Word of the Post
Today's word is: scintillating
/sin"til*late*ing/ adjective
To emit sparks; brilliantly clever, witty, having high spirits; sparkling or effervescent.
Engaging conversation, exciting events, glittering costume jewelry or a simple static shock can all be described as scintillating.
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I have a meme to answer. I was tagged by someone who doesn't know me. Hee hee. My new blog buddy, Suzeque, tagged me with this one. I don't usually answer these in my emails... but I will play for this time. Grudgingly.
I get a little cranky about all the crazy memes floating around. I don't want anyone to take this personally. It is my own small opinion of the meme (this includes junk mail forwards!). They are really hidden phishing scams, I am sure of it. How many times must I answer 20-140 questions, about what drinks I like and what I am wearing? I would hang up on anyone who asked such a thing over the phone. (Except for my DH, of course) Seriously, we let the world stalk us in a joke or in a meme, but we get offended that our friends want to know us. The guilt trips over deleting the religious ones make me ill. I don't have to forward junk to prove that I love Jesus, and that He is the Savior of my soul. The sob stories over missing children can't be backed up, but demand that the more people who see the picture, the better the chance of the non-existing child can be found. It just gets old.
Kind of like my opinion of a photograph: you can have one. After that, something gets broken. Whether that be your camera cracking for my face, or me throwing your camera off a cliff depends on your attitude when I refuse the second time. I am not usually a violent person, just a volatile temperament about junk stressing me out.
Suzeque, this is one for you. Here is some of my storied past, checkered though it may be.
Questions of Fours
Four jobs that I’ve had:
1. Glory Be! Christian Bookstore (now Family)
2. Joshua's Christian Bookstore (bought by Family and now out of business... There is a P.F. Chang's and a Lasik clinic there now)
3. Durango Cat Company (ask me about my stint in the Cat House!)
4. Subway Sandwich Artist
Four movies you would watch over and over:
1. The Princess Bride
2. Beaches
3. Any Veggie Tales
4. Sleeping Beauty
Four of my favorite foods:
1. Mom's Build-Your-Own-Nachos Buffet Bar
2. Mom's Potato Soup
3. Garlic Mashed Potatoes
4. Food. Seriously, I just love food, and you could tell just by looking at me.
Four TV shows I love to watch:
1. Frasier
2. How I Met Your Mother
3. Most anything on Food network (the only thing I can’t stand is the Barefoot
Contessa) ~ I agree with Suezque's answer exactly!
4. Pushing Daisies
Four Places I’ve lived:
1. Byron, NY
2. Fort Collins, CO
3. Gallup, NM
4. Oklahoma City, OK
Four places I’ve been on vacation:
1. Houston, TX
2. Niagara Falls, NY
3. Phoenix, AZ
4. The Four Corners, UT+CO+AZ+NM
Four websites I visit daily:
1. UserFriendly.org
2. Day by Day by Chris Muir
3. Indexed by Jessica Hagy
4. My list of Blogs (many more than I list on my page)
Four places I’d rather be right now:
1. anyplace in CO
2. reading a book
3. sleeping
4. Cleaning Mom's house, and swapping cars with Dad
I will spare you the rest of it... I am not tagging others to play along; they can join in or not if they choose.
Now, for a little News of the Weird. A kitty is getting frequent flier miles. What amazes me is that after the adventure, the cat got to go to NY to be interviewed by Al Roker for the Today show. Wish I could fly for a mere $80. She skipped that the first time. She made it through an X-ray of the suitcase! (Wow, our airports need better security measures!) My cats always hop in my travel bags. They seem to think that I will not leave if they are in my bag. I think also it has something to do with smells. They think if my stuff smells like them, other animals will leave me alone. It almost never works. Mystic knows the difference between the bag that carries her to the car for the trip to the vet, and the bag that carries my clothes when I take a vacation. She won't go near her own bag if she can help it.
Have a happy week!
3 comments:
I totally agree about the guilt trip religious & "send this to 10 people in 10 minutes ir something bad will happen" e-mails. I ususally just delete them, or copy and paste just the saying or phrase I like and send that on... Thanks for playing, even if it was grudgingly :-)
I'm with both of you. I don't like those guilt trip emails. And the worst offenders of all are the sappy, cheesy, poems that tell you to send back to your friend so they know you love them. I hate those poems. Blech! I do like the funny forwards and have received tons of good ones. I make it a habit to delete out all the former addresses of the 38 prior people who forwarded the email. No one wants to skim through all that garbage to get to teh goods (which often aren't that good).
My cat does the same thing with suitcases. You get one out and he thinks it's a personal invitation for him to sleep there.
Hooking up with all of my college friends I see. :) That's great! Welcome to the family Chelf. lol
Love you friend!
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