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amand_r ([personal profile] amand_r) wrote2009-11-30 12:08 pm

My Crimmas Wish List

I haven't updated my wish list in ages. I rarely ask for things. I mean, what's the point? Things don't make you happy (this is pointed at you Nicholas H. Cruentum. Those boxers would not have made you happy. After you washed them.), and you know. Blah blah. But I figured I'd sit down and think about it, because once I asked for a hookah and I got one.



1. I wish that I was tougher skinned. The internet is fun, and it's about as much human interaction as I like, because I can walk away from you whenever I want, whereas when I'm with people, I'm usually done long before we're supposed to be done. However, I take what people say on the internets to heart. And then I try to be a person I'm not. A lot of the time I also assume that people are what they say they are on he internet, and I'm always disappointed to find that they are not. Yeah, look, I grew up in a house that valued honesty. I cannot keep up a charade of falsety (is that right? I think that's the opposite of what I want to say, really. Hrm.) So long stints of trying to be someone else don't work for me. I don't know where I'm going with this. Marlo Thomas would have something to say about this.

2. I want someone to be catty with. Really. Some people aren't happy unless they're kvetching. I read that in X-Force once. Or X-Factor. I forget who said it and about whom. I think Shatterstar might have been involved. Hrm, but it's true. I am happy when I'm bitching about you, and you and you. Incidentally, this doesn't mean that I don't like/love you. I just like to kvetch. It's how I work out issues so I can bring the funneh. I hate when I think I have found that person, because they say catty things, and when I get my first good dig in, they chide me. Bite me, asshat. But alas, I have yet to find my bitch buddy in a long while.

3. I would like the Pope, the new Pope, to go on tour. I would like the tour to be called "THE POPE IS DOPE 2010". It would be cool if he would throw a few gang signs too. West siiiiiiiiiide. I wish he would ride in his tic tac box again. I miss the tic tac box.

4. I wish they'd stop making sugar free pickles. Look, man, there are some things that should be made the way god intended them, nor not at all. Pickles are one of those things. If you cannot eat sugar or something, perhaps you should treat pickles the way my buddy [livejournal.com profile] sthayashi treats poultry: wave at them as they pass you by. Or eat dill pickles. Do they use sugar in dill pickles?

Failing that, I would like the jars to have red labels that say: "WARNING, THESE PICKLES ARE MADE WITH SHIT. ONLY EAT IF YOU ARE A DOUCHE."

If you have a problem with this, please get on my #2.

5. I wish my husband wasn't dead. This one right here is usually why I don't make these lists anymore, but I did decide to do it, so it's obligatory. We're to the point that I say it in public sometimes just so I can hear that record scratch noise. Did you know they don't play that in RL? Only on Scrubs. And in my head.

6. I wish I knew what the hell I should be doing with my life, career wise. Honestly, at this point, I should take a poll and then just do whatever wins. But you'd all vote for rumrunner or cylindrical megaphone or something and I'd be stuck.

7. I wish my kid would be more teachable about a lot of things, but potty training especially. Sidewish: I wish people would stop giving me unsolicited advice. I say something disparaging, because hey, see #2, and people think I'm asking for advice. Recently my kid had a little crying session at someone's house, and I picked her up to talk to her, and she moped into my shoulder for a second and then was done. Individual told me that I was best to ignore her. Yeah, well, bite me. If I want advice, I'll wiki it, then I'll google it, and then I might ask you, moron. When people give me unsolicited advice, I want to turn to them and say, "HER DAD IS DEAD, DO YOU HAVE ADVICE RE: THAT?." But that's neither here nor there, and there's no good excuse for a temper tantrum ever (unless it's mine). On the other hand, my child is so freakishly well behaved in public most of the time that people stop at our table at restaurants to tell me that. So again, unsolicited child rearing advice giver, don't. Just don't.

8. I wish I could move far away and start a new life where no one knew me. Like Cicely, Alaska. I don't particularly like the cold, but man, I wish that place was real. For a while I thought I should hang about bad parts of town so that I could get a bunch of information that I could use to trade for Witness Protection, but for some reason people aren't inclined to commit crimes when another person is standing there with a camera and a tablet, asking 'Hey man, whatcha doing? Huh? Gonna sell some drugs? Dump a body?'

9. I wish I had #1 so that I wouldn't be afraid to finish this book. Because it's pretty fucking awesome. Alas, there's no point in wasting time if I can't sell it, and I can't sell it because I'm afraid to show it, and hey, even if I did, there's no guarantee that it would sell. It sounds like I'm wishing for #1 as #9, so I guess #9 is I wish I could finish the book.

10. I want someone to clean my house. Like "moving in" clean. If they did that, I might be in the mood to repack everything in the basement and pitch half of the shit down there, because every time I think about doing it, I say "Oh, but I have to clean the house first." That's how they GET ya. Who are they? I can't say. I'm still waiting on a return call from the Federal Marshals.

[identity profile] kickair8p.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Would a hug help, or just be annoying?

Well, I'm about to be on the road for a couple hours, so here's one just in case: {{{hug!}}}

~

[identity profile] lawsontl.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
One of the hardest things I'm still learning is how to be tougher-skinned. I grew up in a house where my father held petty grudges over EVERYTHING. I had to be perfect. Failure was not allowed, and you were basically knocked down a notch or told how much you sucked when you did fail (and failure, in his eyes, was me getting an A rather than an A+).

