Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Random, Random, Random
1) I’m a private person, which is funny because I have a blog that chronicles my life and feelings, but there are only a handful of people who read my blog that actually know me in real life. BFE doesn’t even have a link to this blog and randomly she’ll ask me for it, and I never send it to her. I’m funny like that.
2) Despite being such a pessimist, I’m a closet romantic. I believe in Prince Charming and Happily Ever After, although I believe I’ll be the one to rescue him. I believe in love at first sight and soul mates. I don’t believe in “You complete me,” but I do believe in building a life with someone.
3) I have a weird thing about numbers. I prefer even numbers or multiples of five. I like things to be in pairs.
4) I like to read aloud to Weasley. Yes, I understand that he’s a cat, but I read somewhere that animals enjoy the sound of our voices and I just like to read aloud. I won’t read aloud to him trashy romance novels because I don’t think that’s appropriate for his ears.
5) I miss having a dog, but do not have the time for one. I need to either move to a house with a yard or have a live-in boyfriend. The live-in boyfriend will walk the dog when its cold, raining or snowing or the dog will walk itself in the back yard during these scenarios.
6) I’m normally bitchy three weeks out of four, but whenever I get my monthly friend, I’m in the best of moods. Life couldn’t be better during that week; everything is all sunshine and butterflies. But once that week is over, lookout because I’m back to being a moody bitch.
7) My new hobby is to drink a glass of wine while taking a bath. Its so relaxing and I get tipsy fast from the heat of the water.
8) When I fall in love, I fall hard and fast. This sometimes causes me to stay with a person longer than I should or overlook some faults. But once I make up my mind that I’m no longer in love with you, you will never be able to get back into my heart. I’ll never be able to look at you in the same way, and while I may still be friends with you, I will never go back to you.
9) My mind is constantly thinking and I over analyze everything. This keeps me up at night as I worry about things I cannot possibly control, so I resort to taking sleeping pills or working out in hopes that my body will be so tired, I just pass out at night. Recently neither has been working.
10) I’m addicted to the Real Housewives Series on Bravo. I started watching re-runs of Atlanta and now watch the others. The Atlanta Housewives are by far my favorite and cannot wait for season 2.
11) I have a strong sense of smell (that sounds funny) and can pick up odors that other people can’t. I hate the smell of burnt toast (it makes me gag) and every week someone burns toast in my office and I have to step away from my desk.
12) Growing up I was the biggest tomboy. I hated wearing dresses and skirts and preferred wearing sweatpants. I loved playing with the big boys and wasn’t afraid of getting dirty or hurt. I’m not sure what age I transitioned into a girly girl, although I still don’t consider myself a girly girl.
13) I love getting massages and if I could I would get one every day.
14) I don’t watch the news and barely read CNN. I have no idea what is going on in the world; I don’t even know what the weather is going to be like tomorrow. Its kinda sad, but at the same time freeing.
15) I love Jeff Smokers.
16) I cannot function in the mornings without coffee. My coworkers know not to talk to me until I have finished my coffee or else I will bite their heads off.
17) I would love to live overseas one day. Maybe London, Paris, or even Bangkok. I’ve never been truly on my own, without my parents being a 20-minute drive away. I think it would be good for me.
18) Adopting Weasley has been one of my best decisions ever. He brings me so much comfort and joy. I smile whenever I think or look at him. I cannot imagine my life without him and wonder what I did before him.
19) Getting DVR is the second best decision in my life. I think it has made my ADD even worse. I hate watching live tv now and hardly ever do it, except for sports.
20) Twenty years from now, when NSYNC goes on their reunion tour, I will be in the front row, getting ready to toss my panties on stage!
21) I think all men should know how to drive stick shift. I find it highly unattractive when a guy doesn’t know how to.
22) When I was 11 I had a spiral perm. God knows why I wanted one. Looking at pictures with my hair like that, I cringe. My hair has never recovered from it. Sometimes Mothers are right. I should have never done it.
23) I’m never happy or satisfied. I’m always wanting more. I’m not sure what its gonna take to make me truly content with my life.
