Friday Five / Muh-Nah-Muh-Na

Friday, Nov. 21, 2003 - 7:21 a.m.

We're still looking to identify this song. Any assistance is most welcome.

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This week's Friday Five: (Questions are boldface, my answers appear beneath.)

List five things you'd like to accomplish by the end of the year.

A: Get the Closet of Doom organized, improve the storage problems throughout the rest of the household, read a 'Sleep Train' ad live during the Ronn Owens radio talk show on KGO, replace the hard drive on this computer, & lose ten pounds without having to have anything amputated.

List five people you've lost contact with that you'd like to hear from again

A: I can't think of five. If I want people in my life, I -stay- in touch with them, or I reconnect with them. If you'd asked me to list five people whose eventual fates I'd like to find out about, that would have been easy.

List five things you'd like to learn how to do.

A: Bookbinding, French braiding, speaking Italian, crisis counseling, and driving a stick shift.

List five things you'd do if you won the lottery (no limit)

A: Pay off my debts and those of my friends, move further east, buy & restore my childhood home, get a motor home so I could go visit my friends any time I wanted to, and set up college funds for my niece and nephew.

List five things you do that help you relax.

A: Listen to music or local talk shows on the radio, watch cartoons, goof around online, crochet, and [censored].

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Okay. Now, if you wanna play Friday Five, go here.

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Speaking of songs -- I finally feel old.

I listened to the oldies station for a few minutes last night, and heard "Josie" and "Two Tickets to Paradise". Those songs were popular during the summer before I became a freshman at Yuba City High School.

Groan.

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I've learned something about human nature over the last few weeks.

If somebody has treated me badly -- and they know it -- then from that moment on, whenever we interact, they are suspicious of me when I'm nice.

Frankly that sucks. Don't take your guilt trip out on me. That's not what friends do. I deserve better. If I have issues, believeth you me, we -will- talk about them. If you were a shit to me, that's your problem to deal with. Don't make it mine.

I'm a pretty easygoing person when it comes to friendship. When I care for somebody, it's pretty much unconditional and for all time, unless they don't want it that way or unless they hurt me beyond normal paramaters and I have to distance myself for my own self-preservation.

Otherwise, I'll stick around. So stop worrying.

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Last night, my brother Jon surprised the heck out of me by logging in to Yahoo Messenger and asking if I wanted to see his webcam. Shelley had received one for her birthday. I got to see the entire family. His camera is so good I could even see Heather's Kool Aid mustache.

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Argh. Earworm. Greg Kihn just played the song from Sesame Street that goes "Muh-nah-muh-nah Pah TEE Pah TEE-tee"

Well, that's it. I think was gonna write about some other stuff, but it's been shoved off the other end of bench by this fucking annoying song. -- Oh well.

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UPDATE:We're going to be installing a new hard drive later on tonight; if the computer goes toes up, it may be awhile before I can log in. Fingers crossed!...

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