marenkp

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:41:35 GMT

Taken from bittybye2000

I thought this looked like fun.

What was going through your mind during your last kiss?
Have a good day, babe.

How did you and your number two become friends?
We weren't friends first; we just started dating. Over the course of our relationship, we became friends too.

When was the last time you danced with a boy/girl?
It's been so long, I don't remember.

How late did you stay up last night and why?
12:00. I was watching a movie.

What's the connection between you and the last person you texted?
I don't text. Most of the time, I don't even use my cell phone.

Have you ever kissed someone whose name started with a M?
No.

Who was the last person you talked to on the phone and why?
My husband; I forget what about.

Whose bed did you sleep in last night?
Mine

Have you held hands with anyone in the past two weeks?
Yes.

What are you doing tomorrow?
Working and meeting a friend for lunch.

What are your plans for the weekend?
Reading Starclimber.

What's your hair look like today?
It looks like end-of-the-day hair right now, long and kind of bushy. It looked better this morning *sigh*

Did you ever lose a friend?
Yes.

What kind of mood are you in?
Peaceful.

Do you have any tattoo/piercings?
My ears.

Do you fall for people easily?
When I was younger, I did. Not now, though.

Own bright colored underwear?
No.

What was the best movie you have seen in the past two weeks?
Gosh, I'm not sure. I've seen plenty of movies, but I don't remember thinking any of them were very good. The last one I saw in the theater was Tropic Thunder, which was all right, I guess. I'm going to watch Rendition tonight.

Do you trust all of your friends?
Yes. I can't be friends with people I don't trust.

Are you happy?
Yes!

Are you mad at your best friend right now?
No.

Is the lamp on in the room you're in?
No, but the overhead light is.

Are there framed pictures of you anywhere in your house?
Wedding and family pictures mostly.

Who's the last person of the opposite sex you saw?
My son. He's sitting right here next to me.

What's more important to you, good grades or having fun?
Grades were important to me, but they also came very easy to me in school, so I think I spent more time looking to have fun. Not wild fun, though. I was never much of a partier.

Has anyone ever called you a bad influence?
Yes, once back in high school, which I think is pretty silly since I was about as straight-laced a person as you were likely to find back then.

Do you shop at Wet Seal?
Uh...no. (I don't know what that is)

Would you ever consider having an online relationship?
Romantic relationship, no. Friendships, absolutey.

Do you listen to your friend's advice when they give it to you?
I always listen, but I don't always agree.

What's the last piercing you got?
My ears when I was 9 years old.

Who's your favorite country singer?
If I had to pick someone, Brad Paisley, I guess, but I'm not a big country music fan.

Could you last an hour without talking?
Yes.

Have you ever broken someone's heart?
Yes, and it was awful. I think I felt worse about it than he did.

Do you ever wish things were different?
I could always use a little more money and a little more time.

Will your next kiss be a mistake?
No.

Do you think you can last in a relationship for 3 months?
Yes.

Has anyone got on your nerves lately?
Not really.

What was the last book you read?
Surprised By Joy

Your ex is driving next to you, what do you do?
Do a double-take in shock. I haven't seen him in years.

Were you happy when you woke up today?
I think so.

Do you want to have kids?
I have kids.

Miss someone?
Yes. My sister who moved to Georgia last year.

Who's house, other than your own, did you last sleep at?
My mom's.

LOLZ!

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:13:14 GMT

My brother was one of the extras in a made-for-tv movie called the American Mall produced by MTV. As outrageously cheesy as it was (and I'm the first one to admit it was really, really cheesy), I was still excited to see him dancing on television. He actually got a lot of screen time considering he was just an extra.

But anyway the best part of the whole thing was The Soup actually used one of his dance scenes for their clip of the week. ROFLOL! I couldn't believe it. I LOVE the Soup! I was more excited about that than I was the actual movie.

Check it out if you like. It's good for a laugh, but a bit on the vulgar side. Sorry if it offiends. My brother is the one in the mustard costume. ROFLOLx2!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnLH_LHiOQI

What Men Really Mean

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:55:11 GMT

I think most generalizations about men (or women for that matter) are a bit unfair, but I thought this was amusing. I hope everyone is having a great day.

