Swiped from kradical

( tv meme )

Swiped from cyberwuzzle

1. Tell me something obvious about you.
I'm a redhead.

2. Tell me something about you that many don't know.
I love cherries but not cherry flavored things.

3. What is your biggest fear?
Spiders. I have this irrational fear that one morning I'll open my bedroom door and there will be a spider the size of a Volkswagen.

4. Do you normally go the safe route or take the short cut?
More often than not the safe route.

5. Name one thing you want that you can't buy with money.
Serenity

6. What is your most treasured possession?
I'd say my friendships but I don't know if those qualify as possessions.

7. What is the one thing you hate most about yourself that you do often?
Holding in all my emotions about everything till I have a breakdown over something really silly.

8. Tell me something about your sex life that I don't know.
This is not information I'd be sharing with people even if #9 weren't true.

9. Tell me something about your sex life that everyone knows.
That I don't currently have one.

10. What is your favourite lie to tell?
"I'm doing great."

11. Name something you've done once that you can't wait to do again.
Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower
Visit Stonehenge
Take a trip by train

12. Are you the jealous type?
I don't think so, but I've never been in a situation where it's come up.

13. What is the one person, place or thing you can't say no to?
The Sandpiper

14. What is the nicest thing someone has ever done for you?
Forgiven me.

15. If you could do something crazy right now, what would it be?
Dye my hair blue.

16. When was the last time you cried?
I don't know.

17. When was the last time you felt so good that nothing else mattered?
I don't think I've ever had one of these moments.

18. Do you have a favourite song?
This could change hourly if I could listen to music at work. Right now I have about 10 songs that are in heavy rotation on my iPod. I am especially loving Shawn Mullins' 'Beautiful Wreck'.

19. Name something embarrassing you did while being drunk.
I have never done anything embarrassing while drunk - shut up write_out or I'll tell everyone your Cheetos story.

20. If you post this in your journal would you like me to answer it?
Sure, I love to learn random things about people.

From jadesymb.. since she thinks I'm most likely to repost it (and well, I am)...

1. I've come to realize that my ex: Dude, do you know how far back we have to go for to have had an ex... oy!
2. People like me because: I'm a curvaceous boobalicious freckled bundle of redhead woman
3. I talk: way too much about tv shows, books, and movies
4. I love: being cozy on rainy days
5. My best friends are: write_out and theemmer
6 I believe: in magic
7. I lost: all my high school friends when I moved to Wenatchee at the beginning of my senior year
8. I hate it when: my pug friends go missing!
9. Love is: something that seems impossible
10. Marriage is: something that I was never interested in, then I was, and now.. eh
11. Somewhere, someone is thinking: this chick is crazy
12. I'll always be: my mother's daughter
13. I have a crush on: Angelina Jolie
14. The last time I cried was: I don't know but it was probably in the last couple of weeks and it was probably about something insanely silly
15. My cell phone: is in my purse and I try to use it as little as possible
16. When I wake up in the morning: I moan and bitch about not having won the lottery yet
17. Before I go to sleep at night: I try to clear my mind and think of being at the ocean
18. Right now I am thinking about: lunch
19. Babies are: fabulous little creatures and I'd love to have one someday
20. I get on myspace: never
21. Today I: will call Pam about the surprise party in September
22. Tonight I will: go to the gym
23. Tomorrow I will: hmmmmmm... I try not to plan that far in advance...
24. I really want: to win the lottery
25. The person who is most likely to repost this: theemmer

Swiped from sireesanwar

SCATTERGORIES...it's harder than it looks!
*Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following...
*They have to be real places, names, things...nothing made up!

You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question.

What is your name? Samantha
Celebrity: Sam Jackson
Food: Salmon
Something found in a bathroom: Soap
Reason for Being Late: Snoozing
Cartoon Character: Snoopy
Something You Shout: Sonofabitch
4 letter word: Sand
Vehicle: Saturn
City: Seattle
Boy Name: Seth
Girl Name: Sally
Drink: Soda
Occupation: Sailor
Something you wear: Shoes

Stolen from sireesanwar

SECTION 1 - YOU

Known as: Samantha, Sam, Sami, SamiJo
Born: August 25th
Hair color: Red
Eye: Green

SECTION 2 - HAVE YOU EVER

Fallen off the bed?: Yes, when I had a futon
Broken someone else's heart?: Not that I know of
Had your heart broken?: No
Had a dream come true?: Yes, but probably not in the way the question is asking.

