A little bit about the blogger behind the screen

I decided to throw 30 random facts about me up on this blog ( I did feature it on my other blog as well). Sometimes when reading other people's book blogs I want to know more about the person behind the computer screen. I'm not a stalker, I'm just nosey.

So, here it goes....

1. I know this is truly amazing, but I cannot wink. Don’t judge. I also missed the boat on doing a lot of 'normal' things like raising an eyebrow, blowing raspberries...

2. I have an addiction to skulls. Not the stupid kid ones but ya know if they come in vodka bottles, mugs, egg cups, head phones… I have to have it. G is slowly learning to accept this.

3. I love watching TV, movies, call me lazy but what ev’s

4.Champagne is my favorite drink. Coffee is my next. Followed by club soda.

5. I don’t think dishes or chairs or anything have to match. As long as they collectively go together I am happy

6. my hair has been pretty much every colour (within hairs natural ability) and I love being a blonde or super dark the best.

7. My dogs are my kids, I’m not a crazy pet lady but all I see it is just a little dog hair in the food. I’ve eaten worst. Sometimes I think, if you don’t want my dogs there, then you can’t be mad if I say I don’t want your kids.

8. I love off the wall, bright, unique, random designs for mundane things, like a hair dryer shaped as a gun. I think it makes using everyday things that much better.

9. My mind thinks I’m craftier than my ability

10. I think I’m a pretty decent cook. I randomly just throw things together and it seems to work.

11. Here is a shocker...I love to read. I probably started reading before talking. No joke here. I was mute till I was about 3.

12. I have a total of 11 tattoos. But you couldn;t tell just by giving me a quick glance. I have been fairly satisfied with them but lately I have had an itching to get another one…. I have taken out all but my ear piercings. I miss my nose ring most days and may have to put it back in.

13.I wish I was more ballsy when it came to clothes. I know how I want to dress, I just have a fear of what people will think.

14.  Based on that fear of what people think, I do think I have a slight case of social anxiety. I will freak myself out before going  into a social setting that all I want to do is leave, or drink excessively.

15. I’m okay at a lot of things, but I don’t have one super talent. This is due to the fact that I can never just stick with one thing. I am still trying to find out what my hidden natural talent is.

16. Bugs, spiders, creepy crawly things don’t gross me out. If I had to pick one it would be snakes.

17. If you call a monkey an ape, a chimpanzee a monkey or anything like that you will be corrected. I didn’t get my degree for nothing!

18. If I could live anywhere in the world it would be London, England. Or Hawaii. Even though I've never been.

19. I think deep down I want to take a graphic design course, I just don’t know if I want to go through another school phase.Still hunting for that epiphany where I will figure out what I want to do with my life. Being an admin is not my life dream. Imagine that.

20. I still dislike using the telephone. Even texting gives me the heebee-jeebes. Again...see social anxiety.

21. I like to play cards and board games. Unless it is charades- I just don’t like acting! Which is ironic because in elementary all I ever wanted to do was act ( I even tried out for the TV version of Honey,I Shrunk the Kids).  Cards win though. I kick ass at them.

22. Graffiti art is one of my favourite art forms.

23. I have an adrelaine junkie in the back of my pocket. I would love to go skydiving or bungee jumping, just haven't had the balls to do it.  And things like these I want to try in a foreign land, like the time I tried white water rafting in Borneo

24. I love baked goods. Cookies. Cakes. You name it. This is a travesty because I hate working out.

25. A new dislike I’ve recently found out I have is when baked goods are shaped into non-baked goods. Like cupcakes that look like hamburgers. Just yuck. What if I was expecting a hamburger and it turned out to be a cupcake. Dont' fool my tastebuds that way.

26. If I only had one meal left it would be a tie between Thanksgiving dinner and the asparagus/swiss eggs benedict from Cora’s.

27. I’m actually not shy. I just so happen to always be around people who like to talk more than I do, or like to be in the spotlight, so I just let them have it. I don’t need to be noticed all of the time. I'd rather just listen.

