hey monday, here so soon?
Hello peaches!
(Do you mind being referred to as a fuzzy fruit that bruises easily? No? Harvey Fierstein jokes notwithstanding…)
It’s Monday already, and despite the fact that it’s sunny and fresh and cool outside in Vancouver, I’m feeling a little… oh, I don’t know… sluggish? Snailish? Decorative rock gardenish? Something likewise still?
Everyone goes on and on about how hard it is to get motivated at the beginning of the week, unless they happen to be one of those people who says things like I SLEEP THREE HOURS A NIGHT IN FIFTEEN MINUTE SHIFTS and I’M JUST THANKFUL FOR ANOTHER WEEK TO FOLLOW MY PASSIONS and LIVE EVERY DAY LIKE IT MIGHT BE YOUR LAST and MY NAME IS DAVID AND I’M A SPEED ADDICT.
I’m generally fine with week-ginnings. I’m just bloody tired TODAY for some reason.
So how about we make it easy? This blog post, that is.
Tell me…
1. What’s the weather like where you are?
2. Do you have pants on?
3. What’s the last thing you ate?
4. If you could get anything at all for Christmas — $1,000 limit — what would it be?
5. Do you like your middle name?
6. Any questions?
December 10th, 2007 at 10:42 am
1. Not - 22 anymore. Very pleasant
2. Yes. I wich they were sweats
3. Granola Bar
4. iPod Touch and tickets to the Packers
5. Yes
6. Why does your “I’m so tired” post make me so tired? It’s not like there’s a lack of enthusiasm in your writing…..
December 10th, 2007 at 10:51 am
1. It’s chilly. It’s snow-blanketed.
2. Yes - and they are even clean! Laundry day yesterday…
3. I have to admit it was a cinnamon roll. And worth every empty calorie.
4. For goodness sakes, a new laptop! The blue screen of death visits me about every ten days - just long enough to be lulled into thinking my computer’s all better.
5. I do - because it’s my best friend’s name and because it makes my initials spell ARM - which I think is kind of cute.
6. None that I can think of, but may I reserve the right to ask one later?
December 10th, 2007 at 11:06 am
Harvey Fierstein jokes notwithstanding…)
I JUST WANNA BE LOVED! IS THAT SO WRONG-GUH?
1. -25 and sunny.
2. Last I looked.
3. A peanut butter chocolate “melt”.
4. Hmmm… I like Anna’s idea of a new laptop… but for what I would want, we’d likely be looking at over a grand, so never mind. Perhaps a Terry’s Chocolate Orange (dark chocolate)?
5. Yup.
6. Nope.
December 10th, 2007 at 11:16 am
1. Rainy and raw.
2. Yes, yes I do. (But I had a dress on earlier — job interview! Now, though, pants.)
3. A bowl of Edy’s Slow Churned Peanut Butter Cup ice cream. MMMMMMM.
4. Most of a MacBook.
5. I do now, because it’s fairly unique for a girl, but I hated when I was a kid.
6. Can’t think of a thing!
December 10th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Hey Meg;
1. What’s the weather like where you are? Sunny, but crisp.
2. Do you have pants on? Yes, ma’am.
3. What’s the last thing you ate? Cheddar cheese & crackers.
4. If you could get anything at all for Christmas — $1,000 limit — what would it be? A plane ticket to Paris.
5. Do you like your middle name? It’s more interesting than my first name.
6. Any questions? Meg, did you go to UVIC? Around ‘94 to ‘99? ‘Cause I’m thinking we went to school together…
December 10th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
1. -3°C and Sunny
2. Jeans for Monday - pantlessness would be bad for the creatives around me
3. Mandarin orange
4. A new set of golf irons or upgrading my mac@home
5. Gosh, no. I feel inadequate
6. Should I trade-in my car now or wait for the warranty to expire?
December 10th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
1. Wonderful - clear and cold
2. Yes
3. Pseudo-fried rice
4. iPod Touch
5. Absolutely, positively, no!
6. Not at this point in time.
December 10th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Answers:
Megan: I put GHB all over my HTML.
Jen: Noooo… sorry. :-) Never was a UVIC girl.
Caleb: Trade it in now. Don’t you get more for some existing warranty?
