Whoa… ho!  The lists are getting harder.  But still proving worthwhile.  The weekly dose of forcing myself to think of ‘stuff I likes’ is definitely therapeutic – though Lord knows why.

List of 10 Things I Like That Start With “F”….

1.   First Kisses – memories of exciting first kisses can last a lifetime.
2.   Family – will always take you in if you’re in need.
3.   Friends – like family but we get to choose who we let in.
4.   Fruit Tingles – especially the yellow ones, must be the 211.
5.   Foreign films – they have to be exceptional to get a release here.
6.   Facebook – perverting social sensibilities since 2004.
7.   Flashman –  a roué and a coward… but fucking funny.
8.   Frozen Coke – loathe ‘the real thing’, love the frozen juice cola thing.
9.   Flanelette sheets – love the cosy fluffy feeling on my nekkid skin
10. Fahrenheit – by Christian Dior.  I absentmindedly followed a total stranger down the street once after catching the faint smell of Fahrenheit on him at a coffee shop.

List of 10 Things I Hate or Dislike That Start With “F” List

1.  Frangipannis – they’re boring, they’re trite and they’re everywhere!
2.  Family – once they get you in they never let you leave.
3.  Fox – (Network that is) they kill all the good ones.
4.  Fart jokes – only appeals to the lowest common denominator.
5.  Fine Dining w~ Small Children – fancy restaurants and kids do not mix.
6.  Fortune cookies – they’re always full of shit.
7.  Fundamentalists – shove your moral righteousness up your arse.
8.  Flowers – they’re ridiculously expensive and then they… well, die.
9.  Fingerprints – on things where fingerprints ought not be.
10.  Feminism – rabid feminist types just annoy me.  I’ve never felt ‘less than’ a man so never felt the go on the rampage about it.  But then I do have the benefits of generations having gone before me and the fortune not to be living under some hideously oppressive religious or political regime.

Some of these lists have been coming easily, others not so much.  I think I’m finding the likes or dislikes easier depending on my mood at the time.  This weeks positives were no problem but last week I think it was the opposite.  Don’t quote me on that for my short term memory is shot to shit and I can’t be relied upon to truthfully relate what happened this morning let along last week  :S

List of 10 Things I Like That Start With “E”….
1.   Email – Life before PCs… can’t hardly remember it.
2.   Eggplant/aubergine – the colour not the food.
3.   Elegant phrases – stumbling on something truly eloquent is all too rare.
4.   Ephesus – if you’ve been you’ll know what I mean.
5.   Eggs Benedict – one of life’s evil little pleasures.
6.   Etymology – www.etymonline.com
7.   Elizabeth Bennett – we’d all like to think we’re most like Lizzy
8.   Ebay – international garage sale minus the circus people.
9.   Eddie Izzard – thanks for all the jam and geography
10. Entertaining – throwing dinner parties and deliberately throwing together friends who I know will stimulate passionate conversations about their opposing views or who I know are diametric opposites their lifestyles or professions. Diversity makes us interesting.  A great dinner party needs must have an exceptional Dinner Monkey… and they’re often altogether a bit thin on the ground unfortunately.

List of 10 Things I Hate or Dislike That Start With “E” List
1.  Electrical cords – bane of our modern existence.

2.  Euros – sucked all the fun out of the European Coke Economy.
4.  Egos – mine is pretty solid, but some people… fark.
4.  Electric Avenue; Eddy Grant – does that really need explaining?
5.  Egg – grocery shopping egg check… depressing
6.  Emos – save us the rhetoric and get it over with.
7.  Extreme sports – for people who don’t appreciate their health
8.  Elbow skin – most look like left over scrotum
9.  Ear wax – yuk… cotton buds people!  Please!
10.  eEverything – ‘e’ has taken over the planet.  eTax, eHugs, eCards, eBook, eWalk, eBrain, eAdvertiser… etc etc etc.  Only closely rivalled by the ‘i’ of iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iTunes fame.

So far the list experiment has been working well…. forcing myself to sit and think of ten positive things I like starting with a letter is a real challenge as I think I’m a cup is half empty kinda girl.  But this week I am proud to say I found the ‘things I don’t like” list was harder.  Which is a good thing… I think.

List of 10 Things I Like That Start With “D”….

1.   Diazepam – please sir, may I have some more?
2.   Das Keyboard – if you’ve used one… you’ll know what I mean.
3.   Digital cameras – instant gratification
4.   Dairy products – cheese, yoghurt, custard, cheese, ice cream and cheese.
5.   Dita von Tesse – she’s ten colours of fabulous.
6.   Devil’s Dictionary – Ambrose Bierce…I like normal dictionaries too.
7.   Drive In Theatre – crappy speakers, bean bags, booze… Ahh good times.
8.   Dexter – what does it say about you if you empathise with a sociopath.
9.   Diamonds – they make pretty rainbows in my car on sunny days.
10.  Disney cartoons – totally formulaic but in a comforting sort of waywhere the good always thrive, the bad are invariably punished…. love reigns triumphant and all that other stuff that bears no direct correlation to Real Life™ whatsoever.

