Thursday Thunks - Hootin'Anni Style

Thursday Thunks - Hootin'Anni Style

Welcome to the October 21st edition of Thursday Thunks!

(which we always seem to post on Wednesday)

Where we make you think a little bit before you blog!

We pick a subject, and your job is to interpret it anyway you want.

Write about it on your blog... simple as that.

Maybe you can interpret it as a picture - we don't care!

Please only leave a link if you have written a Thursday Thunks post.

Don't forget to go visit the other participants' blogs.

Read and comment about all their Thursday Thunks responses!

That's what all this is about after all, isn't it?

We'll have so much fun and become lifelong friends....

Today's questions are brought to you by the color purple, witches' brooms, the number 800-555-1000, and hootin' anni.

1] We all love snuggly things, right? In your own words, explain how the "X" and "O" became symbols for kisses and hugs!  Because a great kiss can have the same take your breath away impact as a knock out punch - so X for a kiss,  And a hug can just surround you and cocoon you from the world so O envelopes you in a hug!

 

 

2] Besides eliminating sticks, what would you put in a non-stick pan? Well tonite it will be sauteed mushrooms and gnocchi.

3] x=y over pi squared. What are your thoughts on crematoriums having discounts on those that die in fires? OMG!!  The thought of being cremated is the biggest creep out to me ever!  Burned - alive or dead makes me shudder!

4] Tongue twisters are fun...but, it's torture to try to say lisp with that "s" in the word. What is your favorite tongue twister? Risque answers get extra credit! I don't know any except for the She sells Sea Shells, or Peeter Piper and his Peppers

5] Cold weather is coming up. If it's zero degrees Fahrenheit, and tomorrow night it's predicted to be twice as cold, what temperature will it be?Well 0 degrees Farenheit is -17 degrees Celcius, So twice that is -34 degrees Celcius  which is -29 degrees Farenheit.

6] Your significant other is upset with you, would you rather be skating on thin ice or be in hot water? Why?  I'm a hot head - which a lot of  my friends know.  So if I were skating on thin ice I'd just melt the ice and end up in hot water anyway.  My style is big all out fight, and then be over it (hot water) Curt is more roast and stew and avoid conflict (thin ice) and those differences are actually the biggest thing we fight about!

7] What's worse, expecting the unexpected or being a wise guy?  Any of you actually following my life know that at this point the unexpected is the norm, and I'm usually a wise ass - so I think being in an rut of the expected or being boring is the worst.

8] What brand of vacuum cleaner sucks the best? Mine really sucks!!!  Hoover.  may lose suction and need to be emptied but I want that Dyson guy to show me how much dirt he actually vacuums up at once that it would be a pain to empty, or does he have already vacuumed concentrated dirt in his closet until next time?  We checked it out once,  Dyson doesn't lose suction as it fills, but if you have a half full or less Hoover you will get more suction.  And I empty mine every time I use it!

 

 

9] How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? Do you like playing with fire?  Cause you aren't trying to build a campfire in the pine needles at the side of the path??  Actually, thanks to some psychotic apocalyptic relatives, I can build a campfire w/o matches.  Can't tell you how unuseful that is in my life.

10] Toys R us...what was your favorite toy?  Really tough call,  my Robin Hood Long Bow? My Erector Set? my Etch a Sketch?, my Lincoln Logs? my Spirograph? my BeeBee Gun?  my chemistry set?

11] Halloween is near...let's go grave robbing....what would you like to find? How cool would it be to find an empty grave??

 

 

12] Do you wake up or open your eyes first? I'm not sure if it's a good idea to open your eyes before you wake up, what if you are face down on your pillow??

 

13] What mask would you wear to a Halloween Party? Masks make me claustrophobic. So i do makeup but no mask on Halloween!

Sneaking Out

Sneaking Out

Welcome to the October 7th edition of Thursday Thunks!

Where we make you think a little bit before you blog!
We pick a subject, and your job is to interpret it anyway you want.
Write about it on your blog... simple as that.
Maybe you can interpret it as a picture - we don't care!
Please only leave a link if you have written a Thursday Thunks post.
Don't forget to go visit the other participants' blogs.
Read and comment about all their Thursday Thunks responses!
That's what all this is about after all, isn't it?
We'll have so much fun and become lifelong friends....

Thursday Thunks: Sneaking Out

The TT questions are brought to you by Bud, the color of a pumpkin pie and the number 3333.

1. When you snuck out of your house for the first time, who were you meeting and why? Out the window, across the porch roof, down the trellis...  meeting Tommy ... slurp... guy around the corner.... you've known me this long... guess.

2. Tell us about the last time that you got your heart broken. Extra points if you publish their naked photo.  That would have been a couple weeks ago, Tony in the lead, just before the white flag lap... runs out of gas... has to coast around the final lap, crossed the finish line while winner was doing burn out.  I wanted to curl into a ball behind the couch..... If I had naked pictures of Smoke, I wouldn't be sharing them!

