Full disclosure: I got this awesome idea from the one and only Miss Kaylee. I am not cool enough to come up with stuff like this on my own.
I've always been a talker. As basically anyone who knows me well could tell you, I tend to process things best when I talk them out. Over the years, my inner monologue, and thus what I end up saying, has evolved considerably, and I often catch myself saying things that I never thought I would say. A few examples... I don't care if it's only 7:30pm, I'm tired, and I want to go to bed. Um, no thanks, I don't really want to go out to dinner tonight. Good grief, I have to shower again? I JUST DID IT YESTERDAY. Well, I don't have my planner in front of me right now, so I honestly have no idea if I'm free at that time. Mornings are my least favorite thing. (Just kidding, that's not new, that's been around forever. Haha.) Flossing is seriously like, my favorite thing. Good grief, can't people write songs about anything other than sex anymore? I wish my dad was here. (That's not a new thing either, if we're being honest. But it is something I say every day.) No, I really don't want any candy. Except those Three Musketeers bars in the cupboard aren't going to eat themselves. I should definitely work out today. I definitely didn't work out today. I'm such a failure. Ugh, I hate grocery shopping. Can't we pay somebody to do that for us?? Are you kidding me? No, I'm not paying that much for that. Absolutely not. *sigh* I wish I had more money. Good grief, I have absolutely no sense of style whatsoever. I am such an embarrassment to myself every time I leave the house. I love technology, but seriously, it's really kind of a pain in the ass. WHY DO HIGH HEELS HAVE TO BE A THING??? Ugh, I'm so old. All my bones hurt. It's going to rain today. I can feel it in my bones. (Side note: I'm right on that front about 95% of the time.) Well, if I already ate dinner, then that means my day is basically over, so I can go fall asleep now, right?
What do you say every day as an adult that you didn't really see coming??
This picture has nothing to do with anything. It's just a funny picture of a guy skydiving with a dog.
My brain is kind of in weird word-vomit kind of place right now, so I apologize in advance for the insanity that will be this post.
Three things that make me crazy....because I spent half this morning with my jaw hanging open at people's stupidity:
1 // I hate it when I'm waiting in line somewhere (like Starbucks), and there are like three or four people in front of me, so like basically, the person right in front of me has plenty of time to peruse the menu and think through the Starbucks offerings and decide what they want, but they don't, so when they finally get to the front of the line, and I'm all excited that I'm next, they take THREE BLOODY MINUTES to figure out what they want. And then they change their order halfway through its creation. This exact situation happened to me this morning, so the irritation is still a little fresh.
2 // It drives me nuts when people don't use their turn signals when they're driving. I can't read your mind, losers!! How am I supposed to know that you're trying to get over into my lane? There is really no reason for you to speed up to be even with me, just to slow back down so you can move into the lane behind me. Unless the reason is just to flip me off, in which case it's still completely unacceptable and also rude. Jack wagon.
3 // Boyfriend tells me I am high-maintenance for this, but it drives me nuts when there are a bunch of empty tables in a room or restaurant, and people come and sit down right next to where I am. I don't know why it irritates me so much - I know it's completely snotty and irrational on my part. But it just does.
Three sports related things (just so I can link up with Sara):
1 // The stinky Minnesota Vikings finally had their first win on US soil last night, against the Redskins. It's about dang time, Minnesota. Get your shiznit together. (Quick side note: There's all this hulabaloo lately about the Redskins having a "racist" team name or whatever...how does everyone feel about that?)
2 // Hockey is back! And though I don't really actually care about it slash really don't care at all, Wild games are still really fun to go to, so hopefully I will get to go to at least one game this year.
3 // THE BEARS BEAT THE PACKERS ON MONDAY NIGHT. This is actually probably like the best news ever for me, since I'm a Bears fan and a Packers anti-fan (which basically means I hate them). Shannon and I had a lovely little Twitter war going on for a few minutes on Monday, but then I fell asleep like a loser before the game ended so I couldn't even properly gloat. That part sucked. But the Packers losing part was still pretty awesome.
Seven things that are completely unrelated to anything, including each other:
1 // I am going to make a delicious dip for Fat Sunday this week. It's really easy, consisting only of cream cheese, sausage crumbles, and Rotel dip. And it's worth every dang calorie in it. So I'm pretty jazzed about that.
2 // Family Christmas is officially scheduled, and people from the outlying parts of the country are procuring plane tickets and everything, which makes it even cooler. I CAN'T FREAKING WAIT.
3 // Starbucks is having a BOGO on holiday beverages November 14th-17th from 2-5pm. You're welcome.
4 // Boyfriend and I hit up the amateur hour at the local comedy club last night. It was basically as to be expected, I suppose. Some of the performers were straight up terrible and got nothing but pity laughs (or drunk laughs from the crazy girls sitting next to us - see #3 annoyance above), but some of them were actually really good, and really funny. It made me think of Taylor and her journey down the comedic circuit. And I found myself really wishing that she were performing last night instead of the stupid not-funny people, because I pretty much crack up through every post that she ever writes, so I imagine listening to her tell jokes is probably enough to make laugh hard enough to start snorting and falling off my chair all classy lady style.
5 // I finally ordered an Erin Condren planner. I am way too excited about it. I didn't go all out crazy and get the personalized photo stickers, even though I wanted to, because of the time it would have taken to pick out all the faces and stuff, but I did get the birthday/anniversary/etc stickers, which will add a fun piece to the planner. And the customization on the cover?? OMG the cutest thing ever. Just wait 'til you guys see it. You'll agree with me, I promise.
6 // I REALLY miss watching "Friends" every day. I used to fall asleep to random episodes every night, but since all of my stuff is STILL in storage out in Vegas, (and we only have the one TV, and it's in the living room, not the bedroom) I'm pretty much limited in what I can watch when I fall asleep. I've been turning on "The West Wing" on Netflix recently, which is interesting, certainly, but doesn't quite fill the void.
7 // I want donuts right now. And salt and vinegar potato chips. And some delicious tomato macaroni a la my mom. Oooh, and my dad's fried chicken. Basically I want to eat all the things right now.
8 // The blogging community is kind of a cool thing. Like it's really interesting to look back and think about the ways that I have made some friends over the course of the past few months. And isn't it weird to think about the fact that like, these friends and I - Kaylee, Belinda, Bethany, Justine, and Juliette, just to name a few - we've never even met!? We just read random snippets of each other's lives, and tweet at each other, and send random texts and snapchats and emails, and that's all! More and more, I'm understanding that blogging is a club. And you can't be in it until you're in it, but once you're in, you're always in. It's totally sweet, and completely weird, all at the same time.
Popularity: According to this, Jordan was the 65th most popular name the year I was born, but the 384th most popular name for females, specifically
Origin: Ancient times, believed to have originated relative to the Jordan River in the Middle East. Also has Biblical significance, in that the Jordan River is where John the Baptist baptized Jesus
Meaning: Derived from Hebrew and Arabic words meaning to descend, or flow down
Sex: Was originally masculine, but has become incredibly popular for feminine names in recent years
What I love about my name:I have always really liked the idea of boy's names for girls, so I like that I have a name that is often considered to be a boy's name. It's a nice, strong sounding name. And I like the cadence of it with my last name, too. It just sounds nice.
What I hate about my name: People often think I am a boy before they meet me. I get a lot of mail addressed to "Mr." It's not a very unique name or spelling anymore. When I was growing up, there were four people named Jordan on my swim team alone, and only one of them was a boy.
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