My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:
Viscount Hawthorn the Simple of Chalmondley Chumleyton
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A couple of teenage sisters fighting over the last cookie.
Forwarded via email, and funny enough that I felt like posting it.
Admit it …
you feel like doing this to at least one person everyday!
Picked up from Lisa. This is a hard meme, because, what haven’t I shared at one time of another? This site is 12 years old, I never shut up (ever), and I’ve answered all you questions, officer. But I’ll give it a shot.
1. I ate the tequila worm once at a party on a dare. I talked another girl into doing the same thing at the same time (there were two bottles) and she really wanted to chicken out, but she didn’t.
2. I know how to cook the perfect chicken gizzard. It’s very difficult to get it correct; usually they come out rubbery and tough to chew, but I can make them easy to eat. I learned the secret to doing it correctly at a little independent chicken restaurant I worked at in the summer during high school. Fried chicken gizzards and livers were two of their specialities. This restaurant was in Noblesville on Conner Street, and all of their customers were white (because I know what you were thinking).
3. I LOVE chicken gizzards (although I haven’t had one since I worked there).
4. The fact that I love chicken gizzards grosses even me out a little.
5. I make up little fantasies in my head all the time – ala Walter Mitty. I think it’s utterly retarded that I do this, but I daydream these little things up all the time anyway. From the time I was 11 years old, the subject of my weird daydreams was usually Princess Diana, and when she died I was completely devastated.
6. I can’t believe I actually wrote down number 5 and admitted it in public.
7. I hate it when the sheet and the blanket get separated from one another and one is longer than the other, or there’s more of one of the hanging off the side of the bed than the other. This will actually keep me up at night. I used to combat this by having my covers be solely a comforter covered with a duvet cover, so I could switch the covers to wash, but have a single covering on me at night that wouldn’t get messed up. But Stephanie gets too hot that way, so we have a sheet, blanket and quilt on the bed, and they drive me nuts.
8. Whenever I go up or down the stairs, I mentally count the number of stairs. This is how I know there are different numbers of stairs between floors at my work.
9. I’m fairly certain that my belly button is a different shape now than it was before my appendectomy surgery.
10. I have an unconscious habit of rubbing my hands together whenever I’m planning something. I don’t realize I’m doing it until someone points it out to me. Alternatively, I’ll rub the back of my head for the same reason. I’m obviously a total spaz.
I copied these 20 questions off of Matt Barton’s blog, ’cause he said I could. Feel free to share your answers, especially on your own blog.
1. Explain what ended your last relationship?
I’m currently in a wonderful relationship. My previous relationship ended because it was just too hard on both of us, and it was making us both spiral downward. I know that’s a frustratingly vague answer, but I need to respect her privacy, because she’s a tremendous person and a great friend to me. Neither of us did anything wrong, it was just too hard.
2. When was the last time you shaved?
No comment. I have to admit I pointed out that I wished I had shaved my legs in the emergency room last week when the nurse was putting EKG leads on my legs, and she laughed and said if we looked none of the nurses had shaved their legs in weeks.
3. What were you doing this morning at 8 a.m.?
It’s not 8 a.m. yet, do I still have to answer the question? Um. I expect I’ll be making some coffee. Usually, I’m scrambling to get the dog out for his morning pee so I can go to work about 8 o’clock.
4. What were you doing 15 minutes ago?
Letting the dog out for his morning pee. Just slighly earlier.
5. Some things you are excited about?
We had a great time Duckpin bowling last night with our friends David and Garrett and Amy. We so need to have a fun social thing. I’m excited that we launched a website yesterday at work that I designed. (If there’s something wrong with it, don’t tell me, I don’t want to know.) I’m excited that I have a day free to work on organizing the house.
6. What is your favorite flavor of JELL-O?
Grape
7. Your prom night, what do you remember about it?
Eh. I wasn’t very into the whole prom thing. If I’d been out of the closet in High School, a chance to slow dance with a girl would have been a really high priority, but the idea of being groped by a boy put me off the whole “going to prom” idea. So I would rather have been the groper than the gropee, I guess.
8. Do you have any famous ancestors?
My Dad used to be a VP at Firestone. One of my Dad’s relatives invented some sort of air brakes for trains. And further back in the 1880s or so, one of my relatives was some sort of Military leader in the Prussian Army. Other than that, just a bunch of solid, hard-working private people.
