Answahs

Given the fact that I am still woozy and ill today, I asked Karl, who knows me better than I know myself, for a little help with these. I agreed with his answers.



KathyHowe:

1. I like best about myself the fact that I found the strength to assert my independence, and I'll never go back.



2. The more I think about reincarnation (I didn't have to ask Karl about this), the more I think that it is really the only possible solution. My children actually just naturally came to this life with a firm belief in reincarnation, which I have reinforced at every possible turn. The other day, I wrote in my journal this quote from Tommy: "God blows up the universe and then goes back to the Star Trek again."



And I think what he meant by this is that we are just going to do this and then start over again and again and again-- what else is there to do? Christian in particular likes to design what his future lives will be like (i.e. what creatures he will be), and because he wants me to be his mother in every future life, naturally, I agree to be, in turns: a T-Rex, a snow leopard, a dragon, an ant, and other things I cannot remember.



3. My pet peeve is people who try to control me, limit me, or tell me what to do.



Jay:



1. Favorite boardgame? Monopoly, followed closely by Scrabble and Risk.

2. Favorite City? Seattle, followed by Savannah and New Orleans.

3. Sweet or bitter?



Heith:



Q: What's the most dangerous thing you've ever done (it doesn't have to be physical danger.. but it can be)? Let my son leave with my husband to go to Cleveland when I was planning to move out while he was gone.



Q: Who would you say has had the biggest positive impact on your life? My ex-husband, because being married to him and then leaving him have been the defining events of my life. I have learned everything about who I am and who I still want to be from that marriage, hence that man. Sad, isn't it?



Q: What figure from history (any time period) do you most admire and why? You know, this even surprises me, but I think I'm going to have to go with Gertrude Stein. I am always thinking about the Paris of her time, and longing to go to Paris and pretend like Hemingway is just around the corner. But I think her life was successful: she was partnered successfully, she was brilliant and she knew it, she didn't apologize for any parts of her life: her appearance (mannish and round); her bluntness; her arrogance. She was a famous writer, who is not well-loved, but once you understand what she was attempting, she becomes brilliant. And she hung out with Picasso, for crying out loud, and saw him and saw herself for the geniuses they were. They were in the moment and they knew it. That seems so rare to me.



But I did not really realize that until you asked.

This is a dangerous little meme...

From Jay...

A. First, recommend to me:

1. A movie:

2. A book:

3. A musical artist, song, or album:

B. I want everyone who reads this to ask me three questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want.

C. Then, I want you to go to your blog, copy and paste this allowing your friends to ask you anything they want!

I got Tagged again!

Progressive Poem... It came here from Ken, who got it from Cindra. It started at Herman's (who is evidently one of Tine's friends). He begat it and then passed it along to Ieneke, who begat the second line. Tine begat the third line, with CarolC begating the 4th. She then passed it to Cindra, who begat line 5, giving it to Ken, who begat line 6. He nudged Vickie for some prose, and she penned the end of the second stanza and it was then passed my way. It is truly an international poem.



I have been tagged to do this poem by both Keri and Amy.



I'm drawned tonight

in the words of your eyes

they dragged me down...

with quiet sighs.



Tomorrow's promise

is yet to be defined

but we will be required

to make choices



Until that time

abandon your fears

Let silence climb

to button your tears...



Line 11 and 12 (since I got pegged twice) are mine, colored periwinkle for your pleasure... And I'm passing the baton to a few friends. Please take the poem to your blogs if you so choose, create a line 10 to your liking, and pass the poem on to bloggers of your pickings; one or more, it's up to you. They will then do as they like with it on their end and this poem which started with one line will have as many iterations as it could possibly have in the directions that it has gone.



Okay - I pass the baton on to the following bloggers if they choose to accept:



Stacey (when you are up and around)

Selina

Kathy Howe

Beth

Jay

Liz

How Did This Happen?

I was just coming in to work for a meeting, and then going right back home to bed.



But I have a deadline.



So, since I was vertical, I stayed and did the project.



Does this mean I get time off to nurse this dang cold tomorrow?