December 10th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
1. 61°F, very sunny, no clouds
2. Shorts
3. an orange last night
4. Superbowl tickets
5. I don’t have one
6. None
December 10th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
1. Cold but sunny
2. Yes i am in pants — barley (i had to undone the top button)time for some new ones
3. A delicious salad complete with pistachios, pumpkin seeds and dried blueberries mmmmmm
4. A wardrobe makeover (or the beginnings of one– $1000 would just scratch the surface)
5. Yeah its not bad
6. Where is the saturday love list that was promised?
December 10th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Excellent question, Tara… maybe I was lacking in love that day. :-)
December 10th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
1. Very cold. But not wet. Just cold.
2. Yes’m. Jeans, to be specific.
3. French toast that my 12-year-old sister made me.
4. A very nice camera. Mine’s broken. :(
5. Yep. It’s my Grandma’s name.
6. Do your ears hang low, do they wobble to and fro… on second thought, no.
December 10th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
1. 5C, but feels much colder. Tomorrow I’ll be in Hawaii, so it’s going to be much much warmer than that! Hooray!
2. Yes - comfy but fashionable work pants.
3. Some chocolate cookies that were given to our department.
4. A new digital camera that is much better than the one I currently have.
5. I love it! It’s very elegant.
6. Not that I can think of right now.
December 10th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
It’s 38F and rainy.
Yes. Pajama pants.
Peppermint Cookies.
SLR camera with a couple of lenses.
I love my middle name.
How much coffee did you consume today?
December 10th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
1. 20 degrees and falling, with three inches of snow on the ground.
2. Uh, yeah.
3. a cinnamon biscuit.
4. a new sectional couch
5. Yes, I do.
6. How many friends do you have?
December 10th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Answers:
Stella:
Two cups of brewed, 1 mocha.
Momhuebert:
Well, Catherine is my heterolifemate, but beyond that, I’d say a tiny handful of really, really close ones, then a larger group of close ones, then a large group of friends and acquaintances. I’ve worked with a lot of large teams, so I have friends everywhere from the different parts of my life.
December 10th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
1. cold and crisp but clear.
2. yep. brown with a beige pinstripe.
3. mini candy canes, 837 of them.
4. a set of wustof trident knives.
5. sure, although it is now part of my first name.
6. how are you today?
December 10th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Barbie: I’m grouchy:).
December 10th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
1. -11. -19 with the wind chill.
2. Yes. They seem to be the preferred pants of the week.
3. Soup, a pb & J sandwich and shrimp. It was freezer cleaner night in our house.
4. $1,000 cashiers cheque to settle some bills, but otherwise, a NIKON D80 D-SLR W/ 18-135 DX LENS
5. It’s not a name, just a letter.
6. With such a big send up to Christmas, how do you celebrate January?
December 10th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Richgold: By crashing hard. :)
December 10th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
1 Sunny - a pleasant 18C (65F) at the moment)
2 Hmmm, this is not the first time you’ve asked this question; I’m concerned - my fairy tale image of you is slowly being tarnished by a fetish… (I’m kidding of course)
3 Toast with lemon butter on it.
4 A DVD player with 200Gb hard drive and built-in HD tuner
5. Nope, not really.
6. Got any other fetishes or peculiarities we should know about?
December 10th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Scotty:
Hmmm.
TONS of peculiarities. Fetishes? Hmmm. Not so much.
I do seem to be inordinately attracted to Jewish men (Jon Stewart, Ira Glass, and so many, many more…) and I love hockey players. But hmmm. I’ll think on it.
December 10th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
1. Just above Zero, barely
2. Why yes I have pants on, but they are PJ pants
3. A salad with craisins, walnuts, blue cheese and a delicious maple syrup vinaigrette (new favorite recipe)
4. If you could get anything at all for Christmas — $1,000 limit — what would it be? A new laptop. Mine bites.
5. Do you like your middle name? I liked it enough to give it to one of my daughters for a first name.
6. Any questions? I don’t think so, for now anyway.
December 10th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
1. Cold and snappy. Storm coming in.
2. Yes.
3. Mandarin orange
4. A handbag I’ve been eyeing at Anthropologie. About a hundred Lush bath bombs. A new laptop for school.
5. No.
6. No…
December 10th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
1. What’s the weather like where you are? Toasty! It was like 37 degrees here today.
2. Do you have pants on? Do PJ bottoms count?
3. What’s the last thing you ate? Chocolate Chips from the freezer. Seriously.
4. If you could get anything at all for Christmas — $1,000 limit — what would it be? A kick-ass serious photographer type digital camera.