24) I no longer wear a watch. I used to be so consumed about time and the minutes left in the hour and the seconds left in the minute that I could never enjoy the moment. I’m still slightly time obsessed, but it doesn’t drive me crazy like it used to.
25) I want nothing and everything.
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Quarterly Survey: Food Edition
Here’s what you to do:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating or Italicize since it never shows up when I try to cross things out on here.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.
The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak Tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black Pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam Chowder in a sourdoug bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float (I hate root beer and putting vanilla ice cream in it does not sound appealing at all!)
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O (A good jello shot should not taste too vodkay and should go down smooth)
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala (One of my favorite Indian dishes!)
48. Eel (Eaten it in sushi)
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut Hot!
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores (I heart me some S’mores. Nothing better than sitting in front of a fire and eating some delicious gooey s’mores)
62. Sweetbreads (I have actually eaten them in pate)
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail (OMG, love escargot)
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky (This was my favorite snack growing up)
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee (I used to work in a coffee store and would steal pounds of this all the time)
100. Snake
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Bookish Meme
The instructions:
Look at the list and
Bold those you have read.
Italicize those you intend to read.
Underline the books you LOVE.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (does it count that I have read one book out of the series)
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. 1984 - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (I’m pretty sure I read this or I may have seen the movie way too many times so I think I have read it)
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. . Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (Hated this book)
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Another Day, Another Meme
You're Feeling: Hot, very very hot. Stupid freaking hot flashes. I'm really starting to believe I have a hormonal imbalance.
To Your Left: "To the left, to the left ... I could have another you in a moment" ... Oh wait, that's another to the left. My living room is to my left.
On Your Mind: Nothing and everything ... knowing when to let go ... knowing when its time to move forward ... knowing when to not overthing every potential situation that I could get myself into.
Last Meal Included: Butternut squash ravoli, pretty tasty actually for a microwave dinner.
You Sometimes Find It Hard To: Not stress and worry about everything ... to sit still and take in the moment.
The Weather: Gorgeous and 70's, which I could be outside all day enjoying it.
Something You Have a Collection of: Coats and jackets.
A Smell That Cheers You Up: Clean towels and honeysuckles.
A Smell That Can Ruin Your Mood: Cigars.
How Long Since You Last Shaved: Last night I actually shaved my legs for the first time in two weeks.
The Current State of Your Hair: Messy and kinky.
The Largest Item on Your Desk/Workspace (not Computer): My glass of water.
Your Skill with Chopsticks: For an Asian, its pathetic, but I am getting better.
Which Section do you Head to First in a Bookstore: New fiction.
Something Your Craving: My 2nd income.
Your General Thoughts on the Presidential Race: Color me not interested. As long as the Dems can overthrow the Repubs, I'll be happy.
How Many Times Have you Been Hospitalized This Year: Zippy.
Favorite Place to go for a Quiet Moment: My car so that I can drive or my balcony.
You've Always Secretly Thought You'd be a Good: Cook, apparently, I'm not.
Something That Freaks You Out a Little: That I'll never reach my fullest potential or that I won't even realize it when I do, I guess that freaks me out a lot. Rising gas prices freak me out a little.
Something You've Eaten Too Much of Lately:Fast food, current favorite is Five Guys.
You Have Never: Made a meal I actually enjoyed.
You Never Want to: Stop Dreaming.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Punting Monday
1) What is your relationship status?
2) Who is your celebrity crush?
3) Who is your favorite band?
4) What is your favorite movie?

