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 OK, here’s the story.  I originally saw these top 10 lists prompts or whatever and thought "Oh, I might do those."  Then I realize "Umm, I suck at coming up with lists of things like this without more prompting."  So I didn’t and didn’t really have plans to.

Then…

I just happened to read a fave and we have a LOT of similarity.  As such, I’m hoping that they don’t mind if I steal their entry and adjust it to my own…  If they DO mind, they just need let me know and I will wipe it…  I give full credit that the majority of this is words that THEY came up with, but they are words I would like to type had I a better ability to fabricate such thoughts and sentences accurately…  If I’m lucky, I might figure out how to add a couple myself…  Alright, after note from said fave, I am going to try to somehow edit these into my own words(or at least more so than I was)…

Important things to me:

1. Have a wide sense of humor. The world is depressing and stressful enough at is it; if you’re able to find the lighter side in life you’re +1 in my book. I don’t expect you to be happy and entertaining all the time, but you need to be a glass half full kind of person. I am very empathetic and your constant bad mood will definitely bring me down. I find some people to be "humor snobs" and they bother me when they tell me I shouldn’t be laughing at something.  I’m not likely to laugh at the holocaust, but yeah I do find stupid stuff funny.

2. Be intelligent, have one or two original thoughts in your head. Don’t be a complete idjut.  You don’t need to be super smart, but if you’re giving me that look of "duuhhh, what?" more than 50% of the time, I’m going to have a hard time maintaining interest…  

3. Do or Do Not.  Don’t just tell me I’m wrong.  I am a fairly indecisive person; it’s mostly because I can see both sides of any given situation. It allows me to be very open minded, but it also causes problems when it comes to decision time. Know what you want, be assertive about it, make good choices and I will follow your lead.  I don’t necessarily need you to make the decisions, but I do NOT appreciate being told that *I* need to make the decision and then when I do, being told that I’m wrong.  And yes it is quite possible I will make the decision based on the first option listed.  But if you can’t come up with an idea then DON’T COMPLAIN!  I will most likely have no trouble following your idea.  JUST TELL ME!

4. Don’t think I’m lying to you.  I am often quite simple.  If I say "Oh look, the sky is blue."  That probably means I’m just noticing that the sky is blue and saying as much.  It does NOT mean that I think you should have worn a blue dress instead of the red one and am somehow trying to berate you.  I quite dislike liars. I might withold a negative comment in order to be nice, but I say what I mean, and I mean what I say. I expect the same courtesy in return.

5. Be nice.  Don’t be a douchebag.  Don’t go around telling me how horrible everyone else is.  Refer to #1.  You can tell me negative stuff, but if it becomes highly repetitive it’s going to be a problem.

6. Don’t make me feel like I’m a worthless piece of crap.  I may downplay myself, but that doesn’t really mean I think I’m a useless human being and you had BETTER NOT tell me anything like that…

7. Like some of the same things I do.  If we don’t have much of any common frame of reference, it’s going to be difficult.

8. Be loyal. There are very few people I let all the way in. If you’re one of those people it’s because I feel like I can trust you with anything. You betray that hard given trust and you certainly won’t be coming back very far in the doors of my mind without a LOT of trust rebuilding…