Stuff I Have To Be In The Mood For
1. a new book
2. a movie
3. the phone
4. hotdogs
5. drinking
I am in the mood to elaborate.
1. Even when I bitch and moan about having nothing to read and get a shipment of new books from my boyfriend, I often cannot start reading right away. I have to wait until I'm ready to read. It's beyond annoying. I hate myself for this proclivity, but there it is. Right now, I have two books sitting on my coffee table, and I haven't delved into either one of them. I'm just not sufficiently in the mood yet. Well, let me tell me something, dammit. I'd better get in the effing mood double-quick!
2. One of the reasons I broke up with Netflix is because a film sat under books and magazines in the living room for months, unwatched, costing me eleventy thousand dollars because I could not commit to watching it. Oh, sure, I could have just sent it back and gotten another one, but I would have simply NOT WATCHED THAT ONE, TOO. IT JUST DIDN'T MATTER. That film could have been oh, "Full-Frontal Male Nudity With British Male Narration Plus Bunnies!" and I would still have let it sit there. I just hate devoting a huge block of time to anything unless I am completely in the right frame of mind. I'm such a horrifying psychotic project; I know it.
3. My aversion to the telephone is epic and well-known. Ask my mother, the poor sainted woman who never hears from me unless she pretends to be on her deathbed. Whenever she sees my children or my siblings, her parting shot is always, "Tell Nance that she does still have a mother!" In order for me to telephone anyone, even her, I have to go into an empty room devoid of distraction, lie down, and force myself not to look at a clock. As you can imagine, I rarely initiate a telephone conversation, so being in the mood is noteworthy.
4. I eat hotdogs (actually, usually a hotdog) about twice a year. Charred on the grill, please. With authentic Cleveland Ballpark or Bertmann's mustard. And, regretfully, onions. (Regretfully because they will cause me to belch for hours afterward.) My husband is a fan of hotdogs and often mentions them as a summertime dinner suggestion, which usually causes me to make the "I'm going to throw up in my mouth face" because I'm almost never, ever in the mood for them. But once in a while he gets lucky.
5. Drinking, as everyone must know, is different than "having a drink." Jared--it must be mentioned here--is still learning this, as most twentysomething males are. He can sit out on the deck and undertake Drinking at the drop of a hat every night of the week. I, as a fifty-year-old person with a history of migraines, cannot. I do still enjoy some Judicious Drinking every now and again, but I have to be in the mood.
Good thing I'm at the end here because I'm sort of not feelin' it anymore. What do you have to be in the mood for?
4 comments:
I notice in the discussion of drinking v. having a drink, you say twentysomething males. I, indeed, have had to learn the difference between the two, but I expect that has less to do with any merit on my part and more to do with the fact that I have a drink and I'm pretty much halfway to drinking. Oh well. At least it's cheaper that way.
Here are mine.
1. Writing
This is one I can't really let rest, because I'm almost never in the MOOD to write. I have a lovely story working itself out in my head right now, but there's no telling when I'll actually get it on paper (or screen). This is due to a lack of confidence or the assumption that the story won't turn out any good unless I feel like writing it. I guess I also sort of rarely have large blocks of time in which to mentally prepare myself. Like I said, I need to get over this one.
2. Blogging
I don't think I have since June. I have spurts of blogging good intentions, but for the most part I never feel like it. Writing a story or a poem? Journaling? Those don't have an audience (at least until I want it to, in the case of the former). Blogging requires me to make an effort to be witty or interesting or to give up on pleasing people altogether, at which point it's sort of useless.
3. Potato chips
But Lord help me when I do finally get a craving.
4. Cleaning
This is how it works: I let things get nearly-disgusting, and then I go on a cleaning rampage. It's sort of strange--I suddenly have the need to clean, organize, and alphabetize everything.
5. Pancakes
I don't know why. When I do eat them, I don't really enjoy them unless they're buried under mounds of powdered sugar.
Cleaning: I just moved, and my room is a terrible mess. I didn't have time to unpack before work started, but I needed to get to certain things for work and just for life, so I have a bunch of opened boxes with crap strewn about everywhere. I'm hoping I can get into the mood to clean today or tomorrow, as my room really needs it.
Cooking: I absolutely love to cook, but I have to get into the mood to actually get my ass to the kitchen. Today I have no meals planned, which means I should cook something, but I'm too lazy.
The Beach: I suppose it's because the beaches out here are generally cold, but the beach is only 6 miles away and I'm just not feelin' it.
here is the thing: i have learned the difference between drinking and having a drink. i am capable of having A drink or TWO drinks.
sometimes, the first one goes down real smooth, and you just know "im going to have two...or ten of these". depends on the...wait for it...MOOD of the evening.
love hotdogs. at any given time, regardless of when my last food consumption was, i can eat four or five hotdogs. its disgusting. i prefer spicy brown mustard.
JPD--Whatever you say. And I like Gulden's Spicy Brown also. It is a suitable stand-in if we are out of ballpark. Which is rare; we have, at any given time, at least seven kinds of mustard on hand, as you know.
Mikey--I am never in the mood to clean. I just have to do it when I can no longer tolerate the level of squalor forced upon me by the testosterone in the house. I am the only one who sees that it needs to be done. I enjoy cooking, just not deciding what to cook. And the beach is never a nice thing for me, as I have previously discussed here. Probably if you are with a group of your buddies, the beach is more than just sand and swim, knowing you. You will probably do something incredibly exciting and wonderful. And then put it on YouTube for me!
Tiana--I get you entirely on 1&2, but the only reason they don't make my list is because I force myself to do them both, regardless of mood. I have discussed pancakes previously here at Stuff in the same post as the beach. I think the post was about stuff that's not as great as you think it's going to be.
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