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hearing - "Ode to a Butterfly", and the rest of "Nickel Creek", Nickel Creek. I'm in love with their voices right now.
drinking - Coffee that desperately needs to be reheated. Really, it's so gross that it's surpassed the usual level of grossness that I can tolerate in a leftover cup of coffee. (And just a note: fat-free half and half has no purpose. It is poison and the people who invented it and those who manufacture it should be jailed, because I really believe it is worse for you than drinking ground water outside of a car wash. Use a little of the real stuff and walk around the fucking block, for God's sake. Fat free also seems to equal "obscene amounts of sugar and cellulose (talk about scary, yo) added to mimic consistency of food acceptable on a planet not yet discovered, to be consumed by people with mouths on their foreheads." Whatever, dude.)
holding - Just held a catalog to swat this scary flying insect out of the room. It always scares me when I see things that can bite that I don't recognize as indigenous to the East Coast. That's all I need is some strange disease from an insect bite. I tried to catch him peacefully so I could let him out the door with all limbs intact, but he wouldn't capitulate. I did what I could, and he finally got out but I'm not sure he'll be flying for long.
eating - My leftover crabcake from last night's dinner. It was really, really good. You should be so jealous, if you're into shellfish in any way.

sitting - I'm actually sort of lounging, now that you mention it. It's like I stay tired this month.
fighting - A dreadful headache, because they've been pounding on the roof all day and my frontal lobe can't take it anymore.
thinking - Obsessing about something that I'm not supposed to think about at all, which is completely ridiculous so could someone please explain to me why my brain is damaged? Really. I'm starting to think it's broken, because most of the time I have such extreme common sense that it's disgusting, because I can't ever claim I didn't know any better (nice grammar, no?). But the one percent of the stuff that I'm stupid about seems to be so profoundly debilitating that it almost cancels out the 99. Please explain this to me. (Rhetorical, right?) I've been giving a lot of advice lately - I think I actually need some, so then I can at least have something solid to ignore while I'm making unfortunate choices.
wanting - To be far, far away and not have to come back for a month...to be better able to control my thoughts and impulses...to have an extra five hours in my day...to stick to my exercise program...a brooklyn brownstone apartment...my dog to be a puppy again (how pathetic is that, but that thought occurred to me last night and it made me cry, I am such a loser baby.)...some other stuff too.
reading - tripadvisor.com, obsessively. I also just read the Jammin' Java schedule and it turns out those completely alluring boys in The Alternate Routes will be there on August 11, so I do not indeed have to pretend to still be badass and go to Baltimore again tomorrow night to see them before my plane flies out at 6:50 am the next day. I was really going to try, because I had some momentary illusion that I was badass and someone else was actually going to go, but I think it's best if I don't go away completely fried, because I'd like to be alert for a new coast. If I knew how to do the MP3 blog thing, I'd hook you up with "Ordinary" right now, because it's one of the best songs I've ever heard in my natural life and if you like pop music sung and played by cute men who actually have some talent, you may indeed like it too. Go to their link above and you can probably catch it on the site, or on their Awarestore page. I've had it on repeat for months, and I do know me a good pop song...Wouldn't steer you wrong, on purpose anyway. ANYWAY, our schedules are finally coinciding in a reasonable fashion so I can see them on August 11, and if I don't come back from the show you'll know they needed a merch manager or something like that, and the next time you see me I'll have the tattoo I've REALLY always wanted. : ).
watching - The clock. I never have enough time to get everything done that I need to get done lately and it's simultaneously pissing me off and making me want to drink the brown liquor.
surfing - blogher girls, so i can pick some faces out of the crowd, and getting progressively more freaked out that I'm not a "mommyblogger". I can't help it. They seem like a great group...I just don't know if I'll feel like I'm outside the sphere of relevance or not. I hope not.
needing - To stop having headaches...To get some stuff done. Must focus. Must focus. Why is it so hard these days?

picturing - The Pacific Ocean, for real.

ignoring - Some whacked out feelings, because I hate them. A few things that I REALLY need to get done. My voice mail.

As stolen from (and added to) c.

Comments

[Marti]

Hop=ING your headache is better.

Hav-ING a good time read-ING about your troubles (does that make me a sadist? Hope not)

Wish-ING I could offer some words of comfort or brilliant advice...sorry.

Send-ING best wishes for a fabulous time at BlogHer! Tell everyone you see, "Marti says 'Hi!'" If noth-ING else, their confused looks may give you a chuckle and make your headache go away. LOL

Peace and joy to you.

[Killer B]

Agree-ING that sometimes fat free sucks. I feel that way about sour cream. Just get the real thing and end it!