“I am going to take you somewhere fun, honey” Daddy said.

“Is mommy coming with us?” she asked.

“No, this is just a special treat, for you and me".
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Things I have in common with Kim

Instructions:
1. Copy this whole list into your journal.
2. Bold the things that you have in common with me.
3. Whatever you don’t bold, replace with things about you. Please add a comment (or ping me!) if you do it so that I can come read it!
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5ive-Minute Stories
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and since I am so glad she is back blogging (p.s. go visit) I am going to do the survey as well.
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nicked from Scott - he’s hip, so I thought I would try. Now, it seems I am a freak!

Score 126

And it would have been higher without those cranky TYPOS!

In case you are not interested, it is hid.

Here is the link if you want to try it. It is amazingly cathartic.

http://5ms.next12exits.com
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This quiz was too silly for me to pass up.

Oooo… Intelligent Angelina is after a piece of
your boo-tay. Sipping martinis as you discuss
the state of Cambodian politics is your ideal
night. You’ll gladly be part of her entourage
as she does her ambassadorial duty, and you’ll
be right by her side as she wins the Nobel
Peace Prize. Then you get to have lots of
highly intelligent, kinky sex.

Which Angelina Loves You?
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This meme result is very telling.

LOL
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She had never been to visit him, though his soul had always reached for her.
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This is the Sexy Saturday Question.

Actually, the full question is “Does size really matter, or is it the technique?”
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Well, they’re up over on my memes blog if you are so inclined.

My new story is up here. It’s a fun meme. It makes you feel like you can express upon demand.

I run late with my 5ive minute stories, but the latest one can be found here on my memes blog.

How did you lose your virginity?

See my answer on my Memes Blog

(yes, I am a freak, I am moving some memes back here. I cannot keep up with two blogs…but I am going to only do memes that I find to be thought provoking and somewhat narrative. So there. )

That said… here is my Monday Memory. (one day late)
What did you want to be “when you grow up"? Is that what you do now? Could you imagine being what you wanted to be? Would you still like to?

I wanted to be a teacher. Until I got into junior high, then I wanted to be an interpreter.
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Not in this blog anyway.

If you want to read my memes, you know, the Friday Fives, the Sexy Saturday, etc…. you will just have to mosey over to my NEW offshoot blog…

One Girl’s Life - Memes.

I did this because I really want to start doing MORE of them, thanks to Pariah!

Besides, I can always use another blog to make a new layout! *snort*

Thanks, Saturday Scruples!
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1. Who is your favorite celebrity?
BRENDAN FRASER OF COURSE!

2. Who is your least favorite?
Does George Bush count?

3. Have you ever met or seen any celebrities in real life?
Oh yes. I grew up in beautiful downtown Burbank. Robert Redford called me “Honey” once when I rang up his meal when I worked at Deer Valley Ski resort in Utah.

4. Would you want to be famous? Why or why not?
Yeah, if the money came with it.

5. If you had to trade places with a celebrity for a day, who would you choose and why?
Afton Smith. So I could hang with her husband, Brendan Fraser, for a minute.

And that means, Saturday Scruples!
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This one looks fun!!!

Thanks Friday Five!
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Get your own at Acme License Maker!

Found at Robyn’s, Sure wish she would give me a reacharound.
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Good Saturday Scruples this week!
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Thanks to Rickie, whose blog should always be pimped.
(she sleeps in the nude, even in the dead of winter)

free enneagram test

as always, thanks Friday Five!
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Yeah, I backdated it. So sue me.
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I love this time of the week.

1. As a waitress, you win $10 million from a lottery ticket you received as a tip. Normally tips are pooled but you kept this one. Do you share the money?
No. I wish I could say yes, but right now, the answer is NO WAY!

2. Your dad’s dying wish is to be buried in his homland. The expense will take most of your inheritance. Do you obey the request?
Yes. Absolutely.

3. You own a supermarket. Genetically altered fruits and vegetables are popular but no one knows for sure if the are safe. Do you sell them?
Hell no.

Thanks, Saturday Scruples!

