You know I have sticky fingers when it comes to things like suggestion box keys, and cell phone records, but I definitely can’t resist stealing a blog post idea when I see a good one. Samara is worthy of all sorts of theft– particularly for her “21 Things I Irrationally Love.” Beth (one of my numerous sister-wives) already stole it and Angelle did a brilliant rendition but I figured there’s still some juice to squeeze from this delicious little morsel:
#1: Quoting Lord of the Rings for every life situation– particularly when I am late to things.
Bonus: Viggo. Yummmm
#2: Sitting in my car when it’s hot, with the windows rolled up– it’s like a free sauna, with comfier seats.
#3: Writing everything in magic marker (including this list, before I typed it up).
#4: The month of September. There’s just something magical and hopeful about it.
#5: Thursdays. For the same reasons as #4.
#6: Videoing myself singing Toto’s “Africa” while driving, then sending it to my friend Peeves. This happens more than I care to admit.
#7: Beautiful old doors. I need to visit Tunisia.
#8: Scaring people– especially people I love.
#9: Nutella, HELLO!
#10: Buttermilk, the world’s feistiest baby goat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuRzJRrRpQ
#11: Packing. It’s like a big puzzle. *swoon*
#12: Having the palm of my hand touched gently. My enjoyment of this borders on erotic.
#13: Searching for flights online.
#14: The sound of walking on gravel– it makes me feel like I’m about to accomplish something.
#15: The vanquishing of bullies (bonus: melodrama. Can you tell?)
#16:Dave Eggers, or (less creepily) anything he’s ever written:
#17: Sleeping naked. Doing everything naked, pretty much. Clothes are the worst.
#18: Showtunes. Especially whilst driving with windows down, singing very loudly and very badly.
#19: Buying gifts. I wish I could buy something for all of you.
#20: Telling people what they were wearing the first time I met them.
#21: The Royal Tenenbaums, ahh…
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YES to #14.
When can we see #6.
And I’d love to do more of #17 but I’m scared that one day the postman will accidentally see my wiener and laugh. A LOT.
Nooooo fucking way. I’m the first person to comment? Don’t be re-dating that shit so I get bumped OK?
Hahahaha you were! Perfection. I have no clue how to change the date so YOU WIN, YOU WIN! Though I think it does wonky things and moves people to different pages. I don’t know. I have this long list of things to figure out about WordPress when I have the time. Which will be never.
Well I figured out the whole ‘followers’ thing so you can cross that one off your list.
So if you can figure out how any of us can get any money from doing what we do, THAT would be bloody marvellous.
Haha I will work on that! Likewise, you let me know if you unearth any deeply pocketed patrons who want to support us in our inanity.
There really ought to be more gravel spread about.
#6…. be careful what you wish for 😉 It’s bad, so bad. And dare I say: dangerous?
And that’s what drapes are for, Sean! Though I’ll admit– I often think about the house catching on fire/my ex breaking in. I’ve decided that having to jump out my window naked is worth the nightly enjoyment.
I should have linked more people in mine…Doing things naked: Check. LOTR: Check. September is awesome: Check.
I am commenting very early on this post and it’s 1). because you’re lovely, and 2) because my therapist says I have very little stimulation in my life since I’m unemployed so I’m overly excitable about things.
Hahahaha! That’s awesome. Yeah, I’m posting at a random ass time of the day too. I usually write up until the evening and hit “publish” but they blocked facebook and twitter at work so I need something else to occupy my “breaks.” BUAHAHA
I think we should collaborate on some sort of LOTR response cards, to show that there’s really no need to ever respond to anything in any other way.
Yes. I will bring them to BlogHer and we will hold them up when we have nothing to say.
Which will be always hahaha
You are going to have to coach me with your actress skills to be better at engaging with people in an appropriate fashion. I went to a friend’s wedding this weekend and I was beyond awkward. I didn’t even really move from my table the entire time but I still managed to make all sorts of uncomfortable things happen.
We’ll get through this.
I will bring the cat ears.
Stay strong.
SO: I stole a magazine from the gym (sorta, it was an accident, I took it back) and it was a Cosmo or something and they were talking about how “in” it is to wear cat ears– apparently T. Swift (ma homegurl) and Katy Perry (our mutual homegiiiirl) and Kate Moss (….) all wear them. You are a fashion maven.
I have the ears from T’s 22 video.
Discuss.
*jaw drops*
This takes things to a whole new level.
Nutella and the Royal Tennenbaums…Really, we are one in the same! LMAO! BTW you are more than welcome to come over bc I have a room that needs to be packed up and I just shut the door bc I am avoiding it-we call it the Hoarders Buried Alive room…..
Oooo that sounds like a dream come true 😉 It’s even more fun to pack other people’s stuff! It’s almost a sickness, I’m afraid…
then you will love that its not even my crap-its my parents crap that has been sitting in the house for 40 years along with my grandparents crap as well….its all yours
Oooo vintage 😉 You never know, there could be some hidden treasure in there! And/or you can pimp it out to hipsters who will feel so retro and original.
I know right? did you see the clock on my last post? I pulled that out of there but Im not sure if it works bc I lost the key that winds it!
Woah, no I think I missed that! Interesting… you could be on one of those “I found something in my attic and now I’m a millionaire” TV shows!
We’ll i do have a WWII samurai sword that my grandfather brought back from japan
What, no way! A legit sword?! As opposed to the odd replica that my naked ex wielded in his photo yesterday?
That’s amazing– I’m sure you’ll hold onto it, but have you ever looked into finding out how much it’s worth?
Yeah we are getting a bunch of things together like I have a Victoria…etx..my greT grandfather was an antique dealer in the 20s with a shop on Lexington ace so we have some of his goodies….
Wow! That is just beyond cool. Okay, Julie and I will be over to sort through your piles very soon 🙂
yaya cant wait-downside is you will have to come to nj…
….New Jersey Turnpike. *shudders*
Please it’s better than the parkway but still terrible
I bet there are treasures galore there!! Hoarders Buried Alive room!! I want to come too!
Rooooadtrip!
You are early today! Or is it me? lol I can relate to some of these, you just have to guess which ones! I’ve been seeing these lists pop up, I might have to steal what you stole.
I love the sitting in your car with the windows rolled up for a sauna. Good one!
You should definitely steal the idea, I would love to read yours! It’s so interesting to see the things you relate to and then the things that you’re like “really? weirdo.”
I did post early… I’m feeling compulsive and bored 😉
Well I needed a post for today so I think I will do it!
feeling compulsive and bored huh? Should we worry? LOL
Only if you feel the ground begin to shake… haha
Just a few thoughts:
1. Viggo…yes. YUM.
2. Sleeping naked is the best. Especially when you have kick ass Sheex. Look them up. You’ll die. The best $150 I’ve ever spent.
3. Thursdays, FTW.
That is all. 🙂
What! Sheex! I already love them just based off of the word itself. Reminds me of when Beth introduced me to the “Shenis,” which you won’t want to look up while at work.
I will deeeefinitely check out these sheets– you make the best recommendations!
OH. MY. GAWD. The Shenis? Totally googled it and am dying on the floor right now.
Squat no mo’?!?!?! How the hell do you learn about this stuff?! Furthermore that thing is huge and clearly a hopeful woman and/or a depressed man created it. Did you see the shenis shot picture on the website? That a man is taking?!?! OMG. Wow.
Hahahahaha yes, the photos are increeeeedible! And it’s very ambitious/delusional, you’re right. Beth Teliho from http://www.writerbisme.com told me about it! I mean… I kind of think I need one if I ever go backpacking again. The only thing is: how do you store it and keep it clean? Maybe it has some gilded storage case.
Bejeweled Shenis Case. YES.
I had jump in here and say they have smaller ones for backpacking. The Shenis is for women who want to feel like they have a dick. The backpacking one is actually very utilitarian and more like a cup with a little tube extending from it. It does have a carry case and you rinse it with water. A lot.
A friend told me.
I think that the combo travel pack of a Sheenis and a Diva Cup pretty much sums up the experiences of women the world over.
OMG the Diva Cup….I’m simultaneously horrified and fascinated! The BFF and I spent an entire hour investigating them on Google. We even watched a “how to” Youtube video. Don’t worry, they used props. No actual vaginas were harmed in the making of the tutorial.
I know for a fact my flow (when I had one, I’ve been dissected) was too heavy for one of those. I would’ve coughed and shot it out across the room, leaving a trail that looked like someone jumped on a ketchup bottle. Jes sayin’.
