Friday Favorites –The “B” Side of the Record

For those of you too busy not being born yet, check out this definition of B-Sides prior to reading this post (this means you, Joe): The “B” Side.

I’ve spent my fair share of hours combing through profiles on the singles sites looking for “Mr. Right.” I thought I had a pretty good filtering system, but so many Mr. Wrongs (translation= creeps) slipped through that I started thinking about how valuable it would be to not just have the A-Side of their profile that provides their best attributes, but also the B-side where I might hear a song which, were I a DJ, would have meant no air time for that band (translation=a 1st date).

In an effort to be fair, here are some of the songs that might be on my B-Side:


1. Has a ridiculous amount of clothes and shoes. In fact, it might be an illness. One of my brothers counted the shoes about 5 years ago and there were 50-something. There are more now. I should have a garage sale (except it would need to be a very large garage). And, I would probably just feel compelled to go shopping to fill the empty closet space anyway.

2. And, while we’re talking about clothes…Wears black all the time. If I find something really, really cute in a different color, chances are I won’t buy it. But, oh – if it comes in black, I’m there baby.

3. Loves tomato soup, ketchup, spaghetti sauce, salsa, etc., but strongly dislikes tomatoes. I could probably drink salsa I love it so much, but get one of those little tomato seeds on my lettuce and it’s all over.

4. Watches portions of Sense & Sensibility at least once a week. I love this movie. I love the music, the cinematography, the story, the happy ending – love it. I fall asleep to it many nights.

5. Collects stuffed toy lions. There are probably more lions than shoes now. I have a whole room full of them.

6. Chews gum like there’s no tomorrow. The dentist tells me I am dangerously close to having a TMJ problem every time I visit, but I don’t wish to stop. I tried really hard on the mission ‘cuz Aussies think it’s rude, but it was a true hardship/trial for me.

7. Needs her closet to be organized. This, too, may be an illness/obsession. The short-sleeved shirts must be hung on the far left of the closet and progress from white to cream to yellow, etc., etc., …to black. (The colored shirts don’t get worn unless they can be under or over a black shirt.)

8. Doesn’t really think people should require attendance at events and meetings before about 10:00 a.m. It’s not that I can’t get up early; it’s just that I really don’t like to rush the morning process (and I do LOVE to sleep).

9. Says she isn’t nice and occasionally she isn’t. But, under the sometimes “Elphaba” exterior is a gal who’d do pretty much anything to help family and good friends.

10. May show up to a meeting without shoes. Despite my shoe fetish, I really do so much better without actually wearing them. If I wasn’t so tall, I might think I was destined to be a hobbit and went to the wrong family/species (no – my feet aren’t hairy), or I should have been born in Hawaii so I could walk bare-foot along the beach every day.

Which brings me to the bonus track:

Loves the sun and will probably die of skin cancer. As previously stated, I don’t wear sunscreen much, but, my ideal day would be spent mostly by a large body of water with blue sky and sunshine overhead.

So – there you have it. If you are male and single and were contemplating giving me some radio time (translation=dating me), you now have much of the B-Side, and can make an informed decision. If you aren’t either, then you just got more about me than you probably cared to know. Too bad.

Come back next week for a list of my favorite female driving “techniques.”