Name 5 things that are kicking your ass right now

Anything you like - music, books, TV, people, pets, the weather... whatever you like.

Hemorrhoids

my unexplained rashes

(not on my ass)

Home ownership and its attendant financial obligations
Dealing with crazy in-laws
Workplace drama
A lapse in organizational skills
Basic existential dread

Ste and StanM lose points for obvious wisecracks.

and kkvgz for taking things almost as literally.

http://www.easyfizzy.co.il/image/users/46789/ftp/my_files/knee-ili.gif

xp: huh?

not-yet-rehabilitated lisfranc dislocation fracture
back complaining (why? shut up!)
insomnia
current state assessments overdue
biological clock

Oh, I get it. Not "kicking your ass" meaning "is beating you down", rather "kicking your ass" meaning "good"? Okay, there are good things:

1.) Baby puppy girls!
2.) Fixing up things around the house(when I pretend that I can afford to because I can't afford not to)!
3.) Pretzel M&Ms - no longer just a rumor!
4.) New compy that's fast enough to stream videos without interruption!
5.) Found a Satanic lapel pin while moving my secretly ex-metalhead wife's collection of Wedgewood. Rock!

Like this except black:
http://www.satanshop.com/images/1240.jpg

yeah that's what i meant. that's more like it. positive kvlt vibes yeag?

It's just I have been having my ass kicked in the other way a great deal as well, you understand.

Red Dead Redemption
Wild Beasts
Home-made chips with fried eggs
My 9 month old son
Mad Men

vid games in general
coding
overcoming anxiety
overcoming insomnia
impending WC2010

1. The salmon and egg salad I just ate for lunch
2. Promethea, From Hell and Alan Moore comics in general
3. Playing 60s French chansons on new guitar
4. Playing hungover tennis on Saturday mornings
5. Propellerhead Reason

impending WC2010

Not being a football fan, it took me a moment to realise you weren't talking about an ominous high-tech lavatory.

1. Having a baby soon and hanging out with other people's babies and getting excited about having our own kid
2. Being back home after being out of town for more than a week
3. Nice weather
4. Iced coffee
5. Generally feeling optimistic about the near future

congratulations about babby!

1) the impending weekend at Bonnaroo with two of our best friends
2) the fact that its Tuesday, and the next Monday is TWO weeks away! (see first answer)
3) this damn coffee. Damn.
4) owning my own home. Overwhelming, but cool as shit.
5) its my wife's birthday.

Great question.

thanks slocks

Having a kid is amazing!

ha realized my phrasing kind of made it sound like I wasn't excited about having a kid until recently. I've been excited all along but it's a lot closer now (7 weeks to go) so it seems more immediate and I've been having fun playing with friends' babies.

street fighter 4 videos on youtube and ustream
breaking bad
easily pleased pet dogs
amazon marketplace
balzac's old goriot

1) fallout 3
2) infinite jest
3) new bike I just bought 2 days ago
4) my son's second birthday is coming up
5) this comic, which is probably old but I just read for the first time:
http://i.imgur.com/1hfcN.gif

um that didn't display right, get it here if you want http://i.imgur.com/1hfcN.gif

That comic was good until the end which was dump and depressing :-(

that's true, but it definitely kicked my ass

1)disco music
2)Larry Niven's Ringworld
3)30 Rock season 4 Ep.1
4)My garden
5)Can't think of 5 but I would probably also love Nate's eggs and chips - Egg and chips 4 EVR

1) m.o.p
2) playing drums in a new band
3) been living really frugal the past month and i've saved up way more money than i thought i would
4) peter's comic

1. locally grown strawberries zomg
2. World Cup excitement
3. cooking with newly discovered greens like chard & kale
4. new coffee-roasters/coffeeshop near my house, killer coffee!!
5. quietly joyous that I've lost, and kept off, 20 pounds. Fuck yeah!

3.) Pretzel M&Ms - no longer just a rumor!

wait... whut?

that comic :-(

1. Chandler Strawberries
2. Rangda's "Plain of Jars"
3. last ep of Breaking Bad
4. my new Tempurpedic mattress
5. David Peace's Occupied City

1. world cup anticipation
2. academia
3. barbecue every evening
4. bfi's kurosawa season
5. ILM

Hopefully I can add Breaking Bad to this list once my dvd arrives.

