1) House guests that buy soy milk and then leave the shoebox-sized container in your fridge. Even my organic only, skim milk girl is not going to drink it. Every time it happens I will wipe it down and move it around and generally babysit it until it finally dies. Which, if you know soy milk, is roughly the life span of the AA batteries in the remote you never use.
2) Parking passes in your own neighborhood during the day. Other cities do not have this craziness – where you’re required to run out to meet people with what is basically the grown-up version of a hall pass to hand to anyone who dares to visit you during the day. It will be the reason I eventually kill someone (you know who you are parking monitors!!) here in LA.
3) Pillow shams. Are we allowed to sleep on them? Should you? Are my girl and I the only people who toss the “pretty pillows” on the floor all night? Is that sanitary? Why are they so hard to get on and off?
4) Gays not being popular anymore. Didn’t we used to be on everything? The cover of Time? TV? Broadway? Many people are asking, “is gay the new black?” We WISH! I think we need to ask the sadder question, “is gay the new McRib Sandwhich or Cabbage Patch doll or, god forbid, the new Elmo?” Exciting and popular for just a moment, and only brought out when sales are slow……
5) The algebraic nightmare of the cords lying on our kitchen counter that charge all the phones, blackberrys bluetooths, Ipods, cameras and computers we own. THIS is wireless???
6) The pressure of updating Facebook. God, I love it. I want more and more friends. I am competitive and addicted. But sometimes I have nothing to say. Suzanne is: just trying to be witty. Or worse, Suzanne is: actually doing nothing.
7:59 am
I realize we all wanted Bush out of there, but I would think that you, as a comedian, would be upset about losing so much rich material. Honestly, I cannot think of any other politician who was so ripe for the picking. He didn’t even have to try at it.
I will agree with you on all the damn cords that clutter up the counter. People will probably start building little cubbies with outlets in them when they update their kitchens to hide that crap. How else do you get around it?
3:14 pm
Any word on the shams?
8:05 pm
Shams- What’s the point? Who made you buy them? I’ve never understood the point of making the bed all fancy and then leaving for the day. Who sees it? I’d rather have real pillows than sham pillows that spend the night on the floor. On the other hand, I’d rather have sham pain than real pain. Go figure.
12:21 pm
Here in Toronto, on our street (which is s street of one family homes), we need a parking pass to park for longer than 1 hour (or at all during overnight hours). If you have any other place to park your vehicle(driveway or garage), the pass costs approximately 4 times as much as if you don’t. Oh yes, and here’s the best part, there is a waiting list for these passes and the current approximate waiting time for a parking pass on our block is 3 years. And this is for the residents. Visitors (and anyone working on your home) just can’t stay longer than an hour without risking a ticket, which are given out liberally. And you think it’s bad in LA
10:59 am
A WAITING LIST!! OMG!! I thought Canada was supposed to be better than us……..
who knew?
11:00 am
No update on Shams. I noticed they come WITH the comforter or duvet cover….it’s like they are FORCING them on us…..