Trivia is just another form of random shit, so you know I love it.  Useless knowledge can help you impress people, or win shots at a bar.  It’s win-win all around.  So try your hand at these questions… NO GOOGLING!!!  I’ll post the answers in the comments section later today…

1) Which nation was the first to give women the right to vote?

2) What does the term “prima donna” mean in opera?

3) What is the most common, non-contagious disease in the world?

4) What does “VSOP” stand for on a bottle of brandy?

5) What year was the death penalty abolished in England?

Things I Live For: Antique stores; freecreditreport (dot) com commercials

Quote of the Day: “I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.” –Javan

After taking my Christmas tree down, I didn’t want to put the lamp I had in its spot back.  So that left me with a rather large empty space in the corner of my living room.  I decided a plant stand for one of my plants would be the perfect solution, except all the stands at Target were too expensive.  I mean honestly, it’s a freakin slab of wood with legs, nothing special.  The cheapest option was like $40+, not in my budget at the moment.  So I went to the Village and scored this perfect, basic plant stand for $8:

The color was too light to match with my other dark brown furniture so I had to paint it.  I wanted to spray paint it, but alas they don’t sell spray paint in the city and I didn’t feel like trekking out to the suburbs.  So I painted on a white base coat that I had on hand:

And then covered that with a dark brown paint (it’s not this shiny, must have been the flash):

And here it is in my living room.  For what it is (basic) and what it cost me ($10 after paint, etc.) I am quite pleased with it:

 I am submitting this project to Do It Yourself Day over at A Soft Place to Land.  It’s an awesome craft blog I suggest you check out!!

Pet Peeve of the Day: Pizza cut “New York” style

Quote of the Day: “I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.” –e.e. cummings

Happy Birthday to ME!  That’s right, today is the day the world was blessed with awesomeness some 20+ years ago.  To celebrate, a few things that always make me smile:

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 ”I know it cuz I walked in there with a wad of cash and I made it rain!” –Daniel Tosh

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Looooove me some Eminem:

 
Quote of the Day: “And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” –Abraham Lincoln

Why do phone books still exist?  At the turn of the new year, our building was delivered 30+ phone books.  They sat there.  And sat there.  Until our management company came to clean up the place and kindly threw them away for us.  Who uses a phone book these days?  And why are they automatically delivered to homes?  If you truly want one, they should have you request it.  In a time when we are doing everything to go green, it seems eliminating the phone book would be a good way to save trees.  I cannot rememeber the last time I looked something up in an actual phone book.  Please, please, please eliminate these wastes of trees, time, and energy. 

The last person I saw use a phone book was Phoebe’s grandma on Friends. She compared the obituaries with her phone book and “updated” it that way. Even she didn’t have a need for a new phone book every six months!

After doing a little research on this, I found a place you can sign up to opt out of receiving these horrible things! I urge you to do so here!

Things I Live For: Productivity; Texting someone that is in the room with me

Quote of the Day: “People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life . . . I think that what we’re really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.” –Joesph Campbell

Lost animal posters are possibly one of the saddest things you can come across. But it looks like some people have turned the sad sign into advertisements for their pets– awesome!

Pet Peeve of the Day: People who talk to bus drivers from the street

Quote of the Day: “Give it all and ask for no return and very soon you’ll see and begin to learn that it’s alright, yes it’s alright.” –Guns N’ Roses