The Heart of the Matter

Oh. My. God.

Note, that if you ever need these tapes, you probably are these people.

The funniest thing that Torrey said to me...

....today.

we'd eat hot pockets together and share our thoughts in leather bound journals.

This roommate thing is going to be a long long journey. I can tell.

What?!

If you watch Lost at all, you might not realize how much they say this word. Not to mention how many times I usually say it while watching it. This montage is brilliant.

Seven searches that people have done and gotten to this blog

I have a little tracker to see how people get here, and man, sometimes its surprising.

1. Baking poem
2. Hipster baking
3. Fredonia Ben Folds
4. How boobs grow*
5. Boob and elbow*
6. Third Boob*
7. Women with third boob*

*I had made one post about Paris Hilton becoming a philanthropist and if that happened I might grow a third breast from my elbow. The public has a hunger for more boob aparently.

Seven things about My So-Called Life

When TV is good: storytelling, compelling characters, funny, and "lived in" -- I am hooked and will be hooked in for a while. I have loved My So-Called Life since it aired my senior year of high school. And while I do hate that it ended, it ended in a nice-oh-my-god-I-want-to-know-who-Angela-ends-up-with suspense. Its okay if things don't always end with a nice pat happy day ending.

1. I miss how we dressed in the 90's. I think My So-Called Life portrayed clothing very realistically- there were some god awful sweaters on there, but people wore horrible knits then. I miss the overalls and flannels, and chunky boots. I was no fashion plate back then, but at least I could see myself in that world.
2. I wanted to have Angela's hair. Straight, fell beautifully and was that rocking Crimson Glow.
3. I loved how the parents were imperfect and had their own dramas, but could be counted on. The questioned what was the right thing to do, and were sometimes wrong, but were not these irrational cartoons of parents. I knew people with parents like them, but never knew what happened behind that veil, just like they might not have see what was behind ours.
   
4. And he may be a douchebag now -- but could Jordan Catalano's eyes be any dreamier? And I prefer to call him Jordan Catalano -- cause that is how I want to remember him.
5. A.J. Langer who played Rayanne -- where are you? I thought you were brilliant. Unless this character was the best one you have ever played and it was yours and you have not found it since.... I am sorry. But I do adore you.
6. Awkward gestures, words, phrasing -- it was almost pitch perfect. Anytime there was an awkward moment or look, it was sooo believable. I defy almost any teenager from that era to not be able to insert themselves somewhere in there.
   
7. I love Brian Krakow. I want one of my own. He was by far my pick to end up with Angela. He breaks my heart all the time. I loved his awkwardness and how he was totally unable to hide it. He has a penchant for letter writing... and man if that does not get to my core. And if the girl you loved lived across the street, you would be outside all the time too. And you would fall in love with this letter too:
   
   
   

21 Accents with Rachel Harris.

Not as accomplished as the 21 accent girl, but a hell of a lot funnier.

Please note, while this does contain a few swears, it is hell of a lot more appropriate and less soul damning than Torrey's last video.

Seven things about today

1. I had coffee on an empty stomach and I am jittery and kinda frantic today. It did clean my desk though. I feel slightly accomplished even if my eye is twitching. I don't think I could ever handle speed.
2. ... and as I type number 1, someone has brewed a new pot downstairs, and its sweet lovely aroma is calling to me, curling its finger in front of me in lovely wispy invisible seduction of its gorgeous earthy smell to come hither. Me wants more...
3. I was inspired to make some playlists by some friends. And I made quick ones just based on song titles, not meaning.... just titles. One was colors and the other was places. The main colors on that playlist were black and blue. Like a musical bruise. Which some of them feel like sometimes. A song that you want to hear but it presses on this small little soft spot and it makes you wince... but you can help but feel a little good after that pressure is released. It was also a good way to listen to all that music you forgot you had. It mixes up genres pretty well too. My next playlist is elements/nature.
4. I am the staff member that gets all the calls today from the front desk that they can't answer. And everytime I leave my desk, there is my little triangle of red blinking at me letting me know there is yet another message. I hate that red triangle. I want to scratch out that little deformed red eye and stomp on it.
5. The artificial smell of vanilla air spray will never cover poop smell. It will just cling to it and make it smell grosser. But yet someone at work keeps on buying it, and we all keep using it.
   
6. The color coding part of my email and calendar program at work makes me happy. To Do items are bright red. Travel is a road sign green. Personal items are a deep blue. Things I don't like to do are a margarine yellow. Its pleasing to put color to tasky things.
   
