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• I don’t like cornbread.  I think it’s the only bread I will pass up every single time. 
• When I lived in Brazil there was a sweet old man who worked for one of my families and he did the most amazing job cleaning tennis shoes (not sneakers – tennis shoes, thank you very much).  Before living with this family I thought you just threw away shoes when they got too dirty.  Old Buddy took my dirty ass shoes and turned them like brand new.  I wish he lived here with me right now.
• Recently I’ve become the biggest fan of Diana’s Bananas.  Dark chocolate is my flavor of choice.  The other night I had a craving and went to Publix to get some.  In my pajama bottoms.  Yeah.  This weekend I’m going to make my own because $4.49 for 6 is kinda ridiculous when you consider how cheap and easy they are to make.
• I fear I may lash out at someone today.  I’ve felt like that all week, so I’m taking Friday off.
• My favorite part of my job is investigating money laundering.  I wish I could do it all day every day.  Especially when I find people doing it.  Makes my frickin’ day.
• I wish I weren’t so jaded about men.  I noticed the other day how often I look at men and instantly “decide” if they are cheaters or not.  I know, right?!  I caught myself doing it without even realizing it and then had a talk with myself.  The talking to myself part might very well be a big part of why I’m single.
• The majority of the sales force of the company I work for is Asian, which – as you might imagine – means the majority of our clients are also Asian.  For fun today I did a little query of some common names to illustrate this.  The most common American last names are Smith & Johnson (duh).  Here’s how they measure up in my world (a database of 597,587 people):

 

• Smith – 2,222
• Johnson – 1,950
• Chen – 3,449
• Tran – 3,594
• Chan – 4,094
• Nguyen – 7,985
• There are zero clients with a first name spelled like mine.
• And there are 481 clients with the first name Jesus.  Awesome.

 

• I just spent 30 minutes looking at houses in my hometown on google maps.