Friday Fun & Games

November 6, 2009 at 2:36 pm (Funny Things) (, )

Ok, so for no other reasons than I’m bored and I can’t think of anything else to write, I’m going to create a game, or a contest if you will.

Today I went to the gym over lunch but I was super tired and not really in the mood to run 2 miles, so I made a playlist of 9 songs to pump me up.

The first person that can guess 8 of the 9 songs with the correct artist by 12m Thu 11/12 will get $15* (I know it’s not a ton, but hopefully you guys will play anyways)

1. Each guess must include 9 songs with an artist listed.
2. All guesses must be commented, I will not accept emailed answers because then others can’t keep track of what’s been guessed.
3. I will give hints periodically and will reply to all guesses with how many you got correct.

Hints:

1. All songs are from 1992 to 2002
2. I would classify them all as Hip-Hop/Rap, but I-tunes would not.
3. Most of the playlist was probably a little inappropriate to be listening to at a church

4. At least four of the 9 songs include locations. One of these names a park and the city/neighborhood, one names an address, one names some coasts and a bunch of other places, and one says Hotlanta.
5. One song I have written about on my blog.
6. Only one song is by a woman/women.
7. One song was in a Diet Coke commercial.

8. One song is originally by Jesse Jaymes and was also covered by the Beastie Boys, but I have the version covered by someone else.
9. Two songs are from Soundtracks. One is from a 1995 movie I’ve never seen and I have the version from the soundtrack although it can also be found on an album by the artist. The other is from a 2001 Nicole Kidman movie, but it is not an original song and it is not on any of the artists albums.
10. One of the artists name starts with Lil’

11. Warren G is not the artist for any of the songs, but he is mentioned in one of them along with the DOG.
12. One song is reminiscent of a child’s clapping song.
13. I like jelly.
14. The song from 1992 is very likely the first rap song I ever heard.

* If you are related to me: You must get all 9 songs right to win and if you do, then your payout will be in 10 years as is standard.

And go…

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TV Spoilers – how do you feel about them?

November 4, 2009 at 12:25 pm (Random Thoughts) ()

I personally try to avoid them when they involve the plot. I don’t mind casting spoilers or finding out that someone is leaving a show because you still don’t know how they are going to do it. I do try to avoid finding out what’s going to happen in the show. I like not knowing, so I generally keep my Internet reading to post show reviews instead of pre show spoilers, but I just couldn’t resist this morning.

If you watch Vampire Diaries and don’t want to know anything about the future of the show, then stop reading now.

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I followed a link to TV Guide and read a scoop on Vampire Diaries. I know I shouldn’t have, but I did, and now I’m disappointed. Essentially it said that there are going to be werewolves. No big revelation or anything so as far as spoilers go it’s pretty tame, but I don’t like this. Vampire Diaries is the first vampire thing I’ve gotten into. My friend is really pushing me to read Twilight, but I have held out. Now I’m seeing all these previews for New Moon (right?) and it has to do with werewolves and in my head I’m like, “Really werewolves, I thought this was about vampires, werewolves stink. This is stupid.”

And now Vampire Diaries is going to have werewolves. Is this a requirement for vampire stories; do they always come in pairs; is it an epic struggle? I have no idea, but this news disappointed me. I don’t want a werewolf in my vampire story. And besides I’m pretty sure it’s hard to make a werewolf sexy.

Don’t worry though, I’ll probably continue to skew the CW’s average viewer age by watching Vampire Diaries. But now maybe you see why I don’t like spoilers.

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Productivity

November 3, 2009 at 10:04 pm (Happenings) ()

Here is a list of things that would have been more productive than going to my annual Home Owners Association meeting tonight…

1. Playing on Facebook and Twitter all night

2. Writing chapter 2 of my book to go with chapter 1 that was written 3 years ago. (Actually – this should probably be re-writing chapter 1)

3. My neighbor actually only parking in one parking spot.

4. Eating Skittles

5. Everything Else!

Long story short, I figured that since I’ve never been and this was the third one since I bought my place, I would go check it out. If you even hear me mention it next November – please just smack me.

