Six Mundane Things
A LOOOOOOONNNG time ago, my friend Damyanti tagged me wth this meme. I’ve never gotten around to actually doing it. I think now, that it’s been more than a week since I’ve done anything to update my blog, it’s reasonable to say I’m out of ideas and could use some fodder. Therefore, I will now answer Damyanti’s request and do the Six Unspectacular Things About Me meme.
Now, it would be far less challenging — or maybe more challenging depending — to find six SPECTACULAR things about me. I’m pretty unspectacular, and the list gets overwhelming in length if you make me try to narrow it to six.
But, in the effort to be a good sport, I’m going for it.
So, Damyanti, here you go — Six Unspectacular Things about Me:
First, the Rules:
The Rules
1. Link to the person who tagged you. (Done.)
2. Mention the rules on your blog. (Done.)
3. List six unspectacular things about you. (Done.)
4. Tag six other bloggers by linking to them. (Yeah … we’ll see.)
The Meme
- I’m boring. I mean, really boring. I stay home every night, every weekend, every holiday. I don’t have any nearby friends, and even if I did, I probably wouldn’t go hang out with them at their place or go do anything with them. It’s just that home is where the heart is, and I like where my heart is, so I stay there. Meh.
- I’m reclusive. See above. I don’t socialize, period. I hate Wal-Mart with a purple, inflamed passion, because it’s full of people. Hordes, masses, crowds of loud, stinking, jostling, spitting people. Everywhere I turn, everywhere I look, more people. I can’t even go to the bathroom to get away from them. The only safe haven is the fitting room, and even there they knock after a while and bother you with stupid questions, like, “Are you all right in there?” Stupid people.
- I’m a political idiot. I don’t avoid politics on the blogosphere and Interweb because I’m shy or afraid. I do it because I’m a moron and couldn’t defend my beliefs or position if my life depended on it. In my opinion, if you can’t defend a position you hold, you need to abandon it. Know why you believe what you believe and be able to defend it, period. It’s been a mantra of mine for decades. Now, my wife? She has a political blog of her own. Like to fight about stuff? Politics is a great way to get one going.
- My favorite superhero is Batman. Hey, you wanted unspectacular, right? Gimme a break.
- I’m a foodie, but I’m overweight (big time) so I can’t really enjoy a lot of food I’d love to have. I have to keep it simple and hormone-surge friendly, which means avoiding stuff that causes my ol’ pancreas to spit up and bleed. You know … anything really decadent is out.
- I’m really, really lazy. I won’t do anything unless my children need it, my wife has begged me for it, or it’s absolutely essential to get done. Sometimes, the two conflict. For example, taking out the trash. It’s pretty tough with that one — I hate filth, and I hate work. And getting the trash out has a tendency to snowball into major physical labor at our house, so I end up hauling Santa Claus-sized bags full of crap to the Dumpster. Which really pisses me off. But if I weren’t so lazy, I’d do it more often, which would mean it’s less exerting but more frequent labor. A choice of absolute poisons to me. And that’s only ONE example. I could prattle on for hours about this.
The End
Well, there you have it, Six pretty doggone unspectacular — some might even say craptacular — things about me.
Aren’t you happy now? If not, tough.
Oh, and I’m tagging KnytStalker, darcZombie, LOML, Cheryl, WhatIGotSoFar, and Bryce. Play if you want. Or don’t. I’m too lazy and unspectacular to pursue it.
-JDT-
Oh, the mundanity! (funny)
I can’t tell you how good it is to see you ’round here again.
1. Boring indeed, I didn’t even read the whole paragraph.
2. Explains the whole writing thing. Why is it writer’s are always reclusive?
3. Politics are for people who like to tell other people what to do and busy-bodies. You don’t strike me as one of those sorts.
4. So, who is this Batman guy?
5. The day my doctor tells me to stop eating crap is the day I die.
6. So lazy I see, that you made laziness your longest point. I love good irony.
1. Hey, you were warned, pal. My boring gets up in your face like a pissed baboon.
2. Because we like to think, and plot our world conquest. Obey the fist, dude.
3. Maybe you’re right. But is saying that politically correct?
4. Blasphemer.
5. And by then, what’s the point, ne? Same with smoking.
6. I wrote this paragraph over the course of several months. It was a copy/paste job.
And by the way, this method of answering comments, though I’ve seen it before, is directly stolen from you. That’s how lazy I am.
I read your meme, but I still have to say I find you pretty interesting. Maybe that’s because I can get inside your head and see all the stuff going on up there, and no one else can? Dunno. Still love you though.
And to WIGSF – re: that #3 thing – Guilty as charged! Now go comb your hair and brush your teeth! And get that helicopter thing out of the basement!
Maybe, love, maybe. I’m glad you can. And if you figure it all out, let me know what the heck it is, willya? Love you too.
And what’s WIGSF doing reading memes when he’s got a to-do list he has to finish, anyway?
Reading memes are more interesting than self-improvement…
Okay, they’re not interesting, especially the mundane ones, but me and self-improvement don’t get along.
Yeah, me either. So I do memes instead. In a small way I feel I have improved the Internet by providing it with more useless prattle for the hungry masses, so in a sense, I guess I have contributed. You know, with my mundanity.
ROFL! You’re so funny. This is why we need that crazy people in the hills compound, so we lazy people can just sit and be lazy in the communal living room.
I’m pretty spectacular tho, so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to do this.
Love ya and I hope to get a chance to talk to you on Sunday.
R
You know what you haven’t done in a while that always makes me bust a gut? Weird search terms. I never get those. All my weird stuff is in my email inbox for how to enlarge my penis.
Well, if your penis weren’t so danged small you wouldn’t have that problem; I mean, the Internet KNOWS a small weenie when it sees one, and can’t allow it to go unaltered.
I’ll try and make a point to be available on Sunday. But I’m trying to edit GH too, so we’ll see. But ONE of us will be there for ya.
And yeah, you’re awesomely spectacular, but see what you can do with the meme.
Oh, and I don’t do the weird search terms anymore because for the longest time all I’m getting is searches for personal or professional bio-data crap. *Sigh* And that’s just … not funny.
I hate to bring this up but it may be Chicago getting to you.
Now you can claim I blame everything on Chicago, but its really directly and indirectly caused me many problems just by being there.
I’m lucky I have a very good family throughout Chicago and many relatives. Perhaps this is why throughout all the shittiness, people can still enjoy Chicago.
Physically I lost a bunch of weight when I got out of Chicago, started going to the gym, and exercising, stopped my occasional EMT cig smoking.
There is some sort of mass vortex with the people arount there that I just physically feel sick after a while there. Everyone is stressed. Everyone is overweight. everyone is in a hurry. Everyone is stuck on a shitty train or in a 4 lane road.
I know it sounds hard to relocate, but I think you and Falcon can pull it off. I don’t know where you want to go. I’d say somewhere like colorado or west out there.
I think you can do it! And I think you must do it.
Hey, J.R., welcome back. I think you’ve got something with your last statement, but I think the Falcon and I want to fly EAST, not WEST. Dunno why. As for the rest? I don’t know if I can agree or not. I was born lazy and listless and reclusive, so those aren’t the result of Shitcago living. They’re just my nature. And Batman has nothing to do with this rathole whatsoever. But as for getting out — believe me, as soon as I can achieve escape velocity, we will escape. In this economy, that’s not likely to happen anytime soon, though.