Some numerology fun via doewalking:
( Silly, yet kind of thought-provoking. Sort of. ^.^ )

Finally! A meme for those of us out of not only high school, but college. Thanks, darkpoole!

( cut for her pleasure )

Thanks to darkpoole!

Go to the Wikipedia home page in your preferred language and click "random article." That is your band's name. Click random article again. That is your album name. Click random article 15 more times. Those are the tracks on your album.

My Band Name: Kyjov
My Album Name: 1914 in organized crime

Track 1: Tohoku Broadcasting Company
Track 2: List of French cruisers
Track 3: Stop (Eurovision song)
Track 4: J. P. Beaumont
Track 5: Qui vive
Track 6: Rocky, Oklahoma
Track 7: Joseph C. Boteler III
Track 8: Protocetus
Track 9: VFW VAK 191B
Track 10: How to Be Popular (novel)
Track 11: Caribbean Festival of Arts
Track 12: James McManus (rugby league footballer)
Track 13: Fitz Motorsports
Track 14: Balearic People's Union
Track 15: 2-chlorobenzoate 1,2-dioxygenase

I have a cold. Ooooh, yeah. I got a sore throat Saturday, and though I did go to the Portland Christmas Revels (which was WOOOOOOOOOOOONDERFUL as always), later my throat did get to the point where I thought I should stay in, and thus I missed Denise's Hanukah party -- for the second year in a row, dammit! Yesterday was slow and tired, but not too bad. Last night SUCKED.

I woke up about 2:20-2:25. Next time I looked at the clock, it was 2:40. Then 3:20, then 3:28, then 3:38, then 3:59...you get the idea. It was the Night That Never Fucking Ended!!! It was just roll over, nod off for 5-10 minutes, wake up (sometimes with a start), try to stick my feet out further, twitch, fidget, roll over again, nod off, try not to wake up Elf...for hours. I couldn't even think of interesting things to occupy my febrile brain; it was all just kind of a haze of fidgetting and worrying that I wasn't sleeping. I finally gave up and got up with Elf at 5:10, all honking and headachy. I watched a couple home shows and a "Ghosthunters." Now I'm just skimming LJ and posting this, and when I've got the cats fed, I'll go back to bed. Hope I can sleep!

Meanwhile, here's a silly thing from cheesepuppet for your delictation:

1. Your rock star name (first pet, current car): Jingles Prius

2. Your gangsta name (fave ice cream flavor, favorite type of shoe): Peanut-Butter-and-Chocolate Birkenstock (shouldn't this be my hippy name?)

3. Your Native American name (favorite color, favorite animal): Blue Cat (I can live with that)

4. Your soap opera name (middle name, city where you were born): Marie Ashland

5. Your Star Wars name (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 of your first name): Strika (this is not how I first learnt Star Wars names, but it produces something less odious...)

6. Superhero name (2nd favorite color, favorite drink): Green Milk to the rescue!

7. NASCAR name (the first names of your grandfathers): Charles Robert (or Eldon Robert, 'cause Grandpa Scripter always went by his middle name)

8. Stripper name (the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy): Rose Dark Chocolate

10. TV weather anchor name (your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter): Snyder Sacramento

11. Spy name (your favorite season/holiday, flower): Autumn Rose (that's nice!)

12. Cartoon name: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now): Cherry Clogs

13. Hippie name (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree): Oatmeal Aspen

Heh. Now to finish scanning, feed the Ravenous Maws^tm, and then SLEEP!!!

From darkpoole:

When you see a Shakespeare quote in a journal, post one in yours.

...Come to my woman's breasts
and take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
wherever in your sightless substances
you wait on nature's mischief!

Macbeth, Act I, scene V

I did this soliloquy as a drama class exercise in high school. I used to remember more...

