Intro #1 - Mandi Reynolds

Mandi is our first intro/bio/get to know the residents person for the blog.

She is currently working at "Teaopia" at Market mall in Calgary while participating in Life Together. She chose to do her intro/bio/get to know the residents in the format of a list of her 100 favorite things. Here they are:

Mandi’s 100 favourite things

1. Jesus

2. Lord of the Rings

3. The Beatles

4. Cookies by George (I work right next door to one. It’s almost a problem.)

5. Jimmy Stewart

6. Socialism

7. Proportional Representation

8. This picture:

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9. Seinfeld

10. John

11. Coffee

12. Irony

13. Assam (a black tea from India, really good with cream and honey)

14. Peppermint (tea and candy canes)

15. Market Spice (another tea, I work in a tea store, this is another black with cinnamon and orange peels, spicy and sweet and awesome)

16. Arrested Development

17. Dead Poet’s Society

18. Leslie Howard (have you seen The Petrified Forest?)

19. Frank Sinatra

20. Barrack Obama

21. Rain

22. Harvey (the movie with Jimmy Stewart)

23. Aprons

24. Pie!

25. Lists

26. Camp (CBBC at Pigeon Lake)

27. Shoes

28. Fair Trade things

29. Shortbread

30. Chinese Food (I could probably make a list of my 100 favourite foods)

31. Doctor Who

32. Post-it notes

33. Sleep

34. David Fredbjornson (one of my former co-workers and maybe the best person I’ll ever meet)

35. Space (stars, planets, etc.)

36. Watchmen

37. Antiques

38. James Dean

39. Autumn

40. People who read signs (my tea store has a fairly complicated system, we have lots of signs to make it easier, but it does no one any good when no one reads said signs)

41. TCM (Turner Classic Movies)

42. Potatoes

43. Regulars (my tea store is in a mall, we have a lot of regulars who have become my best friends)

44. Social 30

45. Mr. Bryant (my TA in high school)

46. The Farmer’s Market (especially Phil and Sebastians, the best coffee place in Calgary)

47. “Richard Nixon” (I don’t like the guy, I’m just intrigued by him)

48. Buttons

49. The library

50. Pillows

51. Anne of Green Gables

52. Peter’s Drive-in

53. Dutch Blitz

54. Every decade but the ones that I’ve been alive for, and the ‘80s.

55. Watching TV on DVD

56. Garfield minus Garfield (seriously, look it up)

57. Nintendo 64

58. Musical Theatre

59. Crossword Puzzles

60. Quotes

61. Jane Austen

62. Don Miller

63. Vinyl

64. Charlie Brown

65. Pockets

66. Calvin and Hobbes

67. Blue and Brown (the color combination)

68. Global morning news

69. Central Park

70. Bird Jewellery

71. Classic Disney movies

72. The BBC

73. Summer solstice (I just like it when the days are long and it doesn’t get dark until 10:00)

74. The Drawer Boy

75. Magical Snow flakes

76. Adventures with my friends Sara and Emily

77. Cary Grant

78. Cookie Dough

79. Johnny Cash

80. Pushing Daisies

81. “Bazinga!”

82. John the Baptist

83. Neil Patrick Harris

84. LeftRightLeftRightLeft

85. Take Two (the scrabble game)

86. When I was in New York and these two guys were sitting on a bench in Strawberry Fields, playing Beatles songs.

87. Wikipedia

88. Living close to a train station

89. French Presses

90. Deadliest Warrior

91. Picnics

92. Trees

93. Castiel (the angel from Supernatural)

94. Argyle

95. Arthurian legend

96. Hoppipolla

97. Where the Wild Things Are

98. Sufjan Stevens

99. Ikea

100. Robin Hood