Weekly Weigh-In

So I've been away for a while and I need to get back into the blogging habit. I'll start with a weigh-in. Among the most irksome of my texting pet peeves are the following:

*When you text someone to tell them know you're on your way or you'll call them later or something like that, and they reply with, "k." I hate one-word text messages to begin with, but one-letter ones are abominable.

*When people use numbers to abbreviate words, i.e. l8er, gr8, 2morrow, etc.

*Text message forwards ("Send this to all your friends in the next 5 minutes or you'll be ugly and loveless forever!!)

*When people text when they should be calling, resulting in 20 unnecessary messages back & forth, or call at inconvenient times when they could just text.

Do you agree or disagree with any of these? Any others you would add?

Weekly Weigh-In

I recently got my hands on a Viewmaster. Remember those? It was like your own little private show filled with splashes of technicolor and funny little cartoon characters from the old days. (I just turned 24 and I'm having a mid-twenties crisis.) It got me thinking about all the cool stuff from my childhood, like snap bracelets, Rainbow Brite, the Saturday morning TV lineup (California Raisins), Tamagotchis, and how all the cool kids in elementary school used to bring in Now&Laters and the more colors you had, the cooler you were. If you had the flavor that just came out, you were basically King of the World.

What's your favorite thing from your childhood, or the thing you get most nostalgic about? A TV show, movie (Land Before Time, anyone?), food, candy, toy...give it to me.

Breaking through the BLOCK

Okay, yes, I'm going through my first blog slump. I'm ashamed, but you know what, it happens. Right? I've just been feeling a little uninspired. I don't wanna write about something that happened or occurred to me that you don't really give a damn about. But it's a strange science. Sometimes I blog about some random thing and get an uproar of response, and sometimes I spend a lot of time on a post and don't really get much of anything. Then I feel super lazy for posting a quotation or a video, but sometimes I wanna share those things, too. Such is the dilemma of a blogger, I suppose.

Anyway, here's a list of quirky things about me. Maybe you'll be interested. Maybe you won't.

*I always sleep with one leg sticking out of my blanket. No matter how cold it is, I have to have that one leg airing out. And no matter how hot it is, I have to sleep with a full down comforter.

*I'm very impatient when I order things. I'll track the package about a minimum of five times a day, and then once or twice after I get home from work. If I don't get a tracking number emailed to me, I'll call to ask for one.

*My top lip all but disappears when I smile really hard. It's okay though, I'm not weird about it.

*I curse people out in my head A LOT. Random people on the street who are walking too slow in front of me, people who don't get their wallets or Metrocards out until ALL their shit is rung up or they're standing right at the turnstile, old people, etc.

*I have the weirdest, most random, craziest dreams you could ever imagine. Did you ever watch "Aaahh!!! Real Monsters" on Nickelodeon? They had a machine that you could connect to your brain, kinda like a projector, and it would replay all the scares they did throughout the day so all the other monsters could discuss. I'm gonna work on developing one of those so that I can show people my dreams, because until you see them for yourselves, you'll never understand.


*I love carrot juice. Ever tried it? Delish.

*I sometimes speak in plurals. If you don't know what I mean, you may not spend enough time with me.

*I wish I knew more Guyanese and Indian people that are like me. (Not FOBS.)

Tell me some cool stuff about you that I probably don't know.

It begins.

Hello to all three people reading my blog! While starting one up is pretty exciting for me, it also comes with its share of embarrassment. You see, a lot of my good friends have blogs of their own and I've talked some kind of crap about each of them. I just had an issue with the overwhelming Gen Y "Hey, hey! Look at me! This is my life in photo album and wall post form! Pay attention! Am I cool? Do you like my new pic? Ok, now let me force-feed you all of my emo thoughts by posting my blog's URL wherever there's a blinking cursor!" attitude.

I've obviously changed my tune a little here, and it's mostly because reading my friends' blogs has shown me what intelligent, thoughtful, and funny people they are. The objective of mine isn't so much to showcase my writing or anything so formal. From time to time on this little space, I'll be sharing with you the shit that just occurs to me on a daily basis. Things that I'd probably want to talk to you about anyway, but will forget about by the time I see you again.

I understand that it can be a sad and lonely world for a blogger out here - posts left without comments, people yelling at you for not posting often enough, etc. But I think I'll give it a shot.

P.S. To avoid answering the same question more than once, "masala" is an Indian spice. 'Cause you know. I'm spicy. Also, there was a movie in the '90s called "Mississippi Masala," so the title is just a play on that.