Tomorrow I fly to Kansas to watch my best friend get married. Thanks for your help with the songs, by the way. I took some of your suggestions and others made me smile.
Here is one playlist of sweet love songs that I created, and another which is a little more sensual, a little more spicy. No raunch though.
I know I’m only going out of town for 4 days, but I still feel like I have so much to do before leaving. Such as:
• Shop for shoes to match my bridesmaid dress, a bigger memory card for my camera, and a book
• Mail off a scholarship application
• Put together the wedding gift
• Pack
• Watch a movie and return it
• Play an indoor soccer game
• Work for approximately 6 hours tomorrow
And sorry to cut this short, but I think I am going to leave class early right now to go start on this list!
My best friend is getting married in a week, and one of the things I’d like to do for her is make a “First Night” CD for them to listen to…whenever. I’d appreciate your suggestions on which songs to include, because without help I’m sure I’ll overlook some really good ones. Thanks!
Yesterday I was on my way to pick up my boyfriend from the airport when I ran into some traffic. I was on the feeder road inching along, but I noticed that the traffic on the freeway wasn’t moving at all. I turned on the radio to hear the report, and this is what it said:
“All lanes are blocked for cleanup on I-10 east at Wirt road. There has been a spilled load of animal parts.”
Well, this list was actually quite hard to come up with. I like to think it’s because I am a very positive and optimistic person. I was trying to limit the amount of foods that I include here (seeing as how I’m the world’s pickiest eater), but then I just gave in. So let’s go ahead and get all the food products out of the way, shall we?
1) Milk - skim milk in cereal is acceptable, but that’s it. I once tried cereal with water, because I thought it would be great if I could eliminate milk from my diet entirely. But it was disgusting, so the skim milk remains. But I keep a close eye on that expiration date.
2) Peanut butter and peanuts
3) Seafood - I WILL gag. Maybe even vomit.
4) Vegetables - with a very few exceptions.
5) Tea
6) Chicken on the bone
7) Wine - I have sincerely tried to like it. I doubt I ever will.
8 ) Whipped cream
9) White chocolate
10) Cheesecake
OK, I’m limiting myself to ten food products. So! On we go with the rest!
11) Asymmetry
12) Baths - you are sitting in your own filth. That’s all I have to say.
13) Having my car towed
14) Change
15) Roaches
16) Sunburns
17) Moving - which I will be doing in a month.
18) Chevy Impalas
19) Reckless and/or extremely fast drivers - when I encounter one on the road for some reason all the rage within me bubbles up to the surface.
20) Smoking - my friends it is the leading preventable cause of death. And I am not very good at being around smoke.
21) Snow - good for skiing, and that’s about it.
22) Beeping noises
23) MySpace
24) Michigan accents
25) Yard art - unfortunately my parents are becoming connoisseurs of it. Hi Mom and Dad!
26) Carbonated or flavored water
27) Automatic paper towel dispensers
28) The 800m run - I ran this race in junior high and I was good at it but I despised it. Someone told me once that the three hardest races are the 800m, the 300m (or 400m) hurdles, and the mile. Well, I ran all three of those. In high school we were required to be timed on the 800m for soccer tryouts, and I seriously began getting nervous about it months before. I have nightmares about it to this day. Well, not really. But I wouldn’t be surprised if I did.
29) Crowded buses and trains
30) Mullets
31) Clutter
32) Spit/Saliva/Mucus
33) When I can hear people chewing their gum, even if they’re not smacking
34) Migraines
35) The number 9
36) Victoria’s Secret
37) So-called “modern” dance, art, and music
38) Oklahoma - I apologize to you Oklahomans; it is not my intention to offend you. I admit my main experience of Oklahoma comes from driving through it from Texas to Kansas, and the couple of times that I visited Oklahoma City and some random small towns. So maybe there are some better parts of Oklahoma out there, I just don’t know about them right now. And I will say that I like Oklahoma people a lot.
39) Cleaning the bathtub
40) Ties worn by women
41) The far left
42) The far right
43) Politics in general, to be honest. I really try to be more informed and interested. It’s just very hard for me.
44) This mole on my back that I’m worried will one day turn cancerous.
45) Gambling - especially poker; excluding Bingo, which I love.
46) Those big blow-up Christmas decorations which seem to be an epidemic in recent years
47) Waking up to an alarm
48) When the speed limit is 35 on the feeder road
49) The giant crack in my windshield
50) The fact that I can’t figure out how to change my home page. I think maybe there is a glitch in this computer or something, because all of the places where I’m supposed to go to change it don’t exist. For example, in Firefox there is no “preferences” under the “Tools” menu where it should be. Same thing with Safari. It’s quite annoying.
I was able to obtain the entire video to Carmen’s second-place Punniest of Show entry thanks to one of the other contestants. Check out the updated entry!
• I just signed up for a Flickr account, so if you have an account as well, add me as a contact!
• I really appreciate Chick-fil-a’s fruit cups because they don’t have any melon in them. I dislike melon. I also think putting melon in a fruit cup or fruit salad is a cop out for restaurants because it takes up so much room.
• I was driving yesterday and I saw this sign outside of a church: “CH–CH. What’s missing? UR.” I’m all for a clever sign, but I don’t know how I feel about this one.
• The best news I’ve heard in a long time? “We don’t really do care plans in this class.” I love psychiatric nursing already!
• I finally watched the Gilmore Girls series finale yesterday. I was already completely broken up over the penultimate episode, so it’s going to take me awhile to recover from the whole ordeal. I think maybe I need to wallow a little bit. Ice cream and Gilmore Girls on DVD should do the trick!
Yesterday, for the second year, my roommate Carmen participated in the World Championship Pun Competition in Austin, TX. There were two events. The first was called “Punniest of Show” in which the contestants (32 in all) performed a 90-120 second monologue and were rated on a scale of 1-10 by four judges for a maximum of 40 points. I am proud to say that with a score of 39, I now live under the same roof as the second-place winner!
The second event was a tournament in which two punsters went head-to-head. They would receive a topic and go back and forth punning off that topic with only 5 seconds to come up with one. If they took longer than 5 seconds they were out. No word could be punned off of twice, and if they reused a word they got a strike against them and they were out on the third strike.
Carmen faced last year’s second-place winner in the first round. The topic was “Dancing.” A few excerpts:
“My paper isn’t good I got a B, but can I plié?”
“At the big dance your senior year of high school you have to have the right drink. You need promenade.”
In the second round her topic was “The American Presidency.” This one lasted 17 minutes!
“I’ll have to put a Nixon that one.”
“I was editing my web page and I wanted to make sure everything was easily accessible, so I put a Lincoln everything.”
“Have you ever found one of those pits? They come impeaches.”
Moving onto the third round, the topic was “Mystery and Crime Fiction.” More snippets of punny goodness:
“For Halloween I dyed my hair and put it up in a ponytail with a red herring.”
“There was a costume that was used in the play, but I don’t know who donned it.”
Finally, she moved onto the final round, facing off against last year’s first and third-place winners. The category was “Fictional Creatures”:
“I gave her some money because I ogre.”
“If you’re hurting, I don’t care. Bear it.”
“I’m so mad, I’m going to lop off your head! Psych! Lops aren’t very nice.”
Last year’s champion got out on strikes, and Carmen took it to the other guy. But it was soon obvious that he knew many more creatures than she did, as he revealed himself to be a Dungeons & Dragons fan, whereas Carmen is NOT into fantasy or any similar genre. So after a long and hard battle, she conceded and again took second!
