For one thing, cluttered homes tell us more about the personalities of its occupants than do homes stripped to their carefully arranged essentials--it's the optional, extraneous items we leave lying around that bear the stamp of our quirky inner selves. -- A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder - How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and on-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place by Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman
In the age-old tradition of telling people you are going to do something in an effort to shame motivate yourself into doing something, I am going to post pictures of my ridiculously messy room and then clean it!
Since I am always working on the weekends, my manager decided to give me this entire weekend off. I left work at 7:30 yesterday and don't go back until 11AM Tuesday morning. That gives me somewhere in the vicinity of 87.5 hours of time at home. Now, subtracting somewhere between 8 and 10 hours per day for sleeping, that brings us to somewhere between 63.5 and 47.5 hours... hours in which I have nothing to do (save for watching Kings tomorrow at 8 and trying to watch the race sometime around that same time). I don't care about the Fourth of July, so it's not like I have a cookout to go to or anything. My plans for the three day weekend was "to stay home, maybe watch some tv, do some painting, sleep... you know, the usual." Instead, I am gonna clean. I can't spend three straight days in this squalor. So, I will clean it, and catalog my progress (I'd say "or lack thereof", but no... there will be progress!) Okay, enough with the yapping, on to the cleaning! Now, where are those trash bags?
- Music:Flight of the Conchords: Mutha'uckas and Too Many Dicks.
Oh goodness, it's "Score Tonight" , which I thought was called 'Bowl Tonight" I have not seen this in ages, so I don't recall much. I am pretty sure that I'm gonna mark out for "Cool Rider" though. Don't judge me.
So, it's been a while. "Hello!" and all that. Congratulations on everything... the birthdays, graduations, near-graduations, completions of freshman years, acceptances to college, trips abroad, safe returns, almost-done-with-grad-schools, breakups that got you away from people who suck, (There it is! "Cool Rider!" Umm.. it's kind of lame, but better than the rest so far.), marriages, LJ deletions (boo!) and everything else. I am sure I forgot something.
Thank mole for sparing you from scrolling past my post-NBA playoffs and Draft thoughts. Basically it's this: The Magic had a good run, those puppets sucked, I am all Kobe'd out, the draft was full of guys I had never heard of, it seems focusing on football was in Paulus' best interest, I hope Shaq + LeBron brings as much ego-clashing ridiculousness as Shaq + Kobe and I think that's about it.
( Who'se gonna be my go-to 'I wonder what it will be like when ____ dies' guy now? )
"Do It For Our Country" has got to be one of the most terrible songs I have ever heard.
And, for Bean: Listen To The Band: Volume 1
- Music:TV: Grease 2
Dear NBA Finals Announcers,
Please tell me again how great/outstanding/spectacular/talented/a man among boys/BEST EVER!!!! Kobe Bryant is. I mean, you have not told me in .04 seconds, I am in danger of forgetting. You, almost to a man, are so far up on Kobe thatAnd now... quizzes, because this post has been sitting here all day waiting for me to have something non-quizzy to add. I slacked off on my catch-up post, then I deemed the "books I bought" post not interesting enough to carry things. Then it was game time. Then then there were more quizzes. So instead you get a small taste of my disgust at the 2008-09 Kobe Bryant Finals featuring the LA Kobes and the Orlando Not-Kobes
( There's no sports in here. Only quizzes... )
- Music:The Beatles - Mean Mr. Mustard (Kinfauns Home Demo) and the game
( I wish I'd watched enough to say 'Volume Four? More like Volume Snore, am I right?' But, I didn't... )
- Music:the air conditioner. It's hot!
So today, on Easter proper, I saw that "In The Beginning..." was on. I got kind of excited, expecting the super-long one made back in the 60s. I watched it a few years back, but have not seen it since then. (It seems that The Ten Commandments is the go-to Easter movie. ABC shows it EVERY Year.) What I wanted was the one where the guy was going to make a movie of the entire Bible, but found that that was kind of hard. The movie ended up being about four hours long and only go up through Abraham.
( What movie WAS I watching? And other stuff completely unrelated to bad movies. )
And now, I have decided to fill my Religious Movie Easter Quota with Clash of The Titans. Yeah, it's in 12 parts on YouTube, but that's alright, it's a classic and definitely better than what I was just watching.
- Music:Clash Of The Titans - 01/12
1. Why can't I find an
2. Why did Michigan State even bother beating Connecticut if they were gonna get to the Big Game and embarrass themselves by choking spectacularly when it really matters? This is why I hate the late-tourney upset! You end up with some no-business-in-the-finals team wasting space on the court and making for bad sports/television. Do you know what this means? Loudmouth Tarheel fans coming out of the woodwork talking trash about being a dynasty and "oooh, we got two titles in four years" and all of that. Excellent. Only, not.
3. I really want some Taco Bell.
( Meme! )
( Thoughts! With spoilers for whatever episode that was that just aired. )
- Music:Channel Live: Mad Izm
I often get excited for the RnRHoF inductions, because there's usually a chance that something great can come out of it. Obviously, sometimes you get a crappy class. But sometimes you get a class which has the potential for one of those once-in-a-lifetime things that makes you go, "Man, I wish I was there!". I mean, there's always the lame "person who you have never heard of but wrote some song you've probably heard a million times", but the top of the class usually includes some pretty great performers (you know, being the Hall of Fame and all. Though soon all of the good ones will be taken, and it will be more like the Hall of Mediocrity inductions, but that is hopefully more than a few years away. ::crosses fingers::) This year's class included both Jeff Beck (legendary guitarist, Yardbird), Run-DMC (rap legends, but completely irrelevant for the purposes of this post) and Metallica (who I used to love, then fall out of listening too, but often go back to again).
( LJ: Where I go to get excited about things I have no one in real life to get excited with. )
- Music:What else? Metallica, Jimmy Page and some other guys: Train Kept A' Rollin'
( Watch as one commercial combines at least five things I cannot stand... )And now I have to go and rush a roast in the over before Kings starts. It's new and I like it, but I am sure it's gonna be canceled any day now. This means I am torn between enjoying it while it lasts and trying to decide if its worth getting invested in something that will surely be pulled for some sort of reality TV program of either the "famous people competing at some mundane every day event" or "everyday people doing extraordinary things" variety. I mean, it's a TV show that actually got me to break out a book kind of like a Bible (Technically it was a Bible "summary" or something. Though, to be fair, I first went for my "My First Book of Bible Stories". Who woulda' thought that a book I was given as a gift when I was four would come in handy for TV watching almost 3 decades later? I bet the people who gave it to me didn't!) That's a feat in and of itself. Plus, it looks really good (more like a movie than a TV show) and, only three episodes in, has characters I both really, really like and wish were dead. Good work soon-to-be-canceled show! And now, roast time!
- Music:David Boie: Stay
Thursday was cool,but Friday is KILLING my bracket! Killing it! And do you know what the worst part is? The main offenders come from my home conference! (And I mean "home" literally. The ACC is based in Greensboro.) After today "always go with the conference" may be stricken from the Official Tournament Strategy come next year. Seriously, can someone NOT Duke or Carolina win one? Clemson? Out! Boston College? Out! Wake Forest? This post has been in progress for a while, and things have only gotten worse as time has passed. When I came home from work, I was 19-25, which was not too bad (but trying to figure out the percentages killed me. It ended up being 78 or something.) Now, four or so hours later I am 23-32. That's nine wrong! Who goes from 5 wrong to 4 wrong in the span of about 6 games? Me, that's who.
My mistakes are spread out so that I got at least one participant in each of the second round games right. This means I can end the weekend on the right track, but it's gonna be an uphill battle. Of course I work during all of the good games tomorrow. Maryland/Memphis, UCLA/Villanova, Duke/Texas. I'll miss them all.
- Music:a podcast with some cross-continental forum cats I don't even know.
Anyway, today memes, tomorrow I will either resurrect the TV post (I just started watching two new shows.. well, one "new", one "new to me", and now I'm gonna talk about them. Oh, and Lost, I'm probably gonna talk about Lost.) or work (Someone, I will not say who, may or may not have done something that may or may not end up in a lawsuit. Could go either way.
( Wasting time? It's what I do! )
- Music:Carly Simon: You're So Vain
Other than that I just go with who I think will/should win. I favor my home conference (though only in the 9-team configuration, none of those Big East Refugee Conference Killers), but not my home state. I will always pick Kansas to choke in the end, and I admittedly always pick the Blue Devils to last way longer than anyone who is not a fan will say is sensible. (Though, I don't ever pick them to win.) I usually do well in the first round, falter a bit in the second and have to wait until the Sweet Sixteen for things to shake back out in my direction. By the time the Final Four comes around, I usually have 3 of the 4 right, and am either 100% or 0% correct in my Championship selections.
( will there be pictures of blue-and-white-clad college kids with trophies? I bet there will! )
Both Duke and Carolina are playing in the tournament this year. This is not news. What is is that they are both playing here this year. We usually get one of them, but this year? We get them both. Around here that is bigger than getting the Super Bowl. And, I have the money to get tickets to the tournament! How often does that happen? (Not as often as it should) But, I have a job. A job that writes you up when you are late/call in. This means that instead of doing what I want to do and heading to the Coliseum tomorrow to watch practice, I will be at work. And, instead of being at the Coliseum (or, truthfully, the house) this weekend to watch the games, I will be at work. I lose again!
- Music:David Bowie: John, I'm Only Dancing
( Random stuff I typed while the show aired. )
And, on an unrelated note, How dare Lost make me choose between my two favorite characters! It's not fair. I mean, of all the people to have kill Locke. And of all the people to have Ben kill. Any other combination and I would have been just fine. But that? That?! Man...
- Music:Incubus: Dig
Weather forecast for March, 1-2, 2009. 3-7* inches of snow. Excellent.
*Unlike the last few times, this time it is actually falling, and hard. I'd say we are at a good 2.5 inches now, with huge fluffy flakes falling as I type. I took pictures, but of course I have no idea where my card reader is. I lose again.
And not a post that is "not able to be found", but a post about Lost, which I should be watching right now, but there are commercials on (Frost/Nixon and whatever), but all I'm saying is that I am glad this show is back. Four minutes in and there's the first "Whaaaat?!?!" moment. I won't say what it is yet, since I am an east-coaster and all. But you will know it when you see it.... or when you see him. (I was not that into the recap episode, it was kind of lame. They usually are though. This one was broken down by character/group/whatever, so that meant I could tune in and out as I pleased. So, I guess it did not suck as much as it could have.
As far as the episode so far... (the spoilers are the same color as the background) so, the island is "disloged from" time? Or maybe the people are? What? Is everyone "dislodged" together? ::confused:: Is Locke in a different "time" as everyone else? I need other people to be watching this when I am so I can discus these things! Also, I am mad I missed the credits, because I don't know if Jin's gonna be on this one or not. I did see Ethan's name though, so that should be interesting. And now, enough posting... more watching. Oh snap! It moved again. Wow. I wonder how long that's gonna last.
( Meme I. In which things are made... )
( Meme II. In which things are drawn... )
( Meme III. In which costumes are worn. )
- Music:Isaac Hayes: Walk On By
Oh, has anyone seen The Curious Case of Benjamin Button? I started watching it last night, but had to cut it off early to go to bed. I feel like I should see it in the theater, but it's right there waiting for me in another tab! Does it get lame after the first 45 minutes? Up to this point it was really good, but I'd hate to pay $4 for 45 minutes of good followed by two hours of terrible and leave the theater fuming because I could have just watched it at home. You know I only do one movie a year, and with The Half-Blood Prince coming out sometime or another, 2009 is already spoken for.
Okay, now basketball.
( That's right... basketball. )
- Music:EPMD: You Gots To Chill
1) Harken back to your archives.
2) Collect the first sentence you wrote every month for the whole year.
3) Entertain us.
I will harken and I will collect. But, I promise no entertainment. Sorry.
( So, in 2008, I said some things... )
Good grief. People outside are already shooting. The ball hasn't even dropped. This happens every year! Some people have no patience!
- Music:TV: The Twilight Zone
( 'is ragged' is just another way to say 'has character'... )
Word Auto-Summarized Version: The House: It is ragged. The latest escapade was power-related. “change a fuse!" If you can, run. Run far away. Enter, space heaters. Plugging the space heater up on a normal fuse line will only blow your fuse. Cases like living in a fully-powered house with no fuse-related issues. Heaters blow fuses. So, my sister wakes up Sunday morning and, that's right, blown fuse in the front of the house! Legitimate Electricians are expensive! The basement that floods. I figured I was paying the power guy, might as well pay the heat guy too.
Next up: My job maybe wants to give me a promotion. I maybe don't want a promotion. Oh, and basketball and Lost!
- Music:the (plugged-up-in-the-kitchen) space heater.
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ibroketuesday (watch Mad Men!) tagged me for this meme in which there are questions and I was to answer them. And since I cannot resist a meme that is not of the "pick random names and then answer questions about them!" variety, here I am... meme-ing again. But first, a crabby Santa! I shoulda printed this out and used it as my Christmas card. It would have saved me a trip to two office supply stored and one horrible (but delightfully cheap) big-box store I hate with a fiery passion (where I spent a good five minutes lost in the parking lot, unable to find the car. The worst part is that if it would have been stolen, the post-laundry day laziness that had my basket still in the back seat meant we'd have been without a car and I'd have only had the clothes on my back and the few things that did not go in to get washed. Meaning all I'd have left are the "it's laundry day" clothes, and that would have been Officially Terrible.) Sidetracked already! Here is the Santa I was only going to post to get the cut-text below my userpic, before I rambled on enough to get me past the pic without the Santa who, if I did not mention it, I would not have had anything to ramble about to get to the point where I did not even need to post it. What?
( meme.... )
- Music:the heater.
( quizzes, quizzes, lyrics and Santa! )
And now... Christmas! My sister moved back in Saturday, and in her anger that I did not find her someone with a truck to help her move her furniture, she tossed the Christmas tree (still up from last year in the living room) onto my bed. So, instead of dealing with the hassle of relocating it to its proper home in the living room, I put it up back here. (Making me perhaps one of the only people you know to put up the Christmas tree before cooking the Thanksgiving turkey. I didn't get around to that until Sunday.) All I need to do now is dig my way into the kitchen closet to get the ornaments and I'll be good to go!
 Dear Santa...Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! Last Tuesday I gave change to a homeless guy (19 points). In July I invaded Iraq, broke it, and couldn't glue it back together before Mom got home (-1012 points). Last week I gave irvys_sefie a Dutch Oven (-10 points). Last Monday momar_moleand I robbed a bank (-50 points). In June I ruled Canada as a kind and benevolent dictator (700 points). Overall, I've been naughty (-353 points). For Christmas I deserve a spanking! Sincerely, |
- Music:the heater
