Inspired by Ali’s Blog

March 8, 2009 at 12:23 pm (Just for fun, questions)

1.Grab the book nearest to you, turn on page 18 and find line 4.
“He had the air of a man who had decided that the best way to solve the gordian knot problem was to hack right down through the middle of it.  Full speed ahead and get the whiners below decks.”  The Stand, by Stephen King
2.Stretch your left arm out as far as you can.
TV remote, and uneven but cushy couch.

3.What is the last thing you watched on TV?
The Shining.  I’m seeing a theme.

4.Without looking, guess what time it is?
About 10pm, maybe 10:30

5.Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?
10:55

6.With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
Hotel California playing quietly on the other computer, and my daughter’s fingers tapping the keyboard, the fridge running, and… is that birdsong?  The front door is open and I hear faint chirping.

7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
Earlier this evening to drop off my cell phone at Verizon.  Getting a software update so it will work in Brazil.  Which reminds me, I forgot to pick it back up.  Gah.

8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
Austin to Africa, Brasil to the Bay.  Ali’s blog.

9. What are you wearing?
comfy sweats and a tank top.  Almost bed time.

10. Did you dream last night?
Always, especially in the morning.  I don’t remember the dreams from this morning though.

11. When did you last laugh?
On the phone after I got home today.  Giggled like a kid.

12. What is on the walls of the room you are in?
A big clock above the TV.  In my head there are painted walls and some kind of artsy thing above the couch.

13. Seen anything weird lately?
Tiny, tiny antique chinese women’s shoes.  Weird and horrible.

14. What do you think of this quiz?
Turns out I’m not very interesting.

15. What is the last film you saw?
Besides The Shining tonight?  “He’s just not that into you” with my girl a few days ago.  Cute.
16. If you became a multimillionaire overnight, what would you buy?
Time, and plane tickets.  That’s it.  I can’t think of anything else I want that I don’t already have.

17. Tell me something about you that I don’t know.
Hmm.  I have no idea.  I’m pretty open with most of my oddities.

18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?
THE world, or MY world?  In THE world I’d make it possible (and required) for everyone to live in a different culture for a year or two.  In MY world, I’d want a couple of people to understand the concept of selflessness, and I’d have a job I could do from my laptop anywhere in the world.

19. Do you like to dance?
Yes and no.  Clubbing, no.  A twirl around the living room, or the marina lawn with someone special, absolutely yes.

20. George Bush.
Hell no.

21. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
The same thing I named her 15 years ago.

22.Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
She was a girl, but if she had been a boy it would have been Ryan.

23. Would you ever consider living abroad?
In a heartbeat.  In fact, I’m planning on it, and do now, part time.

24.What do you want GOD to say to you when you reach the pearly gates?
That implies a belief in God and pearly gates.

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Tagged

January 31, 2007 at 12:48 pm (Just for fun, questions)

I’ve been tagged by Heather.

I’m supposed to include in a blog 6 weird things about me.

Here are the details: Each person who gets tagged needs to write a blog post of their own 6 weird things as well as clearly state this rule. After you state your 6 weird things, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave a comment that says “you’re tagged” in their comments and tell them to read your blog for information as to what it means. So here goes.

1. I don’t sleep at night. Other than the rare evening once a month or so when I crash early, I usually don’t fall asleep before about 2am, no matter how tired I am. I have to stay up until I’m tired because if I try to lay down before I’m sleepy, I’ll lay there all night wide awake. I can remember doing this since I was a little kid. I also hate to get out of bed in the morning because it’s so hard to wake up.

2. I have ADD. Is that weird? My little “work arounds” may seem weird to people. I fingerspell words over and over to remind myself to do things. Like if I have to make a phone call when I get home, I’ll spell that person’s name over and over with my fingers during the whole drive home. I find myself doing it constantly. I change the subject mid-conversation all the time because my mind wanders so fast and I’m sure it makes me sound like an idiot. Unless I’m watching TV or on the computer, I can’t sit still. Stand up, sit down, wander around, sit down, lay down, shake the legs, stand up, wander around.

3. I can’t watch scary movies. They terrorize me for days afterwards and I have to sleep with lights on. Ghostbusters even scared me. Psh.

4. I want to travel full time and my kids don’t go to school. That doesn’t seem weird to me, but word on the street tells me it is.

5. I make the bed in the morning while I’m still in it.

6. I’m very nice, easy going, and get along with most people very well until I get behind the wheel of a car. My nickname is Pottymouth McRoadrage. I honk, I flip, I curse, I call names and I yell. I don’t even realize I’m doing it until someone points it out. Oops.

When I asked my husband to name what’s weird about me he laughed out loud and said, “Give me a few minutes, I’ll write out a list!”

Alright, who to tag back? Every blogger I know has already been tagged. If any of you readers wants to play, go ahead and do it. Post a comment and let me know!

