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Sunday Stealing: The Christmas Meme

14 Dec

Head on over to Sunday Stealing to see more meme participants or join the fun yourself.

Sunday Stealing: The Christmas Meme

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper. I hate spending $4 on a gift bag when I could just spend that money on more present!

2. Real tree or Artificial? Don’t kill the poor trees! Artificial (although this year it is real because I live with my parents and I don’t get to choose…

3. When do you put up the tree? When we get to it. My parents bought it at Thanksgiving and it is still sitting outside in a bucket of water. :roll: That’s because I am too damn busy, my father is too damn depressed or manic or WTF ever, and my mother “can’t do it all (!! insert martyr voice here)”. Meanwhile my son sits and stares longingly at the tree outside. :???:

4. When do you take the tree down? See above. Could be May this year…

5. Do you like eggnog? I do but it makes me sick because of me rerouted stomach. So I drink Nog by Silk (soy eggnog) in small doses.

6. Favorite gift received as a child? Books! :)

7. Hardest person to buy for? My father

8. Easiest person to buy for? My son

9. Do you have a nativity scene? No

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail, with a Christmas letter, of course! :mrgreen:

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? My ex-husband gave me a stuffed animal with fake plastic flowers attached and flashing neon lights. I hate kitsch.

12. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Lamb, green beans, roasted potatoes

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Usually when I remember that it’s coming and I go “Oh, shit, I’d better get started!!”

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? No

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Food. All food is good. Love Ham.

16. Lights on the tree? Yes? I like colored lights, white lights, all lights.

17. Favorite Christmas song? O Holy Night

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Stay home

19. Angel on the tree top or a star? Angel

20. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas morning. After family party and midnight service at church, I am usually too tired for presents.

P.S. Yes, I am going to tell you all about my fun holiday party last night (and the one this afternoon) and I may even post a pic (!!) but I am waiting for Blue Eyes to send me some… And he’s watching “the game”. Harumph. So it might be later tonight or tomorrow.

 
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Sunday Stealing: Battle of the Memes

07 Dec

Sunday Stealing: The Battle of the Memes

1. When you buy a greeting card, are the words or the picture more important to you? – Depends on my mood. I love funny picture cards and I enjoy writing my own insides. But I also love cards that say what I want to say in a beautiful and eloquent way.

2. Do you ever make gifts for people, if so what, or do you buy them? Not usually, unless it’s a photo gift. I typically buy.

3. Are you going on holiday this year? If so, where? No plans and I need to change the name on my passport so I’m probably not leaving the country anytime soon.

4. What was the best party you’ve ever been to? My 16th birthday party. It was a surprise. My friend, Rick, surprised me with a huge bouquet of roses (my first flowers ever) and so many people showed up to just kick back and spend a few hours sitting around talking, eating pizza and listening to music. It really made me happy and was the last real birthday party I had.

5. If you are married, describe your wedding. If not, what would your ideal wedding be like? I was married and we went down to the courthouse, had a five-minute bilingual ceremony and then went out for Mexican. I think if I did it again, I would still do it small but I would probably dress up a bit more (we were broke) and maybe go do it somewhere peaceful and quiet with handwritten vows. I think a wedding should be about the two people and the commitment, not about the huge production, so I don’t really need a big deal. I do want a religious ceremony if I do it again someday, even if it has to be a blessing of the union after a civil ceremony.

6. What’s the most romantic thing that’s ever been said to you? Um… Yeah, I don’t know that I’ve heard it yet. Thinking… Thinking… I’ve heard canned lines and compliments but I’ve never really dated a “romantic” guy.

7. What’s your favorite romantic song?
Cheek To Cheek by Fred Astaire or
The Way You Look Tonight by Michael Buble or
You Leave Me Weak by Toby Keith or
Drift Off to Dream by Travis Tritt. Don’t get me started. I’m a big sap. Love to dance, love romance, so anything that combines the two is good. (But I’m convinced women wrote all of those songs :lol: )

8. Favorite heartbreak song? For My Broken Heart
or If I Had Only Known by Reba McEntire (actually that whole damn album makes me sob every single time I hear it!)

9. Which celebrity would you like a dream date with? Toby Keith (I just want him to sing to me for an hour. Have a real thing for his voice. Hubba hubba.)

10. Which female celebrity do you find beautiful?? Diane Lane

11. Which male celebrity do you think is attractive? Brendan Fraser – Yum!

12. Describe the kind of underwear you normally wear. Satin briefs.

13. If you could be in a television sitcom, which would you choose? Ugly Betty

14. Which character would you like to be? Christina

15. What are your favorite boy and girl names? I don’t have a favorite boy name. I do like Charlotte, Naomi and Noelia as girl’s names.

