Friday Five . Org

[Sirius]

I do not know anything about it, but stumbled on FridayFive.Org. It looks like it might be helpful questions to get bloggers going on Fridays? Anyway, I thought it might be fun to incorporate into NNESS.

11.18.03 Questions

1. Do you like to shop? Why or why not?

2. What was the last thing you purchased?

3. Do you prefer shopping online or at an actual store? Why?

4. Did you get an allowance as a child? How much was it?

5. What was the last thing you regret purchasing?

[atomic_cocktail]

1. Do you like to shop? Why or why not?
Yes, but I like to take my time and hate being rushed when I am looking around. I hate pushy salespeople especially if I am clothes shopping.

2. What was the last thing you purchased?
a used palm m505 off ebay and a keyboard

3. Do you prefer shopping online or at an actual store? Why?
online I don't get bothered by people but I don't get to touch or hold the things... making sure i want them... both have advantages and disadvantages

4. Did you get an allowance as a child? How much was it? Like 5 bucks a week... it was pretty sad

5. What was the last thing you regret purchasing?
When I went clothes shopping for my 8 month daughter she is between 12mos and 18mos in size I went with ALL 18mos so she could grow into them... she has stopped growing quite so quickly so she has big baggy clothes for the last month.

[medeous]

1. Do you like to shop? Why or why not?
yes, i like to shop, but i like to do it alone...i hate having someone slog along beside me sighing and glancing at their watch.

2. What was the last thing you purchased?
i bought a long sleeved black t-shirt that says "I *heart* boys" for my daughter

3. Do you prefer shopping online or at an actual store? Why?
i like online shopping if i know exactly what i want, otherwise i like to poke around and feel things.

4. Did you get an allowance as a child? How much was it?
i got $5 a week

5. What was the last thing you regret purchasing?
all those paper napkins with turkeys on them...even if they were marked down to 12 cents, i just don't need any turkey napkins.

[nuKKe]

1. Do you like to shop? Why or why not? - depends on the item. No for music/cloths. Yes for craft, t-shirts (these are not cloths!) and books

2. What was the last thing you purchased? yarn and beads, yesterday

3. Do you prefer shopping online or at an actual store? Why? while in Israel - online. Supply of things I like (craft supplies, books, zines, shirt etc.) is limited and expensive. Abroad - abroad - at stores

4. Did you get an allowance as a child? How much was it? 3 nis. It was something like 2$ back then and .60$ today. It was enough for a magazine and some trinkets, though!

5. What was the last thing you regret purchasing?
Fly's book, 'Peops'. A great book but shipping costs almost as much as the book...

[Death_Or_Aldona]

Hey...thanks for reminding me! I've been :trying: to do this in my livejournal. I suck at keeping that thing updated :P

1. Do you like to shop? Why or why not?
Yes and No. I hate flourescent lights, big stores, crowds. I love shopping for toys and trinkets and crafy goodness. I HATE shopping for food and household blah. I don't really shop much...

2. What was the last thing you purchased?
Cherry Coke

3. Do you prefer shopping online or at an actual store? Why?
I don't shop online because I don't have a credit card, BUT I do think I would prefer online. No lines, no traffic, no crowds...sure there are drawbacks. I don't know...I'd like to have the option I suppose. I live in a fairly small town. I'm always running into stuff online that I want that I could never find around here.

4. Did you get an allowance as a child? How much was it?
No, not really. I sometimes got paid to clean house.

5. What was the last thing you regret purchasing?
A pack of ciggies on Thanksgiving Day. I just let myself down...that day was a pretty icky. I haven't purchased any since though.

[siafu]

1. Do you like to shop? Why or why not?

yeah. i like looking at stuff and getting cool stuff.

2. What was the last thing you purchased?

there was no sales tax in montana. i got a small paper cutter, a pack of cardstock, and some of those stix markers that smell. yes, i do have markers, but i have this compulsion about complete sets. if one gets lost, it's ruined.

3. Do you prefer shopping online or at an actual store? Why? online. no travel, and the stuff comes right to the house, BUT the unexpected sale is so good.

4. Did you get an allowance as a child? How much was it? a dollar a week


5. What was the last thing you regret purchasing? some food from planet apizza.

[Christine_0701]

1. Do you like to shop? Why or why not? yes, but i prefer going with someone for the company

2. What was the last thing you purchased? chips, pop. juice for the bus tomorrow, and batteries

3. Do you prefer shopping online or at an actual store? Why? if i can't get it in person, then online, but i prefer the actual store because i don't have to pay for shipping and handling!!!

4. Did you get an allowance as a child? How much was it? depends...sometimes i did...i remember in grade 4 we had a chores list, and we each (me and my sister, and my cousin when he lived with us) had to sign up for 3 chores, but we could sign up for more, and they each had a different amount (like, vacuming the stairs was worth more than vacuming the living room). we were only allowed to sign up for one chore that we had done the week before, though. When we had a wood stove, we got money for stacking the wood. And we could get money for extras, too...like washing the walls/windows...polishing my dad's boots, etc.

5. What was the last thing you regret purchasing? a shirt i got at Salvation Army...it fit me ok, but it's not that good of a fit, and i shouldn't have bought it....but, it was only 25¢

[MelangeArtiste]

1. Do you like to shop? Why or why not?

I love to shop. Most of the time it's just window-shopping. Lately, I've been looking around in Crate and Barrel, Conran Shop, and Pottery Barn, but that's because I'm renovating and redecorating my apartment, and am looking for ideas.

2. What was the last thing you purchased?

Three gallons of paint and new electric outlets for my living room

3. Do you prefer shopping online or at an actual store? Why?

I like to do some research online first, but I want to touch the merchandise before I buy it.

4. Did you get an allowance as a child? How much was it?

No, my family didn't bother with giving allowances. If I wanted anything within reason, I could have it.

5. What was the last thing you regret purchasing?

A pair of black jeans that are too long. I know how to shorten them, but just haven't been bothered to do it. So, I bought two more pairs in the right length, but haven't decided whether to donate the long pair to the clothing collection box or shorten them someday.

mel

[cindi1023]

1. Do you like to shop? Why or why not?

I tend to go back and forth on shopping. I'll go through phases where I stop and shop somewhere almost every day. Then I'll hit a spell where I won't go to the store for a month. I'm currently in a shopping funk, which sucks at Christmastime!

2. What was the last thing you purchased?

XM radio for my hubbys birthday on Monday.

3. Do you prefer shopping online or at an actual store? Why?

Yes. :P I'm about 50-50 on online vs. actual shopping. If I know what I want and there's no question about the "feel", I order it online. I hardly ever buy clothes online for that reason. I also do a lot of catalogue shopping -- we're to the point where we receive at least 20 catalogues a week. Sometimes the pile-up of catalogues can be frustrating, but they also make good collage material! :P

4. Did you get an allowance as a child? How much was it?

I don't remember having an ongoing allowance, but I'd get a few dollars here and there for doing odd jobs around the house. By the time I was 12, I had several regular weekly babysitting jobs, so that negated the need for allowance from my parents.

5. What was the last thing you regret purchasing?

I ordered some PJ's online from Victoria's secret, and when they arrived they were HUGE! I re-packaged them to send them back for a refund, but then forgot to. Once I realized I still hadn't sent them back, it was too late for a refund...

[sarahkate]

1. Do you like to shop? Why or why not?

<span style='color:purple'>Sometimes I love it, sometimes I hate it. I really LOVE buying new stuff, it's an obsession really, but I hate buying things if I HAVE to buy them, if I NEED to buy a dress for a wedding for example I just have the hardest time shopping, but if I have an extra $30 to spend on whatever I want then I love shopping! :)


2. What was the last thing you purchased?

Groceries last night. I hate spending money on food.


3. Do you prefer shopping online or at an actual store? Why?

Online most definitely! Most of my family & friends don't have the patience to shop with me in a store and I don't like going to stores alone very much, so online stores are perfect for me and it's much easier to compare prices online.


4. Did you get an allowance as a child? How much was it?

Nope. I never got an allowance, though I didn't EVER have to do chores so I guess that was fair. I did have to babysit my sister a lot during my childhood, but my parents didn't really have the money to pay me for watching her, and I didn't really expect to be paid anyway.


5. What was the last thing you regret purchasing?</span>

Chinese food for dinner last weekend - because all I kept thinking of were things that I could have used that money for besides stupid chinese food that wasn't so great anyway!

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

1. Do you like to shop? Why or why not?

I love shopping online, and in well-organized and uncrowded stores that I can afford.

2. What was the last thing you purchased?

The last thing I purchased was a slice of white pizza and a piece of tomato bread, for dinner last night.

3. Do you prefer shopping online or at an actual store? Why?

I prefer shopping online because I can take longer to decide on something without a salesperson breathing down my neck, and because I don't have to drive/park, and because other customers aren't in my way. Of course, I do spend a lot more when I shop online. And I can't buy clothes online unless they are t-shirts or sweaters.

4. Did you get an allowance as a child? How much was it?

I supposedly got an allowance in grade school, but my dad rarely paid up. I think it was $2 a week. In high school it was $5 a week, and my mom paid me.

5. What was the last thing you regret purchasing?

Ummm, I don't know! Probably the Christmas present I got for Lily, my best friend's baby. I could have done better, but the saleswoman was putting a lot of pressure on me and I caved.

[nymphette]

1. Do you like to shop? Why or why not?

i used to hate it, especially this time of year, but now that ihave kids it's more fun... not that i dont' ram my cart into other lumps once in a while... and give the occasional dirty look to the four people congregated around the checkouts standing around chatting and taking up space..... and cursing the idiots who just stand there in front of the shelves looking when you need somwthing there and they ignor eyou when you politely say'excuse me'..... hmmm... no... i still hate it!!!!!!

2. What was the last thing you purchased?

diapers and ihle's paste for harrison


3. Do you prefer shopping online or at an actual store? Why?

i WOULD prefer online but we don't have any credit cards so we can't.... so i will ahve to say at a store.. though that's a lie considering the first question... ;)

4. Did you get an allowance as a child? How much was it?

i got a base of twenty five cents (my older brother got 30, my younger sister 20) and we had a chart of chores to do around the house- 10 cents for cleaning the bathroom, 5 cents for making your bed, 10 cents for vacuuming... and on the weekend, if my mom had extra money, we got what we earned... if she didnt' have extra money, well, then we didnt' get it of course... we used to always get the fifty cent pieces that she got per kid from family allowance... not sure what was up with that but i remember them....

5. What was the last thing you regret purchasing?

i spent $25 on supplies to do christmas baking when i was in the city on sunday, and now we have no gas money and chris doesn't get paid until next monday... so i regret buying stuff to make christmas cookies and peppermint bark because now ... i dont' know... chris will have to borrow from his brother!!!

[Sirius]

Since I may not be able to post these tomorrow, I pulled the list from December 7, 2001 for our NNESS Friday Five

1. If you were to go to a movie this weekend, which one would you pick?

2. What movie would you like to rent this weekend?

3. What one TV show do you always try to watch?

4. If you (and your S.O.) were cool with it, what five celebrities (at the most) would it be 'ok' for you to have a fling with?

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?

[Sirius]

Just realized i never answered the last ones...11.18.03 Questions

1. Do you like to shop? Why or why not?
No. It's a pain in the behind


2. What was the last thing you purchased?
$250 in desserts


3. Do you prefer shopping online or at an actual store? Why?
Online if I know what I want and how much it should cost. Easier. No crowds.


4. Did you get an allowance as a child? How much was it?
No. It was more of a "what do you need/want?" "Yea, ok" or" Maybe" or "Uh-uh"


5. What was the last thing you regret purchasing?
the projector to project holiday images on my garage door

[cindi1023]

1. If you were to go to a movie this weekend, which one would you pick?

Probably Bad Santa -- I crack up every time I see the previews. I also want to see Love Actually, but if I took hubby with me, then I'd have to go see something like Master & Commander with him, and frankly, I'm just not willing to do that right now!

2. What movie would you like to rent this weekend?

None right now-- we've still got our 3 Netflix movies that we haven't watched in over 3 weeks.... I can't even remember which ones we have...

3. What one TV show do you always try to watch?

24 -- Kiefer is such a hottie! And it's like watching a mini-movie... always keeps me on the edge of my seat!

4. If you (and your S.O.) were cool with it, what five celebrities (at the most) would it be 'ok' for you to have a fling with?

Kiefer Sutherland
Mel Gibson
John Cusack
Jessie L. Martin


5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?

cleaning, wrapping gifts, a little shopping, visiting my parents, working on nness stuff, finishing my "professional" scrapbooking project.... basically never sitting still for a minute! :P

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

FYI, these are today's questions. You can still answer the old ones. Why not do both, if time permits?

1. Do you enjoy the cold weather and snow for the holidays?

2. What is your ideal holiday celebration? How, where, with whom would you celebrate to make things perfect?

3. Do you do have any holiday traditions?

4. Do you do anything to help the needy?

5. What one gift would you like for yourself?

[atomic_cocktail]

1. If you were to go to a movie this weekend, which one would you pick?
Bad Santa... if NPR gave it a pretty good review then it must not be too bad... and the previews are funny. "I loved a woman who was unclean" LOL

2. What movie would you like to rent this weekend?
I havn't rented movies in like 6 months... I have no idea... Bruce Almighty? Pirates of the Carriabean? Are these out yet?

3. What one TV show do you always try to watch?
South Park... after all these years that show still kicks sooo much ass. It is funny, rude, raunchy and always has the best moral of the story.

4. If you (and your S.O.) were cool with it, what five celebrities (at the most) would it be 'ok' for you to have a fling with?
Johhny Depp
Taye Diggs
Andre3000 (outkast)
The Australian guy from 10 things I hate about you (i never remember his name)

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
I work ... but other than that catching up on xmas gifts.

1. Do you enjoy the cold weather and snow for the holidays?
I love snow... I can't imagine Christmas without it

2. What is your ideal holiday celebration? How, where, with whom would you celebrate to make things perfect?
Christmas morning at home... sleepy and still in pjs... enjoying orange juice with fresh strawberries.

3. Do you do have any holiday traditions?
Nightmare before Christmas on Christmas Eve :D

4. Do you do anything to help the needy?
I donated to heifer.org this year instead of giving gifts to some people

5. What one gift would you like for yourself?
I like when people make me stuff... so it would be neat to get some handcrafted stuff

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

1. If you were to go to a movie this weekend, which one would you pick?
Girl With A Pearl Earring

2. What movie would you like to rent this weekend?
Pirates of the Caribbean

3. What one TV show do you always try to watch?
Scrubs

4. If you (and your S.O.) were cool with it, what five celebrities (at the most) would it be 'ok' for you to have a fling with?
Jeff Tweedy, Johnny Depp. I don't think I am interested in having a fling with anyone else, at their current age and shape. If I could time-travel and do Marlon Brando circa 1950, then sign me up. Ditto Elvis Costello circa 1980.

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
I am having sushi and seeing the Vampire Nutcracker for my birthday. I will also be knitting, wrapping presents, shopping, writing holiday cards, and mailing things.

1. Do you enjoy the cold weather and snow for the holidays?
Yes to cold weather, no to snow. I hate snow.

2. What is your ideal holiday celebration? How, where, with whom would you celebrate to make things perfect?
I especially like Christmas Eve with my mom's side of the family. We eat dinner and open gifts together.

3. Do you do have any holiday traditions?
Chris and I haven't yet established a yearly holiday tradition. I have many with my family. For instance, see above. And then we all gather on Christmas day, too. Sometimes I go to Mass at the Basilica with my mother on Christmas Eve.

4. Do you do anything to help the needy?
I put money in the poor box and donate canned goods.

5. What one gift would you like for yourself?
Most of all? An engagement ring. But I am not expecting it. :P

[cindi1023]

1. Do you enjoy the cold weather and snow for the holidays?

It just doesn't feel like the holidays without cold weather, but here in Atlanta, we don't get any snow. "White Christmas" always makes me kind of sad when I hear it -- I dream of a white Christmas, but in my 24 years in Georgia, I've never seen one. I think it was last year that we got flurries a couple of days before Christmas, and I got so excited! I'd like, just once, to see a white Christmas....

2. What is your ideal holiday celebration? How, where, with whom would you celebrate to make things perfect?

I guess my ideal would be a huge family & friends celebration, but I'm pretty happy with the way our holidays work out...

3. Do you do have any holiday traditions?

We have tons of traditions. Christmas Eve is spent with my family at my parent's house. We first have the big celebration with all of the extended family. Food is lots of sweets and finger foods. We draw names at Thanksgiving, so after dinner, we exchange gifts -- everyone opens one at a time, and we go youngest to oldest. Once the extended family has cleared out, we do our more intimate family gift exchange. Afterward, we all sit around until the wee hours and chat. On Christmas morning, my hubby and I exchange gifts, then our best friends come over for breakfast (I bake the coffee cake my mother always made on Christmas morning) & to exchange gifts. Christmas afternoon is spent with my in-laws. They've recently adopted the finger-food tradition from my family & we talked them into the one-by-one gift opening. I've never been a fan of the everyone-opens-at-once-paper-flying-everywhere style of opening gifts. I try to spend time giving thoughtful gifts, and I want to see everyone's reaction....

4. Do you do anything to help the needy?

I never feel like I do enough, but we always contribute to Toys for Tots, I give to every Salvation-Army bell ringer I see, and we try to do several other small things through the season....

5. What one gift would you like for yourself?

I'm hoping for the Making Memories date stamp kit. That's the only thing I really asked for...

[sarahkate]

Yay! More FridayFives to answer!! You know, I have known about Friday Five for a long time now, and I have had a blog for almost 1 year but I have never answered the Friday Fives on my blog...but for some reason I like answering them on here! I am so strange. Maybe I should just go ahead & post them on my blog too.


1. If you were to go to a movie this weekend, which one would you pick?

I really wanted to see Pieces of April , but I don't think that is still playing in any theaters around here. I will have to steal Cindi's vote & go with Bad Santa.


2. What movie would you like to rent this weekend?

Most likely I will be renting movies this weekend, and I have been wanting to see The Safety of Objects but I doubt my boyfriend wants to watch that, so if we do rent something it will most likely be Bruce Almighty because Cory thinks it looks hilarious. I like some Jim Carrey movies, but sometimes they can just get a bit old, and predictable, but maybe it will be good anyway.


3. What one TV show do you always try to watch?

Well, I hate to admit I'm such a tv junkie, but I do regularly watch a lot of shows, I can't narrow it down to just one! Every week I usually try to watch the following: The King of Queens, Still Standing, Everybody Loves Raymond, Gilmore Girls, Everwood, Smallville, Friends (I haven't been into it as much this year though), That 70's Show, and I usually watch Angel with Cory because it's his FAVORITE show. I also watch crime/drama types of shows once in a while like CSI and NYPD Blue but I don't watch them regularly, just every now & then. Yeah, I watch WAY too much tv but I am not upset if I miss a show, if I am home & not busy I watch tv.


4. If you (and your S.O.) were cool with it, what five celebrities (at the most) would it be 'ok' for you to have a fling with?

Hmmm, DON'T LAUGH but I would choose these guys (in no particular order) at the moment:

1. Michael Rosenbaum (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0742146/) (Lex Luthor on Smallville - I just recently developed this crush. I don't know what it is about him but damn he's hot on that show!)

2. Josh Hartnett (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0001326/)

3. Joaquin Phoenix (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0001618/)

4. Kevin Spacey (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000228/) (Shhhh! Don't tell!) :unsure:

5. Mark Hoppus (http://www.nyrock.com/interviews/2001/blink_int.asp) (from Blink 182 - he has been my crush for a LONG time!)


5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?

Christmas shopping, doing some much needed catching up on Nervousness projects, cleaning, sleeping, eating, watching movies.

[sarahkate]

Wow, took me so long to answer (actually I had to do work & couldn't finish updating for a while) that a whole new set of Friday Fives are up! whoops!

So I will answer those too!

1. Do you enjoy the cold weather and snow for the holidays?

It's nice to see some snow on Christmas, but other than that I'm not a big fan of cold, snowy weather which sucks since I live in upstate NY so I can't avoid it in the winter.


2. What is your ideal holiday celebration? How, where, with whom would you celebrate to make things perfect?

Umm, I don't really know. My holidays are usually always very weird. I have been with my boyfriend for 8 years & have never spend Christmast with him ONCE so it would be nice to spend Christmas day with him, and my family too. Usually my mom, my sister & I travel to Massachusetts to be with our relatives on Christmas and I don't think that is happening this year so I think for the first time ever I WILL be able to spend at least part of Xmas day with Cory!


3. Do you do have any holiday traditions?

No, none. :(


4. Do you do anything to help the needy?

I hate to admit it, but usually not. :( About the most "charitable" thing I do is donate lots of my clothes that I don't wear anymore to Goodwill.