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Weekend Re-do

November 2, 2009 at 9:18 pm (Happenings) (, , )

This weekend was great – partly because it included today…

Friday night, Blondie and I went to a friends Halloween party. I played a pathetic game of beer pong, but it was okay because I somehow managed to convince my partner to drink all the beer, so really I just threw the ping-pong ball in the right direction a few times. The only one I actually made bounced off the competitor’s hand and into the cup.

Since Saturday was so yucky I spent most of it inside until a last-minute shopping spree to help my brother finish his costume. Saturday night, I met up with some friends at B&LH’s house. We watched a little bit of some special on the scariest movie scenes and the beginning of Hellraiser, and finally headed out around midnight. We headed down to L5P for Halloween and listened to a band named The Howlies at Star Bar and then the boys wanted to hit up The Porter for last call. Somewhere along the way we came across a discarded doll in the street and spent our time at The Porter using LH’s plastic knife to kill the baby over and over again.

We left when they kicked us out and then hit up the dance floor at Corner Tavern. They closed down at 3 and we thought the night was over, but lo and behold Star Bar decided to give us the extra hour so we went in there and danced until 4 (or 3 depending on how you look at it). The boys were pretty patient with us girls. By the time I got home it was 5. I’m pretty sure the last time I stayed out that late I was probably 19 or 20. I paid for it yesterday though with a complete lack of motivation to do anything productive. The only time I changed out of my pj’s was when I went to get the last week’s worth of mail, so…

Today I didn’t go to work. I felt like I needed to have a do-over for Sunday, so I spent the day running some errands including finally getting new tennis shoes. Then because it was such a pretty day I decided to take a nice afternoon run since I had some daylight; did some household chores and made spaghetti for dinner. Now I’m just waiting for Gossip Girl to come on. It’s been a nice day. I guess I’ll have to go back to the real world tomorrow…

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Another lovely day at the office

October 30, 2009 at 3:36 pm (Funny Things) ()

I love my job for many reasons, not the least of which is the people I work with on a daily basis. Here is the end of a phone call I had today with one of my favorite reps…

B: Going to any parties this weekend?

Me: Yeah, one tonight, but tomorrow night we’re just going out to the bars.

B: Fun, which ones.

Me: Probably just the highlands or something. Hopefully it won’t be as crowded there like spiralween and the like usually are.

B: I used to go to those all the time.

Me: Really, I’m not a fan. All you do is wait in line.

B: Yeah, I guess I only went once and it was a lot of waiting. When was that, I think like ‘98.

Me: Ha, I wasn’t even old enough to drink then.

B: And, we’re done…. (click)

Yep, he hung up on me and all I could do was laugh.

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Lists, lists, lists

October 29, 2009 at 11:56 pm (Random Thoughts) ()

I spent entirely too much time today playing with the new list feature on twitter. I am in love.

I think my favorite thing about it that now I can follow a ridiculous amount of feeds without clogging up my main timeline.

I like to keep up with entertainment stuff and now I can in one handy list.

I also made a list for Atlanta so I can keep up with things happening around town.

I also made a list for all things music.

Finally, I made a list for news. Since I only actually watch about 20 minutes of news in the morning, I have been getting a lot of my news from CNN’s twitter feed. I decided to add more of a variety now that I could easily.

Did I say that I’m in love.

I was also added to a list. This may have made my day. Thanks Ronnica :)

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Reason 12,354 why I love my family and one reason I don’t…

October 28, 2009 at 3:54 pm (Funny Things) ()

Email From Bro to Me & Sis:
Subject – Might as well be on FAIL blog
http://theduty.tumblr.com/post/226067775/brilliant

From Sis to Me & Bro:
Hahahahaha…awesome!

From Me to Sis:
That’s great. People are stupid!

From Me to Sis & Bro:
That’s great. People are stupid. Sorry “Sis”, I meant to reply all last time.

From Sis to Me & Bro:
People are stupid! (Wow, I can almost hear the insult coming out of her mouth 2477 miles away.)

From Me to Sis & Bro:
Touche!

