50 ways to drive the folks on your friends list crazy

[kjpepper]

1. Your name spelled backwards.

enworb adeehsar eedna. Looks like some sort of Klingon love haiku, to be immediately followed by "Wax my forehead supple wench." (innostrantsa, you'd best be rolling...)

2. Where were your parents born?
Mom: Cincinatti, OH, I think.
Dad: then called British Guiana, now Guyana.

3. What is the last thing you downloaded onto your computer?
not counting the usual, I think that would be the video for the Greenleaf Squad's "Yatta!"

4. What’s your favorite restaurant?
Tough call. Toss up between Fitzwilly's and Osaka in Northampton.

5. Last time you swam in a pool?
Gawd. Forever. Though now that sundart has her Smith OneCard, we plan to go three mornings a week.

6. Have you ever been in a school play?
Several. Mostly directed by the pruience-seeking Ms. Knox. Seventh Grade found me in red kimono and braids, playing the Beautiful Lady in The Wicked Lord and the Old Lady, high school saw me in bit parts in King Lear and The Tempest (Only in high school theater can you get away with casting 12 people as Ariel.) I found I preferred working up in the tech box with my best friend Karolina rather than actually being on stage.

7. How many kids do you want?
If I ever, I just want a girl. I'd name her Claudia. I've liked every single character named Claudia in books I read. The smart chick in From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, the cool Asian artist babysitter in The Babysitters' Club (nobody out there better be laughing), the fucked-up child vampire in Interview with the Vampire, the narrator kid in The Bluest Eye...

8. Type of music you dislike most?
I embrace all music, letting it all flow into my ears and through my soul to enjoy it thoroughly. That kind of experience doesn't allow for genre distinctions. Although most gospel and country drive me bonkers, as my mother tended to beat all and sundry over the head with it constantly, with her huge honking Marantz quadrophonic stereo that you could hear down the block when she had it cranked.

9. Are you registered to vote?
Yep.

10. Do you have cable?
Yep.

11. Have you ever ridden on a moped?
Nope. am totally getting a motorcycle when I hit ye old midlife crisis.

12. Ever prank call anybody?
Not that I remember. Oh wait, there was that one time with gossamer_gull when we called up beatgoddess at 1AM to play her a verse or two of Red Peters' Blow Me. She was vastly amused.

13. Ever get a parking ticket?
One of the joys of licensehood I'm looking forward to.

14. Would you go bungee jumping or sky diving?
Theoretically, yes. In practice, I'd probably chicken the fuck out.

15. apparently this question is missing.

16. Do you have a garden?
Nah. I have to go back to my original project of tending my little coleus. And restarting some strawberry plants. and maybe some aloe plants. I'm good with aloe plants.

17. What’s your favorite comic strip?
Boondocks. With a special shot out to Rose is Rose, Foxtrot, and Calvin and Hobbes.

18. Do you really know all the words to your national anthem?
yep.

19. Bath or Shower, morning or night?
By choice it would be baths at night. Alas, we only have a shower at this house. And I take it whenever I feel dirty.

20. Best movie you’ve seen in the past month?
Past month? Oh boy...

21. Favorite pizza topping?
Ham. Though I'm definitely with darkling_dreams on the red potato pizza. One of the few things I miss about her living in CT. It sounded gross to me when I first tried it, but I was quickly converted.

22. Chips or popcorn?
Ugh. Popcorn always does that awful thing to the corners of my mouth.

23. What color lipstick do you usually wear?
Revlon Colorstay, Burgundy.

24. Have you ever smoked peanut shells?
Has this person ever smoked crack?

25. Have you ever been in a beauty pageant?
Have you ever had your ass stretch from the effort of popping out entire monkeys?

26. Orange Juice or apple?
When I was a kid, I drank gallons of apple juice at a sitting, so much that my parents would refer to it as "Andee's water." Now I can't stand the stuff, though I do like cider. Nope, these days it's orange juice.

27. Who was the last person you went out to dinner with and where did you dine?
Dinner? Don't remember. The last meal I had actually out was last week, I think, when g.g. kidnapped me and we went to Denny's. And a bunch of us are heading out to Fitzwilly's for sunny-d's birthday later.

