questions/tasks with no particular point. because it’s raining. and wednesday. and my toe hurts.
1. What internet activity tends to drag you down the wormhole (endlessly clicking through photo albums on Facebook, daisy-chaining weird Wikipedia entries, reading about gadgets, celebrity gossip, price-checking on shopping websites)?
2. What one thing do you do every single week to maintain your sanity?
3. What is your favourite kind of weather?
4. Tell me all about your perfect fall day: where do you go? Who are you with? What do you eat? Extra points for detail (although I don’t know what you’ll do with those points.)
5. If I went into your closet and stole one item of clothing, which theft would make you cry?
6. Dedicate a song to someone!
October 21st, 2009 at 10:06 am
1. answering megfowler questions :) they are a great form of procrastination for the day (hugs)
2. Have to play one sport usually soccer (outdoor summer, indoor winter), or watch out world, let mr grumpy trounce on your life :(
3. Hot and sunny, with a perfect SSE wind at about 20knts so I can go Kite boarding for the day
4. Perfect fall day is a walk along the Kelowna Greenaway. Mission creek that runs form the mountains into Okanagan Lake. Can take the whole family and just relax. Kick up the leaves watch the Salmon run, listen to people enjoying the last warmth of the sun. Dogs playing Frisbee with their masters barking at them for them to pay attention and release the Frisbee for the 101 time. Dogs never get bored.
5. This has happened for real twice at our house. Someone has broken into our place gone through my closet even tried on stuff and taken the shirts and jackets they like (and obviously fit them). Had a black shirt, little skulls for buttons…. gone grrrrr i cried (so if you ever see it let me know)
6. (hey i am a big softy) for my mom Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine ♫ http://blip.fm/~f6inr
October 21st, 2009 at 11:38 am
1. Twitter, in general. Especially when my alter ego is feeling feisty.
2. Hang out with Ed. And also, do something on my own.
3. SNOW!
4. It was this weekend. In a canoe. Yes, it was cold. But the leaves were beautiful, and I was with a group of my friends in the middle of nowhere, on a small river, all bundled up, and trying desperately not to tip. And it was followed by campfire and lots of silliness.
5. The scarf my friend/ex-roommate Cate bought me from a flea market in France.
6. Timewarp, for Trisha and Michelle, who just had birthdays this weekend and who LOVE Rocky Horror.
October 21st, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Questions are answered on my blog. :)
October 21st, 2009 at 1:53 pm
1. Blog reading and commenting. My comments often end up as mini-posts (no doubt to the annoyance of the original blogger)…and take about as much time to write. But I love the exposure to new ideas and to being made to think hard about what I believe to be true.
2. Two pieces of dark chocolate after lunch. Every day. Unless its salted caramels, like it was today.
3. Crisp and cool, low- to mid-60s. Slight wind. Bright blue sky, minimal clouds. Dry leaves rustling.
4. See number 3. ;) I love walking all over the city (Boston) on a day like that. From my house in the North End, through Faneuil Hall, to Downtown Crossing, across the Common and through the Public Garden, up Newbury Street (stopping for decaf Earl Grey and a sandwich and salad combo at Tealuxe), and on to Fenway–’cause if it’s October and I’m going to Fenway, then the Sox are likely in the postseason. ;)
5. My wedding dress. Only worn once. Never will wear it again. But it’s purty, and associated with one of the best days of my life.
6. “Goodnight, My Someone,” for my son Thomas, to whom I sing it every night.
October 21st, 2009 at 3:39 pm
1. blog reading and facebook
2. running/once a day
3. sunny, blue sky, at least 100 degrees
4. early morning run, walking the dog, shower, herbal tea in my favorite mug while reading and writing blogs, banana & peanut butter for lunch, reading outside by the pool, walking the dog, shower, dinner out while sitting on the patio, Pinkberry’s or Yoghurtland for desert
5. my Diesel jeans
October 21st, 2009 at 4:51 pm
1. “Daisy-chaining weird Wikipedia entries” pretty much sums it up. Usually they’re about obscure bands of old-timey crimes. Weird, yes.
2. Make sure I DON’T make plans at least one weeknight, so that I can come home, watch TV, blog, surf Facebook, eat mac & cheese, do nothing at all.
3. Autumn! Crisp but not cold. A little dark, but not rainy.
4. Brunch anywhere - my friends and I just started a Brunch Tour! There should be breakfast potatoes involved. Maybe a bookstore afterwards. And… God, I don’t know what else. I’m wearing boots, though, and I’m with friends, and no umbrellas are needed.
5. My new (free!) GAP skinny jeans. I don’t know how a fat girl looks good in skinny jeans, but these are apparently a miracle of some sort.
6. I saw Hanson in concert last night! Called an old childhood friend during “Where’s the Love?”
October 21st, 2009 at 7:28 pm
My answers are in my blog too! :)
October 21st, 2009 at 9:14 pm
1. Reading my Twitterfeed, and searching for TV spoilers
2. Read nightly before bed
3. 33 degrees above during the day (sunny, no clouds) and about 15 degrees at night (with some rain)
4. I would make a cup of coffee (or get one) and watch my Packers on TV at 11am, then go to Hawrelak Park and play some football with friends, then cap the day off with a nice cold beer and a plate of nachos. :)
5. Eddie Bauer jeans.
6. Save Tonight - Eagle-Eye Cherry (to a dude I knew a long time ago)
October 22nd, 2009 at 3:29 pm
1. Online shopping. I save a lot to myregistry.com.
2. I don’t do anything every single week to maintain my sanity. Does that make me insane? Perhaps.
3. Mid-60s, brisk, comfortable - the kind of weather that makes me stop and appreciate the outdoors.
4. Apple picking with apple cider donuts and a brisk walk with a girlfriend. Home to Jeff for apple pie and chicken pot pie and rd red wine.
5. A scarf given to me by my grandmother for the last Christmas she spent on this living earth. I’m not telling you which one it is so you can’t take it when you move to Boston.
6. Bittersweet by Big Head Todd and the Monsters dedicated to moi.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:46 pm
1. www.baseball-reference.com/
2. Exercise.
3. Rainy.
4. Some kind of fall festival (e.g. Octoberfest in Fredericksburg) with my family. Eat: fair food (brats!). Drink: beer.
5. Tough one. No risk of tears, but I have a couple of blazers I particularly like.
6. I’ll dedicate “Nasty Boys” by Janet Jackson to YOU. :)
October 27th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
1. Google reader/stumble upon
2. read something of my picking (I’m an English major)
3. rainy days are quite nice
4. I walk about a long forgotten trail with a quite friend. We speak about the different types of leaves and animals we see along the way. I have on a sweater and boots, because it is finally cool enough to wear a sweater and boots! My friend carries his guitar, and when we come to a clearing, he plays me some folk tunes. Then we get out the picnic basket, and have a simple meal and share a bottle of red wine. We lie back and contemplate the clouds and various other things. (Oh, how lovely!)
5. my brown skirt
6. Come on Eileen by Dexy’s Midnight Runners - to you Meg!