Saw this at kc’s and am stealing it for myself

Ask me seven questions. Not just any seven questions though. No, to keep it interesting, use the seven questions as per below - just copy and paste the following, replace the blanks with something you want to know/ask (e.g., 3. Donkeys or sandcastles and why?), anything you want, personal, silly, surreal or deep, comment away and I’ll answer honestly as I can! Then post this on your own blog and see what kind of things people want to ask you!

1. What do you think of _____________?

2. When did you last ____________?

3. __________ or ___________ and why?

4. What did you ______________?

5. What’s your favorite ______________?

6. How would you ______________?

7. Who would you most like to ________?

Posted: June 30th, 2008 under Q & A.
Comments: 6

Saw this one at Minnie’s…come up with only one word to answer the following:

1. Where is your cell phone? purse
2. Your significant other? good
3. Your hair? black
4. Your mother? excitable
5. Your father? crazy
6. Your favorite thing? knitting
7. Your dream last night? none
8. Your favorite drink? mocha
9. Your dream/goal? happiness
10. The room you’re in? work
11. Your ex? silent
12. Your fear? pain
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? happy
14. Where were you last night? home
15. What you’re not? outgoing
16. Muffins? chocolate
17. One of your wish list items? yarn
18. Where you grew up? Virginia
19. The last thing you did? email
20. What are you wearing? clothes
21. Your TV? off
22. Your pets? dogs!
23. Your computer? MacBook
24. Your life? better
25. Your mood? ok
26. Missing someone? M
29. Favorite store? LYS
30. Your summer? changes
31. Like someone? yes
32. Your favorite color? blue
33. When is the last time you laughed? yesterday
34. Last time you cried? forgot

Posted: June 23rd, 2008 under Q & A.
Comments: none

Laura tagged me, so I have answered the call!

The rules: Posted at the beginning. At the end of the post, the player then tags 6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blog and leaves a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer. Play nice, children.

1. What was I doing 10 years ago: Let’s see, it was 1998 so I was 18. yikes, that was a bad year for me. I was seeing someone I had met online and the relationship turned out to be rather disastrous. ick. (Also, I hate the fact that I associate time periods in my life with the guy I was with at the time. I should not be defined by men!) I was in college working on my Liberal Arts degree and I think I was still working at Old Navy. double ick.

2. What are 5 things on my to-do list today - in no particular order: 1) log into my online classroom and meet my new classmates, 2) do homework, 3) work on the test knit for SWTC–it’s due in a week, 4) go to Subway for lunch, and 5) obsess over the house that we made an offer on yesterday!

3. Snacks I enjoy: ice cream, particularly Ben & Jerry’s Half Baked, yummm. Does pizza count as a snack? Also, potato chips, anything spicy-flavored.

4. Places I’ve lived: Norfolk, VA; New Mexico; and hopefully very soon, Virginia Beach, VA

5. Things I would do if I were a billionaire: Pay off my credit card; buy a house with CASH!; go on a yarn shopping spree; donate some to charity; go on a road trip across the U.S.; visit Scotland; adopt a couple more dogs; and I’m sure I could find many other things to do if I had that much moolah.

6. Peeps I want to know more about: I’m tagging kc, Kim, Minnie, Jennie, Annie, and Tasha.

Posted: May 27th, 2008 under Q & A.
Comments: 1

Someday I will write a post that is not meme-related, but since this one requires me to explain myself, I guess it’s ok. Found at A Knitted Frenzy:

Why did you start a blog?
Everyone else was doing it! baaa. Really. Of course, this was back in the late 90s or early 00s maybe, before I knew what a CMS was and I wrote my entries in HTML. I think the first blogging software I used was Greymatter (with all those lovely templates you had to change every single time you changed your layout and got the dreaded cgi-bin error of death)! Anyway, all my life I’ve loved to write and my blog has basically (unfortunately?) taken the place of a handwritten journal.

How did you come up with your blog name?
It is shamelessly lifted from the song “Good Day” by Jewel.

Do your friends and family know about your blog?
Very few people do, mostly friends.

How do you write your posts?
Stream of consciousness, I’m pretty sure.

Have you ever had a troll or had to delete unkind comments?
I get the random commenter every once and again (not including spammers). I have, occasionally, decided to delete comments that I found offensive in some way. One in particular that comes to mind is a comment someone left me just as I was beginning to go through my divorce. It was so judgmental and just…rude! From someone I used to be friends with but had lost touch with, no less. For a long time, I left the comment on the post but a few months ago, I finally deleted it. I figure, it’s my blog and I reserve the right to delete comments that are just plain rude!