( More behind here... )

01. Your Middle Name:
02. Age:
03. Single or Taken:
04. Favorite Movie:
05. Favorite Song or Album:
06. Favorite Band/Artist:
07. Dirty or Clean:
08. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
09. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favorite memory of us?
14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarky) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favorite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent.
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Pants or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!)
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?

Here are the rules:

1. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.

2. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.

3. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.

4. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they're tagged, and to read your blog.

8 random facts/habits about me ...


1) My middle name is the same as my mother's, which is a variation of my great-grandmother's first name.

2) I have a birthmark. It's a small hole above my left ear. It comes from my grandmother's side of the family. One of my mom's older brothers has it too.

3) I love the smells of fresh cut grass and gasoline.

4) I collect lighthouses.

5) I love cherries but not cherry flavored foods.

6) I'm an Atlanta Braves fan.

7) I make an awesome meatloaf.

8) I have difficulty just doing nothing, like just watching tv. I have to be doing something else at the same time. Like watching tv and working on a quilt or reading a book (yes I will read a book while I watch tv). theemmer is trying to teach me that it's okay just to sit and do nothing.


I won't tag anyone, but would love to read the lists of anyone who hasn't already done it.

Taken from sireensanwar‘s journal (because again I’m swiping stuff from her this week):

If my life were a movie...

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool :)

Here's my life in a nutshell:

OPENING CREDITS: The Different (Melissa Etheridge)

WAKING UP: Touch Me (The Doors) – Wouldn’t this be more appropriate to a love scene or Falling in love?

FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL: Good Night My Love (Harry Connick Jr) – Again, more appropriate somewhere else

FALLING IN LOVE: Colorful (Rocco DeLucca & The Burden) – I am currently obsessed with this song.

FIGHT SONG: Crutch (Matchbox Twenty)

BREAKING UP: Dark Horse (Amanda Marshall) – This would have been the perfect falling in love song.

PROM: Angel Eyes (Wet Wet Wet)

LIFE: Desert Rose (Sting)

MENTAL BREAKDOWN: Fall at Your Feet (Crowded House) – Don’t know if it’s really a mental breakdown song…

DRIVING: Fast As I Can (Great Big Sea) – Good song, but now what I think of when I think of driving fast down the road.

FLASHBACK: The List (Thea Gilmore) – Again, not what I would pick.

GETTING BACK TOGETHER: A Thousand Beautiful Things (Annie Lennox) – Why can’t I remember this song right now?

WEDDING: Best of You (Foo Fighters) – Great song and I would totally play this at my wedding reception if I were getting married.

BIRTH OF CHILD: Crazy Life (Toad the Wet Sprocket)

FINAL BATTLE: Are You Gonna Go My Way (Lenny Kravitz) – If I knew how to make vids I could see making one with clips from Atlantis fight sequences to this.

DEATH SCENE: I Will Remember You (Sarah McLachlan) – Perfect!

FUNERAL SONG: Never Be Alone Again (30 Odd Foot of Grunts)

END CREDITS: Strange Condition (Pete Yorn)

Swiped from sireesanwar (because I'm stealing memes from her today)

Comment and I'll...
1 - Tell you why I friended you.
2 - Associate you with something. A fandom, a song, a colour, a piece of fruit. SOMETHING.
3 - Tell you something I like about you.
4 - Tell you a memory I have of you.
5 - Associate you with a character/pairing.
6 - Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. (Or else I'll just ask a random question. I reserve that right.)
7 - Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.

Snagged from sireesanwar 

1. Colour of most clothes you own?
Blue, because it’s my favorite color. Though I do like to get green shirts because it brings out my eyes.

2. Number of pillows you sleep with.
Just one. Though there are four on my bed, two on each side.

3. Where are you right now?
Work.

( The rest under the cut )

1.What was the highlight of your week?
I bought the turquoise coverlet for my bed that I've wanted for months.

