Self therapy
From time to time, people comment on my frequent negativity. It gets a little frustrating when I seem to encounter so many things that hold me back for no good reason I can see, and sometimes I forget to focus on the good things instead. This especially slapped me across the face when at work, Paul mentioned it after I'd commented on the flatbed that we were lugging furniture on. I'd been complaining, as I'd quickly determined which of the tools available to me seemed to work best, once I started regularly participating in the furniture pulls at work. The flatbeds are loud, hard to direct, and one of them has a damaged wheel, which leaves it off balance if one doesn't distribute its load just right. One of the dollies got tweaked, and so its right wheel drags on whatever you load on it. Thus I favor the other two dollies that aren't tweaked, and use the pallet jacks instead of the flatbeds when grabbing more than a piece or two of furniture.
At any rate, I didn't intend to go off on that rant here, but that pretty much shows what provoked Paul's comment. Instead of explaining why I better liked the other options for hauling a collection of furniture for customer purchase, I'd just said "Have I mentioned how much I hate these flatbeds?" So it occurred to me that it might do me, and others, some good to list off things I liked and loved, in an attempt to not only remind myself that there are things that don't make me feel obligated to bitch people's ears off, and to let people know I am really not the 100% crazy ball of negativity that I sometimes come across as.
In no particular order, other than how they come to mind as I type, is a list of things I like and love. I'll use an unordered list, and provide explanation where I find it might be needed. If anything is vague, or you're curious about it, please comment and ask me about it. :)
- Neal Stephenson
- Ray Bradbury
- Christopher Moore
- Books
- Linux
- Kubuntu
- Actually finishing an art/craft project I've started
- writing
- Babyland
- Klingon
- Bluetooth
- Nokia
- chopsticks
- square plates
- Octopus cake pan
- cheesecake
- watercolor pencils
- the ability to make a web page in standards compliant HTML and CSS with nothing more than a text editor
- Spider Jerusalem
- The Fifth Element
- Jägermonters
- Dressing up in costumes
- dragons
- unusual plants: carnivorous, prehistoric, distinctive flowers, etc
- Cowboy Bebop
- watercolor pencils
- Mt. Dew
- Jones Soda
- Hot Cinnamon Sunset tea with honey in it
- leather jackets
- the band Heart
- most versions of the Worms video game franchise
- Atari 2600
- Frogger
- lava lamps
- Sméagol
- garlic
- sourdough
- tomatoes
- mushrooms
- cooking with beer and wine
- Dr Leonard "Bones" McCoy
- Captain Jack Harkness
- John Barrowman
- Eeyore
- penguins
- yellow
- purple
- cerulean
- bats
- spiders
- Wicked
- biplanes
- airships/zeppelins
- Where the Wild Things Are
- gargoyles
- sunflowers
- Led Zeppelin
- Blue Öyster Cult
- Doctor Who
- tentacles!
- Hello Kitty when not involved with the color pink
- Radiatori pasta
- HP printers
- A&W root beer
- Wash quality toy dinosaurs (think of the ones Wash played with in Serenity [pilot episode of Firefly, not movie]), especially when they light up
- devil duckies, also especially when they light up
- men who are comfortable enough in who they are to cross dress for the silliness of it
- Bugs Bunny
- goggles
- collars
- corsets
- my family (read as those I am close to, which isn't always the same as those I am genetically and/or legally related to)
- argyle
- socks of the striped, argyle or other fun/unique colors and styles
- Pentel Energel needle tip purple pens
- clickie sharpies
- caution tape
- Alma: my cordless drill/driver
- graph paper
- notebooks and journals with fun covers for my prose, sketching and what-have-you
- cats
- LEDs
- my little black purse with all the pockets to keep everything neat and organized
- my frog purse that comes with me when I go to concerts, especially after the time that he was borrowed by Dan, the singer of Babyland, for an appearance on stage during a show
- Gehry, the song that my frog purse was on stage for during the Babyland show mentioned in the last bullet point
- sex
- diva cup
- swimming
- flying
- role play games, especially the pen and paper sort, but also including the diceless stuff on mailing lists and internet message boards
- my purple gaming dice
- my grandma quality bedroom furniture, inherited from my great-grandmother
- top hat
- kitty hat
- Honda cars
- frogs
- In'n'out Burger
- Pyzanno's Pizzeria
I may come back and add to this list at a later date, but I figure it's a pretty good start for now.