Do you check your stats? Do you care how many people read your blog? If you do care, how do you increase traffic?
In the early days, I checked my stats daily–sometimes several times a day! I also didn’t have a life! Remember proudly displaying your hit count via Sitemeter? I check my stats once in a while now, mainly to see where my referrals are coming from. Since I joined Ravelry, the bulk of my visitors come from there. Also from my regular readers. And there are always the weird spam referrals.

What kind of blogs/posts interest you?
Knitting, dogs, reading/books. Anything that is well-written, well-expressed, and makes me laugh or think in a way other than just skimming past the paragraphs in order to clear my feeds in Google Reader.

What do you like/dislike about blogging?
Even though I don’t advertise my blog to my family and certain other people, I hate the feeling that I need to censor myself sometimes. Just on the off-chance that someone somewhere will read something I didn’t want them to. I guess I’ve gotten used to putting on my best face when I write. Also, I don’t want to seem whiny/bitchy/complainy all the time, either. On the other hand, I love the fact that people (no matter how few!) are actually interested in the things I write and say and knit and return to lend me their ears–and eyes–that’s pretty cool.

Posted: April 3rd, 2008 under Q & A.
Comments: 1

Minnie finds all the memes I like

Use the letter from your middle name and you can’t use your middle name for the name portion.

1. Middle name letter: A
2. Famous artist/band/musician: All-American Rejects
3. 4-letter word: Anti (wait, that’s a prefix)…Apex
4. U.S state: Alabama
5. Boy name: Adam
6. Girl name: Ariel
7. Animal: Aardvark
8. Something in the kitchen: Addi Turbos? haha
9. Reason for being late? Axe in my windshield?
10. Body Part? Appendix
11. Drink? Apple Cider
12. Something you shout: Aha!
13. Something you eat? Apple Pie
14. A movie you’ve seen? American Beauty

Posted: March 31st, 2008 under Q & A.
Comments: none

Seen at Minnie’s blog:

The rules:

1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie (or get them out of your capacious memory).
3. Post them on your blog for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. Looking them up is cheating, please don’t.

The quotes:

1. “One of these days, Lizzie, someone will catch your eye and then you’ll have to watch your tongue.” - from Pride & Prejudice - Jamie and Alli and kc knew it!
2. “Get busy living, or get busy dying.” - from The Shawshank Redemption - Carole knew it!
3. “Yes, I did it. I killed Yvette. I hated her so… much… it… it… the… it… the… fee… flames… flames… on the side of my face… heaving… breathless… heaving breaths…” from Clue - Jamie and Jennifer and Alli and Mary knew it! (Apparently this quote is also in Blazing Saddles, which I had no idea about since I’ve never seen that one!)
4. “Oh, he’s so full of manure, that man! We could lay him in the dirt and grow another one just like him.”
5. “Have bottom the size of Brazil!” - from Bridget Jones’s Diary - kc knew it!
6. “It is to Madame Justice that I dedicate this concerto.” - from V for Vendetta - M knew it!
7. “I want a whole lot more than the boy next door. I want hell on wheels.” - from Grease 2 - Renee knew it!
8. “You gave me my first glimpse of a real life. Then you asked me to go on with the false one. No one can endure that.”
9. “Get a grip, people hate sissies. No one’s ever gonna shag you if you cry all the time.” - from Love Actually - Jamie guessed right!
10. “I’ve got your daughter here, and I’m gonna cut her up, and post her home to you in boxes! *Small* boxes!”

Posted: March 24th, 2008 under Q & A.
Comments: 11

…though the fact that I’m sitting here blogging on a Saturday night, instead of being out at the club drinking like my co-workers, kind of gives you an indication that I probably don’t, right?

Found at knitv:

Supposedly if you’ve seen over 85 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you’ve seen. There are 239 films on this list. Put x’s next to the films you’ve seen, add them up. Have fun!

() Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
() Pirates of the Caribbean
() Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest
() Boondock Saints
() Fight Club
() Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story
() Blazing Saddles
() Airplane
Total: 2

(x) The Princess Bride
() AnchorMan
() Napoleon Dynamite
() Labyrinth
() Saw
() Saw II
(x) White Noise
(x) White Oleander
() Anger Management
(x) 50 First Dates
() The Princess Diaries
() The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Total so far: 6

() Scream
() Scream 2
() Scream 3
() Scary Movie
() Scary Movie 2
() Scary Movie 3
() Scary Movie 4
() American Pie
() American Pie 2
() American Wedding
() American Pie Band Camp
Total so far: 6

() Harry Potter 1
() Harry Potter 2
() Harry Potter 3
() Harry Potter 4
() Resident Evil 1
() Resident Evil 2
() The Wedding Singer
() Little Black Book
(x) The Village
() Lilo & Stitch
Total so far: 7

