Well, it's Friday, so it's time for TTBM, but this week I'm also going for balance, so I'm adding TTPM (Things that Please Me).
TTBM
1. The words "ugh" and "grr" in blogs and posts. Do you say those words out loud in real life? If so, then carry on typing them; if not, stop it. Stop it now.
2. People who call me "easily amused," as if it were an insult. The fact that I'm easily amused explains why I dated your stupid ass, doesn't it? Beside which, Kurt Cobain (RIP) wished he was like me; easily amused.
3. Grinding the last of the coffee beans the day before payday knowing that on payday morning I will have to leave the house without having had coffee in order to go get coffee. NTS, plan better in the future.
4. People who drive below the speed limit when I'm trying to get to the coffee. Don't they know that I'm in a hurry to get to the caffeine?
5. The vacuous c****s who wrote Skinny Bitch. I only read 15 pages, and I hate them and everything they stand for. I bet they'd be guilty of #2, and they're probably really boring at parties, too.
Now on to the good stuff: TTPM
1. My dual-tuner DVR. Man, I love the DVR. There are no words. Much like caller ID, cell phones, and email, I have no idea how I lived without it before it existed.
2. Pulling into my favorite local (non-Starbucks) latte stand and seeing the special for today is a Snickerdoodle latte (I love those), and then finding out that the barista can make it sugar free for me. Coffee crisis over!
3. My Safeway club card that gives me a 10 cents a gallon discount on gas every time I spend $50. My gas at Safeway this morning was 16 cents a gallon less than at the Shell station (and I still paid $3.83).
4. Did I mention sugar-free Snickerdoodle latte?
5. Being in the car and listening to the radio and hearing the familiar strains of my favorite Rolling Stones song ever (Gimme Shelter) and calculating that, if I hit 1 more red light, the song will finish just about the time I get home. I love not having to sit in the car to finish listening to a good song.
6. Cranking the volume on Gimme Shelter because I'm in the car alone, with coffee, wearing my Ray-Bans, and with a full tank of gas.
8 comments:
Life is SO good for you Connie. Hear Hear! You inspire me. Snickerdoodle latte's? Are you serious?
Yep, snickerdoodle latte's. A combo of vanilla and cinnamon, much like the Starbucks Cinnamon Dolce, but not as corporate.
It'd probably be good with soy, too.
I agree about the DVR. I think it saved my life during the writer's strike. When my withdrawal symptons were at its worse, I could just find Greys or The Office whenever I wanted.
And if I type Ugh into a post, I really do say it. lol Not sure if I've included a Grr... in there or not. But maybe. :oP
Mmm...Snickerdoodle. I have a drive-thru Starbucks around here but I hardly ever go there. I'm always afraid I'll get the lingo wrong. It's time for me to take that step and be brave. :oP
Okay, my bad. I just read you said "non" Starbucks. What's wrong with me? Grrr... lol I was up too late last night. I was tempted to delete my last comment, but I didn't. :oP Snickerdoodle still sounds good though.
I almost never go to Starbucks, unless my DD wants a frappucino; I like to hit the local joints.
You do know that Grand Funk Railroad's version of Gimme Shelter is even better than The Stones, right?
And what if someone now says Ugh or Grrr IRL due to having posted it so many times???
And my word verification today is fumsbrem. That almost sounds like a real word:
I had some frumsbrem and an apple for lunch today OR I'm totally fumsbrem over the way Desperate Housewives ended!
I love the GFR, too (as you know); they sing about me and all, but to my ears Gimme Shelter is the definitive Rolling Stones song.
Gimme Shelter is one of my favorite songs to which I play the drums on Rock Band. Yes, I realize that I'm about 25 years beyond the target demographic for Rock Band, but day-um is it a lot of fun when a bunch of friends get together for an evening. Beats the crap out of Trivial Pursuit!
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