My 3 words? Surprisingly not W. T. F.

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Chris Brogan is at it again. Chris Brogan, who I really have no idea of, is apparently a very famous person on the Internet and the social media scene. Dude apparently is an inspiration to many, esp. with his annual New Year post “My 3 Words for 20XX”.

In 2011, his 3 words were: Reinvest. Package. Flow.

For 2012, his 3 words are (or will be?): Temple. Untangle. Practice.

Well, Mr. Brogan, I guess I have to thank you for inspiring the head honcho of my company to ask all of us to come up with 3 words to laser-focus our energy/ambition/breathing towards. Unfortunately, the fist thing that jumped into my mind was:

Move. That. Bus. 

And then I was stuck. I shook my fists at your well-defined cheek bones, Ty Pennington! The rest of my ideas were more like a plea for help from an insane asylum:

I do everything.
Like your mom.
Kill me now.
Let me out.
Set me free.
HELP ME PLEASE!

 

So I put out a call for help to some of my ladies and they, like Jimmy John’s, delivered, in more ways than one.

From Elly @ Bugginword:

Evangelize.  Inform.  Seduce.  Innovate.  Inspire.  Support is for bras, dudes.

Distract.  Disarm.  Destroy.

[Can we just describe you instead?]  Pure, undiluted possibility.  <— Seriously, with friends like this, who needs bras?!

How about “Social Media Whore,” Lin?  I mean whore in the nicest possible way.  Obviously.   <— She gets me. She really really gets me. 

 

From Wicked Shawn @ WIcked Girls Think It, Do You?

Wrangler of assholes.

Excite. Conquer. Devour.

Taker of souls.

Giver of (helping) Hand (jobs) “your choice”

 

From Kelly @ Dufmanno’s Blog:

Fight, win, destroy. [that would be mine]  —> Yes, Kelly, nobody would dare to doubt it. 

Astound, problem flatten, monarch in training.

Create, confound, excite. [I’m getting a great visual of you with flames shooting out of your eyes but you probably don’t do that at work. Can you pretend you are a prehistoric warrior goddess with a battle axe because that just adds pages of job titles to your resume.]  —> Srly, I have the best ladies in the world ever. No bras! Woohoo!

Destroyer of enemies.

Thwarter of evil.

Creator of animal pelts…

 

From Sue @ Lagunatic:

Instigate. Resonate. Fascinate.

Can you submit “I like boobies” just to see what they say?  —> So. Fucking. Tempting. Unfortunately my family’s health insurance depends on my employment… 

 

From Vapid @ A Vapid Blonde:

Divide. Conquer. Unite. (or Untie, if they are hot)

Solver. Slayer. Soother.Rockstar Fire Fucker… (not sure they would like that one)

Personally my mission statement would be Cocktail Maker, ShakHER.

 

From Amanda @ Brilliant Sulk:

How about a fun, interesting seminar: Noose making 101

 

From Patty @ Patty Punker:

drop kick this (motherfucker)

my shit rips!

veritable meth lab

old like deniro (or pacino, you pick)

 

Then Elly (aka Ms. Bugginword) followed up with this email:

 Is anyone else craving INXS now?  Can you deliver your three words with a boom box, some posterboard, and a giant black marker?

 

Yes. Yes. Yes!  Remember these and the awesome music video?

Hallucinate
Desegregate
Mediate
Alleviate
Try not to hate

 

 

With my ladyfriends’ encouragement, support and blind faith, right now, sitting in my official corporate profile is my 3 word mission that says:

Desegregate. Mediate. Alleviate.

 

42 thoughts on “My 3 words? Surprisingly not W. T. F.”

  2. Ameena

    I’m with Akos. I have nothing intelligent to add here so I’m just going to say: Happy New Year. I hope 2012 is off to a great start and I hope the trip home was relatively painless!
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  3. Justine

    Man, seems like I’m l.a.t.e. in jumping on this bandwagon. Your friends are awesome – love their input. And the comments here cracked me up (especially some of your responses to them.) Totally made my morning.