1. If you had the chance to meet someone you’ve never met, from the past or present, who would it be?

My Native American Great-Grandmother. We have no history, records of that part of the family.

2. If you had to live in a different century, past or future, which would it be?

1800’s. I would love to have been some of the first settlers in the west.

3. If you had to move anywhere else on Earth, where would it be?

Wow. If I pick a place not in America, I am going to say Scotland. It has been calling to me lately. I do want to visit Iceland, but I think I would want to live in Scotland.

4. If you had to be a fictional character, who would it be?

Beauty, from the Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A. N. Roquelaure.

5. If you had to live with having someone else’s face as your own for the rest of your life, whose would it be?

Wow. That is a very difficult question. Of course, I would pick someone beautiful, just to know what that would be like. I need to think about this!

Thanks, Friday Five!

Gurn wanted to see how long my hair is getting so I have a funny shot of it.

View OneGirl’s hair

The peace sign is at my waist, approximately. Some people say “Oh, after a certain age, you should not have long hair.” I guess I must really bug them. *giggles*

Thanks, Saturday Scruples! I look forward to this each week!
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Open only if interested in random bits about me.
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Thanks Saturday Scruples!
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1. What was the last song you heard?

Beautiful, by Christina Aguilera

2. What were the last two movies you saw?
The Man Who Cried and Child of Rage

3. What were the last three things you purchased?
My prescriptions, Taco Bell and Dog Food.

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

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
Pam, Cynthia, Lusan, Wendy and Mary

Thanks, Friday Five

You’re driving alone on a highway at night when a desperate looking person tries to flag you down. Do you stop?

Wow. This is hard. I would say no, I would call 911.

You’re summoned for jury duty in what promises to be a tedious trial. Do you pretend to have views which will disqualify you?

No.

You smoke. Your teenager wants to smoke because you do. Do you quit?

Hopefully, I would have quit long before the child was a teen.

Thanks, Saturday Scruples!

It’s all very literary.

Thanks, Friday Five!
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Jennifer did it, so I thought I would to.

you are the “you suck, and that’s sad”
happy bunny. your truthful, but can be a bit
brutal.

which happy bunny are you?
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Too DAMN funny this week. Thanks, This or That Tuesday!

1. Holland or Netherlands?
I cannot believe you would even ask! Netherlands of course!

2. Emu or Ostrich?
Emu

3. Biff or Happy?
Biff

4. Quincy or Braintree?
Braintree

5. Cassius Clay or Muhammad Ali?
Cassius Clay

6. Instanbul or Constantinople?
ROTFL

7. Pig or Swine?
Pig

8. Barf or Puke?
Vomit, dahling!

9. Potatoes or Spuds?
Tater Tots.

10. Squeeze Box or Accordion?
Mama’s got a squeeze box!

You’re interviewing candidates for a job. The best qualified applicant is overweight. Do you hire this person?
Of course! Why wouldn’t I?

A loved one is in a car accident and is dying. You’re asked to donate his organs for a transplant. Do you? (note: you don’t know the persons wishes.)
Absolutely.

Your adolescent children ask if you ever smoked marijuana when you were young. You did. Do you admit it?
I feel somewhat of a fraud answering this, as I do not have children, but I hope I would tell them the truth.

Thanks for the fun, Saturday Scruples!

1. What is your most prized material possession?
I cannot even say. I am so unmaterialistic. I have things that have sentimental value… but material? I guess my computer, as I would lost without it.

2. What item, that you currently own, have you had the longest?
A little ceramic blue parakeet that the tooth faerie left me when I lost my first tooth.

3. Are you a packrat?
No, I am not.

4. Do you prefer a spic-and-span clean house? Or is some clutter necessary to avoid the appearance of a museum?
Clutter baby!

5. Do the rooms in your house have a theme? Or is it a mixture of knick-knacks here and there?
See question four. The theme is Clutter. Although my bedroom is purple, and I have a couple big silk trees in there… I guess the theme in there is Peace.

thanks, Friday Five!