Sigh. Except, I have another deadline.



When is Friday again?

Tag

In my weakened state, Beth from So the Fish Said has tagged me to do this quiz. Ha hahahahaha-- I am afraid my answers are going to be much like hers. And I'm tagging people to do it next.

1. Song that sounds like happy feels:

"Summertime" by Ella Fitzgerald. It's got a lazy, piercing happy quality to it.

2. Earliest memory:

Probably the theme song to Sesame Street. A close second would be Carole King's Tapestry album, as my dad put it on every Saturday morning for us to listen to while we were doing our Saturday morning chores. I always associate Tapestry with cleaning out the toilet (but not in a bad way-- I really love the album!).

3. Last CD you bought:

Well, Dereck and I bought an Ike Reilly the Assassination CD on Saturday night. And I bought Dereck some CD's for Christmas. But last bought for myself? Charlie Brown Christmas, Vince Guaraldi.

4. Reminds you of school:

Elementary School

Grease theme song, because I saw the movie Grease in fourth grade and loved it.

High School

Schoooooooool's Out for Summer! That was my senior theme song, though I didn't like the song until many years later when I saw Dazed and Confused and then I was happy that I actually knew it.

College

Oh wow. I used to go dancing to Bizarre Triangle by New Order every week. Also, Alphaville: Forever Young. And every morning when we were getting ready in the spring quarter, my roommate Kim and I would play Yaz/Erasure.

5. Total music files on your PC:

Wait! Wait! I have an answer to this because I ripped stuff on Monday!!! Let me go see: Ten! I have ten albums/files ripped to my PC.

6. Song for listening to repeatedly when depressed:

Lonesome Tears or Guess I'm doing Fine from Beck's Sea Change.

7. Song that sounds British, but isn't:

? Is I'll Stop the World and Melt with You British? I know it's by Modern English... Dunno.

8. Song you love, band you hate:

I hate Bryan Adams-- I can't think of anything he's done that I love though. I don't think I have a song that fits into this category.

9. A favorite song from the past that took ages to track down:

I'm still trying to track down one from August 1987: It's a song about a man who loves a woman named Mary, very ABC feel to it-- and I still don't know the title or who sang it, but I loved it and I'd love to hear it again.

10. Bought the album for one good song:

Train: the album with Calling All Angels. The rest of the Album sucks, and I think I traded it in without even bothering to rip that one song.

11. Worst Song to Get Stuck in your Head:

No Doubt's "I know what you're thinking,"-- I get that one stuck a lot.

12. Best song to dump a beer on someone's head to, then storm out of the bar?

I will survive by Gloria Gaynor.

13. Who should do this next?

dereck

karl

Pie

Donna

Keri

Beth In St. Louis

heith

Colds

I was talking on the phone in between moaning and nose-blowing today, and the person on the other line told me that had I should probably quit smoking.



He believes that my smoking makes me particularly susceptible to upper respiratory infections.



I have heard this before.



But the fact that I was hearing it from the President of the National Lung Association/Utah perhaps gave it a little more weight.



And the fact that he knows my medical history almost as well as I do added some authority to it too.



Of course, the fact that he is my father doesn't hurt either.



Thanks for the books, Dad-- Sam was very excited about Hoot, in particular.



Tom, we got the box of things Joyce sent today too! Thank you!

MIA

I think I have determined today why I was brain dead yesterday: What started as an innocent dripping from my left nostril on Sunday evening has become the Cold That Took Over Jen. I took cold medicine last night, and every four hours, like clockwork, I'd wake up to drip drip drip.



I woke up to tissues all over the bed.



I got up, showered, got boys off to school, and then called into work that I just needed to lie down for a bit.



I slept hard til 11:00 and then felt worse. Emailed work: Not coming in today.



It is now 3:00 p.m. and I still feel like death warmed over. I am just now eating something today: Trix straight from the box.



At least I am clean, though I went to bed with wet hair, and look like Medusa.



My poor doggie needs to come in side now. And I need to go get more tissues and lie down.



Hope your Tueday is going better.