S is for

SMILE!

Things that make me smile:

• Someone smiles at me
• Someone sends me flowers
• Family
• My kitty sleeping on me and purring the whole time
• Something really stupid was said or done
• It's part of my job
• Coldstone ice cream
• My smile was expensive...so I use it
• Old couples who are still in love
• Success
• Butterflies
• Margaritas at Mariachi Loco
• Seeing momma deer and baby deer together

R is for

Response and active participation...which is something that didn't happen on the last blog post.

*crickets*

R is also for Reading.  I hate reading, actually.  Once upon a time I read some great book by Nicholas Sparks.  This book was so great that I can't even remember the title.  I also made a book purchase at the DFW airport because I arrived much earlier than anyone should ever arrive at an airport before their flight.  It was overpriced and was a true story about a sugar mama.  Good story but I didn't finish it because the guy sitting next to me on the plane was sweating and shaking due to turbulence.  Such a distraction.

In my spare time I enjoy a nice black and white textbook to stimulate my brain.

*more crickets*

Luckily for me, enthralling textbooks will haunt my every spare moment for the next nine months.  Yay for lots of debt and a printed piece of paper with my name on it.

What are YOU reading?

Q is for

Questions.  Feel free to ask me questions in the comment section.

Keep it clean.  :)

P is for

Poem.  Awww...poetry.  A window to the soul.  Such a beautiful art that can be appreciated by almost anyone.

Poetry sucks.  Why, you may ask.  I feel that anyone capable of punching keys on a keyboard or writing with a pen, pencil, marker, or stick of charcoal is capable of writing what they consider to be a poem.  Much like anyone who can take a picture and edit it with Picnik.com is a photographer.  And anyone who can ramble about nothing with the aid of the internet is a blogger.  Wait, what? Yeah I said it.

I take pictures and edit them because it gives me something to do.  I post them with a disclaimer that I'm not trying to be anything other than a bored person with a camera.  I have written poems, but have not posted them anywhere with the intent of being an acclaimed "poet".  I blog about pointless things for a reason similar to taking pictures:  I'm a bored person with a computer and internet access.

That being said, here's a little haiku that I wrote:

New students scare me
They all look terribly scared
I'm glad I'm not new

There's new student registration going on today, so I figured I would state the obvious in the form of a haiku.

O is for

Old.  What kind of person do you want to be?

When I think of old I think of 70's old but I'm hoping I see 80.  I would like to be the cool, badass little hunched over lady with gray hair that I dye teenage colors.  I will willingly go to WalMart sporting my cat bathrobe, curlers in my hair, and a cigar hanging out of my mouth.  I will flip people off as I fly down the street going 30 on my moped.  The moped will have a Polish flag flying off the back basket, in which will likely be a well-trained kitty.  I'll have some kind of music device professionally fashioned onto my moped so I can roll through (I will not stop) stop signs with the latest hip-hop pulsating through my body.  Chances are I won't be able to hear worth a sh*t so the music will be deafening for those present.  I'll probably be single, and watching Jersey Shore, or something of it's equivalent I'm sure.  I'll dress like I'm 45--how daring.  Hopefully I'll be lucky enough to have all of my own teeth, but that seems rare.  Either way I plan on having a pink grill.  Maybe Megan and I will still go to Boomer's and close the place down...who knows.

I will adopt stray cats and give them to neighborhood children as Christmas, birthday, Valentine's Day, Australia Day, and Leif Erikson Day gifts.

Boom.

N is for

Nothing.  Blog about nothing.

This is about as nothing as it gets.  I have compiled a list of interesting email subjects from emails between my brother and I over the last year and a half or so.  It's up to you to decide whether or not the emails pertained to their subject lines.

1. Pea Soup!
2. I use antlers in all of my decorating
3. BIIIG NEWS! BIG NEWS FROM LONDON!
4. Orange Juice
5. Feel Like P Diddy
6. Bumble Bee Tuna
7. French Toast
8. Scotch Tape
9. Teeaaaa
10. Work Sucks
11. Hamster Droppings 
12. qwerty
13. Cold
14. UPP (Unicorn Protection Pact)
15. Guys Named Todd
16. Rupert
17. Kinnickinnic Picnic
18. Carrot Stress Toy
19. Rubber Cement
20. Hookah
21. Champ Belt
22. What's a Sconnie?
23. Cotton Patch
24. Hey Culligan Maaannn!
25. Rotten Cabbage
26. Overweight Pandas
27. Breeding Habits of the South African Wombat
28. Hicks Spitting on Sidewalks
29. What the hell's diversity?
30. Dead Bloated Rhinoceros
31. Ingrown Back Hair
32. Wheelchairs on Skis
33. Lizard-Proof Bathtubs 
34. Crack Spackle
35. Dinosaur Urinalysis
36. Malnourished Platypus
37. Bug Guts Smeared on Windshields 
38. Elderly Man Saves Pregnant Dolphin
39. Hair Product Buildup
40. Tissues in a Fan
41. Spoontang
42. Purple Carrots
43. Can't Hug Every Cat
44. Cephalopod Mucus
45. Placenta Pate
46. Effing Phone!
47. Dried Frosting
48. Frightened Ostrich

Hopefully that entertained you for a few minutes! Feel free to steal one or all of them as you please to use as your own email subject lines. You don't even need to give us credit!

M is for

MORGAN! Kidding.  I mean, it is technically, but for the alphabet challenge M is for Music.

It's rather amazing how music can make so many emotional ties to different things in life.  I listen to everything because I need different music for different times, situations, and emotions.  One new artist I discovered is Lissie, who does an awesome cover of Kid Cudi's "Pursuit of Happiness".  Music typically gets me through a day.  Music can also influence buying habits.  It can show emotion at important events.  It can make you happy, sad, mad, anxious.  I wonder if people thousands of years ago saw this coming.

One final note:  Just for added emphasis, I like to blast "Friday" by Rebecca Black at work when tours of new students go through the building.  Never gets old.

L is for

Love.  What are you looking for in a significant other?

Funny you should ask.  I feel as though I have rather simple expectations for a relationship, but that doesn't explain why I'm single, does it? Over the last year I've gotten much more comfortable being me and doing my own thing.  Yeah, yeah, "Then why have you been searching for someone??" I've been searching because I think it would be nice to have someone to grow with and experience things with.  Or maybe I'm just looking for someone to tolerate my random outbursts of nonsense.  Perfect! That's the start of the list of things I'm looking for in a significant other:

• Must be able to tolerate my random outbursts.  This includes being able to tolerate the way I speak to my cats.
• Should have close family ties.  I'm very close to my family and would want them to meet and hopefully like them.  And guess what? I'd love to get to know their family! Not after the first date though, I like to save that for the second.
• Should be able to pick up sarcasm I threw down in the previous bullet.
• Shouldn't take things too seriously.  However, should know when to be serious, which includes, but is not limited to: Interviews, professional work settings, police interrogation, bank robbery (assuming you're not someone holding the gun), when I'm crying, and at funerals.  
• Should be doing something with their lives.  Sitting around in your boxers all day eating Cheetos and playing COD does not qualify as doing something with your life.  
• Shouldn't have more hair products than me.  This one doesn't need much explanation.  But if you need an explanation, here it is:  I'm the girl.  
• Drinking four times a week and blacking out, and/or doing drugs also does not qualify as doing something with your life, FYI.
• Don't be an extreme anything.  And before you say anything about my cats, I'll have you know I'm not an extreme case.  Most of the time.

Basically I'm asking that my significant other be a decent individual all around.