Planking.

Foursquare. Do you really care that I’m at Target….again?

Tattoos. Much love to my friends who have them, but I just don’t get it.

Cupcakes.

Shark Week.




The Cheesecake Factory. Have you EVER been there when it’s not so crowded you’re touching strangers inappropriately?

American Idol.

Pinterest. (Didn’t Evernote do this first, and better?)

Christmas cards. To everyone I know: I wish you a very happy Christmas. There—done.

Chex Mix. It smells like cat food.

Fabric softener.

Citizen Kane.

Filed under: fun, life, lists

We’re halfway through July which means the Memorial-Day-through-Labor-Day-summer-season is also halfway over. (It also means the stores in Nashville have already loaded the shelves with a depressing explosion of binders, folders, and pencils for back to school.)


Time to take stock of the adventures thus far. Since Memorial Day I have……

—learned to boogie board at the New Jersey shore in possibly the coldest water outside of the Arctic Ocean.

—been stung in the neck by three wasps.

—sprayed a wasp nest with enough poison to kill every bug in the southeastern US.

—run 2.5 miles! Without stopping! Or swearing!

—added a touch more blonde to my hair. Why not?

 

—tried mountain biking.

—tried sitting on one, um, cheek until the purple, grapefruit-size mountain biking bruise on the other side healed.

—walked 467 miles through the lower east side of Manhattan during a Saturday afternoon downpour…..

— …..but also walked the High Line.

—planted a garden that refused to grow. Seriously. It just sits there.

—stayed at a 245-year-old bed and breakfast near Philadelphia.

—road tripped against my will to Mobile, Alabama and back. (There’s a reason videos like this and this always come from Alabama.)

—tried unsuccessfully to “establish dominance” with a 60-pound Siberian Husky.

—lived through the Great Cicada Invasion of 2011.

—lit fireworks and made root beer floats.


Just a few more weeks, folks! What adventures are you having this summer?

Filed under: fun, life, lists Tagged: belmar, cicada, high line, summer

Number of friends on Facebook: 628

Number of “friends” I’ve never met: 134


Number of bruises on my hind end after mountain biking last week: 3

Number of times I fell off the bike: 3

Number of times I’ll probably go biking again: 0






Number of old boyfriends whose birthdays I still remember for no reason: 7

Number of days each year I forget to take my multivitamin: 359

Number of times I’ve moved since college: 6

Number expressing my love of moving: -1004


Number of times I asked All Natural Lawns & Landscape to mow my lawn the last two weeks while I traveled: 2

Number of times they actually mowed: 0

Number I had to count to before calling them and expressing my unhappiness: 20

Number of comments on the CS version of Tuesday’s post: 17

Number that said I was doing  “violence to Scripture and to the sovereign character of God”: 1

Number of times I’ve decided to read through the Bible in a year: 5

Number of times I’ve actually read through the Bible in a year: 1

Number of years I’ve committed to journaling: 3

Number of years I’ve consistently written in my journal: 0

(Number of minutes I looked online to see if “journalled” was a word: 4)

Number of years I plan to make either resolution again: 0


Number of dollars I owe in library fines:

let’s just say I’m not allowed to borrow any more books right now.

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“The Only One ” — Lionel Richie

Most of Glee, Season 1

“Papa Don’t Preach” — Madonna (and, um, the Glee version of it)

“Morning Train” — Sheena Easton

“Mmmmbop” — Hanson




Almost anything by Rascal Flatts

“Raise Your Glass” — Pink

“Weekend in New England” — Barry Manilow

“Karma Chameleon” — Boy George

“I Want It That Way” — Backstreet Boys

“This is the Night” — Clay Aiken

“Hey Santa” — Wilson Phillips  (I know…….)

That Beyonce one


What song are you embarrassed to like?

Filed under: fun, lists Tagged: barry manilow, beyonce, glee, hanson, lionel richie, rascal flatts

David Beckham’s feet

was Jennifer Taylor ever on Seinfeld?  

undercover boss Amway

wallpaper dancing Macarena

Pirates of the Caribbean eye makeup

people worshiping eggs

pictures of pancreatitis

I wasted my twenties on the wrong man

warning nude beach

write down the number of people are involved in the whole process of getting a loaf of bread

Дэвид Бэкхем  (There are a LOT of Beckham fans out there.)

Filed under: fun, life, lists Tagged: David Beckham, Pirates of the Caribbean, Seinfeld. Macarena