Friday Quiz: Ok, it's really a Meme...

The Name Game (stolen from Princess Jami)

1. Your rock star name (first pet, current car): Goldie Liberty

2. Your gangsta name (fave ice cream flavour, favourite type of shoe): Mint Chip Sketchers (we must be gangsta sisters Jami!)

3. Your Native American name (favourite colour, favourite animal): Blue Bunny (incidentally, they make really good ice cream)

4. Your soap opera name (middle name, city where you were born): Ann Upland

5. Your Star Wars name (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 of your first name): Melho

6. Superhero name (2nd favourite colour, favourite drink): Silver Coffee

7. NASCAR name (the first names of your grandfathers): William Roy. Like Jami, I'd rather use my grandmothers' names. PhyllisAnn Sara.

8. Stripper name (the name of your favourite perfume/cologne/scent, favourite candy): Vanilla Dove

9. TV weather anchor name (your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter): Totally spacing on my 5th grade teacher... that's horrible! Umm... 4th would be Albany Atlanta. Close enough?

10. Spy name (your favourite season/holiday, flower): Spring Iris

11. Cartoon name: (favourite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now): Strawberry Trackpants

13. Hippie name (what you ate for breakfast, your favourite tree): Kolache Dogwood

Janet added the porn star name (first pet, first street where you lived): Goldie Thomas

Commenter Suldog suggested: "Here's another one - Your Mobster Name - Your first name and the last thing you ate -OR- Your first name, the last appliance you used, and your grandmother's maiden name (whichever one sounds more Italian.)" - Holly Kolache (That sounds too much like Holly Golightley!) or Holly "Microwave" Haney

If you decide to use this, please post your link here so I can come see!

Musical Mondays: The Unwinding Cable Car

Lately, I've been completely enamored of Anberlin's "Unwinding Cable Car." I think it has a lot to do with the haunting melody coupled with the feel of the lyrics. Whatever it is, I completely love this song, even though it's a bit softer than most of what I listen to. So, without further ado, here's the song:


Here's the lyrics:

The Unwinding Cable Car Lyrics

And here's the Pandora list:

1. This Hand is a Mighty Hand by Hoots & Hellmouth
2. One of Three by James
3. Whistle Blower by John Shain
4. Anna by Taxi Taxi
5. Scar That Never Heals by Jeremy Fisher

Sunday Seven #129: The Seven Dwarfs

Here's this week's question:

Name the seven dwarfs in the order that you most identify with their character traits, with number one being the one you think is most like you and number seven the one you think least like you.

1. Sleepy: My husband will attest that I am a notorious night owl, and usually get too little sleep, leaving me tired for the next day. About the only time I do get plenty of sleep is on weekends when I don't have to crawl out of bed until it suits me!
   
2. Sneezy: Ever since I moved to Texas I swear I've been suffering from one seasonal allergy or another. If I'm not sneezing, my eyes are itchy or my skin is, or I'm just all stuffy. I guess it really is possible to become used to anything because a lot of the time I barely notice it anymore!
   
3. Doc: Well, there's the glasses to start. Then there's the way he trips over his words -- you should hear me leaving messages for clients at work!
   
4. Bashful: I'm not the biggest fan of the spotlight, despite what some might assume.
   
5. Grumpy: It's somewhat rare to find it, but those who know me best have undoubtedly found themselves in the grip of my Grumpy side. Most of the time I'm pretty easy going though, so this one finds itself pretty low on the list.
   
6. Dopey: I can be a bit dopey at times. I'm also told I'm often too quiet.
   
7. Happy: I'm not one who just walks around with a grin plastered across my face. People who don't know me often assume I'm in a bad mood, just because I'm not constantly smiling. Not true at all! I just don't smile unless I have reason to!

So there's my list. How about you? I'd love to hear how everybody else ranks the dwarfs. Please leave your response in the comments, or post it on your blog and leave me a link. And don't forget to go visit Patrick's Place and let him know what you come up with too!

Musical Mondays: It's the End of the World As We Know It

This week I've chosen one of my 90s songs, "It's the End of the World As We Know It" by REM. Seemed appropriate after the sermon at church last night... (and no, it wasn't about the apocalypse. You'll just have to follow the link if you want to know.)

Anyway, conveniently, here's the song and lyrics all together. Sometimes YouTube makes things too easy, you know?



And here's what Pandora spit out:

1. Judy is a Punk -- The Ramones
2. Two Weeks -- Earl Grayhound (who?)
3. Sold Me Down the River -- The Alarm
4. Li'l Christine -- Material Issue
5. All Gone Away -- Joyrider

Sunday Seven #128: Valentine Edition

Name seven romantic cities (other than where you live) that you’d like to take your special someone for a romantic Valentine’s Day meal.

