Monday Memeage: Blog Meme Deluxe

This is an old meme I found trolling Google.

Ten Favorites

Favorite Color: Depends.
Favorite Food: Also depends. If I can pick an entire ethnic group's cooking, I'd have to go with Asian.
Favorite Month: October.
Favorite Song: Depends some more. I'm not really one for committing to favorites.
Favorite Movie: Standby answer: Empire Strikes Back
Favorite Sport: Thumb wrestling
Favorite Season: Autumn
Favorite Day of the week: Saturday
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Half Baked
Favorite Time of Day: Bedtime

9 CURRENTS

Current Mood: Hungry
Current Taste: Lotiony
Current Clothes: Gray trousers, polka dot shirt, pink cardigan, black mary janes
Current Desktop: The Bauhaus building in Dauchau, Germany. Also, messy.



Current Toenail Color: chipped, mostly bare and in desperate need of a pedi
Current Time: 11:25 AM
Current Surroundings: Work cubby
Current Thoughts: I'm hungry. Man, this meme is long. My back hurts. Oh, hey, my foot's asleep. I'm hungry.

8 FIRSTS

First Best Friend: Meredith...something. I called her Mer-mer. I was two.
First Kiss: Dusty Rhodes in the bowling alley nursery. Unless you mean adult kiss, then it's my husband at the end of our third date.
First Screen Name: harley_quinn
First Pet: Patches (cat), Prissy (miniature poodle) and Ginger (German Shepherd) were all around when I was born. The first animal that was entirely my responsibility, not a fish, and not a family pet was my budgie, Polly, handed down from my grandma when I was nine. She died tragically the same day my grandma did. :(
First Piercing: My ears, on my thirteenth birthday, were my first and only piercing.
First Crush: Luke Skywalker
First CD: Uh... heck if I know. First one I can recall buying was Sarah McLachlan's Surfacing.

7 LASTS

Last Cigarette: I tried a cigarette once. Once was enough.
Last Drink: Sam Adams Boston Lager, last night after supper.
Last Car Ride: To work this morning.
Last Kiss: Last night at bedtime.
Last Movie Seen: Cloverfield
Last Phone Call: My husband, with a grocery list.
Last CD Played: Muse - Black Holes & Revelations

6 HAVE YOU EVERS

Have You Ever Dated One Of Your Best Guy/Girl Friends: I married my best friend. But we weren't friends yet when we started going out, so that probably doesn't count. So then, no, but I did crush on a couple of them pretty hard.
Have You Ever Broken the Law: Who's asking?
Have You Ever Been Arrested: No.
Have You Ever Skinny Dipped: Yes.
Have You Ever Been on TV: Yes.
Have You Ever Kissed Someone You Didn't Know: No.

5 THINGS

Thing You're Wearing: My wedding ring.
Thing You've Done Today: Pilates.
Thing You Can Hear Right Now: The electronic hum of a dozen or so computers and printers, and occasional key tapping. My boss digging through his stuff.
Thing You Can't Live Without: God.
Thing You Do When You're Bored: Dream up stories to amuse myself. Fidget.

4 PLACES YOU'VE BEEN TODAY

My apartment
My gym
My car
My office

3 PEOPLE YOU CAN TELL ANYTHING TO

My husband
Tess
Lisa

2 CHOICES

Black or White: Black
Hot or Cold: Depends on the weather.

1 THING YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:

Finish my novel.

Monday Memeage: Ten Top-Five Television Lists

Picked up from Fenchurche:

Note: These aren't so much "favorites" as they are "shows my Monday-morning-fog-wrapped-brain is capable of remembering."

Back in the Day: 5 TV Shows You Loved As A Kid
1. The Muppet Show
2. You Can't Do That On Television
3. Danger Mouse
4. Moonlighting
5. Miami Vice


Who Would You Do?: 5 TV Characters You Would...Well, It's Self-Explanatory

1. Spike
2. Wesley Windham-Pryce
3. Mal Reynolds
4. Dean Winchester
5. Dean Cain's Clark Kent


What? No, No, I Don't Watch That...: 5 Guilty Pleasure TV Shows

1. Crowned--What? There's nothing else on!
2. Moment of Truth--see above, and also, my remote was broken and I was knitting and the cat was on my lap.
3. Big Brother. This used to not be a guilty pleasure. Blame the Donatos that I can't hold my head up about still caring about this show.
4. Any celebrity "reality" show on VH-1.
5. America's Next Top Model--also not really a "guilty pleasure," but the loopier and more desperate Tyra gets, the harder it is not to be embarrassed that I watch this show. Add to that, Saliesha. Bleah.



