I don't even bother with this blog anymore. Blogging is like, hey, let me express myself on the internet! But then it gets hateful and sucky. So maybe you should split that blog into a diary and a useful, quirky website that adds useful information to society [as opposed to negative vibes and a whiny attitude].
Other really great books are basically anything that Augusten Burroughs has ever contributed anything to. He wrote his first book, Sellevision, which is fiction, and awesome. It follows the stories of several people working at a television shopping channel (named Sellevision, of course) and how messed up everyone's life is, regardless of what it would seem like. Then came Running With Scissors, an intimate memoir of his childhood and growing up in the most ridiculous way, it's shocking and just fabulously hilarious at the same time. Next read Dry, another memoir that follows him through a stint at rehab, what would be a dark time to read about if he wasn't so consistantly humorous in his writing. And when you have completed reading those fancy finds, move on to Possible Side Effects and Magical Thinking, two collections of essays he has written about different parts of his life, all of which make you think "Wow, this makes my life seems really dull!" and "My lord, how did he turn out remotely normal?" at the same time. When you are done reading [and re-reading] all those books, assuming you will immediately open up a new tab, type in a-m-a-z-o-n-.-c-o-m, and proceed to purchase each of the books I mention, then continue on with your Augusten Burroughs quest and get his brother's book entitled Look Me In the Eye, by John Elder Robison, his older brother with Asbergers syndrome. By the way, if you type in 'eyes', with an S, by mistake, be prepared to be hit with a tidal wave of Jonas Brothers. So there's some light reading to fill in your empty time slots. Pencil it in.
Oh-Nine, Oh My! of course refers to the year. As in 09, clearly. 2009 is epic. Inauguration year! That's not specific. That's technically every four years (unless you get involved with watergate). It was Obama's inauguration, and it is undoubtedly a very prominent moment in history. And yeah, now we're all just waiting to see what comes of this. First big mistake in 3, 2... hopefully it won't come to that. It also refers to the fact that this is the first post in 09. Still technically the first month, if I hit publish in the next oh... 17 minutes or so.
Paintings are just the coolest thing ever. If you walk into a house that has pictures on the walls, you think, "Oh, what a cute family. I bet the mom scrapbooks and the dad fishes and the kids tie their shoes using the rabbit ear method". If you walk into a house with nothing on the walls, you think, "Oh, this house is rather drab. The mother is most likely trying to balance a career and a family, the father probably goes out drinking with his friends and comes home late, running his dirty hand along the walls to keep his balance, and the kids probably colour with the 12 set of crayola crayons instead of the 24". But if a house has paintings, you think, "Wow". However, if the paintings are done on printer paper with watercolour paints and they are of a cat, refer to scenario one.

When your shoes cost more than your dress...
Teagan