"Getting to know you, getting to know all about you..."

I stole this from Remy who stole it from Amanda who stole it from Liz who stole it from Mindy!
I'm a klepto.

1. What time did you get up this morning?

7:20am Banana Pancakes begins to play, 7:37am, I finally make it out of bed.

2. How do you like your steak?

On the rare side of medium rare

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?

Underworld: Whatever the newest one in the saga is called, it wasn't my choince

4. What is your favorite TV show?

If I listed all of the shows that I watch which are all my favorite, it would take forever to read through, so here's what I've watched in the past two days:

Dowton Abbey, The Finder, Touch, Big Bang Theory, One Tree Hill, Top Chef, Face Off...there are so many that I can't even think of right now. 
5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?

As for right now, I'm content where I live

6. What did you have for breakfast?

Cherry tomatoes. The fuckers in the lab meeting after my Fellows' lecture ate all the damn bagels.

7. What is your favorite food?

Sushi I guess. Not really sure. Shrimp?

8. Foods you dislike?

There aren't foods that I truly dislike.

9. Favorite place to eat?

I don't even know.

10. Favorite dressing?

Caesar or some kind of vinegar/vinaigrette that I throw together

11. What kind of vehicle do you drive?

Camry

12. What are your favorite clothes?

Not sure I have any. I have 175 shirts, that probably tells you something.

13. Where would you visit if you had the chance?

Southeast Asia

14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full?

I drink out of bottles

15. Where would you want to retire?

I can't even think about retiring right now. I just want to get through the day.

16. Favorite time of day?

In the evening after I've showered.

17. Where were you born?

New York, NY

18. What is your favorite sport to watch?

Football (AMERICAN)

19. What is your favorite fragrance?

Too many.

20. What is your favorite face cream?

I use C.O. Bigelow

21. Favorite baby/kids products? 

I don't have kids, but I like buying baby clothes on sale from Children's Place?

22. People watcher?

Often

23. Are you a morning or night person?

Fuck mornings.

24. Do you have any pets?

Not at the moment, but I might be naming the two flies that refuse to leave my room soon.

25. Any new and exciting news you’d like to share?

My head might explode.

26. What did you want to be when you were little?

I had no dreams/aspirations. At one point I wanted to be a Neurosurgeon. LOL.

27. What is your favorite memory?

I tend not to remember good things unless something reminds me of them, so I'll wait for that trigger to go off before I give you this one.

28. Are you a cat or dog person?

Dog

29. Are you married?

Nope

30. Always wear your seat belt?

Only in the front seat, or if I'm feeling particularly afraid for my life in the back

31. Been in a car accident?

Two.

32. Any pet peeves?

An absurd amount

33. Favorite pizza toppings?

Vegetables of all sorts, but mostly mushrooms and olives (from the can).

34. Favorite flower?

Lillies I suppose, I don't really have one. I like Lantanas and Jasmine too.

35. Favorite ice cream?

Ice cream makes me sick most of the time, but either green tea or chunky monkey

36. Favorite fast food restaurant?

Wendy's. I HARDLY eat fast food though.

37. How many times did you fail your driver’s test?

Once.

38. From whom did you get your last email?

One of the Doctors I work with.

39. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?

I wouldn't max a credit card out, but I probably could at a plethora of places.

40. Do anything spontaneous lately?

This.

41. Like your job?

At this very moment, not so much. In general, yes.

42. Broccoli?

Love.

43. What was your favorite vacation?

I've gone on a lot of them. Probably my first trip to Jamaica. It was pretty brilliant. I've had a lot of bad vacations...jeez.

44. Last person you went out to dinner with? 

Rashad. I had lunch out with my mom yesterday though.

45. What are you listening to right now?

Boys of Summer - Ataris

46. What is your favorite color?

Turquoise and Yellow

47. How many tattoos do you have?

None right now.

48. Coffee drinker?

Not at all.

Venting

The people I work with are frustrating the shit out of me. Not necessarily my coworkers, but the Fellows that I "manage". I'm about to break some heads.

Chances are I will post again later, but I needed to get that off my chest because I'm seriously about to lash out and kill one of them.

Do they think I send them emails for my own goddamn benefit? I know they're busy, but they won't be very busy when they're not reappointed for next academic; and they won't be very happy when their paychecks are not processed by New York State mandate.

A face to face meeting with these people may be on the schedule in the VERY near future.

I'm participating: It's OK Thursdays

So every week I read Mo's "It's OK" Thursday, and I've decided to participate. It's one of my new Chinese New Year's resolutions, participation.

Here goes:

It's OK...

