Meme From Hell
Posted by mimi on Oct 5, 2008 in dish | 3 commentsDara over at Slave to Romance is dead meat. I spent all day with her in a workshop yesterday, and she didn’t say she’d tagged me for this meme! (Okay, not really dead meat, since she is so very nice, but paybacks may be in order.) Here we go, the longest meme in the world:
1. What is your occupation? Teacher, writer, mom, Chief Cook and Bottlewasher
2. What color are your socks right now? No socks unless it’s cold outside; I’m a barefoot Florida gal!
3. What are you listening to right now? The background music for Zelda: Twilight Princess that Frick is playing
4. What was the last thing that you ate? chocolate layer cake for dessert last night (no breakfast yet)
5. Can you drive a stick shift? Inga is a stick shift
6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? ultramarine
7. Last person you spoke to on the phone? DH
8. Do you like the person who sent this to you? Yes, even though she is a Sneaky Pete for tagging and not telling!
9. Favorite drink? iced tea or Dr Pepper
10. What is your favorite sport to watch? baseball, especially live with a score pad and a great hot dog
11. Have you ever dyed your hair? not any more! mimi will admit to the aubergine rinse if pressed, but will claim in her defense that it was the 80s
12. Pets? three dogs
13. Favorite food? Southern cooking, Italian, or Mexican
14. Last movie you watched? A Lot Like Love
15. Favorite Day of the year? the last day of school
16. What do you do to vent anger? fume and scream and run away from home
17. What was your favorite toy as a child? my Breyer horses
18. What is your favorite, fall or spring? fall
19. Hugs or kisses? hugs
20. What kind of pie? key lime or pecan
21. Living arrangements? 4B2b house that’s never clean
22. When was the last time you cried? yesterday, having to read W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues” at the writer’s workshop (“Stop all the clocks…”)
23. What is on the floor of your closet? too many shoes and last night’s pajamas
24. Favorite smell? freshly cut grass
25. What inspires you? people who do amazing things for the right people, the fearless creativity of children
26. What are you afraid of? falling
27. Plain, cheese or spicy hamburgers? cheese
28. Favorite car? Inga makes me quite happy, thank you. Who wouldn’t be happy with a convertibeetle?
29. Favorite cat breed? mimi does not do cat. Ever. mimi has two Brittanys and a Cocker Spaniel.
30. Number of keys on your key ring? 3
31. How many years at your current job? 21
32. Favorite day of the week? Tuesday
33. How many states/provinces have you lived in? five–Tennessee, North Carolina (twice), South Carolina, Ohio (yegods!), and Florida
34. How many countries have you been to? 3
35. How much do you love “Knowing Me, Knowing You” by ABBA? I know all the words and can sing it very, very loud–but it’s not my favorite ABBA song.
36. The name of the first person you kissed (romantically)? Jon. DH is a far better kisser, though.
37. Are you the oldest child, youngest child, middle or only? Oldest
38. What is your favorite TV series currently still on? Heroes or CSI
39. What is your favorite book right now? Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. It does great things for your creative soul.
40. How many children do you have? 117. Only two of them are my own personal children, though. The rest I mother from 8:30-4:30 on weekdays.
MY NEW QUESTION:
41. Literary character you would most like to meet: Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice
2. What color are your socks right now? No socks unless it’s cold outside; I’m a barefoot Florida gal!
3. What are you listening to right now? The background music for Zelda: Twilight Princess that Frick is playing
4. What was the last thing that you ate? chocolate layer cake for dessert last night (no breakfast yet)
5. Can you drive a stick shift? Inga is a stick shift
6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? ultramarine
7. Last person you spoke to on the phone? DH
8. Do you like the person who sent this to you? Yes, even though she is a Sneaky Pete for tagging and not telling!
9. Favorite drink? iced tea or Dr Pepper
10. What is your favorite sport to watch? baseball, especially live with a score pad and a great hot dog
11. Have you ever dyed your hair? not any more! mimi will admit to the aubergine rinse if pressed, but will claim in her defense that it was the 80s
12. Pets? three dogs
13. Favorite food? Southern cooking, Italian, or Mexican
14. Last movie you watched? A Lot Like Love
15. Favorite Day of the year? the last day of school
16. What do you do to vent anger? fume and scream and run away from home
17. What was your favorite toy as a child? my Breyer horses
18. What is your favorite, fall or spring? fall
19. Hugs or kisses? hugs
20. What kind of pie? key lime or pecan
21. Living arrangements? 4B2b house that’s never clean
22. When was the last time you cried? yesterday, having to read W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues” at the writer’s workshop (“Stop all the clocks…”)
23. What is on the floor of your closet? too many shoes and last night’s pajamas
24. Favorite smell? freshly cut grass
25. What inspires you? people who do amazing things for the right people, the fearless creativity of children
26. What are you afraid of? falling
27. Plain, cheese or spicy hamburgers? cheese
28. Favorite car? Inga makes me quite happy, thank you. Who wouldn’t be happy with a convertibeetle?
29. Favorite cat breed? mimi does not do cat. Ever. mimi has two Brittanys and a Cocker Spaniel.
30. Number of keys on your key ring? 3
31. How many years at your current job? 21
32. Favorite day of the week? Tuesday
33. How many states/provinces have you lived in? five–Tennessee, North Carolina (twice), South Carolina, Ohio (yegods!), and Florida
34. How many countries have you been to? 3
35. How much do you love “Knowing Me, Knowing You” by ABBA? I know all the words and can sing it very, very loud–but it’s not my favorite ABBA song.
36. The name of the first person you kissed (romantically)? Jon. DH is a far better kisser, though.
37. Are you the oldest child, youngest child, middle or only? Oldest
38. What is your favorite TV series currently still on? Heroes or CSI
39. What is your favorite book right now? Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. It does great things for your creative soul.
40. How many children do you have? 117. Only two of them are my own personal children, though. The rest I mother from 8:30-4:30 on weekdays.
MY NEW QUESTION:
41. Literary character you would most like to meet: Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice
Okay, Contract in 12 gals (that means you, Dancing Deb and “Lefty”); tag, you’re it!
Do tell, what’s “Contract in 12”?
Uh oh! Dead meat here. Guess I forgot to mention tagging you – oops! But I enjoyed your answers.
Contract in 12 is something Lefty and Dancing Deb and I came up with during National. Do all we can, full out, to earn a book contract in twelve months, lest we fall victim to the “Cathay House Curse” (we made up the contract in the restaurant). You can check out links to their blogs in my sidebar.