The Guilty Pleasures Meme
The following was passed on to me by Smiler. I considered just copying and pasting her answers because so many of them sounded so much like me. But I figured that would be cheating. Here’s what I came up with.
Name six guilty pleasures no one would suspect you of having:
1. Sunbathing without sunscreen (or clothes for that matter). What we put on our skin gets absorbed into our body, and I know the ingredients in sunscreen are things that I wouldn’t want to eat. Some studies link the use of sunscreen to increased cancer rates and others point to the fact that regular use contributes to Vitamin D deficiencies. Besides that, some brands make my face swell up.
2. Fat. I like butter, gravy, sautéed onions and peppers soaked in olive oil, and more. I used to think I needed to curb my fat intake so I wouldn’t get fat, but then I started eating all I wanted to and realized that because fats stay in your stomach longer, I was more satisfied, didn’t crave sweets, over eat, or snack on empty carbohydrates; all things that DO make me gain weight.
3. Reading the obituaries in our local paper to collect interesting old country names. Some of my latest finds for women’s names are: Cova, Gusti, Velvia, Gluwana, Zula, Zephine, Nelda, Nova, and Patience. For men: Orbie, Oakley, Weldon, Squire, Oriet, Garver, Kermith, Ellis, and Kline. More HERE.
4. Thrift shopping. Like when I saw the pink pants THIS guy had on, I headed for the thrift shop the next day. Thrift shopping is my version of playing the lottery. Sometimes I strike it rich with some really nice quality clothes, but if they don’t work out, or I get bored with them, I just bring them back; no big loss.
5. Expensive French soaps, silk nightgowns, merino wool socks, high quality dark chocolate; all those good luxuries I didn’t have growing up that I think are staples now.
6. I love Candid Camera type humor. I don’t like to see supposedly funny videos of people falling and crashing into things. I don’t like to see people punked with mean practical jokes, but I do like to watch people in bizarre scenarios and see how they react, and THIS sort of stuff cracks me up.
Name six guilty pleasures you wish you had the courage (or in my case energy) to indulge:
1. Become a go-go dancer in a cage.
2. Drive the camper to the coast by myself and live on the beach anonymously for a month without a clock.
4. Become a detective who busts political criminals, like those who have stolen elections through easily hacked electronic voting machines and other underhanded practices.
2. Adopt a few homeless children.
5. Go to L.A., meet and interview some celebrities, then go to the Academy Awards in a “money is no object” gown and sit in-between Susan Sarandon and Jeff Bridges.
6. Host a radio talk show.
Name six pleasures you once considered guilty but have now either abandoned or made peace with:
1. Drawing mustaches and bad hairdos on famous faces in magazines.
2. I use to like to adjust the rear view mirror so I could admire my sons when we were driving. I still like to stare at them in awe and amazement, but they, now adults, catch on quick and don’t let me do it for long.
3. Blogging. I used to worry about the time I spent on the computer but now I just let it run its course. I’ve instructed my family and friends not to ask me how much time I spend on the computer each day, but to ask instead how many hours I spend writing each day.
4. TV in the bedroom. It started when I was doing foster care and needed a place to go to retreat behind a closed door, but I’ve gotten used to it, enjoy it now, and I don’t care who knows.
5. I’ve almost stopped feeling guilty about occasionally throwing away the peanut butter jar without washing it out for recycling.
6. Reading People magazine and knowing I can finish a People magazine Crossword puzzle, but can’t finish a New York Times one.
Post notes: Let me know if you play so I can come read your answers. I’m tagging Deana, June, Susan, and Pris.
November 13th, 2007 10:42 pm
You are so brave to admit these.
I agree with you on fat consumption and People magazine. Life is too short not to indulge in what makes you feel really really good. 😉
November 14th, 2007 12:23 am
Colleen, we are so much alike it is scary!
November 14th, 2007 1:14 am
I would add Cashmere to your list of necessary luxuries we couldn’t afford when we were growing up.
The pink pants were rad. Did you find them?
I’m going to start stealing names from you if you keep posting ’em. They’re just too good! Oh and a mediocre artist borrows. A great artist steals. So there.