Find out what may really mean when they say...

"I'M GOING FISHING"
Means: "I'm going to drink myself dangerously stupid, and stand by a stream with a stick in my hand, while the fish swim by in complete safety."

"IT'S A GUY THING"
Means: "There is no rational thought pattern connected with it, and you have no chance at all of making it logical".

"CAN I HELP WITH DINNER?"
Means: "Why isn't it already on the table?"

"UH HUH," "SURE, HONEY," OR "YES, DEAR..."
Means: Absolutely nothing. It's a conditioned response.

"IT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG TO EXPLAIN"
Means: "I have no idea how it works."

"TAKE A BREAK HONEY, YOU'RE WORKING TOO HARD".
Means: "I can't hear the game over the vacuum cleaner."

"THAT'S INTERESTING, DEAR."
Means: "Are you still talking?"

"YOU KNOW HOW BAD MY MEMORY IS."
Means: "I remember the theme song to 'F Troop', the address of the first girl I ever kissed, and the vehicle identification numbers of every car I've ever owned, but I forgot your birthday."

"OH, DON'T FUSS, I JUST CUT MYSELF, IT'S NO BIG DEAL."
Means: "I have actually severed a limb, but will bleed to death before I admit that I'm hurt."

"HEY, I'VE GOT MY REASONS FOR WHAT I'M DOING".
Means: "And I sure hope I think of some pretty soon."

"I CAN'T FIND IT."
Means: "It didn't fall into my outstretched hands, so I'm completely clueless."

"WHAT DID I DO THIS TIME?"
Means: "What did you catch me at?"

"I HEARD YOU."
Means: "I haven't the foggiest clue what you just said, and am hoping desperately that I can fake it well enough so that you don't spend the next three days yelling at me."

"YOU KNOW I COULD NEVER LOVE ANYONE ELSE"
Means: "I am used to the way you yell at me, and realize it could be worse."

"YOU LOOK TERRIFIC"
Means: "Please don't try on one more outfit, I'm starving."

"I'M NOT LOST. I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE WE ARE."
Means: "No one will ever see us alive again."

"WE SHARE THE HOUSEWORK"
Means: "I make the messes, she cleans them up."

Meme

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:20:38 GMT

Taken from bittybye2000

1. What time did you get up this morning? Late. Really late. So late I'm embarrassed to admit it because I should have been up a good 3 hours before I actually did.

2. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds

3. Last movie you saw? The Other Boleyn Girl

4. What is your favorite TV show? House, M.D.

5. What do you usually have for breakfast? I usually skip it or have cold cereal

6. What is your middle name? Keha (no, I'm not kidding)

7. What food do you dislike? Avocados and egglplants

8. What is your favorite CD at the moment? George Winston's December

9. What kind of car do you drive? Since the gas prices are so outrageous, I've started driving my Hyundai Sonata. My other car is a Suburban that has an outrageously big gas tank and gets shamefully bad gas mileage.

10. Favorite sandwich? Roast chicken breast

11. What characteristic do you despise? Backbiting and dishonesty

12. Favorite item of clothing? Blue jeans

13. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? Hawaii or Italy

14. Favorite brand of clothing? Comfortable.

15. Where would you retire to? This will sound really boring, but I'd like to stay close to my family, so wherever that is.

16. Your birthday? March 28

17. Favorite sport to watch? Lacrosse

18. Are you a morning person or a night person? A night person.

19. What is your shoe size? 61/2

20. Pets? None.

21. What did you want to be when you were little? A writer or a ballet dancer.

22. How are you today? TGIF.

23. What is your favorite candy? Chocolate and peanut butter

24. What is your favorite flower? Dark red roses

25. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? February 24 when Starclimber is released. I'm sure there's something coming up sooner than that, that I'm also looking forward to, but for the life of me, I can't think of anything else.