16. What’s your supermarket of choice? HEB

17. What is your best character trait? Affectionate

18. What is your worst habit? Codependent

19. Elaborate on your default icon. I have no idea what this means

20. What is your current relationship status? Dating

21. Ever have a near death experience? I have been seriously ill several times but not a “near-death” experience in the sense of remembering almost dying

22. Name an obvious quality about you? Opinionated

23. What’s the name of a song stuck in your head right now? “Easy
” by Kelly Willis

24. Name a celebrity you would marry. I have no idea. How can I possibly know that without knowing the person?

25. Do you like pain? No. Unlike my ex-husband and my son, each of whom have very high pain tolerances, I am a wimp.

 
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Sunday Stealing

23 Nov

Running out of ways to procrastinate so I’m going to do a little Sunday Stealing before I dive into Indonesian anti-corruption law.

Sunday Stealing: The Favorite Meme

Fill in your favorite for each of the following:

1. Political show: Meet the Press

2. Picnic food: Three-bean salad

3. Mixed drink: Fuzzy Navel

4. U.S. President:Clinton (although I’m not really liking his pissy attitude right now)

5. Kind of student to teach: Um, I’m not a teacher. I’d say a smart one. Hate repeating myself!

6. Hobby you do or wish you still did: I used to embroider. Loved it but there are only so many knick knacks a girl can make. Also loved pottery but, again, you can only make so many tea mugs before people start to run away when they see you coming.

7. Sports commentator: Ew!?!

8. Sport to watch on TV: SNORE

9. Animal to have as a pet: Cat

10. Halloween costume you have worn: Nightgown. I am all about comfy!

11. Kind of dessert: Molten chocolate cake with raspberries.

12. Comic strip: Cathy

13. Ice cream flavor: Blue Bell Vanilla. And when I was a kid, it was this mint gumdrop flavor they had in New Zealand but I have never seen here.

14. News source: Washington Post

15. Vacation spot: Lake Tahoe

16. Wine: Merlot or Riesling

17. Way to waste time instead of working: Bloglines, of course

18. Reality show: Ick.

19. Childrens movie: Anne of Green Gables (is that young enough?) Or Little Mermaid

20. Celebrity you wish would retire: Steven Segal

If you want to participate in the Sunday Stealing weekly memes, post this on your blog and visit Judd’s site to sign the Mr. Linky.

 
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Blog Blast for Peace Meme

20 Oct

The Queen of Meme’s Mimi tagged me for this very important meme.

**start copy**
Join The Revolution
Here are the rules and the story.
(1) Copy this into a post (2) ADD YOUR NAME to the bottom of the tag list
(3) Tag at as many people as you’d like.


The Peace Globe project began in the fall of 2006 with a simple post from one blog, Mimi Writes. The post ignited a flame in the blogosphere. The flame became a passion. The passion became a movement. It amazingly traveled from blog to blog to blog across the globe. Bloggers wrote passionate articles on what peace means to them, along with the promise of three Latin words scribbled on a globe – Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant Us Peace) - branded with the integrity of their names or blog names. It was positively inspiring to watch. And it began to happen all over the world – from Singapore to China to Afghanistan to Brooklyn.

It was simple. And powerful.

In less than three weeks bloggers from all across the globe will blog for peace.
We will speak with one voice. One subject. One day.
Won’t you join us?
November 6, 2008

How To Get Your Peace Globe In 4 easy steps!

1. Right CLICK and SAVE the peace globe below or choose from other designs here.
2. Sign the globe using Paint, Photoshop or a similar graphics tool. Decorate the globe anyway you wish. You can even include the name of your blog. Click here for hundreds of inspiring examples from previous BlogBlasts.
3. Return the peace globe to me via email ~ mimiwrites2005 at yahoo.com – Let me know your blog’s name and url by leaving a comment here and signing the Mr. Linky. Your submission will be numbered and dated in the official gallery . Your globe and post will be listed on the Official BlogBlast For Peace website and The Peace Globe Posts page.

Here’s the most important part.
4. On November 6, 2008 DISPLAY YOUR GLOBE IN A POST. Title your post “Dona Nobis Pacem”. This is important. The goal is for all blog post titles to say the same thing on the same day. Write about peace or simply fly your globe.

Go HERE for the other 3 globe template choices!)


If you’d like to help spread the word, take this button to your site. The code is in my sidebar.


I, Mimi Queen of Memes, hereby royally tag the following…….
(Before you copy this list on your blogs, ADD YOUR OWN NAME to the bottom of the list. )

………………………………………………………………………………………………YOUR NAME HERE.

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE TAGGED TO PLAY.

Please passing this meme through the blogosphere. Peace + Power
This is Mimi Pencil Skirt reporting from the lovely land of the Peace Globes.
Memeing the Movement.

**End Copy**

Anyone who wants to do this is tagged. You can get this post with links for your blog by opening it, clicking on View – Page Source and copying the portion of the code that encompasses this post.

 
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