Wow: 5 TV Moments You Still Remember (And Probably Won't Forget)

1. Lois Lane's de-glasses-ing of Clark Kent, right after he proposed to her - Lois & Clark
2. Dave & Maddie's furniture-breaking roll on the floor - Moonlighting
3. Nine kissing Rose to absorb her Tardis energy, and then getting killed by it - Doctor Who
4. The Post-Modern Prometheus dancing at a Cher concert - The X-Files
5. Claire waking up on the autopsy table with her chest flayed open - Heroes

I left out the entire Whedonverse because there's just too much to narrow it down. "Can we rest?" House-demolition sex. End-of-musical kissing. Sending Angel to hell. Wesley shooting his dad. The introduction of Illyria. Willow flaying Warren. Angel locking the lawyers in with Darla and Dru. Mal kicking the hench-guy into the jet engine. "Big Damn Heroes, Sir!" I could go on. And on and on and on.


"Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs": 5 TV Theme Songs You Know (and Love) By Heart

1. The Facts of Life
2. Duck Tales
3. The Muppet Show
4. Green Acres
5. Animaniacs


Eh: 5 Shows You Just Can't Get Into

1. Any incarnation of Stargate.
2. Flash Gordon
3. House
4. Reaper
5. Project Runway


The Starting Line-Up: 5 Channels You Go To First When You Sit Down to Watch TV

1. Food Network
2. HGTV
3. TLC
4. Travel Channel
5. BBC-America


This Is An Environment of Welcoming, and You Should Just Get the Hell Out Of Here: 5 TV Characters You Could Do Without

1. Maya - Heroes
2. Fred Burkel - Angel
3. Agent Diana Fowley - X-Files
4. Agent Monica Rayes - X-Files
5. Dr. Polaski - Star Trek: TNG


That's What She Said: 5 Quotes That Still Resonate

Again, I'm having to work really hard to think of quotes that don't come from the Whedonverse, and within said 'verse, there are too many to pick from. That said:

1. Love isn't brains, children, it's blood. Blood screaming inside you to work its will.
2. Love makes you do the wacky.
3. "I've got a cramp." "In your pants?"
4. I mock you with my monkey pants!
5. Go monkey! Choose monkey!


Gimme More: 5 Shows You Can Never Get Enough Of

1. Buffy (obviously)
2. Angel
3. Firefly
4. Farscape
5. Star Trek

10 Things I've Done That You Probably Haven't

Per Scalzi's request:

1. Had a gerbil give birth in my hand

2. Broke into a parking garage to have a romantic picnic on the top level because it had a spectacular view

3. Got thrown out of a parking garage by security

4. Managed a rock band

5. Almost killed myself on a trampoline

6. Caught a peeping tom watching me and my then-fiance through the window while we made out

7. Had my feet stalked by a foot fetishist

8. Been a first-round interviewer and backstage PA for a beauty pageant

9. Performed data entry for a televangelist

10. Made the front page of the local paper for getting my leg stuck in a public pool (I also once got stuck on a public water slide. Clearly, I have water park issues.)

What ten things have YOU done?

Things that are most excellent

1. Diet Cherry Chocolate Dr. Pepper. It's like a fizzy orgasm in your mouth.

2. Having a short Christmas list and the funds to cover it.

3. Slow work days.

4. Free fancy Blogger templates.

5. Pretty toenails. Not that I have those right now.

6. WINNING NANOWRIMO OMGBBQETC!!!!!

And now for something completely not at all different...

Ah, yes, every blogger's go-to for days when they're too busy/tired/distracted/lazy to craft a meaningful post: the random list.

So, randomly...

@ If you're going to ComiCon, I don't like you anymore. [/petty jealousy]

@ I have no one to go see Order of the Phoenix with! Woe.

@ I am, however, seeing Spamalot this Saturday. Yay!