Zero. Big nada. 1-1 = 0. Nothing. Not one finger. Not one toe.

I am 0% Republican.

How about you?

*does a dance*

Thank you, Scott.

Visiting a friend you see an invitation to a surprise birthday party for you! Do you pretend it’s still a surprise?

Yes, but I am now filled with dread.

Your new lover is impressed by your sexual stamina. She doesn’t suspect you use Viagra [substitute similar supplement for women or answer it from a lady’s point of view]. Do you take the credit?

From a lady’s point of view, I think I would want to know if he was taking Viagra. Besides, I would hope I would impressed by more than STAMINA, we’re not 18 anymore.

A friend thinks his idea for a theme restaurant will make a fortune. You think he’ll loss his shirt. Do you discourage him?

I am very well known to play the devil’s advocate. If this is his dream and his passion, I would not discourage him, but I would not play “yes” man to him. If he was just doing it because he thought he could walk away with a boatload of money, I would tell him more bluntly.

Thank you, Saturday Scruples!

I am doing this one late in the day because I needed the time to really give this one the attention it needs. And I am so glad these were not “love” related.

1. Explain why you started to journal/blog.
I used to keep an online journal, back in 1999, just using WebXPress software. Back then, it was to keep my family in touch, as I was living in a different state.

Then, last year, I got introduced to the new world of blogging and MovableType. For me, it is cathartic at many levels. I can spill my brain and sleep better. I can be creative, I can rant, I can show you peeks of my darker side. I love everything about blogging.

2. Do people you interact with day to day or family members know about your journal/blog? Why or why not?
Only one person in my family reads my blog. This affords me a greater freedom to be me. Some of the people I work with visit my blog and that is fine with me as well.

I have pondered making a family only blog on another site, just for fun.

3. Do you have a theme for your journal/blog?
One Girl’s Life came from a web design I started several years ago, where I was going to show my life concurrent with events during those decades. A sort of chronology of what it was like to be a girl born when I was born and what each of those periods of time felt like. If anything now, the theme is the same… it is my life, as it happens, while the rest of life happens and how those intertwine… or not. I am going to add a new category called Memory Lane for those times when I want to blog about something that happened long ago.

4. What direction would you like to have your journal/blog go in over the next year?
I strive for deeper honesty, less worrying how it will be received. I want to use it more as a therapy tool, for my own personal growth. And I want to be really, really funny.

I’ll pimp in the next entry.

found at forty.something

You’re going out-of-town for a month and won’t be using your new car. do you offer it to a friend who needs one?

Probably not. My insurance will not cover friends driving the car.

Your agent helped you when you were struggling. Now a large agency with powerful connections wants you. Do you dump your agent?

Okay, since you say when I “was” struggling, I assume I am no longer struggling, so I will stick with my agent.

The environmentally friendly laundry detergent costs two dollars more than the regular brand. Do you buy it?

ABSO-F’ING-LUTELY!

Saturday Scruples! A game of moral dilemmas at VillaSantiago.com!

1. What did you have for breakfast this morning? If you didn’t have breakfast, why not?
Oatmeal. Trying to increase the fiber in my diet like a good girl.

2. What’s your favorite cereal?
Kashi Heart to Heart

3. How often do you eat out? Do you want that to change?
Hmmmm. Does eating out include Taco Bell?
Yes, I would like it to change as I am trying to be healthier.

4. What do you plan on having for dinner tonight? Got a recipe for that?
I had Jalapeno and Creme Cheese Poppers! OH!

5. What’s your favorite restaurant? Why?
Outback. I love their steamed vegetables.

Thanks, Friday Five!

which art movement are you?

this quiz was made by Caitlin

found at The Gamer’s Nook: Which art movement are you?.

Thanks, as always to the passionate ailurophile for this!

1. Morning or night person?
Erm, I think you see when I am making these entries. Night person, all the way!
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You suspect another parent at a co-op daycare of stealing $20 from your coat. This person is made treasurer. Do you alert the board?

Not without evidence and proof. I think I would contact the person directly and ask them, and then diligently watch the treasurer’s reports.

