Curious Notions

That’s from my car dashboard. I’ve never seen it that hot before. Seriously, I start sweating as soon as I’m outside. That’s Texas heat for you.

Happy weekend :) You’ll hear from me Sunday or Monday.

Bing got a new puppy. She attacked me when I mentioned her butt. Typical female!

I’ve been treading water lately. I feel kinda stuck in a rut. I feel like I’m not living hard enough.

Here is how you can reach me:

Blogs: Here, Ink Spots
Facebook: check
Myspace: http://myspace.com/sweetcynic
Phone numbers: 3 numbers at work you can reach me at (1 not direct at all, 1 direct, 1 super direct), cell phone number where I also have unlimited txt
Twitter: http://twitter.com/sweetcynic
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/104097
Chat: I’m on gchat which also logs me into my AIM as well
Emails: One at work, one personal, one email forward
Snail Mail: My apartment address.

I’m feeling very accessible.

Selina tagged me on her blog and I’m supposed to share ten honest things about me.

Here’s my list.

Ten Honest Things about Me

1. I think home school kids are kind of weird and socially awkward. I last talked about this with Alan, his roomie, and his roomie’s girlfriend. Roomie was worried about society and all the possible negative and scary influences it could have on your child, he wanted to home school. The rest of us tried to discourage him. I used to work in a indoor playground in college, and I couldn’t help but notice the home school kids were usually socially awkward. So I have this stereotype I’m not proud of, but it’s there. Home school kids are kind of weird. I guess ‘unsocialized’ is a more diplomatic word.

2. I love Oprah. I have an inside joke with my buddies but mostly with myself that starts with “Oprah says to…” Actually, as I’m typing this I’m watching Disc 4 of the 20th Anniversary Collection of Oprah. I borrowed this from Jamie ages ago.

3. I love PostSecret.com. Love. I’ve been going for years. I remember when he didn’t erase postcards weekly and you can just flip back and back into the past entries. I have all four books. One of my favorite memories is going in February (my favorite month) a couple of years ago to Frank Warren’s book signing with Kim and Si Nae.

4. Some crushes for you. Some of these are childhood crushes so you must forgive me for odd/poor taste: Captain Planet, Ralphael the Ninja Turtle, Jim Carrey, Ted Danson a la Cheers, Tu Pac, Jamie Foxx, Fifty Cent, Brad Pitt before affair a la Meet Joe Black, and Cary Grant. ROBERT DOWNEY JR. Just to name a few.

5. I have a deep love affair with food. Deep! Love! I think it’s a little apparent through this blog. This reminds me I haven’t had dinner today.

6. I notice girls with pretty backs. Because I have a scarred, marred up back, I envy and notice girls with pretty backs. I also wistfully admire backless gowns.

7. I wish the Ally McBeal show would go on DVD for me to buy and rewatch over and over again. I’ve rewatched Sex & the City at least 8 times in its entirety but I’m sure I can easily beat that with Ally McBeal. I think this is one reason why I know I can keep Kim in my life forever. Since she loves Ally McBeal. It says something about her that I can completely relate to. (That’s just one reason of many why I love Kim.)

8. Some of my favorite bonding time with Alan involves TV shows. We each have our regular TV shows we follow but I love the shows we both equally enjoy. Briefly we had Moment of Truth. Now it’s Lost and Desperate Housewives. One of my favorite memories of him is “sharing” a pint of Bluebell’s Pistachio Almond while watching Desperate Housewives.

9. My daddy is my hero. We have a few similarities that I cherish and wear like a badge of honor. Our love for reading. We’re very prideful. We both think we’re funny even if most would disagree with our cheesy humor. We’re a little stoic. Actually, he’s a lot better at that than me. Seriously, everything that I can see passed on through me that comes from him, I cherish and keep with so much love.

10. I talk to Mary Ellen/best friend/FFB (friend from Boston) every single day. She lives in Boston. We talk for hours on average every single day. Hours. When I’m not at work and online, she leaves me voice mails and I respond when I can. I wonder how many words we’ve exchanged? Crazy amount for sure. I can retrace half my life through her. That’s amazing.

Selina tagged me in her blog so here it is.

Rules for this game:
1. Link to the person that tagged you
2. Post the rules on your blog
3. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself
4. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs
5. Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.
6. Let your tagger know when your entry is up.

My 6 things

1. I document like crazy. I like to remember. I save all my stubs; I put all my movie stubs in a separate journal that Selina has given me Christmas 2005. All my other stubs to sporting events, museums, and concerts go into my “every day” paper journal. I have 2 online journals locked up that I have stopped writing in but I peruse every now and again and eventually I’ll print them out. I have 30 filled “every day” journals. 4 filled quotation journals. The list goes on. I save all my letters (minus that handful I burned with some girlfriends). I’ve been bad in the past few months writing in my everyday journal so google calendar has served as my events record. I can tell you when we had dinner/where/with whom. I can tell you the day I stopped reading what book and on what page I found my favorite excerpt. I have many photo albums, many memory boxes, many souveniors.

2. I love talking about food. I love eating food. I like finding the “best” place for anything. I have a collection of edible gems.

3. I overfill my plate. Literally and figuratively. I always overextend. Done this since high school. Sign up for too much. Participate in too much. Commit to too much. Work projects. My personal projects. I collect plans and projects. This explains why I burn out 4-6 times a year. My life mostly feels like an airline schedule. I can’t stop. It’s a sickness.

4. In my short history, I’ve thrown out a few people in my life. I have no regrets about maybe one. :) But I’ve learned in the last year that letting go, forgiving, and keeping make life that much more rewarding.

5. I lose my keys a lot. Thomas once told me that was one of my deal breakers. That it killed him to go somewhere and I had to search for forever to find my keys. Alan told me it was “kind of annoying” once. He got me a keyfinder a few months ago and I use that thing EVERY day. My best moment with the key finder was last week. I could not place the sound of the beeping for the life of me. I walked around my apartment, poking at things, lifting things. Beep beep beep, could not place it. Finally, I looked in my purse which I was already carrying. Hee. Keys were in my purse.

6. My two favorite holidays are Valentine’s day and Thanksgiving. In that order. Those are the only two I send out cards and letters for. (I’m really late this year with my Thanksgiving cards but they’re half written/half sealed.) For me, it’s about surprising the people I care about with some snail letters/care packages. Valentine’s day if you let it, can be such a youthful indulgence. Stickers and candy and surprises.

I tag: whoever’s reading. Even those who don’t have a blog. Leave a comment!

But my internet at home isn’t working and for some reason Alan’s Mac won’t read my Canon :( So I can’t upload the 32908509385 pictures I want to blog about.

Must remedy this soon.