Here's my list:

1. Paris
2. New York City
3. Sydney
4. Key West
5. Montego Bay
6. Lanai City
7. Venice

Entrecard: Above the Fold

Catnip Corner has tagged me for a meme... Here's the rules:

• Create a post on your blog that links back to this post, so people will know where the Meme came from and who tagged you.
• Tag 8 bloggers not mentioned in this post, but only those that display their Entrecard widget above the fold.
• Leave a comment on this post with a link to the post you created on your blog.

And Here's the eight bloggers I'm tagging:

1. Ain't That Sweet
2. Grump-a-Moose
   
3. Dandelions and Daydreams
4. Angelika
5. On the Horizon
6. Bebo Author
7. Steve Robbo's Stuff
8. The Truth IN Context

Have fun guys, and thanks for making your Entrecard easy to find!

123 - A Meme as Simple as Do Re Mi

I found this meme on The Habitation of Justice, and decided to do it. So, here goes.

• Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more.
• Find Page 123.
• Find the first 5 sentences.
• Post the next 3 sentences.
• Tag 5 people.

Nearest book: a book of Kakuro puzzles... that won't work. Just under it: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer.

I purposefully lumped myself in with the youngsters, trying to make it clear that I preferred Jacob.
"That's Sam -- he's nineteen," he informed me.
"What was that he as saying baout the doctor's family?" I asked innocently.

So, there ya go. If you wanna know what that's all about, you'll just have to read the book. It's vampire fiction, but it's written for the pre-teen market, so nothing too scary or bloody or whatnot.



Now, as for the tagging. I'm not a big fan of telling anyone what they should or should not post on their blog. So, I'm tagging the first five people who read this post and think it sounds like fun. Just make sure you leave me a comment so I can go read what you've posted!

Sunday Seven #126

I can't believe I forgot to blog yesterday! I had been doing so well with the daily thing too. Well, the rules of Blog365 say I can just post an extra one today and backdate it, so here's yesterday's post:

This week’s question might turn a few people off. Not everyone is willing to go on record over politics, and I understand that. So if you want to bow out of this week’s edition, I’ll understand. Just be sure to be back next week!
For those who don’t mind talking politics, you’ll need to take this candidate quiz. Starting with the top match, name the seven candidates the quiz says most closely match your views.

As we all know quizzes are imperfect at best, but here are my results:

1. John McCain
2. Mike Huckabee
3. Rudy Giuliani
4. Mitt Romney
5. John Edwards
6. Ron Paul
7. Dennis Kucinich

Truth is, I haven't actually made up my mind yet. Pretty sure it won't be McCain though. For an alternate view, I also took the presidential candidates quiz here. Here's how I scored:

Voting time!

For those that missed it, yesterday I posted my entry to Mystery Topic Challenge #6. Today, voting is open! Things are a bit different than they were last time, so please visit the Mystery Topic Challenge Blog to view all of the other entries. Once you've read them all, please be sure to vote HERE in the Sidebar for your favorite.

Sunday Seven #125

This week's question:

Let’s suppose that you make an ill-advised bet, and discover exactly how ill-advised the bet actually was when you lose.

And let’s suppose that in your infinite confidence that you’d never lose, you agreed to bet that you’d get a tattoo if you didn’t win.

Name your top seven tattoo designs you’d get if you had to get a tattoo. (For extra credit, note whether you already have the tattoo(s) you list.)

Let me first disclose that I am completely and totally terrified of needles, or I'd probably already have at least the first one on this list. As is, I don't think there's any chance of me ever getting a tattoo, but it's fun to think about what I'd get if I did. So, here's my list. Click on the name of each to be taken to an example picture.

1. A triquetra, centered around my belly button. For those that don't know, a triquetra is an old Celtic symbol, adopted by the Christian church to represent the trinity.
   
2. A Celtic cross on my ankle. Hmm... I sense a theme here.
3. A dragon circling my upper arm (couldn't find a picture of exactly what I'd want, but something simple like this, wrapped around my arm)
4. My favorite scripture verse at the base of my neck
   
5. Wings on my back
   
6. A sun around my belly button
7. An Icthus over my heart

Sunday Seven #124

Well I had every intention of going with the same meme as I used last week, but it seems there aren't a new set of random questions for today. Sooooo... I picked another to try out: The Sunday Seven at Patrick's Place.


This week's question:

Name the seven highest-rated websites that you never or hardly ever visit.

Here are mine:

1. Windows Live -- Just not that big a fan of Microsoft. I avoid them when possible. Since I'm running a Windows machine, that's not always, but I really don't tend to hang out at their site.
2. Megarotic.com -- NSFW!!! 'nuff said. (I can't believe how high this one is on the list of most visited sites on the internet!)
   
