elaine's strange little world

By the end of the calendar year, I will send a tangible, physical gift to each of the first three people to comment here. Those people should try to make the same offer on their blogs.

this is interesting...it's a thing that lets you choose some words to describe yourself and then lets other people choose from the same list of words to see how they describe you...and then you can see how similar your views of yourself are to how others see you. 

i've been tagged by bouncyweee
"List ten things that make you happy (in no particular order), and then tag five people to do the same..."

so, ten things that make me happy...

1. sitting on the boy's couch with his head on my shoulder and playing video games. or just hanging out with the boy, in general.
2. working in a place where i'm appreciated and where i get to do a little bit of a lot of different things
3. having very cuddly friends
4. dancing, although i do wish i were doing more of it.
5. having a cool appartment and an awesome roommate
6. family, sometimes...the little ones always, and everyone else on occasion.
7. bubble baths with warm vanilla sugar scented bubbles, and then getting out of the bath and having a huge deep red bath sheet as a towel.
8. living relatively close to both cin and nik once again!
9. the fact that my space heater is now on a timer and turns on 20 minutes before i wake up, thus making it bearable to get out of my warm bed.
10. that in general, my transition from college to the working world has been unbelievable smooth and easy. there are always ways life can improve (healthy grandparents being the number one wish), but for the most part, i'm as happy as i've ever been.

now to tag people...how do i pick only five?!!
1. maddancingfool
2. thinknikki
3. eviladmin
4. zestyping
5. threadwalker


there are lots of other things that make me happy. i think i will make a longer list at some point, but right now i need to go back to work.

1. Leave a comment (because I'm curious who's reading this & I want to tell you something nice)
2. I will tell you something I like, love, or respect about you.
3. Spread the love in your own journal. C'mon you know you want to....

i should, as usual, be asleep, and i'm not. emily told me about this meme where you list things you've never said to 20 people but want to say, and then people try to guess who each thing is directed to. i'm apparently not allowed to confirm or deny any answers, but people can reach a consensus. i may, if i get comments going, give some hints, though...it depends on whether or not i get people commenting. so yes, here goes. oh, not all the comments are towards people on my friends list, but at least one person on my friends list knows each of the people, if that makes sense.


1. it's amazing how much of my life course is, inadvertendly, your fault.
2. i had a crush on you when we first met, but now i don't remember why.
3. i've been jealous of you for the last year or so and every time i think i'm over it, i realize i'm not quite.
4. you've come up as a negative figure in my dreams a couple of times and it makes me feel bad.
5. you're not the person who knows the most about me, even though it's pretty close, but you're the person i'm most likely to tell all my secrets to right now.
6. every once in a while, even now, i catch myself thinking of you as perfect. in some ways.
7. i'd like to switch lives with you for a day.
8. i like you a lot, but sometimes i wonder if you're good enough for my friend.
9. i take you for granted way too much, but i actually am hugely grateful for you.
10. you make me oscilate between caring and not caring
11. i'm going to have to seriously warn anyone you ever date. heh.
12. i haven't seen you in nearly 8 years, but i still wonder what could've been.
13. you're a sweet heart, but you drive me absolutely insane more often than not.
14. i think you're absolutely amazing. i never thought i'd be good friends with someone i hardly ever see, except for my old friends, but there we have it.
15. i would like you a lot more if you didn't think you were always right.
16. i don't know how you manage to be so good without seeming inhuman. it's quite incredible, really.
17. i'm very glad i met you. you've made me reconsider my views on the russian community.
18. this is sad, but you're often talked about as "a learning experience."
19. you're one of the few people i will be genuinely glad to never see again after this year.
20. i hate that i let you make me feel bad about myself and my possibilities of ever meeting a nice guy, you're so not worth it, but i still feel that way when i think about you. which, thankfully, isn't too often.

i realized as i wrote these that some of them can be taken more than one way and applied to different people. oh, well. now, i'm curious to see what everyone will make of it...so comment!