3. Tell us about someone you know named Bob. (Yes, we know this is a stupid question. Stupid is what we do best.)  Bob Nardelli, corporate destroyer.  Was paid over 200 million to leave Home Depot,  Chrysler hired him, he flat out told Congress he wouldn't give up any of his perks, laid of thousands, was paid millions to go away.... yeah, I hate his guts.

 

 

 

 

 

4. We just found the perfect retail space. We are giving you the store. What’s its name and what do you sell?  Sip and Knit.... would be part coffee/tea shop with those big comfy chairs and couches, coffees, teas, cocoas and sammies and desserts, and part yarn store with amazing colors, textures, featuring indie spinners/dyers a class/club room and a store cat (can I have a store cat with food around?)  And I'd get my friend Grace (best ever KIP buddy) to sit and knit to encourage others, and I'd get her to knit my samples!

 
5. Tell us about your last “friend with benefits". But it would be so much more fun telling you about my next!  Actually I can't, we're friends w/o benefits now.

6. Kimber worries a lot. What was the last thing that you worried about? How my daughter was adjusting to college.

7. Do you believe “once a cheater, always a cheater”? Not necessarily.  Some people just are cheaters and don't care to change.  Other times, I think there is something wrong in the relationship caused by both people's actions or inactions and definitely non-communication, so one or both people end up having needs fulfilled somewhere else.  If the communication is fixed, and both parties are able to look honestly at the relationship, it can be fixed.

8. Tell us about moving out of your parent’s home. Who did you move in with?  Dad a deacon, me an embarrassment, Dad issues ultimatum, me had issues with ultimatums, Dad gets mad, me comes home to all my stuff on the sidewalk, dog tied to fire hydrant, cat leashed to dog.  Who did I move in with?  See  #1. (whenever I ran away, I ended up in his walk in closet)

9. What was your most recent regret? Ordering the large caramel apple latte at dunkin donuts... blech....

10. Berleen recently ranted on face book about having to got to parent-teacher conferences when your child has great grades. What was the stupidest meeting that you most recently endured?  Three hours this morning of you all suck, we should fire all of you and hire in people for half the pay that would be able to fail audits just as well, blah, blah, blah.  Ok we did fail the audit. (lowest score since I've been in the building in 2004)  But we failed because Dept Supvs, Ops Supvs didn't do their work!  So where was the Ops Mgr?  And not for nothing, but my area got 100%.  So it was time for my nail appointment, I got up and left.

11. Do you collect anything? In no particular order, Looney Tunes stuff, Tony Stewart Stuff, 49er stuff, friends who for some obvious deep seated self hate issues are 

Cowboy fans, and oh yeah... Yarn.

12. Has anyone ever told you that you were in the wrong job?All the time.

13. Is there something that you’d like to complete before the end of 2010? organizing/redoing my bedroom. Since I share it with Curt, not likely.

You've Got Mail

You've Got Mail

Welcome to the September 9th edition of Thursday Thunks!

(which we always seem to post on Wednesday)
Where we make you think a little bit before you blog!
We pick a subject, and your job is to interpret it anyway you want.
Write about it on your blog... simple as that.
Maybe you can interpret it as a picture - we don't care!
Please only leave a link if you have written a Thursday Thunks post.
Don't forget to go visit the other participants' blogs.
Read and comment about all their Thursday Thunks responses!
That's what all this is about after all, isn't it?
We'll have so much fun and become lifelong friends....

Thursday Thunks: You've Got Mail
  

The TT questions are brought to you by Bud, the color of Meg Ryan's Blouse and the number 33.

1. From whom did you get your last e-mail? Curt sent me a funny picture.

2. What is the most recent movie that you have seen in a theater?the sad truth is I really don't remember.

3. Have you ever seen a ghost?Just once.  My great-grandfather woke me up to tell me he had to leave, but he would always love me.  I went and woke up my uncle and my parents to tell them "gray-gramps" died about 5 minutes before the hospital called the house.

4. Ever loved someone so much it made you cry? I really don't do crying. 

5. What are you most afraid of? Spiders, alligators.... being "normal". Yes, being "normal" scares the crap out of me!

6. What do you do when you are bored? I usually crack jokes, heckle, pass doodles around... ok the only time I'm ever bored is in meetings at work, or clothes shopping with Angie ( ok with anyone, but I only go with Angie)

7. Other than the author of this mess of a meme, who blog are you most curious to see their answers? Thom

8. Name three thing from your bucket list.  My child has had a bucket list that grows and has stuff checked off since she was 6.  Me I'm not that goal oriented.  So the handful of stuff I do have include - learning to weld, going to Ireland, learning Italian.

9. Who was the last person who complimented you on how you looked, that actually was a surprise? Last week, I wore half my hair up in  a bun, the other half was down.  A trucker (whose truck I never unload or care about) Was waiting for my carpet truck (luv Brauns) to leave the dock so he could back in.  As I was doing the key-rec paper work on MY truck the guy walks up to me and says I look real "purdy" (yup serious accent) with my hair like that and I look like a proper girl, and I should "purdy myself up" more often.  ( I think I pulled a muscle laughing after)

10. Do you remember Berleen? Hmmm, in light of the fact that I actually never met her, vaguely...

11. What was the last concert that you attended where the band was much better than you imagined? I saw Charlie Daniels in a tiny olde time theatre.  (mind you I learned to play the violin because of Charlie Daniels - much to my parents chagrin) He was amazing and had way way more energy than I do!