9. Last thing received in the mail?
A present we’re giving to one of my Cousins for Christmas. It’s cool.
10. How many different beverages have you had today?
None, so far. I need to go make coffee.
11. Do you ever leave messages on people’s answering machine?
For my mom and dad, and a few technophobe friends. Usually I use the e-mails to communicate.
12. Do you draw your name in the sand when you go to the beach?
When you can build a sand mermaid with big boobies over one of your friends, why go around writing your name? Priorities, people!
13. Any plans for Friday night?
Last night, bowling. Next Friday – running around shopping with the relatives in Iowa.
14. Do you like what the ocean does to your hair?
Not a fan of oceans and never put my head in one.
15. Have you ever received one of those big tins of 3 different popcorns?
Well yeah.
16. Do you re-use towels after you shower?
Yes, always. Within reason, of course. I use the same towel about four times, then get a new one. I grew up with five siblings and we all had one towel that was exclusively ours, of different colors. And there were a few spare bath towels for when yours was in the wash, but not enough for all of us, so you had to be sure to work it so you had a spare while yours was being cleaned. And in a house with four brothers who felt it was their job to steal everything first just to spite you, it make sense to learn to re-use your bath towel. Now, of course, I have ten bath towels that are all MINE! Stephanie seems to have the same thing going on, but she was an only child, so I don’t know why she needs so many. Maybe she just loves towels.
17. Describe your keychain(s)?
Why, are you going to steal my car? Oh, wait, this is just a inanimate list of questions. I try to keep the smallest ring possible, but that doesn’t seem to work anymore. I have a ring for my keys, a ring for all those discount cards, and a ring that holds my wi-fi detector — all of which are attached by a carabiner.
18. Where do you keep your change?
I try to keep most of the silver at work in a drawer for sodas, and the pennies go into Stephanie’s giant glass jar.
19. When was the last time you spoke in front of a large group of people?
I testified at the Human Rights Ordinance hearings in front of the city-county council last year, on my experiences with homophobia and having been fired from a job because I’m gay.
20. What kind of winter coat do you own?
I have two – a puffy blue one for wet weather, and a blue wool one for dry days. I think they’re both within current styles, although they’re on the casual side.
Worldview Quiz
Your rating on science vs. non-science: 8
Your rating on progress for humankind: 10
Your position on the worldview spectrum: (10,8)
Here is my placement onf the chart, with the “projected” worldview of some famous people.
This is as bad as the Dance Dance Revolution song “Butterfly” that can’t help singing along with in the car.
Things I do when I should be writing up my blogger forum notes or getting a load of mulch for the flowerbeds.
Since flickr’s taking it’s sweet time uploading my Friday pet photo, here’s a random image from somewhere on my site…
Free Will Astrology for the week of Sept. 13:
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Of all the objects in the world that are made of 22-karat gold, a bathtub in Japan is the biggest. Weighing in at over 300 pounds, it’s in the Funabara Hotel a hundred miles south of Tokyo. I suggest you regard it as your personal symbol of power in the coming week, Gemini. It will remind you to stay true to your task, which is to cleanse yourself extravagantly as you purge your heart of all motivations that aren’t pure gold.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Every year 1.5 million Turkish students take a day-long college entrance exam. It’s a grueling maze of complicated yet often inane questions — an absurd attempt to quantify intelligence with a one-size-fits-all standard of measurement. Three quarters of all students fail, and thus face the prospect of unemployment in a country where only higher education guarantees a decent job. This year a lone rebel rose up in defiance against the oppressive tradition. Sefa Boyar announced he’d strive to give the wrong answer to every question on the multiple-choice test. Naturally, he had to study hard to make sure he wouldn’t accidentally get a few right answers. Be inspired by Boyar, Leo. Resist or subvert the soul-shrinking hocus-pocus of a bunch of humans acting like machines. Unlike Boyar, do it in a way that enhances your chance to achieve success on your own terms.
So…. this week I’m looking for solid gold bathtubs, and Stephanie is supposed to cheat on some tests. Got it.
I haven’t snapped a picture of any of the cats or the dog this week, so instead of the interweb’s ubiquitous Friday Cat Blogging, you get this lovely picture instead, chosen because I bought a wand just like that from Target at lunch.
Isn’t she lovely? Sigh. Yeah, I now have Glinda’s wand, so watch the fuck out, people.
