Monday, January 29, 2007

bonus!

Once you start thinking about personal facts and weirdnesses, it's difficult to stop.

6. Yesterday I found a DVD 2-pack of Chasing Liberty and Raise Your Voice for $9.49 at Costco, and squealed at the sight of it. I feel no guilt (monetary) or embarassment (dork factor) whatsoever that I made the purchase. It was a true bargain and I intensely love most movies starring Mandy Moore and Hilary Duff.

7. I am not a Phone Person. Have I blogged about this before? Probably. I have exactly 2 phone friends that I will regularly pick up for, and I do speak with J.Lo just about every day. I also talk to my dad once a week on Sundays, for between 5 and 10 minutes, because he's not a Phone Person either. It's quite genetic. Everyone else, it's so not that I don't love you. But I will screen all calls and if I'm feeling at all awkward, grumpy, busy, or unorginal, I won't pick up. I only feel slightly remorseful--a touch more if I am unable, within approximately 2 days, to shed said awkwardness, grumpiness, business, or unoriginality and muster up the nerve to call you back. I'm an emailer. I like email. Email me.

8. I could eat pasta every day of the week and be more than okay with that.

9. I've been trying to cut out extraneous snacking lately, and through a ginormous show of inner strength, have not purchased new chocolate for the house in a few weeks. I'm worried, however, because there is currently only 1 chocolate peanut butter Hershey's kiss left, and I don't know what I'll do tomorrow after I eat it and still feel like I haven't met my Chocolate Quota for the day. I have a Chocolate Quota, and physically cannot make it if I do not have at least a few pieces within a 24-hour period. I think I should probably go out and buy some more, and just try not to devour it by the giant handful. For society's sake.

10. I watch shows on Noggin, or as it's called after 8 PM, The N, and I'm sad that no one else seems to. I watch Degrassi: The Next Generation and Beyond the Break, and sometimes they make me cry.

7 comments:

ashley said...

I must go to Costco. I love Chasing Liberty. Jeremy Piven - holla!

ashley said...

While I am not embarassed to admit that I like Chasing Liberty, I am a bit embarassed that it made me feel compelled to type "holla." Please forgive me.

SW said...

OMG- so jealous!!!!! I got hooked on degrassi-tng at my old job, we designed their first season dvds, so i took some home and started watching, and was hooked!!! and that was back when they were in jr. high! i laughed, i cried...and then cried some more when i realized that i don't have cable nor access to noggin. now they're probably what, all graduated? so jealous...

And uh...my old violin teacher was in raise your voice...so by association, i was also in the movie.

Ok, how much- HOW MUCH- do we all want to see the new mandy moore movie??

penelope said...

m, you do realize you're one of the elite phone friends. perhaps i should have clarified.

ash, are you a member of costco? if not, i can take you there. $9.49!!!

szu-hua, i have a gift for you, a really, really, really good one. http://www.the-n.com/ntv/shows/episodes.php?id=67

enjoy!

Andria said...

I am totally with you on the email over the phone issue. It's just so much more convenient for me. I can shoot off emails easily, quickly and yet still be well thought out. I like to think that people can read and respond at their own convenience and leisure, too. Versus trying to make time in the middle of something. . or nothing. . to come up with things to say.

And, yes pasta is always good. Do you have Kroger in your area? You should try their Private Selections brand frozen tortellini. It comes in a bag (clear with a blue label) in the freezer section. It is so yummy and is an easy fallback any night of the week.

SW said...

Oh P, you're such a tease. I went there and all they had were short summaries...I thought I was gonna be able to watch full episodes...bummer. And then I stumbled across a preview and found out that someone dies!!

DUN DUN DUN.

penelope said...

DUDE! I am so disappointed! That site I had bookmarked precisely because you could watch every single ep of Degrassi in existence. So sorry for the tease... I'm going to have to look around on the site and see if that's still true. Bummer.

And yes, someone dies. So sad...