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uno, dos, tres, veinte
03/16/2008 = 09:57 AM

Some time ago, I did a list of 100 things I loved, including 10 songs I currently loved, and found, as I reached the end of it, that I felt a lot better about Life, the Universe, and Everything.

So I decided it was time for me to revive and revise because, lately, I make Dashboard Confessional say, "Bitch, lighten up."

This time, I could only muster up one-fifth of what I did the last time. Panic will do that to you. But I did manage to make myself feel somewhat better, so I'll try again at some point.

(Not a meme, nor even a combination of two memes, as was the original version. Do it if you think of stuff of your own and have nothing else to write about.)

1. I love when people refer to me as "the lovely and talented" Golf Widow. I know it's just an expression, but I pretend that I am lovely and talented anyway, and it cheers me up immensely.
2. I also love when people tell me I'm pompous, because that means my disguise is working. In real life, I'm just plain folks.
3. I didn't want to join Twitter, but now I have to admit it's sort of awesome.
4. SONG ALERT: Saga, On the Loose.
5. I kick serious arse at Merv Griffin's Crosswords. If there is one upside in the world to having one's position eliminated due to budgetary constraints, it is probably the fact that I can curl up on my sofa and yell "DRUPE, you moron," at the television set.
6. My new mantra is I Can Do Anything. I say it aloud once a day. Sometimes I have to repeat it a few times. Sometimes my teeth are gritted when I say it. But I say it.
7. Recently, I wrote a guest blog wherein I wondered why Barack Obama hadn't done any campaigning using the word "Obamarama," which would totally swing my vote his way, but now I'm also thinking that I'd also swing toward anything remotely either "Hillarylicious" or "McCaintastic," just on general principles of wordlustiness.
8. The brisket at I'll Take Manhattan is insanely good. My gramma would probably have said it needed a little something, but no one else would.
9. Cassini is testing for water on Enceladus. Anytime Cassini does anything new and cool, my mind perks up, because it means quotes from Carolyn Porco, my favorite spacegeek and fellow Beatles fan. Also, I love the whole testing-for-water thing, because water means being able to support life (as we know it). I'm not so much about taking over other planets like locusts, but I still believe, in a very non-denominational, non-confrontational, non-jumping-on-furniture way, that we're not alone.
10. I just saw this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFzMcqzDOgw
    and I have decided I am going to be less like the distressed looking little girl in the right front row and start being the little boy in the front row center. (Thank you, Cosmic.)
11. I hate myself for having had to give in to le mart de wal, but I spent less on my new outfits, two new pairs of shoes, and Cadbury Cream Eggs than some woman spent on a single camisole on What Not to Wear the other day. I suppose you think this means that it's my own fault that our economy is so frigged up, what with my effectively sending my scraped-together pennies overseas in order to dress myself, but bear in mind that I wouldn't have had to update my wardrobe at all if I hadn't needed new things for job interviews since my former position was eliminated due to budgetary constraints. It's a vicious circle, but it's no fault of mine. Feel free to complain to the Fortune 500 with the awesome 2007 fourth quarter earnings and the new division acquision, who decided they couldn't afford to keep me anymore.
12. Number 11 was a lot more satisfying to write than it had any business being.
13. This quotation, from Dixie's diary, is brought to you by the letter Win:
    "That chihuahua was on him like four labs on a rottweiler in heat. He even humped Milo! I had to explain that they are both males and that's not appropriate dog park behavior. Just ask George Michael."
14. SONG ALERT: The Zoo, Faithfully (Journey cover)
15. Anything involving Victor Borge.
16. I know NCIS is a ripoff of CSI, but, first of all, what isn't? and second of all, it has that Abby character, on whom I have such a girl crush, and third of all, they're, like, addicted to the bitchslap on that show, and that's way funnier than the patented CSI punchline plus shades equals theme song by The Wh♂.
17. I had a salad for dinner the other night that was about eighty percent bell pepper chunks and twenty percent olives. Those percentages might be off, because I threw in a handful of chick peas at the last minute, and I did put vinaigrette on it. Okay, screw the percentages. I ate a bunch of bell peppers and olives the other night, and they were good.
18. If I take a Benadryl and wait twenty minutes, I can drink half of a Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia milkshake without having an allergic reaction. They are overpriced and not as much fun as eating the ice cream, but they're more convenient to my chocolate/dairy-hating body.
19. Iron Workz. Rock 'n' roll forever. (Thank you again, Cosmic.)
20. Tribbles. Soft, furry, Klingon alarms. Tribbles r in ur base, stealin ur quatrotriticale & makin lurve. But I get very "awww" whenever I see Spock surreptitiously cuddling the tribble whilst saying, "Fortunately, I am ... immune to its effects."

There are twenty things up there. You're bound to find one that makes you want to comment.

Or you could comment on something totally out of the box.

Just don't try to sell Xanax to my readers, unless you'd like to contact me for my advertising rates first. With my finances being what they are (nonexistent), I am really over that.

Tags: Cassini

drinking: tea with ginger root
listening to: U2, Vertigo. just because.
#20: two, two, two geekified references in one