Stolen From Kathy Howe through Jay.
LAYER ONE: – Name: Jenorama
– Birth date: April 28th.
-Birthplace: Denver, Colorado
-Current Location: Work
– Eye Color: blue
– Hair Color: my actual color? Who knows? I dyed it light ash brown this weekend, and then added blonde highlights.
– Height: 5'7"
– Righty or Lefty: Righty
– Zodiac Sign: Taurus, sign of the Bull.
LAYER TWO:
– Your heritage: ? Mutt, I suppose.
– The shoes you wore today: Red Mary Janes. Kenneth Cole
– Your weakness: books-- can't leave a bookstore without spending money
– Your fears: Unemployment, harm to my children-- not in that order.
– Your perfect pizza: Artichoke heart and shrimp from the now defunct Late Nite Pizza in Athens, Ohio
– Goal you’d like to achieve: Job Security; PhD
LAYER THREE:
– Your most overused phrase on AIM: ya
– Your first waking thoughts: Coffee--who has waking thoughts before coffee?
– Your best physical feature: Eyes, probably.
– Your most missed memory: ? I don't even know what that means.
LAYER FOUR:
– Pepsi or Coke: Dr. Pepper
– McDonald’s or Burger King: Taco Bell.
– Single or group dates: Single
– Adidas or Nike: Adidas-- haven't you ever seen a Michael Moore movie? Who can buy Nikes?
– Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Just iced tea-- is there a difference?
– Chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate
– Cappuccino or coffee: yes.
LAYER FIVE:
– Smoke: yes, but not a lot, honestly.
– Cuss: like a sailor
– Sing: at Karaoke on Tuesday nights at the DuKum Inn.
– Take a shower everyday: er, no...
– Do you think you’ve been in love: Oh, yes, I think so. Was this designed for somebody in high school?
– Liked high school: Liked what about it?
– Want to get married: I plead the Fifth.
– Believe in yourself: Yes
– Get motion sickness: Not usually, but sometimes I do when I fly if I don't eat enough.
– Think you’re attractive: Yes, despite my curves. OR maybe really because of them.
– Think you’re a health freak: Not hardly.
– Get along with your parent(s): Yes
– Like thunderstorms: Sure-- but it's not like I'm pining for one.
– Play an instrument: piano, badly.
LAYER SIX:
In the past month…
– Drank alcohol: Yup
– Smoked: Yup.
– Done a drug: You mean besides my prescriptions? No.
– Made Out: Was this designed for people in high school?
– Gone on a date: See previous response.
– Gone to the mall?: I love the mall around the holidays-- I love the decorations. Yes.
– Eaten an entire box of Oreos?: Um, not since Halloween.
– Eaten sushi: No, but oh, I wish that I had... Have I? Don't think so.
- Been on stage: Karaoke.
– Been dumped: Was this designed for people in high school?
– Gone skating: Nope.
– Made homemade cookies: Yes, actually.
– Gone skinny dipping: No
– Dyed your hair: Uh, can a month go by without my dyeing my hair?
– Stolen Anything: No.
– You sound boring: Thanks.
LAYER SEVEN Ever…
– Played a game that required removal of clothing: Yes
– If so, was it mixed company: Yes
-Been trashed or extremely intoxicated: Yes
– Been caught “doing something": Doing something? What the hell does that mean? Was this designed for people in high school?
– Been called a tease: Not since college
– Gotten beaten up: Was this designed for people in high school?
– Shoplifted: Not since elementary school.
– Changed who you were to fit in: Was this designed for people in high school?
LAYER EIGHT:
– Age you hope to be married: Was this designed for people in high school?
– Numbers and Names of Children: three kids: Sam, Christian, and Tommy-- not names I would ever have said in high school.
– Describe your Dream Wedding: Was this designed for people in high school?
– How do you want to die: I don't.
– Where you want to go to college: Was this designed for people in high school?
– What do you want to be when you grow up: Was this designed for people in high school?
– What country would you most like to visit: France
LAYER NINE:
– Number of drugs taken illegally: 1
– Number of people I could trust with my life: ? Not the doctors in the local ER, that much I know.
– Number of CDs that I own: Haven't counted.
– Number of piercing: four.
– Number of tattoos: two.