5) What kind of pet do you have?
6) Where do you live?

7) What do you do at work?

8) What do you look like?

9) What do you drive?
10) What's your favorite tv show?

11) Describe yourself:

12) What's your name?

13) What's your favorite candy?
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Quarterly Survey
Anyways, its time for my quarterly End-of-Quarter Survey/Meme! This Meme is sponsored by the Lame-O Md Terrapins playing in the Not In Tournament Tournament (such a dagger, nubbins U Made a Bad Choice is in the Dance, and the real Maryland isn’t. The Turtles better win tonight. I have a wager on this one!)
One Word:
Yourself: Optimistic
Your Partner: Non-existent
Your Hair: Shiny
Your Mother: Nerve-racking
Your Father: Cheap
Your Favorite Item: Bob (battery operated boyfriend)
Your Dream Last Night: Ex-coworkers
Your Favorite Drink: Lemonade-Ice Tea
Your Dream Car: Acura MDX
Your Dream Home: Spacious
The Room You Are In: Office cube
Your Ex: Complicated
Your Fear: Regrets
Where Do You Want to be in 10 Years: Content
Who You Hung Out With Last: Lisa
What Your Not: Brave
Muffins: Banana Nut
One of Your Wish List Items: Open-toed pumps
Time: Not Enough
The Last Thing You Did: Got off the phone with my friend Kevin
What are You Wearing: Sweater and Jeans
Your Favorite Weather: Balmy
Your Favorite Book: Harry Potters
Last Thing You Ate: Beef Stew
Your Life: Rollercoaster
Your Mood: Upbeat
Your Best Friends: Loves em
What are You Thinking About Right Now: Workday Over
Your Car: Love her
Your Summer: Beach
Relationship Status: Ready
What is on Your TV: Blank screen
What is Your Weather Like: Windy
When is the Last Time You Laughed: With Kevin
Monday, November 19, 2007
Its a Meme!
1) Do you still talk to the first person you fell hardest for? That would be a no. We tried doing the friend thing, but it wasn't working. He was hoping for more, and by that point, I was no longer falling.
2) Have you ever seen your best friend naked? Yes, I undressed her and put her to bed. Gosh, stop picturing it, you pervs.
3) Are you obsessed with someone? I don't think so. I'm just obsessed with the opposite sex.
4) Name something that you would like to eat right now. I can't wait for the turkey, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole and pumpkin pie.
5) Did you get any compliments today? I was told that I take very detailed notes in my quotes, but that my handwriting is horrendous.
6) Who were the last two people to call you? My Dad and my friend Jeff.
7) If you could pick the temperature of the outdoors for the rest of your life, would you? I would like a balmy 65, perfect weather for flip flops, a cute cami, and a light hoodie.
8) If you could have one super power, what would it be? The power to read minds.
9) What's your favorite smell? Fresh clean towels right out of the dryer.
10) What is your least favorite sound? A baby crying. You're a freaking baby, what problems could you possibly have? Your biggest worry is when's your next udder coming your way. Geez, cry babies.
11) Are you moody? Have you met me?
12) Last person you hung out with? With Rachel. She came over to see the new place and then we had dinner. Good times.
13) Have you ever toliet papered someone's house? Have I ever! Man, for awhile there in high school that was a weekly thing. My friends and I made this one girl's house look like it snowed.
14) Have you ever been to a nude beach? That's so funny. I was just talking to a co-worker about this. I haven't, but would go.
15) Have you ever gone skinny dipping? No, I don't like swimming in lakes, and I feel you can only go skinny dipping in a lake.
16) Listening to music? What are you listening to? Jack Johnson's Flake.
17) Have you ever been betrayed by your best friend? No.
18) Have you ever lied to your parents? Yes. I told a lot of lies to my parents growing up.
19) Have you ever worn your best friend's clothes? Yup. Since I'm currently house-sitting for her, I'm constantly going through her wardrobe, picking outfits for myself. It's great.
20) Have you ever thrown up from working out? No, I must not be pushing myself hard enough.
21) Ever had a bad haircut? Yes, and I've cried because of it.
22) Where are your siblings right now? My brother is most likely at home, getting ready to eat dinner. He lives in Oakland.
23) Name three things you did today. Bought my cousin a gift card, bought the ingredients to make pumpkin pie, and some filing.
24) Last person you text messaged? Best Friend Ever, complaining about the traffic I was sitting in.
25) Future kid's names? For girls - Madison, Isabella, Madeline. For boys - Adian, Owen,
26) What are you doing tomorrow? Turning in my keys at my old apartment, and then off to work where I will waste the day away filing paperwork and figuring out how to use Facebook.
27) Do you remember singing songs as a kid? Yes, Best Friend Ever and I used to make up dance routines to Madonna.
