Deep Thoughts Friday
June 22, 2007 | Deep Thoughts Friday,Quadrant Plotting
My deoderant has stopped working. At first I thought it just couldn’t tough out the summer weather, but the past 2 days have been mild and lovely. I showered before work. I applied adequate and thorough coverage of said deoderant. I don’t know what has gone so horribly awry.
Perhaps it’s one of the lovely withdrawal symptoms from weaning off of Celexa? Instead of using the pill to make me happy, my body is sapping all available topical creams to ensure an even keel? Maybe I should text Lindsay and ask if she’s ripe, too.
I’ll be honest: I kind of stink.
Let this be a warning to you, Ms. B and an apology.
No one has caught me sniffing my armpits, but it’s bound to happen.
Luckily today I brought in my (big ass) bag, a back up stick of deoderant. I don’t usually stink. I mean, I guess I do stink, but normally, the deoderant I use is able to suppress my natural stank.
Wow, this may be too much info. I apologize. And right before lunch!
Speaking of lunch… I’m off! To meet Heather B. for sushi! I plan on letting her vent about her recent car troubles so we can move past the hurt and start the healing proh-cess. I’ve been practicing my head-tilt/concerned look combo allll morning. We can then talk about fun topics like “what’s that bad smell?” And then I’ll feign surprise and disgust and point to the stinky businessman behind her. Yes, I have a plan.
Also… Quadrants:
1. Angelina. Where do you stand on the love/loathe continuum?
2. Stuffed animals in a car’s back window. Do you have them? Explanations are welcomed and encouraged. It’s kind of a love/loathe and general outing if you do or don’t and why. Go to it.
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June 22nd, 2007 at 11:18 am, CPA Mom and Soccer Mom Angela Says:
Love lunch with bloggers. I’m going to lunch with Beth today!
Loathe Angelina, that stinking filthy whore. Beth her deoderant doesn’t work either.
Loathe stuffed animals in the back too. What’s the point?
June 22nd, 2007 at 11:27 am, Jennifer Says:
Used to loathe her, now, while I think she might be collecting kids, I do respect all her good works, so the non-snarky me will have to fall into the “love” catagory.
I hate stuffed animals in the back window. (of course, I have been known to rock the fuzzy dice from the mirror, so my taste is questionable)
June 22nd, 2007 at 11:32 am, Frema Says:
Ooh, I love the quadrants!
Angelina Jolie–Don’t hate her, but don’t like her, either. Also, I can’t help myself from reading about her in magazines. It’s a sickness!
Stuffed animals in a car’s back window–Think it’s kind of lame. It brings a mental image of Beanie Babies, and man, were those things annoying!
June 22nd, 2007 at 12:44 pm, Eris Says:
1. Totally impartial, really don’t care. The only thing I hope for is that I’m not watching TV 15 years down the road and I see her kids all crazy and fucked up on the news. YOu can be nutty if you want to; just don’t bring kids into it.
2. Hate. It looks tacky and cluttered. This, of course, from the person who could live for weeks out of my car complete with food, outfit changes, entertainment, outdoor activity equipment and sleeping gear. What? I am a bit overprepared…and messy…
Let us not remember the time when I had almost every beanie baby (from mcdonalds) and carried all frillion with me from class to class in highshool and arranged them artfully on my desk. Dude, Frema brought up some majorly repressed memories for me. I cannot believe I did that.
June 22nd, 2007 at 12:52 pm, Jeannette Says:
Angelina: still love her (maybe because the Pitt hottie is always in the picture). She can’t speak properly though: I saw her on Larry King the other day, she took so much time finishing her sentences, it was booooring.
Do people still have stuffed animals in their car’s back window? Hate that! Cheesy.
June 22nd, 2007 at 1:45 pm, Sallyacious Says:
1) Angelina. I have a HUGE amount of respect for her. Her humanitarian work is incredible, and she’s brought a lot of publicity to important causes. She’s just been tapped to join the Council on Foreign Relations, which is not the sort of opportunity given to people who are just fame whores. So put me all the way to the like edge of the continuum.
