smacking monday upside the head.
Well!
It’s Monday!
At least I think the morning has broken, though the DARK GRAY SKY indicates it may still be night. Or just… a broken morning.
My day began with me climbing into the shower and sliding immediately to a sitting position, which left a notable bruise on my ass that will soon be the same colour as the sky.
From there, I got my hair caught in my blow dryer (don’t even get me started about the damn hair. No one has even noticed I cut it yet, which should tell you HOW LAME IT TRULY IS) and poked myself in the eye with my mascara wand.
I’m thinking something is off.
Not that I haven’t done these things before — really, being a klutz/mess/goat isn’t notable for me — but all in one morning?
(Interesting note: I trained Gradon to be able to tell the difference between when I a) have just surprised myself with a klutzy move, and b) have actually injured myself. If I’m not really hurt, I’ll say “Ow!”. If I AM hurt, I’ll swear. It’s a pretty clear distinction.
And if I say nothing at all? Call an ambulance.)
Sigh.
I’m actually a bit of a stressball in most areas of my life right now, so I think my best strategy is to… think about something else.
Something else like…. you!
SO:
1. How are you today?
2. Are you wearing pants?
3. If you could choose anywhere in the world to be right now, doing anything, what would you be up to?
4. What song defines your day thus far?
5. What is your favourite food in the whole universe?
6. If I took you to Starbucks, what would you get?
7. If the US presidential election were between a squirrel and a gopher, who would you vote for?
And that’s it!
October 20th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Oh man, mornings like that are so frustrating.
1. Pretty good, for a Monday. I got a decent amount of sleep last night, despite my crazy-ass dream.
2. Yes
3. I’d be in Italy, eating pasta and looking at art.
4. Well, “Here Comes the Sun” just started playing on my iPod. I laughed. I’m sure I won’t be seeing the sun at any point today. Ugh.
5. Pasta. I can never get enough!
6. Pumpkin Spice Latte - my favourite fall drink.
7. Gopher, because it reminds me of the dramatic prairie dog video. Hee.
October 20th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Your morning sounds very similar to mine, except for the hair dryer part and bruise on my ass…
1. Fair, will be better once some light appears outside (it feels like 6 pm)
2. Jeans
3. Sitting by the beach, somewhere warm, doesn’t have to be hot, sipping on a latte and reading magazines.
4. Manic Monday - Bangles (cliche, but somehow is in my head)
5.Indian or Thai, anything comfort and spicy
6. Grande Non-Fat Chai Latte (when are we going?)
7. squirrel (I don’t have to justify it, do I?)
October 20th, 2008 at 8:36 am
1. Feeling okay even though the Red Sox lost.
2. Well, that’s pretty personal now, isn’t it? ;)
3. I’d love to be visiting my daughter who just moved to London (anyone know of any jobs available there?) taking photos, especially night shots.
4. Sunshine On My Shoulder Makes Me Happy
5. Apples and apple pie (my apple pie)
6. A medium (refuse to use their term) Skinny Vanilla Latte with a sprinkle of chocolate on top.
7. Gopher. We’ve had eight years of having a squirrel for president. It’s time for a change.
October 20th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Always looking for an excuse to get out of doing some work…
1. I am fine
2. Yes
3. Be at home playing with my kids.
4. 19th Nervous Breakdown by the Rolling Stones
5. My grandma’s mac & Cheese
6. Green Tea
7. Gopher. I blame squirrel’s for the current financial crisis.
October 20th, 2008 at 8:44 am
1. i am good, feeling like i may be coming down with something- but let’s see if i can shake it off.
2. yes
3. i would choose to be right here where i am, but earning a salary instead of getting unemployment checks.
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMrFdeOj5GY
5. im going genre here- indian
6. americano with tons of cream
7. squirrel
October 20th, 2008 at 8:47 am
It is one of those days in my corner of the world, too!
1. I’m doing good, but I am stressed out from having so many items on my to-do list.
2. Yep - black ones for the office.
3. I’d be in Italy, shoe shopping :)
4. Well, I’ve had Madonna’s new song “Give It 2 Me” because all I want to do is rebel lately!
5. Fettuccini Alfredo - the Olive Garden recipe!
6. A pumpkin spice latte with nonfat milk, but keep the whip cream.
7. Hmm…the squirrel because he has great memory (he remembers where he hid his nuts) and hey, he can walk on wire! Oh, and he won’t dig up my beautiful lawn, like the gopher.
