“sluice” is a strange word. but i just used it anyway.
1. If someone asked you right now, “Is how you thought life might be?”, would your answer be yes or no?
2. Do you believe that cell phone use while driving should be banned?
3. If there was one major award you could win (Oscar, Grammy, Nobel, Pulitzer, Heisman, etc.) which one would you want?
4. What kind of toothpaste do you use?
5. Do you think fish in tanks dream of the ocean? Or do you think they think anything besides, “swimswimswimeateatswimswim?”
6. What’s the last indulgent thing you did just for yourself?
7. What’s the last sacrificial thing you did for someone else?
8. Which thing made you feel better?
9. The last song you heard, the last movie you watched, the last book you read.
10. What thing would make you rich if you had a nickel for every time you heard it?
11. Two words to describe this blog.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:09 am
i’d like a nickel for every time Randy Jackson says, “listen, dawg, i don’t know if it’s my favorite song i’ve heard from you…”
that’s getting really old.
even older than when Simon says, “if i’m being honest…”
March 28th, 2007 at 10:52 am
1. No, but it’s better than I planned!
2. No, but texting while driving should be AND people should have to use headsets.
3. Nobel Peace Prize
4. Crest
5. SWIMSWIMSWIMEATSWIM
6. Slept past 10 every morning this week.
7. Cleaned out the crawl space yesterday…I dreaded it, but it would be hard for Kev to do since he is so tall.
8. Both made me feel equally good. He was so thrilled with the results and really was happy that he didn’t have to do it, but there is something about waking up feeling completely rested that is wonderful!
9. The last song I heard-Waiting on the World because it’s my cell phone ring. The last movie-Premonition, the last book-Currently reading “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith
10. My friend Michelle and I laugh about this…her boyfriend Dave wears roller hockey pants for ice hockey and if we had a nickel for every time we have heard someone yell “HEY PANTS!” in the last two years we would be wealthy girls!
11. Fresh Air
8.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:57 am
1. If someone asked you right now, “Is how you thought life might be?”, would your answer be yes or no? Not exactly…I finally got married at 35, and had never imagined I would find someone. It is very surreal being married since I was single for so long.
2. Do you believe that cell phone use while driving should be banned? Not if a headset is used.
3. If there was one major award you could win (Oscar, Grammy, Nobel, Pulitzer, Heisman, etc.) which one would you want? An Oscar would be really cool.
4. What kind of toothpaste do you use? Whatever is on sale!
5. Do you think fish in tanks dream of the ocean? Or do you think they think anything besides, “swimswimswimeateatswimswim?” I think they do dream of the ocean…it must be really boring just swimming around the same tank all day!
6. What’s the last indulgent thing you did just for yourself? My husband was out of town last weekend. I had several people feeling sorry for me, asking me if I wanted to do something. It was really difficult saying No and not filling up the calendar..but I really needed time to myself (see aforementioned answer to #1). I turned off the phone, watched Golden Girls, and went to bed at 8:30 on a Saturday night.
7. What’s the last sacrificial thing you did for someone else? I picked my husband up on Sunday night even though it was a really long drive, and I already have a 2 hour commute each work day.
8. Which thing made you feel better? The indulgent thing I did for myself.
9. The last song you heard, the last movie you watched, the last book you read. Song: Yeah by Usher - last night working out. Movie: The Guardian Book: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
10. What thing would make you rich if you had a nickel for every time you heard it? “Think outside the box” This is soooo overused, I want to throw up whenever I hear it at work.
11. Two words to describe this blog. Regularly Updated!
March 28th, 2007 at 11:21 am
1. Some of it, yes. Much of it, no.
2. yes
3. The Giller
4. Crest whitening
5. Apparently once a fish swims all the way around a bowl, It forgets that it was just there. I’m going to be a fish in my next life.
6. It will be to polish off the mint aero that I’m just now opening.
7. Gave up my Friday night plans to babysit
8. babysitting. We watched the BBC’s Prehistoric Life!
9. Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, Four Weddings and A Funeral (on TBS), The Diviners by Margaret Laurence
10. “Mungo!” (My fiance shouting at the kitten as he climbs the door frames)
11. scintillating, unpretentious
March 28th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
1. No.
2. Yes!!!!
3. Pulitzer
4. We just switched from Metadent, and I can’t remember. Some version of Colgate, I think.
5. swimswimeatswimmakemorelittlefishswimswim…
6. God. I can’t remember.
7. Took my mom to lunch.
8. Since I can’t remember six, I guess I’ll say seven.
9. Minnie the Moocher, Those Who Serve (a WWII British propaganda tear jerker), House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende.
10. “No problem!”
11. Heartfelt, well-written
March 28th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
1. no. it’s not even close. :(
2. absolutely.
