Tuesday, August 9, 2011

My Gulty Pleasures

Guilty Pleasure, n. engl.

1. something you shouldn't like, but like anyway
2. something that you love to do, but you just cannot admit you do it.

Via Urban Dictionary

Everybody has a few guilty pleasures, those things you do and loves you have but really don't want others knowing since they're silly, disgusting or whatever other reason. So here are some of my guilty pleasures from habits of mine to some of my favorite things I hate to love and love to hate.

My Guilty Pleasure Food: Cheesy Anything. Cheesy Potatoes, Cheesy Scrambled Eggs, Cheese Biscuits etc.

Why: Cheese, like bacon, makes everything taste better I think, well, anything savoury at least. Yeah, as far as dairy goes it isn't terribly good for you but it's damn tasty so I don't care :)

My Guilty Pleasure Dessert: Bread Pudding

Why: Why am I separating food and dessert? Well, because desserts and sweets are too special to lump together with regular food. Well, bread pudding is my guilty pleasure because it's warm, comforting and because, well, I make some mean bread pudding. I'll admit, I've eaten half a pan of the stuff before (and felt the consequences soon after) but it's soo delicious and I have it so rarely I'll always overdo it when I get some.

My Guilty Pleasure TV Show: Teen Wolf



Why: Everything I know and love about good shows tells me I should hate this show. It's like my Jersey Shore, even though I am proud to say I have never watched an episode of that crap. The plot is questionable in its quality at best and the premise of the show is tired and abused enough at this point but I can't stop watching. Maybe it's the fact I want to lick Derek (Tyler Hoechlin), date the adorkable Stiles (Dylan O'Brian) or cheat on Stiles with the dimpled gay token character Danny (Keahu Kahuanui)....kidding, I would never cheat on someone, but choosing between the two would be one hell of a difficult decision. Dammit, now I'm getting obsessed with the characters of the show who don't even fucking exist. This just goes to show any hormonal gay boy can have his usual regimen of Law and Order and CSI be swayed with copious amounts of shirtlessness and cheesy plots.

Sometimes the music they choose isn't half bad though,


Kids of 88 - Just A Little Bit (Playing now if you haven't paused the sidebar music)


My Guilty Pleasure Bad Habit: Unnecessarily Passing on the Highway

Why: Because people suck at driving. The real reason is probably because I have a newer car with more power than I technically need but hey, it's there, why not use it. My favorite thing is at night after work, I-495 becomes really quiet and people are going 80+ so I go a little faster. Bad habit, but I love speed ;).

My Guilty Pleasure Hidden Secret: I'm a Super Geek

Why: So I've been a nerd or geek all my life. From elementary school though most of middle school it defined me but things got tempered a bit in HS. Deep at my core though I'm a massive geek. I love machines, figuring out how things work, the science and chemical reactions behind everyday things, science fiction, and memorizing useless information like horsepower ratings for probably 100+ cars and counting. So, behind the now more clean, sharply dressed and collected exterior lives the chubby, awkward nerd that I'll always love and embrace.

My Guilty Pleasure Splurge: Express Dress Shirts

Why: I've recently really taken to liking button downs and dress shirts, especially the 1MX shirt from Express. I'm a stickler for cut and fit so the fact that those shirts cut as close as they do works for me. They're expensive though, even if they are BOGO 50% off at $60 a piece but I love them and will probably get more soon.

My Guilty Pleasure Music: Music from Glee

Why: I usually hate covers but I won't lie, I've downloaded quite a few songs from the Glee albums. I didn't mention this earlier, but second to Teen Wolf, Glee is probably my second guilty pleasure TV show.


Glee Cast- Marry You

So there are a few of my guilty pleasures; I have plenty more but this post is long enough as is. Maybe I'll do a part 2 later on. I need to open at work tomorrow so I'm off to bed.

What are some of your guilty pleasures?

All the best,

JP

4 comments:

  1. Bad pop music. Why'd some of the most catchiest songs have to have such stupid/ridiculous/nonsensical lyrics?

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  2. Besides the guys on Teen Wolf, the music is actually really good in that show which is surprising because it's MTV.

    Glee will never be my guilty pleasure because I openly proclaim my love of that show to anyone within ear shot.

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  3. My guilty pleasures;
    -Routinely breaking the law on my Triumph triple.
    -'Fanboy and Chumchum' with Spongebob as a close second.
    -Justin Bieber (yeah I'm an old guy; what a perv, but his tunes are happy)
    -Boyband music (love the New Kids/Backstreet tune)
    -masturbation (duh!)
    -gay porn (duh!)
    And what does that say about society when we need to feel guilty about it all? - Wayne :)

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  4. @ClosetCarGuy - I know what you mean. Something I discovered to be very amusing is finding the lyrics to rap songs and reading them as if they were prose. hilarious.

    @underduhrainbows - I sorta gave up on MTV having actually anything to do with music anymore.

    @Wayne - lol

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