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I don’t know if it is this heat or what, but I’ve got nothing.
I guess this is a good time to do this meme that Vicky tagged me for. (Nothing like ending a sentence in a preposition in one of the two original ideas in the whole post.)
What was I doing ten years ago? Planning my wedding. Well, technically ten years ago I was planning on getting engaged - but close enough. GAbe and I were living in an apartment just down the street from Universal Studios Orlando. I was working for a production company.
What are five (non-work) things on my to-do list for today:
1. Return the overdue books to the library.
2. Go grocery shopping
3. Call the plumber
4. laundry
5. pay some bills
5 Snacks I enjoy:
1. Bleu cheese and crackers
2, Doritos
3, Brownies
4. Oreos
5. Tootsie Rolls
Things I would do if I were a billionaire:
1. Travel extensively.
2. Buy a house with a bigger master bathroom.
3. Go get my masters degree.
4. Pay for college for all of the kids in my extended family.
5. Buy a suite at Raymond James Stadium and fly down for all of the Bucs home games.
Places I have lived:
Mansfield, Ohio
Tampa, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Pomapano Beach, Florida
Northern Virginia
Jobs I have had:
I worked in a record store.
I worked as a receptionist in a music store.
I leased apartments.
I wrote up proposals for an event planning company.
I worded for a production company. They did lighting and sound.
I sold airline tickets.
I sold electronics components. (Not stereos and DVD players, but the things you use to build stereos and DVD players and highly sensitive top secret equipment that I cannot talk about.)
Stay at Home Mom
Blogger
I’m not tagging anyone, but instead I will ask you one question:
What was your most interesting job?
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9:26 am |
May 27, 2008 | Memes
Ah yes. The six random things meme. Again. But Karen tagged me and you don’t screw around with Karen so here goes.
Six random and weird things about me.
1) Back in the days of cds I used to play something I called “The Game” which involved listening to every one of my cds in alphabetical order.
I had well over 1000 cds.
I did this about once a year.
It took months.
2) I am obsessed with Keens.
3) There are over 200 books on my “to read” list.
4) I wanted to name my child Gruden after the Bucs won the Super Bowl but Gabe said that was crazy.
5) I hate “American Idol” and I won’t watch “Survivor” but I have no problem watching the reality shows about hair salons on Bravo.
6) I take surveys for money. A lot. Seriously. I’ve been doing this one for years. I’ve made hundreds of dollars this way.
That is all.
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10:46 pm |
February 2, 2008 | Books, Memes
Alison from AliBlog tagged me for a meme last night.
Now normally I am not this prompt about anything, but since hers was the first blog I ever read (yes, I owe most of the credit for this mess of a blog to her) and since I’ve know her for close to 30 years - and since I haven’t sent her a gift for her beautiful new baby girl yet (and also since I still have a Santana onesie that she left at my house three years ago - I bet she forgot about that one) I thought I would do this one right away.
Plus it is a book meme, and you know I’m a sucker for a good book meme.
Here are the rules: Pick up the nearest book, turn to page 123, skip the first five sentences on that page, then type the next three sentences.
To be perfectly honest, the closest book to me is the new Cabela’s catalogue (Sorry, catalog). For some reason they sent Gabe the hard back edition yesterday. We were browsing elk drawer pulls and night vision goggles before I got distracted by the fact that they sell Keen shoes now. (Have I mentioned how much I love Keens?)
Anyway, to answer the meme it would be this:
Eliminate line twist with 300 high-quality barrel swivels in a range of sizes to cover all of your saltwater needs. Holding strengths range from 90 lbs. to 350 lbs. and the swivels have a nonreflective black finish. In this kit you’ll receive barrel swivels in sizes: 5, 3, 1, 1/0, 2/0 and 4/0 (50 of each size).
Sice that was so amazingly boring, and since I’ve covered all of your saltwater needs, let’s try a different book.
The second closest book to me is “The Dog Who Cried Wolf” by Keiki Kasza. It only has 30 pages, so I am going to get up off of my lazy butt and grab the book that I am reading.
A ha!
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
. Page 123:
The acrid air stung Philip’s nostrils, and he could see that the stalls had not been mucked out for three or four weeks. He was not disposed to overlook the negligence of the stable lads today. As he handed over the reigns he said: “Before you stable my pony you can clean out one of the stalls and put down fresh straw.”
Awesome. Barrel swivels and horse poop. Aren’t you glad you tagged me, Tiffer?
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10:48 am |
December 4, 2007 | Memes, Music
Amy at Tastes Like Crazy tagged me for the seven things meme. Yes, I’ve done it before. I may even do it again.