Okay so I used one while I was in Asia… and it’s equally convenient and absolutely horrifying. I kiiiind of want to blog about but I’m afraid that all the men folk would run screaming with their hands over their ears. Let’s just say I had to use Chinese google to search “my diva cup is stuck.”
*snort* (<<that is what I just did, it is NOT how to retrieve a Diva Cup from your vag)
I can't believe I now know two people who have used them, and prior to a week ago, I'd never heard of it in my life!! What else is going on that I don't know about in hygiene and/or sex??? Please text me when new things happen. I'm cold and scared.
Hahahaha “I’m cold and scared” = I just straight up GUFFAWED. That doesn’t happen all that often, but when it does… wow.
I’ll definitely keep you posted if you promise to do the same for me. . .
Deal!
In all fairness to the Diva cup people, mine never got stuck under normal circumstances. Just that one time. Otherwise I was up in the old verginer like a pro. It also can handle my flow. Except for that one unfortunate story. But I was on blood thinners. So it’s not Diva Cup’s fault. (I apparently really want to defend them).
I haven’t used mine since I got back in the states and I remember having these drastic ups and downs where I either thought it was the best thing ever or I thought it was trying to kill me.
Love this list and …. it’s Synchronicity Time! We all really, really, really wanted to watch “The Royal Tenenbaums” last night. I am including that many really’s because it didn’t happen. Yet.
How funny! Gah, it’s such a good movie. I used to watch it over and over again when I was in college. It would just be constantly playing in the background– which I love, because you really pick up on the nuances and timing in the dialogue. Such a perfect movie. Let’s both watch it now!
#4, #5, #7 and #17. Unless it’s a nap I can’t even fall asleep with anything on. #1 would have to be changed to The Big Lebowski.
I’m so glad you share my love of Thursdays and September! It’s so great that 4 times a year those two things coincide. I think there ought to be some sort of ritual associated… I’ll start planning now. And #17 is just a way of life 😉
A September-Thursday ritual is definitely needed.
You and the husband with the “scaring people” thing. I randomly get him jumping out from the dark at me. It’s people like you that are the cause of my gray hairs. Just saying. Love ya anyway.
Ha! I know, and I get so angry when the Boyfran does it back (though secretly I love the thrill of being frightened). My favorite is to do it when we’re out in public… there are probably so many security camera recordings of me stealthily (or so I think) sneaking down store aisles and restaurant tables.
I would pay to see those. I try to scare him back, but it is impossible. I swear…my ninja skills are in desperate need of help.
I’ll have to create some sort of free webinar that covers ninja skills and Microsoft Office 2007. And apps.
YES!
My favorite is texting my friends creepy doll photos. I once almost made Mandi (cellulitelooksbettertan blog) drive into her house. *maniacal laugh*
Haha! My friend Peeves and I lived together a few times in college and had this years-long tradition of hiding this creepy little mardi gras clown in all sorts of horrifying places… like on top of the fan so it would come flying when you flipped the switch. Or in the coffee basket. So evil. A true sign of life-lasting friendship though.
I can answer why September is magical and hopeful. I was born during it. And I’m amazing. Also, I agree on 17. Clothes sucks. My biggest regret of not keeping the last gf is she agreed 🙁 And we’re connected through LinkedIn! Doesn’t it make you feel strangely professional? I’m still getting used to it and it’s been about a year. Was told by designers I need one or they think I’m hiding something. Weirdos.
OMG I’m kind of embarrassed about Linked In. That was an insomnia decision last night– I keep getting email invitations so I was like “okay, sure” and then all of a sudden it sent invites to like a thousand different people and now I feel like such a creeper. Especially since my profile is void of any useful information. Kill! I feel like some awkward kid wandering around like “can I sit with you?” and everyone cringes and hits “accept” because they feel sorry for me.
Jealous of your September Bday! The ultimate birthday month, I say.
Aw so now it was just a creepy kid moment 🙁 Now I feel ever so unwanted. Unfortunately I really need it. I avoided it as best I could.
Hahaha no, no, I’m just trying to hide my true intentions: that I am stalking you on the interwebs late at night.
With few exceptions, all stalking is welcome and promoted.
Hahaha you should list that on your LinkedIn profile 😉
Sigh. I shall have to get around to making my list, and continue the fine tradition of blog theft.
Incidentally — do you know if Gmail is still busted? I was trying to message you and got some sort of error. Something about “Bitch, Aussa doan wan’ talk witch chew no mo'” (I have know Idea why Google is suddenly a guest on Jerry Springer or else a 19th century sharecropper, but there you go)
Kidding… Google’s just been flakey the last two days. Message me when you can, see if it’s working.
I did see your message, actually– way too late and then it said you were offline. I’m not very good with Google + but I’m trying to learn… especially since it’s the only social network my employers haven’t blocked yet.
Definitely make a list– I’m sure it will be absolutely faaaaabulous.
Some of them are going to be childish — I have to warn you now.
7, 8, 13, and 15. ESPECIALLY 15. Score one for the little guys! 😀
Ok, and the scaring people. I LOVE doing that. (I am also horribly fond of practical jokes, also.)
Heck yeah! This is so fun to look back at the list and compare, haha. Love that you’re a fan of pranks and frightening people– it’s easily one of my absolute favorite things to do. There are so many things I used to be able to get away with as a kid or a teenager that I wish I could still do now! My boyfriend will be like “what should we do this weekend?” and there’s a part of my heart that still really wants to go TP all of our friends with some bulk 90 roll thing of Charmin.
I read these things and think, at times, we must have known each other and pranked everyone one past life! I don’t think I will EVER outgrow my prankster side. 🙂
This is awesome. I’m totally stealing this idea.
Yes, do!!!! Huzzah!
This list is magic, there’s just something about it. Even though I can’t relate to most of it. “Clothes are the worst” hahaha as much as I hate fashion, I freaking LOVE clothes. Pockets are everything. Where do nudist keep their keys and phones? I feel like we’ve talked about this before…
I do like cool doors, especially red or any brightly colored doors, they really jazz up a place. I should jump on this bandwagon. I like stuff.
Definitely jump on the bandwagon! And okay, I will admit that pockets are pretty incredible– I can’t stand carrying things around with my hands (soooo lazy). I just bought the most incredible little purse that holds all my crap in the tidiest most efficient way possible and I’m a bit obsessed with it. I just like to look at it in my downtime.
I think I could be a hybrid nudist that wears some sort of billowing snuggy cape that’s fitted with big side pockets for easy access to electronics/snacks/weapons.
THAT. I want that cape. It’s the answer to all my problems, I’m sure of it. But I would still wear undies, you know, in case I’m dropped on an island with nothing but flint. Oh and I also need sheex or whatever those magic sheets are. I feel so enlightened.
Thursdays are my favorite. For many, I think. We all seem to become unhinged on Facebook and twitter on Thursdays.
September is my favorite month. I love fall, and it’s my birth month!
YES to looking online for flights, and I LOVE how the prices irrationally change depending what day of the week you’re online. It’s strategy, baby!
And the naked thing WAS me- until my son got old enough to be overly interested in my body parts. He, on the other hand, is a complete nudist! Hope he grows out of it before he’s a teen. Awkward.
Ah, I always think about the whole naked-with-kids thing. Okay, not like THAT. But I realize that it’s a fetish with an expiration date… unless I can manage to acquire a home with multiple wings and a nanny. *fingers crossed*
I’m obsessed with figuring out the whole flight booking strategy thing. It’s the impoverished backpacker that will forever live in my heart.
You’re so funny with this “nanny” thing!
While I do not own a home with multiple wings, I could afford live in help. I work a LOT. And an au pair is not that expensive.
But I’m one of those freaks who wants to raise her own kid. You may surprise yourself, and want to do the same! One never knows…
I suppose it depends on whether my children are as horrifying as I imagine they could potentially be…. just kidding! That’s terrible.
I mean, I’ll take a part time nanny… someone to supervise them while I lock myself away in a treehouse and get some writing done. That’s not asking so much, right?
They WILL be that horrifying! And then some! Kids suck the life right out of you…why do you think I don’t show my face? I look 70 fucking years old.
No, we all need writing time. That’s why God invented XBox 360 and candy.
Hahaha very true– and there’s no telling what sort of distraction devices will exist by the time I make babies. Something to have hope in.
I love the idea and your list. Completely relate to #12 – the stroking of your palm thing – what are your views on the forearm, just on the other side of your elbow? lol 😉
It’s also amazing! Honestly, if it starts in the palm, it can go anywhere and still be amazing… I’ll stop there, haha.
