5 Things: Wrinkles & Rick Springfield.

1. Worst. Year. Ever.
2. Glad. It's. Over.
3. The only thing sadder than the Gin Blossoms being a featured performer for New Year's 2011 (!!!!!) is Rick Springfield headlining the show. Really, Fox?? Really???
4. Speaking of Fox.......congrats, Panthers. You're only about 5 years late with that one. (I'm just sayin'.)
5. I bought wrinkle reducing cleanser and lotion tonight. Thumbs down. Big, fat, wrinkly thumbs down.

5 Things: Panthers, Drugs, & Tonya Harding!

1. If Santa leaves a 200 count bottle of Benedryl in your stocking, is it time to go back to the allergy doc?
2. Of all the atrocities in the world today, the one I least understand is that someone pays Tonya Harding & Danny Bonaduce to give their opinions on tv.
Seriously?
3. And then there's Tonya Harding's hair...
4. Thanks, John Fox. The Panthers are clearly not going anywhere near the Superbowl; the least you could have done was lose one more game and assure Carolina a #1 draft pick. But no. So thanks.
5. Dear Jerry Richardson, ...................

5 Things: Jesus is a Rockstar.

1. If we all worshipped Jesus the way we worship rock stars, singers, actors, & other entertainers, we'd be in much better shape.... Individually & as a whole. Try it.
2. It is a widely spread rumor that the Christmas tree is Pagan in origin, but this is actually a myth. The roots of the tree tradition are actually Christian, and the first decorated tree is reported to have been in Tallin, Estonia in the late 1400s / early 1500s.
3. My sister has been to Tallin!
4. The trumpet part in Handel's Messiah: Hallelujah Chorus. *Sigh*
5. Jesus Christ. Best. Gift. Ever.

5 Things: Saga 1993...She's A Freak

1. A friend read to me today what a high school not-so-much-friend-at-the-time & I wrote about one another in her yearbook and it was hilaaaaaaaaarious!
2. Today I had Campbell's Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup Loaded With Vegetables. "loaded with vegetables" = 1 slice of carrot.
3. I wish I could change something about today.
4. If you're reading this and have pneumonia, eat bananas. It'll help.
5. I really wish I could change something about today.

5 Things: Gobble, Gobble, Oprah!

1. Oprah maybe notsomuch the best celebrity endorsement for Miraclebody jeans... The "Put them on and you look 10 lbs thinner" jeans. Because well...really? I'm just sayin'.
2. Christmas is in 2 days. WHOA.
3. Haven't bought a single Christmas present or card. All the money I would be spending is going to the Thad Vance Benefit Fund to help him fund his un-insured fight against cancer. Cancer sux. You should donate, too. Ask me how.
4. I want to know what goes on in my cats' brains. They crack me UP. One of them has a little routine he does right after he poos. He runs ALLLL through the house at top speed, saying "gobble, gobble, gobble" like a turkey. SO hilarious. He also gets in the shower as soon as someone turns on the water. Weird.
5. Ever notice that the people who defended Bill Clinton for dodging the draft are the same ones who called Bush a draft-dodger for joining the Air Nat'l Guard instead of the Army and said Kerry was the better candidate because he was a war hero...and then voted for Barrack Obama (who never served in any capacity) over John McCain, who spent 5.5 years as a prisoner of war. Hmm.

5 Things: Welcome to America. We have Kellie Pickler & Tonya Harding.

1. A big thanks to my friend Holly for reminding me of the disaster that is Kellie Pickler's "Santa Baby" video. Its single redeeming quality is the red Christmas lights on the floor. Really.
2. Tonya Harding. I just help it. She's just soooo ........ whatever. Maybe its the hair, maybe it's the make-up, maybe it's the collection of rebel flag, deer-head adorned sweatshirts.... I can't resist. She had me at monster truck.
3. I love snow!
4. I'm writing a piece on the INsecurity of the US/Mexican border and what we, as the American public, aren't really aware of in terms of the danger and vulnerability it puts us in worldwide. Hopefully it will be up today at pollytickchick.blogspot.com
5. Leftover lasagna for lunch. See ya!

5 Things: A Ring Around The Moon

1. A VERY uneventful day, brought on by my failure to fall asleep before 6am this morning, resulting in on & off dozing all day. Gross.
2. A loving, extended step-family evening filled with the high-pitched sugar of the voices of children from 5 mos to 13 yrs. Love.
3. Saw the most beautiful ring around the sun from the top of the mountain tonight. It was almost eerie...creepy... but so beautiful!
4. I'm too tired to finish this. You'll get a couple of bonuses tomorrow. I promise.

