True confession time (fluff)

I'm another person who dislikes dogs - I'm so glad it isn't only me! It isn't just that I've been chased by them and have had a finger sliced by one before, or even the shot-gun barks that make me jump and then get instantly angry for being startled. I have a very sensitive nose, and when a dog walks past me I can smell it. The smell, the drool and slobber, the wet noses, the eating of poo and vomit, and nose-up-other-dogs'-bums then the nose-up-the-crotch. All of that revolts me. And the assumption by all dog owners is that the only reason I don't like their dog near me could possibly be because I'm scared of it. And did I mention that they truly stink?

Wow. Where did all of that come from? I think I just had an emotional flood-gate opened. Please know that I have nothing personally against your dog, anyone. But if you're one of those people who puts up Facebook memes saying that we love the dog as family but you're only a friend, and that the dog lives here and you're only a visitor, I reserve the right to feel slightly hurt and to take you off my Christmas card list.

I love dogs but I'm so over dog hair. We haven't had a dog for several years now, but other people's dogs getting their hair on me still quietly annoys me.

We won't be having a Christmas tree this year and I'm not at all bothered by that. I put one little bit of very subtle Christmas decor on the table by the front door and that's it.

As far as watching Hallmark Christmas movies... all you have to do is watch one and you know the plot for all the rest of them, for ever more.

Wow.  Granted, I am a Disney fan, but that seems petty.  I try to buy people gifts I know they would like, even if it is something I have no interest in.  

Well, I sucked it up and put the decorations up Saturday. Im glad I did...but it was a lot of work. My youngest comes home from college this week and I wanted it all done for him. 

I've never understood what anyone likes about the Beatles.

Twice now I have taken a day off and didnt tell anyone and just went and did something for myself (a museum, and sitting in a coffee shop with a book). It was bliss.

I hate the cold and am sick of f'ing winter already. Because of health conditions I feel cold most of the time and winter is just the worst. Right now I'm wearing a long underwear shirt (from LandsEnd), a fleece jacket, fleece pants and Ugg boots and I'm inside next to a plug in oil filled radiator heater in a centrally heated house. 

I hate jazz and country music. Last time DH and I had our date night at Barnes and Noble (date night for us consists of dinner out at Whole Foods-the only place in town we can get a vegan dinner) and then hours spent at B&H, they were playing country music over the sound system. This was the first time I'd ever heard country music being played there and for the first 30 minutes I tried to let it go looking through the stacks for new books. But I just couldn't concentrate  and when the music started playing "Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboy's" I'd had enough. I went up to the customer service desk and asked them very politely "Is it possible to please change the music tonight?" The clerk who was a guy that night said, "Why, you don't like this?" I gave him my best suffering look and said, "Country?" He smiled and went back and changed it. I know it was selfish. But I tell you-I enjoyed that evening so much better after that. 

I've never read an ebook, don't own a device and have no interest in buying one. I  reading. I remember the instant I learned how-when I first made that connection between the letters on the page and what they meant. I remember running home and telling my Mom I learned how to read. I read every single day/night. But I prefer paper books. There's something about traditional books, turning the page, using a bookmark, holding a physical book. Maybe it's because reading has been so much a part of my life? Whatever it is I'm not ready to try ebooks yet. I am a traditionalist. I prefer paper and ink for taking notes. 

I love peas and have been known to just cook a whole frozen bag of them and eat the entire bag as part of my own dinner. 

I love the original 3 movies of Star Wars. I was 17 when the first Star Wars film came out and it was such a massive hit. It was so different from anything that had been done before and I loved it. Same with the following 2 movies. Any that followed after those first 3 were okay, but it was those first 3 that I really prefer. George Lucus then made a huge mistake as an artist as far as I am concerned. Years after those first 3 original films came out he decided to "fix" them with some of the new technology that was available and instead of leaving the original 3 films as they were and introducing those 3 films with newer technology so all 6 were out and you could choose which ones you wanted-nope-he changed the original 3 with newer technology and that's all you can see. So basically the original 3 from my teens are gone forever. Although I spoke recently with DS (the film major graduate) and he said there are still copies of those original 3 around they are just very hard to find.  

I like dogs but prefer cats. 

that's my dream day off!