26. What are you listening to right now? Come on Get Higher

27. What was the last thing you ate? An apple

28. Do you wish on stars? Yes

29. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Purple

30. How is the weather right now? Hottttttt!

31. Last person you spoke to on the phone? My husband

32. Favorite soft drink? Dr. Pepper

33. Favorite restaurant? I like just about any place if it means I don't have to cook.

34. Hair color these days? Dark brown...with more and more gray showing up everyday ::sigh::

35. What was your favorite toy as a child? My Holly Hobby oven.

36. Summer or winter? Winter

37. Hugs or kisses? Kisses

38. Chocolate or Vanilla? Chocolate

39. Coffee or tea? Hot chocolate

40. What is under your bed? Books and a box with gift wrapping supplies in it.

41. What did you do last night? Went to a bridal shower for a girlfriend, then came home to watch a movie and...um..."hang out" with my husband.

42. What are you afraid of? Mice and snakes

43. Salty or sweet? Sweet.

44. How many keys on your key ring? 5

45. Very favorite food ever? My sister's chocolate marble cheesecake. She also makes a delicious pork loin with apple-cranberry chutney.

46. Favorite cheese? Laughing Cow cheese. My mom always got the little cheese cubes and Wheat Thins for our snacks when she took us for picnics in the park.

47. How many years at your current job? 8 years

48. Favorite day of the week? Sunday

Tue, 06 May 2008 14:30:37 GMT

Okay. So I'm not a big Twilight fan. I kind of wish I were because I know so many people who are insane for the books (the same way I was once insane for HP, so I'm not judging anyone here, I'm just saying--some fans are insane), and sometimes I feel like I'm the only one missing out on a really great party, but whatever. I've tried, but the books just don't do it for me.

Having said that, though, I find myself most intrigued by the movie. The stills, the trailer, the interviews. I admit, they've definitely got my attention. So maybe if I'm not into the books, I can still get into the movies. Even Kristen is excited about it, and she was so bitterly disappointed when Gaspard was not cast as Edward. Yay for possibilities...

I saw Iron Man this weekend...and I liked it. I wasn't that excited about it when I saw the previews, so I wasn't rushing to the theater or anything for it, but Lonnie took the boys to see it on Saturday and absolutely loved it. They all came home saying it was the best superhero movie they'd ever seen. Better than Batman Begins, better the Spiderman (which I loved), better than anything they could think of to compare it to.

Well, if it was that good, I had to see it too, right? So I went on Sunday evening.

More under the cut. Not spoilery per se; just a review really...

I thought it was good. RDJ is very snarky in it, which I always love, and the story of Iron Man is a little different than the reluctant hero who gets bit by a spider or is the victim of a freak experiment gone wrong or is the boy who comes to us from outer space because his world is beging destroyed or whose parents are killed, so he's inspired to serve and protect, all of whom sort of have greatness thrust upon them. Iron Man isn't really all that likable a guy at first. He's brilliant, but he's completely selfish. Then he has life-altering experience that forces him to not just see the problem, but acknowledge how he's contributed to the problem, and then he has to make a choice. That was an element to the story that I really liked.

Now having said all that, I was a little disappointed. After hearing such glowing reviews, not only from my husband and my sons, but also from my brother and my brother-in-law, I was expecting the BEST SUPERHERO MOVIE EVER (which some will argue it was), and I thought it was just okay. Good, but just okay. I did like it, though. It was all right.

I saw RDJ on Jay last night, and he was really funny. (Not as funny as Craig Ferguson, but still pretty funny). So yeah. There's my weekend in a nutshell.

Oh, and I can't wait to see the next Indiana Jones and Prince Caspian. The trailers look awesome.

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:46:16 GMT

For the last two years, I've been a teacher for a youth group at my church, girls, ages 12-13. When I was first asked to teach them, I was completely intimated. Some people seem to have a really natural way with young people this age and some just don't. I'm part of the second group.

This morning, I was released from my teaching position, and I cannot stop crying about it. It didn't come as a huge surprise to me. They usually get new teachers every couple of years so no one gets burned out, and I knew my time was coming to an end. It's just I didn't expect to love my class as much as I do. I was so obnoxious at that age, I was half afraid I wouldn't even like the girls. But seriously, I adore them! My teaching partner and I had to tell the girls today it would be our last day as their teachers, which made me cry again, especially when they started crying too. I've given myself a headache. It's not like I'm never going to see them after this. I just got so attached to them, and I'm bummed I won't be teaching them anymore.

