I'm Back

My hiatus was a bit longer than I had expected it to be, but I'm back now and will be posting regularly starting tomorrow.

Earlier this month I wrote a post linking to a video called "Republicans, Get in My Vagina!" Now, I present to you: "How to Sponsor a Uterus."

Sorry, ladies, you must be a male to sponsor.

-J

No Posts This Week

You may have noticed that there was no post yesterday or this morning. That's because I was without my computer this weekend and forgot to schedule posts ahead of time.

For various and sundry (boring) reasons, I'm taking a mini blogging vacation this week.

Check back here next Monday for resumed posting.

-J

Things That Make Me Happy -- #2: Car Karaoke

Every Friday I'll be posting about one thing that makes me happy in order to complete goal #82: Identify 100 things that make me happy.

Today's topic is: Car karaoke

I've been singing since I was a toddler. Apparently my mother once walked into the room to find me in my playpen rocking out to "Do Wah Diddy." I haven't stopped rocking since. Music is a huge part of my life (in addition to singing in playpens I also play the viola) and never fails to make me feel better--no matter how much my day has sucked. Nowhere is this more the case than in my car. When I'm out driving somewhere (or, even, just aimlessly wandering back roads in order to de-stress), I'm either doing one of two things: listening to NPR or blasting music and singing my head off.

If you ever pass me on the road you're likely to hear one of these songs blaring from my open window as I sing along:

1) "Allo Paris" by Mano Solo (Yes, I can sing/speak French.)

2) "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen

3) "Demon Kitty Rag" by Katzenjammer

4) "Henrietta" by The Fratellis

5) "Dilli Düdük" by Tarkan (And I can sing in Turkish. I just wish I could speak it.)

-J

I'm On a Mission

They're showing my apartment on Saturday. I've lived here for almost three years and I'm not the least bit sad to be leaving. When I first moved in it was with two girls that I barely knew and then after they moved out I asked my mother and sister (who were looking to move back to New York) to move in with me. Big mistake. Huge. Gigantic. All of it, actually. Neither roommate situation in this apartment was ideal and both of them caused a lot more stress than I cared to deal with. So now that it'll all be over in a few months, I'm able to start seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.

That doesn't mean that I'm okay with them showing the apartment on Saturday. Ever since I wrote this post about my goal to get rid of all my unnecessary junk, I've been knee-deep in going through boxes. While I've managed to throw out a good deal of stuff, I'm nowhere near finished and my room kind of resembles the aftermath of a tornado at the moment.

Not pictured: my room. Via Meteorology News.

So for the next two days I am on a mission. No, it's not to get everything cleaned up and packed. That would be ridiculous. I'm on a mission to clean my room like a seven-year-old. That's right, folks--I'm going to shove everything out of the way to give the appearance that my room is clean.

To be honest, I'll probably do more tomorrow than today because I have work later on this afternoon, but every seven-year-old knows that the key to making it look like you've cleaned your room is to put everything under the bed and in the closet. Shouldn't take too long, right?

Wish me luck!

-J

Completed Goal -- #85: Clean Out My E-mail Inboxes

Yesterday I completed one goal on my Day Zero list:

#85: Clean out my e-mail inboxes

I had two that I specifically wanted to clean out--my work e-mail and my personal e-mail. The personal e-mail took all of about twenty seconds. My work e-mail, however, took me a good hour or so. I had about 5,500 unread e-mails (not to mention the gazillion e-mails that I had read but never deleted) to contend with. In fact, I hadn't cleaned that inbox out since the fall of 2010! But now it's a clean slate with nothing in it and it feels so nice. If I can keep it that way it'll be a miracle, but at least it's empty for the present moment.

This also means that I can put $10 in savings for completing a task. When I have $10, that is. Or, you know, a place in which to save it.

-J

What Are Friends For?

Shameless plugs, of course. And here is my shameless plug:

Go check out Running Between the Raindrops. It's the personal/Day Zero blog for my greatest and most accomplished friend in the world. Seriously, she's funny, insightful, ridiculously intelligent, and deserves a lot more readers than she currently has. (Although, don't we all?)

-J

Epic Tea Time with Alan Rickman

It's official: I can watch Alan Rickman do pretty much anything and still find it compelling and sexy. Here's the gorgeous and talented Mr. Rickman drinking tea. In slow motion. To music from Inception. And then getting angry.

You get all the awards, Alan Rickman. Well, except for the Darwin Award. We'll give that to someone who isn't brilliant.

-J