Accentuate the positive

Original post redacted because...some shit you shouldn't say ona blog, even if no one reads it.

Anyway, here are some nice things that have happened lately. Nothing deep, just wanted to write it down to remind myself of the good things in life.

For Valentine's Day, Randy took me to a super awesome restaurant for probably the most amazing meal I've had in my life. Not to be hyperbolic, but each course (with the exception of one, which was still great) selected for the Valentine's tasting menu was just about perfect. Great meal, great guy, great night. It was a much needed high note in a time period where I've been feeling a touch of SAD (It's winter, I get to blame it on SAD. I'll have to think of something else for spring.).

I finally moved into into my new place. I love it! I think it's the first place I've lived in since my family's house that feels like home. The only way it could be better is if there was a secret tunnel behind the stove that led to cute-fuzzy-baby-animal-land. That would be kind of creepy actually. It's perfect as is.

Things that annoy me, but shouldn't

When I am the only black customer shopping in a store (doesn't really matter what type) and people come up to me and ask "Excuse me, do you work here?" Next time someone does this, instead of getting mad I'll just have fun leading them on a wild goose chase around the store.

"God bless you": From benediction to booty call

I find it interesting that the most used pick-up line (psssst! And kissing noises do not count as "lines," they count as permission to give a stranger a concussion) lately is "God bless you." It"s across ethnicities, too--in my experience only "ethnic" (black, hispanic, urbanAsians, italian, greek, slavs, etc) dudes use pick up lines on the street. I guess WASPs meet at mixers, and frat dudes pick up girls at bars? But I digress--that's something that can be looked into later.

Back to the "God bless you business." What the hell is that about?! What does it even mean? "You gave me a boner and some jerkoff material for later, God bless you"? Or "God bless you for having a sweet, sweet ass"? How did this become the standard way of hitting on someone? I'm not even religious and it skeeves me out. It does provide an easy rejoinder though: "Go to hell."