12. What’s the next band you’re either planning to see or want to? Dierks Bentley is coming to NYC next month....

13. What were the last things do you imagine that Kimber threw off the roof? Her emily post handbook, her decorum...

At the Zoo: TT100

At the Zoo: TT100

 Congratulations to
KIMBER & BERLEEN!
at once a week...a great milestone

Welcome to the September 2nd edition of 
Thursday Thunks!

(which we always seem to post on Wednesday)
Where we make you think a little bit before you blog!
We pick a subject, and your job is to interpret it anyway you want.
Write about it on your blog... simple as that.
Maybe you can interpret it as a picture - we don't care!
Please only leave a link if you have written a Thursday Thunks post.
Don't forget to go visit the other participants' blogs.
Read and comment about all their Thursday Thunks responses!
That's what all this is about after all, isn't it?
We'll have so much fun and become lifelong friends....

Thursday Thunks: At the Zoo

The TT questions are brought to you by Bud, the color of my neighbor's wife's eyes and the number 33,333.

1. Would you rather have a pet hippo or a pet elephant? ELephant - you can train them to do cool stuff, you can ride them.  Hippo's are really really mean angry animals and will kill people for no apparent reasons.

2. Why do you think bananas are shaped the way they are?So that when I was in college, I would be able to have breakfast and screw with the boys' heads at the same time?

3. In one word (OK, you can go three to four MAX) , what do most people describe you as? Most as in generic population that has the misfortune of knowing me?  Or the significantly smaller subset of my friends?

4. Choice (stupid but a choice…): Loss of vision, ability to speak or hearing - which do you choose? (you have to choose one....) It's like a law. But we can't make you.  going to cheat hear.  I'd pick hearing.  I'm already partially deaf anyway.

5. Do you like lemons? Do you use them to clean with or just as a food source? Or are you saving them up for 2012? Love lemons!  Go through a lot as I cook,never cleaned with them.  Used to se them to highlight my hair when I was a kid.

6. When you are feeling icky with that sickness feeling, what is your first choice for feel-better medicine? Herbal tea - with fresh ginger root boiled in the water.

7. You are starving. You have not had anything to eat for days. In front of you is poison ivy, a live hissing cockroach, and a rotten stinky piece of some sort of mystery meat to eat. Which would you pick and why? If I had some salad dressing I'd go for the poison ivy.  Why?  Well I'm sort of cheating. I am not allergic to poison ivy, oak or sumac.  I ripped a bunch out at my mom's house this spring. Nothing.  ( I was really evil as a child.  There was poison ivy in the woods behind the school.  I got into a lot of fights.  I'd make sure the fight would be nearby and I'd roll with the other kid through it.  Seriously, I is evil)

8. Who was the last person you bought a present for? What was it? Will you buy Berleen one? Does a cupcake count?  I bought Carl a cupcake yesterday for his birthday.  I don't think a cupcake with mousse icing would make it to Berleen.

9. Name 3 things you want your kids to learn before they grow up. (If you don't have kids, feel free to explain to the other players why you chose the “no kids“ choice. Yea. I know. (Those who have children will NEVER get it. And no, don‘t explain it…)  She already is 18!  But they were - drive a stick shift (check)  cook well enough that she won't be tempted by takeout (check) and be self-confident enough to hold her own (check, check)

10. What was your favorite toy as a child? What happened to it? My bb gun.  I stopped playing with it when I got a real one.  It's probably in my uncle's attic.

11. If you could paint your house ANY color you wanted and your friends, family & neighbors would love the color from the moment they saw it, what would it be? YELLOW

12. If the Pillsbury Dough Boy got into a fight with Mrs. Butterworth who would win? And would anybody get hurt? And do we seem desperate even asking? Totally would go to Mrs Butterworth - the woman's got a set of guns!

13. What was the last thing you would guess that Kimber took a picture of? Oh. And consider the meme listed below. Click on it. It rocks. The inside of her pocketbook?

 

Tomorrow, please join us!

This is a GREAT meme...

This week features the lyrics of ELVIS!

A Face for Radio

A Face for Radio

Welcome to the August 12th edition of Thursday Thunks!

(which we always seem to post on Wednesday)
Where we make you think a little bit before you blog!
We pick a subject, and your job is to interpret it anyway you want.
Write about it on your blog... simple as that.
Maybe you can interpret it as a picture - we don't care!
Please only leave a link if you have written a Thursday Thunks post.
Don't forget to go visit the other participants' blogs.
Read and comment about all their Thursday Thunks responses!
That's what all this is about after all, isn't it?
We'll have so much fun and become lifelong friends....

Thursday Thunks: A Face for Radio

span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">The TT questions are brought to you by Bud, the color of Sarah Palin's bible and the number 333.
1. What radio personality bothers you the most?  I have Sirius/XM  - multiple country stations, Nascar radio, 80's , metal, comedy stations, - I don't listen to personalities that bother me.