Two sides to every story

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:40:15 GMT

This is one of those "trying to process it all" posts. If it's riddled with errors, it's because I'm exhausted. Apologies. It's sort of rambly.

A few months ago, my husband and I went to see a movie (Beowulf; color me unimpressed) and ran into a woman whose ex-husband was an investor in a sports academy owned by one of my hubby's friends (...in the house that Jack built).

The woman (H) told us she and her ex-husband (F) had just finalized an ugly, drawn-out divorce. This woman didn't know Lon or me; in fact, Lon had only spoken to her maybe a handful of times, and I've never spoken to her before in my life, but she sat down next to us and proceed to tell us what a lying, cheating, scumbag of a bastard her ex-husband was, how he left her for a conniving, gold digging slut (her words, not mine), and cheated her out of her rightful share of the marital assets. She wanted to sit down with my husband and talk to him about what he remembered about the sports academy he attended with F and a couple of movie projects her ex had been involved in because she wants to take her ex back to court and sue him for more money beyond the divorce settlement.

So here's the thing. My husband has no knowledge at all of her ex-husband's business dealings. They were casual acquaintances who were both studying martial arts. They weren't business associates or really even friends outside of their weekly classes. Everyone from the academy went out to dinner together once and F invited Lon to one of his movie premieres once, but that was merely a courtesy on his part, not an indication of how tight they were.

I'm not sure what she thought Lon could tell her that she thought could help her case, and Lon essentially told her the same thing, but she took his business card anyway, and as the weeks went by and we didn't hear anything from her, I thought that was the end of that.

Well, she called us again a few days ago, and for the last three nights in a row, she's come over and stayed for hours taking an "affidavit" from Lon. The conversations have gone a little something like this.

Lon: The studio was in a huge facility.
H: So you thought it was extravagant. You thought a small studio would have been better.

Lon: It was one of the best gyms I've ever been in, state of the art equipment, top of the line everything.
H: So you thought they spared no expense. They spent too much money outfitting the gym. All the intentional spending was wasteful.

Lon: There were only 10 adults in my class. (That was just his class, btw. He had no idea how many kids or adults were in the other classes).
H: So they didn't have enough students to sustain the gym. You thought it was a bad business decision on their part to have such a large facility, even though they knew the business was failing.

Lon:  T and S (Lon's friends who ran the academy) tryied to generate more interest in their program by offering an after-school program.
H: So they were throwing good money after bad. They knew it was failing, but they kept spending anyway by coming up with new and more expensive programs.

Lon: I stopped attending classes after about a year and a half because I got too busy with other things. (That was about the time H's ex-husband began his affair with one of the gymnastics instructors there).
H: You stopped attending because you "had no more respect for how F conducted himself at his place of business."

And so on and so forth for the next three hours, for the last three nights in a row. Everything Lon said, she twisted to suit her own purposes. She also gave us links to websites she's up and copies of a family Christmas letter she sent out to all of their friends and family, basically blasting F for leaving her and taking all their money, and she wants Lon to come to court and testify against F on her behalf. Last night, she admitted her portion of the divorce settlement amounted to roughly 3 million dollars, and that's what she agreed to, but she thinks she deserves alimony too and intends to keep going back to court until she gets it. She rants on and on about what a bastard her ex is, and I'll admit I don't have a very high opinion of his morals for his affair, but this whole thing is starting to creep me out!

My sister and my best friend are both married to men with psychotic exes. Crazy, but also smart. They know just what to say and how to act to secure people's sympathies, but they deliberately leave things out and make things up. They're also constantly hauling them back to court for one trivial thing or another. One of the last times Skanky Psycho-Bitch took my sister and BIL back to court was to complain to the judge that my sister shouldn't be allowed to be present at drop offs and pick ups of her son. The judge told her she was being ridiculous and wasting the court's time.  It also cost my sis and BIL a crapload of money to have a judge tell SPB what anyone with an ounce of common sense already knows.

