Memes
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Meme Monday
Just when you’re not sure what the heck you’re going to write about, along comes a pal like Theresa and tags you for a meme. WHEW! 1) What book are you reading right now? I just started Middlesex. Like, I’m only a few pages in. So far, I’m enjoying it. 2) What was the last book you read on a plane? Usually I save plane trips for my guilty pleasure, People Magazine. But flying from Anchorage to Oakland is a long flight, with a long layover in Seattle, so People doesn’t really cut it. So I read People first (with Tori Spelling on the front cover…I’m a sucker for any…
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Random Thoughts Meme
I’m so frikkin’ ready to lighten things up around here, and thankfully debra left a comment yesterday, and I peeked over at her blog, and found a meme. That’s about my level of energy to come up with something right now, so yay, thanks debra! Your best friend tells you she is pregnant. What is your reaction? Yay! Let’s make it a girl this time, OK? When is the last time you wanted to punch someone in their face? Last time I saw George Bush smirking while people suffer. What is the last thing you spent money on? Sushi from the hospital caf for dinner last night. Do you think…
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Friday Five Meme
(image stolen from here) I found this little love/hate meme over at Caribousmom, and it seemed like a good Monday Meme idea. Then I decided I couldn’t wait until Monday. Oh well. Since there are Five love/hates, I’ll pretend like it’s a Friday Five, k? I love to eat: almost any flavor of potato chips, esp. those Kettle ones. Beets with Bermuda Triangle cheese. Ripe tomatoes. Crab. Oh, so may yummy things. (gosh, I advertise for these Bermuda Triangle folks enough…don’t you think they’d send me some for free? Please?) I hate to eat: celery and mayonnaise, though I’m trying to get past the celery one. Mayo is actually fine…
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What a Challenge
The beautiful C has tagged me for a challenge that I have been mulling over for a few weeks now…The Think Different Challenge. Here are the rules, cribbed from C’s post: The Think Different Challenge is all about finding something in your life you currently have negative thoughts or feelings toward (eg work or your mother-in-law), and deciding to look at it differently. It is about realizing that some things are just a part of life, so we may as well try to find the positives in them. The rules for this writing project are: Write a new blog post in which you “think differentâ€. Follow my suggestions above, or…
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Tuesday Five
I saw this on a brand new blog today, Blues Butterfly’s 5 & 10s, and thought, why not, I’m in. So, here goes, a fun meme to start the new year. Fast five questions. 1. Do you feel respected at your workplace? How do you feel disrespected at your workplace? What can you do to improve your work situation? Sorry, I don’t blog about work. Haven’t you heard the term ‘dooced’? 2. Tell us about a dish that is special to your hometown or your family. My hometown claims to be the asparagus capital of the world, or at least, to produce the most asparagus in the world. So if…
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Monday Meme ~ Christmas Version
We’re still in the wonderful week of Hanukkah, and we’ve eaten the Stollen for St. Nicholas Day. What a confusing family, huh? Basically, we just love to celebrate many differnt cultures, even if they are not our own. This coming Saturday we’ll be baking Christmas Cookies and so on, and it’s a most wonderful time of the year. How better to commemorate it than with a meme? This one came from Scarlett, who started this meme herself just for us, and calls it “12 of my favorite things”. Here are her rules: Please share 12 of your favorite Christmas things: they can be memories, traditions, songs, presents, beliefs, whatever it…
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‘Tis the Season for Sharing
Dee tagged me for a timely little idea she had. I won’t call it a meme, though I’m doing it for meme Monday anyway. Dee wants me to help get the word out about a charity that she is passionate about, which got me to thinking about the charities that I am passionate about, and people I love are passionate about, and how at this time of year, some folks do some end of the year giving in the name of loved ones or so on, and heck, maybe someone might not know about one of my favorite charities. So, not only am I going to tell you about Dee’s…
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Monday ‘4’ Meme
I was tagged for this little meme by amuirin , and since I’ve been doing a meme every Monday for NaBloPoMo, it’s perfect. Black Belt Mama tagged me for another one, but it’s more difficult, so I’m thinking it can be for next Monday. 4 words to describe my response to this meme: Amused (it’s a cute one, and a new bloggy friend tagged me. Yay!) Grateful (because of NaBloPoMo) Annoyed (sometimes memes can be tiring and uninspiring…) Bored (see annoyed, above) 4 jobs I’ve had: Waitress/Hostess at Mr. Steak Front Desk Clerk/Concierge at a fancy hotel Horse poop picker-upper in exchange for horseback riding opportunities Business Analyst at various…
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The Name Meme
NaBloPoMo is the perfect time to pull out the memes…you need something to write about, and they’re fun, right? Saw this one first at Ms. Mamma’s place back in Oct. 1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & first car) – Samantha Bug (with a name like that, I think I’m destined to be a rock star on Disney Channel. Not enough street cred anwhere else.) 2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie) – Cherries Jubilee Mexican Wedding (Yah, you scared of me now? ) 3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl†NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name) – J ASR 4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME:…
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Player?
