Me-ology

by Marilyn on January 18, 2008

I saw this meme over at Carrisa’s blog and couldn’t resist.  A) It’s a meme.  B) I’m bored.  I was not tagged (but then, she wasn’t either)  which makes me a particularly brand of DESPERATE meme-er, but you’ll forgive me because I found the questions too fun to pass up.  In the spirit of the tag-less meme, I will not tag anyone either but if you feel moved to participate, by all means, DO.

MOUTHOLOGY

Q. What is your favorite fast food restaurant? Hmm. I would have to say for hamburgers and fries it has to be In n’ Out.  If you’ve never heard of it or never eaten there, there’s no way I can possibly explain my love to you.  For those of you who are familiar, then you understand me completely. (and how many fast food places do you know of that have a secret menu??)

Q. What is your favorite sit-down restaurant? It depends on what I’m in the mood for.  Generally, I am always happy at Mimi’s Cafe.  They have a fabulous (and affordable!) breakfast/brunch menu and their french onion soup is to die for.
Q. On average, what size tip do you leave at a restaurant? 15% - 20%

Q. What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of?  I could probably get sick of anything pretty easy.  But I do love chicken or turkey sandwiches (no mustard, just mayo, meat and bread), cinnamon raisin bagels with cream cheese and my husband’s buffalo chicken twice baked potatoes.

Q. What are your pizza toppings of choice? Cheese and pineapple.  Hold the ham.

Q. What do you like to put on your toast?  Butter and jelly (pretty much any kind other than orange marmalade). If no jelly, then cinnamon is pretty tasty.

TECHNOLOGY

Q. What is your wallpaper on your computer? A picture of a giant, pink flowering crabapple tree.  I think I used it in a blog design once before and I hope to use it again, I love it so.
Q. How many televisions are in your house? That we watch with any degree of regularity? Three.  We have four total, but the fourth is unplugged and in a closet and probably as old as I am.

BIOLOGY

Q. Are you right-handed or left-handed? Right handed, all the way.  Figures that’s the hand I have carpal tunnel on, huh?

Q. Have you ever had anything removed from your body? God, I hope not.

Q. What is the last heavy item you lifted? I normally would say “Liam” but I’m gonna have to go with the Kolcraft Contours Options Tandem stroller I just scored off of craigslist today.  Woot!

Q. Have you ever been knocked unconscious?  By an anesthesiologist, yes.  But I don’t think that’s what they meant, so no.

BULLSHITOLOGY

Q. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?  Hell no.  That would freak me the heck out.

Q. If you could change your name, what would you change it to?  Pretty much anything.  Callista would be cool, because it’s been an online name so long that I literally will answer to “Callie”.

Q. What color do you think looks best on you?  I wear a lot of pink, but I’d have to say probably blue and red.

Q. Have you ever swallowed a non-food item by mistake?  God, I hope not.

Q. Have you ever saved some one’s life?  Not literally, no.

Q. Has someone ever saved yours?  Not literally, no.

DAREOLOGY

Q. Would you kiss a member of the same sex for $100?  Probably would depend on two things.  1) Who it was (does that make me superficial?) and 2) how much I needed the $100.

Q. Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000?  Oh totally, yes.  Why, is there an offer on this out right now?  Cuz I’ll do it.  Though honestly, I probably only would if there was good anesthesia (or booze) available cuz I’m kinda a wuss when it comes to pain.

Q. Would you never blog again for $50,000?  Gah.  I loves mah blog.  Would probably depend on how bad I needed the money.  And then I’d do a loophole thing and keep a journal because not to write at all would probably kill me.  But it’d be hard to not have my blog anymore.

Q. Would you pose naked in a magazine for $250,000?  Gah.  NO.  I don’t think I’d even let someone take naked pictures of me for that kind of money.  If it were a million, then we’d talk.

Q. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000?  In a heartbeat.

Q. Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for $1,000,000Nope.  No way, no how.  Little fingers are one thing… people are another.

DUMBOLOGY

Q: What is in your left pocket?  Couple hours ago, I’d have said my cellphone.  And that would be the back pocket because of COURSE maternity jeans don’t have pockets in the front.