2. If abandoned alone in the wilderness, would you survive?Yes, my psycho uncle made sure of it.
3. If a sexy person was pursuing you, but you knew she was married, And neither her S/O or yours would never know, might you to the deed? no - I'm totally not into "she's" sexy or otherwise.

4. Do you like to pursue or be pursued? a little of both creates that wonderful tension...
 

5. Use three words to describe yourself.  Unique, strange, bitch

6. If Berleen was on a camping trip, do you thing she’d attract grizzlies? If she does can I go
??

 

7. Do you think more about the past, present or future?
 I'm a live for the present kind of girl!

 
8. If your house was on fire, what would be the first thing, other than family or pets, that you grabbed? Curt's ass??  Seriously- I wish I could say pictures, but probably yarn.

9. Was your mom a cheerleader? I almost spewed my beer reading that question!! No, definitely not - and she never understood why I was!

10. Was your dad a jock? That's funnier than question 9.  Biggest, most uncoordinated clutz on the planet.  But even though he never came to one of my games, I found out after he passed that he bragged about my accomplishments to his friends. 

11. Bud’s been gone a while. Do you think he will return or shut down that Googled Warned blog? Bud must return!!!  I can't be the most sarcastically funny person I know!!

12. What’s your favorite junk food? Pizza  

 

13. Do you believe in reincarnation? I hope not!  It makes life ordinary if you keep doing it.

Welcome to the August 5th edition of Thursday Thunks!

(which we always seem to post on Wednesday)
Where we make you think a little bit before you blog!
We pick a subject, and your job is to interpret it anyway you want.
Write about it on your blog... simple as that.
Maybe you can interpret it as a picture - we don't care!
Please only leave a link if you have written a Thursday Thunks post.
Don't forget to go visit the other participants' blogs.
Read and comment about all their Thursday Thunks responses!
That's what all this is about after all, isn't it?
We'll have so much fun and become lifelong friends....

Thursday Thunks: Special Talents

The TT questions are brought to you by Bud, the color of Judd Corizan's hair dye and the number 33.
1. Do you have any special talents? Tell us about them. I have lots of special talents... most I can't list here or there will be a warning like Bud has to get in my blog.  So the special talent that I can share would be that I can make almost anything funny.  SOmething happens and a funny remark just heads out of my mouth.  If laughter is the best medicine, my friends  should be healthy as all hell.  A corollary to this talent would be my ability to mock almost anything.

2. What is your favorite sound? Engines firing up at a racetrack. - Not just NASCAR either.


3. What was your favorite TV show as a child or teen? Non sports? In Search of...  NOVA was a close second. But I really watched very little TV as a kid, so most of my tv viewing was football, baseball, hockey and when they showed races , racing.

4. There are a lot of specialty TV networks now devoted to things like golf, gardening, shopping, game shows, sports, news and sci-fi. Do you have any favorite TV networks? Those of you that read my blog semi-regularly will remember the angst caused by losing Food Network for 2 weeks - so I'd have to say Food Network. ( watching Tyler right now)

5. What is your guilty pleasure TV show? I have recently gotten sucked into Deadliest Catch.  The captains of the Time Bandit and the Northwestern are really .... sexy.  Angie and my sister and some other female friends think I have weird taste.  I told Angie if I didn't she wouldn't be here!

 

6. Berleen is on the top of a mountain. How on earth did she get there and what was she doing? Well, obviously she took the chairlift up because she is going skiing with me!

 

7. Have you ever dreamt that you made love to someone you haven’t yet met? Ok, needing some clarification here.  DO you mean someone you haven't met who probably doesn't even exist?  Or like someone who is real, but you just never met ( Like when I was younger and had lots of interesting encounters with Joe Montana in my sleep?)
 

8. Berleen decides to run away and join the circus. What could you imagine her performing under the big top? Berleen's a mom - so I guess she would do what mom's do all the time - juggling on a tightrope.

 

9. What is your favorite sci-fi movie? Oh this is a tough question.  I was really, really into Science fiction.  used to go to all the con's dressed in costume even.  I'm going with Dune.  Watched the movie enough time to know all the words, the soundtrack got me through college as everytime I needed to write a paper or finish a project I would play it over and over and over.  And the books were even better.  So a multi-media fav.

10. What is your favorite reality show? Deadliest catch - see question 5. 

Do you like how I worked a gratuitous Tony shot in there?? huh?? Huh???

11. Bud says he is on vacation. What do you think he is doing? Hoping he is somewhere exotic and getting pampered together with his lady.

12. When shopping at the grocery store, do you always return your cart? My store makes you stick a quarter in there to get the cart so if you don't return it you lose a quarter.  If the weather is really, really bad (snow or rain) I'll leave the quarter in so the cart boys can get a tip.

13. Do you take compliments well? depends.

Drawing in the Sand

Drawing in the Sand

 

I don't know what happened to my original post.  I was on question 13 and some how deleted it from existence.  This is take 2 which is never as good as take 1. 

Welcome to the July 29th edition of Thursday Thunks!