– Number of times my name has appeared in the newspaper?: Many-- I have written for two newspapers along the way, more than that if you count student paper.
– Number of scars on my body: ?
– Number of things in my past that I regret: I don't know. Yes, I do: I regret some friendships I've lost along the way.
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Monday, December 13, 2004
Dinner Time Conversation:
Christian: Maybe it took all kinds of gods to make the world. Maybe God just needed some help. The Egyptians had lots of gods.
Tommy: But they weren't real.
Dereck: When people need to attribute things to a god, they make gods in images they can understand. Like, look at the piano. Do you love the piano?
Sam: No.
Dereck: Do you love your mom?
All: Yes.
Dereck: Then you are going to make a god like your mom, right?
Tommy and Christian to me: Hi, God!
Christian: But maybe there was a huge war in heaven because the devil was jealous of God.
Jen puts down her fork and looks at Christian: Where did you hear that?
Christian: In Santa versus the Snowman.
After Dinner Conversation
Dereck: Well, he's right. That is what that movie is about.
Christian: So, maybe there are lots of gods.
Jen: But God said there aren't. He said there is only one God.
Christian: But maybe that isn't true. Maybe he just said that to trick us because he is a tricky God.
Bedtime Conversation:
Sam: I wonder why I get to sleep so much easier here than at Dad's.
Jen: (Kissing Sam tons on the cheeks, making squeaky noises.)
Sam: Mom, stop it. That's just plain weird.
Tommy: But they weren't real.
Dereck: When people need to attribute things to a god, they make gods in images they can understand. Like, look at the piano. Do you love the piano?
Sam: No.
Dereck: Do you love your mom?
All: Yes.
Dereck: Then you are going to make a god like your mom, right?
Tommy and Christian to me: Hi, God!
Christian: But maybe there was a huge war in heaven because the devil was jealous of God.
Jen puts down her fork and looks at Christian: Where did you hear that?
Christian: In Santa versus the Snowman.
After Dinner Conversation
Dereck: Well, he's right. That is what that movie is about.
Christian: So, maybe there are lots of gods.
Jen: But God said there aren't. He said there is only one God.
Christian: But maybe that isn't true. Maybe he just said that to trick us because he is a tricky God.
Bedtime Conversation:
Sam: I wonder why I get to sleep so much easier here than at Dad's.
Jen: (Kissing Sam tons on the cheeks, making squeaky noises.)
Sam: Mom, stop it. That's just plain weird.
What D&D Character are YOU?
I Am A: Neutral Good Dwarf Cleric
Neutral Good characters believe in the power of good above all else. They will work to make the world a better place, and will do whatever is necessary to bring that about, whether it goes for or against whatever is considered 'normal'.
Dwarves are short and stout, and easily recognizable by their well-cared-for beards. They are hard workers, and adept at stonework and engineering. They tend to live apart from other races; generally in deep, underground excavated systems, and as such tend to be distant from other races.
Clerics are the voices of their God/desses on Earth. They perform the work of their deity, but this doesn't mean that they preach to a congregation all their lives. If their deity needs something done, they will do it, and can call upon that deity's power to accomplish their goals.
Find out What D&D Character Are You?, courtesy of NeppyMan!
Neutral Good characters believe in the power of good above all else. They will work to make the world a better place, and will do whatever is necessary to bring that about, whether it goes for or against whatever is considered 'normal'.
Dwarves are short and stout, and easily recognizable by their well-cared-for beards. They are hard workers, and adept at stonework and engineering. They tend to live apart from other races; generally in deep, underground excavated systems, and as such tend to be distant from other races.
Clerics are the voices of their God/desses on Earth. They perform the work of their deity, but this doesn't mean that they preach to a congregation all their lives. If their deity needs something done, they will do it, and can call upon that deity's power to accomplish their goals.
Find out What D&D Character Are You?, courtesy of NeppyMan!
Help!
My cell phone is dying. Lately, it turns off at the drop of a hat. It turns off if I close it. It turns off if I am talking to: my babysitter; my mother; Liza.
It turns off and then back on repeatedly in my pocket when I am driving to the shitty cell phone company where I have my service.
They look at my phone. They tell me that a liquid has gotten into the circuits, and they are corroding.