1) I don’t know how many of you love “Arrested Development” the way that we do, but you are, you may be the only people that will understand this. I’ve been trying to get the kids to tell Gabe “No, it’s me - Gene Parmesan.”
2) One of my favorite words is stigmata.
3) The other day I watched the movie “Becket” and I Peter O’Toole reminded me of Brad Pitt.
4) We have an unusual rule in our house: No Dancing in the Shower. We have to have this rule otherwise Ian would fall down every time he bathed standing up.
5) I am reading Dune and it makes me thirsty.
6) I seem to be competing for the world record of for the person who does the seven things meme the most times.
7) I love to know what people have on their iPods. I love it so much that I could not resist this iTunes meme:
iTunes Meme
I saw this over on Kate’s blog and I was so curious about what my answers would be I decided to just do the thing myself. (Yes, I know I am a dork.)
Now, keep in mind that I share my iTunes with somebody, so if it is really super lame (and not opera) let’s just assume it is Gabe’s music, okay?
How many total songs?
18869 songs. 47.9 days worth.
Sort by song title - First and Last…
A*s Clown - Ministry and Jello Biafra
? - Outkast (if you don’t like that answer, please accept 9th Wonder (Blackitolism) by Digable Planets)
Sort by Time - Shortest and Longest…
Digustipated - Tool, 1 second
Blue Collar Comedy Tour - Larry the Cable Guy, 1:13:31
(Longest actual song is MX - Deftones)
Sort by Album - First and Last…
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Yo Gabba Gabba - It was an EP that Nick Jr. sent me
Sort by Artist - First and Last…
A-ha
999
Top Five Most Played Songs…*
Roaches in the Sink - Alice Donut, 101 plays
7 Words - Deftones, 97 plays
Killing Zone - Rancid, 97 plays
Carry On - Common Rider, 94 plays
The Air Near My Fingers - The White Stripes, 92 plays
Find the following words. How many songs show up?
Sex: 120, Death: 232 , Love: 800, You: 2057, Home: 170, Boy: 578, Girl: 388
First five songs that come up on Party Shuffle…
Bounce (Let me See Ya Throw It) - Busta Rhymes
Velouria - The Pixies
She’s Leaving Home -The Beatles
What More Can I Do -The Zombies
Shelter From the Storm - Bob Dylan
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I won’t tag anyone, but I know a few Daddy Bloggers who could make an interesting post out of this.
* Gabe wanted me to stick a note on here to tell you something important. Our playcounts are very skewed by the fact that our iTunes was completely wiped out and restarted in August. All of those counts are from August until now.
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2:23 pm |
So, I was in the shower and I had This Beastie Boys lyric stuck in my head ”Shea Stadium the radium E M D squared” (which I always thought was Shea Stadium, palladium, EMC2, which is wrong. I looked it up here and they even give you the ‘meaning’ ) and I had a great idea for a post. I would call it “In 3s”. Of course those lyrics are from “The Sounds of Science”, but whatever.
This isn’t actually a meme, but it looks like one. Feel free to use it if you are bored.
Three Books I Finished Reading Recently
1) The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
2) The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
3) Dry - Augusten Burroughs
Three Books I’m Currently in the middle of Reading
1) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling - I totally thought it was Deathly Hollows until about 30 pages ago.
2) Plainsong - Kent Haruf
3) A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Three Books I want to Read
1) Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk- I love Chuck Palahniuk, even if I can’t say his last name. Plus the Amazon description reads “”Six hundred dudes. One porn queen. A world record for the ages. A must-have movie for every discerning collector of things erotic.” and then “Didn’t one of us on purpose set out to make a snuff movie.” How could I not be intrigued?
2) Special Topis in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl - Don’t worry, it isn’t actually a book about physics.
3) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Three States Where I Have Lived
1) Ohio
2) Florida
3) Virginia
Three Songs I Can’t Seem to Get Sick Of
1) Michael - Franz Ferdinand
2) Down in a Hole (unplugged) - Alice in Chains
3) Annie’s Song - John Denver - I know. I know. I don’t get it either.
Three Movies I Can’t Seem to Get Sick Of
1) The Usual Suspects
2) Grosse Point Blank
3) Office Space
Three Movies That I Hated
1) Clifford
2) The Hulk
3) Transformers - Maybe I’m not an 11 year old boy after all.
Three Things I Find Frustrating
1) Potty Training
2) My Palm Pilot is dying and I’ve only had it for six or seven months. Palm’s customer service blows.
3) I still can’t get throught “Free Bird” on Guitar Hero II.