(which we always seem to post on Wednesday)
Where we make you think a little bit before you blog!
We pick a subject, and your job is to interpret it anyway you want.
Write about it on your blog... simple as that.
Maybe you can interpret it as a picture - we don't care!
Please only leave a link if you have written a Thursday Thunks post.
Don't forget to go visit the other participants' blogs.
Read and comment about all their Thursday Thunks responses!
That's what all this is about after all, isn't it?
We'll have so much fun and become lifelong friends....

Thursday Thunks: Drawing in the Sand

The TT questions are brought to you by Bud, the color of Janera Jepson's eyes and the number 3.

1. We know how creative Berleen is with her terrific tee-shirts and such, so how about you? Do you draw anything or perhaps your name in the sand when you go to the beach? I knit and crochet.  When I am at the beach I am in the water not on the sand.

2. Kimber doesn’t always leave her house. I wonder if she knows what is out her back door. What is out your back door? I don't really have a backdoor.  A sliding door onto the balcony/ container garden/ refuge from reality.

3. Do you prefer the beach, a pool or a lake? Why? Depends.  I love the ocean more than the beach.. I love being in the water. The rougher the water the more I love it. Like challenging Poseidon and surviving.  Curt says Angie and I start devolving back to the sea.  When I was young and I spent summers at my grandparent's shore house and I used to love to walk the beach during storms.

 

I live near a lake.  I love the serenity of the lake in the early morning, when I'm awake but most of the world sleeps.  I love the way the lightening hits the lake during summer storms. I would love to live in a house right on a lake.

 

I used to spend a lot of time in pools. Water volleyball and polo - although if you are on the other team I may have hurt you.  Now the best thing about a pool to me is the swim up bar!

 

 

4. What is something recently that happened to you that you are REALLY excited about? Can't/won't say on the internet.

5. I am fortunate that I come from a very close family. Are any of your great-grandparents still alive? If not did you ever meet them?I was raised by my great grandfather for most of my childhood.  He was an amazing man. I still miss his sharp wit and dry sarcastic humour. The best thing he taught me? live your life your way. Every action has a consequence.  Some good some bad, some depends on how you view it.  Think about the consequence and if you are willing to pay up without complaining go for it. (yeah, dangerous lesson to someone like me!)

 
6. When was the last time you spoke in front of a large group? Tell us about it. At the last All Store meeting.  Too many people were confused and thus screwing up the pack down/ out of stock sticker process.  I was supposed to "re-train" them.  Fail.

7. Have you ever bungee jumped? Would you ever bungee jump? Seriously?  Is hell No an acceptable answer?  If something goes wrong you just get pounded into the ground over and over and over again.  At least when you sky dive ( I have almost 100 jumps)  if somethingwere to go wrong you only hit the ground once.  And I am more scared of being really f'd up and in pain than death.

 

 

8. How strong emotionally do you think you are?Unfortunately pretty strong.  It is so tempting to attempt to be one of those "damsels in distress" and fall apart sometimes.  but I just can't do it.  I have survived a lot.  I don't discuss most of it.  I guess it's true if it doesn't kill you ( even if it almost kills you) it will make you stronger.

9. Kimber and Berleen still have NEVER met, yet they are best friends. What is the first thing you notice about people when you meet them? Their eyes, followed closely by their hands, and if it a cute guy - his ass.

10. Who do you mess with the most? The Angie.

11. Who was the last person you talked to on a landline? The Angie's dentist's office called about half an hour ago to change her appointment by 30 minutes so they could work a family in.

12. I finally saw Avatar this week. What was the last movie you watched long after it came out and loved? Madagascar  ( love the Penguins. "the penguins are insane")

 

 

13. What did you dream about last night? I don't usually remember dreams from nighttime.  When i do they are very surreal.  I am more likely to remember dreams from naps.
 

None of Your Business

None of Your Business

Welcome to the July 21st edition of Thursday Thunks!

(which we always seem to post on Wednesday)
Where we make you think a little bit before you blog!
We pick a subject, and your job is to interpret it anyway you want.
Write about it on your blog... simple as that.
Maybe you can interpret it as a picture - we don't care!
Please only leave a link if you have written a Thursday Thunks post.
Don't forget to go visit the other participants' blogs.
Read and comment about all their Thursday Thunks responses!
That's what all this is about after all, isn't it?
We'll have so much fun and become lifelong friends....

Thursday Thunks: None of Your Business

The TT questions are brought to you by Bud, the color of Jill Hennessy's marriage certificate and the number 33,333,333.   A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO BUD, FOR SAVING THE THUNKS THIS WEEK!! (I DON'T REMEMBER THAT WORD THAT THOM ALWAYS USES, AND I'M TO LAZY TO INVESTIGATE, SO IN HONOR OF THE FRENCH TWINS) MERCI!!!

1. What is the most common question that you are asked (in life) that is none of the questioner's business? I used to think it was if you aren't Spanish what are you.  ( I really don't think I look Spanish, the people who guess Hawaiian are equally wrong but probably closer) But even if I was of Spanish descent - the DNA would not give me the ability to speak the language!   