5. What one gift would you like for yourself?

A Mac laptop

[Sirius]

1. If you were to go to a movie this weekend, which one would you pick?
Probably Love Actually


2. What movie would you like to rent this weekend?
I'm not a renter, I already bought Pirates...hm...Breakfast at Tiffany's


3. What one TV show do you always try to watch?
Smallville or CSI


4. If you (and your S.O.) were cool with it, what five celebrities (at the most) would it be 'ok' for you to have a fling with?

Oh, let's give some mystery...

J.D.
O.B.
S.B.
T.S.
J.G.

and for the record sarahkate, i can completely support your Micheal Rosenbaum thing...


5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
Hosting a party tonight, cleaning house tomorrow, helping Brian with stuff for the wall, maybe doing a tour, I was supposed to go to my mom's Sunday, but it was cancelled.

[sarahkate]

Originally posted by Rustell@Dec 12 2003, 12:23 PM
and for the record sarahkate, i can completely support your Micheal Rosenbaum thing...

Yay! I fellow Lex-Lover! :lol: I have been wondering if I was totally strange for thinking he is a babe!


and let me make some crazy guesses on your crush list, Rustell-

J.D. = Johnny Depp OF COURSE!! :D
O.B. = Orlando Bloom ??
S.B. = Steve Buscemi ?? :blink: (there is something strangely attractive about him ... and I know many of you agree because I remember his name coming up when we were discussing this subject before!)
T.S. = Tom Sizemore ?? :blink:
J.G. = John Goodman ?? :blink:

Ok, the last 2 I am 99.9% sure are very wrong...but hey...I had to throw some weirdness in.

[Sirius]

ah, only the first two are right.....

if i had a top twenty M.B. would be in it undoubtedly....

Steve Buschemi was on Jon Stewart the other day.

A spin off question, but do you know, or have a guess at your significant other's list?

[cindi1023]

Originally posted by Rustell@Dec 12 2003, 12:51 PM
A spin off question, but do you know, or have a guess at your significant other's list?
for some reason, my hubby absolutly refuses to give any hint about any stars he thinks are attractive or fooling-around-with-worthy. However, he's perfectly willing to tell me who he hates.... on the top of that list is Heather Locklear... :rolleyes:

[Sirius]

Brian is the same. He will avoid all questions regarding actresses etc that he finds attractive. He often says stuff about those that "I just don't get what is supposed to be all that great about..."

[sarahkate]

Cory is the same way with me too, he won't mention like "oh - I think that girl is hot!" because he is smart :P He knows I would flip out if he said something like that because, well, I'm immature & stuff like that just bothers me! I think it is very stupid & rude to say right in front of your "significant other" how hot you think someone else is, I just take that as another way to knock down one's self esteem. I don't say stuff like that to Cory, so I'm glad he doesn't do it in front of me, but like Cindi & Rustell's men Cory does say "I think she is disgusting" or "I don't know why people think she is so hot" but I do have my suspicions of who he is attracted to.

[kittymao]

1. Do you enjoy the cold weather and snow for the holidays? Uhm- sometimes. Like when it's crisp and rainy. I hate when it's wet and not raining. and I LOVE when it's cold and sunny. We don't get snow, ao I can't really answer that.

2. What is your ideal holiday celebration? How, where, with whom would you celebrate to make things perfect? well that means lots of family, lots of food and lots of fun- the last time that orrured in a good way was probably when I was like... five. So I'd have to be a mini-me. the holidays are the best when you're a kid.

3. Do you do have any holiday traditions? Me, no. Maybe watching the Yule log on tv on christmas eve. As for my BF, yea- they do posada and they open their presents on midnight and they have stockings, and make apple cider.

4. Do you do anything to help the needy? At the moment, no. Becuase I'm kind of needy myself and can't afford to donate time or energy to anything outside my direct spectrum. I expect taht when I get the money or time, I will do so, but not right now.

5. What one gift would you like for yourself? Anything would be nice- I get all teary if anyone goes out of their way to get me something.But mostly Money. Becuase its one thing I need, and gifts aren't gonna help me right now. I mean- go ahead and shower me with gifts, but they aren't going to pay for food or registration for school.

[cindi1023]

I'm not usually too vocal about who my crushes are, but occasionally we'll be watching something and Rob'll look over and ask "do you think he's attractive?" Usually the answer is a big-eyed, fast nod "ummm--humm!" :D When he found out I had a HUGE thing for Jesse L. Martin (Law & Order), he asked me about it -- I told him, not only is he hot, he's got a beautiful singing voice.... About a week later, Rob started singing to me! (he never would before.... he's pretty shy!) I thought it was cute!

[sarahkate]

Originally posted by sarahkate@Dec 12 2003, 12:00 PM
2. What movie would you like to rent this weekend?

Most likely I will be renting movies this weekend, and I have been wanting to see The Safety of Objects but I doubt my boyfriend wants to watch that, so if we do rent something it will most likely be Bruce Almighty because Cory thinks it looks hilarious. I like some Jim Carrey movies, but sometimes they can just get a bit old, and predictable, but maybe it will be good anyway.


Ok, I lied - we rented movies last night (Friday night counts as the weekend, right?) and Bruce Almighty was all rented out and I noticed The Safety of Objects on the shelf, but didn't even pick it up because I know Cory would hate it (or at least he would THINK he would hate it!) so we rented Phone Booth which was a decent movie, wonder if there will be a sequel??? We also rented some weird movie called Rip it Off which, according to IMDB.com has an alternate title, Beyond the City Limits (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0201479/). That was strange movie, I can't say if I would really recommend it though, but I have seen worse.

Oh, that Rip it Off movie reminds me of another one of my celebrity crushes, Todd Field. I loved him in Walking and Talking, though he plays a TOTAL dork in this movie.

[Sirius]

1. Do you enjoy the cold weather and snow for the holidays?
I try to make a trip up north, if even for a day, so I can see some snow and cold weather for the holidays.


2. What is your ideal holiday celebration? How, where, with whom would you celebrate to make things perfect?
Every year Brian and I have a Christmas gathering the Saturday before Christmas. Usually with just our friends. The Sunday before Christmas we meet with my grandmother for an extended family holiday celebration. Then Christmas Eve or Christmas Day we meet with my mom and brother's family or Brian's parents and brother's family. My dad comes over for breakfast Christmas morning. My ideal holiday celebration would be to have everyone together in one place for one big holiday celebration.



3. Do you do have any holiday traditions?
Christmas breakfast is the main one.

4. Do you do anything to help the needy?
I have every year but this one. This year since money is so much tighter, I just orchestrated a Christmas Angel program at the community center as well as a holiday food drive. I did what I could to get others to be generous.

5. What one gift would you like for yourself?
If we are talking actual material greediness I want a new 19" flat screen monitor for my computer.

[pantiesontherod]

J.D.
O.B.
S.B.
T.S.
J.G.

ok going insane have to know what these names are so here are my possibilities:

S.B. = simon baker? or Scott Bairstow? or that guy from american idol - is it simon bowman?
T.S = Tom Selleck?(really?) or haha Telly Savalas or Timothy Spall or Toby Stevens or maybe Tom Skerritt?
J.G. = Justin guarini? or josh groban or jeff gordon or john gries ?

are any of these right rustell? - you little mystery woman you

[Sirius]

So, I pestered Brian about his list of five, and his reaction was odd, but cute. "What? Do you get propositioned by Johnny Depp or Orlando Bloom so you need me to have a list so it is okay?" He thinks Marky Mark and George Clooney should be on my list. Does that mean he likes them or that he didn't believe me when I commented that I was surprised at how good of an actor Marky mark was. So, I got him to admit to: Ashely Judd, Tara Reid and Shania Twain....

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

Chris is totally the same way about not letting on which actresses he thinks are pretty. It is funny that Brian thinks Rustell should have George Clooney on her list-- Chris would probably say the same thing about my list! The only person I know for sure Chris would put on his list is Tina Fey from Saturday Night Live. I can't argue with that, either: she's totally smart and adorable.

[Sirius]

Why wait for Friday?


1. How many houses/apartments have you lived in throughout your life?

2. Which was your favorite and why?

3. Do you find moving house more exciting or stressful? Why?

4. What's more important, location or price?

5. What features does your dream house have (pool, spa bath, big yard, etc.)?

[Sirius]

1. How many houses/apartments have you lived in throughout your life?
11

2. Which was your favorite and why?
this one. it's mine


3. Do you find moving house more exciting or stressful? Why?
both

4. What's more important, location or price?
location


5. What features does your dream house have (pool, spa bath, big yard, etc.)?
open space, columns, big bathroom, heated floor

[kittymao]

ohkey. Me's game.

1. How many houses/apartments have you lived in throughout your life?
Three. all three-bedroom homes, all insanely cramped, but the first was two stories.

2. Which was your favorite and why?
Hm. I think I liked the Fremont house. It had a big backyard and a treehouse, lots of neat neighbors and was near the school so we could go play on the playground. It also had a hill on the street- I swear we invented the Luge by riding on skateboards down that thing.


3. Do you find moving house more exciting or stressful? Why?
It's fun, cause empty houses are so full of promise. But I guess stressful cause everything has to leave where it's comfy at and go to a new place in one piece.

4. What's more important, location or price?
that depends. each one affects the other. So you have to make compromises- cheap and crappy or 'spensive and nice.


5. What features does your dream house have (pool, spa bath, big yard, etc.)?
A big back yard. A decent front yard with a great shady tree. An outside room ( like a porch or patio) that would be nice for barbecues and relaxing in the summer. And central heating/air.

[sarahkate]

The Friday Five for Dec 19, 2003:

1. List your five favorite beverages.

2. List your five favorite websites.

3. List your five favorite snack foods.

4. List your five favorite board and/or card games.

5. List your five favorite computer and/or game system games.

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

1. List your five favorite beverages.

Coffee
Chai
Coca-Cola
Cherry Coke
Chocolate Milk

2. List your five favorite websites.

http://www.nervousness.org
http://www.allmusic.com
http://somniloquy.org/
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/
http://www.imdb.com


3. List your five favorite snack foods.

Trader Joe's G.O.R.P.
Utz Pretzel Nuggets
Chips & Salsa
Cheddar Cheese & Carr's Table Water Crackers
Peanut Butter on Saltines

4. List your five favorite board and/or card games.

Scrabble
Set
Quiddler
Boggle
Trivial Pursuit / Scattergories (tie)

5. List your five favorite computer and/or game system games.

Tetris
Super Mario Brothers
SimCity
Parsec
Centipede

[sarahkate]

1. List your five favorite beverages.
<span style='color:purple'>-Arizona Green Tea (http://www.arizonabev.com/csr/prodtypeitem.asp?item=Green%20Tea&cat=1) (It's just about my favorite thing in the world!)
-Arizona Ginseng Tea (http://www.arizonabev.com/csr/prodtypeitem.asp?item=Ginseng%20Tea&cat=1)
-Coke
-Cherry Coke
-Pina Colada Smoothies

2. List your five favorite websites.
-Nervousness (http://nervousness.org/) ~of course!
-Epitonic (http://www.epitonic.com/) ~lots of cool indie MP3s
-Metroland (http://www.metroland.net/) ~local Albany NY area weekly newspaper.
-eBay (http://www.ebay.com/) ~I don't bid on things very often but I love to browse
-Bust's Girl Wide Web (http://www.bust.com/cgi-bin/links/page.cgi?d=1) ~Links to lots of great websites, all created by women

3. List your five favorite snack foods.
-Tortilla chips with melted cheese & taco sauce
-Carrots & Veggie Dip
-Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
-Cheese popcorn
-Chocolate pudding

4. List your five favorite board and/or card games.
-Scrutineyes (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3165422385) ~this is an awesome game, hard to find now though but I HIGHLY recommend it!
-Scattegories
-Trivial Pursuit
-Pictionary
-Beyond Balderdash (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/toys/B00000IWEX/qid%3D1071847825/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/104-0082400-0814306) ~another game I highly recommend!

5. List your five favorite computer and/or game system games.</span>
-Any of The Sims games
-Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for PS2 ~yeah I know it's a horrible thing to like, but it's so fun to drive cars around the city!)
-Legend of Zelda for Super Nintendo ~this used to be my most favorite game.
-Baldur's Gate ~Yes, for a while I went on a RPG loving streak! I'm a dork!
-Solitaire

[cindi1023]

1. How many houses/apartments have you lived in throughout your life?
11

2. Which was your favorite and why?
My house now. I agree with Serius - it's mine!

3. Do you find moving house more exciting or stressful? Why?
A little of both. While packing, it's exciting to throw junk out and plan for the new place. But it's also a gigantic pain in the ass. Then moving all your stuff (especially if you can't afford big burly moving men!) I find it fun to decorate a new place, but tiring unpacking everything I own. We still have boxes in the garage of crap we've never unpacked (and we've lived here 4 and a half years!)

4. What's more important, location or price?
location (but price is a big consideration).

5. What features does your dream house have (pool, spa bath, big yard, etc.)?
Open floor plan, HUGE master bathroom, a well-lit room for my studio, & a full basement (for all hubby's crap).



1. List your five favorite beverages.
Coffee
Hot Chocolate
Diet Dr. Pepper
Vodka & Cranberry
Raspberry Marguritas

2. List your five favorite websites.
nervousness.org
thesmokinggun.com
imdb.com
googlism.com
vh1.com (I LOVE the 80's! :P)

3. List your five favorite snack foods.
CHOCOLATE!
Popcorn
CHOCOLATE!
triscits
CHOCOLATE!

4. List your five favorite board and/or card games.
Catch Phrase
Scattergories
Zobmondo
Pictionary
Cranium

5. List your five favorite computer and/or game system games.
The Sims
Law & Order
Spider Solitare
Mindsweeper
Breakout

[nymphette]

1. How many houses/apartments have you lived in throughout your life? i have lived in a total of... 15 different dwellings... wow, that's a lot, and i'm the family mmeber who moves the least!!!

2. Which was your favorite and why? our trailer now becuase we own it.... and it has a HUGE yard for the boys.... and central air...

3. Do you find moving house more exciting or stressful? Why? i fuc$ing HATE IT!!! because i hate it.... i just do...

4. What's more important, location or price? location!!! i have lived in some terrible, dangerous neighborhoods (because they were cheap) but now that i ahve kids, i wouldnt' live near those places!!! luckily, this place was very affordable and is in a quiet community, ten minutes OUT OF THE CITY!!! oh so perfect.. ;)

5. What features does your dream house have (pool, spa bath, big yard, etc.)? a swimming pool (for my favorite kind of exercise, swimming laps!!!) a hot tub for relaxing, a huge yard for the kids, a rec room with a pool table, stand up bar, weights/treadmill, steam room off the exercise room, ginormous kitchen with a huge island that has 2 big sinks (one with garborater in it), cutting board surface, garbage compactor installed, pasta drawers, gas stove with grill and griddle top, side by side freezer/fridge, everything stainless steel..... (yes the kitchen is the most important room in my dream home.. :) toy room somewhere where i dont' have to listen to kids' movies all day.... <sigh> dreamy... full bathroom with jacuzzi tub off the master suite........



1. List your five favorite beverages. coffee, diet pepsi, mango juice, white cream soda, gin

2. List your five favorite websites. nervousness.org, groups.msn.com/harrisonsstory, imdb.com, about.com pregnancy/baby forums, allrecipes.com

3. List your five favorite snack foods. any kind of doritos, microwave popcorn, carrots with ranch dressing, granola, especially homemade, sea salt and malt vinegar kettle chips

4. List your five favorite board and/or card games. trivial pursuit, scrabble, mastermind, solitaire (dont knwo what it is called htough), canasta

5. List your five favorite computer and/or game system games. anything from uproar.com :)


robyn

[Sirius]

1. List your five favorite beverages.
Pepsi One
Water
Apple Juice
Jamaican 10-Speed
CranMidori

2. List your five favorite websites.
Nervousness
MSN.zone
AZcentral
dictionary.com
yahoo.com

3. List your five favorite snack foods.
snickers
kit kats
peanut m&ms
peanut butter cups
chips ahoy

4. List your five favorite board and/or card games.
cranium
trivial pursuit
scrabble
scattergories
yahtzee

5. List your five favorite computer and/or game system games.
warcraft III
texttwist
tetris
dr. mario
family feud

[dorsia]

i'll pretend i didn't already post this in my lj AND my website. ;)

1. List your five favorite beverages.
Diet Coke, chocolate shakes, strawberry smoothies, cold water + Corona
2. List your five favorite websites.
nervousness.org, homestarrunner.com, LJ, flipflopflyin.com + davidanders.com
3. List your five favorite snack foods.
Sunflower seeds, potato chips, apple chips, Belgium biscuits + Russian fudge
4. List your five favorite board and/or card games.
Risk, Clue, Scrabble, Pictionary + Gin
5. List your five favorite computer and/or game system games.
Tetris, Neverwinter Nights, The Sims, Tetris Attack + Gauntlet

[Laurasia]

I'm bored. I'm doing the old one that I missed:
1. How many houses/apartments have you lived in throughout your life?
8
2. Which was your favorite and why?
I think my one now is my favorite in terms of living situation (just me, my boyfriend and my animals, no roommates or anything), but my parent's newest house (where I've lived on and off for a couple years) is by far the nicest. It has an oak in the backyard and windows everywhere. I like my little (and i mean LITTLE) apartment now though...it's home.
3. Do you find moving house more exciting or stressful? Why?
oh yes, because moving all your stuff is hard work and stresses me out. My dog also gets upset and stressed, which makes him a lot of work too. Oh, and because Uhaul is an evil evil company!
4. What's more important, location or price?
location. You can't get a good price when you have a dog and two cats anyway.
5. What features does your dream house have (pool, spa bath, big yard, etc.)?
A lot of space with lots of rooms for all my stuff. A darkroom. A lot of land with pretty views.

[chunkymonkey]

1. List your five favorite beverages.

lemonade
starbucks french vanilla cappuccino
super cold water
grape juice
root beer
(lol I left off alcohol beverages :))

2. List your five favorite websites.

nervousness.org
artofthemix.com
allmusicguide.com
"24" forums (not sure of the link, I go through the fox mainpage)
notmartha.com


3. List your five favorite snack foods.

cheese
clausen kosher dill pickle halves
dipsy doodles
poppycock
whatchamacallit candy bars


4. List your five favorite board and/or card games.

risk
follow the queen
trivial pursuit (any of them)
boggle
scattergories


5. List your five favorite computer and/or game system games.

tetris
zelda
super mario brothers III
jeopardy
jt's blocks (on yahoo)

[chunkymonkey]

bored so I'll do this one too

1. How many houses/apartments have you lived in throughout your life?

24- jesus that's a lot considering I am only 21

2. Which was your favorite and why?

my favorite was one of the foster homes I lived in because it was the first time a family (aside from my own) accepted me. It was a lovely house, huge and old. It had been used my people on the underground railroad at one time. It had lost of little "secret" hiding places and interesting things like that. And the yard was basically a big hill with lots of trees...lol it was like our own little jungle.

3. Do you find moving house more exciting or stressful? Why?

I've moved alot throughout my life so it doesn't phaze me at all. I think it's rather exciting, even as a little kid I never got very upset about having to move. As I got to be a teenager and financhial troubles were a burden to me the process of moving became more of a stress simply because we were usually getting evicted. I've packed up entire houses all in a single day more times then I care to mention. But still it's always a bit of an adventure...moving onto better things. :)

4. What's more important, location or price?

well if you can't afford to live somewhere you can't...so location at that point doesn't much matter. That said I would never move to a location I didn't want to live at no matter how cheap. Really for me it's finding a blance of both.

5. What features does your dream house have (pool, spa bath, big yard, etc.)?

lol oh boy. I guess my dream home would be a large open space loft in which I could erect different room dividers (glass doors, and other creative things all recycled of course.) It would have huge windows and atleast one fireplace. Maybe a sky light or two. The bathroom would be divided into a toliet area, sink area, and then a bathing area. There would be a huge shower with over head shower heads. The bath tub would be a nice big hot tub size. And there would be a sauna. the kitchen would be very sleek and industrial. And there would have to be a nice outdoor deck/balcony...I'd have a fireplace out there and a nice big grill...lol and a hammock. I dunno whatelse. I like quirky architectural elements.

hehe and this one too

1. If you were to go to a movie this weekend, which one would you pick?

Ah there are so many good movies out now. Anyone else get annoyed with th eholiday movie rush? I'd go see lord of the rings just because thats the one I am most excited about.

2. What movie would you like to rent this weekend?

desert saints. This is one of the few kiefer movies I haven't seen...it has been on my netflix queque forever with a very long wait status. Whoever has it better retunr it! :P

3. What one TV show do you always try to watch?

not try...DO... "24"

4. If you (and your S.O.) were cool with it, what five celebrities (at the most) would it be 'ok' for you to have a fling with?

