Daily How To 120

Listening: ‘If I Never See Your Face Again’ by Maroon 5 featuring Rihanna

Thinking: Being called to forebear one another may not be new but it’s still hard.

How to Annoy Me: Be so pestful that 5 minutes into church, I’m getting up and moving so I can actually listen to my pastor. Jesus didn’t say I had to forebear *you*!

How to Charm Me: Tell me you’re going to “sell all of my possessions to the poor per our pastor’s instructions last week”.

Quote of the Day: Meekness also protects us from the fatigue of being easily offended. There are so many just waiting to be offended. They are so alerted to the possibility that they will not be treated fairly, they almost incite the verification of their expectation! The meek, not on such a fatiguing alert, find rest from this form of fatigue. – Neal A. Maxwell

(Not So) Daily How To 119

Listening: ‘Headlock’ by Imogen Heap

Reading: My math book.

Thinking: Who pours sugar into the trash can?!

How to Annoy Me: Give me homework that can only be done on my computer so that if I don’t have my computer, I can’t really do my homework!

How to Charm Me: Only mock me a little bit over the sugar thing…

Quote of the Day: There are only two things our customers have, time and money – and they don’t like spending either one of them, so we better sell them their hamburgers quickly. – James McLamore, the founder of Burger King

Daily How To 118

Listening: ‘It’s Good to Be in Love’ by Frou Frou

Reading: ‘Say, Just Whose Choreography is This?’

Thinking: Yeah, I’m just a little bit over you.

How to Annoy Me: Complain that I’m trying to pick a fight with you and then pick a fight with me!

How to Charm Me: Laugh at my affected disinterest in you and your absence.

Quote of the Day: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villian. – The Dark Knight

Daily How To 117

Listening: ‘Crush’ by Dave Matthews Band

Reading: ‘Eros – A Holy Passion’

Thinking: What the hell made my blog stats jump so high? Not like I posted naked pictures.

How to Annoy Me: Change your mind 1000 times. Americans are so frakking spoiled! People in Africa take what is given to them and are GRATEFUL FOR IT!

How to Charm Me: Inform me that on top of ‘Hell Boy’ being your favorite movie, ‘Smooth Criminal’ is your favorite song. Child Protective Services, here we come!

Quote of the Day: We are half-hearted creatures, fooling around with drink and sex and ambition, when infinite joy is offered us like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday by the sea. – C. S. Lewis

Daily How To 116

Watching: ‘Steve Harvey’s Don’t Trip: He Ain’t Through with Me Yet’

Reading: Underwear Size vs. Clothing Size

Thinking: No more headaches…please.

How to Annoy Me: Talk all through the class while I’m trying to listen. Some of us are here to learn!

How to Charm Me: Help me find where we’re eating for lunch and then get to school.

Quote of the Day: A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep. – Anonymous

Daily How To 115

Watching: ‘Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome’

Thinking: Why is the rum gone?!

How to Annoy Me: Use the fact that you were just in church hearing about God’s forgiveness to act like a complete jackass to the waitress/waiter/cashier/whoever you deem beneath your holy self. THIS IS WHY PEOPLE HATE CHRISTIANS!!! And why I am often ashamed to call myself one. I am not ashamed of Christ. But I am ashamed of His followers a good portion of the time.

How to Charm Me: Fight with me when I’m being stupid about something.

Quote of the Day: I like your Christ but I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. – Gandhi

Daily How To 114

Listening: ‘Henry Poole is Here’

Reading: “He never left…”

Thinking: Do convents have WiFi?

How to Annoy Me: Get crabby about something free. It’s FREE!

How to Charm Me: Tell me I’m your hero because I’ve drank almost every night this week. Future Alcoholics, unite!

Would You Rather Weekend: If you had to be an animal, would you rather be a land animal or sea creature?

Daily How To 113

Listening: ‘Let Go’ by Frou Frou

Reading: The 5 bagillion Twitter updates you people sent today!

Thinking: I have to pee, I have to pee, I have to pee…

How to Annoy Me: Start barking 2 seconds after I let you outside.

How to Charm Me: Free is good.

Quote of the Day: Faith isn’t faith until it’s all you’re holding onto. – Unknown

Daily How To 112

Listening: ‘Like A Dog Chasing Cars’ from ‘The Dark Knight’

Reading: I didn’t go to the concert this year. Now I wish I had. Rest in peace, LeRoi.

Thinking: To insure or not to insure, that is the question.

How to Irritate the Living Hell Out of Me: Tell me I need a man. Don’t make me break the 6th commandment.

How to Charm Me: Tell me there are no stupid questions. (I will then make a point of proving you wrong but you’re still sweet. )

Quote of the Day: You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea. – Medgar Evers (“Ideas are bulletproof…”)

Daily How To 111

Watching: ‘Reimagine’ by Mark Scandrette

Reading: OMG, Bernie Mac died?!

Thinking: I am so out of the loop.

How to Annoy Me: Too sick to remember.

How to Charm Me: Keep me laughing to get me through the day.