You’re well-to-do. Your children, ages 24 and 26, ask you to settle part of their inheritance now. Do you?

No, not at 24 and 26. Too young.

You’ve accepted a date to a movie when someone you really like asks you to a concert on the same night. Do you try to get out of the first date?

No, I have integrity and I decline the concert date. If he really likes me, he’ll call again.

Thanks Saturday Scruples!

1. As a child, who was your favorite superhero/heroine? Why?
When I was a kid, there were not many girl superheroes. I honestly cannot think of anyone. Meh, I am pathetic.

2. What was one thing you always wanted as a child but never got?
A horse.

3. What’s the furthest from home you’ve been?
I would have to say Hawaii.

4. What’s one thing you’ve always wanted to learn but haven’t yet?
Spanish

5. What are your plans for the weekend?
Sleep, sleep and more sleep.

thanks, Friday Five!

1. Kleenex or tissue? - Kleenex
2. Soda or pop (or tonic or whatever)? - Soda
3. A sandwich on a long roll: sub or hero (or hoagie or grinder, etc)? - Sub
4. Glasses or spectacles? - Glasses
5. TV or television (or boob-tube, or telly, for our friends across the pond)? - TV
6. Movie or film? - Depends, movie if TV, film if theater
7. Sofa or couch? - Couch
8. Stove or range? - Stove
9. Remote control or clicker? - Remote
10. Supermarket or grocery store? - Grocery store

from: the passionate ailurophile

Saturday Scruples, thanks to Villa Santiago!

Your brother is an activist. You suspect he may be involved in a series of bombings. Do you notify authorities?

In a minute.

A friend’s spouse is coming on to you. Do you tell the friend?

I would try to work it out with the spouse first.

Your company’s profits will double if you replace 22 long-time employees with new software. Do you?

Gah! This one is tough. I would have to say no. Thankfully, I am not in this situation, so I can afford to be altruistic.

GAH! This one is TOUGH!

Well, parts of it are.

Thanks to Friday Five!
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This is one of those quiz thingies, so only open if interested.

from: Villa Santiago - VS Blog

A good friend is having an extramarital affair and asks you to provide an alibi. Do you?

Ooh, that is tough. Am I the one he is having an affair with? Okay, you want me to be serious. I really don’t think I would. I would want to stay out of it.

As a reporter covering a tribal massacre in Africa, you befriend some people who will be killed unless you help them escape. At risk of losing your job, do you help?

Oh my gosh, yes. At the risk of my losing my life, I would help them escape massacre.

An employee of your ad agency is HIV positive. Clients and staff are uneasy and his work has suffered. Do you renew his contract?

Absolutely.

1. Where do you currently work?
Um, I think I will take the 5th on that. I’ve heard of people having problems saying where they work in their blogs. Unless you mean location, and it is in the Los Angeles area.

2. How many other jobs have you had and where?
Less than 10 other jobs, at banks, at computer companies, and Deer Valley Ski Resort the first year it opened.

3. What do you like best about your job?
I truly feel like I am contributing something to the betterment of the company, and to society in general.

4. What do you like least about your job?
Right now, I love everything about it. Okay, wait, I wish I worked nights.

5. What is your dream job?
To own a ranch and do dog rescue of older dogs. Or to find something I can do in the Deaf Community as a signer… work with recovery or children somehow.

Q. You’re playing tennis with your boss for the first time. You’re winning and your boss is getting angry. Do you let him win?

A. Only if I want to sleep with him. *giggles*

Q. A murderer tells you where the body is buried. You’re his lawyer and this evidence will certainly convict him. But the victim’s family needs to know the truth. Do you keep silent?

A. I’m his lawyer. I have to keep silent. Just like Johnny Cochran did.

Q. You’re divorcing and must split your assets with your ex. S/he doesn’t know the true extent of your wealth. Do you disclose it?

