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Watching: “That’s the trouble with “Have a nice day”. It puts all the pressure on you. Now you’ve got to go out and somehow manage to have a good time!”

Thinking: That’s what I get for looking up new words!

How to Annoy Me: Ignore me when I tell you to have a nice day.

How to Charm Me: Reassure me that I won’t go into my math test unprepared.

Quote of the Day: It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. – Stephen King

Random Quirk: It drives me crazy when people leave the tv/radio/lights on in a room they aren’t planning on immediately returning to. (This one has been inflicted on me by my father.)

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Listening: ‘Gives You Hell’ by The All American Rejects

Enjoying: “The Christian Thought Police” (Again, so very sadly true.)

Thinking: I need a kid to blame this on.

How to Annoy Me: Go flying through an icy roundabout when you have a bus full of children in your care.

How to Charm Me: Do your best to make me feel better, even though there’s nothing you can really do.

Quote of the Day: “Do or do not. There is no ‘try’.” – Yoda

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Daily How To 194

Listening: ‘Stolen’ by Dashboard Confessional

Enjoying: *sigh* This is so sadly true of church people.

Thinking: I must be insane.

How to Annoy Me: Pull over into my lane without signaling and almost hit my car.

How to Charm Me: Be the person I can connect with over the sadness.

Quote of the Day: Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. – Soren Kirkegaard

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Daily How To 193

Listening: ‘Why Does It Always Rain on Me?’ by Travis

Enjoying: “Still a way to go then.”

Thinking: This is such a mess….

How to Annoy Me: Compare me to a chimp running around with a nuke.

How to Charm Me: Make and keep a doctor’s appointment because you know that I need to know you are okay.

Quote of the Day: There are things we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life. – Author Unknown

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Watching: ‘Life’s for Sharing’ (Thanks Steven!)

Reading: ‘How to Kiss’ (I love step #2. “You might not realize you’re giving off a “leave me alone” vibe.” Sure I do. It’s intentional.)

Thinking: Que sera, sera….

How to Annoy Me: Inform me that the car wash won’t eat me but it might eat my car. SO NOT HELPFUL, JENN!

How to Charm Me: Inform me that though you once would have made me get my own chips, you would now share yours with me. You are so in trouble now, boy.

Quote of the Day: Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. – Plato

Random Quirk: I hate being on stairs of I can’t see my feet. (i.e. I’m carrying a box.)

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Daily How To 191

Listening: ‘Fade Into You’ by Mazzy Star

Thinking: At 24 years old, the car wash still freaks me out as much as it did when I was 6.

How to Annoy Me: I don’t want to go the route of dooce.com and get fired for talking about work in my blog but dear Lord, I could scream.

How to Charm Me: Reassure me that the car wash is not going to eat me.

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Watching: ‘JD and Turk’s Marching Band’ (I’ve been on a Scrubs kick recently and cracked up at this scene.)

Thinking: You know we’re in trouble when our hip hop instructor looks at me and goes “Oh, this is not going to work.” (Sorry Rashid! We are *white*!)

How to Annoy Me: Mock my inability to type on my phone. I realize there is no ‘h’ in scoliosis.

How to Charm Me: Ask if the huge bruise on my thigh is from sex. Um, no.

Quote of the Day: When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people. – Gelsey Kirkland

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Daily How To 189

Listening: ‘Pictures of You’ by The Cure

Enjoying: *This* is what my Barbies were missing all those years! Fake fur lingerie!

Thinking: I’m going to go against the grain and not say a word about the inauguration….damn it!

How to Annoy Me: “Spoon” me through Twitter.

How to Charm Me: Flirt with me while I get your coffee. (It depends on the day on whether I’m going to be charmed or annoyed by flirting.)

Quote of the Day: If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. – Marcel Proust

Random Quirk: I go through cycles where I keep everything and then I’ll just get the urge to throw everything away and completely clear stuff out!

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16 Random Things

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 16 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 16 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.

1. I love to dance.

2. I have no pouting abilities. I get nothing but mocked when I try to pout.

3. I have over 100 books waiting to be read.

4. I have Seasonal Affect Disorder.

5. I love butterflies.

6. I used to collect teddy bears.

7. I love my church and all the quirky, crazy people who attend.

8. I would rather clean houses and pet-sit than have a regular job.

9. My goal is to graduate college before I turn 30.

10. I love fuzzy socks.

11. I love folding laundry but hate the actual washing/drying part.

12. One of my favorite authors is N. T. Wright.

13. I didn’t kiss anyone until last year.

14. Gilmore Girls is one of my all-time favorite shows.

15. I love taking and looking at pictures.

16. Old black and white romantic comedies are some of my favorite movies.

(16 people tagged on Facebook.)

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Listening: ‘Time Bomb’ by Rancid

Reading: “Where’s the sobbing and curling up on the bathmat because it’s the darkest room in the house and because if you feel the vibration of the cat walking or hear one. more. sound. you’re going to need to have that toilet handy?”

Thinking: Yeah, migraine commercials are full of crap.

How to Annoy Me: Declare that if you make neither my annoy nor my charm list, you obviously are not a part of my life.

How to Charm Me: Send me a random “I love you” text while I’m at work.

Quote of the Day: Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policemen: always alert, always tense. But see, policemen don’t have to be beautiful at the same time. – George Balanchine

Random Quirk: I hate shoes that enclose my feet. If at all possible, I wear flip flops or shoes that just slip on so I can remove them once I get where I’m going.

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