LALOKFATYK - Diva’s bored.

June 20th, 2007 at 11:01 am by Diva Howe
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So I’m not forwarding it to anyone.  But if someone wants to do it, add your blog and location to the bottom of this list, and send it on.

A Secular Franciscan Life - Billings, Montana, USA
Erica’s Blog - Brooklyn, New York, USA
Groanin’ Jock - Montrose, Scotland, Great Britain
The Kat House - Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
blogitude.com (Mark Steel) - Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
WhoreChurch - Tennessee, USA
blogitude.com (Diva Howe) - Knoxville, Tennessee, USA 

WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?
My father had an ear for the beach tune back in the day. I was promptly named Rhonda after that catchy ditty “Help Me, Rhonda”.

Thanks, Daddy. Without fail, at least once a day, somebody will serenade me.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?
Wow, remarkably, it’s been about three and a half minutes since I cried. Which is amazing because Diva is a big cry-baby.

DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?
No. Especially when I’m in a hurry. My hand writing is all fat and bubble like.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?
I don’t do lunch meat. California veggie sandwich for me, please. Avocado, sprouts, cucumber, pepper cheese all topped off with salt, pepper and vinaigrette.

DO YOU HAVE KIDS?
I have plenty of children running around. Two of them are actual products of my pain and suffering through 9 months of hell. Two of them are mine by proxy, and I love them very much. The youngest, the boy, my grandson, is currently undergoing the morphization into the terrible twos

IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?
I’m sure I would be. I can appreciate a sarcastic and extremely snide bitty.

DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT?
Absolutely not.

DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?
Indeed I do.

WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP?
I’m not sure I have it in me to go flying off of a perfectly good bridge or platform anymore. I’m turning wimpy in my old age.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL?
I’m a sucker for Rice or Corn Chex.

DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?
Flip-flops don’t have laces

DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG?
No. I’m a wuss, physically and emotionally.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM?
Double Chocolate Malted Crunch from Thrifty.

WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?
If they are nice or mean or stuck up or snotty or sweet.

RED OR PINK?
Pink everything.

WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF?
I have no will power.

WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST?
I miss my mom and my sister. They are too far away and I only get to see them now and then.

WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING?
khaki capris and brown Jesus sandals

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE?
A pack of crackers and coffee for breakfast.

WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?
The fan blowing in our common area

IF YOU WHERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?
Pink. One of the bright ones though.

FAVORITE SMELLS?
My grandbaby when he is fresh and clean after his bath.

WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?
Amanda.

FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH?
UT VOL ball, NASCAR

FAVORITE HAIR COLOR[S]?
Blondish, with some brownish and redish mixed up in there.

FAVORITE EYE COLOR?
Mine are blue.

DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?
Nope. I’m supposed to but they drive me completely insane.

FAVORITE FOOD?
When I get to pick, it’s almost always the same. Taquitos. It’s hard to screw up a taquito. Slap some chicken and onions and stuff in a rolled tortilla, fry the hell out of it, serve with guacamole, sour cream and pico. It’s a mini art form.

SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?
Love a good horror flick.

LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?
I was twitchin for some original Star Wars and the postal employee just happened to bring it to me the other day from Netflix.

WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?
Brown tank

SUMMER OR WINTER?
I have decided I hate summer in East Tennessee almost as much as I hate winter in East Tennessee. I basically just hate the climate here year round.

HUGS OR KISSES?
Can’t I have both?

FAVORITE DESSERT?
I love me some Crème’ Brulee.

WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW?
I never bothered to learn how to read.

WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?
Its one of those liquid filled numbers.

WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT?
Laid on the couch and watched Boston Legal.

FAVORITE SOUND[S]?
Rain on the roof/porch. Love to hear the tree frogs too.

ROLLING STONES OR THE BEATLES?
I like them both about the same. I’d rather hear The Doors if I have a choice.

WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME?
Germany

DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT?
You bet I do. I’m working on becoming leader of the Darkside.

WHERE WERE YOU BORN?
Cottage Hospital in beautiful Santa Barbara, California

WHOSE ANSWERS ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING BACK?
I’m not forwarding this. I’m not asking anyone to complete this. I’m just sitting here at work, bored as hell.

LALOLKFATYK

June 19th, 2007 at 3:15 pm by Mark Steel
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Her Royal Hotness at The Kat House has tagged me yet again… If she doesn’t stop that, I’m gonna start thinking she likes me or something…

So I’m gonna morph this LALOLKFATYK (Learn A Lot Of Little Known Facts About Those You Know) meme into something a little more useful.  Add your blog and location to the bottom of this list, and send it on.  ;-)

A Secular Franciscan Life - Billings, Montana, USA
Erica’s Blog - Brooklyn, New York, USA
Groanin’ Jock - Montrose, Scotland, Great Britain
The Kat House - Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
blogitude.com (Mark Steel) - Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?
It’s biblical… Because I was, after all, born and ritually abus…errr, raised… a strong Southern Baptist.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?
Guys don’t cry.  Sure, right.  I’d challenge any guy not to cry when a woman he’s known his entire life has a stroke at 80-something.  Worse yet, I didn’t find out for a couple of weeks — yesterday.

DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?
Which one?  I write with both hands.  Each one has at least a couple of styles.  They’re always legible… but out of five styles, there are a couple that I like, and a couple that I don’t.  heh

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?
Thin-sliced Cajun-style roast beef from the supermarket deli…

DO YOU HAVE KIDS?
Accordingly to a crazy who will henceforth be known as “Chastity” (because it’s a cruel joke) and a complete nutjob known only as Laney (who, as it turns out, is a Male skinhead-wannabe), yes I do… But no, I do not have children.

IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?
We’d prolly piss each other off.

DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT?
No, never.  *rolls eyes*

DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?
I don’t know — I’ve never checked.

WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP?
Not anymore.  The last time, I hit it on the way down, went into a spin and screwed my back up pretty good for a few weeks…

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL?
One they don’t make anymore: Fruit & Fiber Date, Raisin & Walnut.

DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?
Never.  I have engineered my shoes so that I never have to tie and untie them.  But I hate slip-ons…

DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG?
When I get bored, I move pool tables.  ’nuff said.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM?
Häagen Dazs® Triple Chocolate with the truffle bits…

WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?
The eyes have it…

RED OR PINK?
Depends what we’re talking about, now doesn’t it?

WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF?
Impatience, which is caused by looking forward and dwelling on a final outcome.

WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST?
My grandfather.  He died when I was three, and I remember him like it was yesterday.

WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? 
Faded blue jeans and black dress shoes.

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE?
The last bits of spaghetti & metaballs from Pizza Palace

WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?
The sound of the air conditioner.

IF YOU WHERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?
Charcoal.

FAVORITE SMELLS?
The scent of a special someone when I curled up behind her and breathed against the back of her neck… The smell of a certain house in South Knoxville where the elderly women who live there have always accepted me with open arms… The smell of Cornhusker’s Lotion, and Zippo fluid, which always remind me of my grandfather…

WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?
Tish.

FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH?
World Cup Football (Soccer), although, I don’t watch it often.

FAVORITE HAIR COLOR[S]?
Dark brown, near black…

FAVORITE EYE COLOR?
Brown and deep…

DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?
Sometimes… Well, most of the time, really.

FAVORITE FOOD?
I love food, but if I had to say what meal is consistently perfect and just makes me feel really good to eat:  It’s going to Ali Baba’s Timeout Deli on Kingston Pike and ordering King Solomon’s Chicken with the middle-eastern vegetable of the day (especially the potatos) and a hummos plate.  There is absolutely no doubt that their hummos is the best in the world.

SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?
Depends on the mood.

LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?
I watched Shaun of the Dead again… heh  That’s currently my pick for the best Zombie movie ever made.  The fact that it’s so typically English adds to the hilarity.

WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?
White.

SUMMER OR WINTER?
Winter.  I can always put on more clothes to get warm… but when it’s too hot, even getting naked doesn’t help.

HUGS OR KISSES?
Long kisses…

FAVORITE DESSERT?
A really rich, baked cheesecake…

MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
To what?

LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
A good two-thirds of the population of Washington DC don’t respond to anything…

WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW?
Ummm, I’m not reading a book right now… I’m doing this meme.

WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?
I don’t have a mousepad — I use the couch, my jeans, the cat…

WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT?
I very, very rarely watch television.

FAVORITE SOUND[S]?
The sound of distant breaking glass… Soft jazz echoing through city streets… Spectacular thunderstorms….

ROLLING STONES OR THE BEATLES?
Depends on the year, and the mood.

WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME?
Sydney, Australia, which is pretty much dead opposite of where I am.

DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT?
The “Special Purpose” that Steve Martin had in The Jerk.  *snicker*

WHERE WERE YOU BORN?
Fort Sanders Regional Hospital - Knoxville, TN.  Been around the world, and back again.

WHOSE ANSWERS ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING BACK?
Ya know, I don’t know.  I don’t really mind either way.  But hey, I’m gonna tag three people here, just because I feel like being a ‘tard.  The whole point, to me, is to use these random annoyances to spread the help get the word out about some pretty cool blogs that I read on a regular basis…

Rantz?  Consider yourself tagged.  So, uhh…. who else can I annoy?  Fracas, because I haven’t annoyed her much lately!  You’re tagged.  ;-)  Oh, and WhoreChurch, who probably won’t do it, but I’d love to see if he’ll prove me wrong.  *snicker*