2) Stuffed animals in car windows. What the FUCK is up with that? They are dumb. Period. I don’t understand the American cute fetish anyway, and rear window decor is a fantastic example of that particular disease. I always want to chuck a brick or a tire iron through those windows. They remind me of Bobby Trendy.
I’m going to end up all alone in a corner for this next quadrant, aren’t I?
June 22nd, 2007 at 2:46 pm, Rachel Says:
I want to have lunch with a blogger! and the ones I already know don’t count.
On to the quadrant (originally typed as on the to quadrant):
1. Angelina – I think she’s a wonderful actress and humanitarian, but I am sick to death of seeing her and Brad Pitt on the cover of every damn magazine!! Enough already!! It’s been over a year!
2. I don’t have stuffed animals in the back window. I have a minivan so that would be impossible. Even if I didn’t, I still wouldn’t have them! I think it’s kinda dumb! I mean, who wants a bunch of stuffed animal missles if you get in a wreck??
June 22nd, 2007 at 3:01 pm, Liz Says:
1) Angelina. She’s hot and some days The Mistah and I might come to blows if we were ever presented with the opportunity to, um, have long, deep converstations. But now? LOATHE. I’m sure she’s a half-way decent mother to those kids, but I think she’s a narcassistic, self-centered, manipulative, psychologically unstable woman who needs a few more hours on the couch. She’s done good things, but I think that instead of focusing on solving all the world’s problems, maybe she should look a wee bit closer. And, like Frema, I can’t read enough about her in The News (People, Us, Star, etc.)
2) Um, negatory on the stuffed animals. I also don’t get women who put Betty Boop stickers and paraphenelia all over their cars. Or people who buy bedazzled Walt Disney/Mickey/Minnie Mouse crap. I mean, how cheezey can a person be?
I feel nasty today. Must be the LACK. OF. SLEEP. A Sleepy Lizzy = Bitchy Lizzy.
June 22nd, 2007 at 3:54 pm, Audrey Says:
Angelina? She kinda annoys me. I have never thought she was hott, just marginally above weird looking. And I get that she’s doing all this good stuff, but I get too much of a narcissistic vibe from her to look past her weird lips and take interest in whatever cause she is promoting. Am shallow.
HATE, LOATHE, DESPISE back window stuffed animals. Sure, I had a couple of those in high school. But I was in high school. Once I grew up and entered the real world, the little guys got moved to the trunk. And, um, maybe never left the trunk. Am lazy.
My hatred for the back window stuffed animals may be due largely in part to the fact that my most hated coworker — a 50-year-old woman who, despite her somewhat advanced age, still acts alarmingly like her 10-year-old daughter most of the time — has a back window FULL of stuffed animals. Clearly this woman needs to grow up in a lot of ways. But still. Even if someone I dislike didn’t have the back window stuffed animals, I would still hate the back window stuffed animals. It is time to grow up, people, and removing those toys from your back window is the first step. (Am bossy.)
June 22nd, 2007 at 5:52 pm, Isabel Says:
I am excited about the lunch with Heather. Please tell me that you remembered your camera this time. Please.
(and I’m sure you don’t stink too bad.)
Okay. I think Angelina is hot, hot, hot. I would make out with her. Really. I just read an article about her in Esquire and was very impressed with all of her do-goody-ness. Seriously, she is a giver. So while I think she does a lot of good…I am also not happy with the fact that she stole Brad away from Jennifer.
But really, can I be mad about that? I mean, if given the chance I would have totally tried to steal him also. She just happened to actually have a chance.
June 22nd, 2007 at 7:59 pm, Alyndabear Says:
Oh! All these bloggers meeting bloggers… am feeling very isolated on this here side of the ocean!
1. Angelina – Hate. All good things aside, I’m not impressed. I think she seems cold, I love Jennifer Aniston, and I just have a wiggy feeling about her. She doesn’t seem likeable.
2. Stuffed Animals – HATE. I give permission for anyone to slap me if I should ever have a stuffed animal in my car that doesn’t belong to a small child who I might be carrying at any point in time. *shudder*
June 22nd, 2007 at 8:12 pm, Bethany Says:
Angelina- hate
Stuffed animals- HATE! Dirty, dust catching nasy things.
