1 through 25 from the First Quarter of 100 things about me can be found by clicking on this long line of green text.

You will likely want to review it because I started it a long time ago, like before I moved to Wordpress even.

So here goes:

26. The first concert I went to after moving to Vancouver was Jewel.
27. I try to dance every day and not just with Ellen.
28. My first concert t-shirt was that of the one and only Neko Case, as Aughra so nicely put it, “you and that shirt! Man.”
29. I do not use fabric softener. I do when I go home to my parents place though because then when I get back home it reminds me of home, my father has used the same kind for as long as I can remember.
30. I have a change sorter and save ALL of my change. [our rolled change payed for all of our tips on our honeymoon, saving change RULES]
31. I initially over react to almost everything but am actually very level headed.
32. I have ALWAYS spelled words how they sound and thus do not spell good.
33. As exhibit A. B. C. and D. clearly show, I am a hand talker extraordinaire for life.
34. I’m often referred to as a ‘childless soccer mom’ by my friends because I rarely leave home without an assorted combination of pain relief drugs, Purell [mini], Tide to Go, Band aids, hand cream [mini], lip balm and gloss, O.B. tampons [regular and super], a pen, hair ties and let us not forget the Visine. This is my purse it all fits nicely inside a small makeup bag.
35. I have very bad balance stemming from two serious issues with my inner ears, one self inflicted one not.
36. I have sensitive everything.
37. If you think you are more clumsy than me then I challenge you to a clumsy contest.
38. I have an irrational fear of the wind.
39. As a pre-teen and teen, I got pounded, beat up, bullied [whatever you prefer to call it] to the point of bruised skin on and off my face, split lips and an eventual first attempt at suicide that landed me in the hospital for a week. [some of that one is known but my depression and therapy category is a mess]
40. I have not worn a watch in years.
41. I do not own a scale because I refuse to become any more obsessed with weight beyond what I consider normal.
42. I have an extremely vivid imagination and am prone to exaggerate.
43. I don’t even want to admit how often I get in the shower with one of the following still on my person: my glasses, a tampon and my personal favourite, my underwear.
44. I stand up for myself and those I love at all costs.
45. I love the word plethora.
46. There is my life before Guitar Hero and then there is my life after Guitar Hero.
47. I cry at and over everything, seeing a friend WIN on TV, say on CBC’s Test the Nation last Sunday, commercials, TV shows, movies, vacation, SPORTS, CONCERTS, music in general, telling stories and etc.
48. I think about taking GG down at least once a day.
49. I am not easy to be friends with.
50. I yearn to learn how to be an affectionate person without using words.

• I have to have all the songs on Guitar Hero III open by tomorrow. People are coming over to play and I want all the songs open. I started on hard level because I play on expert now but I got stuck in level seven [hard] so I have had to go back to medium level so I can get everything open. The things I do for my friends, seriously.

Top five total BS reasons I didn’t insist on the cordless guitar being mine and have not even tried it:

1. I don’t want to get used to it
2. I LOVE starting almost every sentence with “since you have the cordless guitar on can you please get me…..”
3. I obviously have issues with ‘excessive’ use as I broke the whammy bar on our original red guitar
4. I won MAJOR points taking over Adam’s old black and brown guitar
5. Cordless or not I will still find something to trip and fall over

• The latest visit with Rhonda was awesome, as usual, but was also bittersweet. Not my place to talk about her life on my site. I haven’t even posted the photos to flickr yet but when I do I’ll do a photo post because we took some pretty interesting photos. Underwear on my head was involved and Adam got a stingray.
• I have therapy today and BOY do I need it.
• I haven’t touched The Time Traveler’s Wife since GH 3 came out and I remain on page 50.
• I bought the new Britney Spears, Blackout at the same time that I bought Puscifer, “V” is for vagina.
• I’m almost done the second quarter of 100 things about me.
• Adam and I got new cell phones for free. My phone is so kick ass I can’t even use it or I can but I may have to call in reinforcements to teach me, I got the MOTOKRZR K1(RED) made to help eliminate AIDS in Africa. I have this thing where I hate reading instructions, but I take direction well.
• I got a change sorter because we save every single piece of change and I love it so much I may dedicate a whole post to it. If you only knew how much money I/we have saved and the things we’ve ended up using it for you’d all start saving your change today.
• This season of Ellen Degeneres is so good I can hardly handle it.
• Project GOING GREEN is in full swing we’ve added reusable bags for groceries and drugstore shops and have found even more things to ‘flick off’ and unplug. Friend and fellow blogger Keira-Anne has also done some great posts on GOING GREEEEEEEEEN and even has a Roots, Flick Off t-shirt.
• Project get all the songs open on Guitar Hero III by tomorrow must recommence now.
• As of this minute I have 144 unread blog posts on my feed from blogs I actually read because I only have blogs I read on my feed because of you guessed it, GUITAR HERO. [anyone sick of hearing about GH refer to my about page]