• To be watching Downton Abbey and Project Runway at work
• To have a major emotional/mental break down last week that throw you off my "getting healthy" game
• To wish it were next Thursday, even if that means skipping over a birthday
• To not have plans to celebrate your 25th birthday
• To triple book yourself for a day where you will probably end up doing very little
• To get excited over silly little presents (i.e. Stress balls from the Real Estate Office)
• To constantly have to remind myself not to message certain people
• To lose bets, even if it really sucks
• To not have chemistry on dates, if you think you can be friends after
• To be annoyed that you have to drive this weekend, even if it's to see awesome people
• To not understand foreign accents on the phone. "WHAT?" "I don't understand" is acceptable for certain calls.
• To go to "thumbs up" a song, and realize you're listening to your mp3 player not Pandora
• To convince yourself you're completely immune to pesticides and not wash produce before you eat it
• To wish you could see your best friends more often
• To get agitated when people tell you about unnecessary things that will obviously "upset you"
• To be playing phone tag, and be OK with delaying confrontation
• To be sad that you can't go somewhere, even if you know it would be awkward if you did
• To be procrastinating restaurant week. It happens twice a year. Relax.
• That most of these things I'm not actually OK with, but I'm working on it
• To want to keep going with things that are "OK" but have to stop because you're at work

What's Ok with you today?! 
Link up with Amber & Neely 

7 Deadly Sins - Link up

Another of my Chinese New Year's Resolutions is to do more linking up and commenting. So I thought this one would be snazzy to do.  So, Shane of Whispering Sweet Nothings is hosting a Seven Deadly Sins link-up.

pride

seven great things in your life.

1.I have great parents

2.A cheap place to live, even if it's in my parent's house

3. That I don't have to want for anything,

4. My job and coworkers being pleasant

5. That I have the means to vacation (semi-regularly)

6. My ability to spell

7. General good health

envy

seven things you lack and covet

1. More friends

2. More vacation time

3. Love in a healthy relationship

4. To be invited to more events and actually attend

5. Being interested in someone who's interested in me

6. A good hobby

7. An organized house

wrath

seven things that make you angry

1. Weekend construction on the MTA

2 Unsolicited advice

3. Having to listen to other peoples' too loud music in public places over my own

4.Screaming children on airplanes

5.Bad odors

6. My mother starting fights with me in the morning (we've lived together for over 20 years, you know I do not respond well to bullshit in the AM, especially in the kitchen over something stupid)

7. Living so far from people I want to spend more time with

sloth

seven things that you neglect to do.

1.Sweep/Vacuum

2. Double check before I send out schedules

3. Exercise regularly

4. Take out the garbage (I'll just wait for my dad/cleaning person to do it...)

5. Throw away bags (I need to stop collecting them - I'm talking plastic/paper ones here)

6.Organizing my kitchen and third floor rec room

7. Bring things down to the basement instead of leaving them at the top of the stairs.

greed

seven worldly material desires.

1. Crockpot or pressure cooker that I might never use

2. To go to multiple restaurant week dinners

3. New boobs, less arms (Pending 2/15)

4. Property in Jamaica so that I don't have to pay to stay there anymore

5. Unlimited travel time/money

6.  A larger group of friends

7. Less cellulite

gluttony

seven guilty pleasures.

1. Online Shopping

2.Too much television (I love my DVR)

3.Overeating

4. Dark Chocolate

5.Spending all weekend in the house/bed

6.Buying in excess (everything!)

7. Procrastinating at work

lust

seven things you love about love

1. Hugs

2. Having someone to experience things with

3. Reliability

   4. Laughter

5. Meaningful sex

6. Presents/Surprises (giving and receiving)

7.Getting to know someone

Dealbreaker: Sick suggestions

So my Chinese New Year's resolution was going to be to try and be more positive, but screw that.

I've been thinking recently about my relationship/interest in men dealbreakers are.The reason I've been thinking about this is because every time I get a cold/injured/sick, whatever it may be, I think my BIGGEST dealbreaker comes to the surface. Let me explain.

I am going to be 25 years old, one week from today. Which means I will be concluding my 25th year on this planet. I have had a cold, a stomach virus, an injury or some other sickness more than once in my life. I have had food poisoning. I have had stitches (twice for the same thing). I have had surgery twice. I have had stomach viruses. I've had common colds. I've popped blood vessels in my eye. I've had bacterial infections. I've cut open my own infected cuts to get the pus out (I did this two days ago actually). I've fallen more times than I can count. I've gotten my hand caught in a ceiling fan. I've gotten mugged. I've had a sore throat. I've fallen on my face. I've pulled muscles. I've had shin splints. I've had plantar fasciitis. I've had pityriasis rosea. I've been kneed in the eye socket. I've had second degree burns covering a good percentage of my body. I've been scarred. I've been sliced open. I've had a sore throat.

Basically, what I'm saying, is I know how to handle it. When I tell you I'm under the weather, that is not open season for you to make suggestions as to how I should/can take care of myself.

"Are you drinking tea?"

"No..."

"You need tea."

THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. If I thought I needed tea, or if I wanted tea, I would get myself some damn tea. Are you going to bring me some? Because if not, please don't tell me what the hell I need. I've been taking care of myself for years. I was not a whiny sick kid. I do not like to be coddled. I don't want to be attended to and waited on. I would rather curl up in my bed and deal with it my goddamn self. I don't need your "expert" opinion because you've had a handful of colds in your life before.