I know I wasn't tagged, Hollie, but I did it anyway! ;-P

Guilt	What is yours?	Explain yourself
Culinary:	McDonald's Quarter Pounder w/cheese	I dunno. It's not a hamburger, of course, but sometimes I just CRAVE one!
Literary:	Manga	SO PRETTY!
Audiovisual:	"Earth Girls Are Easy"	Jeff Goldblum is hot, hot, hot!
Musical:	Josh Groban	He has a beautiful voice, and he's so cute I could SPIT!
Celebrity:	Billy Boyd	I'm not guilty about this. He's cute, he's Pippin, and he has a SCOTS ACCENT!!!

Now I tag:-

darkpoole teajade atypia winterbadger and doewalking


to complete this same Quiz, Its HERE.

Haiku2 for schizokitty
slander murder and more lies cowardly fucktards overall though there
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Created by Grahame

Wow, I guess I was upset that day... ^_^;

I am worth $2,107,630 on HumanForSale.com
How much are you worth?

Can you believe I didn't get ANY money/points for being bi? Hah! >:-)

Thanks to justsonya!

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 103.
>3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 2 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag five people. Or not, it's entirely up to you.

I'm not tagging anyone in particular -- I encourage you all to do this one!

"It is easy to feel that something bad will happen if we don't maintain our habitual vigilace by thinking, judging, planning. Yet this is the very habit that keeps us trapped in resisting life."
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha, by Tara Brach

And here's another one, just 'cause I feel like it:

"Not these things:two put it onto a cross bench, while a third steadied it with its paw. They poked around the edges, concentrating on the plush flanges and floppy ears."
A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge

Have done a cursory catch-up on my flist. Now I go back to hibernating. ^_^

But first: SILLINESS!

Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! In March I donated bone marrow to hisvagueness in a life-saving procedure (300 points). Last Thursday I gave winterbadger a kidney (1000 points). In October I ruled Asscrackistan as a kind and benevolent dictator (700 points). In May on a flight to Colorado Springs, I stole the emergency flight information card (-40 points). Last week I pulled over and changed darkpoole's flat tire (15 points). Overall, I've been nice (1975 points). For Christmas I deserve a pony! Sincerely, schizokitty

Write your letter to Santa! Enter your LJ username:

Thanks, cheesepuppet!

Thanks, cheesepuppet!

( My 'seduction style.' )

Fairly accurate, as far as these things can be. Though actually I think I'd be a blend of this and the romantic Bubble. ;-)

Thanks, cheesepuppet! ^__^


It's that time of week. Except it's extra special: it's Friday the 13th!


1. Did you ever watch those Friday the 13th movies? Jason, right? Did you like them? Were you into horror flicks as a kid/teen?

Nope, never seen one; no intention of ever doing so. When I was a kid, I liked monster movies and later I liked creepy movies, but I've never been into hack-n-slash or shock horror.


2. What's your favorite fruit or vegetable that's coming into season right now?

PEARS!!!!


3. If you could make up a superstition today that would spread through the population like wildfire, what would it be?
If you buy a Hummer, your dick will drop off (men) or all your hair and teeth will fall out (women).


4. If your favorite fruit or vegetable from #2 was the star of a horror movie, would it be the killer or the victim, and how would it die/kill? (this question from gregtitus)

It would be the star, but the audience wouldn't know it at first. It would start out with the protagonist taking a job at a restaurant that seems eerie and whose employees seem kind of weird and/or scared. The pear will show up in the background during her orientation talk. Things will get weird: odd noises, cryptic utterances from people who show up dead later, inexplicable accidents, etc. And in each scene, there will be the pear, somewhere in the background. There will be no explanation of how it got there, and the characters won't even notice it at first. Eventually, though, the main character starts to notice that the pear is there whenever something awful happens. She tries to throw it away, but it always comes back. She tries to destroy it, but she's always interrupted before she can get to it, and when she looks back, it's gone. She starts freaking out. Other people say she's nuts, and the movie will be written so that even the audience begins to think that the pear is a figment of her imagination, just a talisman upon which to project a growing psychosis.

