Monday, June 11, 2007

My Three Things List

I was tagged by my wife to fill this out, so I've finally found the time.


three things that scare me:


1. fire

2. alligators

3. heart attacks

three people who make me laugh:

1. eddie murphy
2. my friend greg
3. me

three things i love:

1. saturday morning
2. rain
3. chubby hubby


three things i hate/severely dislike:

1. fat people

2. mean people

3. close-minded people

three things i don’t understand:

1. religion
2. soduku
3. fame


three things on my desk:

1. camera
2. messy pile of papers
3. upside-down cd's


three things i’m doing right now:

1. trying to tune out super-loud oprah
2. staying home sick
3. leaning back

three things i want to do before i die:

1. save a life

2. raise happy, healthy kids and see their kids
3. speak in front of 10,000 people

three things i can do:

1. play guitar
2. wash dishes
3. find a way to win

three things i can’t do:

1. put things away
2. be mean to people
3. watch the view

three things i think you should listen to:

1. your heart
2. the beatles
3. my cd

three things you should never listen to:

1. politicians
2. any of laurel's "things you should listen to."
3. when your wife says "'it's cold in here."

three things i’d like to learn:

1. how to write
2. how to enjoy weddings
3. how to have a photographic memory

three favourite foods:

1. pete's pizza
2. p's pasta copy of eileen's thing she made us after otto was born
3. roma bark

three shows i watched as a kid:

1. laugh olympics
2. abbott and costello
3. falcon crest

three things i regret:

1. this past mother's day - i whiffed.
2. not trying a job in music after berklee
3. not staying in touch with john woods

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

You're mean to me all the time. You're also mean to fat people.

I'm going to send a flaming alligator to your house.

Love,
TomatoFace

L. said...

You hate fat people? Wow. Why? This actually can't possibly be true.

And, I happen to know that you are a secret Neil Diamond fan. Admit it, you have "Cracklin' Rosie" on your Ipod thing-a-ma-jig, don't you?

L.

diane303 said...

Gosh! I'm a bit jiggly lately, do you hate me? Zed is rather corpulent, also.

I don't have a flaming alligator, but I could feed Gracie some beans and have her fart at you. That would work.

Dina said...

Thai Thai is not a favorite??? you're so funny queso.

I'll forever humm the "fat person theme" you broke out on us outside puka dog. i think p peed herself laughing that day.

P said...

i could be wrong, but i'm thinking he means obese or, to put a finer point on it, morbidly obese. i think, at least for some people, fat hatred stems from a fear of becoming just like the hated, much like some people hate homosexuals; they have a fear of some latent gayness lurking inside.

before you judge, no one can possibly hate fat people more than my dad. he has a fantasy in which he is standing on a high pedestal in a silo, whipping giant, naked fatties as they run in circles around him.

L. said...

Issues...deep-seeded issues. I've been thinking a lot about this since I read this post. Do you really mean you hate lazy people?...or sloppy people?...or people who let their fat hang out from under their shirts? Please clarify. I can't sleep at night thinking you really hate people just because they happen to have packed on the pounds.
L.

Casey said...

wow - lot's of commentary. i love it.

first, it says /dislike, not hate. in fact i don't really hate much. that was the first thing that came to mind... so to clarify and make broader, i don't like when people don't take care of themselves. one glaring way that happens is when people get giant. not a little heavy, flabby, but, giant.

it is definitely a shortcoming on my part. i have trouble realizing obesity as a disease, not that it's not. i immediately view it as 'just stop eating so much.' i'm not going to type myself into the corner either, if you don't like it, create your own list and put me in the people you dislike category. if you're giant, you're on my list.

diane303 said...

Well, gee, don't get Shnarky!

Funny how every body reacted to that, though!

Casey said...

i agree. no snarkieness here. all in fun.

But i'll take up the role of keeping the list you don't want to be on.

I am officially creating a list called "Giant People." If you're on it, you better hit the treadmill. Or else.

diane303 said...

Last night I was watching a program about morbidly obese people.

It's horrifying! It definitely is a sickness. They say there is no cure and very little hope for these people. It's survival gone wrong. Doctors think that these people don't produce a hormone called lepton and can't tell when they are not hungry. They also feel that it is a horrible addiction because food produces dopamine and these people don't have enough receptors to get enough.

Richard Simmons does a lot of work with the morbidly obese.

I think that I ever got nearly that big, I would want someone to just kill me.

Casey said...

I just make lists. I don't kill.

P said...

i had a wave of fatphobia wash over me at the jewel yesterday. everyone around me in the refrigerated section, including a little girl sitting in a shopping cart fondling a bag of cheetoes, was obese. i turned left: fatties. right: fatties. i was dodging fatties loading up on frozen godknowswhat to get to the jumbled mess of veggie meats. all the while i thought, must... get... to... y....

Anonymous said...

P,

If you think the jewels is bad, stop by Tony's on Elston sometime.

Peace and love to all sizes,
TomatoFace