5 Things: Teck Out Your Choes.

1. My sister spent the night with me last night.
2. My sister woke up at my house today.
3. My sister & I took fun and mildly adventurous pictures in the snow on top of a mountain and may or may not have mildly trespassed on a ski slope. Don't judge.
4. My sister & I had hot dogs for lunch, had the best waitress EVER (who may or may not be a BFF of mine), ran errands & packed her entire apartment into her car for Christmas break. Entire apartment. No, really.
5. My sister is at an Acoustic Syndicate show right now without me and that is really, really, really wrong.

(in case you're wondering, she has a sore toe and asked me where you go to get your choes tecked out....probably a you-had-to-be-there moment. but it was great at the time.)

5 Things: Colder Weather

It's only lunchtime and I already have a full list :) Maybe if you're lucky, you'll get two today. Or probably not.

1. My friend Thad has a surgery date! December 23rd. Shake & bake. Beat it, cancer.
2. Kellie Pickler makes me want to stick a pencil in my eye.
3. I watched a really cool documentary last night on an ex-Amish community and learned a lot. It was really, really good.
4. Do you ever hear a song that hits you like a bat to the chest? Something you want to take and own all for yourself and keep it secret from the rest of the world, so it can be just yours? But then part of you wants to share it so others can have a chance at feeling that same thing? Zac Brown Band & AMOS LEE (!!!) singing "Colder Weather" at the CMT Artists of the Year Awards. Watch.
5. The commercials for ASPCA about abused & abandoned animals break me to my absolute core. I want to take every single kitteh & doggie off the screen and into my arms and home.
6. (Bonus:) There's a dead mouse/chipmunk/something in a wall in my house and it doesn't smell pleasant. I don't really feel the same about it as I do the kittehs & doggies on tv...but I would really prefer it go die somewhere else.
Ok, that sounds mean. I wish it hadn't died. Better?

5 Things: Angels We've Not Heard On High

1. Got the best Christmas card ever from my mom & stepdad. Hence today's title.
2. My cats heard me sing "Coal Miner's Daughter" at least 100 times today at the top of my lungs and not one of them complained once. Not a single time.
3. 10 days till Christmas.
4. Did you know that when your sweaty armpits stink, it's not actually your sweat that smells? Bacteria live there and digest perspirated sweat and the odor comes from what they excrete. FOULLLLLLL.
5. I started a political blog. You should read & "follow" it. pollytickchick.blogspot.com.

Looks like I'm a lil more boring each day... Great.

Tyra, Tyra, Tyra.....

December 14, 2010. 0 degrees. 2 ft of snow. 60mph wind. None of those are in the top 5 awesomest things about my day. Just thought I'd share.

1. (Ok, technically this should have been said yesterday, but I kept it just in case I drew a blank today) Quote: "It's reminiscent of Scotland and all the men there in their Irish kilts." ~Tyra Banks
Do I even need to comment on that?
2. (This is why I had to save something. Absolutely nothing happened today. And let's be honest...that first one is sufficient enough to cover five things.)
3. My sister dyed her hair and it looks su-weet.
4. Ok, so maybe 2 feet of snow on the ground really is awesome......gorgeous, actually. It's the 0 degrees + 60mph winds that are not-so-much awesome.
5. Watched "The Other Guys"... hiLARRRious. I miss Michael Keaton. Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!

Introducing 5 Things!

Of all the people in the world, I would have thought I would be one of the ones who blogged and blogged and blogged to her heart's content.....but I can't get into it. I have a ton to say....really, I do. I just can't make it happen. So I'm taking a new approach. I will MAKE myself blog. I will, I will, I will. But here's how it's going down. I've decided that each day (or at least on the ones I feel like it? Wait, no, everyday.) I'm going to share with the world the five awesomestliest things of my day. Maybe something I ate.... Maybe something I saw..... Maybe something I did.... Maybe something I was told.... Maybe something I read.... Maybe something I learned... The possibilities are endless. And awesome will abound. I'm sure of it.
So without further adieu (does that mean without further goodbye?), the innaugural 5 Things:


1. My cousin Daniel's Facebook status (slightly edited for language): "Facebook should have a, Your dumb button." Oh, the irony. (Sorry, cuz...loves!!)
2. Someone married Danny Bonaduce?! On purpose?!
3. I didn't puke once today. (If there had been a "5 Things" yesterday, you would understand why this is awesome.)
4. The highest temperature I saw today was 9. Currently it's 4. 60mph winds. At least 20" of snow. Hurricanes are for wimps. Try it at -15* & dumping snow. Now THAT'S a party.
5. It's my awesomest stepdad's birthday. HaPpY BiRtHdAy, Papa Noyes!

**BONUS!!** (This may evolve shortly to 10 Things rather than 5...) My friend Thad, a.k.a. "Bodie" Vance was given a potential surgery date to remove the cancer in his colon. AWWWWWWWESOME! This maybe should have been #1...oh well..when it's definite, it'll be #1.

I may have overstated the awesome a lil. Except for that last one...that's pretty awesome.