"Have you taken anything? Medication?"

"No, it's not that bad."

"You should take something......have you taken anything yet?"

WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TO TELL ME WHAT I SHOULD OR SHOULDN'T PUT IN MY BODY? Or for that matter, how do you know what I need? Do you have some kind of special rapport with my immune system that I wasn't aware of? Are you sending out my white blood cells to take care of infections? Did my nose tell you I needed a tissue? Did my throat tell you I needed a cough drop? What about my stomach, did it tell you that it could use some pepto? NO, MOTHERFUCKER, IT DID NOT.

I'm pretty in tune with my body and what I need. I know when I need meds. I know when I need tea. I know when I need OJ. I know when I need a tissue, chloraseptic, pepto, an antacid...etc. I know. Seriously, I do.

I also know when I do not need your opinion, and guess what...I don't need your opinion.

Jesus Christ. If one more guy that I've known for only a few weeks tells me that I need to take a damn pill, or drink some tea, like I'm an invalid that is laying around unable to make decisions about my health, I'm going to scream.


And then I'll need a throat lozenge.

All's quiet on the Eastern front

My emotional breakdown has passed.

I'm not miserable, my room is cleaner and I feel more like an adult. I gave myself a week to sulk and wallow, it's done now.

Football pretty much ruined my Sunday. Fuck the Giants, that's all I have to say. It's painful being a New Yorker and a Giants hater sometimes. It was pretty hard watching the 49ers fall apart yesterday, almost as hard as watching the Ravens blow the win. Bummer for the kicker.

I have come to a calm point with EPT. Que sera sera. I'm just letting what will be, be. It's way better that way.

That being said, I owe him a damn bottle of vodka because the Giants won yesterday. Bittersweet, because we will probably share the bottle, but I'm still pissed at the 49ers.

I went shopping a lot last week. All of my sparkly shirts, arrived. I'm wearing one today. Pretty excited. Going to return one of them, maybe two, otherwise, my wardrobe now shines! I also have 170 other shirts that I can wear at any given time. It's pretty sick actually. More than "pretty sick" it's an obsession. I went to Arden B and bought 5 new shirts/dresses on Monday.

I went to Children's place and bought baby clothes for the million baby girls that have been/will be born in the near future.

I went to this jewelry store and got myself 6 new bracelets. I'm currently wearing one of them, which I think is a step in the right direction. I paid my credit card bill and still have a little money, so maybe things aren't that bad.

I have a dinner and a movie date tonight. Things are looking up, although not WAY up.

My birthday is still on Tuesday, and I'm still getting a little sad about that. One of the Canadians is coming into town on Friday though so I'm pretty happy about that. I will be doing stuff this weekend.

I briefly toyed with the idea of going to Philly on Saturday because one of my "friends" from Philly that I met in Jamaica two years ago, invited B and I down there for a family dinner. We had fun last time, but in the midst of planning to go down there, I heard that she had been speaking to B about my behavior down there and how she was upset.

I must admit, I did something really fucking stupid the first time I was there, but as soon as my blackout drunk ass realized what was happening, I put the kibosh on the situation. I apologized to her last weekend (it was a part of my mental break down). However, I learned during the week that she was upset about what I did the second time I was there, but we seem to have differing memories as to what happened and while she responded to my apology, she didn't respond to my message wondering why she didn't just come to me with her issues with me, and asking her to call me so we could clear up what actually happened when I was out there. I'm really tired of people always going to B first. If you have a problem with me, man the fuck up and talk to ME about it. She is not my mom, my therapist, or my bodyguard, STOP INVOLVING HER.

Everyone fucking does that. It's really irritating and creates a lot of he said she said. I'd rather hear directly from the source what the issue is, I'm adult enough to handle it. I'm also adult enough to admit when I'm wrong and apologize if I am/was.

All in all, I'm not going to Philly this weekend. I'm sad that I won't get to go to Wines and Spirits, because I would really like some cheap liquor, but whatever. I should keep myself out of stupid situations that I know will come back to bite me in the ass A YEAR later, right?

Maybe I am still a bit bitter about all of this. I might send her another message today. I'll keep you updated.

5 stages of grief

Injuries I've sustained in the last 12 hours:

• Burnt the tip of my tongue on burning sugar/plastic
• Scratched up all of the fingers on my right hand to the point of bleeding thanks to the zipper on my bag
• Scratched my upper lip almost cutting it open, I guess my thumbnail is too long
• Burnt the shit out of my lower lip/tongue on too hot oatmeal

Did I tell you that I cut my finger and palm open on the top of a can of creamed corn last week? Well I think my finger may be infected.

I might have the flu, or just a cold and taking the medication for it caused me to forget to take my vitamins.

I'm just about ready to give up. I think I've moved onto the anger stage of grieving (I've been IRATE, all morning). Not sure what I'm grieving though, maybe the loss of my happiness? Who knows.