    But I have to say, after reading all the clever and hilarious 3 words here, I can only come up with I. Got. Nuthin’.

    At least for now. But you got me thinking (congratulations!) and so I’m seriously contemplating my 3 words for this Year of the Dragon. Wondering how to work in “kick ass” because I really want to.
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  4. Tom G.

    Drunk, Catholic, Girls

    Oddly enough, these three words seem to incorporate so much of what the GGB had to say.

    Damn, there I go reminiscing again… and I thought 2012 would be different.
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  6. dufmanno

    How I missed this is beyond me. Especially considering the fact that I spent the better part of three days talking in three word sentences to accomplish mine.
    Perhaps it was my laser focus and inability to shake the image of us using the power of shapes to change the world.
    Destroy. Exclusionary. Circles.
    Use Venn Diagrams and Trapezoids instead.
    Oh, and I just got back from a mental trip to Dufmanno Island where I stopped writing , speaking, communicating and living for 3 weeks straight.
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  8. Jack@TheJackB

    Sat here playing around with a few different options and discovered that my son had snuck up behind me. He wants to know why I wrote:

    “Suck Me Harder.”

    I hadn’t even decided if I was going to publish those three but now I must because a blog is where we share all of the goofy crap that happens to us. Had I known that he was there I would have typed:

    “Love. School. Life.”

    But no, he had to read “Suck Me Harder.” That should go over well at his school. Don’t thank me parents, I am here all week.
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    1. Absence Alternatives Post author

      This made me laugh so hard I honestly spit out my coffee. Now I read it again, still laughing, but I know better to be drinking anything.

      “a blog is where we share all of the goofy crap that happens to us” Well said. That’s really one of the reasons why I started doing this and kept at it for 2 years when nobody was reading it. The other one was to vent about the WTF things I saw/heard on a daily basis.

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    1. Absence Alternatives Post author

      I know. That’s why I got stuck on Move that bus. I just cleaned out my fridge, by cleaning out I mean throwing away stuff from the “cold cut drawer”. We had hotdogs with expiration dates from Sep. 2011…

      *yikes*

      I now have a new set of 3 words: Check Expiration Dates.

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  11. BigLittleWolf

    This is much closer to what I actually do at New Year’s – come up with a few “directions” I need to keep in mind during the year to come.

    Were I to go for three, here are a few that come to mind (reading your post):

    More. Sex. Now.

    or…

    Teens. Doing. Dishes.

    but…
    what I actually chose (for myself) is a pair that’s seemingly a contradiction: Focus, and Flexibility.

    If I can live with those two guiding me over this next year? I could make some positive change. And if I still get to add a third – it would be another “F” word. No, not that one. Fun, to be interpreted as you please…
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    1. Absence Alternatives Post author

      Dear Mr. B, thank you very much. When I checked my stat just now, I had more than 500+ views on Jan. 1. (Stop laughing!) To me that’s an auspicious beginning for a new year. 🙂 When I went to check out your post, I saw that my post showed up as the first trackback with W.T.F right there for the whole world to see, I felt really guilty about it. I appreciate your great sense of humor. I’d expect popular bloggers to filter trackbacks esp. for “swear words” lest they offend the readers. I srly did not expect it to show up so prominently. I guess being in Asia time difference was in my favor. 🙂 Anyway, have a happy new year! And wish you lots of luck with your 3 words!

      I think TAKE MORE NAPS could be a great goal for many, including myself and little tiny babies. (Elly and Ry and Naptime can attest to that)

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    1. Absence Alternatives Post author

      Is “AWESOME” on the list? I have been using that word A LOT. Like, a lot a lot.

      Is “LIKE” on the list too? Is saying “A lot, a lot” banned too? I am in trouble, like, a lot, a lot, if tis true…

      So I went to check out the Top 10 Buzzwords of 2011. Kind of sad that I already forgot about “winning” being a buzzword. I did NOT get to use Carmageddon at all so I’m going to start using it for 2012. And I burst out laughing when I saw “Leading from behind”… Oy. My mind is totally in the gutter this evening…

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