28. Favorite type of chocolate bar?
Godiva Milk Chocolate. Followed closely by a plain milk chocolate Symphony bar.

29. When was the last time you voted at the polls?
The last presidential election.

30. Last time you ate a homegrown tomato?
Last summer = we got like one?

31. Have you ever won a trophy?
No. A couple of ribbons at the Colgate Womens Games when I was like 10.

32. Are you a good cook?
I don't think I am, though I'm discovering that I have a knack for (chicken) breasts.

33. Do you know how to pump your own gas?
Sort of. But that's why they have instructions on the pump. Wonder if self-serve is still illegal in NJ.

34. Ever order an article from an infomercial?
Bought the first Pure Moods CD when it first came out. (Shut it, all y'alls.) That was also my Fisher Price® My First Debit Card Purchase™.

35. Sprite or 7-up?
Cherry soda of some persuasion.

36. Have you ever had to wear a uniform to work? how about school?
Cinemark was going through the last of the red checkered CREW shirts when I put in my five month stint, but I really liked those shirts. Otherwise, I've lived my life according to no one's dress code, though there was that summer I worked at IBM and was made miserable by corporate acceptable dress, among other things that turned an otherwise really fun internship into sheer hell. Mostly having to do with Penuche fudge.

37. Last thing you bought at a pharmacy?
Trojan unlubricated condoms and a tube of the aforementioned lipcolor.

38. Ever throw up in public?
Almost. I got the stomach flu in the middle of the big violin recital when I was... hmm, was that 11? 13? Anyway, I made it through my piece, ditched the violin and hightailed it to the bathroom. Didn't make it to a stall, but at least it wasn't in the hallway.

39. Would you prefer being a millionaire or finding true love?
And wove, twue wove, wiw fowwow you fowevew . . .

I think I already found true love. But I'd still prefer it to the million dollars. Though that would be nice too.

40. Do you believe in love at first sight?
Depends on how you define love, I think. I've felt instant connections with people that later flowered into deep relationships of some persuasion.

41. Ever call a 1-900 number?
Once. Can't remember why or what for.

42. Can exes be friends?
My ex is my best friend in the entire universe.

43. Who was the last person you visited in a hospital?
Mom, when she went in for her cancer surgery the first time.

44. Did you have a lot of hair when you were a baby?
Bald and shiny as a cue ball. Until I was like 9 or ten months, where it came in scarlet. Which as you can imagine, looked pretty funny on my head until it darkened to the deep red-toned brown it is today. Not that you can tell under the yarn.

45. What did you eat today?
Mmm, French Toast. It had been a longass while since sundart and I made that.

46. What’s your all time favorite Saturday Night Live Character?
Oh wow. Operaman? The Lunchlady, Linda Richman, the guy who was livininavandownbytheriver, the italian restaurant guys that showed up every time Kirstie Alley hosted... I dunno, I watched SNL at the tail end of Dana Carvey's stint and just before Norm Macdonald joined the cast and I loved every single episode that particular cast lineup put out. Especially Adam Sandler and Chris Farley and Phil Hartman (moment of silence for the last two, please). What I'm majorly annoyed about is that Comedy Central slices out half an hour of the original episodes when they rerun them.

47. What was the name of your first pet?
Husky, a big fuzzy malamute that would viciously attack everything he could see, except for me. Nope, me he would let ride around on his back, and use for a pillow in the middle of the living room floor. And he would snarl at anything that got within ten feet of me. What was I, like 2 or 3?

48. What is in your purse?
Ew, purses, how girly! And there's nothing but utter kee-rap in my backpack currently. Couple of pens, receipts, notebooks...

49. Favorite thing to do before bedtime?
Write to birkwelch and drink cocoa.

50. What is one thing you are grateful for today?
Every single one of my crazy-ass friends. :) Each and every one of you is a blessing, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

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[innostrantsa.livejournal.com]

enworb adeehsar eedna. Looks like some sort of Klingon love haiku, to be immediately followed by "Wax my forehead supple wench." (innostrantsa, you'd best be rolling...)

on the floor like the crazy-ass mofo i am, yo! my sides, they pain! *hee*