Countdown

Inspired by my most excellent friend Kat’s blog.

TEN things you wish you could say to TEN different people right now:

1. I love you, mom.
2. It wouldn’t kill you to pick up the phone and call, you know. Texting is impersonal and dweebish.
3. Take me, I’m yours!
4. Gosh, this is harder than I thought it would be.
5. I love you, Jozef.
6. Crises like these wouldn’t happen if you ran your business properly.
7. Please don’t let us down.
8. Have you realized how much of a whiny baby you sound at long last?
9. I stand in awe at your ability to raise a family and not go insane in the process.
10. If he pisses you off so much, why do you stay his friend?

NINE things about yourself:

1. I sometimes spend inordinate amounts of time analysing what I should or have said instead of what I do say or had said.
2. I am prone to periods of deep sadness and moments of great glee. Over time I think I fall less and less at the ends and more and more in the middle, and that makes me a bit sad.
3. I was raised Missouri Synod Lutheran.
4. My worldview ceased requiring a god to bring sense to things around the time I entered adolescence and I’ve never looked back.
5. I was once told by a professor that I was the only student she’d ever met who could properly write in boldface and italic on a chalkboard.
6. Once upon a time, I was ever so slightly famous on the Internet.
7. I regularly feel completely inadequate.
8. I worry about money a lot.
9. When I die, I want to be cremated. I’d like to have my ashes dumped into the sun, but if that’s not possible I hope I’ll be turned into rose fertilizer.

EIGHT ways to win your heart:

1. Be yourself, not someone you think I’d like you to be.
2. Make me laugh regularly.
3. Teach me how to pleasure you.
4. Every once in a while, do something romantic like send me flowers.
5. Don’t ask for money, and don’t dismiss me when I offer it to help.
6. Be honest.
7. I do not want to be a pig, but every once in a while I’d like to get nasty. Encourage me.
8. Tell me you love me…and mean it.

SEVEN things that cross your mind a lot:

1. I love you, Jozef.
2. I have the best mom on Earth.
3. Driving is a privilege extended to entirely too many people.
4. This will come as a shock, but dressing, acting, speaking, and writing like a thug is actually not cool at all.
5. I wish I could win the lottery and spend the rest of my life traveling the world.
6. “Everything dies eventually, Stan.”
7. Surely you jest!

SIX things you do before you fall asleep:

1. Daydream about Sevardin.
2. Daydream about what I would do if I had $100,000,000.
3. Think about what I need to get done at work tomorrow/on Monday.
4. Pet Mr. Binks.
5. Pet Pádraig.
6. Wish my curtains were better at blocking out all the light from outside.

FIVE people you couldn’t live without:

1. Mom.
2. Jozef.
3. My Echo friends.
4. My Craft Night friends.
5. My Plurk friends.

FOUR things you’re wearing right now:

1. Glasses.
2. Beige t-shirt.
3. White boxers.
4. Dark grey jeans.

THREE songs that fit your life perfectly:

1. Elegia, by New Order.
2. Dust and a Shadow, by Shriekback.
3. Dies irae, Giuseppe Verdi, Messa da Requiem.

TWO things you want to do before you die:

1. Visit the great spots of antiquity: the Pyramids at Giza, the Akropolis, and the Colosseum.
2. Meet an intelligent extraterrestrial being.

ONE confession:

1. I voted for Ronald Reagan and will regret it for the rest of my life.