They diagnosed death for my cell phone. They can't tell me how much longer my phone has. Weeks? Days? But probably not longer than that, because it is acting the way it is. It turned off while it was sitting on the counter, while we were talking about it.
A new battery won't fix it.
The only option?
I have to buy a new phone because I didn't buy insurance for this one.
Here are your choices: These phones over here, for $50,000, or these over here, that have digital cameras, for $55,000**.
Whichever I decide, it is going on a credit card. I said, "I'll think about it and come back."
What would you do?
**price might be slightly exaggerated, but you get my drift.
It turns off and then back on repeatedly in my pocket when I am driving to the shitty cell phone company where I have my service.
They look at my phone. They tell me that a liquid has gotten into the circuits, and they are corroding.
They diagnosed death for my cell phone. They can't tell me how much longer my phone has. Weeks? Days? But probably not longer than that, because it is acting the way it is. It turned off while it was sitting on the counter, while we were talking about it.
A new battery won't fix it.
The only option?
I have to buy a new phone because I didn't buy insurance for this one.
Here are your choices: These phones over here, for $50,000, or these over here, that have digital cameras, for $55,000**.
Whichever I decide, it is going on a credit card. I said, "I'll think about it and come back."
What would you do?
**price might be slightly exaggerated, but you get my drift.
Dude? Seriously.
There must be something wrong with me. Normal people just don't behave this way. I just called the vet clinic and asked them if there were any people looking for homes for their cats. And I have 55 minutes in which I could go to the cat shelter, but we don't even know who is watching our cats next week, and we will be gone for two weeks.
I haven't actually called any of the numbers I got though.
What is wrong with me?
For one thing, I am bored out of my mind. I need to start bringing a book to work with me, I swear. Or get back to work on my memoir.
B.O.R.E.D.
There are two perfectly good hours left in the daylight that I could go and get my children, spend time with them, shop for dinner, do a little housekeeping... And I am sitting here why???
Looking at my list of things to do. Anything pressing before new year's? No? I don't even know what some of these things MEAN.
So, maybe it's time to blow this little popsickle stand, eh? Til tomorrow? Tomorrow, when perhaps I will at least have a book with me?
It beats trying to adopt other people's cats without permission...
I haven't actually called any of the numbers I got though.
What is wrong with me?
For one thing, I am bored out of my mind. I need to start bringing a book to work with me, I swear. Or get back to work on my memoir.
B.O.R.E.D.
There are two perfectly good hours left in the daylight that I could go and get my children, spend time with them, shop for dinner, do a little housekeeping... And I am sitting here why???
Looking at my list of things to do. Anything pressing before new year's? No? I don't even know what some of these things MEAN.
So, maybe it's time to blow this little popsickle stand, eh? Til tomorrow? Tomorrow, when perhaps I will at least have a book with me?
It beats trying to adopt other people's cats without permission...
Pre-Inaugural to-do list!
I don't have pneumonia or bronchitis-- I'm half-way through an upper respiratory infection and should be good as new by next week, in time to drive for two days with three kids...
Things to do before the January 20, 2005 Inaugural. Better get crackin,'
there's not much time left!!
1. Get that abortion you've always wanted.
2. Drink a nice clean glass of water.
3. Cash your Social Security check.
4. See a doctor of your own choosing.
5. Spend quality time with your draft age child/grandchild.
6. Visit Syria--or any foreign country, for that matter.
7. Get that gas mask you've been putting off buying.
8. Hoard gasoline.
9. Borrow books from the library before they're banned: Constitutional law
books, Catcher in the Rye, Harry Potter, Tropic of Cancer, etc.
10. If you have an idea for an art piece involving a crucifix, do it now.
11. Come out. Then go back in. HURRY!
12. Jam in all the Alzheimer's stem cell research you can.
13. Stay out late before the curfews start.
14. Go see Bruce Springsteen before he has his "accident".
15. Go see Mount Rushmore before the Reagan addition.
16. Use the phrase "You can't do that, this is America!"
17. If you're white, marry a black person. If you're black, marry a white
person.
18. Take a walk in Yosemite without being hit by a snowmobile or a
base-jumper.
