Nit Picky.

Over the past few years of my life, I've come to realize just how particular I am about a lot of things I do. Here's a list of some things I feel strongly about:

1. I strongly prefer to walk on the left side of a person and will walk around them and switch sides when they're not paying attention.

2. I hate hate hate walking in front of a person/people. (It makes me feel paranoid) So given a narrow walking spot I'll be found behind.

3. I unconsciously count everything. From how many times I've sprayed hairspray onto my hair, to the number of M&M's I've picked out of a bag.

4. I prefer odd numbers to even numbers. So much so that when arranging dates, I'll pick odd numbered days.

5. I always like to start things (i.e. studying, cooking) at the start of an hour or 1/2 past. (i.e. If I wake up at 8:50am, I will stay in bed until 9:00am to start my day)

6. I allot myself time when gettin ready (i.e. 15 minutes for hair, 10 minutes for make up, 15 minutes to eat)

7. I keep a rubberband on my right wrist, a watch on my left wrist, a tiny clip on my front right belt loop, and a bobbypin in my right pocket.

8. I absolutely can't stand crooked frames. So much so that I've straightened out the frames of awards on a doctor's exam room wall when he walked out for a minute.

9. I carry a nail cutter with me where ever I go because I have a hard time focusing on anything when my nail chips.

10. When adding liquids from a measuring cup to things I'm baking, I always put the cup on a table top to check if the meniscus meets the measurement line exactly.

11. I crop and center all pictures I post in albums.

12. I put a period at the end of blog titles & make the title 2-3 words long because I hate it when titles run into the second line in the "Blog Archive."...and I make sure the font color matches the picture I choose for my blog...

Wow, the more of this I'm writing the crazier I am sounding to myself. But than again who's "normal" anyway? :P Ok, I found a quote that describes my feelings exactly! ;)

"Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy." --Nora Ephron

Happy New Year!

Ok, so my "I will not procrastinate anymore" resolution went down the drain considering that I'm writing this blog 6 days late. hahaha.

This year I decided not to make any resolutions. But then that made me feel like I don't have any goals in life! To avoid feeling like a complete loser, I made one to take my vitamins everyday. So far so good. :)

NYE was possibly the most uneventful one I've had in years. This was the first year (since my kiddie years) that I slept in and didn't even get to see the clock strike 12am. I found sleeping to be a more satisfying way to kick off the year. True may be the saying that how you start the year is how you'll progress thru it... my year so far has been quite sluggish and sleepy. :P

On the topic of New Years, here's a quote I found that I really liked:

"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential." --Ellen Goodman

Beginning Blogging.

I've never had a blog before. So what in the devil's name made me start one after years of scoffing at people electronically publicizing their lives? The answer is "Sunshine, Butterflies, and Cupcakes." No, not rays of sunshine streaming through my window on an icy, winter morning. Not butterflies fluttering around my presence at a park. And certainly not chocolate-covered cupcakes with rainbow sprinkles at a local bakery just pleading to melt in my mouth and not in my hands.

Here. Let me provide you with a visual. It's on the left because I don't know how to center and adjust images on this blog just yet. Blogspot is not as user friendly as I expected, or I'm just not as tech saavy as I thought. Ok, back to the image. That is my itty, bitty, wittle brudder *pinches cheeks* Preets who goes by the blog name "Sunshine, Butterflies, and Cupcakes". We decided it was time to stop hiding from the world and unleash our dark side online!!

Being the nerd that loves random facts and statistics, I decided to look up some random facts on blogging. Let me share my findings:

• There are currently 15.5 million active blogs (updated within the past 90 days)
• Only 33% of all blogs are in English (the next most popular languages are: Portuguese, Polish, and Farsi)
• Brazil is the 2nd largest blog-using country after the U.S.
• 40% of Americans, 25% of the French, and 13% of the British read at least one blog per week.
• 10-20% of US blogs are "related to religion"
• Males are more likely to abandon blogs than females.
• 92.4% of blogs are created by people under the age of 30.

"Blogging remains the dominion of geeks, wittier-than thou, twenty-to-thirty somethings in Manhattan and angry, gay Republicans." --Leigh Philips