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Watermelon Undies, Famous Lovers, Lemon Killers & Rain
1. Today is the biggest day in your chosen career. You have THE job interview. Everything must be spot on. As you are getting dressed, you realize Oops!, you forgot to do laundry. You have NO clean underwear. What do you do? Go commando, wear yesterday’s dirty undies, wear them inside out, buy new ones on the way to the interview or just say screw it and go back to bed?
Go commando
2. If you took a fully cooked turkey and a ripe watermelon and dropped them from 50 ft up, which would make a bigger splat and mess?
The watermelon
3. An ex lover, friend, or spouse is in a serious accident, they have lost their current memory and think you 2 are still together. S/he keeps calling for you from their hospital bed. The family calls begging you to come visit until s/he regains current memory. Do you go?
Yes I would go until they regained their current memory.
4. You have the opportunity to meet your favorite famous person. You have heard the person isn’t nice in real life. Do you go ahead and meet them or choose to keep your fantasy of them real to you? Why or Why not?
I’d pass on meeting them.
5. Do you like lemons? Do you use them to clean with or just as a food source?
Both. Half a lemon rubbed on a fresh chicken before roasting is a must.
6. If chosen to be in a horror/suspense movie, would you do it? If so, would you be willing to be the first person killed in the movie?
Yup, I’d let Freddie or Jason or Chainsaw Guy take me right out!
7. It’s raining. It’s cold. You cannot leave the house. How do you spend the day?
Catching up laundry, phone calls and bloghopping.
I stole this from Janie who stole it from Life’s Little Adventures
The Favorites Meme
1. Political show: None
2. Picnic food: Fried chicken, potato salad, macaroni salad, roast beef sandwiches with horseradish sauce, deviled eggs, fresh fruit
3. Mixed drink: Sex on the Beach with Absolut Vodka
4. U.S. President: If I had my way I would put Bill Clinton right back in the Oval Office.
5. Kind of student to teach: I would like to teach adults about blogging.
6. Hobby you do or wish you still did: I used to enjoy hooking rugs.
7. Sports commentator: None.
8. Sport to watch on TV: I’ve come to appreciate soccer, but bowling can be a lot of fun to watch too.
9. Animal to have as a pet: At this point in my life I don’t want any more pets, though I love animals.
10. Halloween costume you have worn: Pierrot Clown
11. Kind of dessert: Payasam - fine rice noodles boiled in milk and sugar with a bit of spice and raisins.
12. Comic strip: I used to buy Archie comics as a kid. Is Cathy still around? I liked her.
13. Ice cream flavor: Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia.
14. News source: The Internet is my number one source, though I turn on NY1 News for about 15 minutes every morning.
15. Vacation spot: The only vacation I ever had was summer camp as a kid. Something always comes up with my family or work whenver I try to plan one. So when I’m not working I explore my hometown - New York City.
16. Wine: Barolos
17. Way to waste time instead of working: Internet
18. Reality show: I don’t want to watch single people compete for a mate, or vote each other off an island.
19. Childrens movie: It would have to be Winnie the Pooh and The Blustery Day. My daughter watched it daily when she was a tot. I can still hear her singing the songs.
My Dad loved March of the Wooden Soldiers, think I’ll see it’s available for rent.
20. Celebrity you wish would retire: Mickey Rourke
1. How often do you visit a coffee shop? If you do, do you drink coffee there, or just pick it up to go?
My handle is coffeebarchick; my daughter named me that because I always seem to be in coffee place endlessly writing in notebook or moblogging.
When I am being good I have a decaf, but I haven’t been very good lately, so you’ll find me haing a iced chai with soy milk.
Tonight I’m having hot chai. It’s freezing here in New York.
2. What is the latest time of day you can drink regular coffee (or tea) without messing up your sleep?
I try not to have coffee of any kind, even decaf, after 10 pm.
3. What is the highest number of cups of coffee (or tea) you’ve had in a single day?
Four full strength coffees - I looked like a rabbit in headlights.
4. Take the quiz: What flavor of latte are you?
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You Are a Hazelnut Latte |
 You often having the craving for something exotic. You get bored easily. You are a true adventurer. Nothing makes you happier than traveling. You’re a very cosmopolitan and worldly person. You have sophisticated tastes. |
5. Consider the highest price you’ve ever paid for a cup of coffee and the highest price you’ve paid for a gallon of gas: which of the two items was more expensive?
I don’t drive, hence no need for gas. I think my most expensive cup of coffee was about seven dollars fifty cents.
6. What is your favorite holiday-flavored coffee?
Not into holiday flavored brews at all.
Feelings…
What made you happy this week?
Hearing my daughter’s voice on the phone.
What made you sad?
I was listening to the news last night, and one of the upcoming stories was about a young person who committed suicide in front of an online audience. Do I have tell you I snapped the TV off right there and then.
What made you angry?