1. kiefer sutherland (a no brainer)
2. Shannyn Sossamon
3. keith richards (I dunno if I'd want a fling... more like a jam session.)
4. tino martinez (formerly of the nyy's)
5. see #1 :P

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?

It's saturday so half of it is over. I spent today catching up on emails, cleaning from all the holiday mess, and finishing a box I made for my mom's birthday (which is tomorrow.) I'll talk to sarah for awhile and probably watch a movie before I go to bed. Tomorrow I will spend an hour or two with the newspaper and some magazines, bake a cake and cook dinner for my dear mommie, and I also have a few lmao's and packages to get ready for monday's mail that I will work on.

[sarahkate]

The Friday Five for 12/26/03:

1. What was your biggest accomplishment this year?

2. What was your biggest disappointment?

3. What do you hope the new year brings?

4. Will you be making any New Year's resolutions? If yes, what will they be?

5. What are your plans for New Year's Eve?

[Sirius]

1. What was your biggest accomplishment this year?
Changing my life. Changing careers and going back for my Master's Degree.

2. What was your biggest disappointment?
Not having the gumption to file a counter-suit and really fight the lawsuit. I don't usually take the "Just make it go away" attitude, but I did with this.

3. What do you hope the new year brings?
Even more happiness and success in my decisions to make changes.

4. Will you be making any New Year's resolutions? If yes, what will they be?
No.

5. What are your plans for New Year's Eve?
I think to just stay home with Brian. We've had parites in the past, but then have to spend New Year's Day cleaning up. We did the Fiesta Bowl block party last year, but that really wasn't us. So, a quiet evening at home.

[chunkymonkey]

1. What was your biggest accomplishment this year?
Making a serious commitment to moving my life in a forward direction, starting with my weight problem. I've lost about 20 pounds since october. :)

2. What was your biggest disappointment?
Just that I didn't make all the changes I had planned for this year from LAST year's new years resolutions/plans.

3. What do you hope the new year brings?
friendship, motivation, excitement, courage.

4. Will you be making any New Year's resolutions? If yes, what will they be?
I pretty much already made mine throughout the last few months so just to stick with them would be my only resolution.

5. What are your plans for New Year's Eve
I actually like to spend new years alone... so I will end up watching dick clark, drinking a bottle of champagne, and writing/thinking about the direction I will be moving in this year.

[venus28976]

cool thread

The Friday Five for 12/26/03:

1. What was your biggest accomplishment this year? My biggest accomplishment this year was probably purchasing my first car and then getting up the guts to actually drive it

2. What was your biggest disappointment? My biggest disappointment was being sick and lethargic for 4 months after returning from vacation and having to argue with doctors who thought it was all in my head.

3. What do you hope the new year brings? I've just begun a new relationship so I hope the new year bring romance and romantic firsts for me

4. Will you be making any New Year's resolutions? If yes, what will they be? Yes even though I never keep them. 1. Staying caught up on nness projects 2. Compiling my SEcrets to Happy Living LMAO and sending it out to participants 3. Finding something to laugh about every day

5. What are your plans for New Year's Eve? I'm working until midnight and then I'm going to go over to my boyfriend's and hang out an dwatch movies

[sarahkate]

Hey nobody posted the Friday Five for this past Friday, ah well, here it is, a bit late!

Friday Five for 1/2/04:

What one thing are you most looking forward to . . .

1. ...today?

2. ...over the next week?

3. ...this year?

4. ...over the next five years?

5. ...for the rest of your life?

[sarahkate]

What one thing are you most looking forward to . . .

1. ...today? Going home and putting my pajamas on!

2. ...over the next week? Getting LOTS of Nervousness stuff done. Some of it is way overdue, some is due very soon, and some is due sometime in the future, but I am really hoping to get it ALL or mostly all done this week.

3. ...this year? Hopefully getting in shape, losing lots of weight, eating better, cleaning up my house, maybe moving (might be happening in a few months, long story!), going back to college, being happy.

4. ...over the next five years? Getting my college degree, finding a career that I enjoy, hopefully getting married and having kids, moving someplace new, out of NY State I hope, getting out of debt as much as possible.

5. ...for the rest of your life? Doing things that make me happy like traveling lots, having a family, living someplace where I really feel "at home."

[nymphette]

What one thing are you most looking forward to . . .

1. ...today? going to bed... it's been a long day after a sleepless night!!!

2. ...over the next week? harrison's first birthday!!!!

3. ...this year? getting our house in order- painting/papering the rooms that need it, rearranging everything to suit my tastes and make our house our home!!!!

4. ...over the next five years? getting to know my sons, as they develop into 'real' people, not just babies/toddlers!!!

5. ...for the rest of your life? more of hte above, and just spending time with the people i love!!!

yes, i know i am boring..... sigh

[medeous]

no new friday 5 here, but i haven't answered last week's, so that's okay.
What one thing are you most looking forward to . . .

1. ...today? reading in bed - new sheets all to myself!
2. ...over the next week? having a clean house...not the cleaning part, mind you- just the bit when it's all finished ;)

3. ...this year? summer!

4. ...over the next five years? watching my child spread her wings

5. ...for the rest of your life? being with the one i love

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

There wasn't a new one last Friday, but here's an old one, if anyone is interested:

1. Where were you born?
2. If you still live there, where would you rather move to? If you don't live there, do you want to move back? Why or why not?
3. Where in the world do you feel the safest?
4. Do you feel you are well-traveled?
5. Where is the most interesting place you've been?

[sarahkate]

1. Where were you born? Lawrence, Massachusetts and I lived in Lowell, MA until I was almost 6 years old, then we moved to NY.

2. If you still live there, where would you rather move to? If you don't live there, do you want to move back? Why or why not? I have considered moving back to that area of Mass. because most of my family still lives there, but I don't think I would move back to Lowell specifically.

3. Where in the world do you feel the safest? Probably on the coast of Maine. My family goes up there for a week most summers, and I just feel completely worry free & safe there.

4. Do you feel you are well-traveled? Definitely not! I have never been anywhere outside of the northeastern U.S. :(

5. Where is the most interesting place you've been? Wow. I have no clue. Maybe Boston. I haven't been there many times, but I would love to go back & explore the city more.

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

Answering this, and then no more chain games until I wade through 15 more pages of forums posting for my organization thread...

1. Where were you born?
Baltimore. Really Towson, but we lived in Baltimore at the time, so that counts.

2. If you still live there, where would you rather move to? If you don't live there, do you want to move back? Why or why not?
I like it here, but I still want to move at least once or twice before I die. I am considering Iowa City, Austin, Ithaca, Amherst, and Portland.

3. Where in the world do you feel the safest?
Anywhere with Chris. :)

4. Do you feel you are well-traveled?
I think I am domestically well-traveled because I have been to many regions of the U.S., but I am poorly-traveled internationally, having only been to Mexico.

5. Where is the most interesting place you've been?
Most interesting in terms of the physical attributes of the place: southern Utah.
Most interesting in terms of things to do: New York City.

[chunkymonkey]

1. Where were you born?

Livingston, NJ

2. If you still live there, where would you rather move to? If you don't live there, do you want to move back? Why or why not?

No I don't still live there. I never really lived there... that was where the hospital was. It's in north jersey. I only lived in that part of NJ for my first 3 or 4 years so I don't have much connection with it. I've lived in either north or central New Jersey all my life and it's pretty much the same thing... people everywhere, attitude, variety.

3. Where in the world do you feel the safest?

I have a pretty strong sense of security that has nothing to do with where I am.

4. Do you feel you are well-traveled?

lol nope. I've been to about 20 of the 50 states, that's it. Hopefully that will change soon though. :)

5. Where is the most interesting place you've been?

New York City. No matter how many times I go there it seems new each time.

[nymphette]

1. Where were you born? calgary, alberta, canada

2. If you still live there, where would you rather move to? If you don't live there, do you want to move back? Why or why not? yes, i want to move back.. i have moved back once.. and came back to sask to some strange reason... i wont' raise my kids there though...

3. Where in the world do you feel the safest? at my mom's house and i have never figured out why....

4. Do you feel you are well-traveled? no i am not... i have been to the u.s. once, and never out of canada anywhere else... i ahve been to manitoba 2x and b.c. 3 times and alberta, well a lot... but that's it....


5. Where is the most interesting place you've been? calgary, hands down.... everything about it is interesting to me....

[Seusomon]

1. Where were you born?

Fremont, California, USA

2. If you still live there, where would you rather move to? If you don't live there, do you want to move back? Why or why not?

Would rather not move back; it's become very urbanized and expensive. Santa Fe suits me much better.

3. Where in the world do you feel the safest?

In my own home, I think.

4. Do you feel you are well-traveled?

Yes; at least I seem to have been to more places than most other people.

5. Where is the most interesting place you've been?

Buea, Cameroon.

[tanagee]

1. Where were you born?
Lake View Terrace, California...A city made famous by the Rodney King beating.

2. If you still live there, where would you rather move to? If you don't live there, do you want to move back? Why or why not?
Never lived there, I live in the same general area 5 miles or so away. I like living here it's kind of rural and is in the mountains, but is less than hour from Downtown L.A., Hollywood, the beach or the desert.

3. Where in the world do you feel the safest?
My house

4. Do you feel you are well-traveled?
Not really.

5. Where is the most interesting place you've been?
Baja California (AKA Mexico), it was interesting to see the difference in the living conditions a few miles south of one of the richest states in the richest country in the world.

[Sirius]

1born in phoenix arizona

2live in peoria arizona a suburb of phoenix. . . i wouldn't want to live anywhere else primarily because i have so many important ties here, secondly because i don't have to deal with things like snow, blizzards, eathquakes, tornados, hurricanes, etc here

3home

4no

5oh, tough one...the "drive thru volcano" in st lucia? the champagne reef in dominica, the Ponderesa bar in the middle of nowhere Greneda? the Mayan ruins in Mexico? the cliff dwellings in Arizona? so many other choices, all so fascinating...

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

TODAY'S FRIDAY 5:

1. What does it say in the signature line of your emails?

2. Did you have a senior quote in your high school yearbook? What was it? If you haven't graduated yet, what would you like your quote to be?

3. If you had vanity plates on your car, what would they read? If you already have them, what do they say?

4. Have you received any gifts with messages engraved upon them? What did the inscription say?

5. What would you like your epitaph to be?

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

1. What does it say in the signature line of your emails?

I only use one for work-related emails, and it's:
Heather Moss
Bibliographic Coordinator
Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery
UMBC
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore MD 21250
Phone (410) 455-1753
Fax (410) 455-1598
eMail hmoss@umbc.edu

2. Did you have a senior quote in your high school yearbook? What was it? If you haven't graduated yet, what would you like your quote to be?

I thought about it long and hard, back then, and ended up choosing "Live for each second without hesitation..." -Elton John. Of course, this is really taken out of context, because the rest of the line in the song is "and never forget I'm your man." :P

3. If you had vanity plates on your car, what would they read? If you already have them, what do they say?

SHARKY*1 :lol:

4. Have you received any gifts with messages engraved upon them? What did the inscription say?

I have a bracelet from when I was a baby that has an H engraved on it, but that's it.

5. What would you like your epitaph to be?

I think I would like to keep it simple and just have my name and dates of birth and death. If I achieve prominence in some field, I guess I wouldn't mind having my profession put on there.

[Sirius]

1. What does it say in the signature line of your emails?




(blank)

2. Did you have a senior quote in your high school yearbook? What was it? If you haven't graduated yet, what would you like your quote to be?

They didn't do Senior quotes in my year book. I signed all my years books with "have a fun-filled action packed adventure of a life."

3. If you had vanity plates on your car, what would they read? If you already have them, what do they say?

Rrrrrrrr

4. Have you received any gifts with messages engraved upon them? What did the inscription say?

Um...I have childhood bracelets with my name...someone gave me a picture frame with "Chirstmas 1991" engraved on it. My wedding goblets, my wedding serving set have our names engraved....can't think of anything else...

5. What would you like your epitaph to be?

[nymphette]

TODAY'S FRIDAY 5:

1. What does it say in the signature line of your emails?

nothing

2. Did you have a senior quote in your high school yearbook? What was it? If you haven't graduated yet, what would you like your quote to be?

my quote was 'must be nice'.... i was pretty sarcastic and bitter in high school....


3. If you had vanity plates on your car, what would they read? If you already have them, what do they say?

momma2

4. Have you received any gifts with messages engraved upon them? What did the inscription say?

wine bottle and champagne glasses with our wedding info... (the bottle has our wedding 'quote': i love you not only for who you are, but for what i am when i am with you.)

5. What would you like your epitaph to be?

"she didn't know what hit her"

[kittymao]

1. What does it say in the signature line of your emails?
Nothing. I don't use e-mails regularly.

2. Did you have a senior quote in your high school yearbook? What was it? If you haven't graduated yet, what would you like your quote to be?
My high school was cheapskates. We didn't get quotes. We were lucky our senior pics were in COLOR.

3. If you had vanity plates on your car, what would they read? If you already have them, what do they say? Huhm. If I had a vanity plate I think it'd say KELLISUX. Of course, my boyfriend would hate it.

4. Have you received any gifts with messages engraved upon them? What did the inscription say? No, but I gave one- to Rudy, it said his name, and the I LOVE YOU. It was stolen from him in a hotel while he was at E3.

5. What would you like your epitaph to be?
Hm. Never thought of it as I still don't intend to be buried. When I have it, I'll let cha know.

[Curlita]

1. What does it say in the signature line of your emails?

Nothing.

2. Did you have a senior quote in your high school yearbook? What was it? If you haven't graduated yet, what would you like your quote to be?

Groan. I got al pedantic - "No man grows wise without he have his share of winters."

3. If you had vanity plates on your car, what would they read? If you already have them, what do they say?

Curly

4. Have you received any gifts with messages engraved upon them? What did the inscription say?

My wedding ring has "you are my sunshine" engraved inside it. :)

5. What would you like your epitaph to be?

Beloved Wife and Mother

and/or

Too Early

I love Nympette's!
I also love that in France, they have women's maiden name on their tombstone (although not an issue for me, as I kept my name anyway...)

[cryptaesia]

what does it say in the signature line of my email?????
nadda
my senior quote?
if a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind then give me the electric chair for all my future crimes (prince)
vanity plates?
i always wanted 'lucretia' when i was a young goth, but now, 'nahkoda'
gifts with engraving?
none
epitaph
died vainly trying to get the last of the coca cola out of a coke bottle

[mysundown15]

1. What does it say in the signature line of your emails?

I don't have a signature in my emails.

2. Did you have a senior quote in your high school yearbook? What was it? If you haven't graduated yet, what would you like your quote to be?

I don't think I'll have a yearbook.

3. If you had vanity plates on your car, what would they read? If you already have them, what do they say?

James. I don't have nicknames, I just like James. But it's probably taken already, I'd have to use James##, like James99. Or maybe xjamesx

4. Have you received any gifts with messages engraved upon them? What did the inscription say?

I don't think I've ever recieved anything with an engraving.

5. What would you like your epitaph to be?

Been there, done that.

[reddirtrose]

1. What does it say in the signature line of your emails?

I don't have a signature line on my e-mails

2. Did you have a senior quote in your high school yearbook? What was it? If you haven't graduated yet, what would you like your quote to be?

I left high school in my junior year - that was my statement I guess


3. If you had vanity plates on your car, what would they read? If you already have them, what do they say?

I don't have them - but how about BUYART or GUADPWR or REDROSE


4. Have you received any gifts with messages engraved upon them? What did the inscription say?

I can't remember ever getting anything with a message engraved on it

5. What would you like your epitaph to be?

What a long strange trip it's been

and thanks for Curlita's remeinder
Beloved Mother, Wife, and Grandmother
actually I want to be around long enough to add a great grandma to that ;)

[chunkymonkey]

1. What does it say in the signature line of your emails?

Don't have one.

2. Did you have a senior quote in your high school yearbook? What was it? If you haven't graduated yet, what would you like your quote to be?

no quote

3. If you had vanity plates on your car, what would they read? If you already have them, what do they say?
don't have them... if I did they would say plump. lol I don't know.

4. Have you received any gifts with messages engraved upon them? What did the inscription say?

hmmm.... I don't think I have other than my name.

5. What would you like your epitaph to be?

the real deal

[lilacgirl]

I usually don't do things like this because I don't blog and I'm pretty private and shy, but I found an amazing site that I think some of you might enjoy. It's basically got a list of links to all of the questionaires that you can fill out daily, monthly and so on. Check it out! The Memes List (http://www.iampariah.com/projects/memeslist.php)

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

List for today, January 23, 2004.

At this moment, what is your favorite...

1. ...song?

2. ...food?

3. ...tv show?

4. ...scent?

5. ...quote?

[cindi1023]

List for today, January 23, 2004.

At this moment, what is your favorite...

1. ...song?

Lately I've been drawn to "Ghost" by Indigo Girls... guess I've been thinking about the one that got away too much! :P

2. ...food?

Sushi

3. ...tv show?

24... I :wub: Keifer!

4. ...scent?

Green Tea

5. ...quote?

I can't remember who said it but... "If there's no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?"

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

At the moment, my favorite song is "All Right the Reasons" by The Jayhawks.

At the moment, my favorite food is Crazy Eel Roll from Sushi Hana in Towson, MD.

At the moment, my favorite t.v. show is Reno 911.

At the moment, my favorite scent is Coffee.

At the moment, my favorite quote is: A world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. (http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/warguilt.html) --George Orwell (Click on the quote to read this in context.)

[sarahkate]

At this moment, what is your favorite...

1. ...song? Evil Ways by Nonpoint (it's a cover of the Santana song)

2. ...food? Lasagna. Wishing I had some right now.

3. ...tv show? Umm. How do I choose. I guess I will say.... Everwood.

4. ...scent? My hair because my cheapo Suave shampoo smells very good!

5. ...quote? I have so many favorite quotes. It's hard to choose. I think I will go with this one for today (it was one of my senior quotes):

Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Critisize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I may not forget you.
-- William A. Ward

[emmica]

At this moment, what is your favorite...

1. ...song?

King of Sorrow by Sade.

2. ...food?

French fries.

3. ...tv show?

Scrubs, you can never overdose on humour.

4. ...scent?

Fresh snow on a cold winter morning.
5. ...quote?


"I like them, but I don't need them. It's a bit like handbags, there's really no purpose for them, but you want to have lots and lots of them anyway." -- A friend about men

[chunkymonkey]

1. ...song?

At this exact moment... always- rilo kiley

2. ...food?

I am having cravings for plain lo mein and spring rolls everyday

3. ...tv show?

24

4. ...scent?

lol my hair too... pantene.

5. ...quote?

"Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive." -warren miller

[nymphette]

1. ...song? bd timing- blue rodeo

2. ...food? california rolls

3. ...tv show? sopranos

4. ...scent? yves rocher's green tea shower gel

5. ...quote? 'now we see the violence inherent in the system... come and see the violence inherent in the system!!! help! help! i'm being repressed!!!!' -dennis the constitutional peasant

[Gingersmack]

1. ...song?

hello - evanescence

2. ...food?

oatmeal

3. ...tv show?

sex and the city

4. ...scent?

ginger

5. ...quote?

“If a man does not keep pace
with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears
a different drummer.
Let him step to the music
which he hears,
however measured
and far away.”

– Henry David Thoreau

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

You have just won one million dollars:

1. Who do you call first?

2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself?

3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else?

4. Do you give any away? If yes, to whom?

5. Do you invest any? If so, how?

[emmica]

You have just won one million dollars:

1. Who do you call first?
I'd call my cat if he could understand such things, but since he is a cat I'd call dear mumsies.

2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself?
A nice pair of boots. Or a vintage hat.

3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else?
Well, I usually send things through the mail, so I'd probably buy some luxury chocolate, stuff it into a package and ship it off to a dear friend. And then postcards. :)

4. Do you give any away? If yes, to whom?
Yes. To the Red Cross, and some to mum.

5. Do you invest any? If so, how?
I don't believe in investing. Eeevilness.

[MelangeArtiste]

You have just won one million dollars:

1. Who do you call first?
I'd call my mother. I've always called her to celebrate exciting things.

2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself?
I would pay off my mortgage. Ok, between taxes on the winnings and the mortgage, well over half of the money is gone already.

3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else?
Today, it would be a new computer for my mother because she just called me to troubleshoot hers.

4. Do you give any away? If yes, to whom?
Absolutely. Amnesty International and American Friends Service Committee are the first donations I'd make

5. Do you invest any? If so, how?
Well, there's not much left after doing 1-4 above, but I can invest the money I'm not paying for mortgage, and since my mutual funds are performing better than market average, I'll stick with them.

