Eleven Favorites: Old-School Blogging

It’s that time of the month again, kids!

No, not that time.  Jeez, Mavis.  Although can we all agree that that time of the month has worn out its welcome already?  Can I get an Amen?

Yeah.  I didn’t really intend for this to be a period post.

But you started it.

Anyway.

Elaine from the Miss Elaine-ous Life and Krystyn of Really, Are You Serious? teamed up this month to do another Old School Blogging link-up, and I decided to join in again for two reasons: 1) because it’s so much fun, and 2) I like taking things back to the old school because I’m an old fool who’s so cool.

I think both of those reasons are the same, but eh, I don’t care about being redundant.  Whoomp! There it is.

Let’s get started, shall we?

A few of my favorite things:

1. Sit-down Restaurant:  I like the “sit-down” qualifier of this item, as opposed to “stand-up” restaurant, which would be my kitchen, because I eat many meals standing at my kitchen counter, scarfing food into my trap because when the hungries take control who can find the time to sit down properly and eat?   

Really, though, when we moved to the eastern part of Pennsylvania a million years ago, I was pleasantly surprised to find that most pizza places around here make the kind of pizza I remembered from the Jersey Shore vacations of my youth.  Huge slices with a thin crust, just the perfect amount of sauce and cheese and seasonings.  You fold it up and eat it like a pizza sandwich and here it is early morning and I’m drooling over it already.  We’ve tried all of the pizza joints around here, and we’ve never been disappointed.

2. Cookie:  I love a good sugar cookie.  I hate making them.  But my mom is really good at making them, and she can bang out a batch in an hour, so I just eat them when she makes them, which isn’t often since I live far away from her.  Which happens to be a blessing because I can eat twelve at a time.

OMG

3. Bath product scent:  Lavender.  I just love it.  I ten-O loooooooooove lavender.  The color, the flower, the smell, the beautiful lavender fields.  When I die please let heaven be lavender-scented.  I shall be a lavender farmer there.  Lavender lavender lavender.

photo courtesy of freedigitalphotos/prozac1

 4. TV shows:  Project Runway.  Suits.  Downton Abbey.  Mad Men.  Parenthood.  CBS Sunday Morning – Charles Osgood, man.  Funniest guy on television.

5. Flower/plant:  I get a kick out of growing tropical plants outside in our temperate climate.  It gets very hot and humid in the summer, which is perfect for them, but you have to bring them inside in the winter so they don’t freeze and die.  If I adopt any more tropical plants we may need to build a greenhouse.  I’m not kidding.

 

6. Bad-for-me snack:  Candy.  All kinds.  I don’t even care if it’s the gross kind, like those weird gross gummies that my kids bring home from trick-or-treating.  But I kind of do care.  Can we stop the gross gummies on Halloween already?  Mama likes Butterfingers.

7. Magazines:  I stopped reading magazines because they took up so much of my time.  My husband is always trying to buy me magazine subscriptions from his leftover airline miles.  I’m all, No way, man!  I cannot spend another twelve hours of my life reading the fall issue of Vogue.

8. Hobby (besides blogging):  I like to party.

9. Holiday.  Easter and Halloween.  Each is my favorite for different reasons, but mostly because of the low stress/high candy factors.

10. Girls’ Night Out Activity.  Anything as long as it involves conversation.  I love a good Girls’ Night In, actually, where someone invites me to her house because I always stress about having people over and not having enough food/drinks even though I usually have enough food/drinks for a small team of oxen and their drivers.  Going out with women can be a huge pain because of the bill. Women hate to split the bill, and invariably there's someone who's all, "Oh, I ate before I came, and I only had one drink and shared a salad.  So my portion comes to six-eighty."  If you are this person, stop it right now.  Split the bill.

11. Date Night.  Dinner and a movie.  And for the love of everything holy, if it’s a date, the MAN ASKS THE WOMAN AND TAKES CARE OF EVERYTHING.  Don’t ask me if I want to go out, and then expect ME to arrange all the details and OMG, I have to PAY, TOO? 

Like I said, I’m old school.

Tag, you’re it!  Join in the fun and link up with either Elaine or Krystyn and share your own favorite things!  Be sure to use #OSBlog on Twitter and tweet with @SeriousKrystyn or @elainea if that’s your speed.  And when you’re done with that, call me up.  We’ll party.

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