only one

i found this meme over here today, and thought i'd give it a try. anything to distract me from transcribing interviews from mothers with angry daughters (my current project, for which my b is my boss).

basically, you have to respond to each question in one word. and trust me, this is quite the challenge for ms. hyphenating-everything pants. particularly because AmandaD used some of my favourite, most-often used words as her responses, and, well, you know how much i hate repetition and non-uniqueness...

1. Where is your cell phone? table
2. Relationship? lifelong
3. Your hair? streaky
4. Work? insufficient
5. Your sister? unborn
6. Your favourite thing? twilight
7. Your dream last night? twisted
8. Your favourite drink? perrier
9. * Your dream car? subaru
10. The room you're in? stuffy
11. Your shoes? closeted
12. Your fears? numerous
13. What do you want to be in 10 years? peaceful
14. Who did you hang out with this weekend? bedelia
15. What are you not good at? physiology
16. Muffin? cookie!
17. One of your wish list items? barbeque
18. Where you grew up? winnipeg
19. Last thing you did? exhaled
20. What are you wearing? deodorant
21. What aren't you wearing? bra
22. Your pet? purring
23. Your computer? imperative
24. Your life? expansive
25. Your mood? heightened
26. Missing? innocence
27. What are you thinking about right now? wedding
28. Your car? saturn
29. Your kitchen? disgusting
30. Your summer? packed
31. Your favourite colour? ocean
32. Last time you laughed? minutes
33. Last time you cried? tuesday
34. School? hiatus!
35. Love? always

* i can't help it - it's true!

so, give it a go. i promise, it's not as easy as you look, capturing yourself in stark, single words for all to ponder...

so you don't like the heavy stuff, huh?

all righty then, then i present you with some random, pointless information! :) this is one of those memes that is circulating right now...i just looked for shits n' giggles, but some of the stuff that came up was strangely prophetic and adept...so i thought i'd share it with you.


basically, you click your way to google and then type a search for "[your name] needs" and see the top x things (i'm choosing 15) that come up. then, you share them. ta-dah!!

FIFTEEN THINGS I NEED

(according to google, that is)

KD needs...

1. "...to know exactly what time she is to be doing something and exactly how it is to be done." (uncanny!)
2. "...to get out of the house more." (i knew it. google has spies!!)
3. "...this type of concrete feedback to grasp her own progress." (i wish there were an example of what type of feedback it was that i needed...i need to know *exactly* what is meant by that, pronto!)
4. "...to be patient." (ouch-ah!)
5. "...a schedule." (i will agree, on the condition you pronounce it sked-jule and not shed-jule)
6. "...help again!" (again?! more like 'still.')
7. "...to vent." (i am assuming they mean vent my issues, and not my armpits. i have been showering regularly, after all...)
8. "...some serious prayer for health and personal problems surrounding her life right now." (wellll...who doesn't have health and personal problems? at this point, i'd request that you save those prayers, though...they make me a l'il bit nervous...)
9. "...a big hug." (very true. from someone providing concrete feedback, preferably)
10. "...match the content of any story." (wha?)
11. "...quiet." (seeeriously! i could use about 3 servings more o' quiet per day!)
12. "...constant antibiotics to stay healthy." (listen, when people keep wanting to pray for your venting problems...you do what you have to do!)
13. "...to spend less time on the computer and more time doing some weight training or something." (google. totally. has. spies.)
14. "...to get busy and model a few for us." (a few what? g-strings? ankle bracelets? beer bongs?)
15. "...something good!" (yeah. like my ego back from under the google-spy's shoes.)

empty-headed

this is all i'm really capable of today. i was desperate and borrowed it from here:

SOUP TO NUTS

1. Are you a fan of soup?
why yes, yes i am. i could probably eat soup every day.

2. What is your favorite kind of soup?
hmm. that's tough. my baba made a wicked chicken noodle soup that far surpassed any chicken soup i can recall, but i have to rely on retrospective memory, as she passed away 15 years ago. a close second would be my mom's borscht.

3. Are you a fan of nuts?
yes - particularly of the human variety.

4. What is your favorite kind of nut or dish containing nuts?
to eat raw, i think i'd have to say almonds. but i just might choose a cool scoop of pralines n' cream...though really, any nut with sugar is a sweet deal.

5. If you had to eliminate either soup or nuts from your diet for the rest of your life, which would you choose?
definitely nuts - but only of the edible kind. human nuts are always invited to stay.

the spectrum of my weird-ness

i've been seeing this meme (scroll down to the 3rd or 4th entry) traverse the blog circuit and i definitely wanted to participate. i mean, who doesn't want to broadcast their various weirdnesses to the web-savvy public?

so, here are six weird things about me (i tell ya it was hard to limit myself):

1. i often 'see' words that are being spoken aloud - as in, a marquee-like banner rolls through my brain with the words typed out (usually in times new roman, though i would prefer arial). that is why when you tell me the name of your future child, invariably my first question will be 'how is that spelled?'

2. similarly, the spelling of names can make them or break them for me. a misplaced 'e' or some funky garbled spelling can lead to ruin, i tell you!

3. if i am suffering from insomnia, i will try to picture everyone i know asleep. or, i think of babies sleeping, because that is comforting and cozy and sweet.

4. i like baby food. specifically, i love strained pears.

5. the index and middle fingers on my left hand click every time i flex them. it drives b wild.

6. one of my nostrils is a significantly different size than the other. meaning, i won't be offended if you peer up there the next time you see me - in fact, i will be offended if you don't.

don't bother reading this. it's not funny, and it's a waste of all of our time...

hello ON escapade fans (and fans-to-be),

i got inspired to post again while reading another blog i just started visiting (it's called 'beautiful blueberry eyes', and you can see it here). i thought, what better to re-start my foray into the blogosphere than to do a self-indulgent meme? it's kinda a toss-up between scattergories and, um, well, let's see...a mode of blatant procrastination from writing a paper on the politics and morality of breastfeeding...

Rules: Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following…They must be REAL places, names, things…NOTHING made up! If you can’t think of anything, skip it. You CAN’T use your name for the boy/girl name question.

1. Famous Athlete: karen kain
2. 4 letter word: kind
3. Street name: king St (of which EVERY FRICKIN' CITY IN ONTARIO has at least one - going N, S, E & W, if you are in waterloo)
4. Color: kelp (?!)
5. Gifts/presents: kinder surprise eggs, kimonos
6. Vehicles: kia
7. Tropical Locations: khartoum
8. College Majors: kinesiology
9. Dairy Products: kraft singles
10. Things in a Souvenir Shop: capital-k Krap
11. Boy Name: kalen
12. Girl Name: kelsey
13. Movie Titles: kill bill
14. Alcohol: koolers?
15. Occupations: kindergarten teacher,
16. Flowers: kalanchoe
17. Celebrities: kris kringle
18. Magazines: knit n' style (no, seriously)
19. Canadian Cities (the original was US cities, but c'mon now, we're in Canada...): killarney (MB), killaloe (ON), kitimat (BC)
20. Pro Sports Teams: kansas city chiefs (i cheated and looked that one up. poor b, she was probably so excited that i actually knew a team...!)
21. Something Found in a Kitchen: ketchup, kettle
22. Reason for Being Late: kangaroo infestation
23. Something You Throw Away: kidney stones (and i think we should, if we don't now)
24 Things You Shout: kabbalah rulz!
25. Cartoon Character: kanga (from winnie the pooh)

you know what, i don't know why i even did that. it wasn't all that funny, and wasn't even that worth the time i wasted. in fact, i almost would've rathered write my paper.