7. Its not a very bad day at work.... at the core of everything I really like what I do. Maybe that makes the really small things more amplified and annoying or frustrating.
   

Seven things I am a *big* fan of....

....and that might be an understatement. I think these things have a 96% possibility of me using/talking/watching/obsessing at least once a day.

1. Google Reader
2. Colored Pens
3. Barenaked Ladies
4. Scrabulous
5. Yarn or any other textiles that I make crap with.
6. going out of my way to not take a difficult left hand turn.
7. You know his name. Mr. Whedon.
   

Oklahoma Representative Sally Kern talks rainbows and happiness

... and by that she means the gay cancer that in infiltrating her society.



Wow.
Worse than terrorists.
Better make sure that any GSA student is reported to their parents and to the government. High school clubs mandated to tell the parents what club they are in is one of her brilliant ideas. Weed em out young, and make those LGBT youth suicide rates skyrocket. Maybe that is why there is a shorter life span, there Sally. People who think like you make life unbearable for people that just want to be who they are.

Star Wars is exciting again...

I know this has been posted everywhere.... but damn if this did not make my ovaries jump a little and say.... Lets go lets go! Don't worry, the big squoooshy gray brain told them to calm the fuck down.

Seven things about the 2008 Oscars

1. I felt really bad about Amy Adams having to perform alone, with no dancers or anything. I thought... hmmm well maybe they are paring down the performances... and nope. I just wonder what the hell happened! I still adore her though.
2. Jon Stewart... very funny as always. I think he is a subdued host -- but still a great one.
3. Steve Carrell and Anne Hathaway were my favorite presenters, I think. Their little schtick was cute, and well acted.
4. 2nd favorite presenters - Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen. They DID look exactly the same.
5. Could I love Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova more? And I thought it was very classy to let Marketa come back out and say her speech. I just loved the sheer joy and the essence of "holy shit we are really here"-ness of their presence.
6. Yay Diablo Cody! If Juno only won one Oscar -- I really wanted that to be it.
7. I loved the look on Cate Blanchett's face after she saw what clip they used from Elizabeth II. And the fact that she so artfully played a dog. Well done.
   

Seven new things I have recently been trying out

1. Olives. I had some at Christmas and I did not hate them. I had some stuffed with almonds and I was pleasantly surprised that I liked them. Salty goodness! Slow down there garbanzo bean.... don't expect me to like you unless you are smooshed up in humus!
2. Star Trek. I am currently being tutored in it. So far so good.
3. Writing a novel. Right now I have these four characters that I am just doing some development with, running them through how they might react to situations or things. Its been a really great puzzle to work with. Now if I can just come up with a plot....
   
4. Dogs. I might like them more and want to live with one more than I had originally thought. Although I do not think I could go as far as owning one.... I just want to be a dog auntie.
5. Cross Stitch. I was always intimidated by counted cross stitch before. But its really not that bad once you get into it.
6. Neil Gaiman. I knew I would like him, but have never really sat down and read his work before. I am reading American Gods right now and am mightily impressed.
7. Sugar free hot chocolate mixed in with my coffee. Sugar free hot chocolate is actually miles better than its other sugar free brethren. Plus the coffee with it is kick-tastic. At work I have to find ways to make the ordinary a little more exciting.
   

Seven Theme parties I would like to throw*

1. Clue - come dressed as your interpretation of that clue character. Original Clue only. No master detective. You can only bring food items that correspond somehow to your color.

2. Come as your favorite holiday - once again food must correlate to costume. Share a tradition with each of them.

3. High School Drama - Dress as your favorite high school stereo type. Bonus points for call backs to 80's movies. I call dibs on Ally Sheedy a la Breakfast club.

4. Welcome to the Hellmouth - You could not expect me to leave off a Whedon-fest in here did you? Trivia, sing-a-long to the musical, and other various activities.

5. When get old I want to be.... -- What did you want to be when you were a kid - come dressed as that profession -- how many firemen will there be? I am going to be an astronaut!

6. Cruise around the world progressive night - I know its kinda cliche - but there is something to be said for gorging yourself on great ethnic foods. In this plan you move from place to place -- entering each "culture" at someones house.

7. The land of misfit superheroes - come as a superhero that might not have ever made it to the Justice League.


*and almost all of them involve a costume and themed food somehow.