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My Mom made me do it

August 21, 2006 at 7:06 am (questions)

Four Things

A) FOUR JOBS I HAVE HAD IN MY LIFE:
1. Lawn Mower for my brother’s company
2. Hotel front desk clerk
3. Hairstylist/Manicurist
4. Office manager/Temp for a construction company

B) FOUR MOVIES I WOULD WATCH OVER AND OVER AND OVER:
1. Parenthood (Steve Martin)
2. Shakespeare in Love
3. Pirates of the Caribbean
4. Silverado

C) FOUR PLACES WHERE I HAVE LIVED:
1. Fremont, CA
2. Reno, NV
3. Brodheadsville, PA
4. Phillipsburg, NJ

D) FOUR T.V. SHOWS I LOVE TO WATCH:
1. The Amazing Race
2. The 4400
3. Survivor
4. Lost

E) FOUR PLACES I HAVE BEEN ON VACATION:
1. Drove down the coast of CA on Hwy 1
2. Disneyland
3. King’s Canyon, CA
4. Disney World/Bahamas cruise

F) FOUR WEB SITES I VISIT DAILY:
1. http://news.yahoo.com/
2. For Better or For Worse
3. Championable Fatherhood
4. Woulda Coulda

G) FOUR OF MY FAVORITE FOODS:
1. King crab
2. Sauteed mushrooms
3. Chocolate chip cookies, fresh
4. Salmon

H) FOUR PLACES I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:
1. On the road
2. Yosemite
3. Kaui, HI
4. On the beach

I) FOUR FRIENDS WHO I THINK WILL RESPOND:
1. Vicki, but she already did it
2. Kelly, but he did it too
3. Mom, hmmm. She did too.
4. Nobody

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A sentence per year

March 1, 2006 at 1:51 am (questions)

1. I was born in Newark, CA not long after the first moon landing.
2. We moved into a house in Fremont where we would live for 5 years. I’ve only lived in one other house for that long.
3. Someone stole my new tricycle and threw it in a drainage culvert. My dad and brother fished it out for me.
4. I started Kindergarten, where I heard the beginnings of many years of, “she’s a smart student but is very quiet and doesn’t like to finish her assignments.”
5. We moved to a house with a pool and a new school, right across the street from my class bully. He made my life hell from first grade through sixth.
6. When my second grade class got too noisy our teacher would tell us she was going to skin us alive. We giggled every time.
7. This is really the only school year I have almost no memory of. All I remember is that I sat next to a nice boy named James who had broken his right arm and had to learn how to write with his left hand.
8. Mr. Kerkazian’s 4th grade class. He literally tortured and beat some of us for such major offenses as writing too small or not sitting straight enough. Why he wasn’t in jail I have no idea.
9. I went “steady” with a boy for the first time. His name was Eric and he was quiet like me.
10. I got my ears pierced and passed out in the store.
11. I made my science teacher throw up when I did an experiment about how soda, water and bleach have different effects on a mouse carcass. In my defense, he already had the flu.
12. I started middle school.
13. I smoked pot for the first time at a Halloween party with a friend. Not much happened.
14. We moved to Reno and I developed a really embarrassing crush on a boy who rode the bus with me.
15. I continued to embarrass myself every time bus boy was in sight.
16. Met and started dating my first serious boyfriend. He dumped me for the first time 2 days before my prom. I went alone anyway and had fun.
17. He dumped me again on my 17th birthday.
18. I moved out of my parent’s house on my 18th birthday into an apartment with the best friend of my first serious boyfriend. He was the best roommate I ever had.
19. I started beauty school.
20. I worked 40 hours a week in the evenings and went to school 35 hours a week during the day, all year. I had no life.
21. I got my first job in a salon, and met my husband.
22. We got engaged on the M.S. Dixie on Lake Tahoe.
23. Married!
24. Pregnant!
25. Bought our first house and got pregnant again.
26. Slept very, very little with an infant and toddler in the house but they were so much fun.
27. Worked in a salon 3 days a week and did the “Mommy” social circuit. I joined mommy clubs and did mommy gymnastics. I didn’t have my own name for a while.
28. More mommy stuff. I must have lost more brain cells than I thought because I can’t remember specifics except that the babies were really cute.
29. Husband turned 30. I got him tickets to a Cowboys game in San Francisco where we were almost killed because we wore all of our Dallas gear. We were severely outnumbered. The game was great.
30. I was sick and had to work on my 30th birthday. Bleh.
31. We moved to Southern California and spent way too many days at Disneyland. Woohoo!
32. Hosted an overnight New Year’s Eve party for all the neighborhood kids, complete with noise makers and balloons falling from the ceiling. We were on CA time and didn’t tell the kids that we were watching Chicago’s new years celebration at 10pm. They were in bed by 10:30.
33. Uneventful year. I volunteered at the kids’ school 2 days a week and worked 3 days a week.
34. Moved to Pennsylvania in a big house that Husband loved.
35. Pulled the kids out of school and figured we couldn’t do a worse job than the school was doing unless we tried really hard.
36. Sold the house, sold most of our stuff and moved to a little house in New Jersey. It’s been a great little house and we’ll miss it.
37. We’re about to move to Texas and start traveling quite a lot in our RV. So far so good for this year.

