My Guilty Pleasures

Do you have something that you do when you're blue? Something that helps you fall asleep? An odd quirk that makes you happy? Well, listen up, because I've decided to bear my guilty pleasures. Don't worry, there's not anything bad, just kind of odd.

Ready? Okay!

-When my roommates aren't home, I sometimes turn on spy music and run around my apartment with my fingers making a gun, hiding behind doorways and shooting the bad guys
-Sometimes, I go to itsaboutlove.org (the LDS Family Services Website) and read the profiles of the Hoping to Adopt Families. They're just such cute families! It makes me feel fuzzy inside.
-I secretly believe turning on Vivaldi's Winter from the Four Seasons makes it snow harder (it's kind of one of those things that you know it doesn't, but you kind of feel like it does)
-I kill time by playing Gingerbread Circus 2
-Christmas music makes me happy and so I occasionally listen to it regardless of the season
-watching old TV shows while folding laundry or cleaning. Yeah. This is why another confession I have to make? I have seen every episode of Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman through this method. Isn't the internet great?
-At times. I concentrate better while reading in the bath tub.
-I sometimes stare at diagrams of scientific conundrums hoping to see something I missed before.
-When I'm feeling tired in the middle of the day, I'll dance the St. Patrick's Day Jig with just my feet to wake me up.
-I have characters whom I pretend to be while laying in bed.
-I hate the song "Signs" because I feel like it is belittling the plight of Irish immigrants in the 19th Century by comparing discrimination against them (No Irish Need Apply signs) to lack of acceptance of alternative lifestyles that were choice in the 1970s.

That's it for tonight.

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