Well, that was a nice fantasy. Next!

melanie

[chunkymonkey]

1. Who do you call first?

definitely my mommy. :)

2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself?

lol probably the first thing I saw.

3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else?

I'd buy a plane ticket for sarah. :wub:

4. Do you give any away? If yes, to whom?

I'd take care of my mom and a few other people. I'd donate some to a few charities. I'd also give soem money to the catholic grade school I went to because it was really my childhood home.

5. Do you invest any? If so, how?

I think I would consult a stock broker, etc.

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

You have just won one million dollars:

1. Who do you call first?

Chris. But if he's with me when I win, I'll call my mom.

2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself?

Sushi, more than likely. :lol:

3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else?

I would buy Chris a new car. (A Civic hybrid.)

4. Do you give any away? If yes, to whom?

I would give a substantial amount away, I am sure, especially to family and friends. I would give some to charity, but I don't know exactly which charity or how much. A million isn't enough to really endow anything, so I'd probably do something like give Baltimore City Schools $50,000 to buy new books for their school libraries.

5. Do you invest any? If so, how?

I would invest it, but I know nothing about investing, so the "how" will have to be left to a financial advisor.

[nymphette]

You have just won one million dollars:

1. Who do you call first? my mom.. and if her phone is busy, my sister to tell her to get off the phone with my mom... so i can call her back.. ;)


2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself? new clothes... ones that fit and aren't too big, small, or maternity wear....


3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else? a buckskin horse for my mom...


4. Do you give any away? If yes, to whom? some to my mom and some to my sister... enough to help them clear up their debts...


5. Do you invest any? If so, how? chris would MAKE us invest it... i dont know how, but he always says 'if we win the lottery i'm getting michael wolphant to invest it and we aren't touching it'.... or michael elephant... not sure....

[Death_Or_Aldona]

You have just won one million dollars:

1. Who do you call first? my boy, or mr. matt if my boy is with me

2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself? mark ryden's blood book and cd

3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else? an acoustic bass guitar for my boy

4. Do you give any away? If yes, to whom? yes. to all my friends, family...the guy on the corner of high street

5. Do you invest any? If so, how? prolly...I don't know to go about it...but maybe we would try...

[VeronicasLovebug]

You have just won one million dollars:

1. Who do you call first?

I'd have to call my mom aka crazy lady as i call her :P lol

2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself?

A plane ticket to New Jersey to see Veronica. :D

3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else?

I think I'd have to take Veronica on a trip to Spain :wub: hehe

4. Do you give any away?

I'd give some to my family, and maybe a few charities

5. Do you invest any? If so, how?

I'd talk to a stock broker or financial advisor and invest a good portion of it.

[bingsy]

You have just won one million dollars:

1. Who do you call first?

Randy

2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself?

Dinner. Probably a sushi dinner. One where I am not ordering in a fashion to keep my bill lower than $50. My first truly expensive thing: I would hire someone to come and help me organize my closets and the entire apartment! I need organization more than anything else.

3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else?

Randy's wedding ring. My second thing would be a trip to the Carribean or Mexico to get married.

4. Do you give any away?

Sure, but I don't know how much or to whom. I would want the money to last a lifetime, basically it would be my retirement. I want to have hobbies and go back to school just to learn without the pressure of tying it to a career. I want to enjoy the seasons and enjoy loved ones without the stress of a soul sucking job. I couldn't afford to give too much away. What I could give I would give though.

5. Do you invest any? If so, how?

I don't know. I'd have to talk to people or financial advisors about it first.

[tanagee]

You have just won one million dollars:

1. Who do you call first? My sweetie

2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself? Volvo XC90

3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else? a 1968 Chevelle SS for my sweetie

4. Do you give any away? If yes, to whom? American Cancer Society, St Judes, and City of Hope

5. Do you invest any? If so, how? 529 College savings account for my Megan, IRA for the futue (because 1 Mil breaks down to 50K a year for 20 years)

[lemur]

You have just won one million dollars:

1. Who do you call first? Me mama

2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself? Hmm There are just to many things...lots of books, fabrics and whatever else I have been coveting.

3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else? A house for my parents in or near Medicine Hat, where my brothers live

4. Do you give any away? If yes, to whom? Besides my family :P ?
Opendoors international, missions probably, whoever needed it

5. Do you invest any? If so, how?Yes but I would need a financial planner to tell me what to do, as I am naturally a saver and know nothing of this investing stuff :blink: . Probably something stable and secure as opposed to risky with high gains

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

1. What's the most daring thing you've ever done?

2. What one thing would you like to try that your mother/friend/significant other would never approve of?

3. On a scale of 1-10, what's your risk factor? (1=never take risks, 10=it's a lifestyle)

4. What's the best thing that's ever happened to you as a result of being bold/risky?

5. ... and what's the worst?

[sarahkate]

You know, I really can't think of anything daring I have done in my whole life!
That's sad :( Not that I don't WANT to do anything daring, I just haven't.

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

1. What's the most daring thing you've ever done?

I don't know. I feel like I have done many daring things, and some of them I don't want to share. One pretty daring thing I did was to walk around naked at a Rainbow Gathering, although it didn't feel so daring at the time. In retrospect, though, I can't believe I did it.

2. What one thing would you like to try that your mother/friend/significant other would never approve of?

The drug Ecstacy.

3. On a scale of 1-10, what's your risk factor? (1=never take risks, 10=it's a lifestyle)

Nowadays, I think it's around 4. Ten years ago, it was an 8 or 9.

4. What's the best thing that's ever happened to you as a result of being bold/risky?

I don't think Chris and I would be together now if I hadn't been very, very forward and bold with him right before we started dating.

5. ... and what's the worst?

Getting arrested for buying LSD from an undercover cop.

[Sirius]

1. What's the most daring thing you've ever done?
mmmm....geez...i'm not a big risk taker...um, racing guys I didn't know on the freeway and then getting out of the car to talk with them, then eventually getting in their car with them to continue the evening around town....

or jumping off a cliff (into water)

or flying off to Reno by myself for the weekend...

2. What one thing would you like to try that your mother/friend/significant other would never approve of?
a solo cross country road trip

3. On a scale of 1-10, what's your risk factor? (1=never take risks, 10=it's a lifestyle)
5

4. What's the best thing that's ever happened to you as a result of being bold/risky?
um...that race on the freeway led to a 2 year relationship that I rather enjoyed

5. ... and what's the worst?
...not discussable....

[Sirius]

Because I've missed a few...

You have just won one million dollars:

1. Who do you call first? Brian

2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself? Boring...first I would buy all the stuff I already have (i.e. pay off my house, my car) then I'd see what I have left over to work with....

3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else? Several people I know would have new cars.

4. Do you give any away? If yes, to whom? My family and friends, I wouldn't give it away in cash, I would have the opportunity to buy the things that I always wanted to give them but couldn't.

5. Do you invest any? If so, how? Yes. Wisely. A diverse portfolio that would include a few low risk municipal and state bonds. The bulk in mutual funds, appreciation funds, an index fund, a bit in emerging markets. Then part in stocks. A couple of blue chips, then some fun ones with the "speculative" part of my holdings.

[bingsy]

1. What's the most daring thing you've ever done?

Jumping off the 25 foot cliff at the Blue Hole (Georgetown, TX)

2. What one thing would you like to try that your family/significant other would never approve of?

being the biggest loafer in the entire U.S. of A
My family would disapprove because they would never understand the value in it. Randy would disapprove at the moment because he relies on me to pay the bills while he goes through pre-med and then med school!

3. On a scale of 1-10, what's your risk factor? (1=never take risks, 10=it's a lifestyle)

4, used to be higher

4. What's the best thing that's ever happened to you as a result of being bold/risky?

Got together with Randy :wub:

5. ... and what's the worst?

Got together with Jimmy :wacko:

[mpurr]

1. What's the most daring thing you've ever done?

Left a bad relationship- packed my stuff in the car, and drove from Maine to Georgia all alone.

2. What one thing would you like to try that your family/significant other would never approve of?
Opium


3. On a scale of 1-10, what's your risk factor? (1=never take risks, 10=it's a lifestyle)

7

4. What's the best thing that's ever happened to you as a result of being bold/risky?

my own fabulous place - poverty and all!

5. ... and what's the worst?

the abovementioned bad relationship

[tanagee]

1. What's the most daring thing you've ever done?
Called up a guy who was a customer at the big chain video/music store I worked at and asked him out on a date based on some flirting.

2. What one thing would you like to try that your mother/friend/significant other would never approve of?
I can't think of anything that I want to do that they wouldn't be supportive of

3. On a scale of 1-10, what's your risk factor? (1=never take risks, 10=it's a lifestyle)
Before marriage and baby 5, after marriage and baby 3

4. What's the best thing that's ever happened to you as a result of being bold/risky?
Met my husband (not the guy in Q#1) :wub:

5. ... and what's the worst?
Became obsessed, almost to the point of stalker, with the guy in question #1 (after we went out on a few dates) :wacko:

[cryptaesia]

whats the most daring thing youve done?
ummm....walked through the inside of a train trestle (under the tracks) about 100 yrds long and 200 ft high over land and water.

What one thing would you like to try that your mother/friend/significant other would never approve of?
i have fifteen tattoos and my mother doesnt approve of any of them

On a scale of 1-10, what's your risk factor?
id like to say ten, but honestly, im probably only a two or three

What's the best thing that's ever happened to you as a result of being bold/risky?
many many girlfriends and a number of intense live performances

... and what's the worst?
ummmm.....lost a girl i really loved because i was an egotistical jackass and thought it was okay to date a couple of girls at once

[bluecrayon]

1. what's the most daring thing you've done?
I hitchhiked from NYC to San Francisco when I was 16... yikes.

2. what one thing would you like to try that your mother/friend/significant other would never approve of?

well, my mother is out of the picture, my friends are all okay with anything I do and my significant other lives a state away and can't see me most of the time! I'm 34 now and it's probably past my time to shock anyone -- other than changing my gender, I suppose -- but I'm not wanting to try that anyway!

3. On a scale of 1-10, what's your risk factor?
Hmm -- emotionally, I'm up around 8, I think. My whole life is about to burst open...
Physically -- somewhere around 6, I think. I like to wander around the city streets late at night and that's probably not a 1! I like to ride my bike in a city that doesn't like bike riders...

4. What's the best thing that's ever happened to you as a result of being bold/risky?
I took a big risk smiling my way into infatuation guy's life -- that could have gone all different kinds of ways -- but I knew I wanted him and I went for him!


5. And what's the worst?
Being on my own when I was really young, I made some bad decisions because I thought I had to make them to survive... and maybe that was true.

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

1. Are you superstitious?

2. What extremes have you heard of someone going to in the name of superstition?

3. Believer or not, what's your favorite superstition?

4. Do you believe in luck? If yes, do you have a lucky number/article of clothing/ritual?

5. Do you believe in astrology? Why or why not?

[bingsy]

1. Are you superstitious?

At times, absolutely!

2. What extremes have you heard of someone going to in the name of superstition?

I didn't watch the third LOTR, because I associate the last two with terrible things that happened afterward.

My mom would not allow us to have guests on New Year's Eve while I was in high school.

My mom wouldn't allow me to wear red in high school for some superstitious reason. (Oh, you know I wore it anyway! ;) )

I held my breath every time I passed a cemetary in high school. It worked out usually, but some cemetaries are awfully long.

3. Believer or not, what's your favorite superstition?

Why Friday the 13th, of course. 13 is Randy's favorite number, and Friday is his favorite day. So I like to make it special for him.

4. Do you believe in luck? If yes, do you have a lucky number/article of clothing/ritual?

Sure, 22, no clothing (I gave up on the myth my friends passed on the black panties gave you power...)

5. Do you believe in astrology? Why or why not?

No, because it is just downright illogical. I am a nature/nurture combo...nature being genetics, not your birth date.

I do however think it's fun to muse about. I am a very typical gemini, but the descriptions are vague. They would describe many of us: dual personality, talkative...

[tanagee]

1. Are you superstitious?
Not really...but I do 'follow the rules' just in case.

2. What extremes have you heard of someone going to in the name of superstition?
Athletes not bathing, washing their jock or uniform, or eating only certain things while on a pitching/hitting/wining spree.

3. Believer or not, what's your favorite superstition?
Think of five or six names of boys or girls you might marry, As you twist the stem of an apple, recite the names until the stem comes off. You will marry the person whose name you were saying when the stem fell off.

If your nose itches you will soon be kissed by a fool.

My grandpa told me that if I sang at the table I would marry a black man (I guess that was the ultimate in horror for him)

4. Do you believe in luck? If yes, do you have a lucky number/article of clothing/ritual?
yes, and I believe mine is all bad. The # 5 because when I was a kid I won the prize when told to 'pick a number between...X and X"

5. Do you believe in astrology? Why or why not?
To an extent. I exibit certain traits of my sun and moon and houses, but I don't think they tell all about you. I read them in papers and magazines just to see how accurate they are after the fact.

[dorsia]

1. Are you superstitious?
Not particularly, but I do take things as "signs" sometimes.

2. What extremes have you heard of someone going to in the name of superstition?
Gosh, painting their houses certain colors, changing the way they sign their names, naming their children certain names, all kinds of things....

3. Believer or not, what's your favorite superstition?
I like the classic black cat crossing your path. :D

4. Do you believe in luck? If yes, do you have a lucky number/article of clothing/ritual?
Luck's relative --- you can count good occurences as good luck, in that case of course I believe in it. I do like things that are related to the numbers 2, 5, and 9, and I used to like to kiss things before I put them in the mailbox....
Hah, you all have my kissy germs! :wub:

5. Do you believe in astrology? Why or why not?
I think it's fun, but not factual.

[cryptaesia]

When was the last time you...

1. ...went to the doctor? um, last wed

2. ...went to the dentist?dec 2003?

3. ...filled your gas tank?i dont drive

4. ...got enough sleep?never

5. ...backed up your computer? good question.....

[silvertiger]

When was the last time you...

1. ...went to the doctor? yesterday

2. ...went to the dentist? um... july 2002... perhaps... I really don't know, maybe it was 2003

3. ...filled your gas tank? sometime last year

4. ...got enough sleep? last night

5. ...backed up your computer? erm... never (though this computer is relatively new)

[Sirius]

When was the last time you...

1. ...went to the doctor? August

2. ...went to the dentist? mid Jan

3. ...filled your gas tank? Yesterday

4. ...got enough sleep? last night

5. ...backed up your computer? um...occassionally brian shakes his head in frustration at me and backs it up on my behalf.

[sarahkate]

There was no Friday Five this week so I picked one at random from their archives.



1. What was your first job?

2. How old were you when you had your first kiss?

3. What was your first car? What happened to it?

4. What was your first concert?

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?

[namelessgirl]

1. What was your first job?
Stock manager at Body Shop

2. How old were you when you had your first kiss?
seven

3. What was your first car? What happened to it?
a '96 toyota camry. still driving it.

4. What was your first concert?
3rd eye blind and eve 6, the mtv campus invasion tour

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
crafting. hopefully meeting up with a new friend. maybe go buy a new bed! (and then try out the bed with the hubby! :))

[sarahkate]

1. What was your first job? <span style='color:orange'>When I had just turned 18 I got a job as a cashier at the local grocery store in my town while I was going to college. I worked there for a little over a year.

2. How old were you when you had your first kiss? My first real kiss (not counting the games of truth-or-dare with the the boys in my neighborhood ^_^) was right after I had turned 15 I think.

3. What was your first car? What happened to it? A silver four door 1992 Plymouth Acclaim. I got it when I was 18. It had plush maroon interior. Swanky! That car was called The Silver Bullet by my friends & family. I drove that car until it was pretty much dead, so I got a new car a few years ago and The Silver Bullet actually just sat in my driveway for YEARS up until last summer when we gave it away to one of my mom's coworkers. Last I heard they fixed it up, but it died a while later, so they sold it to someone who runs a demolition derby! Oh no! My poor car!!! :'(

4. What was your first concert? It was during the Summer of '97 I belive and it was a big outdoor music festival. There were a bunch of bands there including Blink 182, Everclear, Black Lab, Feeder, and more that I can't remember. That day I got the worst sunburn in my life.

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?</span> I really have no clue. I have to go buy my sister a birthday present because she turned 17 a week ago today and I still haven't bought her anything, so I might get her something tonight and go visit her & my mom tomorrow. I have tons of cleaning to do in my house. Maybe I will rent a few movies or go out to the movie theater. So much to do! So little time!

[kittymao]

1. What was your first job? concession worker at the Alameda County Fair.

2. How old were you when you had your first kiss? Hm. Sixteen? Yea.

3. What was your first car? What happened to it? I cannot drive and have no car.

4. What was your first concert? Oh, Fearfactory, MonsterMagnet and Rob Zombie. I was a late bloomer and poor most of the time.

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend? Hm. I think we're dropping an engine into an old chevy wagon. We're probably watchign a movie too, sometime. And working.

[Laurasia]

1. What was your first job? under the table job was petsitting and babysitting, my fist official job was shelving books in the library

2. How old were you when you had your first kiss? 15

3. What was your first car? What happened to it? A Mercury Sable. It was the worst piece of crap ever. My grandmother gave it to me after my grandpa died (he obviously didn't need it anymore) and it broke down at least once a month even though it was a fairly newish car with not very many miles on it. It was white and drove like a boat. I hit things when I tried to park it. It always burned power steering fluid so it had this bad smell to it too. When I decided to sell it and buy my parent's Honda Civic off them every person who knew anything about cars took one look and said that the odometer (mile counter thingie) had been tampered with and that it looked as if it had been seriously rebuilt after a bad accident/salvage and that Ford (who owns Mercury). I asked my grandma if grandpa had perhaps been ripped off when he bought the car, but she swore that grandpa bought it from a very honest used car dealer (yeah right!). I sold it for half the bluebook value to a clueless lady and I still feel bad about it. Still, she should have known that for so little money, there had to have been something wrong with the car...

4. What was your first concert? My first real concert was Lalapalooza in 1994. It had the Beastie Boys, Smashing Pumpkins, Greenday, George Clinton, L7, and a buncha other bands that I can't remember...

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend? This weekend I plan to go to the darkroom and make some prints, take my dog to the beach and maybe see a movie or something.

[bingsy]

1. What was your first job?

I was a student tutor in the eighth grade. I got paid $4.25 an hour to basically show up, as very little students came to tutoring

2. How old were you when you had your first kiss?

19

3. What was your first car? What happened to it?

1993 Geo Metro. My mom wrecked it while I was on vacation in Minneapolis. (She was okay, just a little shaken up.)

4. What was your first concert?

Festival Venue: Cheap Trick played the El Paso Balloon Festival in 1989. I was there shouting, "Surrender!" and "I Want You to Want Me!" when they asked what song they should play for encore.

Small Club Venue: Anything Box at Club 101 in El Paso.

Edited because I just realized my first arena tour was in fact U2s Zoo TV tour. It came before the Smashing Pumpkins.

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?

Catching up on grading, working out, and reading

[Sirius]

1. What was your first job? at a movie theatre -- first concession, then box occice, then management/projection

2. How old were you when you had your first kiss? 15

3. What was your first car? What happened to it? Peugeot. Had an accident and sold it to my uncle.

4. What was your first concert? When I was a kid my parent's would take me to the concerts at the fair...the Pointer Sisters is the first one I remember. The first one I went to on my own (with friends) was Depeche Mode.

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend? Oil Change, Dinner with in-laws, Dancing, Dinner w/ grandparents.

[tanagee]

1. What was your first job?
I worked at Mc Donalds for 2 days. I applied for the job just to see if I could get it. (in hindsight I am sooo glad I didn't stay there, the manager was arrested for molesting and showing child porn to one of the Downs kids they had working there.)

2. How old were you when you had your first kiss?
I'm sad to say I was 8. I would 'experiment' with the boys next door. :blush:


3. What was your first car? What happened to it?
a 1964 1/2 Mustang. I decided to take it for a drive before I had my drivers licence and I wrecked it. :spank: My cousin owns it now, he is now a quadraplegic and I can't think of a tactful way to ask if I can buy it back.

4. What was your first concert?
Rick Springfield back when he was on General Hospital (I was 12)

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
Doing the same thing I do everyday. Wake up, keep my 2 year-old from distroying the house, sit at my computer wasting time, put the kid to bed and watch TV until I fall asleep on the couch.

[bluecrayon]

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST JOB?
I worked behind the jewellry counter at Best & Co. while I was in high school in Illinois.

HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU HAD YOUR FIRST KISS:
First "real" kiss was not until I was 18.

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CAR? WHAT HAPPENED TO IT?
It was a green Pontiac LeMans which I drove cross country several times and drove into the ground...