🙂
I’m grinning luck a fucking lunatic as I type..hahaha I love your list! The one about gravel made me giggle out loud. So random. And the one about your palm being touched is similar to me with loving my hair gently played with. I couldn’t agree more with packing….it overwhelms me. I have to make lists all over the house like freaking Rain Man.
I love to sing in the car – loud – but no show tunes. Not a fan. And I can’t barely even shower naked. I don’t like constricting clothes, but I need fabric touching me. It’s a protective feeling. Like maybe I’m a worried I’m going to be dropped into the show Naked and Afraid at any moment. Mama needs her undies and a tank top. Capeesh?
DOORS. *gasp* I have an entire pinterest board devoted to them and I paint them all. the. time. In fact, my bff has 3 door paintings of mine hanging in her home. DOORS. I can’t quit them.
Warm cars. *dissolve* so love.
never heard of Eggers author. *makes list* must check him out.
quoting movies….you have no idea how bad we are at this! Never Lord of the Rings, but Napolean Dynamite, Seinfeld (all my life references are from Seinfeld), Kalifornia (doors,,,where you been?) (Adelle, putcher titty away!) okay, I’ll stop now. So many. We speak in quotes over here. and LOVE LOVE the movie The Royal Tennenbaums. Gen.Ius.
Haha the things we’re all having in common are pretty dang incredible! I should have included list-making on here, I looooove it, it’s beyond sane.
Interesting about the clothing thing! But it makes sense. I’m the worst– anyone who shows up at my door has to wait forever for me to answer, wearing something mismatched and inside out because I was scrambling all over the place.
I want to see some of your door paintings, Beth!!!! NOW! Are they online anywhere?!?!
No, not online. Hmmm. Do I have photos of them? Will investigate. I have photos of a lot of my paintings, but for some reason don’t remember the doors. I can have my friend photo them. I should have them anyway. *will get back to you on that*
Sweet! Definitely do.
Number 17!! I hate clothes! But I love your list.
Hey hey hey there! And… something about this similarity between us does not surprise me 😉 Though I don’t think I’ll be strolling through any swinger’s clubs anytime soon! Well… I’ll work up to that…
All you need is liquid courage!! That’s all it takes, I promise. PROMISE. So, next time you come up to visit the frozen wasteland, i.e. Canada, hit me up and we will do it up right. 😉
YES. Must wait for summer, so that clothing can be at a minimum haha.
Trust me, our winter has been incredibly brutal…definitely wait for summer! But then, no excuses 😉
I am in awe that you still have No. 17 on your list despite the ordeal with the ex and his trigger disposible phone message button finger, Aussa. I am surprised that one of your numbers isn’t something like: ‘Drawing reenactments of people I hate in embarassing situations.’
And I must say, the car-suana and gravel-crunch are both odd and interesting.
Hahaha he’s a douchebag and a villain but I will never let him steal my enjoyment of nudity. I’ll admit that I did question whether I should include it, at risk of people being like “gah, will she just stop talking about being naked?” But that feels like some sort of internalized shame so I say “fi!” to that.
Okay– you kind of know me too well, it would seem. Drawing reenactments of people = not something I’ve only done once hahahahaha I’ll just leave it at that for now.
Can’t wait to see the future artistic renderings right here, Aussa! And great for you say “Fi!” to the mean monster’s shadow.
More than anything, I love.. love. It’s my inspiration, religion and the answer to life’s most difficult questions. Thanks for this, Aussa!
Aw, that’s uplifting to hear! I feel like you might be a character from Moulin Rouge.
I need to try this Nutella stuph. It seems to be all the rage.
NUTELLAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
See???
It wasn’t me who wrote that…
Oh no…
*crazy laugh and twirls away*
Damn you, evil hat!!
It is not evil!!! Eccentric, maybe…
Potato, potahto….
Cookies!!
Those are yummeh.
Mmmm cookehs!
I KNOW!
It most definitely is. I think I’m going to host a giveaway in honor of my birthday and try to giveaway a 5 gallon bucket of the stuff.
Does it come in that big of a bucket?
I have no spatial reasoning so there’s no telling, but! I do know that they make these HUGE containers of it– like the size of your head. Mmmm…. I’m playing a “James and the Giant Peach” scenario in my head but it’s “Aussa and the Giant Nutella.”
I’ll definitely try it then. I do enjoy my hazelnut creamer for my coffeh, so Nutella is probably just as yummeh.
Truleh.
……..I don’t think I pulled that off.
You totalleh did.
Oh my gosh! This list!! <3 We have a lot in common, Ninja Lady! I could ramble about them, but will only ramble about doors. I adore doors!! I'm in the process of pinning (on Pinterest) lots of pictures of beautiful doors! I always wonder what's hiding behind them. ^_^
Gravel…gravel!!! It's a must for when you're on a mission!
I should write up a post myself. 🙂
You should definitely write a post– it’s an instant mood enhancer to think of all the things you love! I need to spend more time on Pinterest so that I can enjoy and compile such things!
Pinterest is a wonderful site, but be warned. You’ll find yourself twirling amongst the pretty pictures while time just seeps away…
I’ll link to you when I’ve written the post!
Please do link up, huzzah! And I think my employer blocked Pinterest…
*greedily lunges for iPhone*
How rude of your employer! It’s like he/she doesn’t want you to twirl or something. Rudeness.
*awaits the hearing of “hallelujah” for when Aussa stares at pictures of mysterious and colorful doors*
What an interesting list. I was so in agreement with some, and totally convinced it is “you” and others really surprised me. I suppose wearing clicky shoes on hard surfaces goes hand in hand with gravel walking or that carbon stuff they put on tracks. not railroad tracks, running tracks that makes a great noise too.
Searching flights on line?? wha??
send me the video, show tunes or Africa either will be acceptable.
Of course Nutella. another one I dont understand.
Packing? wha??
keep it coming Aussa. I like learning more about you.
Hahaha we are all such contrary creatures, I suppose! It’s fun to learn about…
And clicky shoes are definitely fun as well– unless you’re trying to sneak up on people, in which case they are best removed. The only drawback of loud clicky shoes is when the bottom of a heel becomes damaged and then you walk about going “click-clop click-clop” and everyone looks up to see if it’s a pirate with a peg leg.
Nope, just me. *waves awkwardly*
I have so many of those Toto Africa videos on my iPhone… it makes me want to put a more secure password on there all of a sudden, haha.
I know I’m not the first commenter to say it (because I saw someone else saying it!), and I’m sure there will be others (I’m guessing one in twelve), but September is also my birthday and that’s why it’s awesome! Also, it links nicely to your number 19 about how you like buying gifts. September. Just saying.
I would like to do this post myself, but there’s a reason I’m not going to. It’s a top secret, hush-hush reason, sorry would like to say more but can’t, you know how it is 😉
Hahahaha you and your teasing, Vanessa!
*runs off to check email*
So many September birthdays roundabouts here! It makes sense, because you’re all my favorite people. Hmm…. we’re going to have to throw some huge party or something, me thinks.
Done! 😉
It’s a well known fact that the #1 perk of having your own place is the ability to shamelessly do everything naked. For the record, use extreme caution when cooking things in oil while naked.
Hahaha oh no– please tell me you don’t speak from experience on that one?!
I was just trying to make hash browns in a skillet. It’s not like I fell into a pot of hot oil.
Ouch, though. Totally freaks me out when the skillet fights back and starts shooting specks of hotness at you. I’m glad it wasn’t like the closing scene of Terminator.
#20: Reminds me of an old lover. Ohlala. 😉
Hopefully that’s a good memory, at least!!
Mmmmmm…..Viggo…..and frosting with a spoon right out of the can.
Combine those two and… Huzzah!
Again, I say, Mmmm….
It was his picture that zapped me out of my teleconference haze. Two computers in my office…one for work and one for Viggo 🙂
Haha that’s incredible! I used to have posters and magazine cutouts of him in my dorm room when I was a freshman… ahhh… so dreamy…
It is nice to learn about you… even though you are obviously a nut job… HA!
Hahahaha well tell me how you REALLY feel, Art!!!
It just so happens I adore crazy people…
Yo tambien, huzzah!
I never doubted it.
I was going to thank you for letting us better see the real you with this post, Madam Aussa, but after #17 and your selfie posts, I thought better of it.
#15: Oh, yes, you’re playing my song.
#21: I fear too few people can appreciate the subtle brilliance of this offbeat movie.
