how much? too much – that much!

i think i may have to give up the huffington post for lint…

…that and cracked.com, where some people have suggested i write something but i’m not sure.

i am realizing i am addicted to lists. perhaps it’s because many aspects of my life are faaaaaaaaaar from organized (the room i’m in springs to mind on that front) or maybe because i’ve written top ten lists and sunday sixers for over a decade? all i know is whenever there’s some list that even remotely catches my attention on facebook or cracked or whatever i jump on it and i’m lost.

kinda like netflix-fueled binge-watching, but shorter.

at least it USED to be shorter.

i got my first taste of crock-pot cooking the other day. and by that i don’t mean i tasted crock pot food for the first time – i grew up in the 1970’s and 1980’s in a single parent household…i’ve eaten crock pot stuff before. but none of mom’s stuff held a candle to some of the things the ufw has made, and i decided to try a turn at a recipe she found on line for green chili pork carnitas…

…and they came out awesome.

so now i wanna try to make some more, although my tastes and my waistline desires are clashing a bit. never mind that now. i found a huffington post list on facebook talking about the best slow cooker recipes…all fifty-fucking-two of them.

fifty two? couldn’t just pick twenty or less?

while i’ll grant them that a good chunk of them do seem pretty damn fabulous, i think we could have made the shorter list. it’s kind of like the list of interesting stories behind movie locations i read the other day – all three dozen of them. i’ll admit i have a problem reading this shit, if the writers of such things admit they need to tighten things up a bit for the sake of work productivity of their readers because, let’s face it, most of us don’t read this shit at home.

hey – i used to write top ten lists for kramer’s site, and then we shortened them to nine real ones and one bogus missing one that fit the theme (i.e. on the “top ten gifts to get your mom from a truck stop on the way to her trailer on mother’s day” list number five would read, “5. Number five was traded for gas money to get home from the truck stop…” or what have you (and yes, i have used the ellipses fade out forever)) but now i only do “sunday sixers” where there’s only six, trimmed down from nine. why? because i tend to be a wordy motherfucker so i did it for the benefit of my readers. they should do the same for me!