Diet Coke. ’nuff said.

This LLH comes from another suggestion! And as soon as the suggestion was made i KNEW it had to be done, so we’ll just jump right in.

LOVE IT:

I love diet coke. That’s pretty much all. Diet coke is like crack. I’m kind of addicted to it, honestly. Every year I have to give it up for lent because i’m so in love with it.  There is nothing in the world that compares to Diet coke. Nothing. Its taste, its bubbles, its gloriousness — it’s all perfect.

LOVE IT:

What’s better than Diet Coke? No liquid is ever better, but FREE REFILLS of diet coke is like i’m in heaven. When I (and if i) go to heaven there will be a Diet coke fountain, vending machine, and IV and there will be an eternity of Free Refills. I will pick a restaurant/food joint that offers free refills over one that doesn’t. I understand it could be considered greedy, but I like diet coke so much i want to take it with me! I’ll have it with my food, then top off my cup before I leave. If you think about it — it’s really a great business practice! Cuz you offering me free refills will DEFINITELY get me to come back time and time again.

HATE IT:

Ok, by now you know my love for diet coke. and if you don’t…you need to get your eyes checked.  ANYWAY. What i hate more than anything in the world is when i go someplace and ask for a diet coke and they just bring me a diet pepsi…like i wouldn’t freaking know. When a place pulls this, i don’t go back. It’s just inconsiderate!  What ranks ALMOST as annoying is when they ask “is pepsi ok?” …um… no. as the kitty above says: ME: Diet Coke please THEM: Is Pepsi alright? ME: is monopoly money alright?    Seriously… it’s not an acceptable substitute. end of story. Instead of getting this snarky remark from me, if you apologize for carrying the inferior product and offer the substitute while hanging your head knowing that you’re offering a horrible substitute, then i probably wont hate you as much…

 

TGIF, Bitches!

Today’s LLH is from a suggestion my darling friend Kaithlyn made to me. (BTW, you should totally check out her blog Surviving Worcester if you live in MA and are short on cash).

Anyway, so Friday is usually a sacred day for all in the M-F 9-5 working world. It’s a day everyone looks forward to, even as a kid we’d count down the hours til the end of the day on friday because GOLLY GEE it meant we had two days that we didn’t have to get up, didnt have to do work, didnt have to do a damn thing!I love fridays.  Not even Friday the 13th could make me hate Fridays!

LOVE IT:

Sexiest Leg Guitar EVER

One evening I was visiting Kaithlyn and Jackson at their apt behind my dorm, I believe we had gone to the gym or something and had returned to cook supper and hang out or something. Well, we watched an episode of Super Natural, a show I had never seen but I was told was pretty good.  Well it just so happens that after the credits of that episode (which was a pretty good episode, btw) rolled there was a candid video of the sexy main character “Dean” known in real life as Jensen Ackles lipsyncing to “eye of the tiger”. Kait and I fell IN LOVE with this scene and found it on Youtube. Soon it became a tradition that we would watch this video at work together on Friday to give us a good laugh and to end our week on a high note.  Now it’s more than 3 years later and even tho we now work in different offices, at different schools, nearly 500 miles apart from one another, we still watch this video together every Friday.  I LOVE traditions like this.

if you’d like to partake in the sexy gloriousness of Jensen Ackles and his leg guitar, you can watch the video here: http://youtu.be/R0Fz_egtEgc . I couldn’t get it to embed so you’ll have to click the link.

LOVE IT:

Mon-ay Mon-ay Mon-ay MON-AY!

I love every other Friday because every other Friday is a PAY DAY for me! yahoo!  See, every other friday is pay day and that means it’s a DOUBLE BOOGIE day. You get one boogie for it being friday and another boogie for it being pay day.  Seriously, what is better than a friday where suddenly your bank account is MUCH happier than it was the night before. For a few moments you feel RICH….until you pay bills…then you’re back to feeling and being poor.  But damn it I enjoy pay Fridays more than a fat kid loves cake. And i’m a fat kid, so i love cake a lot!

HATE IT:

Gaaaaahhhhhh

Fuck you Rebecca Black.  You ruined my love affair with Friday. And Kaithlyn’s love affair with Friday. AND EVERY PERSON IN EXISTENCE’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH FRIDAY. Now we can’t celebrate Friday in all of it’s gloriousness without getting your stupid ass song stuck in our heads. Without then SHAMING us for knowing your damned song. And in turn wanting it to no longer BE Friday so we will stop thinking about YOU. <grumble> You ruined it. You ruined everything.

 

Jesus is coming! Look busy!

WARNING: could offend someone…my bad.

So according to some crazy man’s “calculations” that would “crash google’s computing system” the rapture is supposed to begin this Saturday, May 21st at 6pm Eastern time. Color me skeptical.