28. Writing, painting, making jewellery and creating are all things I love to do. I just wish I had the tenacity and focus to do them full time.  I also really want to write a book, and have started many while working. I just hit delete everytime because of the fear thing.

29. I used to really care about what people thought about me based on my music taste. I could care less right now. If I think its good. Then it is good. Who cares if its too popular, or not mainstream enough. This goes the same with books. Altough I will judge you if you don't even read and have an opinion on the book based on the movie version.

30. My dream home is to be water-front (lake/ocean) with lots of greenery around. But still close enough to the city so I can have a multitude of choices.

BOOK REVIEW: Is Everyone Hanging Out WIthout Me?(And Other Concerns) by Mandy Kaling

 

I like Mindy Kaling. I like her in the Office. And every time that ‘Mindy Project’ commercial comes on, I think to myself that I should watch it.  I like her snarkiness, the in your face says what is on your mind humor. I only wished that it presented itself in the book more than a few times. I do wish there were more laugh out loud moments.  There were lots of “Ha Ha Ha….” moments though.  Like during her “alternate title’ chapter, with some gems such as The Girl With No Tattoo and Harry Potter Secret Book #8!

It is definitely more of an ‘Autobiography’ than Ellen DeGeneres book (link) latest book.  And it was humbling to read that she just didn’t land into being a celebrity. She worked at it, went to university, lived in a tiny ass apartment with her best friends, and then slowly started getting noticed.  I also liked how she seems like she is a great friend, based on her “Best Friend Rights and Responsibilities” essay.  I loved it and truly agree with all of them ‘ such as letting her know that she looks fat but in a gentle way. Her essays on different topics such as ‘I Love Diets’, ‘In defense of chest hair’  is in stark contrast to the first half of the book- in which she describes her traditional Indian upbringing, hanging out with a core group of friends and liking having quiet evenings in watching TV with her parents. But I like them; they added more humor to the memoir.   I found the whole one night stand being an opportunity to get murdered essay hilarious too!

And now for some quotes:

“I’m the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces rather than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.”

“I’m only marginally qualified to be giving advice at all. My body mass index is certainly not ideal, I frequently use my debit card to buy things that cost less than three dollars because I never have cash on me, and my bedroom is so untidy it looks like vandals ransacked the Anthropologie Sale section. I’m kind of a mess.”

“I don’t think it should be socially acceptable for people to say they are “bad with names.” No one is bad with names. That is not a real thing. Not knowing people’s names isn’t a neurological condition; it’s a choice. You choose not to make learning people’s names a priority. It’s like saying, “Hey, a disclaimer about me: I’m rude.”

“Once I saw Paris Hilton leaving a restaurant in Hollywood and the paparazzi cameras were all over her. It looked so unpleasant. It wasn't because she didn't look sensational - she was that perfect combination of fashionable and slutty - it was because the paparazzi guys were shouting these insanely rude and intrusive questions at her. Like, asking her who she was sleeping with and stuff. I was kind of interested in the answer, so I was glad they asked, but it was still gross.”

“I don't want to hear about the endless struggles to keep sex exciting, or the work it takes to plan a date night. I want to hear that you guys watch every episode of The Bachelorette together in secret shame, or that one got the other hooked on Breaking Bad and if either watches it without the other, they're dead meat” (hahah this is so me and Garett).” 

It’s between 3.5 and 4 stars. It was a super easy read as she alludes to : “This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’re reading this book every night for months, something is not right.” Which I think is awesome. It is entertaining at most points, not being in your face funny, but a write as you talk kind of book, which is my forte.   I also think I will now re-watch the Office and perhaps actually start The Mindy Project. I would also love to be her best friend now. Okay, this may be due  only to the fact that she compared her friendship to a Harry Potter reference and that was awesome! ("Bren and I befriended each other early on. We clung to each other with blind loyalty, like Lord Voldemort and his snake, Nagini. I, of course, was Nagini.")