January 2009
My 2008 in Review
In 2008, I gained four fun roommates.
I lost my domestic Manhattan life.
I stopped going to school.
I started my first full-time job.
I was hugely satisfied by my career.
And frustrated by my personal life.
I am so embarrassed that I rushed into some things.
Once again, I dwelled on my regrets.
Once again, I did not exercise.
The biggest physical difference between me last December and...
December 2008
15 Chill Songs Pandora Helped Me Find →
In no particular order.
Try - ALO
Sweet Tangerine - The Hush Sound
Earthquake Weather - Beck
Army - Ben Folds Five
Dirty Laundry - Bitter:Sweet
People Should Smile More - Newton Faulkner
Another Devil Dies - Badly Drawn Boy
Colorful - Rocco DeLuca and The Burden
Breakdown - Handsome Boy Modeling School f. Jack Johnson
True to Myself - Ziggy Marley
The General - Dispatch
That Old Pair...
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I love living above vacation rentals
Billy: We already have to deal with a friggin' baby...
Me: Yeah, what is up with that? I keep hearing a baby crying.
Lauren: It's just a visiting baby...a baby-in-residence...
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God, Britney is just so confusing
Me: i also like that i thought "baby one more time" was called "hit me one more time"
Me: ode to domestic abuse
Billy: wait
Billy: isn't it
Billy: hit me baby one more time
Me: that's the lyric but the song is just "baby one more time"
Me: regardless, i forgot the baby
Billy: well it's STILL domestic abuse
Me: true but it's ok if a baby hits you because then it won't hurt
Billy: hit me, baby, one more time. baby = infant or baby = some dude
Me: some dude
Me: but it's funnier if you think it's an infant
Billy: so its not a baby
Billy: WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
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My sauciness may be off the charts in 2009
Andrew: you are saucy ever since christmas
Me: i'm not always saucy?
Andrew: well, not this saucy
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Jennalise's liveblog of "Bromance" was probably...
payattention:
9:05 PM - One guy woke up with morning wood. Brody, are you impressed?
9:07 PM - The bro mansion looks like a mom’s country cottage, except it’s dirty. What?
9:07 PM - “Anything can happen in Hollywood” - Brody Jenner. Write that one down.
9:09 PM - Michael is the best contestant to make fun of so far, if anything because his eyebrows are nicely manicured. Just like any...
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10 Best Judge Judy Moments of 2008 →
I loved Judge Judy in 2008, and I bet I’ll continue to love her in 2009. That is my one 2009 prediction. I’m playin’ it safe.
The Top 20 Viral Videos of 2008
You’ve seen everyone else’s lists, now here’s mine. And these may not necessarily have debuted in 2008, but it just means that’s when I discovered them. This will keep you busy for quite a while.
Weiner Poopie
Jones’ Big Ass Truck Rental & Storage
Spaghetti Cat on The Soup
Spaghetti Cat (I Weep for You)
Hamster on a Piano Eating Popcorn
John McCain Gets...
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Personality Tests Are Fun
And usually accurate.
The Big Five: I’m an O65-C69-E18-A4-N60.
Myers-Briggs: I’m an ISTJ.
Enneagram: I’m a Type Five: The Thinker/Observer.
Keirsey Temperament Sorter: I’m a Guardian.
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Dad: "Valkyrie" is supposed to be pretty good.
Me: But Tom Cruise is in it, which makes me not want to see it.
Dad: But he's just playing a character.
Me: Yeah, but I can't stand to look at his dumb face.
Dad: Even with an eyepatch? You should be happy someone poked his eye out.
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“I bought some new underwear at Kohl’s yesterday. But guess what?...”
– Dad
Merry Christmiss
Christmas is really good at reminding you that you should be surrounded by loved ones, because everyone else seems to be. But if they’re deceased, or estranged, or far away, or nonexistent, it just makes you feel left out and yearning for happier seasons past. And it’s really more like Christmiss.
No Reason for the Season →
Most of the classic songs and movies that celebrate Christmas don’t even mention God or Jesus. Santa doesn’t check church attendance to decide whether he’s going to give a child a present—he checks whether she’s been naughty or nice. He’s the perfect secular judge of moral fiber. To say that the secularists injure the Christmas spirit is much like the claim that two...
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“I believed in Santa until I was 13 and he pinched my butt when I sat on his lap!”
– Mom
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I am at my parents’ house in Connecticut and looking through my old things. Let the nostalgia-blogging commence!
True romance.
andrearosen:
I’ve concluded that all romances, great or small, are predicated upon a common obsession with something: like food or work, films or musicians, highbrow tastes or reveling in one’s own plebeian nature. Eventually, you’ll say all there is to be said on your shared interest and either the romance will die or you’ll transfer that preoccupation to one another.
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December 20, 2008: Blog like a parody of yourself...
Because today is apparently Blog Like a Parody of Yourself Day, here goes:
OMG, woodland creatures/puppies/kitties/babies are sooo cute! Do you like these shoes I just got on sale? Segways are perpetually hilarious. My mom is silly. I really like/want this funny/cute T-shirt I bought/want to buy. Random quote from New York magazine. Amusing nerd comic. Stupid people/celebrities are funny. This...