(This week’s Love List theme was suggested by my lovely roommate, Catherine, who has absolutely no shameful loves whatsoever. NOT.)
Hello!
It’s Friday!
It’s not raining!
That’s a lot to be thankful for, right there.
That’s why this week’s love list will be SO FULL OF LOVE THAT YOU JUST CAN’T HELP BUT LOVE IN RESPONSE.
But it won’t be a normal love list… no. In fact, it might make you feel a little… awkward.
This week’s love list will be based on the themes explored here and here. Need to get inspired? The comments on those posts are MAGIC.
That’s right… it’s time to haul the skeletons out of your closet and discover your innate capacity to embarrass yourself in public spheres.
Oh, wait… is that just me?
Sigh.
Without further ado, here’s an Insta-Rorshach of my personal shame spiral (And as always, feel free to do your own in comments, or post one at your blog… and no being mean about anyone else’s shame! Only good-natured ribbing will be accepted!):
SHAMEFUL THINGS I LOVE:
McDonald’s french fries (and milkshakes, and… oh, screw it… chicken mcnuggets and cheeseburgers and the McDonaldland cookies that are soooo good if you dip them in the triple-thick chocolate milkshake… ooooh)
CNN coverage of many, many embarrassing things
Watching the Weather Network Highway Conditions obsessively, waiting to see the red “Closed” locations
Long drink orders at Starbucks
Most fashion magazines I can get my hands on (InStyle, Vogue, Elle, Allure, Marie Claire, W… sigh)
Assorted other trashy hits by: Christina Aguilera, Color Me Badd (ack!), Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock, Kenny Loggins, Def Leppard, Kylie Minogue, ABBA, Jackson 5 and KISS… and so many more
Dancing around my house like Tom Cruise in Risky Business
Online IQ/Meyers-Briggs/etc. tests that really don’t tell you anything useful
The Real Housewives of Orange County (my father will be horrified)
Velour hoodies
Cherry Kool-Aid
True crime shows like 48 Hours Mystery and American Justice
Reruns of So You Think You Can Dance (never current… and only in the afternoons, in my pajamas)
Certain songs by the following boy bands and boy band breakout stars (ironic term alert!): Backstreet Boys (6 songs), N’Sync (10 songs), Jordan Knight (1 song), Justin Timberlake (2 albums!)
Those blue/red/white rocket popsicles
Emerald green eyeshadow
Smelling like a fabric softener sheet
Smelling like a cookie
Wearing yoga pants out of the house
Smelling like a mango
Kraft Dinner
Giggly texting fun
Sparkly lotion on the shoulders
Giant sunglasses
Chef Boyardee Mini Ravioli
Donettes (no, I’m not misspelling donuts… check it out)
$7 Old Navy tank tops in EVERY COLOUR IMAGINABLE! (I pretty much end up wearing one daily)
Hawaiian Tropic ANYTHING (except the bikini contest… echhh)
Too Faced Extreme Lip Injection (yes, I set my lips on fire daily)
Tater Tots
Slurpees
Wendy’s Frosty drinks
Chewing bubble gum and making GIANT bubbles
The following actors… and not because of the movies they make or EVEN SAYING A WORD: Ryan Reynolds, Jonathan Bennett, Gabriel Macht, Ryan Gosling… just to name a few.
And… uh… you?
The website I am about to start. It begins on Monday. I will routinely embarrass the sh*t out of myself. Come on over and gawk.
I’m not ashamed of being in love with:
1. Ryan Reynolds. And I’m going to go see him in a special, pre-screening on Monday Feb 11th. Got free passes thanks to Lainey!
2. Ryan Reynolds. Oops. Said that already. Now that I am ashamed of.
3. Curry chicken (six helpings, thank you very much).
4. Hot microwaveable burritos.
5. Spending the day at home and NOT working (even though Friday is my work at home day).
6. Warm winter clothes.
7. I am loving local blogs: you, Darren, Paul, Rebecca, etc.
1. Cadbury Creme Eggs. In England, they sell them YEAR-ROUND. Applying for visa now…
2. Jeff Goldblum.
3. Occasional hits of Us Weekly.
4. Handbag blogs, although I can’t afford anything they write about.
5. Jeopardy.
Not that it’s shameful, but I still love coming here and finding you.
And what’s not to love about Donette’s? Especially the white-powdered-spill-all-over-yourself kind!
The selection of music on my iPod Touch. 1992 Alanis, anyone?
Something I ate yesterday. Sorry for being so vague, but it felt soooo gooooood afterwards! I sure wish I could remember what it was.
