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I'm feeling festive, dammit...
So I'm celebrating another important ascension - the long-overdue resurrection of Erik's blog - by participating in the Mystery Meme.
I like this one because:
1. It might have been 10 Things About Me, maybe not. I like the ambiguity.
2. No lame tagging necessary, huzzah!
3. I'm trying to continue my streak of posts no one will give a rat's ass about.So...
1. I talk in my sleep on occasion - but not in any particular language, apparently. According to Mr. Ville, he hasn't been able to understand a single word of it, not even once.
2. I am incredibly picky about lighting. I can't really tell you why I'm so particular about it... I just am.
3. I hate bright lights and avoid them whenever possible. My office has fluorescent lighting, but I don't use it - it's lit exclusively with strings of christmas lights and a small army of carefully hoarded desk lamps. The blinds are always closed because I also have an aversion to bright sunlight (if I sit around in bright afternoon sunlight too long, it makes me incredibly sleepy - a huge inconvenience at times).
4. I love those lights they use on football fields, and also those orange-ish lights used on buildings at night. I also like softer sunlight, around sunset and sunrise.
5. 3 and 4 sound a bit mental, now that I read them back. Please don't have me committed. I have so much left to give.
6. I can't drink cola of any kind; the taste of it makes me ill. I've never, even in my most thirsty and desperate moments, been able to stomach more than a sip. No coke, no pepsi, no nothing. I don't get how people drink that stuff.
7. My wedding band is too big for my ring finger, so I wear it on my middle finger - the only one it won't fall off of. I could have it resized, but it's a lot less effort (and more amusing) this way.
8. My favorite colors are blue and green...
9. But I wear a hell of a lot of black - I mean, a LOT - sometimes head-to-toe.
10. You'd be surprised how many people are personally offended by that, as if it's any of their concern, or as if I care. My mother has been complaining about it since I was old enough to pick out my own clothes. To shut her up, I occasionally picked out things that were gray, or dark blue - but I only humor her because she's my mother. My sister has referred to me as "the (wo)man in black," and my physical therapists asked if I owned anything that WASN'T black. More recently, a much-older coworker (who was apparently widowed within the past couple of years) made a comment about how SHE doesn't wear too much black anymore lest people think she's still in mourning, with a disapproving look in my direction. I was wearing my favorite black shirt, long black pants, black socks, black shoes, and even black glasses. The next day, oddly enough, I wore a black dress with black heels.
Here's another one: I love having my hair played with. I'll sit still as long as someone is willing to brush it, or run their fingers through it. I guess this has a lot to do with the fact that it's really, really long, maybe. I dunno.
And another one (I keep thinking of more things to add, sorry): I find it much harder to accomplish anything if I don't have music playing. So at any given time during the day, I most likely have something cranked up to full volume. I take my laptop to the office and play out of my iTunes library all day long; on the way to and from work, I run my iPod through the car stereo; when I'm doing housework at home, I usually hook up external speakers to my laptop. Mr. Ville, who has what may possibly be the world's worst taste in music, *hates* this.
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Saturday March 29th at 6:20pm from Jenny +
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If I could get away with it I'd wear all black clothes. If you want to visually drop about 10 pounds instantly, wear black. I can't think of anyone who looks bad in that color. Even the friggin' Where's The Beef old lady would look good in black.
Unfortunately, architects are the only artsy types that seem to get away with wearing all black clothes nowadays. I'd be laughed out of my company if I tried it. The most I risk nowadays is a black belt, black leather jacket and black Chucks (I LOVE my black Chucks: http://www.zappos.com/n/p/p/107999/c/3123.html).
Hmm. I'm not sure if wearing all black makes me look any thinner or not - I'll have to ask Mr. Ville.
For lack of any rational explanation, I just usually tell people that my uncontrollable urges to wear black are an involuntary side effect of being part ninja. ;)
Nice chucks! Glad to see you went with the monochromes. :)
I'm partial to the color black too- but all black on guys makes us look like techno coffee shop geeks (no offense to any males here who do wear all black, I really have no room to call anyone a geek). My other favorite color is flannel. I hate bright lights too, but I don't think X-mas lights are allowed in our office (though I may ask about it someday).
That's one thing me and Mrs. D. argue about constantly- she's always got the damn overhead lights on. How the hell am I supposed to watch Forensic Files, The Batman, Imus in the Morning, Tales from the Crypt and Star Trek Enterprise reruns with all that light gleaming off the screen and bugging the living shit out of me? Then she wonders why I watch so much TV in the basement.
That's a good point - all black only works for a small percentage of guys. Flannel, on the other hand, works for just about anyone. Lord knows I wore my share of flannel shirts back in the grunge days. :D
You could just put them up for christmas and "forget" to take them down... Everybody in the office loves my christmas lights. My CSM has been known to get on my ass first thing in the morning if I HAVEN'T turned them on yet, and sometimes when I'm out-of-office they turn them on without me.
Give me a year or so, Jenny. We'll see what happens.