{inspired by mathkiss}

Your Candy Heart Says “Hug Me”

A total sweetheart, you always have a lot of love to give out. Your heart is open to where ever love takes you! Your ideal Valentine’s Day date: a surprise romantic evening that you’ve planned out Your flirting style: lots of listening and talking What turns you off: fighting and conflict Why you’re hot: you’re fearless about falling in love

What’s the verdict on this inquiry? So many of the businesses I frequent on a daily basis have a tip jar.

Who deserves a tip?

Who’s just being greedy?

An email I received from my dear friend, Molly Gordon, who has become a die-hard Macintosh fan, like myself:

I am dog sitting this week. I have to use a dell laptop–it is what they have at their house. I hate it. It drives me insane. It is ugly and bulky…and my hands cramp from the funny way I have to bend them to type. Just wanted to vent…I know you’d understand.

Yes, Molly, I do understand. All too well.

Here are 10 facts you may not (or may) know about me.

(1) I was nominated to prom court my senior year of high school solely because I wrote a column in our student newspaper, “Nice girls are often overlooked.”

(2) My first Macintosh was a 3GB blueberry iBook, the one with a matching handle that some said looked like a toilet seat.

(3) I purchased a bottle of beer in Tijuana when I was only 12 years old.

(4) I once answered the phone at a trailer park sales center every weekend for a year.

(5) I am related to Curly Joe, the man who replaced Curly of the Three Stooges.

(6) I used to take piano lessons and played rather regularly. Then I stopped and forgot nearly everything I learned.

(7) I have both a tattoo and my bellybutton pierced.

(8) I purchased a 1993 Jeep Wrangler with an manual transmission, even though I didn’t know how to drive a stick.

(9) At one point, I owned nearly every book in “The Babysitters Club” series.

(10) After coming down with strep throat two years ago, I was put on penicillin. After breaking out in a horrible rash complete with swelling, I discovered that I am, in fact, allergic to penicillin.

My oh-so-funny friend, Matt, told me about the Hot or Not Web site.

So I was feeling both curious and bored at work a few weeks ago when, albeit a bit reluctantly, I signed up.

Right now, I’m a 5.7 out of 10.

What the hell does this even mean?

I’d probably have a 10 if I showed more boob.

Any boob, for that matter.

My good friend, Tony, is running a triathlon in April for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Do your part and donate today.

http://www.active.com/donate/tntne/tonydreibus

Call me Malcom Gladwell, but I discovered a phenomenon I like to call The Starbucks Effect.

First, the background: A few months ago, I had a meeting at a Starbucks not far from my office. The staff was rowdy and unorganized. I literally waited nearly 15 minutes for them to make my white chocolate mocha.

Although I was fuming because of the delay, I didn’t leave because the woman I was meeting was running late.

So I waited.

And while waiting, I vowed never to return to that Starbucks again. Either drive-through or in-store. Ever.

But what happened?

I returned.

Again. And again. And yet again.

And I was there today, after lunch, driving through to order a grande cinnamon dolce latte.

Why?

The legal dose of addictive stimulant wakes me up. And it tastes good.

So despite my valiant efforts to make a small impact as an American Consumer, I grew weak in the knees and returned.

Starbucks, how you slay me so.

It will have to wait for another day or two.

As stated earlier, stay tuned.

I’m literally leaving on a jet plane in a few hours for four fun-filled (and sun-filled) days in California. My sister doesn’t yet have Internet at her new apartment, so my pretty G4 Powerbook will stay in Omaha while I’m gone.

Come Monday, I’ll have big news to share. Stay tuned.

Last night I heard Matthew listening to something on his iMac in the basement. So I ran downstairs…

W: “Are you listening to the State of the Union?”

M: “Yeah. Are you?”

W: “No, I’m watching ‘Sex and the City’ on TBS. {pause} I’m a bad American.”