From Bro to Me & Sis:
I read it at first as:
“People are stupid.  Sorry ‘Sis’ “

From Sis to Me & Bro:
Again, people are stupid!
Is there something weird in the water in Atlanta?!?!

… and the one reason I don’t: This email chain continued into my sister informing me that she is totally stealing my Halloween costume idea. I told her that was lame, but she just doesn’t care.

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If you hear me on NPR…

October 27, 2009 at 10:59 pm (Random Thoughts) (, )

please don’t laugh if I sound stupid :)

Tonight KW, EF and I spent another lovely evening with the ATL Collective. Tonight they covered Neil Young’s “Harvest” album and Red Heart the Ticker played a set at the end. It was a lot of fun, and best part – free pumpkin pie.

There was a girl from WABE-FM (I think) interviewing people about the Collective and the artists, etc and she talked to us for a while. She also recorded the show. I think my favorite part was that she was also taking pictures with a disposable camera. That was the pinnacle of public funding right there in front of my own eyes. Anyways, KW laughed through every one of her answers so we’ll see if we make it on the air. Or actually I probably won’t, so if you do hear me – let me know…

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My week in TV 10-26-09

October 26, 2009 at 12:06 pm (Random Thoughts) (, )

Ok, so doing this weekly isn’t really going as planned. I think I’ve skipped a couple and this one’s a few days late…

Best Line: Community (I am super excited that NBC picked this up for the full season. I love it)

“No, because I’m not in a commercial for breakfast cereal” – Jeff

Best thing I watched: House

I must admit that half of the reason House was the best thing I watched is because I’m really enjoying seeing Jesse Spencer for more than 3 minutes an episode – and intensely guilty self-torturing Dr. Chase is kind of nice to watch. But, other than that I also really liked this episode. I liked that House kept forcing Chase to see the patient and deal with his fear/guilt. I do not like that Chase is not being honest with Cameron, but I guess maybe this is just leading up to how they are going to write her off the show. I also found it interesting that House thought he was hallucinating again because of Wilson’s whispering, but instead of ignoring it, he actually owned up to it. I also liked this tiny part of the story because I sometimes talk to my parents and well, it can’t be that weird if they’re doing it on TV too.  Right?  Anyways…

Worst Thing I watched: Gossip Girl

I am just not liking Hillary Duff on GG. I like her all right in her movies, etc, but I don’t like this character. And really, Dan Humphrey is going to get Serena and a movie star. I think this is the most unbelievable part of the plot. I can totally buy all the conniving backstapping that goes on in this show because I’ve seen stuff like that before, but I really can’t buy Dan as such a hunk. So, sadly as much as I like this show, this season is off to a rocky start for me.

Worst Surprise: Vampire Diaries

WTF, CW? A repeat – damn it. I was all ready to see Vicki as a “vampire with issues” Your promos teased me so, but they did not do a good enough job of letting me know that the episode wasn’t until this week.

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OooOo

October 23, 2009 at 2:59 pm (Random Thoughts)

Things that are not important enough for their own posts, and/or not really important at all…

1. Last night I updated Facebook from my phone. Then threw my phone in my purse without locking it. My blackberry decided to retaliate by posting “OooOo” as my status. I’m a little surprised that by the time I noticed it three hours later that none of my smart ass friends commented about it, especially ablondiemoment. Also, I’m really glad it didn’t record some kind of audio clip and post that because it would have been of me singing loudly in my car.

2. Somehow I changed the font on my gmail page. I don’t know what I did, but I don’t like it and I can’t figure out how to change it back. The worst part – it’s wingdings…*

3. When I was laying in bed last night I thought of the perfect Halloween costume, but alas this morning I am feeling a little bit like Paul on Mad Men last week because I did not write it down and I can’t for the life of me remember what it was…

4. I have five clocks in my office that I have gotten as gifts from stations. It’s kind of random, but I go with it. The last one with a working battery died today. You would think that I would just get rid of them or change the batteries, but I don’t. Instead when they die, I just set them to 5:00 and leave them where they are. This makes me a little happy.

clocks

* It’s not really wingdings.

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