Q: Is Napoleon Dynamite actually a good movie?  Hells ya it is.  Why, is someone saying it isn’t?  It’s classic!  “Your mom goes to college!”  HA!

Q: Do you sit or stand in the shower?  Stand.  But when I had my broken ankle, I had a special little bench that I sat on. That was FUN.

Q: Could you live with roommates?  Gah.  NO.  Been there, done that.  Have the horror stories to prove it.  So the short answer?  NO.  Never, ever, EVER again.

Q: How many pairs of flip flops do you own?  Two.  I’m going to have to remedy that this summer, aren’t I?
Q: Last time you had a run-in with the cops?  Ha.  Me personally?  Never.  But Kile was pulled over for expired tags the day before Thanksgiving and I happened to be in the car at the time.

Q: What do you want to be when you grow up?  A writer.  I wanted to have published novels.  I figured (still do, actually) that there could be nothing better than getting paid to do something you love.

LASTOLOGY

Q: Last Friend you talked to?  Assuming that my husband doesn’t count, and we’re talking real, actual talking, I’m going to say Michelle.
Q: Last person who called you?  Again, that would be Michelle.

Q: Last person you saw?  Besides Liam?  Kile.  I had lunch with him.

FAVORITOLOGY

Q: Number?  Can’t say I have a favorite.

Q. Season?  Winter.  Oh yes.

CURRENTOLOGY

Q: Missing someone?  Yes.  My friends Michelle and Angela.  Why do they have to live SO FAR AWAY??

Q: Mood? Upbeat.  (I think it’s the stroller)

Q: Listening to?  The dogs bark at Harry as he’s coming in the front door from school.  They’re nuts.

Q: Watching? Max and Ruby just ended on Noggin.  And Harry is playing “Tomato” on the tv now, which means he can throw graphical tomatoes at Moose A. Moose and Zee.  He thinks it’s hysterical.

Q: Worrying about?  You want an itemized list?  Getting all the things we need to get.  A safe arrival for Evelyn.  What to have for dinner.  I worry about around 10 things at any given times.  What can I say, I was born in the Year of the Rabbit.

RANDOMOLOGY

Q: First place you went this morning?  I’m assuming this means outside the home, so I’m going to say down to the University to meet Kile for lunc.

Q: What can you not wait to do?  Hold little Evie in my arms.  Go to BlogHer and see all sorts of awesome people.  Get a new bed and savor that first really awesome night’s sleep.

Q: What’s the last movie you saw?  We watched part of “Phantoms” last night.  It was really freaky.

Q: Do you smile often?  Probably not as often as I should.

Q: Are you a friendly person?  From my perspective?  Yes.  I’m shy though, and sometimes shy can come off as “stand-offish”.  I hope people don’t think that about me, because I really do enjoy being friendly to people (provided they are friendly back).

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So freaking tired

by Marilyn on January 18, 2008

Okay, so maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to get up with Kile this morning.  But I am nothing if not a creature of habit and I get up with him every morning (if I don’t, who will pour my cereal or toast my bagels for me??).  But this morning, he got going a bit earlier than normal.  And when we would normally be stumbling downstairs close to 7:30 (usually just minutes before Harry’s alarm clock goes off), we were headed down at the ungodly hour of 6am. (Those of you who do get up at the buttcrack of dawn every day; I don’t want to hear it.)  I guess I’ve grown accustomed to staying up until around 11:30 or so and then waking up a little later.  Because while getting up wasn’t so hard, it’s STAYING UP that is proving a challenge.

My eyelids are heavy (oh so heavy).  The songs issuing forth from “Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends” is slowly but surely lulling me into a stupor.  (Speaking of which, why is Mr. Spider so much smaller than Mrs. Spider??)  Liam can’t seem to decide if he wants to be on my lap or off it (right now?  On it). I suspect that all he really wants is my laptop because when he starts to crawl up and I put the laptop aside, he loses interest and goes off to find something else to get into.

I fixed myself a cup of coffee a few minutes ago and I can only hope it starts kicking in here real soon.  Because while we all enjoy a nice, sleepy Friday, this is not one of them. I’ve got stuff to do later on and I’m thinking naptime (for Liam AND me) will be coming a little later than it normally would (did I mention that Liam also woke up early this morning?).  So, this could get… interesting.

Pray for me.

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