TV Truths

My best friend has a terrible gift for getting me sucked into shows that I somehow end up spending literally days watching from Episode 1 until I'm current.  Right now, my real TV hasn't been turned on in 3 days and I'm on Season 4 of How I Met Your Mother.  It's a sickness.  Thank God for and Ipad and Netflix streaming/free 6 months of Hulu Plus - okay, the latter is thanks to Tivo....anyway.  So it's 3:30am, I can't sleep, so I'm listing the top truths I've noted from How I Met Your Mother.  These are truths I've experienced, or in some way relate to my life.  There are other truths in the show, but these are the ones that pertain to me.   Some are serious and some are funny, but all are accurate in my life.  Enjoy.

Top 30 Truths from How I Met Your Mother (up through the early part of Season 4...):

1. Men in suits are awesome and a total turn-on for women.
2. Realizing you have feelings for a good friend and the subsequent decision on whether to act on it or not can honestly be one of the hardest decisions you ever have to make.
3. I really don't think I could marry someone who didn't like Star Wars...
4. When you finally crack, it's often the friend you least suspect that is there for you.
5. A guy who's really in love can say it with just his eyes.
6. Atlantic City...is not Vegas.
7. Making up stats...kind of makes you sound like a dumb ass.
8. You don't retell stories in perfect, sequential order.
9. It doesn't matter if you're a romantic or a pathological one-night-stander - both are people at the core when you break down their shell.  Just depends on whether you use a tack hammer or a sledge hammer to get to that core.
10. You can be a 3rd friend in a relationship without being the 3rd wheel if the couple doesn't think of you as a 3rd wheel.
11. Proposing after only a few months is almost always a mistake.
12. Discuss food allergies with a significant other before you attempt to cook for them.
13. Guys who cook really are incredibly sexy.
14. You need good friends who will point out the "glass shattering" flaws your significant other has that you are blind to.
15. Poorly lit, blurry bar pictures from the past are some of the best pictures you can have.
16. Everything can go wrong at a wedding and it still be perfect.
17. New Years Eve rarely lives up to the hype.
18. Traditions are worth doing whatever it takes to maintain them.
19. Irish pubs really are the best.
20. Being nice to your waiters/waitresses is important.  They're people too and can become part of your circle.
21. It's worth it to never give up searching for The One.
22. Slap Bets are possibly the greatest invention for settling a score. Ever.
23. Always pick 10 immediate slaps over 5 long term ones.  (Didn't happen with slaps...but trust me, this is very real.)
24. Don't forget that friends really are family you just don't share a bloodline with.
25. When someone uses sarcasm and diverts their eyes when you ask them something serious, they're probably terrified of telling you the truth.
26. If a guy spends time alone with you and is acting completely abnormal, he's probably terrified because he has feelings for you.
27. Britney Speares guest starring on sitcoms only reminds you that Britney Speares is trying an ill-fated comback by doing a very poor acting job as a guest star on sitcoms.
28. Going to KU makes you realize that March Madness brackets really do translate to "March Meticulously-Thought-Outness"
29. Don't forget to make time for the passion the younger you swore a real job would only be there to support.
30. Mamma needs her sugar.

PS: I'll add to this post once I'm caught up.

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