28) Are you allergic to anything? Pollen, dust, and cooties.
29) When is the last time you got flowers? Its been awhile.
30) Where were you two hours ago? At home.
31) Wherre were you four hours ago? At the grocery store buying stuff to make pie.
32) What does your hair look like right now? Its pulled back in a clip.
33) What have you eaten today? Yogurt, lollipop, Chipotle chicken bowl, mini M&Ms, fish sticks and a bowl of cereal.
34) Is your hair naturally curly, straight or nappy? I've got straight poofy hair, with a slight curl when it feels like it.
35) Who was the last friend you were in a car with? Rachel.
36) What are you looking forward to? Thanksgiving and having Wed-Friday off. Yay for five day weekends!
37) Any of your friends getting married? Chelsea, Dhrit, and Bee Bee. I will only be attending one of those weddings.
38) Is today going to be a good day? It better be.
39) Pick out a scar that you have and explain it. I have two bumps on my lower lip. I was riding my bike and turned the wheel sharply on some pebbles, I lost control, and fell face first on the asphalt. The scar is either from two pebbles still stuck inside my lip or the skin just healing funny. All I remember is that my bottom lip turned black while it was scabbing over and everyone made fun of me. Kids can be so cruel.
40) What does your phone look like? She's red and I call her Hot Scarlett.
41) What is on the walls of your bedroom? Currently nothing, since I haven't yet decided where I'm going to hang all my pictures and artwork.
42) What is your current desktop? Mister Bear! So cute!
43) Do you believe in gay marriage? Yes, I actually wrote speeches about it in high school and how people should not be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.
44) What do you want more than anything right now? New couches for my living room.
45) What time were you born? An hour before leap year.
46) Last person who made you cry? The boy.
47) What is your favorite perfume/cologne? I wear Heaven by Gap. It has a nice clean fresh smell.
48) What hair/eye color do you like in the opposite sex? I love dark hair with bright blue eyes.
49) Do you get scared of the dark? At times when I think of something scary before I fall asleep.
50) Do you like pain killers? Umm, yes! Which reminds me, I need to get some.
51) Who was the last person who made you smile? No freaking clue. I'm sure someone at work cracked a joke that I smiled to.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Random End of Quarter Meme
MY STORY.
Hi, my name is: Kimberly
but you can call me: Kim
Never in my life have I: gone skydiving, but I really want to
The one person who can drive me nuts is: my mother
My high school was: Paint Branch
When I’m nervous: I talk really really really fast
The last song I listened to was: Hate that I love you by Rihanna featuring Ne-Yo
If I were to get married right now it would be to: Chris Evans – the hottie from Nanny Diaries and Fantastic FourMy hair is: black, but I’m getting the itch to color it again, maybe a nice dark eggplant like color
When I was 4: I sucked my thumb
Last Christmas: I got a new mattress. This year I have decided to embrace the holiday spirit
I should be: doing work for the end of the quarter
When I look down I see: stack of executed quotes that I refuse to file
The happiest recent event was: having an entire night of uninterrupted sleep
If I were a character on ‘Friends’: I’d be Rachel cause I’m not a neat freak like Monica
By this time next year: I hope to be either in a new job or at least in a new position within my company
My current gripe is: that stupid cat that I’m cat sitting, he is keeping me awake at night
I have a hard time understanding: what Heidi sees in Spencer (watch The Hills)
There’s these girls: that I love to death and who are my best friends in the whole wide world
If I won an award, the first person I would tell would be: my rents and Best Friend Ever
I want to buy: a condo (I’ll update that one when I know for sure!)
Where do you plan to visit: hopefully San Diego in March
If you spent the night at my house: you’d have to fight JP for the pull out sofa
The world could do without: inconsiderate people
Your best friend in elementary school was: Lisa and Emily
Most recent thing I’ve bought myself: a ring and necklace from New York and Co
Most recent thing someone else bought me: SoCo and lime shots
My middle name is: Jean (like your pants)
In the morning I: reset my alarm so that I can sleep in
Last night I was: playing with my pussies (cats you pervert!)
There’s this guy I know who: I wish would be my boyfriend and if not that, than leave me the hell alone
If I was an animal I’d be a: one of my Mom’s pets cause she treats them better than her own children
A better name for me would be: Bookworm that hearts Harry Potter
Tomorrow I am: pretending to work an 8 hour day while really playing on the interweb
Tonight I am: going to bed early
My birthday is: Feb 28 bitches!