Easter Creme Eggs
Junior Caramels
Donettes. Note to self: Buy some asap.
Chocolate milk
Potentially, the combination of the previous two
High-speed Internet. Preferably 6MBps or faster. Two of the three local providers offer only 1.5MBps at a reasonable price.
Original Mini-eggs
Oreos
Double Stuf Oreos
Late afternoon/early evening naps
Lost
My heavily tweaked Treo 750
The effort required to tweak the above
Moleskines, even though I abhor the single-use nature of paper
McDonalds almost anything
Dairy Queen onion rings
Heinz ketchup
Caffeine-free Diet Pepsi
Crunchy Jif peanut butter
Lately, Japanese food. There is a terrible dearth of Japanese food around here. I feel guilty whenever I make/eat some and there is someone else in the vicinity because it’s so non-readily available. Almost like I’m expected to give them the Japanese food that I so dearly crave at that point in time.
Fondling my orange iPod sock. I completely ignore the other five colours.
The fact that I have three monkeys, a frog, and a hedgehog sitting beside me, because I don’t usually care for stuffed animals
The fact that I went into a grocery store twice today and came out empty-handed both times. Forgot the donettes.
Reading blogs when I could be doing other, *potentially* more important things. That *potentially* makes all the difference in the world.
1. Watching old reruns of Murder She Wrote, Matlock or Miami Vice.
2. Fried chicken gizzards
3. Still love most of the 80′s fashions with the big hair, clunky jewelry and monster shoulder pads. I wanted to look like the women in Dynasty.
4. Fake pink Flamingos. Oh how I love them!
5. Big hair metal bands of the 80′s.
6. Tator Tots. Actually go to a local bar aka The Highlander here in Atlanta just for their Tator Tots!
Oh my gosh! yay shameful list! You are AWESOME!
- Crappy television, and flicking between 2 or 3 crappy shows at once.
- Turning all the lights on in the house and wasting electricity
- Backstreet boys (what’s with all their songs with the same name? Incosolable, Incomplete, blah blah..)
- Personal emails at work.
Many many other embarassing things. You probably know more than me. :)
Oh my gosh, how I love Donettes. I like the waxy “chocolate” covered ones.
Also:
Undressed on MSN where they make fun of the badly-dressed celebrities
Spaghetti-Os
These jeans I’m wearing which are from Target. The juniors section. And I am 30.
Old Navy rubber flip flops
Taco Bell
Spending all day on Saturdays in sweats on the couch watching What Not to Wear (now that football is over.)
Watching terrible movies with my former roommate just because they had Matthew McConaughey, Michael Vartan, or Dermot Mulroney in them.
Cultural note:
I once shared a fax machine with the as-I-recall newly-launched (1980s) W magazine’s advertising department–all of whom looked like runway models. They would frequently bring me press releases about desiccant dehumidification systems and say something like, “I assume this is yours?”. Their nails were perfect.
RM
Dip a tablespoon into a jar of peanut butter, filling it half way. Dip the same tablespoon into a thing of cream cheese, filling the other half. Lick it casually while reading Cosmo, US Weekly, or People. That is the way I spent my Saturday.
I also played The Sims for a good ten hours; I haven’t played it since I was a teenager and it’s very obvious that I’ve grown up. Before, I would see how many ways I could make my Sim people die or get abducted or something else along those lines. Now I’m all “Okay, she has to go to work. She has to make 3 friends. She has to take a shower. She has to read a book. She has to be very responsible so she’s promoted.” I think on some subconcious level, if I’m able to make my Sim acheive greatness then my own life will turn out the same way.
I Love:
1. frozen pizza (cooked, of course)
2. eating Dove dark chocolate in inappropriate amounts
3. reading The National Enquirer, but only on the beach…
4. when noone’s around and I can watch cheesy TV (like Scarecrow and Mrs. King, for instance.)
Just the one’s I’ll admit to. Sometimes.
bad reality TV (A shot of Love with Tila Tequila comes to mind.) They suck me in cause they are SO ridiculous.
Zoey 101…on nickelodeon. If i miss an episode my 6 year old will fill me in on what happened.
MySpace. yep, i’m still completely addicted.
Ok! magazine. my bff makes so much fun of me for reading the “smut” every single week.
Reeses Puffs cereal. there is nothing better on a saturday morning than chocolatey peanut-buttery goodness.
“Let’s hear it for the boy” – yeah that one was a total secret until now.
Half Baked by Ben & Jerry’s – what could be better than chocolate and vanilla ice cream with brownie chunks AND cookie dough!?!?
I could go on all day…but I’ll refrain. hehe :)