But, like I said this USED to be my most annoying question.  Recently there has been a huge rash of people who think it is appropriate to ask me why I only had one child.  They then continue with  couldn't you have anymore children? Like stopping at one was a biological decision.  Or don't you like kids?  Then there is always the " don't you feel guilty that when you are gone she'll be all alone?"   Seriously people!! Only child, Angie is an only child. Get over it.  If we are close enough for you to know I will eventually tell you.  If not, leave me alone! 

2. Who makes you happiest right now? It's a close tie between Curtis, and not Curtis, so we will go with Curtis.

3. Would you consider yourself to be spoiled? I think that a lot of women living my life would not consider themselves spoiled.  However, I think I am.  Curt lets me be myself.   Pretty quirky.  At work, kind of by default since they kinda need me, I pretty much get to be me. 

4. Do you want to be famous one day? SInce I would more likely to be infamous than famous, the answer is no.  Seriously, I'm a jeans, barefeet and beer girl,  designer dresses, heels and champagne not my style.  So famous - no.

5. Could you handle being in the military? Not sure.  I can give orders.  I can make sure my orders get followed.  I can take orders from someone I respect.  Someone I don't respect, not so much.  Not sure if I have the kind of discipline that would lead to success, Little known fact, I got into West Point.  But at the time, women were not allowed to have the jobs that help one get promoted in a timely manner unless it was in the medical field.  I really battled myself, but in the end declined.  I then started rooting for Annapolis.

6. Do you believe in Karma? I think if you believe in Karma, you can unconsciously affect the outcome of an event.  I think you can look around the world and mean, selfish, evil people enjoy continued success and have luck just fall in their lap.  Kind, generous caring people suffer setback after setback.

7. What’s the stupidest thing you ever did with your cell phone? Dropped it in a pail of water.

8. Who knows a secret or two about you? I'm pretty much an open book, because seriously there are very few people who I actually care about their opinion of me.  And those people know me well enough that I really couldn't fake them out anyway.  But my BFF knows all, has heard everything, knows my personal inner struggles etc.

9. Who is the most experimental person you know? Depending on your definition of experimental, My father in law is the most "Mad Scientist" person who I know.  Don's the most  "frankenstein" experiment I know.  Dennis was the most "60's" style experimental person I know.   Sal definitely the most "sexually" experimental person, Mikey the most global culturally experimental.... ok most of my friends have brains from test tubes what can I say?

10. Last thing you did that ticked off your S/O (or if not in a relationship) most recent S/O?  Let me start by saying that most of my friends are men, most of the people I need at work are men, and um yeah Curt is a man.  So, not necessarily consciously, but not exactly unconsciously either, rather than just blatantly ask for something that I'm pretty sure will be answered with a yes anyway, I do this "Puss in Boots" look
( from the first or second Shrek movie, Puss holds his hats and looks up with these huge eyes) that I seem to think will sway them in the yes direction.  Curt knows I do it, but gets really, really pissed when I do it to him instead of just coming out and asking him to do something.  Like I did when he got home WEdnesday, and after he helped me he went off and was pissy.

11. Have you ever purposely been irritating to someone? If yes, explain. I can sometimes be highly passive aggressive.  Sometimes I just decide to irritate someone who annoys me.  I guess the answer is yes, so often I can't really explain one instance.

12. What's crazy to you? Being a Dale EARNHART JR fan???  Second would be trying to be what you think other people want you to be.


13. Who (other than the three of us TT writers) writes the most interesting blog?  That I read regularly would have to be Thom at Thoms Place... ( see link on side) followed a close second by Grace's Loving comfort... ( see link on side)

Kitchen Wonderland

Kitchen Wonderland

Welcome to the July 15th edition of Thursday Thunks!

(which we always seem to post on Wednesday)
Where we make you think a little bit before you blog!
We pick a subject, and your job is to interpret it anyway you want.
Write about it on your blog... simple as that.
Maybe you can interpret it as a picture - we don't care!
Please only leave a link if you have written a Thursday Thunks post.
Don't forget to go visit the other participants' blogs.
Read and comment about all their Thursday Thunks responses!
That's what all this is about after all, isn't it?
We'll have so much fun and become lifelong friends....

Thursday Thunks: Kitchen Wonderland

The TT questions are brought to you by Bud, the color of Jupiter's third moon and the number 3,333,333.

1. Billy Mays died about a year ago. What kitchen gadgets have you bought that you've used less than three times? What are they? My ice cream maker...

2. What celebrity would you like to shake some sense into, and why? Dale Earnhart Jr.

3. Jimmy Buffett just did on concert to benefit the victims of the Gulf. Name a Buffett song that you like. All of them. In this weather  "Margaritaville" is on top of the list.

4. How did you feel about Ringo Starr turned 70? Sorry - this may be sacriledge but I think the Beatles were over hyped

6. Trivia time. Do you know the first names of the French twins? Fifi and Mimi?

7. You are in the best seafood restaurant in Canada. What type of meat do you order? Why would I go to a seafood restaurant and order meat? well, Curt would order the chicken- on account of his seafood allergy.Depending on what part of canada, I'd go lobster, crab or salmon.

