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Counting Down

May 17, 2011 Written by Lisa

Counting Down

Stolen from The Gal and because I haven’t meme’d in a long time AND because why the hell am I awake at 5am?

[ 15 things that make you smile ]
1) watching the birdies and squirrels leap with joy when I put food out for them
2) no backups at the Bay Bridge toll plaza
3) emails from the besties
4) Luke and Peter
5) fresh hot hazelnut coffee from 7-11
6) new podcasts to listen to
7) snuggling kit kats
8) pretty flower beds
9) lots of stuff to watch lined up on Tivo
10) new Cookie tunes
11) the really warm and soft blanket Duty sent me from Korea
12) chats with my Guides in Spirit
13) bagels
14) this really good Pastrami sandwich from a nearby deli
15) wine

[ 14 things that make you frown ]
1) My never-ending battle with my weight
2) People in pissy moods
3) Clueless people who are always standing *right* where I want to be
4) looking at our pool that needs to be drained of icky water before they can put in the new liner
5) Fox News (stolen from Gal but true for me also)
6) being unable to diagnose blog issues on my own
7) that I don’t have enough time to do more with Practically Intuitive
8) the whining my cats do before I feed them. Shut it, please!
9) 7-11 just running out of Hazelnut coffee as I zoom in, late for work & no time to wait for more
10) being critiqued on my (lack of) domestic abilities
11) Sarah Palin – go the fuck away, already
12) the thought of the bridge toll going up, up and up
13) clutter-wrangling
14) Neglected pets (Agreeing with Gal, also too)

[ 13 things you see every day ]
1) the nice UPS guy at work named Lenny
2) my laptop
3) traffic on the Severn River Bridge (bleah)
4) way too many Republican bumper stickers
5) my cats
6) Max de dogg
7) My iPod
8) a ringing telephone at work
9) the dingy pool water
10) some of the same cars driving to work
11) email!
12) the three pairs of pants that fit me
13) Duty

[ 12 things you have always wanted to try ]
1) Karaoke (You don’t want me to do that, though)
2) Being David Cook’s wife (hahah shut up)
3) Being comfortable in my body
4) Writing a book
5) Getting my home organized (stolen from TG)
6) planting and maintaining a lovely garden
7) Quitting the day job (soon!)
8) Living in Italy
9) Seeing the Daily Show live
10) Rollerblading
11) Take a cruise (TG’s choice again)
12) Learn sign language

[ 11 objects that mean a lot to you ]
1) My iPod – me and TG share this one. I want to be buried with mine.
2) My mom’s ring that I wear
3) All of Lauren’s cards
4) Letters from my 16 year old boyfriend
5) the internets (oh, how I love you!)
6) Books and more books
7) Kitty Cats and Max
8) Grandmom’s charm bracelet
9) my own laptop
10) my bitchy shoes (which I swear I will wear this year)
11) the little Pocket Dragon figurine that Lauren gave me

[ 10 places you have been ]
1) Colorado (pretty!)
2) New York (busy!)
3) Atlanta
4) Paris
5) Rome
6) Los Angeles
7) Key West
8) Boston
9) Bar Harbor
10) Lourdes, France

[ 9 of your favorite foods ]
1) lasagna
2) good crab cakes
3) pizza
4) that pastrami sammich from Capriotti’s
5) Dunkin Donuts coffee
6) extra sharp cheddar cheese
7) Jif peanut butter
8) Cow tails
9) Snickers

[ 8 things you would rather be doing ]
1) Woo work full time
2) Sleeping in a nice hotel room bed
3) playing BaboCrash on my Ipod
4) Getting a massage
5) TALKing
6) Following Cookie around the country
7) feeding the birds
8) Writing a book

[ 7 things you would take to a deserted island ]
1) Sunglasses
2) Sunscreen
3) Bug repellant
4) my ipod
5) Movies
6) Books
7) my journal

[ 6 things you wish you never had to do ]
1) Anything at all that is domestically related
2) Go to an office every day
3) exercise (bleah)
4) take thyroid meds and get the attendant blood work done
5) Make insincere small talk with people I don’t really like (oh Gal, we are one on this!)
6) listen to Max de dogg cough like an 80 year old ex-smoker (heart related coughing that comes on him occasionally)

[ 5 people that mean the world to you ]
1) My Godmother (it’s like hearing my mom again when I talk to her but minus the baggage)
2) Peter and Luke (and their mom)
3) Cousin O’Love
4) NoAF
5) Duty

[ 4 of your biggest fears ]
1) Being paralyzed or blind
2) Being homeless/poor
3) Cancer
4) that I will go back to my old weight and be a huge lump again

[ 3 words to describe how you feel right now ]
1) Tired
2) Grumpy
3) Sad

[ 2 things you’re excited for ]
1) Days off soon
2) Cookie’s album release in June

[ 1 thing you want to say to someone ]
1) I miss you more than words could ever, ever say.

Blah blah blah, Memeage

Fantabulous

January 26, 2011 Written by Lisa

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The Gal Herself bestowed this award on yours truly but something this awesome does not come without rules, you know. Â I have to list five (5!!) fabulous facts about myself.

So here goes nothing!

1. Â I can be surrounded by piles and piles of clutter and be bothered not one bit. Â But let me see ONE misplaced apostrophe and it will just set me off. (I’m not sure that’s such a faboo thing about me, now that I think of it.)

2. Like Gal, I rarely get lonely. Â As an only child with a sick father, I learned to be comfortable with just my own company. Too much time spent in anyone else’s energy and I get kindaÂ squirrelly.