I must ask you to please answer a question for me in my comments, IF you watch CSI Las Vegas I would REALLY LIKE TO KNOW if you think Sara Sidle is going to live or die in the premiere next week. I say she is going to live because I love her, but Adam thinks she is going to die. And in a way her dying does make sense because I just don’t see how they can work a relationship that is out in the open between them on the show, I just don’t see it. The preview for the premiere is dramatic I saw it like ten times last night while watching last season’s finale again. I can’t wait to see how many different hair styles Nick and Greg have this season. PLEASE NO MORE MUSTACHES ON PONCHO!!!!!

That basically brings to me woo hoo next week is premiere week, except that CSI Las Vegas is really the only show I watch anymore that has a September start date, side from ELLEN of course.

Don’t count out our love of shit reality tv though. We somehow got into last season’s Beauty and the Geek and it looks like we are going to watch it this season as well. They played Rilo Kiley in the premiere. Kid Nation looks awesome but we missed it watching America’s Next Top Model, no other reality tv show gets us going like America’s Next Top Model, maybe the Canadian edition but the Canadian edition doesn’t have Tyra and half the the joy watching America’s Next Top Model is waiting to see what drag queen wanna be outfit Tyra is in each week, and ain’t no black woman got a weave like Tyra’s OH NO THEY DON’T. Monday brings the start to Dancing With the Stars, I’m not sure I really like any of the people dancing this year so I may NOT watch it. Apollo just stole that whole bloody show last season. Can’t say I’m not looking forward to him competing here in the 2010 Olympics.

Lost and 24 don’t start till when January? I’m too lazy to check. I got a text message from my buddy yesterday saying that Tony is back on 24, I don’t remember what I responded but it was something like THAT IS BULLSHIT and I got a text back in agreement. I REALLY hope not BUT, 24 just might drop off my radar this year. I love me some Jack Bauer but as my buddy said, “they may as well just bring Palmer back too”. Lost has the potential to be a great season. But it isn’t on yet so that is all I can say. I don’t read rumor sites or anything I read the odd link I get sent on shows I like but that is about it.

Big Love recently ended on HBO, I love everything about Big Love it is by far my favorite show right now and thankfully Adam likes it, they have really and I mean really set the show up to bust out a completly beyond awesome third season. I SO HIGHLY recommend this show either rent it, torrent it just WATCH IT!

And before I go, Bionic Woman premiers on Wednesday and I was a production assistant on set for re shoots for the pilot, the novelty of watching the shows I work on hasn’t really worn off yet and I get really excited when I can run up to the tv and say IM STANDING RIGHT THERE, RIGHT THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so I am sure I will be checking it out. One of my friends already watched it via torrent before they replaced one of the characters hence the re shoots and HE said it isn’t terrible but it isn’t great, I won’t care I just worked on it, isn’t like I wrote it, cast it and star in it or anything.

Last year for the Oscars Adam was working in Kelowna and I was alone recovering from my ass surgery so I watched the Oscars in my designer Betsey Johnson dress and heels and felt all sexy and shit. I went to bed before they were over.

This year we printed Ballots and filled them out earlier in the day. That is just so awesome that you can print them right off the Oscars’ website! Who knew?

Adam decided to dress up in a suit and when he was out at the corner store getting milk I threw on my wedding dress ‘cept I couldn’t get it done up because I’ve packed on some sweet pounds in EXACTLY six months TODAY and because I am still sick when we finally got it done up when I’d cough we heard wee ripping sounds so I had to take it off. I was going for more of a ball gown feeling for this year’s show but it didn’t work out.

We’d seen quite a few of the nominated films and performances- I was really looking forward to them this year if for nothing more than Ellen. I loved it when she gave Martin Scorsese a script and then Clint Eastwood wanted one too but all he got was a lousy photo. That was funny.

Ryan Gosling looked fantastic representing for Canada. Half Nelson is a kick ass movie if you haven’t seen it. His nomination reminded me of Edward Norton’s second nomination for American History X in that it was a fantastic performance, you knew he wasn’t going to take it, but both performances are MUST SEEEEEEEEEE and both men can still do no wrong in my eyes. Acting wise HOLY I’m married, although I did remind Adam that my innocent crush on Ryan Gosling started in 2001 when he did The Believer which therefore predates him. OBVIOUSLY I love Adam the mostest.

