List Day - Bumper Stickers that Annoy Me

Hi all! Time again for List Day. Today's list is in honor of my car's rear bumper, which was smashed to holy hell last night by an unknown jerky assailant who didn't bother to leave a note. Probably just as well because I'm sure he or she didn't have insurance anyway, but I am still pissed. Anyhoo, the list for today is:

Bumper Stickers that Annoy Me!

1. Stickers announcing the car owner/driver's support for a past presidential campaign. Fool, it is seriously time for you to scrape that "Hoover/Curtis '28" sticker off your bumper. Dude has exhausted his maximum allotted terms and been out of office for 394782139 years already. Let's move on.

2. "It's a Jeep thing...you wouldn't understand" stickers. These are stupid. No, I don't understand, because I don't drive a Jeep. I hate that kind of elitist bumper sticker propaganda. They should make them for everyone's car. I should have one on MY back window that says, "It's a Mitsubishi 4-cylinder sedan thing...you wouldn't understand."

3. "If you can read this..." bumper stickers. All these do is force me to inch my car even closer to the car with the sticker, because I want to know what it says. Bumper stickers that encourage tailgating are probably a bad idea.

4. OBX stickers and the like. It took me like half my life to figure out that "OBX" stands for "Outer Banks, NC". But what do all the other random ones stand for? I can't deal with the frustration of trying to figure out the other jumbles of letters that apparently signify an undisclosed geographic locale. I am driving along like, "What the hell does 'ZXK' stand for?!"

5. Giant soccer ball stickers. Do you really want to advertise to the whole entire driving population that you're a soccer mom? Come on, we already figured it out by the fact that your SUV/minivan is the size of the state of Nevada, and there is nary a horse trailer, large motorboat, or tow hitch in sight. Doy.

In other news, after church on Easter Sunday, in the parking lot we saw a car that had giant fake eyelashes on its headlights. I thought it was the cutest thing. I asked the car owner where they got them and they told me about Carlashes.com. I would buy them for my car, but my car is a boy.

List Day - All-time Favorite Albums

OK, I already broke a promise to blog more often. But I've had about 2983742 stationery orders to work on this week so I hope people will forgive me. Anyway, I present to you List Day for this week, Grace's Favorite Albums of All time. This list doesn't contain compilations (like greatest hits albums), classical music, or soundtracks...I think those all belong in their own categories. Here they are, in order:

1. Billy Joel - Turnstiles (1976). Since he's my favorite artist of all time, makes sense that this is at the top of the list. Also holds the distinction of having my favorite song of all time on it,"Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)". Also, if you know me at all you are aware of my well-documented love for Richard Belzer, and that is him on the way-right side of the photo that's on the album cover.

2. Jethro Tull - Songs From the Wood (1977). Buy this album right now. You will love it. Trust.

3. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Pictures At An Exhibition (1971). If you are a fan of awesome percussion, bass, and keyboards and a lover of classical music (particularly if you have heard the piano suite by Mussorgsky), you should give this one a listen. I rediscovered it last year when the 'rents got it for me for Christmas and I remembered how awesome it was, and now I listen to it constantly.

4. Enya - Shepherd Moons (1991). Don't hate on Enya. She composes all her own lyrics, sings in like seven different languages, and also used to be a part (with her siblings) of the excellent Irish group Clannad.

5. Paul Simon - Graceland (1986). I love this album because it's such an eclectic mix of styles. He blends Cajun and African music (and features Linda Ronstadt on one track, whose voice I love), and it is just an amazing collection of music.

Until next week my friends...feel free to comment with your own picks for your fave albums of all time and suggest to me another list I can do next week, because I am too lazy to do it on my own right now.

No seriously, WORST. BLOGGER. EVER.

Nice. I haven't posted on here since 2009. So, now I am saying to myself, "Either have a blog, or don't have a blog, a-hole." I answer myself that I do want a blog, because it's a good way to share news and stuff I'm doing, and sometimes I can post stuff on there that I wouldn't put on Facebook. I realize that that makes me sound kind of self-absorbed, but if you know me (which you probs do if you're reading my blog), you know that's not me at all, so I'm not too worried about it.

Well, since I've been away from this blog, lots of stuff has happened. I've been doing a lot of scrapbooking, a lot of invitation design (will soon have a website that I can link to actually), and have also started volunteering at DAWS (Danbury Animal Welfare Society) which has basically changed my life. Animals rule. I should have known all along that I should be working around animals in some way on a regular basis, so I'm glad I finally got my head out of an area in which it shouldn't have been and decided to volunteer there. The critters are great and the people are awesome. YAY for DAWS. Check out our website and adopt a kitty or a doggie, or multiple kitties or doggies, from us!

Anyhoo, I'm planning on taking a bit of a new direction with this bad boy. I have been inspired by people from the scrapbooking community and would like to start posting pictures of my work on here, to get feedback and also just to show what I'm working on. I also figure it's a good idea for me to make some kind of attempt at regular posting, so from now on, every Tuesday will be "List Day". I love making lists, and this way I have a prompt once a week about something to write about, whether it's a list of songs I hate or things I would like to do before I die or whatever. I will be happy to accept suggestions for lists that people want to see, and I want people to post in the comments with their own lists for whatever topic I've posted. It is a stupid thing to write about, but my good friend, an author, says that anything that gets you to write is a good thing, and she is smart so I should take her advice :) So tomorrow is the first List Day.

Whee! I guess that's it for now. I seriously suck as a blogger, but will try to be a better one. Thanks for reading, and thanks for sticking with me even though the last time I posted was apparently during the Van Buren administration.