Three Posts That Cracked Me Up this Week
1) This one from I Am Bossy
2) Any of the lolnfl posts on Kissing Suzy Kolber.
3) It’s the picture. The picture of Devra and Mr. Spock slays me. The post is funny too… but that picture.
Three Completely Random things That Make Me Laugh
1) The Hamburglar
2) What’s it Gonna Be?
3) The name Atari Bigby.
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12:59 pm |
October 17, 2007 | Memes
Well, I haven’t quite finished the book (Shut up. It’s a long book.), but since I was tagged, and since I love Kaleigh I thought I would tell you seven more random/strange things about myself.
Assuming you care:
1) I am obsessed with checking the search terms that bring people to my blog. Yesterday I got a hit for ‘my vagina is huge!’ and I shot beer out of my nose when I read it.
2) Speaking of obsessions, I think I spend more time than is healthy messing around in my Netflix queue. Right now I have 483 movies in there. I could belong to Netflix for 20 years and never watch them all.
3) My daughter informed me today that her children, my grandchildren, were going to be bad kids. Great.
4) I can’t stand Eric Bana. I don’t know why.
5) I am currently mad at the Palm people. I bought a new Palm Pilot in February. I read most of my books this way and I also play hours of Scrabble, Monopoly and solitaire on it because I can’t sit still and watch tv, but I love to watch tv. My palm has a dead spot in the upper right hand corner. This means that I can’t play the sudoku I downloaded because I can’t use the number 2. Anyway, I called the Palm people and even though I registered it and everything they want $150 to fix it. $150!!! A new one costs $199. Bastards.
6) I took this quiz to see which candidate I should support and it said I have the most in common with Bill Richardson. Who knew? I also share a lot of views with Joe Biden, Mike Gravel and Rudy Giuliani*. I’ve didn’t even know Mike Gravel was running for president**. It also appears that Tom Tancredo and I would probably not get along very well.
7) I rarely tag people for memes anymore because I am afraid I will either offend someone by tagging them or offend them by not tagging them. I know - it doesn’t make a bit of sense.
Stay tuned. I am still trying to come up with an idea for my next contest (since I actually have prizes). I will have an update on the current contest, and maybe even pictures of Claudia’s new haircut.
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4:13 pm |
August 24, 2007 | Memes
I haven’t done a meme in a long time. It isn’t that I mean to not do them, it is just that I forget, and then lose the link or e-mail or whatever. If you tag me and I blow you off, just remind me. I’ll try to get around to it.
What I am trying to tell you is this. Shash tagged me with the eight random facts meme, and although I am breaking the rules by 1) not posting the rules themselves and 2) not tagging anybody else, I don’t really have anything good to write about today, so here are eight completely random things about me.
1) As I type this I can hear my daughter accusing my son of pooping in his pants. Awesome.
2) I was walking around without shoes on this morning and my feet are really dirty.
3) In Jr. High my room was covered in pictures of Duran Duran that I got out of Tiger Beat. Later these pictures were replaced with pictures of Motley Crue, Ratt and other hair metal bands.
4) No matter what Gabe says, I did go to an accredited college. Yes, you heard me, UCF is accredited.
5) I am left handed.
6) As much as I am shocked and offended by what Mike Vick did, I am still glad I got a chance to see him play football in person last year.
7) I hate mustard.
The name for my iTunes folder is Dick LeBeau. It isn’t that I have any especially strong feeling towards the coach, I just think it is a hilarious name. Our hard drive is Ted Danson and our back up drives are Bill and Ted.
Feel free to play along if you are bored, but no pressure.
(How the heck did that smiley face get there? It is supposed to be the number eight.)
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12:49 pm |
Mir is getting married on Friday. I have been invited to participate in her bridal shower. Since I am a huge fan of Mir (both her writing and her as a person) I am posting a picture from my own wedding in her honor.
Good luck to Mir and Otto. You seem so well suited to each other. I hope Otto knows how lucky he is.
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Claudia: Look at my butt!
Me: What about it?
Claudia: It’s so cute!
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After my wine post yesterday, Kate tagged me for this wine meme.
Are you more white, red, or rosé?
Mostly red now. I used to be a white drinker. I thought I didn’t like red wine for a long time, but it turns out I just don’t like cheap Merlot. Huh. Go figure.
Your first time?
You are probably going to gag, but Jill and I used to make fake wine coolers in 8th grade by mixing my mom’s chardonnay with orange juice.
The best pairing between a wine and dish?
Gabe makes fresh pasta and the last time he made this dish that was pasta and tomatoes and fresh herbs and Parmigiano-Reggiano. I bought a wine from the Piedmont region that was a barbera d’Alba and it was insane!