I also think it's appalling how many people get sucked into the drama of it and start bad-mouthing my brother-in-law and my friend's husband when they only have the embittered ex's version of the story to go on.  SPB actually got someone to go over to my sister's house one day and threaten to "f*ck her up" if she didn't watch her back, then SPB physically attacked my BIL. She's also a big fan of telling everyone who'll listen to her what an ass my BIL is and posting ugly letters on the Internet. If you only ever heard what she had to say about it, you'd probably think he was an ass too.

But I'm getting off track. Maybe F really is precisely the bastard H is making him out be, but maybe he's not. Maybe I would feel differently if I heard what he had to say about it.  Maybe in this story, he's my BIL and H is SPB. Or maybe H really is the wronged party here, fighting the good fight against a sleazy ex-husband. I don't know.

Whatever the case, the more we spend time with her, the more I don't want to get sucked into all this. I really don't feel good about marching into court and blasting F based solely on H's version of events alone, but what are we supposed to do? Go to F and demand he tell us his side of the story? It's not even any of our business.

While I'm at it, I really don't see what going into court and talking about a sports academy that was taken over by someone else a couple of years ago is going to accomplish. There's not any money to get out of it. It was a struggling business when T, S, and F owned it; they have no interest in it now.  What's the point? She maintains F deliberately failed at the business to get out of having to give her more money. Whut? Srsly?

I feel sorry for her. It's obvious she's in a lot of pain, but she's also so angry, it's spilling out of her like a sickness.  Is the money really worth all it's costing her to get it?

Before Lon would sign anything, he made a bunch of changes to the documents she faxed over. He took out things he didn't say and made changes to things that he didn't agree with. By the end of it, it was a very neutral document that essentially said he knew F casually and on a personal level didn't approve of F having an affair with one of the teachers (especially since two of his children were present at the academy when he spent time with her), but that was F's private life. Furthermore, Lon had no inside knowledge of how the business was run because he was a friend and a student, not an investor or a consultant, and therefore not in a position to give a professional opinion about what was a bad business practice and what wasn't.

She was really mad when she saw the changes he'd made. "Why did you do this? It's all watered down now!"

Lon told her, "The write up you sent me were your words, not mine. I'm not signing anything that I don't agree with."  If she'd listened to him in the first place, she'd have known taking any sort of a statement from Lon was a waste of her time because he could only give her an outside observer's point of view. He wasn't in on anything else.

H wants to come back in a couple of days to talk about another financial project F was involved in (that Lon had absolutely NOTHING to do with) because she's trying to build up her case from that angle too.  If she was frustrated by his statement about the studio because it didn't give her anything she could work with, she's going to hate his statement about the movie project. He has nothing at all to say there! I guess it will give her a chance to vent a little more.

This whole thing is a mess. I feel bad for everyone involved in it.

I just looked out my window, and it's snowing again. Bloody fantastic.

More wretched weather

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:32:18 GMT

We've had one snow storm after another in my part of the world since December. Superbowl weekend, it was so bad, some of the schools actually called a snow day, which is significant because we almost never have snow days; we get snow all the time. For the last two days, the sun has been teasing me with its warm, shiny presence. Yesterday and the day before, it was blue skies and a balmy 50 degrees. The snow was actually melting away--kind of like that "winter is ending" scene in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. It actually had me thinking of Spring. And then what happens as of 3:00 this afternoon? Yet another winter storm warning. It's a gale outside my window today. The weatherman predicts another 8 inches of winter wonderland by this evening. *sigh* I like snow as much as the next person who doesn't ski, but honestly. Let's wrap it up already. *grumbles*

Birthdays

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:55:04 GMT

Happy birthday, Adamanteve19!!! I hope you have a great day!

A little humor on a Thursday afternoon

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:10:30 GMT

My sister sent this to me today because she thought it would make me laugh. (It did). If you read it, I hope it makes you laugh too.

This is an actual letter sent to Proctor and Gamble from Wendi Aarons, Austin TX, regarding their feminine products. She really gets rolling after the first paragraph . . .