Credit card companies that quietly raise your interest rates. The minimum payment stays just about the same, so lots of people don’t notice. I check my bills each and every month, and if there are changes customer service gets a call in a nanosecond.
What are you looking forward to in the next week?
A day or two of warmer temps - it’s freezing here in NYC.
What are you not looking forward to?
We’re going to fix up our place a bit, so I have to start getting rid of stuff. Having to decide on what goes and what stays is always so hard.
1.) When was your last visit to an emergency room? What happened?
Ohmigosh it was about four years back. It was my neighbor’s birthday, and I was taking her out to lunch. Afterwards we were going shopping. It was a Saturday. I’ll never forget how happy she was that Saturday morning. When we met up mentioned her feet were a little swollen, not hurting or anything, but she was a diabetic so we figured we’d stop by her doctor’s office. He was only three blocks away.
She went into the office smiling, and came out ten minutes sobbing.
“I have to go to the emergency room - now.”
“Whaaaa - okay?”
The doctor came out and told me she had congestive heart failure.
We jumped in a cab, and within minutes we were in an East SIde emergency room. Her doctor had phoned ahead.
She whisked her away on a gurney, as I stood there open mouthed.
She was examined and hooked up to some contraption that drained liquid into a large plastic bag under the bed. By time I was allowed to see her there was so much liquid in that bag I was afraid she’s turn to dust.
Some birthday, huh?
She did go home within a few days. It was just the start though. She died of an assortment of combined ailments three years later at just fifty-six.
2.) Who do you look more like: Mom, dad or another relative?
I look like my dad’s side of the family.
3.) What sounds annoy you?
Throat clearing.
4.) What are three movies could you(or have you) watch(ed) over and over and still love?
- Breakfast Club
- The New Leaf
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
5.) Do you ever wish you were someone else?
Nope for better or worse I gotta be me.
6.) What do you think of when you think of Paris?
The Eiffel Tower, fine food and how nice it would be to just walk the streets taking endless photos.
7.) What’ s the last sporting event you watched?
A soccer game between Italy and Spain. I was in a very Italiano coffee house down Houston Street. The score was zero - zero forever, then suddenly five minutes before the game ended Spain made TWO goals. What a language! I grew up in an Italian speaking household.
8.) What do you think about sexual Role Playing?
I say why not?
1. Overall, do you feel like you’re in better financial shape now than you were five years ago, worse shape, or roughly the same shape?
Roughly the same shape.
2. Of the debts you currently owe, what percentage of them would you say are unnecessary debts that were caused by not watching your money closely enough?
I’d probably owe about 20 percent less if I had taken a day to think about certain purchases.
These days I don’t carry my credit cards around with me.
3. Are you worried about the economy’s effect on your job?
N/A
4. Take the quiz: What’s Your Money Personality?
Healthy - I’ve learned a little something over the years - there’s still a ways to go.
5. Should the government bail out the struggling banks, or should the government divide the money they’re going to give the banks among taxpayers as a one-time “shot in the arm” for America’s workers?
Bail the banks. The recent tax incentives did not boost the business of any the retailers in my area.
6. If a rich stranger were to hand you a check in an amount equal to a year’s salary, would that amount take care of all of your debt, make you feel financially stress-free, both or neither?
I would be totally debt-free with a bit to jingle in my pocket.
Q1 - Special: In addition to standard menu items, many restaurants offer one or more specials of the day. If your waiter or waitress describes an appealing special but neglects to mention its price, would you order it without asking about the cost?
That would depend on the type of special and the restaurant. Most of the restaurants I frequent have entrees that don’t top 30 dollars. If I were on the Upper East Side or in the Tribeca/SoHo area are I would definitely ask the price. A hamburger and fries can easily be twenty dollars plus in those areas.
Q2 - : Earlier this year, pictures showing the Enawene Nawe tribe of Amazon indians aiming weapons at an airplane overhead made headlines across the United States. The photos, according to the producers of ABC’s Nightline television show, inspired them to travel deep into the Amazon to meet the Enawene Nawe, a tribe that reportedly has never before been filmed for television. Do you think there is something inherently wrong with outsiders interacting with or filming never before seen indigenous tribes, or does studying their way of life outweigh any potential negative side effects caused by such actions?
I think we have much more to gain from interaction than they do. I hate when the media turns these things into a sideshow.
Q3 - Housing: In describing the recent financial crisis here in the U.S., President Bush said: “Easy credit — combined with the faulty assumption that home values would continue to rise — led to excesses and bad decisions. Many mortgage lenders approved loans for borrowers without carefully examining their ability to pay. Many borrowers took out loans larger than they could afford, assuming that they could sell or refinance their homes at a higher price later on. Optimism about housing values also led to a boom in home construction. Eventually the number of new houses exceeded the number of people willing to buy them. And with supply exceeding demand, housing prices fell. And this created a problem: Borrowers with adjustable rate mortgages who had been planning to sell or refinance their homes at a higher price were stuck with homes worth less than expected — along with mortgage payments they could not afford. As a result, many mortgage holders began to default.” Do you believe homeownership is a privilege or a right?