I definitely know we have #15 in common! And oh #21… it speaks to my heart. I’m so happy that so many commenters have mentioned seeing it. So often I bring it up and people are like “what? what movie? Is it about kardashians?”
Excellent topic! I, too, love Thursdays, and I’ve never guessed why!
Sitting in a hot car with the windows rolled up would be a nightmare for me, but the windows down on a cool day, mmm!
I think I will continue this theme on my next blog post, thanks to you and yours for the inspiration.
Awesome! Link back so I don’t miss it! And I do love opening the house windows on those lightly cool mornings… that’s one of my very few enjoyments of anything less than 85 degrees, ha.
You can have my nutella 🙂
I do everything in Crayola “fine line” markers. My favorite time of year is when school supplies come out and I can stock up on my markers for work stuff.
Have I mentioned I am a total dork yet?
Yes!! Exactly! I use the skinny ones too! They’re so amazing, I have a jar full of them on my desk at home. Everything just feels better when you write it in marker, hahahahaha
…and if you’ve ever had a morsel, you know just how much it likes to be squeezed until there’s no more juice. [boom-crash]
Thank you very much. I’m here all week.
I love when they tried to sell Nutella off as a healthy snack. It’s hazelnuts! No it isn’t. It’s a jar of chocolate frosting.
I like the sound of rain on the roof. It sounds like bacon frying. It’s metaphor Tuesday!
I’m sitting here about to go to a job interview. I have a sharp suit and tie on. I think I clean up pretty good when I have to. If you were here, I’d cast a spell on you. For now, I hope to cast a spell on these people I want to work for.
Hahaha I know– the commercials/ads are seriously like “look, healthy breakfast!” and it’s a huge chunk of white bread smeared in chocolate. Yeah, I can get on board with that.
Oh yes, rain on a roof…. *swoon*
Oh my gosh, good luck on your job interview! That’s exciting! Please don’t change buildings though, I like thinking of you and El Guap being so close together. Okay, okay, I’ll sacrifice my personal preferences for the sake of your ambitions. Good luck!!!
Thank you for your good wishes. I am sad to report that if I land this position (50/50 chance) I will no longer work in the same building as Sir Guap. I almost didn’t accept the interview for that reason alone but I came to my senses. We’d still be in the same naib, though. After-work bitch sessions will still be in full effect.
“naib” = brilz, must use.
And who knows… you might end up next to some other mysterious blogger… never knooooow….
First of all, hello back!
I video myself singing this song:
And send it to all of my friends, no exceptions (good friends only), they hate me because I’m a horrible singer and because that song is an ear worm.
Hahahaha oh my gosh, now I think IIII love you. That is so incredible. Your friends are so lucky. I am now going to watch this entire video and it’s loud enough for the people in the hall to hear it— okay and um yeah, the mail guy just stopped with his cart and was like “are you crying?”
Yes, kind of.
hahahaha
I’m not the most loved person at work, I keep playing ear worms then I heard people whistling and my heart is filling with joy.
Hahahaha that’s incredible. Like a musical yawn.
I’m more of an August girl myself. But I still like you 🙂
Haha, I appreciate that! And August is definitely good for things like outdoor concerts and patio-beer-drinking…
#4
Hahahaha could you just hear us discussing you???? Okay, listening now…
Aw! It’s about September!!!!! And it feels like a showtune, so it’s double bonus.
THERE IS NOTHING IRRATIONAL ABOUT LOVING THE TENENBAUMS
I’m so glad you feel strongly enough about that movie to communicate in all caps!
#1 YES!!!!!
I’m feeling a future blog post coming out of that item alone….
Awesome. I’m looking forward to it.
I relate to your numbers 4 & 9. But, just the thought of sitting in a hot car makes me feel nauseous. I prefer enjoying a slight chill, just cold enough to enjoy a hot chai latte. I also irrationally love rainy and cloudy days. Fun piece.
Ah, I like a chilly, rainy chai-appropriate day every so often. Actually– I dream of them all summer long (I’m fickle like that). But after the 3rd one in a row, I’m back to blasting the heat and wrapping myself in furs 😉
*grins* Doors. YES! And definitely yes to scaring people and finding gifts.
Not so much with the touchy hand thing, but I do this thing where sometimes, if there’s someone particularly special to me, I’ll write their name in the palm of my hand, with a heart, and send them a photo.
It’s a *thing*
Well, then, I’ll be looking out for that photo.
*piercing, all-knowing glare*
Just kidding 😀
Did you know our very own Beth (of sister-wife status) paints doors????? She owes us photos.
My dear, you have every opportunity to earn one, if you so desire 🙂
DOES SHE? In fact, hold the mock-surprise – I just read her comment on the way past. I like photographs of doors/doorways/gates…entrances in general. Where there’s something tucked behind – an allure of the unknown-and-possibly-magical.
Most of all I like doors in garden walls, because I think I read The Secret Garden too young, and some of that magic got stuck inside my brain.
I shall have to see what a BlogWife needs to do to get photos of Doors Beth Painted…
Perfection.
And yes– the doors hold an allure about them. Like they’re teasing you to find out where they lead. I love the Secret Garden… I reread it every few years.
Sleeping naked for the win, girl. But some nights I have that paranoia, “what if this is the night a spider crawls into my vag?” Generally, my response is: YOLO.
All vag-related questions can usually be answered with YOLO.
*instinctively does kegels at thought of spider*
What a wonderful list. 🙂 I also share your love in #3 – I have a thin Sharpy that I guard with my life. #11 – plus the bonus challenge of waiting until the last minute! #14 except I like squeaky snow even more. And especially #12 – It’s like taking a sedative. I vote for much more hand touching.
Buttermilk: How is it possible to be that cute?!?!?!
Buttermilk is amazing! And I totally want to steal your thin sharpy. I was at a wedding this weekend and they had thin sharpies for signing the guest book and I so badly wanted to walk away with it and/or just keep writing all sorts of things in the guestbook because it was so pleasant.
Now when reading the title I would have thought Nutella was your number one and repeated.
Doing Everything naked. That is sssssssssssssso true.No not deflating.
Though I hope it was not a clip of you singing ‘Africa’ and send around. Covered in Nutella.
Surely a man’s mind would not mind. Okay okay. bla bla harassmentor something like that. But i am not touching your palm :D.
Oh gosh I am done for.
Haha you summed it up quite well with that last line! And don’t tempt me (Frodo)– I would totally make a list of things I love that looked like this:
1. Nutella
2. Nutella
3. Nutella
4. Nutella
5. Nutella
oooh come on you making me fat just reading this.
Stop wait.
Already am hahaha
And here was me thinking i tempted you in singing ‘Africa’ covered in nutella Ooh well got the nutella right.
I died. Thank you. ha ha 😀 I died laughing.
I agree with many of these. YES, clothes suck. And #12 – you must have died in that episode of Sherlock where Irene Adler is kneeling in front of him and he takes her hand… omg. I know I am just a ghost, now.
How do you manage to remember what people were wearing when you met them? I have trouble remembering that I HAVE met them! lol
Oh yes, I know exactly what scene you are talking about!!!
And the worst part about remembering the clothing is that I am UTTER SHIT with names. It’s terrriiiible.
Chocolate chip cookie dough, messing with my kid’s minds (like the time we told them we were going to sell everything and spend their inheritance on a boat to sail around the world — that was some fun!), the smell of rain, and being my own boss. Especially that last one, even though I’m a total bitch about it.
Great list! Except for #13. I’ve spent way too many hours I’ll never get back setting up flights.
Ooo these are good! You said “chocolate chip cookie dough” and now I have to immediately go out and see to it that I get a fix. Thanks for that! Not even kidding right now, I’ve been triggered!
The smell of rain is wonderful… everything is okay when that hits you.
And messing with your kids’ minds = awesome. I once convinced my nieces and nephews that I was lost and just drove them around in circles. Of course this was after I’d concocted this long tale about a monster or something that was after us. Ah, fun times.
yep love the free sauna, but love the head touch rather than hand, all fall months, monkeys, mini ponies, giraffes, sheep and pygmy goats, color green – especially apple and olive tones, solving mysteries, having adventures, babies, costumes and …….. (uh, oh – is this really an intake form to see if i should be committed?)
