Shit, what number was I on? I suppose I could go back and look it up, but I've already started typing, and I really don't want to take the time. I think I'm on 5. Yes, that's it, 5.
5) Those little things in chicken. You know, when you're eating chicken, and all of a sudden with your next bite, it tastes like the chicken has suddenly started to rot, and it tastes horrible, but it was only that one spot on the chicken. Anyone else ever had this experience. I seem to have it most often with chicken patties, but I had it again last night at Village Inn, eating their new Tuscan Chicken Parmanini. That sucked real bad. I mean, when I get a burger, one piece of the burger doesn't taste totally nasty compared to the rest of the burger. It must be something in how the chicken is prepared.
6) FFXII's treasure chest system. In most RPGs, chests have set items. You open the chest, and you get the item inside. FFXII does not do this. Each chest has an item, but when you actually open the chest, you don't neccesarily get the item in it. You MIGHT get the item, or you MIGHT get a crappy potion, or you MIGHT get a stupidly small amount of gil(like gold, essentially the currency of FF games), or the treasure chest might not even apppear at all . . . It's just so infuriating to be told that if I go to the cliffs in the Ozmoze Plain that I will open a treasure chest and get a gold amulet, yet when I get to the cliffs in the Ozmoze Plain, there is no Treasure chest, so I have to reload the game, walk BACK to the Ozmoze Plains, and open the chest to find 2 gil, and reload the game, and walk back, etc. till I get the fugging gold amulet.
Of course, if I didn't have a guide telling me where all these chests COULD be, and what they COULD have in them, then I wouln't know any better and just assume that 99% of all treasure chests are useless.
As a whole, the game is still GLORIOUS! Do not get me wrong.
7) Used Ciggarette Butts. Now, I adore the casts of Macbeth and Arsenic & Old Lace. Yes, a majority of the people smoke, and no I'm not particularly keen about that fact, but I deal with it, and I really enjoy these people. Yet for some unknown reason, they seem to all think that the backstage area behind the theater is their own personal communal (is that possible?) ashtray. Every time I walk off-stage, I feel like I've walked into a bar. And everytime someone finishes a ciggarette, they flick the butt on the ground. That area behind the stage is literally (LITERALLY!) covered in ciggarette butts! WHY, PEOPLE? WHY!?
Now, first of all, I think there is something wrong if an individual cannot go more than 3 hours without smoking a ciggarette. Granted, I don't have a lot of experience with the addiction myself, but, hell, if I can go without eating for 3 hours, I would think a smoker could sure as hell go 3 hours without SMOKING. But the Butt Litter is what really ticks me off. Seriously people, clean-up after yourselves. You don't throw trash on the ground outside. Ugh! It just makes me MAD!
8) The new Village Inn "Villacinos". VI now sells iced hot chocolate drinks. That is their name for them. Why they couldn't just call them iced hot chocolate, or iced cappacino is beyond me. My annoyance factor with this is strongly tied to my annoyance of misspelled liscense plates. Even despite the stupid name, they still looked good enough to drink, so I almost ordered one. ALMOST. And then I read thier advertisement further and saw thay wanted me to "Sipp-a-ccino one today!"
. . .
And all desire to have anything to do with these drinks ran away screaming in insanity.
9) The Way the Red Cross Works. Well, not the Red Cross in general, just the way my job is handled. It's just so dumb. To explain it all would take faaaar too long here. Basically, I never know if anything I do will have any impact on anything at all. Will the appointments I've made actually be registered at the donation site? Will my changes to donor's call records actually be put into the computer? Will the person I transfer to the nurse actually be connected with the nurse? Will I actually be able to hang up the phone? (I kid you not. I really have to wonder that every time I'm on another phone call.)
10) Being Overweight. Now, I know I'm not fat. I have no illusions of that. But I do know that I am over my target weight and that that extra weight certainly does not come from muscle. When I last checked, I was around 195 lbs. A healthy weight for my height would be around 160-170 lbs. And, quite honestly, I'm scared to weight myself again because I'm probably closer to 200 now, and if I am, I'll realy be depressed.
I just overheard Chip and Shawn talking in the Green Room yesterday about how they were going to start working out at the gym again once the shows were over. And at the time, the notion of them working out in the gym just turned me on. And then I thought to myself how much better I would feel and look if I went to the gym. And then I remembered that I've told myself I'm going to start working out several times over the course of the past 5 years, and the most I ever stick with it is 1 month because for some reason I can never stick to anything, so I'm never going to work out, and I'm never going to lose weight, and I'm never going to be satisfied with myself physically because I don't have the willpower to do anything other than feel sorry for myself. Hell, I don't even have the willpower to stop eating when I'm full. I see food, and I just eat it and eat it and eat it until I feel like I'm going to explode.
Eric mentioned the other day that he thinks I have an eating disorder. Maybe I do.
You know it's sad that when I'm REALLY hungry, to the point where I say I'm "so hungry, oh my god", that it's the only time I actually feel attractive. It's the only time I don't feel bloated, and that my belly is sticking out past my waistband. And I always think to myself that if I just skipped a meal that I could feel attractive for longer, and eventually all that fat would just go away.
But then I see food, and my willpower withers away, and I gorge myself and feel depressed about it later.
11) That I'm Continually Focusing On Negativeity. Why is it that I'm only spurned to blog when it's about complaining about things? Why don't I blog about Things I React Positively To? That would be a nice change. I'd like to do that. Hell if I know when/if it'll actually get done. It's definitely an outlook I should make a conscious effort to have, though.
Aaaaand I've forgotten the other things I had to say, despite me planning on making a list today so I could blog them. Of course, I never got around to making the list, so I forgot a bunch of them again. But, it's time to get ready for more stage time. Adios.
Eric 11/18/2006 08:58:00 PM
Comments:
Eric- I agree about the cigarette butts. They're disgusting and it looks like crap. Especially since there are trash cans like, RIGHT where they're smoking. AND even though I think they look cool, it's still gross. And it is time to buckle down and get what you want from everything. I've decided that too, this week I went strict on my diet again, and I felt awesome!!!! Just ease yourself into things, ask Eric for help, he'll help you be good. You're hot, you just don't like the way you look which means it's in your head. You just have to kick some ass and be strict with yourself, you'll feel better quickly when you knwo you've regimated yourself! I should be a friggin' motivational speaker!!!! I'll see you Monday night for BOND James BOND!!!
I have to agree with the misspelled stupid advertizing slogans being annoying, and I do marketing for a living! And I still want to make a career out of it. But I won't be the guy who comes up with "sipp-a-ccino" or whatever. When I'm in a restaurant, I refuse to order by cute names on menues, like "Stupid Clown Name Burger", I just say, "I'd like a burger with these toppings, please." The only exception to the rule is rodeo burger at BK, because that is a specific type of burger. I make rodeo burgers at home. It's almost like a rueben sandwich that way. And I do grant a pass to Villaccino. It is a brand name, after all.