Dear Mr. Thatcher,

I have been a loyal user of your Always Maxi Pads for over 20 years and I appreciate many of their features. Why, without the LeakGuardCore(tm) or Dri-Weave(tm) absorbency, I'd probably never go horseback riding or salsa dancing, and I'd certainly steer clear of running up and down the beach in tight, white shorts. But my favorite feature has to be your revolutionary Flexi-Wings. Kudos on being the only company smart enough to realize how crucial it is that maxi pads be aerodynamic. I can't tell you how safe and secure I feel each month knowing there's a little F-16 in my pants.

Have you ever had a period, Mr. Thatcher? Ever suffered from 'the curse'? I'm guessing you haven't. Well, my 'time of the month' is starting right now. As I type, I can already feel hormonal forces violently surging through my body. Just a few minutes from now, my body will adjust and I'll be transformed into what my husband likes to call 'an inbred hillbilly with knife skills'.

Isn't the human body amazing?

As Brand Manager in the Feminine-hygiene Division, you've no doubt seen quite a bit of research on what exactly happens during your customers' monthly visits from 'Aunt Flo '. Therefore, you must know about the bloating, puffiness, and cramping we endure, and about our intense mood swings, crying, and out-of-control behavior. You surely realize it's a tough time for most women. In fact, only last week, my friend Jennifer fought the violent urge to shove her boyfriend's testicles into a George Foreman Grill just because he told her he thought Grey's Anatomy was written by drunken chimps? Crazy!

The point is, sir, you of all people must realize that America is just crawling with homicidal maniacs in Capri pants... which brings me to the reason for my letter.

Last month, while in the throes of cramping so painful I wanted to reach inside my body and yank out my uterus, I opened an Always maxi-pad, and there, printed on the adhesive backing, were these words: 'Have a Happy Period.'

Are you f**king kidding me? Does any part of your tiny middle- manager brain really think happiness - actual smiling, laughing happiness is possible during a period? Did anything mentioned above sound the least bit pleasurable? Well, did it, James? FYI, unless you're some kind of sick S&M freak, there will never be anything 'happy' about a day in which you have to jack yourself up on Motrin and Kahlua and lock yourself in your house just so you don't march down to the local Kmart armed with a hunting rifle and a sketchy plan to end your life in a blaze of glory.

For the love of God, pull your head out, man! If you just have to slap a moronic message on a maxi pad, wouldn't it make more sense to say something that's actually pertinent, like 'Put down the Hammer' or 'Vehicular Manslaughter Is Wrong', or are you just picking on us?

Sir, please inform your Accounting Department that, effective immediately, there will be an $8 drop in monthly profits, for I have chosen to take my maxi-pad business elsewhere. And though I will certainly miss your Flex-Wings, I will not for one minute miss your brand of condescending bullshit. And that's a promise I will keep. Always.

Best, Wendi Aarons

Austin, TX

(Was it bitchy? Absolutely! But funny nonethless!)

Personality quiz

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:06:00 GMT

Stolen from <lj user=adamanteve19>

Your Personality Profile

You are dependable, popular, and observant.
Deep and thoughtful, you are prone to moodiness.
In fact, your emotions tend to influence everything you do.

You are unique, creative, and expressive.
You don't mind waving your freak flag every once and a while.
And lucky for you, most people find your weird ways charming!
The World's Shortest Personality Test

This made me laugh, even if it's not spot on. I don't think I'm very moody or weird (maybe other people do--I don't know). And even if I don't mind waving my freak flag, it only ever gets waved at my husband! LOL!

Astrology Meme

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:44:46 GMT

What do my stars say about me?

LOL!

Ah, to be young...

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:53:47 GMT

My son sent this to me. It's good for a chuckle.

CHILDREN'S SCIENCE EXAM

If you need a laugh, try reading through these children's science exam
answers.

Q: Name the four seasons.
A: Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.

Q: Explain one of the processes by which water can be made safe to drink.
A: Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes large pollutants
like grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists.

Q: How is dew formed?
A: The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire.

Q: How can you delay milk turning sour? (Brilliant, love this!)
A: Keep it in the cow. (ROFLOL!)