Aw, miniature animals– YES! So right there with ya. Did you watch the baby goat video?! I swoon. It’s always open in a tab on my iPhone, no lie.
hahaha I love that you mention doors. My best friend’s grandma is obsessed with them and has posters called “The Doors of Tulsa,” “The Doors of New Orleans,” and random other cities with doors. We had a great time laughing at her posters when I visited her around Christmas. I’m glad she’s not alone. 🙂
Oh how funny! There are exciting doors in Tulsa??? Who’ve thought… She’s definitely not alone, I will share her eccentricities 😉
I love old doors and walking on gravel too. Otherwise, I like finding a beer in the vegetable tray on a Sunday evening when I think there aren’t any left, and waking up at 6.30 on Saturdays then realizing I can stay in bed.
Haha those are two absolutely amazing things that I totally failed to mention and which could easily boot a couple things from the list. Those are like ultimate “huzzah!” moments of jubilation and victory.
Love some of the things you love. Like old doors. I have a painting of one in Tuscany in my home.
Don’t like packing. A pain.
And I had never liked hot cars before. Maybe I’ll try thinking of it as a sauna.
Exactly! Tell yourself that you are enjoying a luxury that people pay top dollar for. Also: They have sweat lodges out in the desert, to help people achieve enlightenment or something. You could also think of it like that…
Just when I thought I was the only person in the world who sleep naked.Clothes in general are just uncomfortable.
AMEN! For real. They get all twisted and tucked up in places where they ought not be.
*shakes head in agreeance* (if thats a word)
funny things is i was gonna blog how awful september is–lots of murders happen that month, when i was born
Hahaha wait, really???? Murderous September. I wonder why that is?
totally. uhm i watch a lot of forensic shows (ashamed to admit it) and i began seeing a pattern. such and such happened on september so-and-so. i mean, 911 happened in september. it happened days before my bday and even i forgot i had a bday.
but today i watched some football documentary–yes! something great happened in september: the first racially integrated college football team USC kicked ‘Bama’s ass (which was then an all-white team)
as you can see i love violence in various forms
Haha I love how you summed all of that up so succinctly in the end. Interesting about the football documentary, sounds right up my alley actually.
I wonder if there is a more deadly month… must research.
Well of course September is magical. That’s my birth month. But most importantly, why have you not shared this video of your Toto rendition with us!!? I can get you all the Nutella you need…or gummy bears. *wink, wink*
And btw, now that you’re on Instagram, I recently posted a gorgeous old door. (Don’t know if you saw it).
Everyone in these comments was born in September, I swear! Maybe this is why I like that month so much: I’m spiritually guided towards it because– I’m just going to stop myself before I get weirder. It’s the post-lunch hour of strange over here.
Mmmmm…. gummies.
Oh! And the video… I don’t want to frighten you guys away completely…
No! Don’t stop! Tell me the spiritual guidance!
Yes, exactly! We have to defrost after suffering from 8AM to 5PM every day.
My boyfriend is similar to you on the hand thing– except it just tickles him like crazy. It’s one of many weapons in my arsenal. BUT! I am so right there with you on not liking damp hands. If I’m out in a public restroom and they don’t have towels/a hand dryer, I’ll have a miniature anxiety attack.
Viggo, Dave Eggars and Royal Tenenbaums. Yes, yes and yes.
Ah, you’re speaking my heart language right here!!! I should’ve known.
Whenever I am at a crossroads, trying to decide what to do, I always remind myself to take the high road, that I must do what’s right, sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti. And that has made all the difference.
Hahahahahaha!!! At first I was like “what is happening here” but this is amazing.
#4, #7, #17, #18, & #20 – best things ever!
Yeah! Consulting the post and seeing what I have in common with people = uber fun haha. Almost makes this Tuesday feel like a Thursday.
I LOVE markers. My 5-year-old just lectured me last night about sharing, because NOBODY is allowed to use Mommy’s markers.
Haha! That’s amazing, but I don’t blame you! You’ve got to protect and hoard such precious commodities. They make every dumb task so much more enjoyable.
For real. And she has her OWN markers, geez.
Yes to 8 and 9. I haven’t had Nutella in forever.
I wrote a blog post with a couple of things that I’m obsessed with and I’m going to be doing a “Fangirl/boy” series at some point. I can’t wait to describe squeeing and glomping and other fun stuff. *giggle* http://hrshavor.wordpress.com/2014/03/09/busy-busy-busy/
Haha! That sounds like a great series! I’ll have to come check your post out…
I’m hoping to *maybe* get at least drafts of the fangirling posts done within the next week so I can start posting. I’ve wanted to do this for a while.
#1, 2, 7, 12 (except it’s the bottom of my feet instead), 13, 17 & 18 are all right up my alley. I have never watched The Royal Tenenbaums (yet) but I could watch just about any Disney movie over and over again – my tops being The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Mulan, The Little Mermaid, Tangled and Frozen. I have all the cries every time.
Sidebar: Out of the grand total of 6 people in my family, my mom and I are the ONLY ONES who aren’t compulsive hoarders (mom stockholm’d me out of that at an early age, if you happen to have read my blog from yesterday) and I am SO SCARED that I’m going to outlive all of them, causing me to have to DEAL with all their STUFF. Even if I’m like 70 and all alone,can you please come and HAYULP ME find the light at the end of what I anticipate will be a looooooong-ass tunnel?!???
“hayulp” = LOLOLOL and I neeever say “lol”
I will definitely HAYULP you! And oh man, I am so with you on the Disney movies… I need to own more of them/a TV so I can have them on all the time. I haven’t seen the last two though… I know I should, it’s just so difficult to break my Disney animation purist ways.
I was at a craft store buying envelopes earlier (my life is very glamorous) and I saw this stone mermaid sculpture and I wanted it. So bad. I really just want to be a mermaid myself.
This comment got really off topic.
Glad I could help you LOL!
Oh thank God. Be prepared a lot of old British stuff, and collections of dolls, and memorabilia of fandoms ranging from LOTR to the Pixar movie Cars and everything in between.
Oh sweetie. I didn’t realize your movie watching situation! I think there are a lot of Disney movies uploaded on youtube in 10 minute segments if you’re desperate!
I want to be a mermaid like crazy. I was that kid who sang Part Of Your World in whatever body of water I happened to be in at the time. http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/part-of-our-world-this-real-life-professional-mermaid-will-b <– this woman is my hero! And maybe it's the red hair, but I think you would make a rather enticing ocean creature.
I have thought of other things I love irrationally. Smelly candles. Babies. Blue 5 gum. Golden retreivers. The smell of butter and onions cooking in a frying pan. The idea of going to Mexico and meeting my people. Butterflies. Pianos. 3 year old girls in ballerina tutus. Jennifer Lawrence.
I’m afraid to click on that link because I think I might be consumed with jealousy that anyone gets to be more of a mermaid than me.
*pouts*
Sounds like you have enough stuff there to make a proper list post!!
I love buying gifts too but I just hate packing. Maybe coz i have had to move around a lot
That makes sense! I’ve moved quite a bit but I enjoy getting rid of junk so I don’t have an absolute ton of stuff to lug around. Just books 🙂
Books! That’s what i hate the most! That I have to get rid of books!
I’m awful and keep forcing people to move them for me every time 😉 Even when I went backpacking… I came home with a pack full of books I’d picked up along the way. I’m a literary hoarder.
#7 and #14: You’re a poet. And I agree with both.
#15: And we all love you for it!
#6: I would pay money to see this.
Haha I’m so glad I’m able to refer back to the list to jog my memory. Wouldn’t it have been more fun if #6 was the naked one?
PS I promise (mostly) to sleep in clothes during BlogHer. At least, I promise to do my best to make this happen.
Ha, yes it would — hilarious!
Something tells me Blogher’s gonna generate tons of material for us…
I KNOW!!!!!!
I know….
Oh, come on, admit it. You’re sniffing those magic markers first. 😉
Hahahaha I’m afraid they are child safe 🙁 Sharpies on the other hand…
September is an awesome month. If strangers keep coming up to you, you might have to wear gloves.
I think T. Swift wears gloves while dealing with strangers…. so I could be like T. Swift.
#1 – YESSSSSSS. This borders on the ridiculous in my life. I feel sorry for my coworkers.
#2. O.M.G. Especially here in Colorado, where the sun shines a lot in the winter time… hooray for warm bones and muscles.
#7. I know you saw my door that I posted from Sayulita on Facebook, so… case in point.
#13. ALL DAY LONG AT WORK. This is what I do. I think I look up a flight a day.
And on #20… I don’t actually TELL them that I remember… but I usually do. At the very least I remember their name and exactly where we met and what was said.
Your coworkers are poor of soul if they do not appreciate your amazing contribution of LOTR quotes throughout their day.
Yes, loved that door! *sigh* It’s probably what put it on my mind.