I’m a life-long New Yorker and renter. We live in a small rent-controlled apartment. The expense and responsibilty of home ownership has never appealed to me.
i understand why others would want to own a home. If you’re paying market value in New York you are throwing thousands of dollars away every year. The tax benefits and equity of owning a home in town or in the ‘burbs is quite appealing.
I wouldn’t say home ownership is a right, but I would say that the government should work towards making housing affordable for all income levels.
Q4 - Television: What is your current favorite television show — one that you make a point of watching during its regularly scheduled time as often as humanly possible?
I love my Frasier reruns. Call me the Syndication Queen - I am rarely home during prime time.
I read Janie’s Writing Style Meme Post and decided to give it a go.
The results:
1. Do you write fiction or non-fiction? Or both?
Mostly non-fiction. Lately I’ve been very lax in updating my creative writing blog. Hopefully I will get my butt hand moving soon.
2. Do you keep a journal or a writing notebook?
There is always a notebook and pens in my bag. Right now I’m using a very thick bound journal from Barnes & Noble a couple of months back. It has a flexible shiny black cover, and the pages are graph style. About half the pages are filled so far.
3. If you write fiction, do you know your characters’ goals, motivations, and conflicts before you start writing or is that something else you discover only after you start writing? Do you find books on plotting useful or harmful?
During NaBloPoMo last year I created a teen-age character named Bianca Fuenzalida. Shortly after her birth I created a file that included her physical description, immediate family members, close friends, clothing preferences and interests.
4. Are you a procrastinator or does the itch to write keep at you until you sit down and work?
I am a notorious creative writing procrastinator, paper journaling is a different story. When the need to vent on paper arises I must find some time and a place.
5. Do you write in short bursts of creative energy, or can you sit down and write for hours at a time?
Both. Creative writing comes in bursts while paper journaling can go on for hours.
6. Are you a morning or afternoon writer?
Late night actually.
7. Do you write with music/the noise of children/in a cafe or other public setting, or do you need complete silence to concentrate?
I could write on Fifth Avenue in the rain during the St. Patricks Day Parade.
8. Computer or longhand? (or typewriter?)
Everything with the exception of blogging starts off with longhand.
9. Do you know the ending before you type Chapter One? Or do you let the story evolve as you write?
The story evolves as I write.
10. Does what’s selling in the market influence how and what you write?
I’m sure I’m inspired with what’s out there.
11. Editing/Revision - love it or hate it?
I love revising my own work, and working with others on their projects.
I found this over at Milanese Masala - she’s one of my many She Who Blog’s buddies.
If you’re interested in taking part, here are the instructions:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.
Here are my results for the VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette (merçi Stéphanie!)
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
Ok, now it’s your turn!
randomness…feed your mind and your blog
This week’s questions are book related….
1. Who are your favorite authors?
Stephen King & Lawrence Sanders have been big favorites since my younger days.
Natalie Goldberg is my favorite writer on writing.
And I guess all of the authors of my favorite books which is coming up next.
2. What are your favorite books?
Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
The 8th Commandment by Lawrence Sanders
The Moons a Balloon by David Niven
Bring on the Empty Horses by David Niven
3. What kind of books do you tend to read? Sci-fi, Romance, Mystery…etc…?
Non-fiction, Mystery, Horror, Popular Fiction, Autobigraphies
4. Do you prefer to borrow books from the library or buy them?
The library’s hours don’t work for me anymore so I buy.
5. Do you prefer hardcover or paperback?
Either is fine, but paper is less heavy to carry around.
6. What was the last book you read? What are you reading now?
Working on The Writing Diet by Julia Cameron
7. Do you read everyday?
Yes
8. On average how many books do you read per year?
Not a clue.
9. Do you belong to any book clubs?
Writers Digest.
10. Recommend a good book.
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
till next time….
till next time….
randomness…feed your mind and your blog
week of may 4: random nosy questions
1. what is your favorite time of the day?
I like the afternoon and the wee hours of the morning.
2. who is your hero?
Mother Teresa
3. what is your favorite television program?
That varies. It only took a few minutes of Desperate Housewives to make me a diehard fan. I prefer not to watch weekly episodes; I rent whole seasons at a time and have marathons.
4. do you have a hobby?
Photography & Blogging
5. how long have you been blogging?
Must be about 7 years now.
6. what is your dream job?
Teaching workshops and seminars
7. what is your favorite place to buy clothes?
Any place that’s got my size!
8. do you have any bad habits?
I am the Queen of Overdo
9. do you feel younger or older than your current age?
I am happy to be 46, most days I feel a lot younger.
10. what is your dream vacation?
I live in New York and I explore it like a tourist.
till next time…till next time…
