A list to end 2006!

Since this is most likely the last post I will make in 2006, I thought it best to end with a list...since I love them so. Although, I should warn you, this list has absolutely nothing to do with the ending of 2006 or the beginning of 2007. So, let's get on with it.

1. Today I talked for four hours with a guy I met recently. Me! Four hours! I could hardly believe it myself. Still can't (clearly, since it warranted first mention on this list).
2. Is it wrong that I don't even consider dating a person named Jesse? I have a profile on a free dating site and I checked it today (for the first time months, thank you very much) and a guy named Jesse had sent me a message. And I probably won't even respond. I mean really...Jess and Jesse? Even I want to make fun of us!
3. I'm going to spend at least part of New Year's Day at work. I'm a little bummed by this, but I have to lessons planned for this week or the week will be even more miserable than I suspect it is going to be.
4. Grocery shopping for the first time in nearly six weeks is a lot of fun. Doing it on New Year's eve? Slightly less fun. But (!) I did get caught up on all the cheesy end-of-the-year celebrity gossip as I waited in the check out line (for nearly 20 minutes!). And nearly died trying not to laugh when the guy behind me looked at my food on the conveyer belt and said, "::pause:: Your food is in categories. ::pause:: That's a lot of cheese." One, yes, I categorize my food on the belt - makes it easier for whoever is bagging to do so. And makes unpacking at home easier too. And two, yes, I did buy a lot of cheese. Can't help it, I like cheese.
5. My roommate left for Madison on Thursday and put a time release food pellet into her fish's bowl before she left. She also asked me to check in on the fish now and again - make sure the fish has food, etc. I am now terrified this fish is going to die on me. I check on it all of the time! (I don't feed it all of the time though, that'd be bad.) We just have to get through one more day...our interactions go something like this: Me "Hey fish, how's it going?" Fish ::glub glub:: Me "Good, good. Now don't die on me today, alright?" Fish ::glub glub:: I tell myself the second response is in the affirmative.
6. Yes, I know, I'm more than a little nuts.
7. I'm going to a small party tonight at a former coworkers. Eight to ten single folks who didn't want to worry about where to go, what to wear and who to kiss at midnight. We're having soul food (b/c someone wanted us to have black eyed peas - they bring good luck in the new year) and I was assigned to bring the greens. Yes, me. Collard greens. Uhm...right. Hi, white girl from the north, in case nobody's looked in awhile. White girl from the north who doesn't eat pork. Know what gives collard greens their taste? That'd be hamhock. Hell, I don't even know what hamhock is, let alone where to get it or what to do with it when I did. Luckily, said guy I was talking with today found me a vegetarian recipe. I hope no one minds that they are eating pork-free greens! At least there will be plenty of other food...and lots of booze!
8. Friday I needed to get out of the house so I went in search of the discount linen store my mom talks about - supposedly they have a branch out here. It was awesome. I got four pillows and a bedskirt (I have been looking for a cream/ivory bedskirt since August) for $35! Then I bought myself new sneakers a Payless - they're Champions and make me happy b/c they look like soccer shoes. Then I got a pedicure b/c my feet really needed it and I was already wearing flip flops. Oh, and I got stuff at the dollar store to replenish my prize box at school (lots of playing cards and art supplies - boys are harder to buy for). It was a good day.
9. Crap. I may never make it to ten. But I can't leave this at a random number like eight. (And yes, I know that was totally cheating, but we all have our compulsions.)
10. Oh! Today someone shared with me this quote by Nietzsche (I'm pretty sure that is spelled completely wrong) and I really liked it. It has nothing to do with anything, but it reminds me of a lot of people I have known, myself included. I mean, really, why do human beings have such a hard time just being nice or accepting a compliment or whatever? Anyway, he said:

    "There are occurrences of such a delicate nature that one does well to cover
    them up with some rudeness to conceal them; there are actions of love and
    extravagant generosity after which nothing is more advisable than to take a
    stick and give any eyewitness a sound thrashing: that would muddle his memory."

Okay, so with those completely random thoughts I bid y'all are fond farewell. I'll talk to you in 2007! Oh, and...HAPPY NEW YEAR!