Don’t you wonder what people might immediately recall about YOU when you see them after a while? I could worry about this if I thought about it too much…
It was a gorgeous door. Even more gorgeous in person… that freakin’ teal too, I’m telling you. It was right next to where I stayed and I walked past it every day, and every day I still felt like it was absolutely gorgeous.
OMG I really, really, really try not to think about that… haha. It inevitably happens though, I recently re-met someone I met months ago, and all I am wondering right now is what he must think of me… the whole situation has been rather awkward which makes it worse lol.
It’s kind of like when you get outrageously drunk somewhere in public ( I mean… theoretically… because I’ve NEVER done that) and then you know you can’t go back there because that’s all that the staff will think of when they see you. But then you think of all the other people who were there… that could see you anywhere…
*spirals into too many thoughts*
I thought I was the only one who did #2…not THE #2, your #2…um… Hot cars rock.
That’s a whole lot of #2 right there. Why you gotta be so shitty, Chris?
I don’t know. It’s the way I go…
I don’t think there are many things I wouldn’t prefer to be doing naked. At least without pants. Pants are the worst.
Really the ONLY things I can think of that I would prefer clothes for is walking on ice. And carrying a stranger that’s wounded and bloody. But those are the only two things.
Hey I just did one of these too…things I like that is. I’m about to do things that drive me nuts. Oh, and to #21, all Wes Anderson movies!
Oooo, I like the idea of a post all about things that drive you nuts! Muahahaha okay might have to steal that as well. And I’ll need to pop over and see both of these posts!
PS- yes, to all Wes Anderson! That one… Moonrise Kingdom (is that what it was called?) kind of made me feel odd though… other than that, love.
My “things that make me nuts” will go up Mar 31 (I have my reasons), the things I love is under the title”65 Days till I’m 65″ or something like that.
#4 IS magical. The color of fall leaves, the smell of fall leaves and my birthday.
Okay this is getting downright eery! EVERYONE’S birthday is in September! I’m going to have to tally these up…
Hahaaa, please tell me you do their voices as well when you do No.1. I can just see you jamming your pencil into the carpet and bellowing all Gandalfy “You shall not paasss!” to some bean counter messing with your budget…or maybe, as you walk in late and hear “…you have my support.” and as you head for your seat they all hear Gimli “…and my axe!”…oh, and you and I definitely have No.15 in common, only you have a bunch of finesse.
Oh, I DEFINITELY do their voices!!!
Except for those times that I’m sneakily quoting… like just mixing various things into daily conversation and/or progress reports in meetings. “Night changes many thoughts” might also slip in to a lot of comforting-drunk-friends conversations as well.
I have menopause. That means sleeping in a pool of sweat. Therefore it is necessary to seep sans clothes with one foot hanging off the end of the bed flapping away like Thumper. 🙂
Haha I tend to leave a foot or leg hanging off the edge of the bed as well. So many people are afraid to to this, because some sort of monster or serial killer might gobble it up. But I feel like it’s more like an uncharted bonus extension of the bed.
I am just going to come out and say this: I am in love with LOTR in general and Pippin specifically. I’m starting to worry myself with the level of infatuation. I have a blog post pending about this. It’s pathetic and proof that I desperately need to go out with an actual human being. I’ve watched the extended edition of all three movies and the first hobbit movie twice each this month. I might need help.
The only help you need is in properly fangirling. Let me assist you.
I was one of those who bought tickets to attend the day long marathon of the extended cuts, leading to the midnight premier of ROTK… it was so worth the dumbness of my butt.
That sounds amazing! I have only seen the first two Hobbit movies in theaters. I’ve never even see the non extended version of those three movies. I don’t think I would like them as much. I wish they were longer. Also, I just watched a YouTube video of Aragorn kissing Pippin (I keep forgetting Billy Boyd is Scottish, yum). And I went ahead and posted my LOTR obsesssion on my blog.
Haha well then I’ll be right over to read it! And I agree– I could do with them being longer as well… which is why they have like 40 hours of behind the scenes footage to watch as well, ha.
I love September because it’s my birthday month. I love cool old doors. And tunes from musicals, like Maria, from West Side Story. Never thought about the sound of walking on gravel, but it reminds me of summer for some reason. One of my favorite things is the smell of the lawn when it’s just been cut. Mmmmm!
Cool list!
Ah, another September birthday! It’s a conspiracy!
Oooh a freshly cut lawn is such a wonderful smell! That’s one of the only nice smells I ever get to enjoy at the psych ward 🙂
You had me at Viggo. (wink) And The Royal Tennenbaums. Bill Murray forever!
I think we need T-shirts that read “Billy Murray forever!” hahaha. And oh, Viggo… get in my life.
Totally.
That baby goat. I’m I a terrible person for laughing the hardest when Buttermilk knocked over the other goat the second time around? That was definitely on purpose. He ran to the owner, stopped, realized he had forgotten to do something, and then showed us what he had to do.
By the way, I just realized the two goats have white patches on opposite sides. Adorable.
Agoatable.
I know!!!!! It’s so incredible. It makes me so ridiculously happy every. single. time. You know what’s also great? Trying to do this same thing to a human being. Really. Just give it a shot.
I don’t know why, but I clicked on the feistiest goat video… that is the most hyper goat I have ever seen. And I have seen some very hyper goats. I’m with you on the Toto song, too, but everytime I belt it out, I sing the chorus with different words, determined never to repeat.
Great post, by the way – you are eternally weird and funny.
Eternally weird and funny hahaha! Thanks for that. In honor of such lovely feedback, I must share this with you:
You are so welcome.
Oh good grief. I don’t have a farm with lotsa acres of land. But I want it.
What, exactly, are you trying to do to me? My daughter saw that… and now she’s asking for one… and that’s not good. Thanks a lot, Aussa! If you weren’t a personal blog hero, I’d… well, I’d send you a cute piglet video. That’s all I got. Sigh.
I’ll occasionally create a Happy List, which I would then lose and create a new one but what I’m getting at is that it could just as easily be titled Things I Irrationally Love. I agree with you. That’s an awesome topic. I like the sound snow makes when you step on it and the smell of the ground after the rain.Also birds (huh?). I know.
Ah, yes the sound of crunching through snow is wonderful. Especially when you’re making the first step in some totally untouched snow and it’s otherwise quiet all around… so satisfying.
I love September! Why does it get such a bad rap? It’s my birthday month, and it’s new beginnings, and it means Winter (and Christmas!) are finally coming, and it’s usually just beautiful! And yes, magical! 😀 The song “Wake me up when September ends” is pretty much my worst enemy.
Yes, it feels like new beginnings! I feel like I can handle anything or conquer anything so long as I begin it in September 😉
To counter that song, I think there is a James Tyler song about september… let me see…
Oh, I’ve never heard that song before, it’s so happy! And the video is adorable, thanks for sharing it! 😀
Can you please send me a video of you singing Toto’s Africa? I feel like it is essential I have this in my life
I will see what I can do. I’m at the will of the radio stations… this is why the videos always occur in the car. But I will do my best to risk life and limb to make this happen for you.
Loving Nutella is NOT irrational, ever. When you sleep naked, are you afraid? You would make the perfect survivalist on the Naked & Afraid Show!! You are so tough that you, for sure, would last the full 21 days – naked. If you could only bring one thing with you, would it be Nutella? Hmmmm. My mind is racing right now.
The thing I like that comes to mind, is placing my frozen toes on my husband’s legs when I go to sleep at night! I just love to do it! The more he screams the more I do it! Is this irrational or just plain cruel?
I knew there was a reason I loved you. Nutella. It’s my crack. Bring a jar over and we’ll talk. I have wine…..
Perfect combination!!!!
I’ve not heard of “Naked & Afraid?!” Wait you have to live somewhere naked for 21 days? This sounds incredible. Are there scorpions or something?
I don’t feel afraid to sleep naked… except if I have to run out of the house but it’s a risk I’m willing to take. I also think that if someone breaks in and I have to confront them it will probably make me a thousand times for terrifying. What’s worse– a redhead in a sweatshirt chasing you with a shotgun or a naked, screaming, crazed woman waving a shotgun? The second one I think.
Love that you do this with your toes hahahaha!!!! I tickle the Boyfran. He’s horribly ticklish and it activates a pure joy in me to make him unable to breathe from laughing.
Ha,ha,ha! The visual of you chasing an intruder naked waving a shotgun is epic! Glad you also like to torture your significant other.