Quirk

I am a little delayed in doing this, but I did not want to let Torrey down. Here goes:

The Rules
* link to the person who tagged you
* post the rules on your blog
* share six non-important things/ habits/ quirks about yourself
* tag at least 3 people at the end of the post and link to their blogs
* let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog (I think I am skipping this step. I know I am a bloody rebel.)

1. I like to have cold feet and will make them so sometimes, perhaps even stepping in snow for a moment, just for the feeling of them tingling and warming up.
2. I need to be happy with my pen selection for a chosen task, work or personal. I will go through several pens (the biggest fiasco had me go through 14) until I find the right one. It is not always about color, though sometimes it may be, but mostly how it feels.
3. When asking a customer their zip code when cashing them out at Williams-Sonoma, I almost always touch my glasses.
4. I cry at the National Anthem. I cry at tributes to the troops. I am not a yellow ribbon magnet kinda person, but I get really choked up about it.
5. If I got ready too early for going out with friends, I will end up putting on makeup to kill time.
6. I wait about 5 minutes for my hot beverage to cool. But sometimes I miss that critical moment of exact warmness... and it becomes cold and I will always make a "blech" face when I drink that cold sip.

Tagged People:

Jen at The Dog-Ma - though she might answer it on this one

Brian Lewis at Oblivion Diaries... that is if that bastard is still alive

Jennie at Jen's Fives .... but I am not sure if she can post a list of 6 there!

I kinda miss the old quiz fad

You're Prufrock and Other Observations!

by T.S. Eliot

Though you are very short and often overshadowed, your voice is poetic
and lyrical. Dark and brooding, you see the world as a hopeless effort of people trying
to impress other people. Though you make reference to almost everything, you've really
heard enough about Michelangelo. You measure out your life with coffee spoons.


Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

I kinda love this commercial, but its probably only aired on Bravo.

Oh if this only became a Superbowl commercial.

Rich Fancher, you are one funny bastard.

Unicorn Cove

I thought that more people outside the Portland Area should be able to experience this commercial.

The seven is here to stay

1. I love it when weird coincidences happen with the radio. I was in a crappy mood at work on Tuesday, and I got in my car to go home, and Van Morrison's Into the Mystic comes on the radio. That song from the years of 1993 to 1997 probably made it onto every mixed tape I ever made (shamefully discovered watching the movie Dream a Little Dream, starring the Coreys). It was one of those songs I had forgotten about and loved hearing again. Monday night, I had watched the movie Once and of course fallen in love with it and bought the soundtrack yesterday. What do I discover -- there is a cover of Into the Mystic on it. I love it when things I love, love each other back.
2. California was different that I pictured it. I did not think that I would be able to see the mountains from the city of LA.
3. Favorite pen of the week - Pilot Razor Points. I like that the color Brown comes in the multipack.
4. After not seeing people for 2 weeks, when I come back, some of them are still douchebags.
5. I have decided to keep the seven. Originally it was because of 2007 that I started this, but really, a list of eight just seems pretentious.
   
6. I am getting really excited about the primaries. Watching the votes and percentages the other night reminded me of how some people I know might react a at a sporting event.
7. It is true, we may be able to make good BBQ in the north, but it can't hold a candle to what they make in the south.
   

Seven things I would like to accomplish on this list

This list of 50 nerdy things to do before you die from The Park Bench blog includes several of my geek girl all-time dreams. Here are the seven I would love to do:

1. #38. Draw a map of a nonexistent or fictional place.
2. #7. Feel again like you felt the first time you saw "Star Wars."
3. #27. Go to an underground sing-along screening of the Buffy Musical. (When Buffy is outlawed, only outlaws will sing-along to Buffy.)
4. #24. Witness a live space shuttle launch. Extra points if you're piloting it.
5. #16. "Accidentally" get locked in a bookstore for seven or eight days.
6. #9. Make out with Joss Whedon or J.K. Rowling. Extra points if you achieve a two-fer.
7. #1. Live to see the day when smart and witty wins out over hot and shallow every single day of the week.

Runners up:
#31. Build your own lightsaber.
#6. Correct Alex Trebek on the pronunciation of something French. Consequently hold him when he cries.
#5. Figure out what the hell "Lost" is about. [This item also works for "The Prisoner," "Twin Peaks," "Cloverfield," and the popularity of Oprah.]
#4. Solve a New York Times crossword puzzle...with your eyes closed. Just kidding. Doing one in pen with no mistakes in under 10 minutes is good, too.