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Age is just a number… that signifies how long you’ve been alive.
my 27th Bday.
In less than 1 month, I will be turning 28. I’m generally ok with this as there is no significance to that number. It’s not a milestone birthday, I’ll still be waddling vauguely around my late-twenties. Even though it is slowly encroaching on the big 3-0, I’m ok with it. It could have something to do with the fact that for the most part, my mental age is 8.
Here is a list about the ways in which I am essentially a child.
1) My love of Apple Juice.
I am not sure what it is about apple juice that makes it the de-facto juice choice of children, but it seems it is. Adults probably choose more sophisticated flavours like cranberry or orange… but not me. Apple Juice all the way.
2) My desire to wear my Halloween costume every day
Upon putting on this years Halloween costume, I realized this reflects my personality way more… I want to wear it every day, damnit!
3) My stature.
I wonder if I was a tall person, one who didn’t look like a child, if I would then be less child-like at heart.
4) The fact that one of my favourite shows is Pocoyo
Ellie, Lula, Pocoyo & Pato!
It’s no secret that I love cartoons (ahem, I AM one), but the fact that one of my favourite shows just happens to air on treehouse, the channel for pre-schoolers, might indicate my child like mind? Maybe? I don’t know, don’t knock Pocoyo until you’ve seen it. The animation is ACE. And Stephen Fry narrates it.
5) My leisure-time activities include colouring and playing with play-doh (clay)
I actually haven’t coloured in years, but I do play with clay quite frequently – the goal is to make things as small as possible. Mmm. Reducto understands.
Well, there’s a succinct list. To top off this post, I’m going to attempt to create a birthday wishlist. Baron and his mom have asked me what I’d want for my bday (and then xmas) and I have no idea! Other than the things that I’ve tagged with the “birthday” tag… So here’s a handy list, mostly for them (unless you want to buy me crap too, but really… save your money).
Friday Five List-o-Matic: 5 BEST things about Fall(Late Edition)
I flaked on giving you a list this weekend, so I’m making it up to you! Since today IS the first official day of fall, my favourite season, I decided to tell you why!
1) The Smell. Yup, it’s pretty obvious but that crispness in the air that almost hurts my lungs when I inhale – it reminds me of going back to school, possibilities, change, the future and all that can go well. Even though when I was in school I’d start slacking by the 3rd week – those first three weeks were full of so much promise!
2) Sweaters. Sweater weather is the most ideal weather, but it’s not just ANY sweater – it’s hoodies – actually being able to wear the hood I suppose. I wish I had one of those ponchos with pom poms like I had when I was little. You know the kind:
I was cuter.
3) Pumpkin Pie/Impending Gingerbread cookies. Not JUST pumpkin pie, but also turkey on thanksgiving and all those wonderful foods. My mom never made Turkey for thanksgiving, and I’d only RARELY get it for xmas. We did have family friends who indulged in this white custom and I loved it. Turkey, gravy, stuffing, potatoes… delicious – but perhaps the crown jewel of this meal is Pumpkin Pie. I eat so much of this stuff! The best part is when the pumpkin pie starts to get scarce, I can be calmed by the fact that gingerbread is just around the corner!
4) Crunchy, colourful leaves. Who doesn’t love this? Nazi’s. That’s who.
5) Halloween. Maybe I’m a secret goth kid… or just a kid… but dressing up in costumes is the best freakin’ idea in the world. No, I’m wrong, it’s the second best. The best idea in the world is BEING REWARDED WITH CANDY for dressing up in costumes. Seriously folks… does it get any better? No. Even if you don’t go trick-or-treating there are lots of benefits:
- Kids look less ugly and even cute
- Discounted halloween candy
- Being able to dress up! For some people this includes being able to dress up as a trollop… but I’m not on that list.
Anywho, that concludes my list. I know it wasn’t ground-breaking and well… it’s actually quite obvious because everyone loves fall and probably for the same reasons. Whatever. I decided to not be a hater like I had been in my previous post.
In other news my friend Triton had a b-day party this weekend and I put together these:
TRI TON 30!
I didn’t put the smarites on it, they migrated from the other cake beside it. This was my 2nd time working with fondant, and the first trying to put it on a cake… ok, well cupcakes. that was easy. The real cake – didn’t turn out so well. Maybe next year.
Friday Five List-o-Matic: Things that annoy me.
Friday’s seem like the perfect day to record things in list format. Let’s see if I can keep this an ongoing series.
Today’s subject: Things that annoy me. (Inspired by Jodi’s list of things she wants Humanity to stop doing).
1) When white people get tans and are so amazed by this that their ability to differentiate colours deteriorates so much that they say stupid things like “Hey Look! I’m practically as dark as you!” (as they hold their arm up to mine). NO YOU’RE NOT! I don’t think it’s possible for you to become as brown as me through tanning and if you did there are probably severe medical implications that go with it. Try being “brown as me” growing up in a small town. Yah. Fun times.
2) People that wear cardigans around their necks, without their arms in the sleeves. I know the real reason you do this is because you secretly want to wear a cape. Why don’t you just wear a cape? I would think so much more of you if you actually had the guts to wear a cape, instead of now, where I just think you don’t know how to put your arm into armholes – which I consider to be a basic skill of dressing.
3) People on the subway who don’t have noise-canceling headphones… more specifically using those stock iPhone headphones, and then cranking the volume so high that I can actually identify every top 50 song you are listening to. First of all – just because it’s louder doesn’t mean it sounds better. In fact, I know it sounds worse. Secondly, You are also damaging your hearing, thus ruining music for yourself. Go out and buy a nice pair of sound-isolating earphones so that, on those RARE days where I DO forgot my wonderful (Shure) sound-isolating ear buds I don’t have to listen to your music, too.
4) Women who re-apply makeup in the bathroom half way through the day. I’m not even sure why I hate this so much but it bothers me. I can understand if you had a major boo-boo, like crying without waterproof mascara… but I really don’t think anyone notices that your lipstick has worn off… Or cares. I’m not even against this one in theory, but when I’m in a washroom and I’m trying to get to a sink to wash my hands and you’re there preening (unsuccessfully) it REALLY annoys me.
5) Swiffers. How the hell are these things still around? I remember when they came out, about ten years ago – I questioned the disposable nature of them. Weren’t the ’90′s all about eco-friendly cleaning products? Did everyone forget? It seems so, but everyone has remembered again, but yet swiffers seem to still exist. While other companies are touting how their products are eco-friendly and help reduce waste, swiffers are giving us all a giant, disposable middle finger. Stop if swiffer. I hate you. You don’t even work that well. I can do the same job with less expensive/disposable products.
Stop the Maddness!!!!
And thus ends my first and hopefully not last episode of the Friday Five List-o-matic (I don’t even know why i called it that). Maybe you, my dear readers (all 3 of you) can suggest a topic for next Friday.
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