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CONCERT?
David Bowie at Carnegie Hall in NYC.

HOW DO YOU PLAN TO SPEND YOUR WEEKEND?
Trying to bend out this migraine -- and then, doing lots of art.

[reddirtrose]

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST JOB?
I babysat 2 boys probably about 5 and 7 years old MORE THAN 40 hours a week the summer of 1967 - between my freshman and sophomore years in high school. yikes that was hard - but not as hard as it was for their single mom :huh:
for yes it's true 50 cents an hour......

HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU HAD YOUR FIRST KISS:
my first "real" kiss I was 14 I think

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CAR? WHAT HAPPENED TO IT?
a 1964 Peugeot with sunroof - couldn't afford to repair it probably
can't exactly remember that was way back in 1971

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CONCERT?
Donovan at the Hollywood Bowl

HOW DO YOU PLAN TO SPEND YOUR WEEKEND?
try to get over this cough, catch up at nervousness - ew Sunday morning I have to do a Board function for the Board I'm a member of :wacko:

[cryptaesia]

1. What was your first job? worked as a dishwasher at bigboys

2. How old were you when you had your first kiss? young....12...maybe 13

3. What was your first car? What happened to it? I cannot drive and have no car.

4. What was your first concert? public enemy fear of a black planet tour

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend? art, hockey, risk

[cyph0r]

1. What was your first job?

a cashier at a higher class supermarket (lol - they served the expat community in singapore).

2. How old were you when you had your first kiss?

my first bf at age 13 only kissed me on the cheeks muahaha. i guess i would say 18 but my first most meaningful kiss was age 22 to my now husband :D

3. What was your first car? What happened to it?
ive never had a car unless u count my red pedal car when i was a kid :)

4. What was your first concert?
Garbage live in Singapore back in 1995.

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
i need to buy deco for wedding stuff, meet with the choir master this weekend. and work on a couple of LMAOs.

[Curlita]

1. What was your first job?

Stockgal at the Jefferson Market

2. How old were you when you had your first kiss?

14, on my First Date with Mike Farmer.

3. What was your first car? What happened to it?

A 1981 Reliant that I bought with my own money (see Q 1). It ran from 1988 until 1993, when it finally gave up the ghost. It was a nightmare. It went through at least two engines and two transmissions, and was always breaking down somewhere.

4. What was your first concert?
Don Henley in 1985.

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
I'm going to Barnes & Noble to buy a book and then I'm going to Johnny Rockets for onion rings and a chocolate coke!

[medeous]

1. What was your first job?
carhop at steak&shake
2. How old were you when you had your first kiss?
14
3. What was your first car? What happened to it?
first car of my own was a metallic blue buick regal...i think my dad traded it in for something.
4. What was your first concert?
tina turner w/ mr. mister, 1986
5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
my parents are visiting, so i imagine my mom will want to help me to sort through all my clothes or something equally exciting.

[sarahkate]

What was...

1. ...your first grade teacher's name?

2. ...your favorite Saturday morning cartoon?

3. ...the name of your very first best friend?

4. ...your favorite breakfast cereal?

5. ...your favorite thing to do after school?

[chunkymonkey]

1. ...your first grade teacher's name?

mrs o'gorman. She was a lovely british sort of woman except she wasn't bristish. You know what I mean.

2. ...your favorite Saturday morning cartoon?

without question garfield

3. ...the name of your very first best friend?

michael

4. ...your favorite breakfast cereal?

frosted flakes

5. ...your favorite thing to do after school?

As a kid... come home and change out of my uniform (catholic school) and then play basketball.

[stargal1998]

1. ...your first grade teacher's name? Mrs. Edwards. She was crazy, but in a good way.

2. ...your favorite Saturday morning cartoon? Um, for some reason "Galaxy High" which no one has ever heard of. Or maybe something else...

3. ...the name of your very first best friend? My mom says it was someone else, but the one I remember is Holly Carson. Who I cannot seem to find anywhere. Jenny Harris is another one I would still like to hear from.

4. ...your favorite breakfast cereal? Frankenberry, i think. NO! It was those shredded wheat squares with the fruit in the middle..

5. ...your favorite thing to do after school? Steal otter pops from the fridge with my friends and run like banshees around the neighborhood. Or play barbies.

[silvertiger]

1. ...your first grade teacher's name? ms. parmeley

2. ...your favorite Saturday morning cartoon? Garfield... whenever I woke up early enough :D

3. ...the name of your very first best friend? Kaylene K.

4. ...your favorite breakfast cereal? berry kix

5. ...your favorite thing to do after school? play w/my friends

[sarahkate]

1. ...your first grade teacher's name? Mrs. Robideau

2. ...your favorite Saturday morning cartoon? I'm glad to hear I'm not the only Garfield lover! I can't pick a favorite though...I also loved Rainbow Brite, Jem, Thundercats, The Wuzzles, My Little Pony....and more :)

3. ...the name of your very first best friend? Umm..I think it was probably Andy or April. That was when I was really young though, and still lived in Massachusetts. In NY my first best friend was Kristy Thomas.

4. ...your favorite breakfast cereal? When I was a kid probably Apple Jacks or AlphaBits.

5. ...your favorite thing to do after school? Play kickball or tag with the kids in my neighborhood, watch tv, play Barbies (did that A LOT!), or go to the library.

[littlest-bee]

1. ...your first grade teacher's name? Mrs Oladipo

2. ...your favorite Saturday morning cartoon? Dungeons and Dragons

3. ...the name of your very first best friend? Anna

4. ...your favorite breakfast cereal? Now its the very sensible Special K. When I was little it was probably Cornflakes because we weren't ever allowed to eat the sugary types.

5. ...your favorite thing to do after school? We used to play out - all the children on my street were pals and we'd make mischief...happy days!

[bingsy]

What was...

1. ...your first grade teacher's name?

Mrs. Klassen

2. ...your favorite Saturday morning cartoon?

Bugs Bunny

3. ...the name of your very first best friend?

Cynthia Knudsen

4. ...your favorite breakfast cereal?

Cocoa Puffs

5. ...your favorite thing to do after school?

ride my bike

[tanagee]

What was...

1. ...your first grade teacher's name?
Mrs Funk, and even at the tender age of 6 'we' called her Mrs. F*@k (although I had NO IDEA what it meant, just that it was a naughty word)

2. ...your favorite Saturday morning cartoon?
My favorite cartoon was on Sunday morning...George of the Jungle, along with Super Chicken and Tom Slick.

3. ...the name of your very first best friend?
Leah Brimacombe- We still see each other once in a while @ weddings and such.

4. ...your favorite breakfast cereal?
Cocoa Puffs

5. ...your favorite thing to do after school?
watch TV

[dorsia]

1. ...your first grade teacher's name?
Mrs. Gutierrez. She later had an affair with the father of some kids I babysat. I stole a blue, sparkly Barbie dress from her daughter because I was jealous that she went to a private school. All pretty bizarre!
2. ...your favorite Saturday morning cartoon?
Dangermouse. Was that on Saturday mornings? It was in Oklahoma when I was little. Or maybe my parents taped it and that's when I watched it....
3. ...the name of your very first best friend?
Kelly. She had horses and a pool with a slide and was half Native American. I kind of miss her, although I only kept in touch with her for a few years after I moved to California (until I was, say, eight).
4. ...your favorite breakfast cereal?
Trix and Froot Loops, before they started adding extra colors.
5. ...your favorite thing to do after school?
Eat those little packaged cinnamon rolls and rollerskate, climb onto the roof of the apartments across the street and jump to the roof of the parking structure (smart, eh?), play in the awesome lot behind those apartments, climb the tree there and chew on the stems of those yellow flowers. The field was FULL of them.

[siafu]

1. ...your first grade teacher's name?
Mrs Gregg; she took her false teeth out once. Scared us.

2. ...your favorite Saturday morning cartoon?
The Littles, Richie Rich, Goldie and Jake

3. ...the name of your very first best friend?
Emily Tubbs, but she asked me if i wanted to play marbles for keeps. I thought for keeps was a game. I lost my best blue marble.

4. ...your favorite breakfast cereal?
Honey nut Cheerios

5. ...your favorite thing to do after school?
watch TV

[Curlita]

1. ...your first grade teacher's name?

Miss Fowler

2. ...your favorite Saturday morning cartoon?

I don't remember... probably the Smurfs, or maybe Superfriends

3. ...the name of your very first best friend?

Stephanie

4. ...your favorite breakfast cereal?

As a kid, cocoa krispies.

5. ...your favorite thing to do after school?

Play outside with my friends - ride bikes, hide and go seek, roller-skating, walking to High's to buy candy or ice cream.

[cryptaesia]

What was...

1. ...your first grade teacher's name? i cannot remember

2. ...your favorite Saturday morning cartoon?scooby doo

3. ...the name of your very first best friend?ryan vale

4. ...your favorite breakfast cereal?count chocula and captn crunch

5. ...your favorite thing to do after school?read, write

[kristin102503]

1. ...your first grade teacher's name? Mrs. Nielsen. I think I had 3 teachers going through school with that same last name. *hmmm*

2. ...your favorite Saturday morning cartoon? Were the Smurfs and Rainbow Brite Saturday morning shows? I loved those. :)

3. ...the name of your very first best friend? Jessica (*sigh* I can't locate her now, though. :( )

4. ...your favorite breakfast cereal? *ick*

5. ...your favorite thing to do after school? Run across the street to my grandmother's to see if she'd give me a cookie or two. :D

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

1. What was the last song you heard?

2. What were the last two movies you saw?

3. What were the last three things you purchased?

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?

[medeous]

1. What was the last song you heard? the friends theme song

2. What were the last two movies you saw? josie and the pussycats, the ring

3. What were the last three things you purchased? a pair of gray cords and a black purse for my daughter and a rainbow-y pastel sequinned crocheted purse for myself.
4. What four things do you need to do this weekend? laundry, dishes, bills, art

5. Who are the last five people you talked to? dog, nan, cashier at store, leisa, and hurley (teachers at my school)

[littlest-bee]

1. What was the last song you heard?
Aeisha by Death in Vegas

2. What were the last two movies you saw?
Looney Toons Back In Action and Lost in Translation

3. What were the last three things you purchased?
Batteries, sweets and bagels

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
Visit my Nanna, run a 10km race, travel home, go to the cinema and kiss my boyfriend

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
2 work colleagues, 2 work phone calls and my auntie.

**edited because Heather reminded me what the second film was that I saw**

[Lilac]

The last song I heard: The theme from Jeopardy that my son was humming in his bedroom last night.

The last two movies: Along Came Polly and Bigfish

Last three things I purchased: A toothfairy teddy bear, School of Rock DVD and watercolor pencils.

4 things I need to do this weekend: take my son to his dentists appt. on Sat., groom the horses, go to church and um...I know there's more stuff but I can't remember.

The last Five people I talked to: My boss on the phone about an hour ago, my son, my Mother...who calls me every morning at 7 AM sharp and my Gramma last night.

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

1. What was the last song you heard?

Oddly enough, it was a cover version of "The Gambler" by an Elvis impersonator.

2. What were the last two movies you saw?

Lost in Translation and Office Space

3. What were the last three things you purchased?

A meatball sub, Twix, and a book of poems by James Merrill.

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?

Kid Lit Journal, mail some CDs, get my brows waxed, and clean the basement.

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?

Teresa (work), my Aunt Rita, Linda (work), and Amanda (work)

[sarahkate]

1. What was the last song you heard? Hmm...I can't remember what was on the radio in my car this morning on my way to work. Oh yeah, some song by Disturbed.

2. What were the last two movies you saw? Pieces of April & Cold Creek Manor

3. What were the last three things you purchased? Cashews from the vending machine at work this morning, Knott's Berry Farm cookies from the vending machine at work yesterday morning, and Coke from the vending machine at work on Wednesday. :P

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend? clean my house, go shopping for a pair of pants or a skirt, work on Nervousness stuff, and go to my boyfriend's parents' house on Sunday for a visit.

5. Who are the last five people you talked to? 4 coworkers & Cory (boyfriend)

[silvertiger]

1. What was the last song you heard?
"Affirmation" by Savage Garden

2. What were the last two movies you saw?
Finding Nemo & The Chase

3. What were the last three things you purchased?
portfolio, mat board, & yellow acrylic paint

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
go to the post office, call Jake, hang out w/my mom, get healthy

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
Mom, Jake, Kristin, Tom, Elise

[stargal1998]

1. What was the last song you heard?
one of my cube neighbor's was listening to a country song. "When you say nothing at all" the only reason I knew it was because I used to have "the other sister" soundtrack.
2. What were the last two movies you saw?
Fargo and 1/2 of enough last night. In the theatre, Eurotrip and Club Dread.

3. What were the last three things you purchased?
snack mix (captain crunch with pretzels, doritos, etc.), Lucky balls (those green snowball things) and a big sour pickle with lunch yesterday.

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
finish NNess stuff, knit like a mofo (I never say this in real life, but it sounds super cool when I say it on here), clean the house, clean my art desk.

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
Kim (work), Stacey (nicks sister at work), Sarahkate (PM), Mom (email), my boss

[marmarg]

1. What was the last song you heard?
"If I was a Rich Girl" by Lady Saw

2. What were the last two movies you saw?
"Cabin Fever"
"Wrong Turn"


3. What were the last three things you purchased?
Socks, a scanner, a box of tea since I ran out and I can't live without my lemon green tea!

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
Vaccuum, go grocery shopping, babysit my nephews, order new ink.

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
Marlon, Mom, Dad, Aaron, Mary-Lou

[cryptaesia]

. What was the last song you heard?something in donnie darko

2. What were the last two movies you saw?donnie darko and the princess bride

3. What were the last three things you purchased?risk 2210, postage, cola

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?work on music, writing, nervousness stuff and clean

5. Who are the last five people you talked to? wonky, adam, josh and erica and kylebeard the pirate

[nymphette]

1. What was the last song you heard? badgerbadgerbadgerbadger.... julian is in here with me... he thinks it's pretty cool...

2. What were the last two movies you saw? the gumby movie (with julian) and runaway jury

3. What were the last three things you purchased? spiderman socks for julian, a big tim's, and some lean pocketss... because i'm tired and feel like cheating on my housewifely duties this week.

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend? organize my art supplies and craft stuff, make stuff for the sale, clean the bathrooms (the bathtub hs rust in it becuse it hasnt' been cleaned since before we went to toronot.. and we have a very leaky faucet and rusty hard water), and cook up some casseroles so i dont 'hve to buy crap like lean pockets.....

5. Who are the last five people you talked to? chris, harrison (who didn't really talk back), julian (who is into this little three year old thing of talking back...), my mom and my sister. can you imagine that being your life??? sigh... i need to get out....

[Curlita]

1. What was the last song you heard?

Something from Beck's Sea Change.

2. What were the last two movies you saw?

I Shot Andy Warhol (EXCELLENT movie)
Lost in Translation

3. What were the last three things you purchased?

A cup of coffee
Lunch (grilled cheese and chips and lemonade!)
An iced mocha

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?

laundry
pay bills
special mail project
walk the Sherm

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?

My mom
Tom the docent
Greg the board member
My dog Sherman
My cat Frieda

I guess I didn't talk to my cat Lucy this morning...

[reddirtrose]

1. What was the last song you heard?

El Carretero - Buena Vista Social Club

2. What were the last two movies you saw?
Hidalgo (it was ok) and The Cook the Thief his Wife and Her Lover (hated it)

3. What were the last three things you purchased?
bread, bagel, chicken

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
clean, paint, dance, nervousness projects

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
Emma the baby
Felicity her mom
Brian her dad
Touffic my darling
and a hello to some older gentleman at the PO

[chunkymonkey]

1. What was the last song you heard?

kiss off- violent femmes

2. What were the last two movies you saw?

the last picture show
melvin goes to dinner

3. What were the last three things you purchased?

postage
cappuchino
newspaper

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?

burn cds
start the ball rolling on my zine "lict"
go to the library
organize/clean my desk/art area


5. Who are the last five people you talked to?

my mommy, sarah, 2 perfect strangers from my day, my neighbour

[kittymao]

1. What was the last song you heard?

hm- Something by Down. We were listening to the entire cd and I don't have the names memorized.

2. What were the last two movies you saw?

Way of the Gun
Fulltime Killers

3. What were the last three things you purchased?

apple juice
bagel
Train ticket

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?

Clean gutters
clean room
call in to work
buy more juice

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?

Rudy, Lupito, Gloria, Vicki and Paul.

[bluecrayon]

WHAT WAS THE LAST SONG YOU HEARD?
Don't stop the dance -- Roxy Music

WHAT WAS THE LAST TWO MOVIES YOU SAW?
War Photographer
Year of the Horse


WHAT WERE THE LAST 3 THINGS YOU PURCHASED?
a money order
a bottle of Perrier water
a bag of bagels

WHAT 4 THINGS DO YOU NEED TO DO THIS WEEKEND?
take kids to weekend kid stuff
do art work
go rock climbing (done)
clean house (sigh)

WHO ARE THE LAST 5 PEOPLE YOU TALKED TO:
infatuation guy
Jed
Fiona
Leo
Toshio

[kflorathorne]

1. What was the last song you heard?
"The Union Forever" - The White Stripes

2. What were the last two movies you saw?
In a theater or in general? ;)
Spun & Wildflowers

3. What were the last three things you purchased?
a package of tazo tea
clear packing tape
postage

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
taxes
vacuum
finish lmaos
sleep

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
Joe, Aidian, Molly, Dustin, & Mom.

[Larrissa]

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[tanagee]

1. What was the last song you heard?
The Theme to "Jakers! The Adventures of Piggely Winks" on PBS Kids.
Last "real" song: 4 degrees by Tool

2. What were the last two movies you saw?
American Wedding and Short Cuts (the name is misleading it was 4 fricken hours long!)

3. What were the last three things you purchased?
Healthy Choice Low Fat Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream, a big sugar cookie and a big peanutbutter cookie.

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
Wash dishes (done)
Pick up Megan's toys (done)
pick up the house (1/2 way done)
Dinner at my moms house

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
Megan, My hubbys voice mail, an OLD friend of my hubby's, My actual hubby and my Mom

[Larrissa]

interruption:
i have healthy choice mint chocolate chip in the freezer, i think it tastes like chalk.

[tanagee]

Originally posted by Larrissa@Mar 13 2004, 07:49 PM
interruption:
i have healthy choice mint chocolate chip in the freezer, i think it tastes like chalk.
I don't think it is that bad. I really wanted mint chocolate chip ice cream and I only like the green ones, and the store didn't have any green (that was on sale, I hate spending $5 for one carton of ice cream). Plus since I will probably eat it all myself in 2 days, I won't feel as guilty.

[bingsy]

1. What was the last song you heard?

untitled #1 by Sigur Ros

2. What were the last two movies you saw?

The Last Samurai and School of Rock.

3. What were the last three things you purchased?

french bread, turkey meatballs, and spaghetti

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?

clean up the apartment, get some packages together, pack for a mini-break, and do a little laundry

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?

My fiance Randy, my friend Katie and her boyfriend Paco (who is also my friend - Katie is my high school friend and Paco is Randy's high school friend and now they are dating. Isn't that cute?) and Tom, whose wedding I attended last year this time. (His wife Kim was away at some conference in New Mexico).

[sarahkate]

Friday Five for 3/19/04


If you...

1. ...owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?

2. ...owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?

3. ...wrote a book, what genre would it be?

4. ...ran a school, what would you teach?

5. ...recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?

[sarahkate]

1. ...owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?

Different kinds of pasta, potatoes and bread and that's it! Yes, that's right & I would call it CARB HEAVEN! :P

2. ...owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?

I would love to own a store someday.... maybe a book & music store .... or a store full of funky handmade artsy/craftsy things.

3. ...wrote a book, what genre would it be?

A childrens story book, or maybe something Edward Gorey-ish.

4. ...ran a school, what would you teach?

Arts and crafts.

5. ...recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?

Some sort of alt rock/indie rock or maybe I would be a little more daring and go for some goth-ish Jack off Jill or Lacuna Coil type music.

[tanagee]

If you...

1. ...owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?
I would like to have a bar and grill that sold sandwiches and salads that was attached to a laundomat so people could have breakfast, lunch or dinner while doing their laundry. It's name would be "Wash and Nosh".

2. ...owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?
Childrens books and toys...along the lines of 'The Shop Around the Corner' in "You've Got Mail"

3. ...wrote a book, what genre would it be?
It's a tie between Murder/mystery like Patricia Cornwell or "Chick Lit"

4. ...ran a school, what would you teach?
Arts and crafts to kids.

5. ...recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?
Speed Metal or Punk :rock:

[bingsy]

If you...

