeky;)
Core energy sources—
- Rice
- Fish
- Chicken eggs
- Fruit
- Vegetables
- Oats
- Diary (milk, cheese, yogurt)
- Nuts
- Avacado
- Ice cream
- Peanut butter
- Popcorn
Hobbies—
- Trail running/hiking
- Weight-lifting
- Squat
- Deadlift
- Chest press
- Lateral raises
- Bicep curls
- Tricep extensions
- Shrugs
- Bent-over rows
- Side bends
- Shoulder press
- Lunges
- Calf raises
- Basketball
- Indoor rock climbing
- Cooking (plus the art of the long meal)
- Writing
- Home architecture/designing
- One-to-one conversations
- Finding and listening to music
- Reading books
- Watching movies
Having sex(will hold for Pickleball until partner returns from overseas)
Favorite books—
- The Bible (66 in 1 ha!)
- Love Wins
- The Count of Monte Christo
- The Grapes of Wrath
- A Farewell to Arms
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Everything is Spiritual
- The Scarlet Letter
- This Side of Paradise
- The Unbearable Wholeness of Being
- The Universal Christ
- The Spirituality of Living
Bonus, meta lists—
- # of Lunar cycles
- And therefore, months of a year
- # of Hours in a day (x2)
- # of Cranial nerves in our head
- # of sides on a Dodecahedron
- the # used in Sumerian and Babylonian base counting systems
- Earliest conceptualization of mathematics
- Where the duodecimal system comes from
- Better than base-10 at division!
- # of Olympians (primary deities) in Greek mythology
- # of Tribes of Israel after their return from Egyptian exile in 13th Century
B.C.BJ - # of Primary members in Jesus’ camp
- i.e. Apostles
- RANT! B.C. and A.D. are the dumbest time distinctions of all-time, just pick a fucking lane between English and Latin. If we want to do English, its BEFORE CHRIST (BC) & AFTER CHRIST (AC) or if we want latin it’s ante Christum natum (AC) & anno domini (AD)
- And don’t even get me started on bEForE COmMon eRa (BCE) & cOmMOn eRA (CE) because what the HELL does “Common Era” even mean? Like “The Common Era”, you know…………………………………………….…. the transition period in human history that just so happened to have occurred some ~ thirteen billion, seven-hundred ninety-nine million, six hundred and thirty two thousand, four hundred and seventeen years into the life of the universe which is coincidentally when a guy from Nazareth was born who seems to have permanently altered the human awareness of time itself.
- His name was Jesus— let’s have some respect and admiration for that man. I vote we all move to BJ and AJ and just move on with our lives.
- # of Notes in the chromatic musical scale
- # of Zodiac signs
- (or is it actually just one singular pile of bullshit?)
- # of Ribs supporting and protecting our vital organs
- # of Songs on Michael Jackson’s album: “Thriller”
- # of Lunar cycles