I’m a spiritual person, i identify as christian; i’m a member of the UCC and currently work at a UU church. I believe there is probably a God but that’s about as far as i go. I prefer to focus more on the here and now, helping my fellow human beings when they need it, and just being an overall good person of the world–which is what brings me to today Love it, Love it, Hate it post.

LOVE IT:

Nowhere in the bible does it say Jesus WASN'T a raptor. just sayin'.

Being able to have FUN with your religion.  To my knowledge, there is nothing anywhere that says Jesus and God or Buddah or whatever you believe in didn’t have a sense of humor.  Life is full of ups and downs, if you can’t take a step back and look at the hilarity of life, then you’re living your life wrong and will probably die of an aneurism at the age of 35.

LOVE IT:

You don't have to *like* eachother

You dont have to like the people around you, but i love it when people can put aside their differences and at least TOLERATE one another. Tolerance doesn’t mean you support what the other person does, it doesn’t mean you are suddenly going to be part of their religion/beliefs but damn it when we all just agreed to disagree and stop killing one another in the name of whatever it is we believe in, when two groups know how to tolerate their difference even if they’re extreme, it makes every party involved just a little bit better. I love it when I see religious groups co-mingling for the common good of ALL humans-putting personal ideals aside and realizing we’re all part of the same universe, living on the same planet, breathing the same air.

HATE IT:

fo' realsies.

People who take EVERYTHING: life, politics, religion, etc. TOO SERIOUSLY. Lighten up people! GOSH! I just wish everything wasn’t so PC, i wish everyone would just realize how ridiculous it is to waste our lives worrying and fretting and getting upset over petty crap and realize that life is meant to be LIVED and to be enjoyed!! Seriously, stop being so serious.

 

There’s a fine line…

Today’s Love it, Love it, Hate it is brought to you by a recent twitversation (yes, i just made that up twitter + conversation = twitversation) I had about manners in NoVA among professionals in the morning, as well as annoyances i’ve always built up.  ENJOY!

Also, please make suggestions! What’s something YOU hate??

LOVE IT:

Chivalry is a dying idea

When people are polite. Not just over the phone to customer service reps (like myself) but also to complete strangers.  Holding the door open for someone, holding the elevator, helping carry groceries, or even just responding to a friendly “good morning!”. I love it.

LOVE IT:

"Hey! Long time no talk!"

When i get a random text from someone I haven’t heard from in AGES. This is great because it means i’ve randomly crossed their minds and I love it when people reach out to me. This is especially delightful for me because I moved away from home 6 years ago and therefore left behind all of my childhood friends.  Random texts from someone i havent seen or heard from since highschool just makes my day.

HATE IT:

Any more nosy and your nose would be brown.

The most annoying thing someone in my life can be is NOSY. If i wanted to tell you every little thing i do, say, think, breathe, eat drink, smell, and every time i pee… i’d just outright tell you.  Do not think my business is your business.  I like to share stories, so if i dont tell you something, there’s probably a reason. You don’t need to know it if I didn’t already tell you.  Whether you’re my friend, my family, or just some stranger on the street, mind your business.

 

Is it OCD?

Hi There! Nice of you to drop by.

So, before i just DIVE right in, let me tell you a little about this place.  It’s a place to realize that for every one bad thing you encounter in life, there are at least two good things to balance it out.  Whether the bad things in life are how someone drives, how asparagus makes your pee smell, or how the TP is put on the roll, there will always be two things in the world that make it OK.

I think the key to living a happy life, or as happy of a life as POSSIBLE, is the ability to look past what annoys you and find the good things.  So the premise of Love it, Love it, Hate it is to give that opportunity to find the positives in life.

TO MY READERS/FOLLOWS/MINIONS — Make suggestions for a future post!  What is something you HATE? I’ll be sure to find two great things related to it.

NOW onto my post.

LOVE IT:

Coffee = Go-juice

My office offers a great variety of coffee, tea, and hot cocoa FOR FREE to everyone who works on the floor. (not literally on the floor, but like..has a cubicle/office on the 2nd floor of the building). Available all day, every day unless the keurig machine is broken, being cleaned, or making funny noises.

How can it get better than that?

LOVE IT:

Just make sure to put it down before you sit...

I love it when I enter the Ladies room and the seat is still up.  Contrary to what most people feel when seeing this, I like it because it means the toilet has been cleaned since the last person! I get almost giddy when i see a toilet seat up at work.

But if i find the seat up at home…heads will roll.

HATE IT:

Yea, it's blurry, i was shaking with rage (not really)

I CAN NOT STAND when the TP goes the wrong way on the spool.  At home i can fix it…at work i can’t. it’s under lock and key!how much more annoying can this be? TP is going the wrong way and there is no way to fix it without commiting a felony!

Fun Fact: I have changed stalls because of this. Sad, i know.