A. I would disclose it if I lived in a place where my pre-marriage accumulations were protected.

1. Where are you right now?
At home, at my desk.

2. What time is it?
2:20 pm

3. What are you wearing?
Flannel pants, a t-shirt, a fleece jacket, and animal print panties.

4. Any people or animals around you? Describe them.
One 15 pound miniature poodle. Curly hair, brown eyes.

5. What are your plans for the weekend?
Go to Target, go to the post office, rearrange my bedroom, talk aforementioned dog for a walk.

1. Do you wear any jewelry? What kind?
Earrings always, just gold hoops. My sister says I am stuck in the 70s, bit I waited and the style came back! I LOVE sparkly rings, or jewelry that belonged to my mom, or that my mom gave me.

2. How often do you wear it?
When I feel like I need extra confidence.

3. Do you have any piercings? If so, where?
Yep. One in each ear. I know, I am WILD! If it did not hurt so much, I would probably have a tongue one!

4. Do you have any tattoos? If so, where?
Not yet, but mine is designed, and it will be on my arm like a good biker chick.

5. What are your plans for the weekend?
THIS weekend? Blog to my heart’s content, and rearrange my room.

yeah, I am late. Oh, bother.

1. You’re a young actor belonging to a racial minority. Your first big movie role requires you to play a demeaning racial stereotype. Do you?
Hmmmmmm. I don’t think I would. But, on the other hand, one could argue that playing a slave would be a demeaning racial stereotype for a young African-American actor, but the role could be excellent. So, I change my answer to it would depend on the entire movie.

2. You worry that some of your sexual fantasies might be a little perverse. Do you repress these thoughts?
*giggles* Perverse? Moi? Actually, I do not worry about my fantasies. They’re just fantasies after all. Actually acting on them might be the perverse part.

3. You’re a copilot on a passenger jet. There’s an emergency and you must land immediately. The Captain insists on time consuming procedures. Do you knock him out and take control?
Hand me the fire extinguisher, honey, the Captain needs a nap!

from: Villa Santiago

This is in response to Scott’s Ten Reasons Why a Christmas Tree is Better than a Woman

To that, I respond on behalf of my sistah’s
Ten Reasons Why a Christmas Tree is Better than a Man

10. A Christmas Tree won’t care what time of the month it is.

9. A Christmas Tree won’t fall asleep too soon.

8. A Christmas Tree won’t come home late, stinking of beer.

7. A Christmas Tree won’t jam the freezer with food you don’t like.

6. A Christmas Tree won’t grab cash from your purse while you’re asleep.

5. You won’t find out that a Christmas Tree is: married, on penicillin, or trying to screw your sister.

4. You know big the Christmas tree is before you take it home.

3. A Christmas Tree won’t fall asleep on your chest or drool on the pillow.

2. A Christmas Tree won’t make you sleep on the wet spot.

and the number one reason a Christmas Tree is better than a man?
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1. What holiday or holidays do you celebrate this time of year? I really just celebrate the season more… and give gifts at Christmas time.

2. What was the best gift you have ever received? Gosh. The Best Gift was being here last Christmas with my mom, who unexpectedly passed away a few days later.

3. What was the worst gift you’ve ever given? A potpourri candle thing and the potpourri had gone bad and was moldy. SO embarrassing.

4. Where will you be celebrating the holidays? Are you hosting? Going away? Working, and then going on a short car ride to family.

5. If you could spend the holidays with someone who isn’t around, who would it be with? Why? My mother. Because I did not get to say goodbye. And Keesa. Because I want to hold her again.

Well, it turns out I am 56% gay!

Who knew?

How about you?

You really must go to Statia’s site and enjoy the post called “insert comment here”.

I need some action figures.

But I’d probably put them in bondage. I guess that would be okay though.

seems to be in my head.

So, here, go throw some snowballs!

Be prepared for some language! Not sure WHAT language!

1. Go out and buy gifts, or shop online/mail order? Both!

2. Gift cards/certificates or pick out gifts? Gifts for the sane ones in my family, gift cards for the not so sane.

3. Pay cash or charge holiday gifts? Paying Cash this year
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Oh dear, does this give too much away?
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I read about this at forty.something!