Thanks for the fun questionnaire!
October 20th, 2008 at 9:08 am
1. I am ok, working hard as I love it ( I am a producer)
2. yes – jeans
3. Istanbul – kissing my boyfriend a lot :)
4. reggae ( I am in Salvador-Bahia working in Pelourinho - totally black part of my city), so I would love to hear Bob Marley .
5. chocolate cake.
6. Milk with a lilttle drop of coffee
7. Definitly a squirrel.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:36 am
1. Fine
2. Yes
3. Eating a banana eclair in that little bakery in Paris
4. C is for Cookie
5. Peanut butter
6. Tall skinny cappuccino… i like my cappuccino like fashion likes its models.
7. Hmmm… good question. I’m not crazy about rodents… but I guess I’d go gopher because saying “go gopher” is funnier than saying “go squirrel” especially if you add another “go” in: Go go gopher! heehee
October 20th, 2008 at 9:59 am
1. On an all-fruit, one-day fast… so, just peachy! (pun intended)
2. Grey jeans. Really tight on the waist… hence the fast.
3. Paris! Eating breads and cheeses and drinking wine… even if it’s still a bit early. I’m pretending.
4. It’s the final countdooooown!
5. I refuse to go there today.
6. Alto, sugar-free, descafeinado con leche light (translation: Tall, sugar-free, decaf with skim milk).
7. Squirrel! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e_88G4TY_w
And congrats on Mr. Tripp! ;) So happy for you guys!
October 20th, 2008 at 10:39 am
1. Great, better if the sun comes out though.
2. Sweatpants, love working from home!
3. Taking my dogs to the beach in Half Moon Bay for a run
4. Monday,Monday
5. Dungeness crab
6. Usually a Venti Americano w/room-may switch to brewed for now & save $$
7. Squirrel, the gopher that’s been in charge has dug us into so many holes already.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:14 am
1. Doing good!
2. I think they’re pants!
3. Cinque Terre, Italy climbing the steps, checking out the awesome views, villages, and eating!
4. “Lemon Tree” …it’s a quirky song!
5. I don’t think I’ll ever get sick of pasta
6. Probably a Vanilla Frap
7. Squirrel!
my…don’t I sound chipper =P
October 20th, 2008 at 11:22 am
1. Kind of tired, already wishing it was Friday
2. Jeans
3. With my family, just visiting, relaxing. They’ve been on my mind a lot recently.
4. Friday, I’m in Love - The Cure
5. Ice Cream
6. Grande Zen Tazo hot tea
7. Squirrel because they’re way cuter
October 20th, 2008 at 11:33 am
1. Fine. Tired, but fine.
2. Yes.
3. I’d be driving through the desert with the top down.
4. Breakdown
5. Peanut Butter
6. venti tazo wild sweet orange tea
7. squirrel. they’re slightly less annoying than gophers.
October 20th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
1. Good. I’m about as stressed out as I always am.
2. Indeed I am wearing pants. I was going to wear a skirt to work this morning . . . but I always say that, and I always wear pants instead.
3. I would like to be having lunch with friends, anywhere except at my computer, which is where I am having lunch today. :(
4. Meg, unlike you and your new significant other (by the way, CONGRATS to you guys!), I do not have a soundtrack to my life playing in my head all the time, and so I just can’t answer this question.
5. Pasta!
6. Medium Chai latte. And maybe some oatmeal? I heard some Starbucks are serving oatmeal now. :)
7. Squirrel. I haven’t been a fan of gophers since going to junior high in a small prairie town where the playing field was full of gopher holes that led to twisted ankles pretty much every time we had phys.ed outdoors.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
1. Very meh.
2. Yeah.
3. Somewhere with the sun shining. At an outdoor Gov’t Mule concert, in the front row. With my Mule friends.
4. Kinda emo, but “Every Day Is Exactly The Same” by NIN. I’m not even much of a NIN fan, but this song fits perfectly.
5. Something Indian. Lamb Vindaloo. Or chocolate cake.
6. Pumpkin. Spice. Latte.
7. Whichever one is democratic or green. The pro-choice one.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Gradon must be a quick study. Sounds like a real good guy. I am happy for both of you.
