This Thursday's Made For Meme-ing
Thursday, April 30, 2009 I was tagged for a meme by TeacherMommy, and although I don't usually do memes, I figured I would give this one a go, because I'm flush out of ideas and need something to keep me from eating through another loaf of bread. I'm having a love affair with several loaves of whole wheat lately, and it's doing nothing to help me get down to my fighting weight.
What are your current obsessions?
My current obsession is making purses. I named the first purse Darren, because it only seemed right to name the thing that I had put so many hours and so much energy into creating. I am presently working away at Justine, a completely different and much more difficult design that is pressing up against the bounds of my patience. Justine is a harsh mistress.
Which item from your wardrobe do you wear the most often?
I just purchased a heavily discounted pair of dark grey DKNY jeans
What's for dinner?
We're having leftover pizza, wings, and salads from Panago. If you haven't had their veggie and goat cheese thin crust pizza with a mediterranean salad dressed in balsamic vinaigrette, you don't know love.
What is your greatest fear at the moment?
My greatest fear right now is that I might allow fear to hold me back from fulfilling my creative potential.
What are you listening to?
I am listening to Bon Iver's amazing album "For Emma, Forever Ago
If you were a god/goddess what would you be?
I would be a damn fine one that would freely distribute kittens to everyone and end world hunger. I'd rock harder than Santa Claus.
What are your favourite holiday spots?
The two best places I have ever been are Bermuda and San Isidro up in the mountains of Costa Rica. Upon returning from both of those trips, I spent a while mourning. I can only think that the people who came to settle here in Saskatchewan did so only out of abject desperation. There is no other explanation for coming to a place that has temperatures that range from an excrutiating -49°F to a stifling 104°F.
What are you reading right now?
I've been slowly picking through Chuck Klosterman's IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
What are four words that describe you?
Mercurial, creative, funny, and growing.
What is your guilty pleasure?
That would be my addiction to "The Hills". Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are like a car crash I just can't look away from.
Who or what makes you laugh?
The Palinode is a gut-buster. He can't make it through a day without being absolutely ridiculous at some point.
What is your favourite spring thing to do?
My favourite spring thing to do is wait for summer. Spring here in Regina, Saskatchewan is windy, dusty, and grey. It's a nasty mess that only summer can cure.
Where are you planning to travel next?
The next place I am travelling to is Chicago for the BlogHer '09 conference. I'm already nervous. Other people are scary.
What is the best thing you ate or drank lately?
I had a chef's special roll at Michi. I've had dreams in which I move into one of their private rooms and sleep under the low table.
When was the last time you were tipsy?
I was tipsy last night. Just ask the guy who manned the Burger King drive-thru. He very honestly expressed his lack of concern over the fact that they get their orders wrong all the time.
What is you favourite ever film?
"Harold and Maude
What is the biggest life lesson you've learned from your kids?
Uhm, hellooooo. I had cervical cancer and a hysterectomy before I ended up accidentally replicating, so I've peopled my apartment with three cats instead, and what have I learned from that? Don't own cats.
What song can't you get out of your head?
I pretty much have most of Nirvana's album "Incesticide
What book do you know you should read but refuse to?
I feel like I'm supposed to have read some Jane Austen at some point, but I haven't, and I won't, and I've kind of childishly dug in my heels about it. She sounds deeply boring to me, and I am not going to give myself ammunition to back up that assumption.
What is your physical abnormality/abnormal physical ability?
I can move my second toes independently of my other toes. It passes the time.
The rules of this meme are as follows:
- Respond to and rework the meme.
- Answer the questions on your own blog.
- Replace one question and add one question.
- Tag 8 people.
I hereby charge the following people with the right to accept or deny my invitation to do this meme:
- Blackbird
- the Palinode
- Black Hockey Jesus
- Pocket Buddha
- GEM
- May-B
- Doobleh-Vay
- Jenandtonic
Reader Comments (13)
i don't know if i've ever told you this before, but the fact that someone else out there names inanimate objects like i do warms the cockles of my heart.
tee hee hee...i said cockles...
Yay! I love it when bloggers actually blog when I tag. It makes me feel happy, like a bloggy virus.
Jane Austen can be an acquired taste for some--I actually like her stuff, believe it or not. And this from a lit teacher who does NOT like Dickens or Fitzgerald or Twain, because I'm just that much of a barbarian rebel.
I finally had to comment because I've been staying away from your website, and I love to read you! Convoluted sentence aside, I've been having problems with your website. As I'm scrolling through a post, the site will stop, think a minute about "w1.tcrl.tynt.com/traces". I'm not sure what this is, but it's really annoying to have it think all the time when I'm trying to read you bloggy goodness. Maybe it's just me that's getting the message, but I was hoping someone else was noticing it stopping and thinking about that website.
T, thanks for mentioning that. I know what is causing that and will put a stop to it forthwith!
pppppsssssssssssst. Schmutzie? You already rock harder than Santa Claus.
You would feed people kittens to solve world hunger? WOW, talk about your mixed blessing. . . I mean, way to go on the hunger thing but damn, you couldn't have picked something less cute with more meat on it's bones?
oh, and I totally share your morbid Spiedi obsession, I've been a closet hills watcher since season 1.
The Hills. Oh Schmutzie. :-)
BlogHer will be much better, for ME at least, now that you are sleeping at the foot of my bed. Other people are scary, but I will love you and squeeze you and call you George.
I will DO THIS MEME, for you, but on a couple of days when I am back from Vegas.
Much love
OHSCHMUTZIEDEAR.
I'm in!
Its sad but I am in the same boat...facination with the train wreck that is Speidi!
So you're going to end world hunger by feeding us all kittens? Harsh. I'm in.
Oh, and I will do the meme too!
Harold and Maude! Yes, that's definitely one of those keep-you-alive movies. Hey, it's even about not killing yourself. I am one of those freaks who knows every scene so I will shut up now.
I love that Michi website. VETERAN Japanese chefs. The only restaurant with them. (I wonder what the other chefs are--non-Japanese or non-veteran.)
I want those DKNY pants below but they are not yet cheap enough.
I've read too much Alice Munro and now I have this weird view of Canada and I imagine you in the windy, dusty, grey Canadian spring there with some kind of weird untold secrets...living in a farmhouse...I know, I know-- that's Ontario. But I don't know--this overgeneralization has wended its way deep into my brain.
Thank you, Schmutzie!
Might I suggest sucking it up for "Pride and Prejudice"?
It is an easy read.