The Only Thing You Play is “Cool” It’s not that you don’t have the skills to juggle a few men… Nope, you just lack the desire. You prefer dating to be a simple one on one process. No games, no other people, no drama – just you and the guy you’re getting to know. When It Comes To Men, Are You a Player?
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10-20-30 Virus
I saw this one over on Autumn’s Mom and Ms. Mamma, and thought I would do it myself. 🙂 The idea is, I tell you what I was doing 10 years ago, 20 years ago, and 30 years ago. Since I’m over 40, I added 40 to this meme. Feel free to join in and do this one as well, if you’re interested. 10 years ago – 1997 – I was working as an HR Assistant at a small local company, and not really loving it. Actually, I got passed over for a promotion I wanted, which led me to accepting a job that was a much better match for…
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The “What’s In Your House” Meme
(this is our finished kitchen, all staged and prettyful) I got this meme from Autumn’s Mom and Ally Bean at Tangerine Zest. Here goes. What kind of soap is in your bathtub shower right now? Dove pro-age body wash, which pretty much tells you WAY too much about me. Do you have any watermelon in your refrigerator? Not currently. What would you change about your living room? I wish it were larger. We have an extremely small living room. Are the dishes in your dishwasher clean or dirty? Dirty. Just emptied the clean ones, and put in the 3 things that were in the sink. What is in your fridge?…
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The Name Game
Julie Julie bo bulie, banana fanna fo foolie, me my mo moolie, Julie! (The picture is of the newest American Girl doll, Julie!) I’m totally grabbing this one from Susan in Italy, she to whom I am forever indebted, because I found out from her that Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me is available via podcast. But I digress. Here’s a fun little meme, in which the goal is “to choose a fact, word or tidbit that’s somehow relevant to your life for each letter of your name.” Since Susan’s blog, Porcini Chronicles, is a food blog, she chose a different food for each letter of her name, and she did a…
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Confession Meme
I surfed over to Relaxed Parents from Ms. Mamma’s comments, and found this little meme. It talks about blogging, which I’ve been thinking about since my pseudo-hiatus-thing*, so I thought I’d play along. Ten Blogging Confessions 1. Do you promote your blog? I’m not sure HOW to promote my blog. I haven’t really signed up for any services that might do that. I do leave my url when I comment, but I don’t comment randomly. I only comment when a post makes me want to chime in. 2. How often do you check hits? Rarely. I was pretty interested in it for awhile, but when I discovered that the majority…
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Anti Racist Meme
I was tagged for this one by Shelliza. She doesn’t say if she was tagged, or if she made this meme up herself. But I’ll go for it. 1. I am: Mostly British. Some of my family came to the U.S. as recently as maybe 4 generations ago, from England. Some of them came over back in the mid 1600s. I remember growing up saying I was English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh. I did our family genealogy a few years ago, and couldn’t find any Welsh, and the Irish and Scottish were both disputed. Some of my family came over as indentured servants, some as farmers, I don’t think any…