1. ...owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?

ice cream, cakes, and chocolate, everyone is always happy as they come up to the counter

2. ...owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?

vintage clothing and knick knacks

3. ...wrote a book, what genre would it be?

mystery

4. ...ran a school, what would you teach?

sociology

5. ...recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?

dreamy sounding electronica

[Sirius]

If you...

1. ...owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?
Comfort Food. Instead of coming up with these fancy meals everything would be plain and simple and then you could add what you want. Example. Instead of having "Bob's Bubbulicious BLT and Mushroom Chicken Sandwich" It would have a chicken sandwich. Then you could add from a selection list that would have bacon, lettuce, tomato, mushrooms and forty other things.

2. ...owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?
Crafts, Cards and Games


3. ...wrote a book, what genre would it be?
General Fiction, life story type of stuff.

4. ...ran a school, what would you teach?
Business and History

5. ...recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?
Jazzy, Big Band...think Harry Connick Jr, Brian Setzer, Big Bad VooDoo Daddy

[cryptaesia]

If you...

1. ...owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?pizza and subs

2. ...owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?music, film and literature

3. ...wrote a book, what genre would it be?fiction, weird fiction

4. ...ran a school, what would you teach?music, film

5. ...recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?weird electronic

[kflorathorne]

1. ...owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?hot chocolate, pasta & various fried foods

2. ...owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell? art supplies at CrAzY LoW PrIceS!!!! * um...dried teas

3. ...wrote a book, what genre would it be?
non-fiction semi-autobiographical novels that only my mom would end up buying <_<
4. ...ran a school, what would you teach?
ceramics *drool*
5. ...recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?
girly folk music, go figure...

[kittymao]

1. ...owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve? I want a deli, though! Can I have a deli? I'd have a deli.

2. ...owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell? dood, I'd so own a head shop. But kick out the pot part. with a tattoo parlor in the back. but- with an AWESOME selection of jewelery.

3. ...wrote a book, what genre would it be? well, with Nano, I wrote a fantasy novel, and while it was fun, it was a bit tedious. I think I'll go with semi-autobiographical fiction.

4. ...ran a school, what would you teach? dood, ARTS. and all kinds, classical, graphic, performing. they all go hand in hand.

5. ...recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it? Hm- punkish, moody stuff. Or crazy loud southern rock.

[reddirtrose]

If you...

1. ...owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve? it would change with my moods (and the seasons) - I would specialize in organic fresh, lots of veggies AND midwestern yummy pies, bisquits and comfort foods - I like to cook all kinds of things - mmmm yesterday for lunch I made hubbydear a fresh spinach, onion half tofu half egg scramble so delish - did I say I love food!

2. ...owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell? oh half regional folk art (specializing in recycled and religious) and half collectibles - groovy clothes, books and odds and ends that I couldn't resist at the thrift store but HAVE NO ROOM FOR in my home ;)

3. ...wrote a book, what genre would it be? a road trip journal illustrated with my photography or a mary shrine collection illustrated with my photography

4. ...ran a school, what would you teach? don't think I would make a good teacher.. hmmm - maybe women's studies/spirituality but we would teach each other

5. ...recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it? some pretty enthusiastic (off key at times) covers of emmylou, joni mitchell, ani, sinead and other female singer songwriters

[thunder]

I also posted this in my journal
1. ...owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?
Vegan organic health food, but gourmet. Think Nora. (an organic fancy restaraunt in DC). With asian, italian, greek influences.

2. ...owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?
vintage clothes and accessories.

3. ...wrote a book, what genre would it be?
I'd like to write a nonfiction book. About politics or psychology.

4. ...ran a school, what would you teach?
Enviromental and political issues but with a heavy emphasis on art.

5. ...recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?
Really bad music, I'm tone deaf.

[nymphette]

If you...

1. ...owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve? probably east indian food or sushi....

2. ...owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell? handmade jewelery and journals, other kind of crafty/arty stuff that i can make.... :)

3. ...wrote a book, what genre would it be? non-fiction

4. ...ran a school, what would you teach? real life...

5. ...recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it? classic rock or folk...

[Curlita]

1. ...owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?

tasty signature deli sandwiches with kicky ingredients like avocado or sundried tomato pesto, and tasty soups and yummy salads. And baked goods (I just realized I described the menu at my favorite deli/bakery that just closed).

2. ...owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?

Books and coffee! Have given this great thought.

3. ...wrote a book, what genre would it be?

Fiction, semi-autobigraphical.

4. ...ran a school, what would you teach?

History, anthropology, and critical thinking.

5. ...recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?

Norse Viking Chants. :) (I wish we had an emoticon with little viking horns).

[Larrissa]

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[chunkymonkey]

1. owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?
a gourmet cereal cafe

2. owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?
a combination of items I had thrifted and one of a kind arty items from area artists

3. wrote a book, what genre would it be?
memoir

4. ran a school, what would you teach?
acting


5. recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?
If I'm doing the singing it would be something riot grrrl.

[sarahkate]

There wasn't a new Friday Five today so I once again took it upon myself to go back in their archives to choose one and I picked this:


1. What was the last TV show you watched?

2. What was the last thing you complained about?

3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say?

4. What was the last thing you threw away?

5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited?

[sarahkate]

1. What was the last TV show you watched? Last show I watched in full was Will & Grace last night, and then I watched a few minutes of The Jamie Kennedy Experiment (did anyone else watch that last night? His character as the fat lady making subs was so funny!)

2. What was the last thing you complained about? Does it count if I was talking to my dog while I was complaining? If so then I complained to Delilah this morning that I had nothing to wear to work, and then when I finally did find something I whined that I am dressed like a waitress. She didn't have anything constructive to say of course. :P

3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say? Hmmm... I can't remember. That's horrible. Oh, maybe last night when I told my boyfriend he is a much better cook than I am.

4. What was the last thing you threw away? A tupperware container that I brought to work the other day that had milk (that I had with cereal) in it. I forgot about the container since Tuesday so the remnants of milk had curdled. Ugh. So I just tossed the whole container.

5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited? www.dictionary.com so I could search for the word "curdled" to make sure I spelled it correctly. :)

[silvertiger]

1. What was the last TV show you watched? Who's Line Is It Anyway?

2. What was the last thing you complained about? being sick (since I have been for about a month now :P)

3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say? um... I can't remember... I'll have to compliment someone today :D

4. What was the last thing you threw away? a kleenex

5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited? promosquad.com

[tanagee]

1. What was the last TV show you watched?
Actually watched: ER last night.
Listened to: Blues Clues (on now :))

2. What was the last thing you complained about?
My psycho cat lady neighbor to my mom, who called to tell me that there was a police car parked outside my gate when she drove by, and I said it was probably for the psycho cat lady.

3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say?
I told Megan she was SOO CUTE! But since she is two she just smiled and looked even cuter.

4. What was the last thing you threw away?
a Banana peel

5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited?
Photobucket.com

[cryptaesia]

1. What was the last TV show you watched?jon stewart

2. What was the last thing you complained about?wonky nuking me in risk 2210

3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say?wonky, i told her she was cute and cuddly

4. What was the last thing you threw away?empty coke bottle

5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited?canoe.ca

[nymphette]

1. What was the last TV show you watched?- an old episode of 'that 70's show' at my mom's on monday night when i was babysitting my neice at her house....
2. What was the last thing you complained about?- the road conditions, because my mom is going to have to cancel her trip to see her in-laws again- my step grandfather is very sick (congenital heart failure and kidney problems, he's 93) and doesn't have much time left, my step grandmother isn't a whole lot better than he is (evne though she'll never admit it!!!) and she's had to cancel TWICE already!!! see, i'm complaining about it again!!!!

3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say? i told sarah that i admire her and think she is a very strong woman!!! :)

4. What was the last thing you threw away? a dirty diaper... <_<

5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited? www.bobthebuilder.com with julian...

[Curlita]

1. What was the last TV show you watched?
Friends last night.

2. What was the last thing you complained about?

Out loud? Hmmm. I'm sure I must have complained about something this morning, but the last thing I remember complaining about was the presenter at the Chamber luncheon I went to.

3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say?

When I went to the Birkenstock shop I told that salesgirl that she had beautiful hair.

4. What was the last thing you threw away? a dirty diaper...

Empty yogurt container.

5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited? www.bobthebuilder.com with julian...

Rate My Teacher (as mentioned in another thread).

[asullenriot]

1. What was the last TV show you watched?

South Park


2. What was the last thing you complained about?

My hair.

3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say?

Michelle, how cute her hair was.

4. What was the last thing you threw away?

The empty milk carton.

5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited?

hotmail

[MelangeArtiste]

1. What was the last TV show you watched?

abc news last night, and I fell asleep during it.


2. What was the last thing you complained about?

some mainframe programming types on my current project, who just don't understand that people do use the internet "24 x 7." Really, we do.

3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say?

I told my mother that her new hair cut and color looked great.

4. What was the last thing you threw away?

an empty ballpoint pen

5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited?

www.lkperrella.com to check the date of a workshop.

[kittymao]

1. What was the last TV show you watched?
Oh geez. Pimp My Ride. *sobs*

2. What was the last thing you complained about?
I just got up so haven't complained verbally. to myself- about lack of soap, water too hot, nicking my leg... the basic shower grumbles.

3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say?
Hm. Is ' I Love You' a compliment? Then that would be it. And it was Rudy.

4. What was the last thing you threw away?
Hm. Mango peel. That was my breakfast.

5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited?
Livejournal.

[bingsy]

1. What was the last TV show you watched?

Futurama

2. What was the last thing you complained about?

A student threw a book onto a desk, and I lectured her about taking care of things etc etc. (I never thought I would turn into a person that said those types of things, but...well - it's hard teaching 7th graders :angry: )

3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say?

I complimented a student to a parent. She had a lot of complaints about his behavior, but I find that he is able to have really neat conversations with adults about all kinds of topics.

4. What was the last thing you threw away?

A bunch of benchmark tests. They said we were allowed to toss them, but I haven't had time to run them to the recycle until now.

5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited?

My district's professional development sit...boring! (Maybe I should have answered these later on in the evening, after my day job has worn off...)

[kmfdmchick]

1. What was the last TV show you watched?
dont watch tv.

2. What was the last thing you complained about?
my bf wakin me up at 9 in the morning just to annoy me! cute...

3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say?
my hair dresser. she did a great job today! ''girl,its looks great!''

4. What was the last thing you threw away?
a stripped envie: i took its postage,my adress writtin in someone else's handwriting, the tiny drawings,and pieces of paper off it to use as collage.

5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited?
gamefaqs

[lemur]

1. What was the last TV show you watched?That I actually remember:a show about the roman gladiators, but I'm sure I've probably seen some foolishness since because that was a week ago

2. What was the last thing you complained about? The wind today-gale force!

3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say?Hmm...probably me mum. I always tell her she's cute-because she is.

4. What was the last thing you threw away? A thread end from the quilt I am beading. I have to get this thing done! Crunch time-when I actually get off my proverbial butt and get to work

5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited?sermonaudio.com. Which is-surprise!-full of sermons. :P

[thunder]

1. What was the last TV show you watched?
Last night I watched Emeril on the cooking network :P

2. What was the last thing you complained about?
My weight.

3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say?
I told the creator of sass cat (http://www.livejournal.com/users/sass_cat) that he is a genius.

4. What was the last thing you threw away?
The wrapper for my soy yogurt

5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited?
livejournal.com :)

[yardenxanthe]

1. What was the last TV show you watched?
The Ellen DeGeneres talk show a couple weeks ago when I was painting at someone's house.

2. What was the last thing you complained about?
Being hungry.

3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say?
I complemented someone's webcomic on their blog.

4. What was the last thing you threw away?
A candy wrapper.

5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited?
Alibris (when I clicked on a link in someone's post).

[medeous]

1. What was the last TV show you watched?
fifth wheel...it's awful, truly awful.

2. What was the last thing you complained about?
hannah being in the bathroom when i needed to be in there.

3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say?
i told the waiter that my fish was perfect.

4. What was the last thing you threw away?
fast food trash from the car.

5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited?
facade.com

[Larrissa]

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[Lilac]

1. WHAT WAS THE LAST TV SHOW YOU WATCHED?
-ummmm...I guess it was "All That" on Nickelodeon with my son earlier today.

2. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU COMPLAINED ABOUT?
-I complained because it seems that my Grandmother never has a nice word
to say about me. :(

3. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU COMPLIMENTED AND WHAT DID YOU SAY?
-I told my son that he was riding really well and that I was proud of him.

4. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU THREW AWAY?
-A bunch of paper towels that I used to clean dog pee up with.

5. WHAT WAS THE LAST WEBSITE YOU VISITED BEFORE THIS ONE?
-Bookcrossing.com

[Sirius]

1. What was the last TV show you watched? ???? Maybe a That 70's Show rerun Thursday?

2. What was the last thing you complained about? Not having a weekend this weekend.

3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say? Brian. I think he thought I was being sarcastic, but I said, "You're handsome even when you need to shave, I'm the luckiest girl in the galaxy." He chose not to shave this weekend. I prefer him freshly shaven...he still looks good, I just don't like the feel...

4. What was the last thing you threw away? A napkin.

5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited? yahoo.com

[Sirius]

1. What was the last TV show you watched?
fifth wheel...it's awful, truly awful.

I sat through an episode once and wondered what I was making myself pay pentance for...there is another one that is even worse where they start off with a group and they dwindle down...(looking p)....Elimidate. That one is horribly horrible. The episode I saw included pole dancing and the largest breasts fit in the smallest top.

[chunkymonkey]

1. What was the last TV show you watched?
the sopranos

2. What was the last thing you complained about?
being broke

3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say?
I just commented on how toght I thought someone's mix was on artofthemix

4. What was the last thing you threw away?
paper clippings from a collage I was working on earlier


5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited?
a site about different santanic symbols I linked to from google when I was randomly searching for hieroglyphics

[potat1556]

1. What was the last TV show you watched?
Friends

2. What was the last thing you complained about?
husband stayign awake till 5 am last night..it is a workign day today

3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say?
rockstr009...she did a great job on my exchange

4. What was the last thing you threw away?
paper clippings from a collage I was working on earlier


5. What was the last website (besides this one) that you visited?
my own website which is underconstruction for my new business

[sarahkate]

again this week there is no new Friday Five so I once again picked one from their archive:

1. What is your biggest pet peeve? Why?

2. What irritating habits do you have?

3. Have you tried to change the irritating habits or just let them be?

4. What grosses you out more than anything else? Why?

5. What one thing can you never see yourself doing that other people do?


And the forums are slow today so here's another one to keep us busy:


1. Have you ever had braces? Any other teeth trauma?

2. Ever broken any bones?

3. Ever had stitches?

4. What are the stories behind some of your [physical] scars?

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?

[kmfdmchick]

. What is your biggest pet peeve? Why?
homophobes and sexists... cuz they are homophobes and sexists!
also,ppl that try to get me to believe in 'god'. ugh. this gets on my f**king nerves cuz i was molested as a kid and i associate the power the guy had over me as 'godlike'-all powerful. i literally cringe when i hear the word 'god'.

2. What irritating habits do you have?
sniffles,,more like the kind that get stuff out the back of your throat so you can spit it out.. ugh i never swallow that shit.

3. Have you tried to change the irritating habits or just let them be?
let them be. i NEED to sniffle!

4. What grosses you out more than anything else? Why?
ew...smelly feet. i dont want someones smelly raunchy feet on me!

5. What one thing can you never see yourself doing that other people do?
smoking,doin drugs,drinking!




1. Have you ever had braces? Any other teeth trauma?
no braces, ive had huge ulcers tho from anxietry right below my teeth.

2. Ever broken any bones?
yup. i cracked my left funny boone playin football when i was in 2nd grade.

3. Ever had stitches?
nope, i should have ,tho.


4. What are the stories behind some of your [physical] scars?
the lil dot on my left arm id from a spider bite when i was in 4th grade. 3 streaks of poison traveled up my arm before they sucked it out at the docs office.

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
art journallin,go to paper heroes to play in the friday night magic tournament, buy art supplies,grocery shop, send out mail,and work.

[sarahkate]

1. What is your biggest pet peeve? Why? Hmm... at the moment all I can think of is when I see people wearing socks with sandals. That drives me mad. It's just not natural. The whole reason for wearing sandals is to expose your toes. If you want to wear socks then wear shoes that cover your whole foot!!

2. What irritating habits do you have? My worst habit is probably picking my cats and dog's eyes to get the eye boogers out, and I pick their noses too. It drives my boyfriend crazy. :lol: Oh and I have a bad habit of picking things out of his eyes too. Besides that my other really bad habit is biting my nails.

3. Have you tried to change the irritating habits or just let them be? I will never stop picking my cats and dog's eye boogers and their noses because they need someone to do it for them!! :) As far as the nail biting thing, I always try to tell myself I will stop doing it but I keep chomping on them anyway.

4. What grosses you out more than anything else? Why? Raw meat.

5. What one thing can you never see yourself doing that other people do? I can never see myself eating seafood. Yuck.

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1. Have you ever had braces? Any other teeth trauma? No, I have never had braces but I do desperately need them. I was told that my mouth is too small for my teeth so my teeth are all crowded in there and there isn't room for all of them. My parents never sent me to an orthodontist to get braces when I was a kid so and now I am all scared to go to the dentist and haven't been to one in years. I really need to make an appointment soon though.

2. Ever broken any bones? Nope. *knock on wood*

3. Ever had stitches? Only in my mouth. When I was 16 one of my baby teeth still hadn't fallen out and it turned out that it was fused to the bone so they basically had to go in and saw it out. Gross. I was in the dentist chair for about 3 hours, and they used a few stitches to seal up the wound. I think that was actually the last time I was at the dentist! :o

4. What are the stories behind some of your [physical] scars? I don't have very many scars. A few chicken pock scars, one fairly big one on my forehead. Other than that I don't think I have any permanent scars, but my hands and arms usually always have a few cat scratches on them.

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend? I will probably work on some N'ness stuff tonight. Tomorrow I might finish painting my kitchen that we started painting last August or September (I think) and still haven't finished! Then tomorrow night I will be going to a high school play that my boyfriend's youngest sister is the student director of, and my sister will be going with us to that. She might stay over at our house after the play or else I will be driving her back to my mom's. And other than that probably just cleaning up my house and maybe going to Joann Fabrics to get some materials for some finger puppets I am making for yardenxanthe's LMAO.

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

1. What is your biggest pet peeve? Why?

Oh, I have so many, but I guess the ultimate for me is chewing noises.

2. What irritating habits do you have?

Thumb-sucking ; knuckle-cracking

3. Have you tried to change the irritating habits or just let them be?

I only try to change if someone tells me they are annoyed by the habits, and then I only change when I am around that person.

4. What grosses you out more than anything else? Why?

I gag when people sniffle really hard (kind of a reverse snort, if you catch my drift) and then swallow the phlegm. I had a friend in middle school who did that as a nervous habit. Ugh.

5. What one thing can you never see yourself doing that other people do?

Only one thing, huh? Driving an S.U.V.

1. Have you ever had braces? Any other teeth trauma?

I had braces all through high school. I had a retainer from 2nd-8th grades. My teeth were never very bad or crooked, but I had an overbite.

2. Ever broken any bones?

No.

3. Ever had stitches?

Yes, four years ago this summer I had six stitches in my left-hand ring-finger because I sliced it open while pulling the lid of a can of cat food.

4. What are the stories behind some of your [physical] scars?

I have scars on the back of both hands just below the pinkies that I got in fourth grade. My friend Sarah and I were riding bikes, and I had her sister's bike, which was too big for me. We were riding on a semi-busy road to her swim club, and a truck came around the bend and I panicked and wiped out into the drainage ditch. I was bleeding profusely on my hands, elbows, and knees, and for some reason the lifeguard wouldn't let me go swimming!

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?

Tonight I am going bowling. Tomorrow night I am going to my friend's 30th birthday party. Otherwise, I will be trying to get things done.

[Larrissa]

5. What <span style='color:black'>one thing can you never see yourself doing that other people do?</span>
working a normal job, living like a zombie, watching network tv, being insincere, manipulating people out of boredom, following a religion that somebody made up a long while ago, eating steak, hmmm... reading bad grocery store paperbacks, not having hobbies, living in a clean house, having a housekeeper, being snobby out of self hatred, ignoring the surroundings, being oblivious to plants and seasons, blah bla blahh, more than one, who wants to complain?