You’ve inspired to start using the time “writing time” as opposed to blogging or computer time. I get in hot water for all the time I spend on here. But I say, it’s my happy place, so they’ll just have to drag me off kicking and screaming if at all.
November 14th, 2007 1:16 am
Oh. And I’d love to do an R or X rated version of this, though I doubt I’d share it with anyone unless it was at totally secret anonymous hidden obscure blog! Could get interesting for sure.
November 14th, 2007 8:00 am
I loved reading these!! My old college friend arrives today and stays until Saturday so email checks will be about all I’m doing on the puter, but I’d love to take a shot at this after she leaves. I shall return:-)
November 14th, 2007 8:12 am
Yep, I can relate to a good few of those! Like fat, high quality dark chocolate, drawing moustaches on celebrity pics… Fun post!
November 14th, 2007 8:40 am
OMG…this is going to be so hard. Your answers were great and so well thought out.
November 14th, 2007 10:16 am
I thought this was going to be hard too, Deana, but now I’m still coming up with more. Once I got started paying attention to them, I realized I have a lot.
Smiler, at least one X rated guilty pleasure came to mind but I had to censor it!
November 14th, 2007 10:28 am
i loved this tag! i think it’s the funnest one around….
i love practical jokes and the candid camera clip cracked me up! i also love mountain names. a few i have noticed here are Arvis and Euliss. my grandad’s brother was Prentiss.
and regarding my mom’s Cd, she doesn’t have anywhere you can listen. i keep telling her she needs a myspace site. i need to ask my hubby if there is a way we can upload a song from the CD. i’ll let you know if i figure it out. 🙂
November 14th, 2007 11:44 am
Yes, I think we all have at least one x-rated one 🙂 Mine will be up shortly. Thanks for the tag.
November 14th, 2007 12:52 pm
I would LOVE to “live on the beach anonymously for a month without a clock.” Hmmm…maybe that can be my vacation next year! Speaking of vacations…this is the first time since I’ve entered the work force that I’ve not used up all my vacation time.
My last bloodwork showed a vitamin D deficiency…hopefully I made up for that by supplements and all the sun in St. Thomas LOL!
This was fun, Colleen 🙂
November 14th, 2007 2:10 pm
Colleen, we share many of the same guilty pleasures, but I think I’ve made peace with all of mine! I never, ever buy anything that says “lowfat” or even worse, “no fat.” I don’t care what anybody says, I CAN taste the difference!
November 14th, 2007 3:58 pm
All the flavor is in the fat. That’s a fat fact!
November 14th, 2007 6:55 pm
Oh shoot. I already did 3WW. And tomorrow is 13 Thursday. Maybe I’ll do this on FRI.
I really enjoyed your very revealing answers. 🙂 And the video cracked me up.
~S
November 14th, 2007 8:53 pm
I forgot to mention, I love unusual names too… and collect them. I can’t get over “Gluwana.” Makes me wonder what the middle name was. Gluwana Marie, maybe?
~S
November 15th, 2007 7:26 am
Loved the thing about the obituaries and women’s names. Folks were quite creative with naming back then, weren’t they? I love my grandmother’s name – Melba. I also love the name May. I must have a thing about “m’s”!
November 15th, 2007 7:44 am
my grandmother was named patience. i wish i had some!
fun post!
November 15th, 2007 2:55 pm
Oh – I bet that was a hard one to come up with. Glad you didn’t tag me!
November 15th, 2007 8:44 pm
LOL, LOL…Oh Colleen, these are ALL just great! I love imagining you sitting between Susan Sarandon and Jeff Bridges! Great Choices, to my way of thinking….
LOVE what you said about Olive Oil…(I love butter, too, but I know Olive Oil is better for you…).
Personally I couldn’t live without TV in the Bedroom….And luckily I have never felt guilty about it….LOL…I’ve had a TV in my Bedroom since around 1957…!
I LOVE you becoming a detective and cleaning up all those lying cheating politico’s…I bet you would be great at it!
Fabulous Post, my dear!
November 15th, 2007 10:17 pm
When I come to L.A. to go to the Academy Awards with Susan and Jeff I’ll come visit you, Naomi!
Smiler, I found a pair of pants that were close. They were not straight legged and cropped (although cropped pants often fit me as full length. They did the trick and go the attraction to pink pants out of my system for awhile.