Here’s the post I did about my brother producing the Naked and Afraid show. 🙂 http://swimmingtomy50s.wordpress.com/2014/03/15/are-you-naked-afraid-afraid-to-get-naked-an-interview-with-a-producer/comment-page-1/#comment-3488
Ah! I’m afraid to open it at work but will drop by tonight 😉
I am obsessed with telling people what they were wearing when I first met them too! It freaks them out to no end.
Oddly enough when I pulled up this post to read, I was eating a hot cross bun and contemplating the best way for me to share my irrational and crazy love for hot cross buns with the world. I don’t know why I love them so much, but I know that it’s so much that it should be made known. So just when I was trying to figure out if the hot cross buns were going to end up on Facebook or Twitter, they ended up on your blog instead. It feels good to have shared that!
Hahahaha deciding which place they should end up– that can be difficult! That’s why instagram is so crucial– you can share to all three platforms with one simple upload. Then you ensure everyone knows.
Sidenote: I’m not sure I know what a hot cross bun is??? I feel like it’s in some old song? About green sleeves or sixpence or something? Maybe I ought to sleep.
I am so addicted to IG, it’s probably a sickness.
You don’t know hot cross buns? You are missing out! They are like a breakfast bread/pastry that are only available during Lent which makes them so special. I love the frosting on them! And yes you are right because there is a song! Here is a hot cross bun:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_cross_bun
Interesting! Despite my best efforts, I have learned something today! At least it wasn’t work related.
Phew! Thankfully I haven’t learned anything work-related today either. Mostly on account of the fact that we are on day 8 with no internet. I’m hope responding to emails. My high tech house has internet. Crazy!
I’d recommend checking your grocery store bakery. I find that most grocery stores have them during Lent. You should try them out!
I will definitely look for them! And that’s nuts that you still don’t have internet after 8 days… that’s apocalypse worthy.
Day 9- reporting from the trenches. And by the trenches I mean I’m at home with internet watching Saved By The Bell and responding to emails.
Hahaha I wish our internet would go out! I’d be nakedly netflixing and nutellizing while responding to emails.
And eating hot cross buns.
246 replies? Oh shit. Are you ever going to read this one? I’ll start brainstorming mine now…The gravel one though, I totally get you.
Hahaha of course I’ll read it, huzzah!
I’m thinking I need more gravel in my life… if they could cover the walkway to my office in gravel, I might almost look forward to going in to work every morning.
The only good thing about September is the kids going back to school.
Hahaha so lovely to see you and your over abundance of charm, Ben!
I do have a certain bitterness about…everything.
The Toto Africa thing! Me too! Along with Kilimanjaro by Johnny Clegg and trying to copy the dance he does in the music video.
I’m going to have to look that dance up now– the world may rue the day I undertake to learn it. “Africa” is the only song I have ever karaoke’d to in public… wonder if I could track down THAT video…
‘Fool of a Took!’ is my go-to insult.
YES!!!! Sara, you so get me.
I completely agree with the beautiful, old doors. There’s a mystery about what they might be hiding. As for your hand fetish, I’m on the other side of that one. I love touching a womans hand and lightly tracing the lines and contours with my fingertip. And of course who doesn’t love being naked. I also like stealing a good blog post idea, so this will be up on my blog in some form later this week.
Awesome! Let me know when it’s up or link back if you’d like, so that I can check it out! And it sounds like you’re a match made in heaven for a woman with my hand fetish, oo-la-la!
Rock stars in the car. Yep. The car is the only place that I sound great singing.
Right? I get so into it I’m like “wow, somehow I’ve become super talented! I’ll bet I could make it as a recording artist, this is so great–” and then something jars the music and my voice is trapped alone singing in the car and it sounds like the seagull from The Little Mermaid.
I love packing! For trips. I should be specific. I don’t love it so much for moving. I like it for the puzzle reason too. I still hold the distinction of the only student to pack for two three-week study abroad trips in a carry-on.
Yeah!!! Exactly! Condensing it all down to a manageable bag size = ultimate victory. I went to Kenya for 3 weeks with only one small carry on duffel bag. This same bag was used to smuggle back an entire case of beer when I returned, ha.
Wow. I think Buttermilk is the goat version of my five year old. Or my five year old is the human version of Buttermilk. If you’re looking to break the Buttermilk habit, try watching videos of baby sloths getting a bath…. awwwwwww!!
I can’t say we have many guilty pleasures in common but I definitely love buying people gifts. Royal Tenenbaums was fantastic the first time I watched it, but every subsequent time I tried, it just wasn’t as good somehow. Old doors are nice but ancient gates are better, like the Ishtar Gate.
Oh no, I’ll have to youtube that! Someone sent me video of a baby goat on twitter last night and it has only fed the addiction. I also just wikipedia’d the Ishtar Gate (oh college, you failed me) and I’m going to have to agree.
I took art history courses in college because I thought they would be easy…. epic fail.
Hahaha I remember taking that class and refusing to buy the book but just drawing everything in a moleskine instead. Ridiculous. That class changed my life though… but not because of the class itself but a conversation I had in there. Hmmm… *goes deep into her head*
I do love Dave Eggers’ work and all things McSweeny’s as well. I need to visit Tunisia as well, if only to locate Mos Eisley cantina.
I used to read the McSweeney’s app with a high level of dedication… must redownload that now. Especially since I can no longer get on twitter at work.
BOO!
Nutella, markers & writing everything down and gifts : YES please! 😛
I like cappuccinos, talking with people I just met and smiling (always … maybe too much 😛 )
I think I`ll borrow your title and then I`ll link to your post if I may!
You are just so original 😀
Aw, smiling is a great one! I think I enjoy smiling and scowling in equal doses… hahaha.
Hmmm… thanks for the Viggo moment. 🙂
Ah, a fellow Viggo lover! There’s enough of us around here that I might just need to do an entire post in tribute…
I don’t even know what magic markers are… I’ve always wondered.
Loving old doors is irrational? But, but… why?? I love taking photos of old doors… and lanterns. Not necessarily old lanterns… all lanterns.
Oh yes, lanterns are wonderful! Just makes you want to don a velvet cloak and go exploring in foggy woods. Possibly whilst singing “wishing you were somehow here again.”
Ah, Buttermilk. He is adorable and obnoxious at the same time. No easy feat, that.
And, wait, no link to a video of you sining Africa? I thought we were all your friends, Aussa!
Hahaha! I didn’t realize there would be such demand for the Africa video! I’ll have to remedy this, yes…
And oh Buttermilk… melts my heart. Also challenges me to become better at jumping on my friends and then spinning off and knocking them over in the process.
Here’s hoping you have very tolerant friends.
So being naked while quoting LOTR. Or being naked while packing. This could be a disturbing new trend. Well I did my own post because Jackie. But I love yours, it’s great.
Nakedly quoting LOTR = a daily habit, just like putting on deodorant and remembering to lock the house when I leave.
Just don’t lock yourself out of the house while naked 🙂 I’m not saying that’s happened to me before, but I wouldn’t recommend it.
Haha! Thankfully the one time I ran from the house (through a window, actually) and got locked out, I’d been sleeping in clothing 😉
Aren’t you in Australia?
Am confusing you with someone else?
If not, and you are in fact in the land down under (does anyone actually say that anymore?)… mathing… it’s Thursday (for you)!! 😀
I’m still stuck in lowly Wednesday for another couple hours…
Hahaha you are probably confusing me with someone else, I’m in ‘Murica. Which means it’s still Wednesday, kill! I’m ready to go to bed so it will be Thursday faster.
Whoops. Well, in my defense the Little Prince is slowly starting to steal my brain… and now when you wake up it will be Thursday! Hooray for Thursday!
Ooh, I also love packing. And instead of walking on gravel, I love walking on fallen leaves. The crunch is so satisfying. I go out of my way to crunch leaves.
Oh, that’s so true! I’ll be walking into my office, all “I got this shit, I’m a professional woman” and then there will be leaves scattered about the sidewalk and I’ll hop from one to the next like a child playing hopscotch.
Scaring people!!!
That is a huge past time in my parents household. We always say ‘it’s good for the heart’ right after we jump out at you from a dark room/hall/box/anything we can fit behind! And there is no age limit, we will scare babies on up to great grandparents.
My parents house is not a safe place to be.
🙂
Haha I love that your family is like that– and I’m going to steal this “good for the heart” line! More than anything, I enjoy sneaking up on the boyfran when I’m meeting him somewhere in public. He’s a fan of retribution though, which is why I’m terrified every time I walk out of the bathroom at his place… I know it’s likely that he’s hiding somewhere and about to jump out at me. At least he times it for a moment when I can’t pee my pants 😉
LOL! Yes, the pee in the pants has happened… and so has a punch. I’m bad about reacting with a punch… my son has learned to jump out at me – from a very safe distance!
