One Word

Only Type One Word .. first word that comes to mind (Not as easy as you might think!).

1. Where is your cell phone? Deceased
2. Your significant other? Josh's
3. Your Hair? Brown
4. Your Skin? Olive
5. Your mother? Maddening
6. Your favorite thing? Books
7. Your dream last night? Obamalust
8. Your favorite drink? Guinness
9. Your dream/goal? Published
10. The room you're in? Office
11. Your ex? Asshole
12. Your fear? Spiders
13.Where do you want to be in 6 years? Published
14.Where were you last night? Home
15.What you're not? Undepressed
16.Muffins? Sure!
17.One of your wish list items? Airbook
18.Where you grew up? Auburn
19.The last thing you did? Typed
20.What are you wearing? clothing
21.Your TV? On
22.Your pets? Annoying
23. Your computer? POS
24. Your life? unfinished
25. Your mood? meh
26. Missing someone? No
27. Your car? Mazda5
28. Something you're not wearing? bra
29. Favorite Store? DSW
30. Your summer? Long
31. Like someone? no
32. Your favorite color? aubergine
33. When is the last time you laughed? today
34. Last time you cried? Morning
35. Who will respond to this? Dunno
36. Who's Answers are you anxious to see? Dunno

Bullets. And Memes.

• I got my hair cut a la Dawn French. It looks good, but I think the fringe needs some work.
• I've been going to the gym 5 days a week for the last three weeks. I'm gobsmacked that a. I haven't injured myself and b. that I actually enjoy it.
• I am in love with these guys. They're like kamikaze Strunk & White. Fantastic.
• Bruce Springsteen tickets go on sale on Saturday. I. Want. Some. I love me some Bruce.
  
• If this winter doesn't end soon, I'm going to go to bed and stay there. I'm SICK of being cold.

And now, the memes.

Shannon tagged me for the Six Words meme. This is based on the Not Quite What I Had Planned memoir, put out by Smith Magazine.

Here are the rules:

1) Write your own six word memoir;
2) Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you’d like;
3) Link to the person that tagged you in your post, and to the original post if possible so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere;
4) Tag at least five more blogs with links; and
5) Don’t forget to leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play!

Mostly happy, with bouts of blue.



Tagging: Sarah, daysgoby, eliza'smom, Andrea, Ree, and Josie.



And Tracey, at Green-Eyed Mama tagged me for a Seven Weird Things meme. I'm not tagging anyone for this, but if you want to play, feel free and let me know in the comments.

1. I cannot stand top sheets on a bed. If I'm sleeping in a hotel, I untuck them as soon as I get in bed. At home, I don't use them - just a duvet cover that gets washed with the bottom sheet and pillow cases. It makes me nuts to have my feet and legs confined.

2. Since I was a child, I've had a recurring nightmare that features my old Catholic elementary school, on fire, me in a tower at said school with the bust of Shakespeare going back and forth between me and the firefighters who are waiting, with the trampoline thingy, for me to jump. It used to scare the crap out of me, now I just find it vaguely amusing. I have no idea what it means, though.

3. When I hone my chef's knife, I have to do 30 strokes on each side. It's pretty much the only thing I'm OCD about.

4. Except for maybe shutting off the lights. It infuriates me when lights are left on. I spend a lot of time muttering about it as I stalk thru rooms, snapping off switches.

5. I noticed, and pointed it out to people, when the local market changed their signs from 15 Items Or Less to 15 Items or Fewer. I am a grammar geek extraordinaire.

6. I own about 50 books about or to do with the Tudor period, including one on Lady Jane Grey that I spent $75 on. Happily.

7. I have an inordinate fondness for Rube Golberg, Heath Robinson and Edward Gorey. It might be considered a little odd, but if I ever had a separate bathroom for the children, I would get tiles with The Gashlycrumb Tinies on them. Just to keep the little twerpettes on their toes.

Meme Season

Swiped from Joke.

Go over to popculturemadness.com, click on the decade you turned 18, find the actual year you turned 18, and copy the top songs for that year...pasting them. Then you Bold the ones you liked; strikeout the ones you hated; and italicize the ones about which you were neutral. The ones you've never heard will stay unformatted. I assume this means at the time...not that my tastes have evolved much in the intervening decades.


Faith - George Michael
So Emotional - Whitney Houston
Got My Mind Set on You - George Harrison
The Way You Make Me Feel - Michael Jackson
Need You Tonight - INXS
Could've Been - Tiffany
Seasons Change - Exposé
Father Figure - George Michael
Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley (I know, I know, shut up)
Man In The Mirror - Michael Jackson
Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car - Billy Ocean (I said shut up)
Where Do Broken Hearts Go - Whitney Houston
Wishing Well Terence Trent D'Arby (I have this album. On vinyl. Shut UP!)
Anything For You - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
One More Try - George Michael
Together Forever - Rick Astley (Just let it go, ok?)
Foolish Beat - Debbie Gibson
Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson
The Flame - Cheap Trick
Hold On to The Nights - Richard Marx
Roll With It Steve Winwood
Monkey George Michael
Sweet Child O' Mine Guns N' Roses
Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
Love Bites - Def Leppard
Red Red Wine - UB40
Groovy Kind Of Love - Phil Collins
Kokomo - The Beach Boys
Wild, Wild West - The Escape Club
Bad Medicine - Bon Jovi
Baby, I Love Your Way - Will To Power
Look Away - Chicago
Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison