1.
OK, so I'm getting some communications
borderlining on hate mail about not posting a new blog. I'm flattered, and also a little afraid for my life at the same time. So I guess I'll use this 25 Things business as a way to put it out there. As I do with most things, I've tweaked the rules to fit my own agenda. This counts as #1, right?
2. Almost busted my ass the other night trying to flip my mattress. What prompted this sudden urge wasn't a desire to prolong the life of my bed, but me discovering that I created an obvious Ramona-sized dent on one side from sleeping alone for three years.
3. I feel like my
Myspace blog is on some really fucked-up Dear Abby shit. Why do people ask me for advice? It's like the blind leading the blind. Actually, it's like the blind/deaf/and retarded leading the blind.
4.
OK, going through more
Myspace mail and get a question about how to be popular. I'm thinking this is from a high-
schooler but this chick is a grown ass woman. My thoughts:
5. Despite being very active in the spelling bee and reading Isaac Asimov, I was insanely popular in elementary school. So much so that I run into a few people in my hometown that can't get over it. That means I peaked in 1989, people. What still works to this day:
6. Be a nice person. And if you can't be nice, at least try to recycle or something.
7. Tell funny stories.
8. Self-deprecating humor is better than talking shit about other people. Unless you're unattractive. Then it's just kind of sad and pathetic.
9. Give people stickers. (This worked in 1989, let's test it out as adults).
10. When I was like maybe six or seven years old, I got into an argument with my friend Darren that lived next door. So immense was my outrage that I decided to poison him with Coca Cola and Pop Rocks. I invited him back over, mixed the drink and disguised it as a peace offering. I end up feeling horrible about it and knock it right out of his hand, giving him a bloody nose in the process. Then my mom beats my ass for fucking up the carpet. There's a lesson here somewhere.
11. I hung out with a friend of a friend (now my friend, of course) that read my blogs before we actually talked. During our conversation they were surprised when I said I've never tried coke before. This is about the 10
th time I've heard this. People are often surprised that I've never smoked crack/dropped acid/freebased. They're also surprised that I actually have a real job. But...never surprised I don't have a man.
12. I always talk shit about not having a boyfriend but it's probably that I'm just freezing my ass off in New York. I've also stood up three people in the last two weeks with the following excuses:
13. Bachelor 1: His clothes are too tight.
14. Bachelor 2: He doesn't know who Robert Plant is.
15. Bachelor 3: He's one of those people that talk into his phone like a
walkie-talkie. You know, when they pull it away from their ear and talk?
Ew.
16. Going back to the early years. Once Pops asked me to toss his cigarette when we were in
Waldenbooks at the mall. I intentionally decide to throw it in the trash can instead of the smoking receptacle right in front of me. Smoke rises slowly out of the garbage and I'm mesmerized. Then the shit catches on fire and is up in flames in like eight seconds. The whole mall gets evacuated. Pops suspected nothing. I still get a happy meal, a new book, and Prince cassette.
17. Still in the early years, the Karate Kid Soundtrack and Dolly
Pardon's Greatest hits were on heavy rotation. Pops didn't mind Dolly, but "Glory of Love" made everyone want to puke.
18. Went to
Flatbush Farm and that song
Ghostface sampled in
Cherchez Laghost comes on. This sparks a conversation from all the hipsters about their favorite Wu-Tang cuts and "real hip hop." Oh. My. Gawd. I looked around for someone to share my horror but of course my pitiful ass was there alone, drinking by myself. "Check please!"
19. Big (still calling him that strictly for the sake of continuity) didn't come to my birthday party because he got too drunk before hand. And I had an amazing time anyway. Good thing he kept his ass at home because my energy was focused elsewhere. I haven't seen his ass in ages. Fuck it. I'm so over it. Welcome to your 30's.
20. Speaking of focusing energy. I've been told I'm focusing it in the wrong place, which is why I stand up nice guys that ask me out on nice dates. It's a recession, so if anything I should be getting all the free dinners I can land. Ugh. This is too much to think about, so right now I'm gonna focus my energy on making a vodka tonic. I'll be back.
21.
OK, I'm back. My crush still makes me regress to feeling like I'm in 8
th grade. Which is good and also horribly awkward. Sometimes I leave feeling giddy, but most of the time I'm like, D'OH!!!
22. All I have been wanting to do lately is go see live music. I've lucked out and got to see some amazing performances lately. And I miss my San Francisco concert partner, Chelsea. We were like professionals. You wanna see a show, you call me.
23. I've said it once and I'll say it again: NEVER FART WITH HEADPHONES ON!
24. Best advice I ever got was from Pops: If he doesn't have bookshelves with actual books in them and a decent record collection, run. Sorry, I'm on some I-miss-my-Dad shit.
25. I miss California. I miss my West Coast
familia and friends. But this move was the best decision I ever made, even if just based on the relationships I've managed to build here. I might try to switch coasts during winter, but for the most part....I ain't leaving. However, I'm in Cali so often that most people in Sac don't even know I've relocated. Coco, Alissa, Alana, Marissa,
Ang, Carlos, Chelsea, Val, Siobhan,
Nikkisha, K, Raven, Jason, Sarah, Matt, Jeff...
WTF BOOK YOUR TICKETS FOR SPRING, DAMMIT!