Lots of good guitar ideas lately
PG Tips pyramid tea bags
5K raise at my job
news that one of my favorite Jerry Goldsmith film scores is getting an expanded edition
our pet starling Merlin

3.) Pretzel M&Ms - no longer just a rumor!

wait... whut?

― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, June 8, 2010 1:23 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yes dude! On Sunday I found them at Rite Aid, then yesterday they had them at Walgreen's. I have bought like 4 bags. I don't know when/if they will get U.K. distribution though.

1. high-performance bicycle
2. drawing things by hand, scanning them into Photoshop & then converting them to editable vector illustrations, instead of depending on Illustrator all the damn time
3. tornados have ruined my bikepath & cost a good number of nice people their homes :(
4. "Transport Connection" by Sister Nancy is my #1 summer jam
5. citrus explosions

billy joel - you're my home
editing 59 hydrographs
not eating lunch
the prospect of doing bikram yoga for the first time tonight
flying gekkos

1. My 10 month daughter
2. My 18 month dog
3. My 18 year old cat that pukes on everything
4. This season of Breaking Bad
5. Crappy spring weather in Portland, OR

1. MY BIKE
2. opera
3. rhubarbs
4. summer
5. walkabout (nic roeg)

3.) Pretzel M&Ms - no longer just a rumor!

Oh, I want some of these. I've just emailed these people...
http://www.americansoda.co.uk/uk/American-Soda/Home/default.aspx
...to see if they can't get some. They have peanut butter M&Ms, oh yes.

Of course, Ljubljana, if you're reading this...HINT HINT.

1. tears for fears
2. objc
3. halflife2
4. yamaha dx7
5. summer (:

terius
peep show
old sonic youth vids
world cup anticipation
https://www.wegmans.com/prodimg/976/200/048500010976.jpg

1-5) perfect early june weather (known to sun-worshipers as "june gloom," feh)

1. Hokusai Manga collection
2. "Carlos" ( new Assayas film)
3. DX-100 + TR-808
4. The fine weather we're having
5. Firecrackers in the'hood

1. My 3 year old nephew using scribbler on iPod ("Green! Then we can do white and then... we can make it go back to green! Then pink and then.... we can do... GREEN!")
2. PKD
3. Summer
4. Crochet
5. Nearly being finished with the current state assessments

boys
boys
boys
boys
boys

1. weather
2. legs
3. new speakers
4. cheap cigarettes
5. eating one big meal per day

age
hangover
hm gov
work
lists

Mosquitoes
Spiderbites
The heat & humidity in Atlanta
Atlanta traffic
Summer allergies

This thread is a good indicator for what percentage of people believe getting their asses kicked is a good or bad thing.

That comic was so sad.

some of the time I am getting my ass kicked by mind blowing awesome-ness and other times my ass is just getting kicked.

1) seeing friends in Minneapolis on Saturday
2) seeing friends in Chicago on Sunday
3) seeing sister/brother-in-law/nephew/parents/in-laws in Michigan starting next Tuesday
4) big party with saunas, vodka, lots of friends, and a whole roast pig next Saturday
5) going to Italy for ten days after that

1. BLEEP SALE! (1a. dead grandparent and rapidly decreasing inheritance)
http://i.imgur.com/oAbO5NH.jpg

2. fucken awesome genuine COWBOY BOOTS! (OK, not mentioning why the boy who bought me these was in Nevada, rhymes with BONE PILOT but I am conflicted, these are nice boots...
http://i.imgur.com/flqQS8l.jpg

3. plugging in old phones to find what pictures are on them, nuthin scuddy, but random no-recall stuff from The Drinking Days is always occasionally entertaining...
http://i.imgur.com/Q4BK6Qd.jpg

4. KENDRICK finally acknowledging his family's pirate heritage
http://i.imgur.com/bLhP2C2.jpg

5. the, uh, P.A. telling sweet lies about me (ONLY OCCASIONALLY!), she left the lower box blank for MY MOTHER to fill in, oh well, baby steps
http://imgur.com/a/rJCo5

last one was this if it didn't work...
http://imgur.com/a/rJCo5

ah fuck it

Oh I just realised, should be this (hopefully?)
http://i.imgur.com/Of12EbK.jpg

Life
Family
Stress

Money
Self-hatred

relationship
poor air quality
being lazy at work
burritos for lunch
caroline crawford

sinus headache
gerd
self-doubt
homesickness
sugar