tagindipity redux redux
Greetings gentle readers!
Hope you all had a tryptophantastic weekend! Now this may come as a huge shock, but I don’t have a whole lot of spare time at the moment, being that hey oh hey guess what??….Puddin Face is cutting many more teeth. (as in her two canines (visible), one matching one on the bottom (whatever the heck that one is called, also visible), and one molar on each side on the bottom (one visible, one hamburger-meat-lookin-train-wreck-of-a-gumline-thingee)).
Meaning my nights are long and relatively sleepless of late. Meaning I’m on duty far more often. Meaning I’ve really enjoyed a 4-day weekend where I wasn’t the only one in between happiness and the screaming meemies (for technical definition see: any other parent. Ever.)
So. I got the tag, like awhile back now, by the lovely Nicole, who tried to give me a gentle reminder, but my stupid snaplayout thingee made her computer crash (as did others) and so you may or may not have noticed that I am now back to The Big Snore that is the default layout but I really don’t have time to mess with it at the moment, so please address any and all complaints to my agent.
(Hint: I don’t have one.)
Now, to mix it up a bit, as I am wont to do, I won’t give you a standard “10 random things about me”.
Instead, I will give you 5 stupid things that really piss me off and I don’t know why, to be balanced with 5 silly things that never fail to make me smile.
First, 5 stupid things that piss me off:
1) *ANY* computer-related malfunction. Like when I’m trying to, say, make part of a sentence in bold and the other part not, and when I click off the bold and no matter what I do the next letter I type is bold so I have to type it once in bold and THEN hit the key again and type it again in not-bold and go back and delete the unwanted, unasked-for boldness? Pisses me right off. Or when it locks up. Or logs out. Or…ok I should stop here.
2) The sound of nails clipping. Pisses me right off. For a back story related to this, clicky here
3) Water dripping down my arms whilst washing my face. Pisses me right off. For a related story on this, clicky here.
(I know, right? What’s with all this self-promotion? What gives, mayor? Well, I have some new readers. They might like a few suggestions. Get a chuckle or two. And, ya know, it’s my blog and bloggie blah blah. I need sleep. Leave me alone. But, ya know, keep reading.)
4) The sound of nails being filed. (seems to be a theme, no?) Pisses me off. Drives me nuts. May have something to do with Mom insisting on always forever constantly doing such in the living room when I was growing up, usually during my favorite programs.
5) Those stabby itches you get in the middle of your back, almost always when you are powerless to reach them. Piss me off.
and now, sunshine and rainbows and puppies…..5 silly things that never fail to make me smile…(besides, like, everything Puddin Face does because I mean DUH and Myspace doesn’t have enough bandwidth for *that* blog) …..
1) Hummingbirds. I love them. I could watch them all day. The first time I saw them up close I stood on a porch getting eaten alive by mosquitos until they got bold enough to flutter right next to my head. I felt so honored I didn’t even care as I lost my top two layers of skin to insect bites.
2) Any time I see a baby animal (actually I could probably just stop that sentence right there lol)….having one of those spastic ‘I have way too much energy and have no clue what to do with it yet’ moments, that usually involve spectacular, gravity-defying leaps of some sort.
3) Laundry fresh out of the dryer. Go on and ask me how often I just pile it onto the bed and dive into it. It never gets old. I think it’s kind of like getting a hug. All warm and soft and yummy. But then, I am not just the mayor, but the Queen Dork of all Dorkitude and Beyond.
4) Butterflies. I mean really. If ever there were tiny little spokesmen for going with the flow……..what do they do all day? Watch one next time you see one. Here is what I imagine their little buttery brains are thinking: “Ohhhhh! A flower! That’s so nice! I’m going to fly over there right no……..here is good. I need a rest. Where was I? Oh yes. Look at that puddle! I must go….I love this twig. I’m going to stay here all d…..oh look at that blade of grass over there! I’m going over there…wasn’t I just here? OH! Look at that flower! I must go there! I love this twig. I need a rest….” Butterflies. They just don’t sweat it.
5) Carousels. I mean duh. Who are we talking about here? I will always love carousels. I will always ride carousels. And someday, somehow, I would love to have a genuine carousel horse in my living room. Just thinking about it gets my heart a-pounding.
and oh ok I will throw in a bonus one because I can’t believe I forgot it until now…..
6) That new book smell. Mmmmmm. Part of me wonders if half the appeal of being a manager at a bookstore so many years wasn’t just that. I remember one day I was coming around the corner of one of the aisles and a young boy of about 10 or 11 had his nose buried in a book…literally…eyes closed, taking a nice big sniff. I couldn’t have been prouder had he been my own son. He, of course, turned 10 shades of red and was mortified, made worse by the fact that I told him I loved that smell, too, and to go right ahead. I like to think he did, after I walked away again.
So there you have it, gentle readers. As usual, I won’t tag you individually (besides no one listens to me…HA!) but I would love to hear 10 random things about all of you so if you so choose, tag yourselves.
Prolly could have phrased that better.
Pervs.
Thanks for reading!