[Larrissa]

1. Have you ever had braces? Any other teeth trauma?
no braces, i decided altering my teeth so expensively for cosmetic reasons was dumb. trauma? once i decided to peel a label off a tea bottle, and i had it upside down yanking on the label, when it came off all quick and the bottle slammed into my front tooth, breaking off the bottom 1/2. i sat there crying like nancy kerrigan saying "help me, help me" yep. now i have a crown over it.

2. Ever broken any bones?
not yet

3. Ever had stitches?
no but when i was a stupid teenager i stuck safety pins in my calf

4. What are the stories behind some of your [physical] scars?
the elementary school had a big map of the US painted on the concrete and was riding my bike over it when i had a wipe out and shredded a knee over somewhere in the us that i didn't notice at the time

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
like last weekend, cleaning and sorting. i have alot of art stuff that i cant bear to get rid of, and its just been piled in the garage for two years, and now nness has made me be an art-maker again and i have supplies strewn over every foot of carpet space.

thank you to sarahkate for the new colors - discovered all the html colors work ... whoopee! :)

[silvertiger]

1. Have you ever had braces? Any other teeth trauma? nope, but I could use 'em

2. Ever broken any bones? yep, my collar bone when I was in 4th grade, I slid off the zip slider thing & fell on the icy gravel

3. Ever had stitches? umm... don't think so

4. What are the stories behind some of your [physical] scars? there's one on my lower abs/hip that I got when I was in the huge wave pool @ water world. I was crawling like an aligator & when the wave came I slid against the bottom & got a huge gash

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend? tonight I'm going to an african pop concert w/my boyfriend that my brother is supposed to go to for his class but he can't make it. saturday I might call my best friend who I haven't seen in a while, I have homework I need to do, and I have swing troupe practice on sunday night

[Curlita]

1. What is your biggest pet peeve? Why?
There are SOOOO many, but today my peeve is people who flake out on commitments (this means you, flaky no-show volunteer weirdo guy!)

2. What irritating habits do you have?
None! Umm, I've been told that I am not as supportive of other people's ideas as I should be.

3. Have you tried to change the irritating habits or just let them be?
Seeing as how it came up in a review at work, I'm trying to work on it.

4. What grosses you out more than anything else? Why?
The sound of vomiting, because it makes me want to vomit.

5. What one thing can you never see yourself doing that other people do?
I have to borrow GWLS's because I can actually see myself doing a lot of egregious things. Not like I plan on it, I just don't want to rule it out. But I will never drive a honking SUV. I can actually never see me voting Republican either.

And the forums are slow today so here's another one to keep us busy:


1. Have you ever had braces? Any other teeth trauma?
Braces, pulled teeth, and a phrenectomy (they had to cut the little flap of skin that connects your lower lip with your gums because they thought mine was too tight and was pulling my gums down - probably a crock to make more money)

2. Ever broken any bones?
No (knock wood)

3. Ever had stitches?
Ditto #2

4. What are the stories behind some of your [physical] scars?
Well, I have one on my ankle from a bad shaving cut. I have another one on my knee from having my foot slide out from under me while walking down a steep hill. One leg shot out in front of me and the other folded under me, mashing my knee into the pavement, shredding both pantyhose and knee. That's about as exciting as my scars get.

(my husband, on the other hand, has a scar on his back from a runaway golf cart accident when he was 8 - talked a friend into driving the cart down a steep hill - he panicked and bailed and got a deep gash - the friend stayed on and wound up with a broken collarbone or something - they weren't allowed to play together anymore after that)

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
Washing towels, writing letters, going to my first prenatal yoga class, maybe baking something in the newly repaired oven, and dinking here with all my n-ness friends.

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

Originally posted by Curlita@Apr 2 2004, 02:38 PM
4. What grosses you out more than anything else? Why?
The sound of vomiting, because it makes me want to vomit.

5. What one thing can you never see yourself doing that other people do?
I have to borrow GWLS's because I can actually see myself doing a lot of egregious things. Not like I plan on it, I just don't want to rule it out. But I will never drive a honking SUV. I can actually never see me voting Republican either.
re: 4-- See, this is one of my reasons I can't have kids. I can't deal with vomiting noises either. Have you already bargained with your husband to have him take care of child-vomiting-issues, Curlita? Or do you think you will just get over it after all the spitting up during the first 6 months?

re: 5-- Ha, I almost wrote "voting Republican," but then I thought, well, if John McCain ran for president against a Democrat who was moderate, I could see myself voting for McCain. But it's true -- I can't think of any other Republicans I would vote for.

[Curlita]

My husband actually has a much more delicate system than I do. I hadn't thought about this problem though. I think I'm banking on the fact that once I produce this child, I will be absolutely enamored and besotted of everything to do with them, including their precious vomit.

Of course, I manage to clean up cat puke with some regularity and little difficulty.

And I agree with you about John McCain! Maybe I shouldn't have been so hasty. I stand by my SUV statement, though! Maybe I should have said I would never vote Pro-Life...

[nymphette]

1. What is your biggest pet peeve? Why? when people are late... because one of my best friends in high school was chronically lte, as is my husband, and my sister and my aunt, so it seems i have spent my entire life waiting for people!!!!!!!!!!! and it IRKS me to no end!!!


2. What irritating habits do you have? i am a perfectionist and expect people to be the same....

3. Have you tried to change the irritating habits or just let them be? let it be.....


4. What grosses you out more than anything else? Why? spiders... because i am arachnophobic.. if it doesn't terrorize me to look at it, it just grosses me out and makes me ill....


5. What one thing can you never see yourself doing that other people do? liking myself 100% because of who i am....

[cryptaesia]

1. What is your biggest pet peeve? Why?horrible, irresponsible drivers who ingore pedestrians.

2. What irritating habits do you have?cola, i must sleep with a pillow over my head and i am very anal about attending concerts and movies (i have a time tested method that never fails me, but annoys others)

3. Have you tried to change the irritating habits or just let them be?i just tend to let them be.

4. What grosses you out more than anything else? Why?parasites. i dont eveb want to think about it.

5. What one thing can you never see yourself doing that other people do?driving a vehicle.

[bluecrayon]

1.What is your biggest pet peeve?
Reactionary people who have not done their homework...

2. What irritating habits do you have?
I sigh a lot. I take a long time to clean up after myself (art stuff, particularly). I probably offer my opinions too much. I'm always late.

3. Have you tried to change the irritating habits, or just let them be?
My behavior is fairly ingrained now, but I do try to be on time...

4. What grosses you out more than anything? Why?
Norwegian wharf rats. I have unexplored fear and loathing of them.

5. What one thing can you not see yourself doing that other people do?
Owning a cell phone and talking on it in public.

[Sirius]

1. What is your biggest pet peeve? Why?

Things that are slow. Because the world moves fast.

2. What irritating habits do you have?

Being impatient (see #1). Speaking my mind. Saying "You know."

3. Have you tried to change the irritating habits or just let them be?

Tried to eliminate "You know."

4. What grosses you out more than anything else? Why?

Unknown objects.

5. What one thing can you never see yourself doing that other people do?
Being sympathic to people who won't try.

Other people who don't hate John McCain? Good. I'm actually going to a volunteer meeting for John McCain next week.

And the forums are slow today so here's another one to keep us busy:

1. Have you ever had braces? Any other teeth trauma?
No
2. Ever broken any bones?
No
3. Ever had stitches?
No
4. What are the stories behind some of your [physical] scars?
Roller skating. Foot surgery. Running into things.
5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
Birthday parties, and cspring cleaning.

[bingsy]

1. What is your biggest pet peeve? Why?

People interrupting me when I am in the middle of a story, or, equally, when people immediately respond to my ideas or musings with a negative. I need time to sort through my thoughts sometimes and ideas, and negatives just stops the momentum

2. What irritating habits do you have?

I am clumsy and sloppy

3. Have you tried to change the irritating habits or just let them be?

Just let them be for now. Once I have less on my plate I will try to do something about them.

4. What grosses you out more than anything else? Why?

Public bathrooms. They smell and they are often very very dirty, unpleasant places

5. What one thing can you never see yourself doing that other people do?

Have children...not that I never want any. I just can't see me doing it.



And the forums are slow today so here's another one to keep us busy:


1. Have you ever had braces? Any other teeth trauma?

Braces in 7th and 8th grade and teeth trauma (root canal, broken tooth, and the eventual removal of tooth)

2. Ever broken any bones?

No

3. Ever had stitches?

Yes, in my hands, left a C shaped scar which I claim as a monogram. It was my first week after leaving home for college. I was washing dishes, and the glass broke, cutting my hand. I knew it was different than anything that had happened to me, but I didn't know what to do. I covered it with a hand towel and waited an hour and a half for my sister to come home from work. She stepped through the door, and I immediately said, "I cut myself." I didn't want to look, but I showed her my hand. I still remember being so impressed by her calm response, "I think we need to go to the emergency room." The nurse there was so reassuring. You know, it's hard that first crisis when you don't have your mom around. She made it better, and I have a big appreciation for kind nurses now.


4. What are the stories behind some of your [physical] scars?

My worst scar is on my upper right arm from when I sat on my lunch box in 2nd grade (see sloppy and clumsy reference above). I was a latchkey kid, but really it was the 70's. People had more trust back then. I was never afraid. I would come home, throw my lunchbox on the couch (something my mom would surely scream at me for if she were around) and then make cereal or raviolis. Usually I remembered to put my lunchbox away before sitting down to watch Three's Company, but this time I didn't. The handle was sharp. The cut didn't hurt. I even washed it, but somehow it didn't heal right. I don't think my parents noticed then. They never mentioned it later. The lunchbox was Peanuts, as in Charlie Brown. I used the same one throughout elementary, until I insisted on brown bags.

I have a scar that you don't see so much anymore on my right cheek from where a German Shepherd took a bite out my face at age 4. I spent five nights in the hospital and had plastic surgery. The scar was really profound during much of my childhood, but it miraculously got better as I aged.


5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?

Grading papers :( , watching Hellboy

[chunkymonkey]

1. What is your biggest pet peeve? Why?
Socks I guess. Socks with sandals, socks getting lost in the dryer, soggy wet socks. I hate hate hate when someone has socks on but the front part is sticking way out.

2. What irritating habits do you have?
I like to eat inappropriate things with my hands. I'm a bad speller. I'm lazy. I drink out of containers in the fridge.

3. Have you tried to change the irritating habits or just let them be?
lol no... lazy remember.

4. What grosses you out more than anything else? Why?
open wounds of any kind and spit. Can't choose between them. I have a problem with basically all bodily fluids unless their mine or someone I am attracted to and even them ya never know. I couldn't articulate why.

5. What one thing can you never see yourself doing that other people do?
donate blood. And I feel bad about it.



1. Have you ever had braces? Any other teeth trauma?
nope and nope

2. Ever broken any bones?
no

3. Ever had stitches?
Yeah. I was sliding across a wood floor and got a huge splinter stuck way up inside my foot. It was mucho painful. I think 4 stiches.

4. What are the stories behind some of your [physical] scars?
I have a scar on my chin froma pimple I got over anxious with when I was 12. Some faded scars on my knees from a big fall off my bike when I was 9. And there is a scar on the bottom of my right foot from the wooden splinter.

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
Going to play catch up with nerv projects... burn cds. Looking forward to watching the last 2 regular season devil's games. The weather is going to continue to be rainy and in the 50's so I doubt I will be going out much.

[Lilac]

1. What is your biggest pet peeve? Why?
---people chewing with their mouths open or chewing noisily, bad posture, shuffling (except in the ederly-they can't help it)

2. What irritating habits do you have?
---I bite my lip and tongue when i'm nervous, I'm obssessive when it comes to blemishes on my face-I'll pick at them until they bleed, I look at everyting under the microscope (including gunk that comes out of aformentioned blemishes - sorry...I know, that's really disgusting), I pick my scabs

3. Have you tried to change the irritating habits or just let them be?
---I've tried to stop biting my lips and tongue because I'm afraid of devoloping puckering wrinkles around my mouth if I continue. It's an ongoing battle.

4. What grosses you out more than anything else? Why?
---dandruff *shiver* Argghh! Yick! I don't know why. And skin flakes! One time my grandmother was soaking her feet in one of those heated foot bath/vibrator contraptions and she asked me to empty it for her. I flushed the water down the toilet, but their were little piles of dead skin all over the bottom! I puked.

5. What one thing can you never see yourself doing that other people do?
---Well, after the Grandma incident, I can tell you that I DEFINATELY will not be emptying anybody's foot baths!!!!

1. Have you ever had braces? Any other teeth trauma?
---Nope and nope

2. Ever broken any bones?
---Broke my pointer and middle fingers on my right hand (smashed them while trying to tie the sailboat up to dock...some ignoramus went flying by too close..his boat created a huge wake which shoved the sailboat into the dock...except of course, my hand was in the way), broke my arm when I was 8 years old by getting thrown off a horse.

3. Ever had stitches?
---Yep...lots of times.

4. What are the stories behind some of your [physical] scars?
---I have a scar in my lower right abdomen where I had my kidney transplant...scar between my breast where I had a tube inserted so that I could get dialysis for two months...an ugly scar on my left forearm where I was bit by a snapping turtle...a scar on my right eyelid where I got cut falling out of a tree...a scar beside my left knee where I got cut on an old bolt...lots of small scars on my hands from playing too roughly with the various dogs throughout my life...a scar on the bottom of my right foot where I stepped on a broken pop bottle...and...um...I think that's about it....

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
---I need to cathc up on laundry, BIGTIME...getting to know the new little bunny better-taking her out of her cage and holding her, letting her hop around the house so she's not afraid of us...I might take my son to the movies...um...I think trout fishing comes in this Sunday (not sure if it's this Sunday or next)...if so, I'll take the kid and do a little fly fishing...church Sunday morning- Oh, speaking of...church is having a luncheon and I have to make a dessert (any ideas?)
And that's about it!

[lemur]

1. What is your biggest pet peeve? Why?
Well I could write a long thological tretise, but I suppose I'll say hypocrites-and that is in the TRUE sense of the word, not some of the strange and eroneous conotations I have heard recently
2. What irritating habits do you have? Many

3. Have you tried to change the irritating habits or just let them be?well it really depends on which irritating habits those are. the ones that irritate other poeple-such as calling them on being guilty of the above pet peeve-usually not, but the ones that irritate me, yeah. But not very successfully.

4. What grosses you out more than anything else? Why?
Hmm. Needles really gross me out.

5. What one thing can you never see yourself doing that other people do?
Only ONE?! There are alot of things I will probably never do, although I suppose I can't completely rule them out. Get married, have kids, be normal, get a tatoo, learn to drive, read popular books, like other people! and I could go on...




1. Have you ever had braces? Any other teeth trauma? No. I broke my front tooth and it is a partial. fortunately I had a good dentist and you cannot tell. I've seen some people with partial teeth that are two different colours. yuck. Oh and my bottom jaw is detatched from my head-so to speak-no cartilage there

2. Ever broken any bones? Not officially, but I have this little bone in my wrist that sticks out at a weird angle and hurts, and I think I may have unwittingly broken or fractured it a long time ago

3. Ever had stitches?Hee yes yes yes.Mostly in my head

4. What are the stories behind some of your [physical] scars?Almost every scar has a story to it! I hate going to the hospital because they always ask, what did you do to yourself? then I have to tell them

One time I cracked my head on the rim of a glass-I flipped my head over right on to it. The amazing thing is that I broke my head-but not the glass. I was wiping my hair, thinking I was wiping water from the glass, then I pulled the towel away and saw that it was all red. Five stitches and a semi-circle shaped scar that still itches!

Another time we were playing 'dogs' and I ran up the stairs on all fours and cracked my knee on the step. That was only three stitches, but I couldn't bend my knee for a week-and that was the week I went to camp. That sucked.

The worst one I'd say, was when I was playing in the sprinkler and cut the instep of my foot with a rock, which was fine untill I had to get stitches, then I freaked. That wound never did heal right, it still has scar tissue inside pushing against the tendon. Whenever it hurts, I say' the old war wound is acting up again.'

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
Why sitting around, doing some art and then going to work of course. What else is there? :)

[tanagee]

1. What is your biggest pet peeve? Why?
Rude kids that push the toddler's out of the way on the playground. It is mean and rude and their parents are just as rude for not teaching their kids not to be rude.

2. What irritating habits do you have?
I am a control freak and try to tell people how to do things MY WAY, but if they ask me for help I don't know how to do it. (input from my hubby)

3. Have you tried to change the irritating habits or just let them be?
I try not to be a control freak but I just can't help it

4. What grosses you out more than anything else? Why?
When Fear Factor has the contestants eat and/or drink disgusting rancid things. Because it is just WRONG!

5. What one thing can you never see yourself doing that other people do?
Eating a bug for money.




1. Have you ever had braces? Any other teeth trauma?
No braces. Other than a chipped tooth from using my 2 front teeth as a cutting device, nothing major.

2. Ever broken any bones?
Just my tailbone and my pinky toe.

3. Ever had stitches?
Just my C-section incision, and that was actually staples.

4. What are the stories behind some of your [physical] scars?
I have a scar on my right hand that used to look more like a cigar burn than it does now. An x-boy was trying to teach me how to swim freestyle, and while he was flirting with the lifeguard I got too close to the edge and whacked my hand on the edge of the pool and took out a chunk of my hand. I told him I hurt my hand and he blew me off because I have a tendency to be a hypochondriac. My feelings were really hurt so I didn't press the issue. Once I was dressed and in the car he looks over and sees the bloody mess I made of my hand he was stunned.

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
I went to Las Vegas Baby!

[adrienne]

1. What is your biggest pet peeve? Why?
Clicking, cracking, chomping, chewing noises. Ice, potato chips, raw vegetables. I know it's hard to eat those things w/o being a little bit noisy, but *please, please* try. That to me is like nails on a chalkboard to others.

2. What irritating habits do you have?
"What's wrong?" Me: "Ohhhh, nothing" I have to stop doing that and speak up. It irritates me, and probably others.

3. Have you tried to change the irritating habits or just let them be?
My habits or others? I just let them be.

4. What grosses you out more than anything else? Why?
Flipping through tv channels and seeing surgery. Or catching a 'You wouldn't believe this!" clip and seeing someone breaking a bone. Hearing about surgical/medical procedures - it just all creeps me out.

5. What one thing can you never see yourself doing that other people do?
Bungee jumping. Uhm, no.



1. Have you ever had braces? Any other teeth trauma?
Yes - braces.

2. Ever broken any bones?
Yes - my ankle

3. Ever had stitches?
Yeah - I ran into a door when I was little, I was chasing my cat. I ended up needing stitches on the right side of my head, right above my temple.

4. What are the stories behind some of your [physical] scars?
I have a scar about an inch long on my forehead, right above my left eye - my sister and I were goofing around and her ring took a chunk out of me. I have various scars on my knees from falling on the playground when I was in grade school. And, I have a scar on my right arm from where an X cut me with something, not sure what. He's on probation for that for the next couple of years.


5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
Working on Nness projects and watching season 2 of the Sopranos.

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

1. What do you do for a living?

2. What do you like most about your job?

3. What do you like least about your job?

4. When you have a bad day at work it's usually because _____...

5. What other career(s) are you interested in?

[sarahkate]

Oooh I forgot all about the Friday Five this week! :P


1. What do you do for a living? Hard to explain, but I will try. I do something called "electronic file tranfers" which involves data entry and updating a bunch of databases. I am employed by Xerox but we are a contract company for G.E. The whole reason for my job is to send (basically a complicated email) the latest revision of engineering drawings, that are stored in an online database to engineers/drafters/contracting companies all over the world.

2. What do you like most about your job? It's close to home (only about a 5 minute ride), I can play on the internet all day because I usually don't have very much work to do, and no one seems to mind when I sneak into work a half hour late (or sometimes later) everyday. ;)

3. What do you like least about your job? It's boring, it's repetitive, I feel like I am wasting my life away in a cubicle doing a job that is meaningless, the building I work in is old, disgusting and full of asbestos.

4. When you have a bad day at work it's usually because _____... I'm here. Seriously. I never enjoy being at work. I could be doing much better things with my time.

5. What other career(s) are you interested in? I would love to own my own small business someday. I am not sure exactly which kind though, maybe a small shop of some sort. I really would love to be some sort of designer, a product designer of some sort, like toys, but I don't think I would ever be skilled enough for that. Another career that I have seriously considered is a children's book author and maybe illustrator (if I could magically become artistically talented).

[chunkymonkey]

1. What do you do for a living?
I'm part owner of an office/house cleaning business. I sell used books on half.com as an extra money type thing, although I'm on break from that for a little while.

2. What do you like most about your job?
I'm my own boss and flexible hours.

3. What do you like least about your job?
My income can be unsteady. Sometimes the lack of structure can be negetive for me.