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A Christmas Meme

December 26, 2005 at 4:16 am (Holidays, Just for fun, questions)

1. Hot Chocolate or apple cider? Hot chocolate. Mmmmmm, chocolate.
2. Turkey or Ham? Ham, but I love turkey too.
3. Do you get a fake or real-you-cut-it-yourself Christmas tree? I grew up with a fake tree, so my old Christmas memories of assembling the branches are wonderful. We just got a fake tree last year again, but I did enjoy the smell of pine during those years I had a real tree.
4. Decorations on the outside of your house? Usually yes, but this year we were lazy. We do have light sculptures in the windows on the inside that you can see from the street though.
5. Snowball fights or sleddin’? Sledding! At least you get some wind through your hair before your face gets creamed into the snow!
7. Do you enjoy going downtown shopping? Not. I think Amazon was created just for me.
8. Favorite Christmas song? On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me…BEER. Hoser.
10. How do you feel about Christmas movies? Love them and know them all by heart. The funnier the better.
11. When is it too early to start listening to Christmas music? No earlier than the 1st of December, please!
12. Stockings before or after presents? First thing. We go through them while the kids are fighting over who gets to hand out the big gifts.
13. Carolers, do you or do you not watch and listen to them? Not.
14. Go to someone else’s house or they come to you? Depends on where we are. Usually a combination of both, but this year we are blissfully on our own and really enjoying the quiet peace of it.
15. Do you read the Christmas Story? If so when? Sometimes, but not this year.
16. What do you do after presents and dinner? Play with the toys, read the books, watch the movies, nap, eat, nap, eat, then call family.
17. What is your favorite holiday smell? The whole turkey/ham dinner…mmmmmmm.
18. Ice skating or walking around the mall? Ice skating, or even driving spikes into my skull.
19. Do you open a present or presents on Christmas Eve, or wait until Christmas day? One gift on Christmas eve for the kids. We do the rest Christmas morning.
20. Favorite Christmas memory? Every single year growing up my mom forgot to fill our stockings. A legendary family tradition formed where we would check them first thing every Christmas morning, turn to Mom and tease her for forgetting once again, and she would yell, “Shit!”. Every. Single. Year.
21. Favorite Part about winter? The first good snowfall. And the end of it.
22. Ever been kissed under mistletoe? Has anyone not been?

OK, Vicki, Tag you’re it!

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Not that anyone cares, but

September 21, 2005 at 8:25 am (let me explain, questions)

Answer these questions yourself and then send this to five other people.

Are you following any special diet right now? If so, what? Good old “See food diet” – I see it, I eat it.

What food do you love that others usually think is gross? Watermelon with salt, yummy!

How many magazines do you personally subscribe to? Family Fun and Newsweek. Hmm, that’s pretty boring. I also read People and National Geographic at the library. I got my first sample copy of Life Learning today and will probably subscribe, and I also just found out about Tricycle which I may get also. How’s that for a list of bathroom reading?

What is your most favorite article of clothing, and how often do you wear it? Sweats and a tank top with flip flops. I’m fancy that way. It’s what I change into after I get home every day.

Do either you or your husband still have clothes from High School or college hanging in your closet? If yes- do they still fit? Um, no – and no. I graduated in the 80’s and have moved 20 times. Shit gets thrown out around here. Also, see the answer to question number one.

What book are you reading right now? The Accidental Buddhist by Dinty Moore, and Mental Floss. I just finished the sixth Harry Potter book.

Name an odd thing you have on your kitchen or bathroom counter. Odd? Hm. Kitchen has bug spray because I found ants trying to make off with my refrigerator this morning. There are stacks of books, pens, papers and stuff used by the kids for writing projects. On the table there is a brand new bag of cricket bait for the freaky bugs which I will put to good use as soon as I get off the computer.

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It’s what? Really?

August 27, 2005 at 7:56 am (questions)

So, we love us some Iron Chef. We get excited when it’s on, and the kids come running from downstairs screaming, “Iron Chef!! Allez Quisine!!”

Our favorite part is the unveiling of the secret ingredient, can’t wait, edge of our couch kind of thrill.

Today…Swallow’s nest! $24,000 worth of swallow’s nest. Looks like the whole lot weighs maybe 8 ounces. Holy crap, that must be good stuff if it costs that much. Let’s stay up way too late to see what the heck it is! Maybe Daddy can make us some for dinner this weekend if we totally screw the budget!

Stuff looks like some kind of light, jello-ish noodle. Hmm…we like noodles. Even better.

We must be stoopid Americans because those people on the show are talking all about this wonderful delicacy and the many ways they like it prepared without actually saying what it is. Doesn’t everyone know?

Not a problem, that’s what Google is for, right? Tap tap tap…search…what the??

Nas. Tee.

Yes friends, bird puke. Phlegm actually regurgitated from a swallow’s THROAT. Used as glue to build their nests. Who was EVER hungry enough to actually even start to think this was tasty? Or even un-vile enough to get within feet of a person’s mouth and taste buds?

Barf.

I am so not telling the kids what that is. If they ask Daddy to cook it for dinner, I’m going out.

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