The First Time

So this is it...my first blog entry. I've been threatening to start blogging for some time now. Who I've been threatening I'm not sure.



I worry that my grammar will be atrocious because I've become so used to communicating via email and IM and text messaging. Grammar rules don't seem to apply there. I try but eventually you have to give in to brevity and efficiency or you'd never stop typing. My thumbs hurt as it is from text messaging. See? The bad grammar has started already. How do English teachers convince kids that grammar matters any more? And I warn you, I use the ellipse entirely too much. I annoy myself with it. I used to chide one of my bosses (the one who had a sense of humor) about using the ellipse, now I have adopted it as my punctuation of choice.

So what should I write in this first blog that would let the reader learn a little about me and perhaps interest said reader at the same time? A list! I've always loved lists. Remember The Book of Lists? I loved those. And those wretched emails your girlfriends send called "get to know your friends better" that asks questions like 'Chocolate or Vanilla?' and 'What's your favorite smell?' I love to read people's responses to those. I don't fill them out myself, mind you, but I do like to read what other people write.

So here they are...my lists of loves and hates. Why is it so much easier to think of things you hate?

Things, people, trends, words & other stuff I hate (in no particular order): White sunglasses; Juicy Couture; when reporters change their accents to pronounce foreign words (or their own names); Paris Hilton (I know, that's an easy one but you gotta take the low hanging fruit); the phrases "been there, done that," and "you go girl;" bad manners; bad drivers; drivers who run red lights; dog owners who don't clean up after their dogs; reality TV; Ann Coulter; picking your teeth in public; the over-exposure of things/people that I once enjoyed (Rachel Ray, for example); the use of multiple exclamation marks; people who email in all caps for no reason; forwarded emails, particularly ones that will cause me bad luck for the next 600 years if I don't forward to 10 friends within 5 seconds of receiving; stupid people who don't think they're stupid...


Things, people, trends, words & other stuff I love (in no particular order): Beauty products...all things hair, skin, make-up and bath...love reading about them in all the women's magazines (I also love magazines, and like my beauty products, they are taking over my home), love putting them in my shopping cart on Sephora.com, love trying as many as I can afford; Entourage; Friday Night Lights; Barack Obama; Oprah (most of the time); The Office; Kahlua & milk; Stephen Colbert; US Magazine (we all need a guilty pleasure or two); Sarah Jessica Parker (and, of course, Sex in the City); the color pink; bad 70s music (think "Hooked on a Feeling" and "The Night Chicago Died"); chips & salsa; the smell of Coppertone; clean sheets; not having to get out of bed on 1)a Monday morning and 2) a rainy morning; early Eddie Murphy ('Aunt Bunny fell down the steps'); blueberries; wild animal shows; CBS Sunday Morning...

Okay, don't want to get too carried away here. Stay tuned for more love & hate.