Your favorite?
Neyers Grenache. Well, they don’t make that anymore. Once I had a Syrah from Barossa that was called Glen Eldon (not the same as Glen Ellen) and it was amazing but I haven’t been able to find it again anywhere.
Who chooses the wine at your house or who manages your wine cellar?
Mostly me, but we both buy wine.
How many wines do you have in your wine cellar?
Wine cellar? I have about 8 bottles in my wine rackand that is only because I went to the wine store earlier this week. Wine doesn’t last that long around here.
How do you introduce a young person to wine?
Can’t you go to jail for that kind of thing?
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That is all for right now. We’re off to the grocery store. I’m sure I’ll have stories when I get back.
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9:59 am |
Lance has been pestering me to put up the picture of me playing my Hello Kitty guitar that I promised back in February. I’ve been putting it off because 1) I really don’t shower nearly as often as I’d like to and 2) I keep forgetting to have someone take the picture of me playing it.
Lance said that bathing was not necessary since rock stars are usually greasy and Beth came over this morning and she was kind enough to take a picture of me rockin’ out.
My hair is doing it’s best Trent Reznor impression:
As a bonus, here is a picture of one of the picks Lance sent me to match my guitar (it’s fuzzy because it is a hologram. I know you are jealous.):
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I also owe Tony this meme from weeks ago. I’m supposed to list seven songs I’m into Right Now This Very Minute. (They’re not my capitals, I copied and pasted that sentence directly from Chag’s site.) Since I don’t know crap about what is cool right now, I have no choice but to tell you the truth.
Here goes:
Do these links even work? I have no idea what I am doing.
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2:17 pm |
February 16, 2007 | Memes
Hmph.
My new friend Beth was being bold the other day, and instead of doing the ubiquitous “5 Weird Things About Me” meme she challenged her readers to ask “outrageous, inappropriate, entertaining, or just plain hilarious (to me) questions” and she would answer them instead. So I, being what I thought was terribly clever (and knowing full well that her mother reads her blog) asked where she lost her virginity.
She answered the question (and some other entertaining questions) and then threw these questions back in our faces.
What I am trying to say is that she tagged those of use who asked questions to answer our own questions along with five others from her comments section.
Since I did the five weird things meme already (way back in the olden days when it was still six weird things) consider this my new improved answer.
If you are my mother, mother-in-law, one of my children (in the future) or Gabe now would be a good time to look away.
1) Where were you when you lost your virginity?
Like Beth, I was on a waterbed. Unlike Beth, I didn’t have any black light.
2) Have you ever had an out of body experience? Please describe in detail.
Yes. One time in high school, I was completely exhausted. I was involved in about 10 too many activities and I was still going out a lot and getting very little sleep. I was in my bed getting ready to go to sleep and my mind went completely blank (which I read later is a big apart of it) and I realized that I was sort of “floating” (for lack of a better word) above my bed. Above myself. As soon as I realized what was going on it was as if I snapped back down into my body. It really freaked me out.
3) When was your most embarrassing fart and who got to “enjoy” it?
Oh, this is a good one. Okay, one time we were in Orlando for homecoming (this was pre-Squad times) was had been drinking like crazy all weekend and eating total garbage. It was after the football game and the plan was that we would all go to our rooms and get cleaned up for dinner. My stomach was a mess. I’d been drinking Miller Light in plastic bottles all day. You know what that can do to a person.
Tammy and Ritch were staying two doors down the hall from us and we were going to just meet them in the hall and go down to the lobby to meet the rest of the gang. Gabe opened up the door to our hotel room and I said “Are they out there yet?” He said “No” and then I let out the loudest, raunchiest fart of all time. Then Gabe closed the door.
He said “No, Tammy and Ritch aren’t out there, but other people are.
I still laugh so hard I cry every single time I think about that.
4) Do you, or have you ever watched porn with Chris? Was it hot or weird?
No. In fact, I’ve never even met Chris. (For those of you who are confused, Chris is Beth’s husband and all of the questions were directed towards her.)
If you want to know if I have ever watched porn with Gabe then the answer is yes.
5) Complete this sentence: In my refrigerator/kitchen/pantry, you can always find:
Beer.
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That is it. Feel free to play along. I guess this is also an appropriate time to open up the floor to other embarrassing questions. Have at me. (That sounded way dirtier than I what I meant. ) I tag no one. I feel I’ve learned a valuable lesson about karma.
Oh, and screw you, Beth. Nicely played, but still. Screw you.
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11:26 pm |