Q: What causes the tides in the oceans?
A: The tides are a fight between the Earth and the Moon. All water tends to
flow towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon, and nature
hates a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight.

Q: What are steroids?
A: Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs.

Q: What happens to your body as you age?
A: When you get old, so do your bowels and you get intercontinental.

Q: What happens to a boy when he reaches puberty?
A: He says good-bye to his boyhood and looks forward to his adultery.

Q: Name a major disease associated with cigarettes.
A: Premature death.

Q: How are the main parts of the body categorized? (e.g., abdomen.)
A: The body is consisted into three parts - the brainium, the borax and the
abdominal cavity. The brainium contains the brain; the borax contains the
heart and lungs, and the abdominal cavity contains the five bowels A, E, I, O,
and U.

Q: What is the fibula?
A: A small lie

Q: What does "varicose" mean? (I do love this one...)
A: Nearby.

Q: Give the meaning of the term "Caesarean Section."
A: The Caesarean Section is a district in Rome.

Q: What does the word "benign" mean?'
A: Benign is what you will be after you be eight.

I hope everyone has a great day!

Ramblings on reviews

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:48:39 GMT

Most of the people on my flist are writers (hello to all five or six of you), so perhaps someone can give me some insight. When authors put a note at the end of their chapters that's something along the lines of "Please leave me a review. Even if it's awful, tell me" do they really mean it? I'm not talking about mean-spirited flames. I mean honest feedback that points out something the reader didn't like about the story. I realize comments like "Your story is great. I really love it!" are very nice and in many cases well deserved and everyone needs them from time to time. If that's how I feel about a story, I'm always quick to say so. But aren't the ones that say something along the lines of "I didn't agree with your characterization of so and so, and this is why" useful too?

I took a creative writing class in college where we took turns reviewing each other's work nearly everytime we met, and almost everyone who reviewed anything I wrote said things like, "This was good. I liked what you wrote here. This part was funny. You're doing a good job." Some of the stuff I gave to my peers were first drafts, and even if they had potential, there was plenty wrong with them, but no one (except for the teacher) ever said so. When I'd get them back from the professor, covered in red ink, It certainly wasn't fun to be told my dialogue was contrived or my characters were shallow or my plot was wandering all over the place or I was devoting too much time to details that didn't matter, etc., but I can't deny that hearing honest feedback also improved the quality of my work. It forced me to look at what I wrote from a critical persepective, not just a creative one. I was forced to ask myself, "Have I really written a piece that will convince the reader that my OTP are soul mates or have I done such a piss poor job of it that I'll still be explaining myself weeks and weeks after the fact?" Okay, maybe I never had to ask myself that particular question per se, but you see what I'm getting at.

When people ask for feedback--good, bad, or somewhere in between--I take it for granted that they mean it. But the few times I've left a less-than-glowing review for a story I liked enough to review in the first place, I get vitriolic authors bitching about how I'm wrong, wrong, wrong and it's their story anyway and I've just misunderstood their vision and I should go back and re-read and so on and so forth. And then I'm left gaping at the computer screen thinking, "But...you said you wanted to know what I thought!"

So is it all really just a ruse? Authors do want reviews, but they already have in mind what sort of review it is they're after, and they've got the skewers ready and waiting if I don't play nice-nice? If that's the case, I wish they'd just say so and I'll limit myself to just the safe reviews in public forums and say what I really think of their stories on my LJ.  T

So there. *pouts*

(It's been a long day. I probably won't be feeling this childish tomorrow. Have a Happy Halloween, everyone)

Quiz

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:14:31 GMT

What world do you live in? (PICTURES)
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You scored as The world of a romantic

You live for a world of romance. Someone who would just love to hold your hand and sit by a roaring fire and talk about dreams with would make you very happy. With you romance is not a dead thing, but a must. Don't give up. click

The fantasy world

65%

The world of a romantic

65%

The world of child

60%

The World of Mystery

50%

The high rollers world

10%

Another funny video (I should really get to work)