@ I still miss Rose. And I still plan to expound on that here.

@ Re: Big Brother 6 - three words: shallow, self-absorbed, idiots. In other words, the usual. This needs no expounding.

@ And yet, I will watch it anyway, and I will love it.

@ Because grown women who have breakdowns in public over not liking their pictures are pure entertainment gold. GOLD, I say!

@ And because I am shallow.

@ The other day, Husband and I had lunch with a friend of his from work and his wife, and they collectively share all of our obsessions. This qualifies them for potential new BFF-dom.

@ ...but it's probably still too soon to ask them to go see Harry Potter with me. Boo.

And that's my list. There will be actual content here tomorrow. Yes, really.

Random is the new black.

Things I haven't mentioned lately:

~ Matt picked up an effects processor for his guitar the other day. Now it's like a round-the-clock rock concert at my house. Whee?

~ We read the first issue of Buffy: Season 8 last night. That whee gets no question mark. It's exclamation points all the way, baby.

~ Tess and I saw Man of La Mancha last Saturday. I've had the title song and, alternately, "Impossible Dream" stuck in my head all week.

~ Tonight my #2 nephew is hosting his baby girl's first birthday party. I've been Great Auntie Jean for a whole year now, people. Fun should be had. Pictures will be taken.

~ Matt was going to take me out this weekend to see 300 (which Captain Tightpants declared to be "bitchin'") and then treat me to a nice dinner in celebration of our 6 monthiversary, but then we both decided we want to see 300 on IMAX. So we'll go next week, after payday. It's just as well because I'd just as soon stay home and rest this weekend. Why?

~ I'm very, very sleepy. That's why.

31.

This month's Real Simple (the only magazine I subscribe to these days--probably because it actually makes me feel capable of being a halfway decent housekeeper (and no, this is not a paid post. I pimp because I love)) had a neat suggestion for the new year: for each month, list 31 (or 30, or, er... 28, depending on the month) tasks, and assign each task it's own day. They needn't necessarily be chores or things that must be done; they can be fun and/or relaxing things, too (or even exclusively), like taking a nap or going to a museum you've been meaning to visit or buying a pretty knick-knack for the living room.

I'm liking this idea, although I'm not so sure about the scheduling a task per day bit. That would make me feel too pressured to stick to the schedule, and then I'd end up abandoning my list completely. I think I'd rather just make up a list of 31 things to pick from each day. Either way, this is right up there with the whole 15 minuts a day principle of getting things done.

Anyway. I'm not going to share my entire list (because I'm tired, and also because I haven't thought of a whole 31 things yet), but here's my top ten for January:

Must Do:


1. Finish my thank you cards. Finally.
   
   
2. Make a doctor's appointment. Also finally.
   
   
3. Make an appointment to get Fizzgigg's teeth cleaned. Also also finally.
   
   
4. Drag Matt to the bank and create a joint account under my new name. At last.
   
   
5. Shop for a second car. About friggin' time.
   
   Wanna Do:
   
   
6. Go on a date to a new (to us) restaurant.
   
   
7. Have Chinese take-out and a Firefly marathon.
   
   
8. Meet Tess for lunch.
   
   
9. Call people I haven't talked to in forever, like I was supposed to on Christmas day.
   
   
10. Cook and freeze a huge batch of Zone-friendly breakfast burritos.

I'm don't know yet what else is going on there, but I'm pretty sure it will include spending an entire day in bed like Matt and I did on Tuesday, snuggling and reading and napping and playing board games. That was awesome, and definitely worth repeating.

As you can see, I'm ready for the new year. I'm ready to have wedding plans and honeymoons and holidays out of the way to start fresh and get caught up on my life, remembering what it's like not to have the better part of an entire year consumed by planning for a single day. There's still aftermath to deal with--besides the thank you cards (which I'm still well within the bounds of etiquette not having sent them yet; according to the rules I have six months, and it's not quite been four) we also still have to put wedding announcements in the local papers and order prints of our wedding pictures. And there will be the moving, which we'll probably time to coincide with Matt's spring break (did I mention he's enrolled for the spring semester?), which leaves us two and a half months to go through our crap and get rid of anything we don't want to take with us. Expect eBay auctions.

...

That last thing's going on my list, too.