2) Whose car were you in last?
theemmer's

3) When was the last time you made out?
We're not going there, because it'll just depress me if I answer this one truthfully.

4) What color shirt are you wearing?
I'm in my pjs and they're light green.

5) How long is your hair?
A little past my shoulders

6) Who's on your mind right now?
Sadly, no one.

7) Last movie you watched?
Ghost Ship

8) Last thing you ate?
Pita Chips

9) Last thing you drank?
Diet Pepsi

10) Where did you sleep last night?
My bed
( The rest of it )

I've seen this showing up on several journals so I thought I'd do it too.


Instructions: Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you want to read, cross out the ones you won't touch with a 10 foot pole, underline the ones on your book shelf, and *asterisk the ones you've never heard of.*

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkein)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkein)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkein)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. *A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)*
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. *Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)*
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. *The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)*
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. *Fifth Business (Robertson Davis) *
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brahares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones' Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. *The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)*
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. *The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)*
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
81. *Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)*
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Tery Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. *The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields) *
89. *Blindness (Jose Saramago)*
90. *Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)*
91. *In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje) *
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

Stolen from sireesanwar

1. Elaborate on your default icon
I just liked it. And theemmer is always telling me I'm a goddess. She even bought me a magic wand in Chicago that says so.

2. What's your current relationship status?
Painfully single.

3. Ever have a near-death experience?
No.

4. Name an obvious quality you have.
I think I'm a generous person.

5. What's the name of the song that's stuck in your head right now?
Nothing specific. Though when I buy new music off iTunes I have a tendency to listen to that obsessively for about 3 weeks in the short bursts when I walk to and from the bus.

6. Name a celebrity you would marry.
I don't think I'd actually want to marry a celebrity. Too much attention on your life. I don't like being the center of attention among my friends, I can't imagine that kind of scrutiny in front of the world.

7. Who will cut and paste this first?
Not a clue

8. Has anyone ever said you look like a celebrity?
Nope

9. Do you wear a watch?
Yes, I feel naked if I forget to put it on.

10. Do you have anything pierced?
Just my ears.

11. Do you have any tattoos?
No, but I'm planning on getting one.

12. Do you like pain?
No

13. Do you like to shop?
I like to window shop. I don't like to shop for clothes or shoes or anything like that. I love to shop for household stuff.

14. What was the last thing you paid for with cash?
Popcorn at the movies last weekend.

15. What was the last thing you paid for with your credit card?
If we're talking Visa/MC credit card type cards - a plane ticket a few years ago. I have these type of credit cards but I don't use them. I don't even carry them. If we're talking department store credit cards - I used my Macy's (though mine still says The Bon) on a sweater for my mom for a Christmas gift back in November.

16. Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone?
About a minute ago someone called asking to speak to whoever handles our Qwest account. I hate sales people.

17. What is on your desktop background?
At work - ocean with an island

18. What is the background on your cell phone?
I don't own a cell phone.

19. What was the last movie you watched?
In the theater - Dreamgirls - Awesome movie!!!!
At home - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - I enjoyed it. It did make me want to go back and maybe read the book just because I'm sure I read the book as a child but don't remember it at all.

20. What was the last book you read?
Talyn by Holly Lisle - One of the best books I have ever read.
Currently reading Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris - I think the MC is interesting but I have the feeling that I picked the killer the moment they were introduced in the book.

I want to know 19 things about you. I don't care if we've never talked, never liked each other, or if we already know everything about each other. You are obviously on my list, so let me know with whom I am F-listed!

1.Your Middle Name:

2. Age:

3. Single or Taken:

4. Favorite place to hang out:

5. Favorite pet/animal:

6. Favorite Band/Artist:

7. Tattoos and/or Piercings:

HERE COMES THE FUN ... ... ...

8. Whats your philosophy on life?

9. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:

10. What is the craziest thing you've ever done?

11. Ever been arrested/ gone to jail?

12. Do you think I'm attractive?

13. If you could change anything about me, would you?

14. If you could change anything about yourself, would you?

15. What do you wear to sleep?

16. What is your favorite thing to do in the world?

17. Would you go on a double date with me if i asked you?

18. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?

19. Will you post this so I can fill it out for you?

From jennifer_dunne

( 30 questions about high school )