3. grammy
4. mentadent
5. “swimswimswimeateatswimswim”
6. i had the most amazing massage last saturday
7. let my roommate dump on me about her girlfriend?
8. the massage
9. before he cheats, white nights, a year in the world.
10. the word “Dude” coming out of my mouth.
11. entertaining and informative! ;)
March 28th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
1. No. I always thought I would be in a dance company or in the peace corps. I am in neither, but I am still living out some of my other dreams.
2. Not if headsets are involved.
3. A Tony!
4. Sensodyne with extra whitening
5. I think they wonder about which fish they can eat, which fish they can avoid, and with which fish they can procreate. So more like swimswimswimmateswimavoidswimeatswimswim…etc.
6. I went to an awesome dance class last night, walked in the rain, and then let myself hang out listening to the rain until I went to bed (early) where I slept with the window open all night. It was so nice.
7. Offerred to drive someone around for errands - again.
8. Definitely the wonderful night between me, dance, and the rain.
9. Send me on my way - Rusted Root is playing right now; Legally Blonde (unfortunately - but TBS is pretty darn addictive); The Language of Spring: Poems for the Season of Renewal.
10. How about a nickel for every time I utter “I’m sorry” for no apparent reason?
11. Cat’s meow.
March 28th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
1. My answer would be “yes, pretty much”
2. No.
3. Pulitzer
4. Crest Cool Mint Gel
5. They have such ittybittybrains. I vote for “swimswimetc)”
6. Ate a 3 Musketeers bar I had forgotten about at work
7. sat in my daughter’s room while she fell asleep
8. both :)
9. “Naughty Girl” by Mac Davis, Cars on DVD, “To Say Nothing of the Dog” by Connie Willis.
10. Fan också
11. In-depth. Pondersome.
March 28th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
1. Yes. Things are good.
2. No it should not. The dummies can then select themselves out of the population.
3. Pulitzer. Or the Booker.
4. Arm and Hammer
5. I think they say “just keep swimming”
6. Ummm..does $200 in DVDs count?
7. Covering shifts at work even though I had plans already.
8. A cup of Tea from starbucks.
9. Chasing Cars-Snow Patrol, 300 (I think), jarhead - Anthony Swofford
10. “Can I go to the bathroom?”
11. fricking awesome.
March 28th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
1. Nope. But that’s fine.
2. I believe most drivers should be banned. Cell phones are SO secondary.
3. Pulitzer! Or the Booker. Or the Newberry.
4. Rembrandt
5. I think they have nightmares about toilets.
6. Mocha! Four shots!
7. Edited a document they needed help with.
8. The mocha, definitely. Ha!
9. Golden Age of Radio — Josh Ritter, Half Nelson, my cell phone instruction manual.
10. “You have a BLOG?”
11. My buddy.
March 28th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
1. Not really. But I’m over being upset about it. It is what it is.
2. Yes, but I also like the convenience of talking on my cell while driving. Perhaps a hands-free law would help…?
3. ???
4. Toms of Maine with baking soda.
5. I don’t think fish in fishtanks know what they’re missing.
6. I made chocolate sugar cookies about 30 min. ago and ate 7 of them. I also made them extra large. Delicious.
7. Gave up my life in CA and moved back East to help my family and my sister.
8. It’s hard to say. Eating the cookies…very tasty but I might regret it tomorrow. Moving back East was easy at first, was just the right thing to do, but now sometimes I hate my life and resent my family for it.
9. Iron & Wine “Cinder & Smoke,” Little Miss Sunshine, Sudoku puzzles I did this morning while waiting for my car to be serviced. Does that count?
10. Arf! Growl! Bark! (3 dogs = insane amount of dog noises)
11. Awe-some. Also, warm and friendly.
March 29th, 2007 at 3:41 am
1. Better in some ways, worse in others
2. A headset is ok…nothing else….especially not texting.
3. Governor General’s Award?
4. Crest?
5. I don’t think they know what they are missing…but I do think they dream.
6. I just ate a bag of mini chocolate chip cookies for breakfast?
7. I helped a friend who was feeling down, clean her apartment?
8. The sacrificial thing?
9. Dont Run Our Hearts Around by Black Mountain, Casino Royale over the weekend, Dirt Music by Tim Winton.
10. It could always be worse?
11. Prolific, quirky.
March 29th, 2007 at 5:59 am
1. Definitely not.
2. Yes.
3. Pulitzer. But I guess you have to write something first, huh?
4. Crest with minty breath strips.
5. I think they are hoping that the cat on the other side of the glass has just had a big dinner and is no longer hungry.