The show was way too long and Cameron Diaz looked stupid. Kirsten Dunst takes the worst dressed EVER award. Abigail Breslin at age 10 looked more mature than Dunst at age 24. Al Gore rocked it out hard and Leo looked like a man. I seriously thought Jennifer Hudson’s right boob was going to explode out of her dress when she was singing, it scared me and I found it distracting. But there was part of me hoping it would bust free as well.

In the end Adam and I tied with 14 of 24 categories correct. I was trailing for a while but caught up because Adam had Babel picked for the big awards and he didn’t even like it whereas I had The Departed for the big ones and cleaned up. I really wanted Mark Wahlberg to take Best Supporting Actor he was hilarious in The Departed but Alan Arkin was also fantastic in Little Miss Sunshine so I was happy to see him win.

If it were up to me Ellen would now host every year, just with less makeup on, I loved her outfits and her hair but was not a fan of her makeup it was a little too girly for my taste.

Almost everyone in British Columbia that I know is sick. These viruses are getting really insane. I have been sick since last Thursday evening when my throat got scratchy. Adam has been sick since last Wednesday. I picked it up from him fast. Normally I just get the beginnings of things take some Vitamin C and it’s gone, other than having almost daily headaches that can become debilitating with little or no notice, I hardly ever get SICK, sick.

THIS virus is SO FUN because it starts with the flu and NOW we have full blown head colds. AWESOME. My fever was so high Adam had to go out and get a thermometer so we could monitor it; it was into the 100’s. Even Gus is barfing. The other night I was so uncomfortable and my body hurt so badly I was convinced I had RLS [Restless Leg Syndrome] until I remembered that only people on TV get it and that I don’t have enough room in my life right now for anymore ’syndromes’ or ‘disorders’.

The worst thing about this stupid flu/cold other than the fever, sore joints and muscles, wet cough, then dry cough, sore throat, sore ears, ridiculous headache, and all the snot AND the watery red eyes [the watery eyes just set in today but they were already red and hurt to open] WE CAN’T SLEEP. Until the full head cold kicked in and the flu part started to get better neither of us could sleep. Talk about frustrating, all I want to do when I’m sick is sleep. Finally, last night I was able to sleep until I woke hacking up a lung at 5:30am and I get up around 7am so I was not complaining after the previous nights in hell. Not being able to play Guitar Hero is so lame I’m not even going to discuss it because I have 14 songs open on hard now. I am in awe of Riss who left a comment saying she battles on EXPERT. HOLY. [IF you are a 24 fan she writes the best after show comments EVER]

AND I get dinged $140.00 by my therapist for missing last Friday’s session because I didn’t cancel in time. SWEET.

As mentioned, coming Thursday:

As anyone who watches Ellen should know Oprah is going to be on Ellen. I don’t particularly like Oprah and I never ever ever thought Oprah would be on Ellen. I don’t even get it. I don’t know what they will even talk about. I keep running it over and over in my head trying to picture it.

Ellen announcing her: “Now please welcome my next guest - you may remember her from the 11 time academy award nominated The Color Purple which won none of the Oscars, Oprah Winfrey. Also seen in Beloved.”

Oprah enters pulling of Krumping moves that would make Tyra Banks proud to the tune of I’m Coming Out Diana Ross. The camera pans in on Gayle in the audience as Oprah takes her seat and blows her a little kiss. Oops I mean blows the audience a kiss.

Ellen: “I did think The Color Purple was a great movie by the way but because I am hosting the Oscars that is all I can say on that.”

Oprah: “I thought I was here to talk about Va-Jayjays?”

Ellen: “And all this time I envisioned you’d call it your Rainbow Snapper.”

Oprah: “AH haha NO. It’s Va-Jayjay.” Giggles and glances uncomfortably at Gayle. “Stedman prefers that to Vagina, or ‘Snapper’ was it you said Ellen?”

Ellen: “Snapper is a Gus Greeper thing. I just have a regular old vagina. Well not old but normal, a vagina. Ok. Lets move on.”

“After the Break we’ll be back to argue, I mean talk about not being pissed off at who has the coolest guests booked if they win at the Oscars for our live Oscar specials.”

On one of the Detroit stations I watch Ellen is now on at 7am so I can watch it while I am making Adam�s lunch. I can�t laugh as loud or dance as vigorously but I can watch it again at 11am or 5pm so seriously no worries if I get a bit distracted and miss some.

Yesterday my neck hurt all day long and I could not turn it left at all. Today it feels fine. My bad neck is from car accidents that were NOT my fault and so I never really know what puts it or my back out all I know for sure is that my headaches LOVE IT they go off the charts.