5. Do you like your middle name? Love it! But I legally changed it for my 30th birthday. Seriously.
6. Any questions? Why do I miss our long e-mail conversations soooo much I could die?
December 10th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
1. What’s the weather like where you are?
>> Probably very similar to where you are since we live in the same city.
2. Do you have pants on?
>> Pajama pants now, jeans earlier
3. What’s the last thing you ate?
>> Left over (from last nights Christmas get together at friends place who is a frickin’ fantastic baker) piece of the best chocolate cake ever (sigh)
4. If you could get anything at all for Christmas — $1,000 limit — what would it be?
>> A Wii, The Planet Earth/Blue Planet DVD series, and I’d buy some donkeys for people (from Oxfam Unwrapped)
5. Do you like your middle name?
>> Yes and No. I like it b/c it makes my initials “KGB”, but I don’t b/c the person I’m named after has turned out to be a “not so nice” person through the years
6. Any questions?
>> Where’d you go on facebook? You disappeared?
December 10th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
1 Sunny and about 80 F
2 Yes, polka dot pajama pants
3 pumpkin pie ice cream
4 a fancy camera
5 yes I do — it’s Japanese
6 should i write him back right away, or play it cool and wait a couple days? :)
December 11th, 2007 at 7:41 am
1. Sunny and 30 degrees; frosted hard over night.
2. Flowery pj pants
3. peppermint roca: yes, before breakfast, hey my child has chicken pox despite being vaccinated, what do you want from me?
4. Gorgeous watercolor painting of a tree that is on display at my UU church right now. Or a fancy camera. I like that idea too.
5. Yes, Michelle, what’s not to like?
6. Will I survive hosting Christmas for 16 people, 3 of them under 6?
December 11th, 2007 at 8:00 am
Answers:
Nancy: You won’t die, I promise. :-) Just email me!
Kat: Any minute now.
Lilie: I’m about the least cool/calculating/dating savvy girl on the planet. I’d probably be a doofus and phone him before I went to bed after the date. TAKE NO ADVICE FROM ME. My roommate would likely say yes, wait a day or two.
Aurora: You will. And kids are funny and completely nuts at Christmas. As long as you anticipate the meltdowns, you’ll be all good.
December 11th, 2007 at 9:19 am
1. Another Mostly Cloudy December Day here in NYC. However, if I were a month I’d want to be July. Sultry, velvet nights worth traipsing through…
2. Pinstripped Pants, but no underwear. oh gosh, NEVER underwear!
3. A variety of cookies from The Christie Cookie Company. Ho, Ho, Ho no, I got a tummy ache.
4. Manolo Blahnik Open-Toe Mary Jane Pumps. White with black spots hair-calf.
5. I don’t have one, but Sparkle would be my preference.
December 11th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
1. What’s the weather like where you are?
+ 25 oC and sunny and dry.
2. Do you have pants on?
At this moment, no, I don’t. I just had a shower.
3. What’s the last thing you ate?
A spicy thing called “Pulparindo”… it’s like a tamarind/chili candy.
4. If you could get anything at all for Christmas —
$1,000 limit — what would it be?
Hmmmm… maybe a new laptop.
5. Do you like your middle name?
I love my middle name. Actually, I go by my middle name.
6. Any questions?
Hmmm… how did you accumulate such a large readership?
December 13th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
1. What’s the weather like where you are?
too warm for this time of year (But, not really pining to shovel the drive either)
2. Do you have pants on? yup.
3. What’s the last thing you ate?
gingerbread man, hot from the oven (it was necessary, he had lost his head)
4. If you could get anything at all for Christmas — $1,000 limit — what would it be?
no clue.
5. Do you like your middle name?
meh.
6. Any questions?
not right now.