I will write a similar post!
Awesome!
http://joeyfullystated.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/20-things-i-love-madly/
Excellent! Read this on my phone last night, will be by to comment soon 😉
Beautiful old doors. Morocco had some gorgeous ones. And of course NUTELLA.. When I was in Beirut Duty Free couple of weeks ago, I saw an 11 lb Nutella jar. I thought of you and Marcia. I was so tempted to buy it for $78 and take it to BlogHer but instead I took a picture of it. I never got around to sending it. You’re such a cute NUT!! I missed reading your posts.
ELEVEN POUNDS?!?! Oh my goodness! This is the answer to all of life’s problems right there– you could literally use that thing to work out (like a kettleball, bench press, dumbbell, etc. etc.) and reward yourself all along the way. $78 is a little more expensive than a gym membership but I think it more than pays for itself in happiness and joy 😉
You know how to squeeze the most out of life! That’s a wonderful quality, Aussa! 🙂 I love the Royal Tenenbaum’s, too. And singing show tunes very loudly in the car. I do like my clothing a lot more than you do. LOL!
I think the best part about singing showtunes in the car is that not only are you getting a kick out of it and feeling yourself with inspiration, BUT you’re also causing incredible amusement to all of the other people in the passing cars.
Oh I love LOTR! And Thursdays make me feel like dancing (today being one)! And packing. And doors. The Doors. Ooh ooh melodrama of any sort. And trees. I love trees! And the smell of talc.
*swoon*
I need to ingest a little more coffee and then I will do my Thursday dance! And oh, I’m with you on trees!!! I actually just had 15 of them planted outside of my office, haha– they look like sad little twigs right now, but someday… 🙂
You had trees planted? How cool is that! In 15 years, when you’re old and wrinkly, maybe a new stalker will emerge from behind them! 😉
Haha riiight? I’m going to insist that it is called “The Lorens Grove” or perhaps “Lorens Forest” maybe even “Aussa Woods.” I’ll have to think on this…
I like Lorens Grove!
Just got a text from a coworker asking what I want from Starbucks. Everything is going to be okay in my life.
You work with some really nice people! Mine won’t s even get themselves coffee. The guy in the cubicle next to mine is snoozing at his desk with his eyes closed, tight as a camel’s ass in a sandstorm. Not a pleasant sight.
By combining #17 and #6 you could probably make money. Actually, September and buying gifts are two of my favorites as well. I’d have to add Cheeze Whiz and Velveeta to the list.
Number 15 – for sure. Bullies Beware.
Buttermilk – well now. Don’t take this the wrong way Aussa, but Buttermilk’s antics remind me of your blogging – enthralling to observe and wonderous in variety with the sure knowledge that I could never have the energy to do that. I even think the black goat is Psycho Ex. Knock him down Aussa! You go girl!
Ha! You have a keen eye for business right there, Paul! Oh man– I totally should have put CHEEZITS on the list. It’s an addiction. Keep your fancy dinners and give me a box of cheezits and a $12 bottle of wine!
I absolutely love love love that you just equated me to Buttermilk. There is no higher honor!!!!!
Yeah, sleeping naked. My mother in law keeps buying me pyjamas and it’s really awkward.
Ha! She wants to cover you up. Do you tell her that you have no need of such things? Muahaha.
Usually I just smile politely and put them in the bottom of the draw until such time as I can quietly pass them on. I’m spineless like that.
Late as usual…damn day job!
This is a cool blog phenomenon, not sure I will write one, but I am with you on #s 7, 10, 12, 15 & 17!
I hate how much our jobs get in the way of our online antics!!! And wooo we gots a lot of loves in common!
Amen, sister, and we DO, how fun! 😀
Trying to catch up today, but behind a mere 380 posts on my bloglovin page. Not going to happen and I need to cut back, seriously!
The Royal Tenenbaums is one of my favourites! I also love the sound of gravel crunching 🙂
And I TOTALLY am with you on the palm thing. It’s amazing. I get all the tingles. Great list 😀
Yeah! So glad you feel me on the hand thing. I mean… “feel me” as in “know where I’m coming from,” not a literally FEELING of me. Because that would be awkward.
*crunches gravel*
Aussa, I never literally mean this, but that made me laugh out loud!
It is the internet though, you don’t know what kind of creep you’re talking to here
Hahaha I have learned how true this can be, a few times!
Sweet! I’ve found someone else who loves packing, too. 😀 I think that I will have to do this one soon- and link back to your blog.
Yes, you must! I’d be curious to see yours!
Okay I’d better get on to it soon! Lol. I’ve been neglecting that poor writing blog of mine.
Sometimes I feel like we’re so similar and have a lot in common! Love singing badly out loud. Scaring people? Amazing. Wearing clothes? Sucks. Pigging out while watching tv? Love! Palm touching? amaaazing, Walking on gravel? Oddly satisfying. hahaha
Hahahaha that’s so awesome. Love seeing what we all have in common on here! Humans are such interesting creatures 🙂
We most definitely are!
#17 for the win! Also, #9 is pretty high up there. You could combine #2 and #17. Actually add in #9 to that and it becomes pretty erotic!
Hahaha you’re hilarious. I had to go look those up– so basically we’re looking at me being passed out in a car, naked, covered in Nutella. Yep, this will be the new internet phenomenon to sweep the world in 2014.
The visual that just entered my mind!
Feel free to buy me gifts.
Haha! I’ll keep that in mind 😉
My love of beautiful old doors borders on theft (but only petty theft), and scaring people I love makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. As far as baby goats; I mean, I did hide one in my mother in law’s washroom for over a year. And, the sound of walking on gravel makes me feel like Indiana Jones.. only a really ungraceful Indy. BUT, buying people gifts.. especially “horrible” gifts that remind them of their inner (fantastic) horribleness… and how funny that can be when they have to explain said gift to someone like their mother-in-law … or husband, makes me feel like Jesus healing the lepers. – Everyone should embrace their inner horrible.
Oh yes, I recall these hiding-goats stories! And carting them around town in your vehicle! Unless I dreamt that part…
Embracing the inner horrible is where it’s at. I just bought a wedding card for a friend that says “Congratulations On No Longer Living In Sin” and I’m not sure if I should save that for a private exchange or just have her open it up at the shower that’s being cohosted by her Mother…
There is sublime beauty in a well-packed case.
Indeed! Glad I’m not the only one who finds immense satisfaction in such a thing.
I am so with you on #17! I have an irrational love for second hand wedding dresses in thrift shops. I dn’t even have a boyfriend but every time I see one I try it on.
I know a girl who bought an absolutely beautiful wedding dress at a community garage sale we were hosting as a fundraiser– she ended up getting married the next year and already had this amazing dress. Of course, her fiance also had this massive multi-carat ring in the family so they got glamorously married for like $20 it seemed 😉
I’m sorry, all I saw after Viggo was words words words. Not a one made any sense to me. Viggggggo.
This was awesome. 😉 Sitting in car naked with Viggo both singing some silly song and eating Nutella — from the same spoon — sigh…
Hahaha!!!! That’s an incredible mash up of favorites right there! Be. Still. My. Beating. Heart.
Laughing at The Royal Tennenbaums. Great list…wish I had thought of some of them. 🙂 I did these too so much fun.
It’s funny as I read other people’s– I’m like “oh yes, me too!” We probably need a list of 1,200 irrational loves 😉
🙂
There really is nothing better than the surprise of a brightly colored front door! I just love the touch of confidence in architecture.
I already have a bright blue picked out to repaint my front door (against a pale yellow house) — now I just need to stop procrastinating and actually make it happen.
Oh I love it! We had a blue door on our house while growing up and I remember my father criticizing my Mom’s choice when they were building it but it totally worked out to look amazing. Hmmm perhaps that’s the origin of my fondness.
Of course, I’d prefer some castle sized door with iron work around the sides and maybe a moat as well.
I don’t know, those seem pretty logical to me. September is the first month with numerical origins, “seventh month”, which is perfect because it’s not, and Thursday? Who doesn’t like Thor’s Day? And if I knew how to post pictures, I’d give you some sweet sweet Thor eye-candy. Well hello there, Lady Thor. I don’t believe we’ve met.
Ha! You’ve stumbled on an old post here! And I like your explanations. And I like feeling rational.