m, whether it is a human being or animal or property. This is the first important lesson of firefighting training. Combined with a professional education and the dedication to work hard, firemen can excel in their profession and become the real heroes in life.
December 31st, 2005
Get out the immodium, I’ve got bloggerrhea!
Thanks for the internet shits, Brian!
Four Jobs You’ve Had in Your Life: Camp Counselor, Soda Jerk, Record Store clerk, Waitress.
Four Movies You Could Watch Over and Over: Harold & Maude, Time Bandits, City of Lost Children, Serenity.
Four Places You’ve Lived: Newark, Delaware; An Old Folks’ Home in Pasadena, CA; Budapest, Hungary; The Capital of the Confederacy.
Four TV Shows You Love to Watch: Veronica Mars, Alias, Lost, Sealab.
Four Places You’ve Been on Vacation: Tasmania Australia, Florida Keys, Seattle WA, Cairo Egypt.
Four Websites You Visit Daily: Flickr, Urban Dead, Gmail, your weblog.
Four of Your Favorite Foods: Green beans, Pho Tai (vietnamese beef noodle soup), grits, burritos.
Four Places You’d Rather Be: Tahiti, Cuba, Indonesia, St. Johns. Pretty much any place with palm trees in January.
Four Albums You Can’t Live Without: XTC “Black Sea,” Lotion “Nobody’s Cool,” Camper Van Beethoven “Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart” Ryan Adams “Heartbreaker.”
Fuck, this was fun. Why don’t we do these stupid-ass LJ things more often? Do y’all feel like you know me better now as a result of this posting? At least you know that my record collection is totally stupid and chock-fulla college-radio puss-rock. WHEE!
Danielle, Kate, Mia, Scott.
December 31st, 2005
Because Danielle called me last night and made me laugh until I wept (three words: ANAL COMMITMENT CEREMONY), and then she posted her uberlist and I said I’d post three things on my uberlist to her 106. Hey, what can I say, she’s an overachiever, I’m an underachiever.
THREE THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO DO IN 2006:
- Hire a contractor and an electrician and finish the attic bedroom. Living in 998 square feet with 2 people with three pets and a shitton of furniture… well, it’s getting old being so cramped.
- Be a better friend and hang out more often. Visit family more frequently. Build up drinking tolerance, learn to milk goats, spend lots of time gardening at mom’s farm, go out to Happy Hour more frequently, organize more parties and dinner nights, go fishing a lot more with Dad, etc.
- Talk to Danielle on the phone at least once a week, because holy shit, that girl is GOOD TIMES. Seriously, if you aren’t internet-stalking her, you are goddamn retarded.
Quit smoking. Fell in love. Not in that order. Moved in together. Built a patio. Didn’t go to the gym as much as I should have (see: “Fell in love / Moved in together.” He taught me how to sleep in!) Quit drinking daily coffee and switched to tea. Found a farm for mom, negotiated the sale, helped her move in and begin her retirement. Dropped the ball on a shitton of other stuff, but fuck it, I was busy this year. Lost a dear friend to Lung Cancer (see item #1). Quit my second job. Baked a lot of cookies, coffee cakes and casseroles. Spent a lot of time laughing and being happy (see item #2).
December 27th, 2005
This is a list of things I purchased for Christmas, and a list of people that I purchased them for. Mix-N-Match! Answer in the comments! Winner will be sent a gift of my choosing (see below), at some point in the new year!
1. A boot-scraper!
2. A Toothbrush! Sonicare!
3. $40 in Regal Cinema Gift Dollars!
4. A really awesome lightly-watched Sony Trinitron TV!
5. Some booze!
6. Not a damn thing!
B. My dad
C. My mom
D. His sister
E. His parents
F. YOU! And my brother
In breaking news, I buy the worst xmas presents ever. Almost as bad as my mother, who bought me three blankets. Because, you know. I am obviously freezing to death here in Richmond, Virginia, AKA “The Tundra.” (She bought me three blankets last year. And the year before. And three years ago. Ad nauseum.)
I bought myself a new cell phone on a new carrier (so that I could make calls, you know, from INSIDE MY HOUSE), but I bought a Razr 