Recently I watched The Secret. Essentially, it says that 1) we are all energy and 2) we get what we put out. So if you are constantly thinking negatively, you are only going to get negative back. It’s called the Law of Attraction and you can read more about it here. You may have seen it talked about on Oprah, but I swear to you, I saw it before the trendsetter for middle of the road America mentioned anything. Anyway, I got really excited at the idea of being able to control my life positively. I decided to do some of the things they talk about it the movie, one of them being to visualize what I want in my life. I wanted to make a visualization board but I couldn’t find one of those fancy real estate magazines to cut out my fantasy house, so I visualized having one. Friday night, TBU and I had nothing to do and we didn’t want to spend any money, I visualized us going out and having a good time for free. I have also been visualizing having more money, because dar. This is where it gets interesting, on Friday night, TBU and I took a walk and as we came back to our place what was sitting on our mailbox? A fancy shmancy real estate magazine. Ok, that was pretty cool but they are kinda everywhere and they’re free so that wasn’t so hard for the universe to provide. We were still bored with nothing to do. Then right as I got out of the shower at 8:30pm our friends called with extra tickets to a concert AND they bought us dinner. Ummmm, wow. Dinner and concert for free? Well played universe. While at the concert our friend ask me to start a business with her. Even though the money hasn’t actually manifested yet, I am really excited. All of this led me to start saying, “If you can visualize it, you can millionize it.”

There has been one tid bit of pop culture trivia that has been freakishly useful in my life. It hasn’t made me any money or gotten me a dream job but, among other things, it makes doing crossword puzzles easier and makes me look smart in Jeopardy. It’s the fact that I know Edith Head is a famous costume designer from the golden age of Hollywood cinema. Why has that come up so many times? I have no idea, all I know is that it’s useful information. Last week in the New York Times crossword puzzle the clue was, ‘Head of costume design.’ That’s a tricky one, because if you don’t know The Edith Head Factoid you might try to think of another name for someone who is in charge of costume design. That would lead you down a fruitless path. Now, you go and prosper from this.

To tell you this, I have to let you in on the ridiculousness that is The Millionizer and TBU. We have two TV’s in the living room. Well, they both go between computer screen and TV. It’s a complicated mess of wires and cables but long story short, sometimes we like to live large and waste eletricity by doing two different things with two different screens but still hang out. Oh look, here’s a picture. As you can see, TBU is playing Gears of War on the large screen while I am watching World Series of Poker on the smaller screen. Since poker is such a sport it is televised on ESPN and the commercials on ESPN are specifically geared towards, well typical ESPN viewers. Such commercials include the new Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Editon commercial. Let’s rewind a few hours. TBU is playing Gears of War on the big screen and I am flipping through the channels.* At least I am trying to. The remote is right by TBU so I ask him to hand it to me. He says he can’t stop, he might die. Fine. Now that that’s established. So the Sports Illustrated commercial comes on my TV while TBU is playing on the big screen. You might think it would be impossible for him to stop because he might virtually die. But no, when the SI commercial is on, he figures it out. I bring this inequity up and he says that he had already died and was waiting to get respawned or whatever, so he didn’t choose the SI commercial over me. No, not ever. I say, whatever dude. And he says, “What, you’re no beyonce. Is that what you want me to say?” Meh? Ummm, yeah I’m pretty satisfied with not being a talentless drag queen but thanks for your heartwarming words. Ouch though.

*Just to clear things up, we were not watching TV and playing video games for hours at a time. We had a lovely afternoon of downtown shenanigans and sunset watching.

[tags]The Secret, Edith Head, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue[/tags]