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:35:51 GMT

Malfoy kickin' it old school, representin' for the Slytherins? Oh, hells yeah!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLaF8zTp3aw&mode=related&search=

Video pimpage

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:19:35 GMT

P to the O to the T to the T...(and so on and so forth.) Beware the ho train, but this was pretty funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GpZpoaZaSE

Elizabeth

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:05:46 GMT

In the spirit of posting something non-Harry Potter related, I went to see Elizabeth last night...(don't read if you haven't yet seen the movie and think you might like to)

And as good as I thought Cate Blanchett was in it, I found the movie itself strangely unsatisfying. I don't know enough about Elizabeth to know what was Hollywood's machinations and what was historically accurate, but when I left the movie, I said to my sister, "I liked it, but now I feel like I need to go watch an A&E Biography on Elizabeth to separate fact from fiction." She agreed with me. The big, swelling orchestra movements interspersed all throughout the movie (the ones that were supposed to let the audience know we were now watching a very emotiona, gripping scene) were a little distracting as well. I thought they did a good job of trying to show Elizabeth's vulnerability as a human being, especially in portraying some of her insecurities and her loneliness. She was also clever and pragmatic. The scene between her and the Prince of Austria (I think it was Austria) was quite amusing. (At least I thought so, though I was one of the only people in the theater laughing). The one thing that was missing for me was that they didn't show much of her strength as a leader. The director spent so much time showing us her fear that there wasn't enough time left over to show us her courage. At least not the way I would have expected. At any rate, I thought it was good enough. Not spectacular, but credible.

Gacked from Sweet Lemon

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:09:41 GMT

Well, if we all have to go sometime anyway, why the hell not?

Heh, heh

You'll die from a Heart Attack during Sex.

Your a lover not a fighter but sadly, in the act of making love your heart will stop. But what a way to go.

'How will you die?' at QuizGalaxy.com

On so many levels, just...

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:36:13 GMT

I don't even have the words to describe how utterly and completely wrong this is, and yet I can't stop laughing at it. There's a truly awful posting at pottersues today. I'll give you just a taste...Voldemort with a wife and a daughter, (who's likes include strawberries and pink and dislikes include Deatheaters and fake people) vacationing in Barbados with the Malfoys. I mean, really. Do I even need to say anymore? The sheer toxic-ness of it inspired LJ user lostacanthus to make this...

The story sample was like a beaker of acid thrown into my unprotected eyes. But the artwork to go with it? *dies laughing again*

Stolen from Adamanteve19

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:20:55 GMT

Er...

marenkp is happy.

You're a rosy-cheeked ray of f'ing sunshine 24/7. I bet you smile a lot and little things don't get you down. Must be nice. Fuchsia's definitely your color.

wanna know your lj's moodring color? enter your user name and hit the button. (discussion thread)

your results.

Yet another meme (Don't I have a job I should get to?)

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:50:52 GMT

This made the H/Hr shipper in me giggle with delight...

Your Scent is Pumpkin Pie

Warm, comforting, and a bit old fashioned
You've got what men want - believe it or not!

http://www.blogthings.com/whatsyourgirlsmellquiz/

Another meme

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:32:28 GMT

Stolen from Sweet Lemon

How's this for a back-handed compliment?

You Are a Smart American

You know a lot about US history, and you're opinions are probably well informed.
Congratulations on bucking stereotypes. Now go show some foreigners how smart Americans can be.

/http://www.blogthings.com/areyouadumbamericanquiz

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:50:01 GMT

Nicked from Sweet Lemon

I'm not that crazy about rabbits.

You're Watership Down!
by Richard Adams
Though many think of you as a bit young, even childish, you're actually incredibly deep and complex. You show people the need to rethink their assumptions, and confront them on everything from how they think to where they build their houses. You might be one of the greatest people of all time. You'd be recognized as such if you weren't always talking about talking rabbits.

Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

Mary Sue Meme

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:21:54 GMT

Gacked from Heather11483. After reading a huge selections of sucktastic Pottersues, this comes as a tremendous relief. (And it was good for a giggle).

Which Slytherin Mary Sue Are You?

Not! Mary Sue
Take this quiz!