8. How far would an electric car have to go without a recharge before you'd buy one?1000 miles

9. Did you see that a high court ruled that you can swear on regular TV? What word can you just not wait to hear? I sorta talk like a longshoreman... a lot, I probably wouldn't notice. Except I hate the c word that rhymes with punt.

10. You are in the finest steak and rib joint in Kimberville (Arizona). What seafood dish do you order?Seriously dude- I'm sure red lobster is having one of their "fests"  you obviously need some shrimp or crabs or something!

11. What was the last concert that you attended that really sucked? I took Curt to see George Clinton at BB Kings in Times Square.  He really likes George Clinton.  Not really my music.  What sucked though, was the fact that even though you are no longer allowed to smoke in bars and restaurants in NY or NJ anymore, apparently this only referred to Tobacco.  Apparently Pot was ok, and joints were being passed around, around the audience up to the stage and back down.  Mind you I had 3 trucks to unload, and if anything happens even if it's my fault I have to go for a pee test.

12. What type of accent would you like to have, if you were forced to change yours? IRISH!!!

13. Kimber's got four kids with chicken pox. Berleen is not feeling the love today, so I was asked to host. What do you miss most when neither originator of TT is asking the questions I would say inane questions - but you made up for that with the steak/seafood questions!

I deleted by accident the question about sports not worth watching on tv.   (sorry  Curt) but hands down the  answer has got to be bowling.

So I'm leaving in a few hours to take Angie to Philly, for freshman orientation, so I wont check out all your thunks until the weekend, but I will look I promise.

 Heatwave

Welcome to the July 8th edition of Thursday Thunks!
(which we always seem to post on Wednesday)
Where we make you think a little bit before you blog!
We pick a subject, and your job is to interpret it anyway you want.
Write about it on your blog... simple as that.
Maybe you can interpret it as a picture - we don't care!
Please only leave a link if you have written a Thursday Thunks post.
Please mention us in your post, and link back to the blog here.
Don't forget to go visit the other participants' blogs.
Read and comment about all their Thursday Thunks responses!
That's what all this is about after all, isn't it?
We'll have so much fun and become lifelong friends....

Thursday Thunks: Heatwave

The TT questions are brought to you by Bud, the color of my eyes and the number 333333.

1. The temperature in Mooseheadville, Canada was 34 below. Most of the U.S. is in a serious heat wave. In Connecticut, it was 92 degrees in the shade. What do YOU do to beat the heat? As little as possible - mostly indoors in AC!

2. What is your favorite summertime song? Right now it's Summertime.  Of course, Margaritaville is always a classic.

3. Besides nude beaches what's your favorite outdoor summer activity?Racing!!

4. I'm inviting everyone to a cook-out with Kimber and Berleen. What should I cook for you? You're using charcoal not propane right?  If so I'll take a 3/4" thick shell steak.

5. When selecting your swimwear do you go for sexy or practical? Ocean or Pool?  I get into some serious body surfing at the Ocean, so that would have to be practical.  At a pool we can do sexy, although when you're in shape and said shape is round, that could be kind of tough.  In my youth it was always sexy.

6. Back in the day, did you ever have a summer fling? If yes, do tell. (Names not required.) Yes, every summer high school and college.  The one that most recently came up, is it turns out that between junior and senior year of high school, I went with a guy who was a lifeguard one town down from my grandparents shorehouse.  Turns out he was and still is bff's with a guy who is now a really good friend of mine.

7. Do you know anyone who hates air conditioning? If yes, what is their reasoning?Maybe vegetarians?  They seem to like to skip out on the good stuff in life?  Don't know any personally.

8. When and with who was your last skinny dip? Weekend after college graduation - with my "summer fling" from the year before.

9. How sick of LeBron James are you? Ok anyone who knows me in real life knows I'm a sports fanatic.  Football (49ers) Hockey (Devils) Baseball (Mets) All forms of Racing.  Basketball not at all.  I seriously don't have any appreciation for it.  So since I ignore his existence - not at all.

10. When you were a kid, what was your best summer? 1975.  Met my bestest friend ever.

11. Belly up to the bar. We serve ANYTHING. It's 100 degrees. What should we pour for you? ICE COLD SMITHWICKS,

12. Is there a favorite meal that you like to have in the summer? Grilled dead animal, grilled white corn, grilled portabellas, zuccini, yellow squash and cherry tomatoes.   my second fav would be any other meal that can be 100% done on the grill.

13. Do you think they will solve the oil spill in time for the Gulf states to enjoy summer.  Not very optimistic.

Turn the tv off and turn on the radio

Turn the tv off and turn on the radio

Welcome to the May 13th version of Thursday Thunks!
(which we always seem to post on Wednesday)
Where we make you think a little bit before you blog!

We pick a subject, and your job is to interpret it anyway you want. Write about it on your blog... simple as that. Maybe you can interpret it as a picture - we don't care!
Please only leave a link if you have written a Thursday Thunks post. Please mention us in your post, and link back to the blog here.
Don't forget to go visit the other participants' blogs. Read and comment about all their Thursday Thunks! That's what all this is about after all, isn't it? We'll have so much fun and become lifelong friends....
The TT questions are brought to you by Berleen, the color of black coffee, which I need more of and the number 8,299,598,330.

