Monday, May 13, 2013

The not-to-do list

There are so many things I shouldn't be doing. Ever. Sometimes ever again.

Adam Sandler's movies. MISTAKE. Every. Single. Time. Why would you even... Oh my god.

Baking. You have a gas oven. It has two functions: burn'em, and BURN'EM LIKE MOUNT DOOM.

Blind dating. Weird, weird things can happen.

Cats. (Too late, sis.) He is here to haunt&irritate you until the end of your days. And when you finally slip in the shower and hit your head and die, he will eat your face and possibly some other body parts, and your landlady will find your devoured corpse weeks later and it will take months until they identify you. And the cat still has no guilt feelings. He also thinks you were 'tasteless'.

Huge earrings when it's windy. Your ears just want to fly away and become dragons.

Lip syncing Celine Dion. Horrible.

Despair. Useless. We're all born to die anyway. The only person ever who managed to make desperation cool, was Oscar Wilde. You are not him.

Elaborating. Mostly, nobody really means it when they say "please, do elaborate."

Fall in love: See the explanation for "Adam Sandler's movies".

Jägermeister. See the explanation for "Blind dating".

Monte D'Ouro. The worst, most disgusting wine this planet has to offer. It's like pickled water that has been mixed with sugar and cow saliva. Shivers.

Plants. Would you like to be tortured for months, with minimum amount of water and oxygen, and be bitten by the cat, sitting in that moldy, ugly pot - until your "caretaker" finally goes off for the weekend and forgets you and lets you die a very painful death? Yeah. Think about that. You wouldn't like that.

Promise to do something on a Sunday. When you finally crawl out bed in the afternoon and manage to make yourself presentable, it will already be Tuesday.

Dance like you just don't care. Do not "shake that ass." Do not "raise the roof." Do not "jump around."

Shots. Falsely, this seems like a magnificent idea while you're doing it. However, do not proceed. First it will most likely make you "dance like you don't care" and the next morning you are all about "despair."

Snooze. It's a lie, I tell you, A CRUEL LIE!

Update your iTunes. It's like an over-attached boyfriend that will insist you go take a yoga class or something ridiculous like that. So after half a million times they "subtly suggest", you get sick of it and go ahead and do it. Then you come home, and you're in pain, and you don't know where your body parts are right now. And OH MY GOD it hurts, I don't even know what's happening, why did I ever do such a stupid thing kill me now.

Strapless bras. They're like a corset, but a way more cruel version. First, they will make you suffocate. Second, they just want to be a belt. Let them be a belt. Set them free.

Shrimps. I mean look at them. Just look at them. They resemble a malformed alien fetus at their very best. The consistency is much the same. The fact that they don't really taste like anything doesn't help.

Add colleagues to Facebook. Suddenly, they start giving you weird glances in the hallway.

High heels in Lisbon. Embarrassing.

Math. Not even once.

Smart books. You know, the deep, overrated classics that every respectable, pretentious douchebag has read. Like, there is a sentence in James Joyce's Ulysses that goes like this: "The squeak is out. A split is gone for the flatties. Nip the first rattler." WUT.

Parties without booze/people who drink "in moderation." Absolute worst. You'll be stuck there, talking about nail polish and diapers and what not, hoping you could just become a tiny, tiny version of yourself and slowly drown in your wine glass.

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

24 Reasons why I'm single

So I've been reading some articles & comment sections on the great Interwebz about what it's like being single, and why people (in this case mostly women) are single to begin with. There is a lot of whining and complaining and self-pity in these; especially the comments section - you know, like, "I am so cute and adorable and pretty and smart ahhh I totally deserve a boyfriend but the universe is against me" crap. Well. I, for one, am not fooling myself. There are plenty of reasons why I'm single. Good reasons. Just see below.

1. I smoke.
I smell and taste like an ashtray. Sexy!

2. I drink.
Sometimes, A LOT.

3. I'm a grammar nazi.
I will mock your grammatical errors shamelessly. However, it is NOT funny if I (for some reason) manage to say something incorrectly.

4. I'm offensive.
On purpose. I've said things like "you remind me of a retarded bear because you move so slowly" and "I should call you a slave because you come from a 3rd world country" to my dates. And then I called him a slave.

5. I'm irritating.
I pinch, poke, pull your hair, and make really stupid remarks about you.

6. I will not share my chocolate.
Like, if you ask if I have any chocolate left, I will most likely say "no" even though I do. Because it's my chocolate and GTFO.

7. I swear "like a pirate."
I've heard this one many times. Well fuck it. Swearing makes talking fun.

8. I have a shoe syndrome.
Not a fetish - no. I just can't handle guys who walk around in running shoes or crocs or something horrid like that. I once made a guy buy 2 pairs of Converse All Stars because I just couldn't take it. Afterwards, he told me, his new girlfriend "totally loved the shoes". Yeah, you're welcome.

9. I can create a fight or a salad out of nothing.
And neither one of these options is really good.

10. I'm neurotic.
Highly, highly neurotic.

11. I make bad decisions.
All the time... You will see.

12. I'm not very romantic.
A guy once bought me a necklace and it was terrifying.

13. I speak about you to my girlfriends (even guy friends although they definitely don't want to hear it).
Yes, THEY KNOW.

14. I'm overly dramatic.
Some of the things I've said or done are absolutely hilarious in retrospect, though. In my opinion at least.

15. I write passive-aggressive text messages and e-mails.
Sometimes I manage not to send them though. But that's not very often.

16. I'm mildly OCD.
You shouldn't try to cook in my kitchen because that makes me #10, #9 and #4 all at once.

17. I have a cat.
And that is kind of like a statement that even though we might be going out for a while, one day I am determined to become the Crazy Cat Lady. It has already begun. It's inevitable.

18. I can be manipulative.
But this you won't realize. Not until it's too late.

19. I have a bad sense of humor.
Because farts are funny.

20. I have an embarrassing dance style.
Like techno viking, but a bit more to the drunk side.

21. I'm weird.
I've also heard this one many, many times. Some guys have disguised the word "weird" by saying I'm "interesting" or "different" or "curious" but that's like eating really bad food, and then trying to compliment it by saying something horribly vague like that.

22. I become aggressive if I drink too much.
Watch out.

23. I'm dysfunctional.
I don't think I have successfully functioned more than 4 hours in a row, ever.

24. I think anyone who dates me has some kind of a mental defect.
I mean, just read points 1-23 again.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more, but perhaps it's better I just stop here.
Good luck to you, Mr. Next Victim, who will make the horrible mistake of dating me in the future. I pity you already.