I have created The Queendom of Groovy!

Click to read a snippet about my nation!
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Hey! I just signed up for Oral Sex donations.

Help a girl out, okay?

Click button over there *points*

You’ll be glad you did.

from: :: the passionate ailurophile: deck the halls with lots of catnip!!!::

1. Stuffing: baked inside the turkey, or separately? Inside!
2. Fresh or frozen turkey? Neither thanks. Just veggies.
3. Cranberry sauce: jellied or whole berry? Whole berry!
4. Stay home or visit friends/relatives? Stay Home
5. Do you cook Thanksgiving dinner, or let someone else do it? Someone else
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Blame her!

My battlecry and what kind of child I was….
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1. Did you vote in your last elections?
Nope. Not currently registered since I moved.

2. Do you know who your elected representatives are?
I have a pretty good idea after the onslaught of mudslinging, I mean commercials before the last election.

3. Have you ever contacted an elected representative? If so, what was it about?
Anything Greenpeace or Oprah asks me to.

4. Have you ever participated in a demonstration?
Yes, a sit-in in 8th grade.

5. Have you ever volunteered in an election? What was the result?
No, I have not.

After DaGoddess tried to say that Brendan Fraser is HER sweetheart (he is SO not her sweetheart, he is MY honey. In fact, he is my husband, and if you do not believe me, you can ask Mrs. Banderas, Mrs. Clooney, Mrs. Cruise and Mrs. Ford who worked with me at my last job!)…..

But I digress.

I took this quiz to see which soda pop I am. (found at Quinn’s)

Go on, click for more. You know I make you click for quiz results.
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Mwa-ha-ha.

As always, for the juicy stuff, CLICK me.
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Stolen from Jamie who stole it from someone else.

(hidden from view so as not to bore those who detest these things)
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1. Were you raised in a particular religious faith?
No. Since we lived next door to a Baptist Church, I went there.

2. Do you still practice that faith? Why or why not?
No. I do not believe in organized religion.

3. What do you think happens after death?
Very interesting you should ask. I think it is like the heaven in the novel “The Lovely Bones” which I will not tell so as not to spoil that book for others.

4. What is your favorite religious ritual (participating in or just observing)?
I love the ritual of a Passover Seder.

5. Do you believe people are basically good?
Yes, most days.

Oh, not so fast. You are gonna have to at least give my blog a click to see.

(as seen at thymewise.net)
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I sw what looked like an innocuous quiz over on Joanie’s site, so I thought… sure, no problemo.

And LOOK what I got.

What Color Eyes Should You Have?
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Now EVERYONE will know.

1. What is your favorite scary movie?
I liked “Signs*

2. What is your favorite Halloween treat?
Candy Corn!

3. Do you dress up for Halloween? If so, describe your best Halloween costume.
Not usually. But a long time ago, me and a friend went as the Blues Brothers and we were called up on stage to sing and dance (at a bar on Main Street, Park City, Utah)

4. Do you enjoy going to haunted houses or other spooky events?
No.

5. Will you dress up for Halloween this year?
Nope.

Some party pooper I am, eh?

for space-saving sake, press more if you want to take the quiz.
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1. How many TVs do you have in your home?
3, but two are my sisters.

If you are still interested in my Friday five, click more below.
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1. Your name spelled backwards. Yvoorg (I prefer some anonymity)
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Ooh, ooh, I just found this and now I am going to do it.

1. If you could only choose 1 cd to ever listen to again, what would it be?
Beatles One

2. If you could only choose 2 movies to watch ever again, what would they be?
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Elmer Gantry

3. If you could only choose 3 books to read ever again, what would they be?
I would have to find an edition of Chronicles of Narnia that fits into 3 books.

4. If you could only choose 4 things to eat or drink ever again, what would they be?
Water, Cheese, Salmon, Watermelon

5. If you could only choose 5 people to ever be/talk/associate/whatever with ever again, who would they be?
My mom, my sisters…..um, still thinking. Can my dog in heaven be one?