My Media Mind-boggler

When it comes to media, I am unfortunately brain dead.  I love movies, books, and music, but I could forget their finer points and details within days, if not minutes.  I see people with sponge-like brains that absorb and quote all sorts of media and I am immediately and WHOLLY jealous.  I want that! (I just quoted from Napoleon Dynamite – one of the few arrows I carry in my quote quiver.)  Along with my hairy, right-hand, ring-finger, mid-knuckle abnormality this is one of my insecurities.  So much so that I tend to make media a lesser priority in my life (maybe my way of avoiding the pain of my media dementia). I love going to the movies, but make excuses that they are too expensive.  I love music, but only talk about songs to myself while in my car.  I love books, but feel so UNDERread that I busy myself with other tasks.  It is sick, really.

BUT, ask me random trivia about either anatomy, mechanics, psychology, culinary arts, or . . . anything else not related to my current life and I could probably come up with a lengthy answer – none of which really serves me any real purpose, but is tucked in there tight just ready to explode all over the next random situation that presents itself before me.

Cake, eat it too . . . COME ON!

So while waving my standard of Invictus, I am usurping the helm of my life and altering my fate for the better.  Step one, attempt to catch myself up on the great movies of the past two years (Megan, I am putting you in charge of the classics).  Behold . . .THE LIST! (please feel free to critique and/or suggest addtions):

2010

• True Grit
• The King’s Speech
• Iron Man 2
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Robin Hood
• Dinner for Schmucks
• Prince of Persia
• Eat, Pray, Love
• The Karate Kid
• Secretariat
• Chronicals of Narnia
• Shrek forever after

2011

• 17 Miracles
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Captain America
• The Help
• Super 8
• Limitless
• Water for Elephants
• Midnight in Paris
• Rio
• Green Lantern
• Thor
• Soul Surfer
• Jane Eyre

Also, please feel free to list the BEST book/series you have recently read (Careful, huge book lists excite me . . . then overwhelm me.)

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

READY . . . . GO!

I’m a MONSTER!

My wife and I do not do well with mess and/or clutter.  If we find ourselves getting a little snippy with each other, it’s a sign that we should probably get a cleanin’.  The past two weeks have been put us to the test, yet we’re surviving . . . barely.

Exhibit #1:  This is what our bedroom looked like within only an hour of being home from vacation. . .

Our bedroom flooded while we were gone.  THUS, we’ve been living in the front room until it is fixed by the HOA.  Emmalee thinks it is a two-week slumber party.  We are slowly going mad.  Side sad – but funny – note: The two gentlemen showed up this morning to work on the basement until one of them shot himself in the leg with a nail gun and ended up in the hospital!  I think the repairs may be hindered.  Life. 

I have not been myself lately. In fact, I have kind of let myself go.  So much so that today I realized that I had dropped the ball on a secret I have kept quiet for years; a secret I was convinced I would take to my grave.  A secret even I tried to forget; however, it’s too late now.  The proverbial cat has climbed out of its bag . . . and I will no longer contain it.

Now revealing this is big for me.  Why?  Because I’ve hidden this for years.  I never wanted anyone to see it because it disgusted me so much.  I’ve been hindered and held back by this abnormality for far too long.  Today it ends.  Today I let it all hang out.  Today is the day I look my oppressor in the face, reclaim him power over me, and proclaim “SCREW YOU!”  Today is the day I WIN!

Behold . . . my monstrosity.

Can you see it!  Don’t look away.  Isn’t is HORRIBLE!?  Right there on my right-hand ring finger.  Two long, repulsive, random HAIRS!  Thick, dark, grow-as-fast-as-a-damned-weed HAIRS!  They DISGUST me!  (There used to be three until I plucked the life out of one of them).  I have traditional succumbed to their demands and plucked them regularly, but apparently the flood has distracted me.  Like a thief in the night they have sprouted on me and grown out of control.

Regardless, there you have it. 

Life Checklist - Liberate yourself from hideous secret: CHECK!

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