Post Secret Math

Every Monday morning I read Post Secret. When I have gone through all the new secrets and I get to the bottom of the screen I check the visitor counter. I then refresh the screen to see the new count number. I do the math and determine how many people were reading the secrets at the same time. I do it not to feel less lonely or anything like that - I just find it really interesting. This week there were 595 other people reading secrets with me.

One Minute Writer #44

Have you ever been a little obsessed with a celebrity (even as a kid)? If not, why do you think you've escaped celebrity obsessions?

When I was a preteen I collected images of Devon Sawa, Jonathan Taylor Thomas (JTT), Andrew Keegan and other such teen hunks and had them on my bedrooms walls. I think I even had a laminated picture of Devon Sawa in my back pocket for a little while (as did a couple of my friends). I have since grown out of the obsessed fan stage and moved on to the healthier version. I find that I now admire good actors, who also happen to be good looking.
Neil Patrick Harris (NPH) is a good example of this. He is in a really funny show and has been part of some great little movies recently of which I am a fan. He is not only a good actor but also cute and non-threatening to Dave since NPH is gay. Other attractive good looking actors I enjoy are Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Hugh Grant (his characters tend to be very sarcastic, which is my favourite form of humour - plus he's British) and Johnny Depp. I don't want to know really anything about these people's personal lives, I just want to watch their movies. Though I do want to be friends with NPH, Nathan Fillion and Joss Whedon - because all the behind the scene footage makes them look like really awesome friends - the kind that would take a bullet for you and you can never have enough of those. Plus, Joss puts his friends in his shows and wouldn't that just be cool?

Quotable Thursdays #7

"To succeed in life you need two things: ignorance and confidence." - Mark Twain.

Estimated Time Left

It is so true.

This fact is most evident to me when I am transferring photos from my memory card to my computer. It will go from 2 hours to 5 minutes to 30 minutes and then be done.

comic from XKCD.

25 Random Things About Me

The idea for this post was taken from TwinspirationalRunner - thanks.
I thought I would do a little post about me. It is completely random stuff that you may or may not already know, and hopefully it will be fun to compile.

1. I get anxious when I have to make a phone call. (even moreso when it is work related);
2. I love being good at 'domestic' tasks like cooking, baking and sewing;
3. Fall is my favourite season;
4. I wait until the last minute to do any sort of cleaning;
5. I know how to spell most words, and when I am wrong, my guess was usually pretty close;
6. I absolutely love spreadsheets. If I can put some information into a spreadsheet I will. If I get to design a spreadsheet (and yes it is a design) then my day will be a good one.
7. I have been to many funerals in my life, but the hardest death I ever had to deal with was my family pet - Eddy (Eddy's death made me pose a lot of questions to myself which were very difficult to answer);
8. My weight is a very touchy topic. I want to lose it, but like most overweight people, do not want to put the effort in;
9. As mentioned in a previous post, I love very odd combinations of food like salt and vinegar ships and grapes;
10. I think of myself as an artistic engineer. It is an odd combination, but I am relatively good at math and engineering in general, but also quite good at the arts (photography, general painting and sketching, etc) and I enjoy them both;
11. I like to go into Danier (and other leather stores) and smell the wonderful leather smells;
12. I rarely ever win anything;
13. I am a perpetual learner;
14. I am really good at organizing things. From events to items - if it has to be sorted or organized, I am really good at getting it done;
15. I love buying or getting new stuff - even if I have little to no use for it;
16. I love children's movies - especially Pixar movies;
17. I can handle extremely stressful situations (like a job get screwed up at work), but get extremely flustered and frustrated with the simplest of tasks (like finding my keys);
18. I love answering surveys;
19. Car rides make me sleepy;
20. I have an eye for photography and love most everything about photography in general;
21. I am a very jealous person. I can get jealous about the stupidest and most pointless of things;
22. I have few friends (though the ones I have are good ones) and for the most part, I like it that way;
23. Photography makes me happy;
24. I am almost always early when I need to be someplace new;
25. I think lists are fun.