19. Enroll your kid in an accelerated art or music class.
20. Start your school day without a prayer.
21. Pass on the secrets of evolution to future generations.
22. Learn French.
23. Attend a commitment ceremony with your gay friends.
24. Take a factory tour anywhere in the U.S.
25. Try to take photographs of animals on the endangered species list.
26. Visit Florida before the polar ice caps melt.
27. Visit Nevada before it becomes radioactive.
28. Visit Alaska before "The Big Spill".
29. Visit Massachusetts while it's still a State.
Things to do before the January 20, 2005 Inaugural. Better get crackin,'
there's not much time left!!
1. Get that abortion you've always wanted.
2. Drink a nice clean glass of water.
3. Cash your Social Security check.
4. See a doctor of your own choosing.
5. Spend quality time with your draft age child/grandchild.
6. Visit Syria--or any foreign country, for that matter.
7. Get that gas mask you've been putting off buying.
8. Hoard gasoline.
9. Borrow books from the library before they're banned: Constitutional law
books, Catcher in the Rye, Harry Potter, Tropic of Cancer, etc.
10. If you have an idea for an art piece involving a crucifix, do it now.
11. Come out. Then go back in. HURRY!
12. Jam in all the Alzheimer's stem cell research you can.
13. Stay out late before the curfews start.
14. Go see Bruce Springsteen before he has his "accident".
15. Go see Mount Rushmore before the Reagan addition.
16. Use the phrase "You can't do that, this is America!"
17. If you're white, marry a black person. If you're black, marry a white
person.
18. Take a walk in Yosemite without being hit by a snowmobile or a
base-jumper.
19. Enroll your kid in an accelerated art or music class.
20. Start your school day without a prayer.
21. Pass on the secrets of evolution to future generations.
22. Learn French.
23. Attend a commitment ceremony with your gay friends.
24. Take a factory tour anywhere in the U.S.
25. Try to take photographs of animals on the endangered species list.
26. Visit Florida before the polar ice caps melt.
27. Visit Nevada before it becomes radioactive.
28. Visit Alaska before "The Big Spill".
29. Visit Massachusetts while it's still a State.
Sunday, December 12, 2004
Still Sick...
I told Liza today that I've barely been online at all this weekend, and she said, "Wow, you really are sick."
Yesterday, without effort or planning, I slept in until 2:30. Today, I had plans to go down to church in Columbia, but realized last night that I actually needed more sleep. I slept into day too, and had a nap late in the afternoon, but I am still not feeling better. I am drowning in my own mucous and coughing. Not pretty. So, I have already called the dr. and left a message. I don't have a fever, but come on, this is getting ridiculous.
My dad called. "I've been reading your blog. You have bronchitis. And you know what the number one cause of bronchitis is, don't you? Smoking."
My dad is the president of the American Lung Association, Utah, so he should know.
I called them back and left a message: "Does this mean I need antibiotics?"
My mom called me back: "You need to see a doctor, yes."
Liza: "First comes bronchitis, next pneumonia."
I seem to be particularly susceptible to pneumonia, so I am going to go to work tomorrow, submit my online progress report to the government and then I am going home until I feel right again. It is the week before Christmas. Nothing *that* burning needs to get done this week (except that report tomorrow).
And I'd kind of like to be feeling better before we have a two-day drive to Pennsylvania, because that would kill me right now.
Yesterday, without effort or planning, I slept in until 2:30. Today, I had plans to go down to church in Columbia, but realized last night that I actually needed more sleep. I slept into day too, and had a nap late in the afternoon, but I am still not feeling better. I am drowning in my own mucous and coughing. Not pretty. So, I have already called the dr. and left a message. I don't have a fever, but come on, this is getting ridiculous.
My dad called. "I've been reading your blog. You have bronchitis. And you know what the number one cause of bronchitis is, don't you? Smoking."
My dad is the president of the American Lung Association, Utah, so he should know.
I called them back and left a message: "Does this mean I need antibiotics?"
My mom called me back: "You need to see a doctor, yes."
Liza: "First comes bronchitis, next pneumonia."
I seem to be particularly susceptible to pneumonia, so I am going to go to work tomorrow, submit my online progress report to the government and then I am going home until I feel right again. It is the week before Christmas. Nothing *that* burning needs to get done this week (except that report tomorrow).
And I'd kind of like to be feeling better before we have a two-day drive to Pennsylvania, because that would kill me right now.
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