(x) Finding Nemo
() Finding Neverland
(x) Signs
() The Grinch
() Texas Chainsaw Massacre
() Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
() White Chicks
(x) Butterfly Effect
() 13 Going on 30
(x) I, Robot
(x) Robots
Total so far: 12

() Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
() Universal Soldier
() Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
() Along Came Polly
() Deep Impact
() KingPin
() Never Been Kissed
() Meet The Parents
() Meet the Fockers
() Eight Crazy Nights
() Joe Dirt
(x) King Kong
Total so far: 13

() A Cinderella Story
(x) The Terminal
() The Lizzie McGuire Movie
() Passport to Paris
() Dumb & Dumber
() Dumber & Dumberer
() Final Destination
() Final Destination 2
() Final Destination 3
() Halloween
(x) The Ring
(x) The Ring 2
() Surviving Christmas
() Flubber
Total so far: 16

() Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
(x) Practical Magic
(x) Chicago
() Ghost Ship
() From Hell
() Hellboy
(x) Secret Window
() I Am Sam
() The Whole Nine Yards
() The Whole Ten Yards
Total so far: 19

() The Day After Tomorrow
(x) Child’s Play
() Seed of Chucky
() Bride of Chucky
() Ten Things I Hate About You
() Just Married
(x) Gothika
() Nightmare on Elm Street
() Sixteen Candles
() Remember the Titans
() Coach Carter
(x) The Grudge
() The Grudge 2
() The Mask
() Son Of The Mask
Total so far: 22

() Bad Boys
() Bad Boys 2
() Joy Ride
() Lucky Number Sleven
() Ocean’s Eleven
() Ocean’s Twelve
() Bourne Identity
() Bourne Supremecy
() Lone Star
() Bedazzled
() Predator I
() Predator II
() The Fog
(x) Ice Age
() Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
() Curious George
Total so far: 23

(x) Independence Day
() Cujo
() A Bronx Tale
(x) Darkness Falls
() Christine
() ET
(x) Children of the Corn
() My Boss’s Daughter
() Maid in Manhattan
() War of the Worlds
() Rush Hour
() Rush Hour 2
Total so far: 26

() Best Bet
() How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
() She’s All That
() Calendar Girls
() Sideways
() Mars Attacks
() Event Horizon
(x) Ever After
(x) Wizard of Oz
(x) Forrest Gump
() Big Trouble in Little China
(x) The Terminator
(x) The Terminator 2
(x) The Terminator 3
Total so far: 32

(x) X-Men
(x) X-2
() X-3
(x) Spider-Man
(x) Spider-Man 2
() Sky High
(x) Jeepers Creepers
() Jeepers Creepers 2
() Catch Me If You Can
() The Little Mermaid
() Freaky Friday
(x) Reign of Fire
() The Skulls
() Cruel Intentions
() Cruel Intentions 2
() The Hot Chick
() Shrek
() Shrek 2
Total so far: 38

() Swimfan
() Miracle on 34th street
() Old School
(x) The Notebook
(x) K-Pax
() Krippendorf’s Tribe
(x) A Walk to Remember
() Ice Castles
() Boogeyman
() The 40-year-old Virgin
Total so far: 41

(x) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
(x) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
(x) Lord of the Rings Return of the King
(x) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
(x) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(x) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Total so far: 47

() Baseketball
() Hostel
() Waiting for Guffman
() House of 1000 Corpses
() Devil’s Rejects
() Elf
(x) Highlander
(x) Mothman Prophecies
() American History X
() Three
Total so Far: 49

() The Jacket
() Kung Fu Hustle
() Shaolin Soccer
(x) Night Watch
() Monsters Inc.
(x) Titanic
() Monty Python and the Holy Grail
() Shaun Of the Dead
() Willard
Total so far: 51

() High Tension
() Club Dread
() Hulk
() Dawn Of the Dead
() Hook
(x) Chronicles Of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
(x) 28 days later
() Orgazmo
() Phantasm
() Waterworld
Total so far: 53

(x) Kill Bill vol 1
(x) Kill Bill vol 2
() Mortal Kombat
() Wolf Creek
() Kingdom of Heaven
() The Hills Have Eyes
() I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
() The Last House on the Left
() Re-Animator
() Army of Darkness
Total so far: 55

(x) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
(x) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
(x) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(x) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(x) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
(x) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
() Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
() Ewoks The Battle For Endor
Total so far: 61

(x) The Matrix
(x) The Matrix Reloaded
(x) The Matrix Revolutions
() Animatrix
() Evil Dead
() Evil Dead 2
() Team America: World Police
() Red Dragon
() Silence of the Lambs
() Hannibal
Total: 64

Posted: March 8th, 2008 under Q & A.
Comments: 4