1. Mostly okay. I have a bit of a headache.
2. Yes. Jeans. Today it is raining and I switched from shorts and crocs to jeans and cowboy boots.
3. I would be on a tropical island, drinking a mai tai, “playing” with my new digital SLR (the one I don’t have that I am creating for this fantasy), and talking on the phone to my money manager who is assuring me that I have more than enough.
4. “Monday, Monday…can’t trust that day.”
5. Can’t. Choose. One. But Kettle Organic Potato Chips come close to the top of the list.
6. A small Americano with four shots. (I refuse to speak Starbucks.)
7. Squirrel. It would no doubt be the one who lives off my back deck and comes knocking on the patio door when I haven’t fed him in a long time. So, I would be voting for someone I know and I would have his ear for all the important stuff and maybe I would get a cabinet position…or maybe be an ambassador. I’d love to be an ambassador…to a tropical island country.
October 20th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
1. Happy, now that work is over.
2. Yup.
3. I would be in South Haven eating an apple dumpling at Clementine’s.
4. Home - Michael Buble
5. I can’t take the pressure of narrowing it to one…
6. Toffee Nut Latte please.
7. Gopher
October 20th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
1. Satisfactory.
2. This is a little personal, don’t you think? (yes)
3. Touring Ireland with the Husband.
4. The Wheels on the Bus (sad but true).
5. My Mom’s cottage cheese perogies.
6. tall carmel soy latte; carmel sauce, not syrup; possibly iced
7. gophers just dig themselves deeper and deeper holes; squirrels always seem so prepared, so squirrel it is!
October 20th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
1. Meh.
2. Mostly. They have the general form of pants but also several large holes.
3. Hanging around someplace with a European feel, preferably in Europe.
4. Moby’s Beautiful. And not just because I saw that mentioned in a tweet.
5. Proper British candy.
6. Something without coffee, preferably iced.
7. The gopher’s alcoholic cousin.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
1. How are you today?
Mm, better than the past two weeks
2. Are you wearing pants?
Lovely jammies from Old Navy, thank you very much! The first thing I do when I get home is get into my pjs.
3. If you could choose anywhere in the world to be right now, doing anything, what would you be up to?
I know everyone says “lying on a beach” but for me, i’m ok where I am!
4. What song defines your day thus far?
“get down on it”
5. What is your favourite food in the whole universe?
cheese
6. If I took you to Starbucks, what would you get?
oh you already know this one… tall soy latte with an extra shot
7. If the US presidential election were between a squirrel and a gopher, who would you vote for?
squirrel, unless the gopher were dramatic ;-) and obama
October 21st, 2008 at 3:11 am
1. All the better seeing that normal literary service has been resumed. Albeit a bit loved up.
2. Proper trousers instead of jeans today which has shocked a few!
3. Sat on a jetty on a deserted Greek island dangling my toes in crystal waters and daydreaming!
4. What if - Coldplay
5. Beetroot!
6. Skinny Latte with an extra shot… and a little muffin!
7. Squirrel. They possess the foresight to store things away for a rainy day.
October 22nd, 2008 at 5:35 am
1. I’m excellent because I just got my work schedule and I only teach on Tuesdays and Fridays. I think I have it right (2 days on, 5 days off) and the rest of the world has it backwards
2. No (It’s really hot here, so when I get home I usually just take them off for a while)
3. If it was already the weekend I would say I would be in Florida going to the Magfest Music Festival, but I’m pretty happy where I am (Thailand)
4. Sweet - Jehro
5. Dark Chocolate
6. Iced Grande 2%, LIght Ice, 2 Pump, No Whip Mocha (I never thought I would be one of those people, but it just tastes better when you have it exactly the way you want it!)
7. Gopher, squirrels are sneaky!
October 22nd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
1. I’m tired, and tired of my back hurting…
2. Yes. My co-workers frown upon exposed undies in the office.
3. Paris with the woman of my dreams taking a romantic stroll in no particular direction.
4. Goodbye - The Corrs
5. Enchiladas
6. Blended Passion Tea Lemonade
7. Gopher because is just seems more grounded.