I use either the first or last five of my workout music. To somewhat motivate me to move my ass, I use my MP3 player only for workouts and drives over half an hour.

I love the Gorillaz. When Clint Eastwood came out, I proudly went around telling people that was my jam. No wonder people that I was a stoner long before I was.

Maybe we just have a high German population here, but we have a restaurant, a meat shop, and a bakery (that makes the best cakes, omg) that I know of. I think we're lacking delis that aren't chains.

Aw, I had a Pink Lady today that looked ugly, but was like, the perfect apple. Sweet, crunchy, juicy- I felt like one of those Hardees models. attacking it in my car for lunch.

I went to ClusterTruck today- that's when our food trucks hang out in a park for dinner. After much debate (and a homemade ginger mango popsicle) I went with a lemongrass tofu Bahn Mi. It stunk my car up to high heaven, but my goodness it was delicious. I kinda wish I'd gotten two of 'em!

Way back in grade school, I got into the habit of dating papers with just the day and the month, with the month written out. This means that I have lots of notes that could be from this year or last decade. I can't break the habit, though.

Because of bad experiences with bread growing up, I will religiously examine a piece of bread, all sides and front and back, before using it. Even if I just bought the loaf from the store. Same with shredded cheese. You don't want an explanation.

Droppo, you're the laziest man on Mars! Why are you so lazy?
…Cause I'm the laziest man on Mars?

Aw, you didn't tell him to bend the knee! You've changed.

She looks like Meth, an embodiment of it.

Considering I've always been 'the weird one', sometimes it was just me and books. I've read so many things that have shaped the way I see the world. I know families that you might see a bible and that's the book in the house- makes me shudder to think about.

Seriously. I reread books to the point of pages falling out, spines bent and creased, and it was love. Anything to inspire that in someone will always be a win for me.

I wanna play Dolly! (I've always wanted to be blonde…)

I've always said that one of the things I'm gonna do when I get crazy money is to hire my sister to watch movies for me and then tell me the plots. She'd see whatever the popular movie was and tell me all about it, making it sound interesting and worthwhile, and they never were. I finally realized that she kinda had…

I was in *high school* before I saw a movie without some kind of parental authority. Aw, I had helicopter parents! 
Actually, we were allowed to roam at different malls, with various sets of friends, but any movies to be watched had to have permission. I rebelled once and watched "Biodome" with Pauly Shore, which was…

We were poor, so we didn't rent videos, we got them from the library or my uncle who apparently did nothing but tape movies off of HBO. The first movie we watched in our shiny VCR was 'The Electric Grandmother', based on the short story "I Sing The Body Electric". Also, one of those Baby-Sitters Club episodes. "Say…

Yeah, I remember not only movies hanging around forever, but trailers that basically said 'hey, you can go see this again, you know'- and we would! Or we'd see a movie like three months after it came out, because 'timely' will never describe my family.

One of our favorite songs growing up was a slow Lou Rawls song called "Living Double", and the opening line is "I got a world of trouble, I got a woman and a wife". We used to sing this all the way through and actually wore out the tape it was on. I thought about it once I got grown and asked my parents how they never…

I work swing at a 24 hour store. That means my shifts could start at 6:30 am during the week, or 4:30 pm on the weekends. It's been interesting.

Seriously. If I worked a 9-5 M-F job, I'd think I was upper-class or something, even if it was the same crappy job I do now.