6. Spent a day and a night with just my two favorite cousins and my mother.
7. Spent a month taking care of my mother after her accident.
8. Both, actually, since they are sorta kinda connected.
9. Last song–whatever the last contestant on “American Idol” sang on Monday (obviously it was not memorable). Last movie–in a theatre was “Night in a Museum.” Last book, “The Cat Who Turned On and Off”
10. “stay the course”
11. Fun, well-written (which, being a hyphenated word counts as one word)
March 29th, 2007 at 6:29 am
1. no. and i absolutely prefer it that way.
2. cellphones - no. texting - yes
3. pulitzer
4. crest rejuvenating effects
5. swimswimswimturnswiimswimswimturnswim
6. surfed fun chest high waves this morning for an hour before arriving late for work
7. let the wife sleep in and getting my 11 year old daughter ready for school before going surfing.
8. both. all in all a pretty satisfying morning
9. last song - ‘exactly’ by amy steinberg. last movie - casino royale on a flight back from san francisco tuesday. last book - blink by malcolm gladwell
10. my ringtone
11. thought provoking
March 29th, 2007 at 9:56 am
1. Good grief no, I thought, even worse case scenario, it wouldn’t turn out this shitty.
2. Yes. And smoking too. I am all for civil liberties but I get lit ciggarette butts councing off my windsheild all the time. That has got to be an environmental hazzard, and also, they are jerks.
3. Which one gives me the most money?
4. It varies. I think I am on Crest for sesitive teeth with whitening right now.
5. I think the very nature of thought in fish is debateable, because, what is the nature of conscienciousness? They may have “thoughts” of a sort but they are likely so different from what we are able to percieve that they cannot be catogorized by the word we created for it. It is like trying to imagine a world where there is no light, and no dark. You can’t. Your perception is absolultely not able to. Same with the fish, their level of perception, or what we define as perception based on our own, cannot be that of ours.
6. I honestly couldn’t tell you.
7. It was too big and heavy to explain here, but it happened just this week.
8. Neither.
9. The last song you heard, the last movie you watched, the last book you read. Don’t know, Comedian (Jerry Seinfedl documentary), FSCC shared branching on a financial level for businesses
10. “How are you”
11. Quietly Astounding
March 29th, 2007 at 10:03 am
1. Not at all.
2. Why not just ban stupidity…it’ll be just as effective.
3. MVP of MLB
4. Colgate
5. I think they dream of moving to the tropics where millions of people will travel from everywhere just to see them perform.
6. Went for a long drive, taking pictures.
7. Took a friend of mine to lunch.
8. Both felt nice. If I hadn’t done the former I probably wouldn’t have done the latter.
9. The Lonely House, Blood Diamonds, Blue Like Jazz.
10. “rain in the forecast”
11. Consistently delightful.
March 29th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
1. I’d have to say no - I really thought I’d be thinner with a cooler apartment. Or off doing something truly worthwhile.
2. Yes!
3. Pulitzer!
4. Whatever is on sale - lately that’s been Colgate.
5. I think they get stir-crazy like caged lions, pacing and whatnot. They don’t get what’s going on, but they probably know it’s wrong.
6. Spent money on a ticket to Chicago where I spent a week not thinking about school at all :)
7. I’m forgoing a beautiful summer in Montana to live in humid Chicago for my significant other.
8. We’ll see at the end of the summer …
9. The last song I heard was Daydreaming by Lupe Fiasco because it’s my new favorite song, last movie: the Namesake (fantastic) and last book: another installment in the ONE comic book I read, Y: The Last Man. It’s worth crossing genre boundaries for.
10. “You should write about this/that.”
11. Welcome reprieve.
March 29th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
1. Considering I thought I would be a Spanish professor, I’d say not so much.
2. Yes and mostly because I hate talking on the phone and think it should be avoided at all costs.
3. Pulitzer or Oscar.
4. Aquafresh Clean & Shine
5. I think, for fish, that the little plastic is a surprise every time.
6. Bought a laptop.
7. Dogsat for my parents’ blind, diabetic schnauzer.
8. The dogsitting by a hair.
9. All Night Long by Robin Thicke, Half Nelson (loved it) and The Golden Age by Gore Vidal.
10. Someone mistakenly calling me by my sister’s name.
11. Essential and innovative.
March 30th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
1. Absolutely not, although I always thought I would live in a country other than my home. So in that regard it would be a “yes”. How I live however would be a “no” but I love it nonetheless
2. ABSOLUTELY!!! Pay attention and DRIVE!
3. Nobel
4. Aquafresh
5. Hopefully they think of nothing, but I have this sad thought that they might dream of the ocean.
6. Had a massage
7. Had a massege (I tried a new place and it SUCKED)
8. NOA
9. “Halt mich” by Herbert Groenemeyer, “Reign Over Me”, “Next” by Michael Crichton.
10. “That’s retarded” coming out of my mouth
11. Cool and interesting