Also, the deoderant thing- every eight months or so I have to change deoderant brands because it just stops working. I have three different kinds I rotate.
June 22nd, 2007 at 8:51 pm, Bunny Says:
Angelina: loathe. Stuffed animals: also loathe.
June 22nd, 2007 at 9:09 pm, angela Says:
On the Angelina issue, can you possibly put me right smack-dab in the middle of the quadrant? I haven’t ever particularly loved her, but I respect a lot of the work she’s doing right now, so I can’t hate her either.
And as for stuffed animals in vehicles, I hate them so much that I think I’d be completely off the quadrant altogether. I need a quadrant extension.
June 22nd, 2007 at 10:40 pm, Heather B. Says:
1) Eh, whatever
2) Abhor
P.S. I’ve been full since lunch which totally ruined my dinner at the Cheesecake Factory.
June 22nd, 2007 at 10:59 pm, velocibadgergirl Says:
Love Angelina, don’t have animals in my back window. (Don’t hate, just don’t have.)
Yay, I finally caught a quadrant in time to play! I’ve missed the last two, and oh how I wept…
June 23rd, 2007 at 9:35 am, Isabel Says:
I forgot. Sorry.
The animals in the back window…dude, what in the crap is that about? I don’t get it. Why would you do that? Are they lucky charms or are you showing off your odd collection?? Either way…HATE!
June 23rd, 2007 at 9:58 am, SJ Says:
Can’t wait to hear about your lunch date! And have you tried Clinical Secret? I hear it works like a charm, and dude, you put it on at night?
Anyway, Angelina….I think she’s a do-gooder so I admire her for that, but I don’t like how she stole Brad away from Me. Uh, I mean Jennifer. So while I don’t like her bunches, I don’t dislike her bunches either.
And stuffed animals in the back window? I never really got why people did that. I personally wouldn’t but it doesn’t bug me really either way.
Can we say totally vauge?
June 23rd, 2007 at 12:21 pm, La Turista Says:
I’m on the fence with Madame Pouty Lips – when she was with Billy Bob, I hated her and all that “we’re totally having sex under this table while we conduct this live interview” bullshit. Plus, I have an ugly/sexy thing for Billy Bob (I know! Skinny! Dirty! Crazy! WTF?!). Now, I’m ambivalent at best about Brad Pitt, and Angie does seem to do a lot of humanitarian shit and all that, so whatever. I’m tired.
As to the stuffed animals, Loathe! With a capital GD L! First, it’s just stupid. Second, they are always FILTHY and faded and full of dust, so they look like shit. And third, it’s just fuckingstupid.
June 23rd, 2007 at 1:49 pm, no name today Says:
Angie – she is gorgeous, and seems to really have an interest in saving the world and all of that, but the media coverage of her, her kids, her weight, her everything has now made me step lightly over to the side of not liking her. On the other hand, she is so open about “having a dark side” and being wierd, that I have to respect her. I guess I am going to have to toe the line right in the middle here.
Animals in cars – HATE THEM!! Not only are they there and annoying, but someone actually took the time to cram them in there all cutesy! I think it is the time wasting that disturbs me as much as anything.
Deodorant – I have heard that taking zinc can help eliminate body odor, but you may want to do your own research on that before you just start popping zincs like candy.
Oh, and Mrs. Squirrel – I totally heart you and your site for being just about the only website out there with no reference of a certain jailed heiress! Thank you. I purposefully have not read one article on her since she went in, and I turn off the tv if they start talking about her. It’s not me. It’s her.
June 24th, 2007 at 2:14 pm, b Says:
1. Don’t care a whit about Angie and Brad, but I am interested to see if she continues to be as normal as she’s been lately.
2. I just want to ask WHY? I am always forcing my children to drop their arm-fulls of animals BEFORE we leave, so I don’t end up with a stuffed menagerie in my car (okay, minivan). Is this bit of whimsy an attempt to keep people from getting road rage at your bad driving? ‘Cause it seems like the people who do this are ALWAYS horrible drivers.