I got a hair cut last week but it looks the same just neater. Adam didn�t even notice. It caused my first moment of fear in our marriage. Only five months and he doesn�t notice my HAIR?????????????????? What�s next he forgets our 6 month anniversary????

Ps. YAY Hillary for 2008. DO IT UP!

[b]I woke up one morning and a girlfriend[/b] had her MSN name set to �OFF TO BELLINGHAM�. Took a while to dawn on me that was America because I knew I needed stuff and knew there was a reason the word BELLINGHAM was screaming at me. But then I remembered and tripped and fell searching for my phone and I banged my shin and I called with a rushed �WHERE ARE YOU�!!!!! She was still here. �cool man can you grab me the biggest bottle of Excedrin Migraine you can find and ummm do they have Target there I NEED Ellen DVD-licious! I can not live without it, please�.

I got a 230 bottle of Excedrin Migraine; sweet bring on the ulcer yet such fantastic headache relief. A person sending me over the Excedrin is great thank you so much but I really don�t like the whole customs opening it thing. These are good through 2009 and I remember I bought a bottle only slightly bigger than this in Las Vegas years ago and it lasted me forever. That is a blatant lie if it lasted me forever I�d still have it and would not have to beg everyone I know to bring me back bottles from America like it is crack or some shit with the way I fear the bottle even getting empty.

I�m not going to lie to you. I had extremely high expectations for the Ellen DVD-licious! I also feel my expectations were well within limits it was being sold exclusively to one store instantly adding to its appeal and demand. I don�t like saying bad things about Ellen you may remember I had a very hard time with the �Little Snow� incident.

The DVDs are not BAD they are just lame. Still entertaining just a waste of a second DVD everything would have easily have fit on one. There is NO dancing. There is NO Tony. Are you kidding me? Do you have ANY idea how much I MISS Tony I could not wait for the Tony highlights. NONE. NO audience dancing either ONLY some of the funniest shit on earth. Some of my favorite moments include Snoop Dog doing gang symbols any time Allison Janney or Lauren Graham are on and I�ve never watched either of their shows, when she went golfing with Ray Romano and Brad Garrett the fact she hardly ever edits out the bloopers, pretty much every time she has a comedian on and OF COURSE BIG GIN! When Justin Timberlake came out of that Ginger Bread Man I still haven�t officially gotten over how awesome that was and have wanted to dance as a glass of milk since. Snoop Dog did not make DVD-licious but that is ok because neither did Little Snow who SHOULD HAVE BEEN SNOOP DOG!!!

The DVDs are funny as claimed on the cover �funniest moments from the first three years� BUT it is ONLY 104 mins. Her stand up DVD �Here and Now� is 60 minutes. That is one stand up act this is THREE seasons it should have been a minimum of two hours. It left me feeling so empty I�m almost tempted to put it back in to make sure I didn�t miss anything but I am sure I did not. I can�t figure out why it is on two DVDs it makes me wonder if I got a bunk copy. And of course the kid she put on there from Canada is a total brat. Thank you. Why I take that personally I don�t know.

I don�t want my money back I�d still watch it again it is just stupid I only get to dance for the whole 30 seconds the JT part is on and Tony was just so awesome on there I can�t believe there is no highlight of banter between them basically I should have been sought out to make it LICIOUS it is Ellen and it is a DVD but there is NO LICIOUS.

October 24 can not come soon enough. The new John Legend will be mine.
We were walking through The Bay the other day because we finally bought a new DVD player the PS2 is on its last legs and we need it to last until the new one comes out and the VHS machine melted so we needed a dual one. The PS3 is sexy the design. Holy. I can�t wait. I knew John Legend had a new album coming because I saw some preview that he was on Oprah I think he has been on there twice I don�t know for sure because Oprah is stupid but I do know that he was on Ellen first when his first album was just out I bought it that day. If Ellen asked me to jump off a tall building and there was no fall mat would I do it? NO. But she had him on and he was amazing reminded me there was still good new artists out there. I love the song he does with Snoop Dog �I Can Change� it cracks me up every time and I still listen to it constantly. We were walking out and I heard less than two seconds and was like HEY MAN NEW JOHN LEGEND LISTEN. His sound is very distinct. I heard less than ten seconds of the new �Save Room� and loved it instantly. I am sure it is everywhere by now but for some reason I hadn�t heard it. I really hate it when that happens.

I am so pissed off that Ellen DVD-licious is only available at Target IN STORES I don�t even know how to deal with it. We don�t have a Target. I�m not sure how I will go on and HOW I did not realize until TODAY the day I�d been waiting for- I must have been in denial and alas NO ELLEN DVD FOR ME.