4. When you have a bad day at work it's usually because _____...
MY mom is the other owner... we clash a lot out of frustration. We live together at the moment so of course that doesn't help. That's going to change soon though :)

5. What other career(s) are you interested in?
Acting. I've always had an ambition to run my own magazine or work for a magazine I like. For the longest time I wanted to be a psychologist or something in that field. Being a spy would be cool. I could always just live a bohemian life of a starving but content artist/photographer/musician. Book store owner, fbi agent, political opperative, publisher, pr rep, lawyer (the nice kind), head of a gay/lesbian advocacy group, women's studies professor. I swear I could be happy doing any one of those things but I will ultimately become an actor.

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

1. What do you do for a living?

My official job title is "Bibliographic Coordinator," but in plain English: I copy-catalog books for a university library.

2. What do you like most about your job?

Many things: being in an academic setting; I can wear whatever I want; can spend all day on the computer; don't have to do ANY customer service; seeing all the new books...

3. What do you like least about your job?

Too many hours, not enough money, too far from home...

4. When you have a bad day at work it's usually because _____...

... the department administrative assistant is out, so the phone rings and rings before anyone answers it, and I get a headache.

5. What other career(s) are you interested in?

I would really love to design the content for academic databases for arts and humanities, especially literature, for the high school and undergraduate college level. But I have no idea how one gets that job!

[tanagee]

1. What do you do for a living?
I am a stay-at-home mom and 'errand boy' for my hubby's business

2. What do you like most about your job?
Spending all day with my daughter, helping her to become a good human being, being able to wear my jammies all day if I want.

3. What do you like least about your job?
Feeling unappreciated, being viewed as lazy, having no income of my own.

4. When you have a bad day at work it's usually because _____...
Megan had a crappy cranky day, something went wrong with a household appliance, I get a phone call or e-mail bringing my attention to a bill that hasn't been paid that we don't have the money for in the first place.

5. What other career(s) are you interested in?
I would like to be a Medical Examiner or a CSI. (wanted this since I was 14, so it's not because of the show)

[dorsia]

1. What do you do for a living?
Run errands for my parents, technically. ;) Otherwise, I'm a student and I proofread legal depositions part-time.

2. What do you like most about your job?
I can do it in my underwear? The jobs get e-mailed to me.

3. What do you like least about your job?
Not a lot of work, and it often seems to come in at inconvenient times.

4. When you have a bad day at work it's usually because...
I don't. I work in my living room, heh, it's not too bad.
Maybe because the reporters didn't go over their work at all before they sent it to me, though. That irks me. :wacko:

5. What other career(s) are you interested in?
Everything but waste management! Anything to do with horror movie production, comic book creation, writing, libraries, art in general, museums.... The list is all but endless.

[kmfdmchick]

1. What do you do for a living?
hee.im a deli dyke! w00t
2. What do you like most about your job?
its fast pace,always work to do
3. What do you like least about your job?
customers
4. When you have a bad day at work it's usually because _____...
im stuck in the past and i become depressed..or i have to clean up after my lazy ass coworkers
5. What other career(s) are you interested in?
art therapist,teen counselor, art teacher

[bingsy]

1. What do you do for a living?

teach 7th grade social studies in a public school

2. What do you like most about your job?

It's not boring, and you are theoretically helping society...

3. What do you like least about your job?

The students are really disrespectful and so hard to motivate at this age.

4. When you have a bad day at work it's usually because _____...

Many overwhelming situations happening at one time...

5. What other career(s) are you interested in?

history professor, photography/using a digital camcorder to make art videos...edited (I can't believe I forgot) to include dilitante/live off of Randy's doctor salary (hopefully he gets there=)

[cryptaesia]

1. What do you do for a living? art, work at various slave jobs

2. What do you like most about your job?art

3. What do you like least about your job?slavery

4. When you have a bad day at work it's usually because of being forced to work as a slave instead of making art.

5. What other career(s) are you interested in? art (film, music, literature)

[bluecrayon]

1. What do you do for a living?

I teach at a Spanish immersion school. I am a special ed teacher. I also got a grant to run a tutoring program, which I do in the early morning...

2. What do you like most about your job?

I love the kids I work with. Everyday they give me something lovely to put in my mind's pockets...

3. What do you like least about your job?

Dancing around the beauracracy -- having to deal with this f******* leave no child behind crap, having to administer way too many tests, having to get up so early every morning...

4. When you have a bad day at work it's usually because: the beauracracy of the public school system has chastised me for being too "freeform" -- or something like that.

5. What other careers are you interested in?
I studied philosophy in college and have always wanted to create a program for high school kids that would incorporate philosophy and ethics and history...

I'd like to write fiction for teenagers...

sometimes, I just want to odd job my way around the world.

[kittymao]

1. What do you do for a living?
At the moment, I'm a student, but that will change fast.
I do have a job- I work at a park that has a petting zoo.

2. What do you like most about your job?
I like the cute, polite, inquisitive kids that are eager to learn and explore- and I like handling the animals. especially the birds. Everyone's so awed when you have a turtle dove perched on your hand like Snow White.

3. What do you like least about your job?
people that hurt my animals, greedy, selfish and ignorant people.

4. When you have a bad day at work it's usually because:
We had to work 7 hours in the snackbar on a beautiful summer day scooping twenty ice creams for a woman who decides she's going to pay in quarters. pick any one of those and that makes for a crappy day.

5. What other careers are you interested in?
Well, I'm going to Art school, so drawing for a living is indeed a life plan. I'll whore myself out for the art world- all I wanna do is draw and get paid for it.

[reddirtrose]

1. What do you do for a living?
retired - now I make/sell art (shrines and photos)....

2. What do you like most about your job?
oh my gosh - it's so fun - I get paid for my collection obssessions and hanging out in my studio.......

3. What do you like least about your job?
cleaning my studio....

4. When you have a bad day at work it's usually because _____...
um can't remember one since retirement

5. What other career(s) are you interested in?
none right now...

[Lilac]

1. What do you do for a living?
---Environmental Engineer

2. What do you like most about your job?
---I like doing field work the most...not having to be in the office. I'm also able to work from home once in a while.

3. What do you like least about your job?
---office politics

4. When you have a bad day at work it's usually because _____...
---office politics, coworkers, disagreements


5. What other career(s) are you interested in?
---forest ranger, wildlife management, ....actually, what I'd really like to do is open my own Environmental firm.

[ashleyshea]

If you like the Friday 5, you might also like a new community I made on LiveJournal for Nervousness writers -- NervousWriters (http://www.livejournal.com/community/nervouswriters/). We'll be posting writing prompts/exercises and our responses to them. I've posted one writing exercise so far. Check it out and see if it is something you'd enjoy.

If you aren't a member of LiveJournal, it isn't hard to become a member. You can get a free account now even without a code, as far as I know. If you have any trouble setting up an account, let me know. I'm a paid member, so I can generate codes if that is still required.

Have fun!
Shari

[lemur]

I forgot about these-oh well I'l do them now

1. What do you do for a living?I work for myself as a cleaning lady-I need to take up smoking sos I can butt out in my mop pail-that just seems so cleaning ladyish to me. I also do some home care a couple of days a week

2. What do you like most about your job?I do not have to deal with people. I can set my own hours. If I feel like being lazy I can go slow

3. What do you like least about your job? When drunks get in there fighting
or when junkies leave their needles laying aroung and I have to be the one to clean that all up

4. When you have a bad day at work it's usually because _____... The drunks have been in there smashing stuff-someone decides to strew garbage all over the place for the hell of it or start a garbage fire in the building

5. What other career(s) are you interested in?actually I like my job now (except for the aforementioned drunks). I don't know what else I would do. make things maybe. I have no ambition. As long as I've got enough to buy all the art junk I want I'm happy

[adrienne]

1. What do you do for a living? I'm a photographer for a large company. I make my money and get the most pleasure/satisfaction from freelancing, though.

2. What do you like most about your job? Working with the kids, being as creative as they'll let me be, working on my own without a 'boss' watching over me, and it's only about 10 minutes away from home.

3. What do you like least about your job? Manipulative customers, customers who are never happy despite bending over backwards for them, customers who have a history of causing problems and complaining, customers who fight the policies they agreed to (in writing) when they sat down, management/company politics, company policies that I don't agree with, intentional over-booking....my pay.

4. When you have a bad day at work it's usually because _____... I've been screwed over by a coworker, I was over-booked and under-staffed

5. What other career(s) are you interested in? Oh, lots of things. But, I enjoy photography so much that I can't really see myself doing anything else.

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

Hmm, they didn't post a new one today, so here is one from April 2002.


1. What's your favorite TV show and why?

2. Who is your favorite television star?

3. What was your favorite TV show as a child?

4. What show do you think should have been cancelled by now?

5. What new show do you hope escapes the axe this season?

[dorsia]

1. What's your favorite TV show and why?
Hmm. Either Alias or Joan of Arcadia.
Alias is action-packed, with a hot cast of interesting (and sometimes infuriating) characters, is full of intrigue and cool costumes... it's just so fun.
And Joan of Arcadia for very different reasons: amazing acting, completely real, heartfelt moments between family members and friends, also creative plotting and perfectly cast. Both great shows. I know a lot of people don't watch Joan of Arcadia because it sounds like Touched by an Angel or something but that comparison is SO off, and you should really check it out. :)

2. Who is your favorite television star?
Ryan Seacrest? :P Don't think I have a particular favorite. I do really like Jennifer Garner, James Marsters, Kiefer Sutherland (though I don't watch 24)... the realm of possibilities might open up more if I had cable, heh. I like Ty Pennington!

3. What was your favorite TV show as a child?
Danger Mouse

4. What show do you think should have been cancelled by now?
One Tree Hill. My mom and sister like to sneak that on while I'm in the room. Of course, I'd rather focus on which shows shouldn't be cancelled!
OH! Edited to agree with Meika: REALITY SHOWS. Gross.

5. What new show do you hope escapes the axe this season?
Tru Calling. I know how bad it is but it has improved a lot over the season and I am hooked. I love all of the peripheral characters and Eliza Dushku is so cute, plus that mysterious Jason Priestly... :lol:
Also Hack, though I fear that's already been axed.

[Meika]

1. What's your favorite TV show and why? The Sopranos. I've been watching since the very first show and it just sort of hooked me. It's the one show I am commited to each week. I make no plans on Sunday nights no matter what.

2. Who is your favorite television star? I don't have one.

3. What was your favorite TV show as a child? The Lawrence Welk Show. Yes I know. Go ahead and mock me now :blush:

4. What show do you think should have been cancelled by now? Nearly all of the reality shows.

5. What new show do you hope escapes the axe this season? Deadwood on HBO.

[chunkymonkey]

1. What's your favorite TV show and why?
aw man I can't pick. I can't pick between the west wing and 24. Right now I'm more into 24 than the west wing because this season of the ww has been very poor compared to the other season due to aaron sorkin no longer writing. In the first few season it was not unlike me to cry by the end of episodes. If you are a fab of the show you will know what I'm talking about. Ths show just filled me with such optimism. My enjoyment of west wing is basically the syndicated re runs, maybe that doesn't even count. Gun to my head, I'd have to pick 24. If both shows were running against each other it's 24 hands down.

2. Who is your favorite television star?
Kiefer Sutherland, tho I wouldn't call him a tv star.

3. What was your favorite TV show as a child?
Webster as a young child and towards 9-11 it was (no lie) the brady bunch.

4. What show do you think should have been cancelled by now?
I don't pay much attention to tv I don't like. Most of the sitcoms on tv are total crap. This swan competition/reality show on fox just scares the crap out of me. Urgh... the simple life.

5. What new show do you hope escapes the axe this season?
None that I can think of. I hope none of the shows I watch get cancalled. None of them are in their first season. Well queer eye is new this year but there's no fear in that being axed.

[siafu]

1. What's your favorite TV show and why?

i like monk on usa because it is an interesting cop show, but monk uses his brains, not his bulk. he is also funny.

2. Who is your favorite television star?

jon stewart

3. What was your favorite TV show as a child?

i liked magnum pi and reruns of gilligan's island.

4. What show do you think should have been cancelled by now?

something that sucks so much i can't even remember the name: evil within or something. oh and that george lopez show. the portrayal of race totally pisses me off.

5. What new show do you hope escapes the axe this season?

i don't know any new shows.

[thekilltoy]

Last week I did not do it, since I lack a "real" job right now... The week is a bit odd for me... Since I don't really watch network tv, sitcoms, dramas, basiclly on-going live action stuff... I watch mostly animated stuff, documentaries, and whatnot...

1. What's your favorite TV show and why?
Well I used to watch Rurouni Kenshin every week, until Cartoon Network had the bright idea to axe it... Those jerks! I liked it for various reasons, but I chose it as my favorite, since at the time I was watching it, everything else I enjoyed watching was being re-shown for the 6billionth time.... So it most likely was my favorite at the time....

2. Who is your favorite television star?
Well, when I used to watch X-Files like a fiend... I was big on David Duchovny...

3. What was your favorite TV show as a child?
Are You Being Served? - I used to run home from school so I could watch it...

4. What show do you think should have been cancelled by now?
All the darned reality shows... My mom watches waaaayyy too much of that stuff....

5. What new show do you hope escapes the axe this season?
Well it's already long gone... but I do dream about Nickelodeon brining back Invader Zim...

(see I told ya I watch mostly animated shows... aha!)

[Lilac]

1. What's your favorite TV show and why?
---Probably Futurama or Family Guy because they're just so damn funny.

2. Who is your favorite television star?
---Brak

3. What was your favorite TV show as a child?
---Gilligen's Island

4. What show do you think should have been cancelled by now?
---I really don't follow ptime timeTV, so I'm not familiar with the shows. Although I hope they don't bring back that reality show with Donald Trump. That guy creeps me out!

5. What new show do you hope escapes the axe this season?
---I don't know any of the new shows.

[emtmeghan]

1. What's your favorite TV show and why?
Queer as Folk (US Version). I'm a straight female, but this show about a group of gay men has had me captivated since my roomie got me hooked during the first season.
2. Who is your favorite television star?
HM. I don't really have one. I do really like Lauren Ambroise from Six Feet Under. So, I guess I'll have to go with her.
3. What was your favorite TV show as a child?
Punky Brewster & Fraggle Rock
4. What show do you think should have been cancelled by now?
TRL
5. What new show do you hope escapes the axe this season?
The OC

[Larrissa]

1. What's your favorite TV show and why?
while you were out, its funny, the people are creative and productive and seeing ideas for home decoration i will probably never use but like alot, andrew and leslie are just delicious! :blush:

2. Who is your favorite television star?
i agree with siafu, jon stewart, though i rarely watch his show but wish i did more often

3. What was your favorite TV show as a child?
fraggle rock

4. What show do you think should have been cancelled by now?
everybody loves hypnotoad, or, er, raymond, actually all of them, i would turn the tv into a static viewer for a season

5. What new show do you hope escapes the axe this season?
uh, what new shows? i havent been watching

**ooops i misread

[bingsy]

1. What's your favorite TV show and why?

Home Movies, I'm in love with the characters - especially Jason and Coach McGirk

2. Who is your favorite television star?

edited because I just brainstormed: Kerri Kinney or Ian Michael Black

3. What was your favorite TV show as a child?

The Love Boat, Three's Company

4. What show do you think should have been cancelled by now?

most sitcoms, but in particular Will and Grace - don't shoot me!

5. What new show do you hope escapes the axe this season?

Tru Callling

[tanagee]

1. What's your favorite TV show
It's a tie between ER and CSI (Vegas).
and Why?
I really wanted to be a doctor and/or a coroner (but I am REALLY bad in math) so I can live vicariously through the characters.

2. Who is your favorite television star?
The Fab 5...especially Carson and Kyan

3. What was your favorite TV show as a child?
M*A*S*H

4. What show do you think should have been cancelled by now?
The Help (I think that's what it's called) That's a 1/2 hour of my life I will never get back.

5. What new show do you hope escapes the axe this season?
Joan of Arcadia
(I wish Miss Match would have survived)

[sarahkate]

1. What's your favorite TV show and why?

For the past month of so it was Wonderfalls, but apparently they decided to cancel it after only 4 episodes :'(

2. Who is your favorite television star?

Oooooh...I don't know. I have to agree with what a few people have already said - Jon Stewart kicks ass. Umm.. who else? Oh, I like Kevin James (from the show King of Queens).

3. What was your favorite TV show as a child?

It's a tie between Full House & The Wonder Years.

4. What show do you think should have been cancelled by now?

All of those stupid "Bachelor" shows. Ugh. Ohh... or Charmed - stupid plot lines, horrible bimbo actresses - why do people like that show??!!

5. What new show do you hope escapes the axe this season?

Wonderfalls, but I think it's too late for that. Or Angel because it's my boyfriend's favorite show and he is all bummed that this is the last season :(

[sarahkate]

Wow. No new FridayFive again this week!! So once again here is one from their archives:

January 25, 2002


1. What cologne or perfume do you wear?

2. What cologne or perfume do you like best on the opposite sex?

3. What one smell can you not stomach?

4. What smell do you like that others might consider weird?

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?

*I just realized that the message on the FridayFive (http://www.fridayfive.org/) site was from LAST week, so I don't know if they will be posting a new one today or not, but if you want to answer the questions I posted go for it, and if someone notices they post new q's for today we can answer those too!

[Lilac]

1. What cologne or perfume do you wear?
---usually none...but sometimes Happy by Clinique.

2. What cologne or perfume do you like best on the opposite sex?
---I like a Natural smell.

3. What one smell can you not stomach?
---heavy perfumes, cigarette smoke

4. What smell do you like that others might consider weird?
---Vick's Vaporub

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
---Dong a lot of work around the house and yard.

[sarahkate]

1. What cologne or perfume do you wear? I don't have any perfume at the moment. For a while I wore Candie's (http://www.perfumeplazaonline.com/products/item717.html) and then I switched to OP Juice (http://www.perfumeplazaonline.com/products/item1955775.html) but I ran out of that and haven't had the money to buy new perfume so I have just been using Bath & Body Works body spray - I think it's sweatpea scented.

2. What cologne or perfume do you like best on the opposite sex? I like Polo Sport. My boyfriend doesn't usually wear cologne, but I like the way his Nivea aftershave smells. :wub:

3. What one smell can you not stomach? Patchouli, or those really flowery or musky old lady type perfumes. Yuck.

4. What smell do you like that others might consider weird? My dog's feet! They smell salty. :lol:

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend? Running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to clean my house because my mom is coming over tomorrow, and then I'm going with her to get her snow tires taken off her car, and new tires put on. We will probably go shopping while her car is in the garage. Sunday my bf & I might go out to his parents house to visit and other than that probably nothing exciting.

[Obsidian_Cat]

1. What cologne or perfume do you wear?
Jessica McClintock - because I apparently like to be chased by bees.

2. What cologne or perfume do you like best on the opposite sex?
That fresh, just from the shower soapy smell.

3. What one smell can you not stomach?
The allergic, immediately headache inducing smell of cigarette smoke.

4. What smell do you like that others might consider weird?
Turpentine... I just love it!

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
Saturday - stretching a big 5'x5' canvas. Maybe wash my car, if I'm feeling extra ambitious. Sunday - at the March to Save Women's Lives in Washington D.C.! With a million and a half other crazies...

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

1. What cologne or perfume do you wear?

I rarely wear perfume, but when I do, it's some kind of citrus spray stuff, cheapo, that was in my Christmas stocking one year.

2. What cologne or perfume do you like best on the opposite sex?

Chris has never worn cologne in his life, and I love the way he smells. Once upon a time I did have a mad crush on a guy who wore a subtle amount of amber essential oil. It smelled nice.

3. What one smell can you not stomach?

Sauerbraten. It makes me gag and I have to get away. I am not crazy about patchouli, either, but that's usually because people wear way too much. In fact, I don't like any perfume when someone is wearing too much.

4. What smell do you like that others might consider weird?

My cat's fur. Gasoline.

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?

Playing miniature golf ; writing.

[MelangeArtiste]

1. What cologne or perfume do you wear?
Just a touch of Mon Amour

2. What cologne or perfume do you like best on the opposite sex?
A subtle bit of lime scent--must ask him what it's called.

3. What one smell can you not stomach?
Stale tobacco smoke

4. What smell do you like that others might consider weird?
Boxwood shrubs

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
Smelling the boxwood. No. Just kidding. I am working on 2 LMAOs on saturday and taking a workshop on sunday.

[Larrissa]

1. What cologne or perfume do you wear?
half the time none, half clinique happy (it was a christmas present too)

2. What cologne or perfume do you like best on the opposite sex?
just they way they smell without cologne

3. What one smell can you not stomach?
cat poo & cigarrette smoke are tied

4. What smell do you like that others might consider weird?
the way my cat smells after coming in from outside laying in the dirt

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
cleaning sorting packing arting eating sleeping