June 24th, 2007 at 7:39 pm, Mrs. CPA Says:
Angelina – Ambivalent
stuffed animals in the back window – extremely dumb, unless your kid has accidentally thrown them up there and you have forgotten about it and they are there for 6 months (not that I’ve even know anyone this happened to or anything)
June 24th, 2007 at 8:29 pm, Brittany Says:
I’m indifferent toward Angelina. I just don’t care, you know?
The stuffed animals must go. That is so obnoxious!
June 25th, 2007 at 9:01 am, Julie Says:
I am afraid to answer as I was by myself on the last quadrant! But I’m a risk taker so…
1. Angelina – she’s beautiful and does a lot of good but really, if she fell off the face of the world I wouldn’t loose any sleep over it. I think another celebrity do-gooder would replace her.
2. Stuffed Animals – I don’t get it – especially when I see males driving cars with the animals across the back window. Having said that, I did find the suction cup Garfield animals quite amusing back in the 80s. That doesn’t make me a back shelf displaying stuffed animal lover though!
June 25th, 2007 at 9:50 am, K Says:
Angelina. . . a smidgen toward the “like” side of the quadrant. I’m repelled by her pouty-lipped adulterousness, but she is clearly trying very hard, which I respect.
Hate, hate, hate stuffed animals. Especially faded, dusty Garfields or others that have clearly been there for a decade.
June 25th, 2007 at 10:26 am, barnmouse Says:
Love Angelina, LOATHE stuffed animals in the back windows of cars. I can not tell you how many times I’ve commented on that while driving around! Why does someone feel the need to put a stuffed tiger, an elephant, and 3 dogs in the back of their car…all looking at me?! At least have them facing forward.
June 25th, 2007 at 12:50 pm, Hollow Squirrel » Coffee… it kills Says:
[...] —– Yeah, so the Quadrant got fried on the harddrive, so I have to re-plot. That’s a reminder to those who didn’t get their votes in on time to do so here. [...]
June 26th, 2007 at 10:16 am, Operation Pink Herring Says:
I have had some strange deoderant issues lately, too. I am normally not a very sweaty person. I hate deoderant because it gives me pit stains in all my shirts… ew. A few weeks ago, I switched to an aluminum free deoderant (which cost five freaking dollars), and now I find myself with wet pits! WTF?
Angie — I don’t like her. I respect all of her good works and her social conscience… but she just seems so smug sometimes.
Stuffed animals are a NO. I have to admit here that I used to have a small stuffed fox in my first car, but it was a really cute gift from my mom. She told me I couldnt have a car, and I got one anyway. my friend gave me a small stuffed penguin for the car, as a symbol of bud ice, our favorite beer. When my mom found out what it symbolized, she was PISSED… plus she was still pissed about the fact that I bought the car in the first place….and then it got wrecked, through no fault of my own. I got a new car, which was a VW Fox, so she got me the stuffed fox to replace the penguin and as a reconcilliation present.
Plus, I was 17 at the time. And I kept it in the front, underneath the hand brake. Stuffed animals proudly displayed in the back of the car are NOT ok.
June 26th, 2007 at 12:05 pm, Hilary Says:
Angelina? I go back and forth with her. I used to hate her, back in the goth kissing brother Billy Bob days. Now, I don’t really love her but I do like her more than I did. At least she is a celebrity who gives back. I hope her kids end up okay. Oh wait, that “blob” comment about Shiloh was seriously f-ed up. You know I can’t answer this question. I go back and forth with her. Smack me in the middle.
Stuffed animals? Loathe. I don’t have them. I’ve never had them. I will never have them. They are stupid. I don’t get them. If you are old enough to drive then you don’t need help from stuffed animals in your back window. I don’t get it.
June 27th, 2007 at 1:12 pm, Erika Says:
Angie: I am completely in the middle. I love to look at her and I love her philanthropy, but I hate the husband-stealing, brother-kissing, holier-than-thou side of her.
SAIACBW: Almost loathe. I mean, get that shit out of your window, how OLD ARE YOU, apparently not old enough to own a vehicle. But I have to commend you for at least choosing something that is very unlikely to give you a concussion if you slam on your breaks.