3. AOL -- aka the evil empire. I hate AOL more than Microsoft.
   
4. Megaupload -- never even heard of these guys. I don't really do much file sharing though, so that's no surprise.
5. go.com -- I had a go.com email address once upon a time. That time was like seven years ago. Haven't spent any time there since.
6. Photobucket -- I use my Xanga site for photo hosting. No need for Photobucket here.
7. CNN -- Yuck. Just yuck.

So there's my list. If you're wondering what exactly this is all about, go ahead and click the logo to be taken to this week's question posting where the question is explained in a bit more detail. Also, if you have participated, leave me a comment and let me know!

Sunday Randomness

I've decided to test drive a new meme today... so I give you Sunday Randomness! Will I be doing this every week? Maybe... not sure. Just trying it out for now. Of course, as is it just lacks something, so I've added a bit to it... you'll see what I mean.






Week of Jan 6.08
What is your favorite?...name one of each:

1. food?

2. book?

3. item of clothing?

4. actor?

5. movie?

6. color?

7. time of day?

8. season?

9. holiday?

10. animal?
OR

Well that was fun. 'Till next time...

38 Questions

Got this one from Jayne of "A Light in the Dark"

1. Name one person who made you laugh last night?

Grumpamoose. He almost always does.

2. What were you doing at 0800?

Umm... I was on the internet. Where I always am. Probably, I was either checking email or working on my blog.

3. What were you doing 30 minutes ago?

See above.

4. What happened to you in 2006?

Hmm... Bunches of stuff. New house. (or was that 2005? I need more coffee) Pet stuff. Unemployed (intentionally). Russia. Probably a whole lot more really, but I can hardly remember last week, let alone last year!

5. What was the last thing you said out loud?

"Get in this house right now!" (Donovan has a habit of wanting to play "you can't catch me" in the morning)

6. How many beverages did you have today?

Still working on my first cuppa.

7. What color is your hairbrush?

silver and white

8. What was the last thing you paid for?

My lunch on Friday. Grump gets to do all the paying on the weekends.

9. Where were you last night?

See question #2. Actually, last night I went to church. But after that, see question #2.

10. What color is your front door?

Kind of a dusty teal.

11. Where do you keep your change?

In my wallet or in a clay flower pot in the kitchen.

12. What’s the weather like today?

I donno -- let's see... According to the weather channel, it's sunny and 66. Sounds about right. I concur.

13. What’s the best ice-cream flavor?

Best? There is no best! They're all yummy!!! If I had to choose one, I guess it would be Cherry Garcia from Ben & Jerry's. But really, I like variety and it depends on my mood.

14. What excites you?

Lots of stuff really. I guess number one right now would be hearing all the good news coming from my friends in Russia.

15. Do you want to cut your hair?

Yes. Perpetually it seems. I don't ever want it to be short, but it grows sooo fast!

16. Are you over the age of 25?

Yup. But not by too much.

17. Do you talk a lot?

Not really. Most people say I don't talk enough.

18. Do you watch the O.C.?

The what? Just kidding. I know that the OC is a tv show, but I couldn't honestly tell you what it's about or name any of the characters. I just don't watch much tv.

19. Do you know anyone named Steven?

Hmm... I bet I do, but I can't think of anyone right now.

20. Do you make up your own words?

Regularly.

21. Are you a jealous person?

I try not to be, and I usually succeed.

22. Name a friend whose name starts with the letter ‘E’.

I don't honestly think I have any friends who start with E.

23. Name a friend whose name starts with the letter ‘R’.

Does my boss qualify? Her name's Rhonda. If not, I'd have to go with Rodney, though I haven't seen or talked to him since Russia.

24. Who’s the first person on your received call list?

Rhonda.

25. What does the last text message you received say?

Text messages? I don't do text messages. Phones are for making calls. Computers are for typing messages. Never the two should meet.

26. Do you chew on your straw?

Not usually.

27. Do you have curly hair?

Nope.

28. Where’s the next place you’re going to?

Work.

29. Who’s the rudest person in your life?

Prolly Grump. Sorry honey, I just don't hang out with that many rude people.

30. What was the last thing you ate?

Working on a bowl of oatmeal with strawberries right now.

31. Will you get married in the future?

Umm... I AM married. So, unless something tragic happens to Grump, that'd be a no.

32. What’s the best movie you’ve seen in the past 2 weeks?

Stranger Than Fiction (for the third time -- I'm not a Will Ferrell fan, but I LOVE that movie!)

33. Is there anyone you like right now?

Umm... yeah. I like most people. Easy to please, that's me.

34. When was the last time you did the dishes?

Ick.

35. Are you currently depressed?

I plead the 5th. I don't like to talk about that because it's not what most people assume it is.

36. Did you cry today?

Nope. I'm not big on the crying.

37. Why did you answer and post this?

Hmm... Cause Jayne posted it and I figured I'd give it a go.

38. Tag 5 people who would do this survey.

The first five people who read this and think it's interesting enough to add to their own blog. (Please link back folks)