Are you a Facebooker? Are you addicted to those stupid games that suck a person in at the drop of a hat? Would you care to share your Facebook identification link so that we may all stalk you be your friend?  Nope, no facebook - btw those of you into facebook, you may want to look into how they are screwing with the privacy policy.  I am on twitter however.

If you had to be magically transformed into an animal that you loathe, which one would it be? And don't give me those "none" answers...  I would be a crocodile or alligator.  ( have a serious weird phobia of them.  since I  was a little kid I was convinced I would die by getting eaten by an alligator)

What is the strangest thing you have said to:

* get a job?  To get my current job, the words minions & megalomaniac  were used.


* get a date?  "stardate: (forgot the numbers) you, me, galactic exploration, starting with dinner?"  PS it worked.  ( I was a sci-fi geek and the guy had a [I thought then very cool] conversion van that was airbrushed with star wars scenes)
 

What cartoon character do you find the most sexiest?  When I was a kid I had the HUGEST crush on Lion-o from the Thundercats.  yeah I was a sad geek.

When dog food is new with improved tasting, who tests it?  Let's hope they use finiky eater dogs..

What does OK actually mean?  FROM allexperts.com
short for any of several different spellings of "all correct", including "Oll Korrect", "Orl Korrect", and "Ole Kurreck". There was a fad in the 1830s and 1840s involving the intentional misspelling of common phrases, and referring to them by the resulting initials. These may have been influenced by the Low German phrase "Oll klor", which would have been spoken by emigrants from Northern Germany. The fad included many other briefly popular abbreviations such as OW, "oll wright" (all right) and KY, "know yuse" (no use), none of which has survived. The first recorded use of "OK" in this sense was in the Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839

If a person owns a piece of land do they own it all the way down to the core of the earth?  That would depend on whether or not they owned the mineral rights I guess.  Although if they did and a major earthquake started on a fault line under their property could we sue?

When you were in high school and were sitting in math class... when the day came to learn about 3.14, did you get hungry?  I learned about pi before high school.  But um, no.  I didn't start celebrating 3.14 ( pi day) with pies until college.

Have you ever been on the radio?  No, but I did make a wrong # phone call once to a guy who turned out worked at a radio station - and ended up going out for a month or so.

Beans, beans the magical fruit The more you eat, the more you toot The more you toot, the better you feel So let's have beans at every meal!
Why do people say that when beans are vegetables?  Sigh, why  do so many thunks force me to lecture.  Beans are a fruit. They are formed from a flower, and they are/contain the seeds of the plant.  They are in good company with cucumbers, tomatoes, corn, and pumpkins which people erroneously call veggies. True veggies - broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, collards, celery - are from the parts of the plant, stems, leaves, roots, flowers even.  Now the Rhubarb, which most people call a fruit ( mmmm strawberry/rhubarb pie) is actually a vegetable.

What about tv? And I don't mean physically on top of the tv either, you silly people. Same goes for the radio question.  A long time ago when my high school softball team made the state championships. ( I'm such a haz been)

Do you think Adam & Eve had belly buttons?  Yes, I understand Genesis to be a creation poem, popular among the people of the region - all the cultures from that time period in the area had one.  It contains a lot of symbolism -  let's face it who's to say how long a day is to God, and people then were just developing basic math, so if the  poem said and the first 1.8 billion years god created the stars and the galaxies, and the first generation stars had to live and burn out and die so that the heavier elements could be created, so that  the next generation of stars could be born and create light. and the next billion or so years, those heavy elements from the first stars could coalesce and become the dry land, and then comets from the creation of the star that the dry land circled smashed into the land repeated ly delivering the water to form the seas......  I don't think they would have understood. 

If you were going to own a liquor store or a bar, what would you name it?
Whiskey Lullabuy


How about you own a grocery store - what's it's name?  I think the liquor store/bar would be more fun..  How about  Southern Comfort Food?  Haven't  had a good source for good southern ingredients around here.

If you could only watch one tv show for the rest of your life and no other, what would it be? And yes, it's going to be in series form so you don't actually have to watch the same episode over and over.  NASCAR races.

What was the name of your 3rd grade teacher?  I had 2, one was miss Florio, I think Mrs Froeschle was the other?  They both started with F.

Do you know how to parallel park?  Don't you??  Yes I can parallel park.  And my daughter is an awesome parallel parker - thanks to my friend to C.

What kinds of cereal do you have in your home right at this very moment?  Corn Pops, Basic 4, 4 different kins of special K, multi grain cheerios.

If you were to have a garage sale tomorrow, what is the first item you own that you would say "I'm selling THAT!"?  my ice cream maker - not as much fun as I thought.

You Are a Crocodile

You are fierce and strong. You go after any prey that is in your sights. You have a take charge personality, and you are quite dominant. You are not easily intimidated. It's likely that you've had to struggle for survival in your life. You've had to develop a very thick skin. You can be brutal, but you can also be tender. You tend to have two sides to your personality.

What Australian Animal Are You?

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