In the end, her conviction that the pear is the source of the evil around her makes her do something insane or violent (or both), and she gets carted off to the nuthouse. The psychologist/doctor/police lieutenant (a peripheral but important character) does some tidy exposition, explaining to the woman's partner/best friend -- who's had a major part in the movie, wavering between belief and skepticism the whole time -- what actually happened. It will sound pretty reasonable and will allow the audience to think that perhaps all the strange occurrences were just mundane accidents that were turned into a paranormal drama by an insane mind. The last scene will either be of the partner/friend coming home to a dark house, and we see the pear in the background, in the shadows, or, as the ambulance drives off, the psychologist/doctor/lieutenant, reaches into his pocket and pulls out the pear. His face is neither shocked nor triumphant, but he certainly doesn't seem to be surprised.

Thanks, darkpoole! ^_^

( Two Word Quiz )

My answers to cheesepuppet's Friday Four:


1. If your life were made into a movie but your pets were cast as human friends, what would they do for a living? Bonus points for coming up with the actors who would play them.

Peter (our Maine Coon) would be a man of leisure, having inherited millions of pounds and a huge estate in Devonshire from his father, the Duke of Piffle. He'd be kind of distant and vague but so beautiful you'd invite him to everything anyway. He'd be played by Ralph Fiennes on Valium.

Ezri (long-haired tuxedo kitty) would be in R&D at a toy company that sold unusual and goofy toys that worked without batteries. She'd be so cute that all the weird stuff she did (and there'd be plenty of that!) would be instantly forgiven by all but the most hardened cynics. She'd be played by Kirsten Dunst on ecstacy.

Tristan (red and white Corgi) would have been a sales rep for some junk food company. He'd have watched a lot of monster truck events on ESPN and wouldn't have been much of a conversationalist. He would have been played by Seth Green (Oz from "Buffy") on speed.

2. Pretend that you got to have your own (newly created just for you) state. What is your state flower, your state insect, your state bird, and what's on your state quarter? Bonus points if you can come up with a state name, but it's not necessary.

My state would be called Wy'east. The state flower would be the white trillium. State "insect" (well, invertebrate) would be the leopard slug because they're cool, and the state bird would be the barn owl, because they're beyond cool. The state quarter would show an environmental activist putting molasses in the gas tank of a bulldozer.

3. Name the first four things you can think of that start with the first letter of your middle name.

murder, melancholy, milquetoast, margarine

4. If you found out you (or your significant other) were pregnant, what are four names you would not give your child?

Lumpy, Puffy, Scaly, Grendel

(Bonus four: Britany (and all its varients), Tiffany, Prudence, Cyril)

Thanks, atypia!

( My Interests Collage! )

Thanks, babe! ^_^

( It's a long one... )

For your delectation:

( More memage! Tastes great -- less filling! )

Yesterday was the pits -- utter, utter fatigue, all day. We couldn't finish our walk in St. Johns, and I slept for two hours in the afternoon and it didn't help. Feh. Must see if I shouldn't take that muscle relaxant with fluoxetine. Didn't take the muscle relaxant last night and feel pretty decent today. Only one data point, but I'm gonna stay away from the cyclobenzaprine until I know more.

Tonight we're going to go see Pirates II -- yay! We'll be seeing it at the St. Johns Cinema and Brew Pub, so beer and pizza! (But why is all the rum gone?) Doug, Aleta, and Cian and Mindy should be there as well, so much fun will be had!

When Elf gets back from trail maintenance, we'll be going downtown to pick up DVDs at the libary, books at Powell's, and, I hope, a camera bag at Camera World, even if it is evil (alas, the locally-owned shops didn't have what I needed. If they don't have anything, I'm going to start looking into diaper bags...).

Hmm, I really should vacuum...

Hope everyone had/is having a good weekend! =^_^=

A wad o' quizzes and a silly meme for y'all!

( Click...right...here. That's right! You can do it! )

In other news, my camera is on the way! I checked with UPS, and the status was "out for delivery"! Wheeeee!!!! Photo shoot this weekend!

Now I must go and do Photoshop for fun and profit.