So, this whole grown-up, real life, no one's perfect thing has been incredibly hard. You're not soliciting advice, which is good, because I can't say I can give any. I've just found that, amazingly, the world DOES NOT end if I'm not perfect. People keep liking me even if I don't always meet their expectations. People keep loving me when I'm flawed. It's been amazing figuring that out, but it doesn't mean my instinct has changed from overreacting when I fuck up, and trying so very, very hard to fix it. Sometimes, I just have to acknowledge it and move on. I've got the acknowledgment part now. The moving on part, not so much. I still turn events over and over and over in my mind, thinking of how I should've done it, what I should've seen that I didn't, etc... And I feel guilty when I try let go of it. But I'm letting go of more. And it gets easier the more I do it. It's not easy per se, but it's easier than it used to be.

So, does it at least help to hear someone else has the same effedupedness?

Let's move to Alaska and establish Cicely. It can be a pronz and organic vegetables commune, with lots of pets and well-behaved kids. And sparkle, natch.

And it'll be organized. THAT shit I've got down. I'm a cold-hearted, getting-rid-of-crap, psychotic lunatic (Hubby needs work, but he's not bad). But both my parents are one step away from being clinically imbalanced hoarders, and, as I've said before, I rebelled in my family by being boring. Provide wine, and I'll come help you get rid of shit, mei mei. *evil grin*

Edited 2009-11-30 18:08 (UTC)

[identity profile] noveldevice.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahah, I can't imagine making a wish list right now. So I sympathise.

I also hate the unsolicited advice. A friend just commented in an old entry about something completely different, so I went to respond, and the first comment in line (from someone else) pissed me off all over again. YOU ARE NINETEEN, STOP TELLING ME OBVIOUS SHIT ABOUT DYEING HAIR, OK? I've been dyeing my hair since before she had hair. I know all this shit. Gah.

[identity profile] unovis-lj.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
You can always bitch to me.
*looking uneasily at #1; I think I'm about 4 different people online*

[identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Cicely Alaska was founded by freethinking lesbians. We need some of them first.

OTOH, this is fandom, I'm sure we can find droves of them.

[identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Haahahahah TOO TRUE.

I try to just be me online. It makes life easier. I like to think that when people meet me IRL, they say, "Man, that Amand-r, pretty much what's on the tin. But with hair."

[identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I know that I'm guilty of it myself, and I am trying to not be that person anymore. Wait, isn't there a level in Dante's Inferno for givers of bad advice?

[identity profile] kel-reiley.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
i will move into your house and clean it... for money :)

oh, kid advice - i love it when ppl give kid adivce, especially when they don't even have kids... LIKE ME! my only kid advice is to SEDATE THEM. I AM UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT THIS WORKS IN ALL SITUATIONS.
(this method is untested, do not try this at home)

wanna move to hawaii? it's like alaska, only not, and it's warm

[identity profile] elistaire.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I wish I could help you with those, but those are some difficult wishes. Maybe #10, if I lived closer. We could have a party. We'd clean your house, and then the party could come to my house and clean there, too. I think everyone feels better with a clean house.

*hugs*

[identity profile] noveldevice.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
When I meet people from LJ IRL, they say "You are just like you are online!" When I meet people from OKCupid IRL, they say "You look just like your picture!"

...I find both of these things weird.

[identity profile] kel-reiley.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT WHEN I MET YOU.
BUT WITH MAD AWESOME HAIR.

[identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
AMEN SISTAH.

[identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
My hair was so shit that weekend.

[identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I hear there are no bugs in Hawaii.

I might have been misinformed. They do have good coffee there.

[identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I think cleaning might go easier if you have help. Like moving. Or orgies.

[identity profile] kel-reiley.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
couldn't have been worse than mine!
whatevs, your bangs are sweet

[identity profile] kel-reiley.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
i was surprised by the lack of bugs in florida
lots of lizards, though - i like lizards way more than bugs

[identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
They are cute, the lizards. and when they get in the house the cats are entertained for hours!

[identity profile] cthonus.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I spent last week wandering around work with an invisible knife in my hand. Invisible knives are cool things. They can take away my dignity; they can take away my bonus; they can take away my peace of mind. But they can't take away my invisible knife!

But I put it down somewhere in reception and lost it. So I ended up walking up and down with an invisible candle looking for my invisible knife.

When someone told me it was high time I was back in my office working I just pointed to my invisible watch and said their clock was wrong.

In my world no one ever has to eat parsnips :D

[identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I am in love with you, man.

Like, in a bromance way. Not romantic or nothing.

Drinks invisible beer.
Edited 2009-11-30 19:55 (UTC)

[identity profile] kel-reiley.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah, lizards in the house would not freak me out the way bugs and mice do
my cat enjoys playing with little rubber lizards, i think he'd be well prepared

[identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I like mice!

[identity profile] kel-reiley.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
i don't want them in the house, but i also do not like to kill them :( it makes me cry

[identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
On the other hand, the lizards eat the cockroaches!

[identity profile] cthonus.livejournal.com 2009-11-30 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
My driving instructor (those many years ago!) once said to me he was getting to the age it wasn't worth wasting time being polite to people who annoyed him too much.

He's my role model now :p

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