List of 10 Things I Hate or Dislike That Start With “D”

1.  Dishonesty – If you feel, said or did something, own it.
2.  Dinner guests – who RSVP but then pike at the last minute.
3.  Dentists – not needlephobic but I HATE needles in my mouth.
4.  Dog farts – OMG! How does such a stench emit from such a small dog.
5.  Dude, Where’s My Car? – the worst shite ever committed to celluloid.
6.  Diet softdrink – full of chemicals that no doubt are killing us.
7.  Dust bunnies – they always… always… comes back.
8.  Discontinued products – how dare they stop making our favourite stuff.
9.  Discs laying about – they belong in cases and filed alphabetically!
10. Daewoos – sounds like a childish euphemism for accidentally peeing and/or shitting oneself… as in “Oh no Daddy! I mades a daewoo in my pants again.”  or something to that effect.  One should never have to drive a car that is in anyway reminiscent of excrement.
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“C” is for Cookie that’s good enough for me.  Poor old Cookie Monster.  He used to be able to Nom, Nom, Nom his way through his skits and now he has to lecture about cookies being a ‘sometimes food’.  Tis a sad state of affairs when even Cookie Monster has had to curtail his joie de vivre to satisfy political correctness.

Last week’s “B’s” (yeah it was also BS) were fun so here are my “C” words  🙂

10 Things I Like That Start With “C”….

1.   Colour co-ordination – it’s the mile wide anal retentive streak  K
2.   Cinema – love going to the movies but hate noisy cinema patrons.
3.   Cherry Crush – fav Revlon nail polish for nails that shine like justice.
4.   Canon EOS cameras – we love you for being backwards compatible.
5.   Custom jewellery – unique and individual pieces not manufactured crap.
6.   Crème brulee  – cracking the sugar to get the vanilla bean goodness.
7.   Clean house – it’s nice to be able to find everything where you left it.
8.   Chips, Chips – by Stan Getz… for the perfect humorous chase.
9.   Caesar salad – extra anchovies please.
10. Collecting stuff – I used to collect shiny things and rocks from family holidays (the past tense here is probably a lie… I bought home a rock from Gallipolli last year) but now if I start collecting something I NEED to have the set… be it books, DVDs, Super Mario figurines or Bob the Builder trucks for the Small Child.  Once I have one I have to get them all.

10 Things I Hate or Dislike That Start With “C” List

1.  C word – if I ever use the “C” word you know I’m as pissed off as I get.
2.  Coke – can’t stomach the stuff anymore tastes like battery acid.
3.  Car accidents – the awareness of impending impact is awful.
4.  Chocolate – don’t really like. Not in bars, blocks, biscuits or cakes… bleurk.
5.  Civic Art – an awful lot of it just seems to be trying too hard.
6.  Computer death – can make you feel so impotent and disconnected.
7.  Children – it’s uncharitable but I’ve little patience for ‘other people’s kids’
8.  Coffee – smells awful and tastes even worse.
9.  Cash – I rarely carry much cash and hate it when I suddenly need it.
10.  Christmas – I detest the Christmas season.  I hate the rushing around buying random stuff for people that they either don’t want or don’t need.  I hate Christmas Carols in the shopping centres.  I hate Christmas cards arriving in the mail.  I hate the Christmas grocery shopping and the aisles all stuffed full of crap you don’t need.  I love the family get together but wish we could just ditch the gifts it’s a fucking rort designed to make us  Buy!  Buy!  Buy!

Last week’s letter meme starting with the letter A forced me to sit and think about things that I actually LIKE… compared to sitting here whinging about things that I inherently DISLIKE.  I have no idea why it seems to easy to come up with lists of things that annoy me and it takes a bit of an effort to think of things that I do like.  Weird.

Maybe it means that I’m a ‘glass is half empty’ sort of person with a naturally pessimistic outlook or maybe it’s one of those human nature things…. you know… like when you’re girlfriends are happy in their relationships they hardly ever say boo about how wonderful He is… but they’re right there ready to gripe and whinge the minute He puts a foot out of line.  We’re just all too quick to criticize maybe.  Shrug… who knows?!?

List of 10 Things I Like That Start With “B”….

1.   Books – I could spend hours and thousands in a good bookshop.
2.   BBC News – news which recognizes the existence of ‘other’ countries.
3.   Bees – industrious, productive, fiercely protective and cute 🙂
4.   Banking online – God bless the internets for sparing us bank queues.
5.   Bad Taste Bears – absurd juxtapositions of cute bear + adult concepts
6.   Bert Kaempfert – a family dinner isn’t a family dinner without him.
7.   Bourbon – especially good in a Frozen Coke at the cinema.
8.   Blogging – it began as a purgative vehicle and it’s still frequently cathartic.
9.   Butchers – a successful butcher always has a knack with the ladies.
10. Blackboys – but we’re not supposed to call them that any more, they’re supposed to be called ‘Giant Grass Trees’ but either way you look at it – a spade is a spade is a spade… and a Xanthorrhoea Australis is a Blackboy.

List of 10 Things I Hate or Dislike That Start With “B” List

1.  Back pain – no surprise there.
2.  Burnt toast – it’s a little thing, but pisses me off.
3.  Breakfast radio – less mind numbing crap; more music and traffic please.
4.  Boobs – or rather the men that insist on talking to them and not my face.
5.  Bank fees –charging us for just being customers is so rude.
6.  Bratz – dolls for pre teen girls dressed up like cheap skanky hookers.
7.  Bad drivers – should all be lined up and shot. Period.
8.  Bra shopping – never pretty bras for the busty… bullet proof only.
9.  Broccoli smell – can’t face it since it made me upchuck during pregnancy.
10.  Bathroom etiquette – or rather a lack thereof.  I positively loathe when people try to converse with me while I am in the bathroom as there is usually scant little of any import occurring that is so urgent that can’t wait.  Short of an imminent unexpected visit from Vin Diesel or someone equally fabulous, surely it’s not too much to ask to be able to expect an iota of privacy in the small room.