We all have them: Here are My Five Guilty Pleasures

Guilty Pleasures...  We all have them or at least I am praying that we all have them so no one can judge me too much on this post.  You know those things that you love/do and are a little ashamed that you enjoy.  The musical artists on your itunes list that you would so much rather be listed as anonymous rather than K7's "Come Baby Come" from the Jock Jams album (that I swear I do not have).  Anyways I began thinking about these today and compiled a list of my top five guilty pleasures so here they are.  Enjoy, just don't judge too much.  And maybe if you have the courage share some of yours.

5.) Holidays, especially Halloween, well and Christmas and Valentines day.  I love the warmth of holidays and think they are so much fun.  I mean what is better than black cats, ghosts in trees, Jack-O Lanterns, FAKE (key word fake) spiders webs with spiders, those FANTASTIC plastic spider rings and candy? While it bothers me that the Christmas decorations are already out in stores, I think deep down the only part that bothers me is that I am not ready to give up Halloween yet.  Come day after Thanksgiving, bring it on.  I am all for Christmas trees, cookies, carols, lights, wreaths, giant reindeer, wrapping, presents with bows, the whole thing really.  So officially I am a holiday junkie.  

 

Our newest addition of spider lights in the hall.  So scary, I know.

Presenting Guilty Pleasure #4: The X-Box. 

 

Yes,  in real life I may be super anti-violence but I love killing X-Box zombies and villains.   Left for Dead II and Portal II have been my recent addictions.  Left for Dead, in particular has been relief from the "pending head explosions" after staring at my computer working on differential diagnosis modules on the 20 different causes of congestive heart failure.  Nothing like killing hundreds of swarming zombies after failing the same module three times in a row.   I love our X-Box and the problem is that very fact, I love it and as a consequence an hour study break is never just an hour.  One of the many reasons we do not have cable is because I feel like watching television is the biggest waste of time ever.  Hypocritical? I think so, even though I try to justify my X-box playing as working on my hand-eye coordination.  Oh well, that is why it is guilty pleasure #4.

Pleasure #3: Buying useless items just because they are so amazingly ridiculous.  Case in point this GIGANTIC universal remote control we found at K-mart.  At a price of $2.50 we could not bare to say no to it.  The past few days just looking at this item has caused infinite laughs and I am hoping that Dan will sync it to the TV, DVD, and surround sound.  Not that I need it, I mean at night by eyes do get a little blurry, but the thing takes up our entire end table.  Check it out in comparison to our regular remote.  

An "I love BACON" magnet, Halloween potholder, map of the world shower curtain, and an "as seen on tv" vegetable chopper are a few other of these purchases.   I have to admit that shopping in pairs does decrease these.  I will pick up an item show it to Dan all enthusiastically, and he will sternly shake his head and say "Put it down baby." 



Guilty Pleasure #2: National Public Radio.  Quite simply I am addicted.  Whenever I am cooking, driving in the car (alone), or doing any household work it is on.  I even have an iphone application that allows me to listen to my favorite shows (Car Talk, Science Friday and of recent Snap Judgement)  whenever I want.  I can not even begin to describe my love for it, and not that I feel like this is necessarily a bad thing, it is just a little embarrassing.   Especially realizing that I hardly ever listen to music on the radio anymore and that I get really excited when I meet someone who has listened to the same program (I mean really excited).  It also does not help that in 2009, according to an NPR demographic poll the mean listener age is 50.  I am just going to take this as a sign of sophistication right?

Guilty Pleasure #1: SLEEP.  Especially sleeping late.  

  So this is actually what prompted this entire post.  This morning I woke up rolled over and noticed it was 11am.  I slept through class and had even gone to bed around 11pm last night.  And what was more embarrassing was that Dan had actually gotten out of bed for a few hours and gotten back in bed and I had no idea.  I thought we both were being lazy and sleeping all morning, but nope, that was just me.  I sometimes love getting those 12 hours in, justifying it to myself as "needing it" but I will admit I feel like a lazy bum.  I just feel like there is always so much to do, so much to learn, so much to experience...  so I hate sleeping so much, but I love it.  Interestingly, the human on average sleeps 8hrs, the cat 12hrs, the python 19hrs.   So I guess some days I just take after the cats, better than mimicking the python.