Ten on Tuesday — 10 Favorite Things to Complain About

1. Mean people that take their aggression and bad mood out on service workers (receptionists, cashiers, deli workers etc) because they know they can get away with it. Or they just don’t care.
2. Weather forecasters — oh, so sorry, meteoroligists — who think it is their job to whip people up into a lather over possible bad weather that 9 times out of 10 amounts to nothing.
3. Television reporters — who seem to delight in shoving their microphones and asking “and how did you feel when the police told you that the body of (insert murdered loved one’s name here) was (insert horrendous details here) all the while claiming freedom of the press and the public’s right to know.
4. People that think it is their duty to forward every piece of crap email that is sent to them to every person they have in their address book.
5. Also, these seem to be the same people that don’t/won’t check out ridiculous stories on snopes.com and just assume that everything sent to them is true.
6. Organized religion — need I say more.
7. Any war in general, the Iraq war in particular. Sally Field made a good point at the Emmys.
8. Books in which authors seem to just want to try to impress their readers with the number of big words they can use.
9. Caller ID — can’t tell you the number of phone calls we get at the office saying “yeah, somebody from there called me?” and it’s then up to us to run around trying to figure out who did call. Jeez, we’re not the Borg!! Get an answering machine, for crying out loud!
10. And about answering machines — when I am queen of the world, answering machines will pick up after 3 rings, not seventeen and it will be against the law to have an outgoing message on your machine recorded by your child/children. It’s impossible to understand and contrary to popular belief, annoying as all hell.

 

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Ten on Tuesday — 10 Best Games

1. Mario Brothers — the original. I bought the game and Nintendo for my daughter, then got hooked and stayed up most nights til 3AM playing it.
2. The Legend of Zelda. See number 1 above for particulars. I played this one after I wore out the Mario Brothers cartridge.
3. Yahtzee!! I love the sound the dice makes in the cup when you shake it. Plus I’m the world’s best Yahtzee! player. Just ask me.
4. Are crosswords considered a game?
5. Pitch. Haven’t played it in years, but loved it when I was younger. Used to stay up all night playing and drinking coffee. Oh, and smoking cigarettes too. I was such a little scamp!!
6. Monopoly. It’s great that it can literally go on for days.
7. Sorry! Another game from the staying up all night drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes days.
8. Trivial Pursuit. I have a brain that soaks up the most ridiculous facts. I used to play this with my sister and her then dipshit husband and beat the pants off him. Take that for thinking I’m an airhead girl!
9. Uno. I can’t remember how to play it but I know that I loved it!
10. Skip Bo — another game that I haven’t played in a dog’s age but loved it when I was a kid.

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Ten Songs That Bring Back Memories (and why)

1. Smile a Little Smile for Me Rose Marie by The Flying Machine. I really had only one boyfriend in high school that mattered, and this was our song.
2. Mud Slide Slim & the Blue Horizon by James Taylor. Spent many, many hours listening to that 8 track tape at the swimming hole with my friends in the early 70’s.
3. Inna Godda Davida by Iron Butterfly. Played extensively at the teen center dances of my youth. Greatest drum solo ever no question. Danced my brains out to that song many weekends. I wonder what ever happened to my album.
4. Nights in White Satin by The Moody Blues. It was almost always the last dance song at teen center dances.
5. Stayin’ Alive by the Bee Gees. It’s the only movie that I actually paid to see 8 times. John Travolta was so HOT!!
6. Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel. Not for any particular reason, but that song just always touched something in me.
7. The Theme from Summer of ‘42. A very sweet and nostalgic movie with a poignant soundtrack. It always just melts my heart. Still one of my favorite movies.

Sorry — can’t make it to ten on this one. Seven will have to do!!

Ten on Tuesday — come try, it’s fun!!