3. Â And adding on to that, I know it’s weird but I prefer to sleep alone (or with my cats). Â I can’t stand anyone’s snoring and just like to be on my own. Been doing that for most of my life (sleeping alone, that is) and it makes me happy. Â Previous boyfriend said I could either sleep with him or the cats but not both. Â I got him a nice bed in the other room. Â (This is all true.)

4. Â I love love love new notebooks and colored markers. Â In fact, I started writing in my journal in colored markers because it all flowed out much easier. Â Pens limit me. Markers free me.

5. Â I’m learning to let my dorky twelve year old sit in the passenger seat and the High Priestess gets to drive. Â It’s very scary and there’s a lot of Â … feelings … I have yet to sort out about it but I think in due time, HP and the 12yo will get along fine. Â (A nice lady at work – you know, the rich one who loves to give me beautiful jewelery? She brought me back the coolest necklace – and I have christened it my “HP of the Woo” sacred necklace. Â It’s light, airy, and really neat. Â Will take a pic and post it soon.)

Anyway, I am passing on this award to my favorite bloggy peeps:

The Gal – even though she’s already gotten it and has done her homework – I love that you update so often and I always read between your lines and know when you’re happy or sad or just mopey. Â Can’t wait until we meet in March!

Best friend Kara over at Conduit of Joy – you’re fabulous for putting yourself out there even when / especially when it’s scary. Â I asked the Universe for a best friend who spoke the woo. Â You are all that and more. Â Thank you for being YOU.

Mystical, Magical Jody – midwife to fledgling writers and spazzy intuitives. Â I think you are one of the coolest peeps I know. Â I can’t wait to meet you in person. Keep on writing and I’ll keep reading!

I’m also sending props out to two non-bloggers – both of them named Christine!

Niece of Artsy-Fartsy Christine – I love you more every day. Â Thank you for being one of the sane members of the Tribe and making me feel loved. Â You are fabulous – just as you are. Â JUST AS YOU ARE. (/bridget jones)

LiveAfloat Christine – always smiling that sweet smile – laughing with me at Pilates, being a Woo Woo guinea peeg, and just being a fabulous chick in your own right. Â Love love love you!!

Blah blah blah, Happy Stuff, Memeage

Lists and more lists, Stolen from The Gal Herself

Sunday already!

August 2, 2009 Written by Lisa

My roommate and I once: watched our other roommate and her boyfriend come into the dining area where were, uh, dining and start making out right in front of us. Like we weren’t even there! We made it known that we were not only there but eating as well and to take their PDA x 10 upstairs to the bedroom. Yeesh!

Never in my life have I: smoked. Never will, either. Eww.

High school was: much more fun for me than college.

When Iâ€™m nervous: I tend to spend some time in the bathroom.

My hair: is no longer black and distinctive as it once was.

When I was 5: I used to lead my blind father around to stores and banks. If I told you more about what I did to him, you’d think poorly of me. He didn’t but you might.

When I turn my head left: I see notebooks. I loves me some new notebooks and legal pads.

I should be: doing my damn Seminary work. Instead, I’m meme-ing.

By this time next year: things may be totally different.

My favorite aunt is: actually, the two I have left are my favorites for different reasons: Aunt Geri has the sweetest heart of almost anyone I know and Aunt Connie, well, I absolutely adore her. Always have for many, many reasons. She’s the voice of reason in our family. I’d do anything for this woman.

I have a hard time understanding: why people are rude to others.

You know I like you if: I talk to you on the phone. I hate it except in very rare instances. Mostly, I feel trapped on the phone. (Must be a work thing.)

My ideal breakfast is: a yummy sesame bagel with buttahs and apricot spread and coffee.

If you visit my home town:, you’ll find not much of note there.

If you spend the night at my house: (Oops! Forgot this one! Thanks TG for the reminder) – you should not mind cat hair. It’s everywhere!

The animal I would like to see flying besides birds: a squirrel because that’s just got to be hilarious!!

I shouldnâ€™t have been: so damn superior about the fact that I wasn’t allergic to poison ivy. Because I am now. And not feeling very superior at all.

Last night I: read three chapters of Twilight and had weird dreams about getting laid off at work because even though I wasn’t in the group to be laid off, I got a bit lippy and they added my name to that list.

A better name for me would be: Hmmm, dolt seems to fit. Or sweetie. Or Maddie Hayes.

Iâ€™ve been told I look like: my mother, God help me. Who wants to look like their mom?

If I could have any car, it would be: A volvo convertible.

Look! A whole meme that did not mention you-know-who. Notice how inordinately large his name is on the tag cloud on the right? Uh huh. But shhhh!

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Random Meme, Stolen from The Gal Herself

The Queen’s Meme #3

July 28, 2009 Written by Lisa

The Queen’s Meme No. 3 is called the Culinary Meme.

The Cooking Meme (What Is The Meaning of Thyme and Other Deep Questions)

1. If you could put thyme in a bottle, what is the first thing that you’d like to do?
Thyme waits for no one so I’d put a cork in it, put it in my pocket and go do something immediately. No telling what the ‘something’ is, of course. But I ain’t waiting, that’s for sure.

2. Do eggs really crack or do they merely have a nervous breakdown?
I think the little breakdown is when you boil them and they get a teeny crack and then the white stuff comes out and gets all gross around the edges. That’s when you know the shit’s gonna hit the fan. By the time that’s happened, it is irrelevant whether they crack or not. It’s a done deal.

3. Why are you whipping the butter? What did it ever do to you?
Bad bad butter! You are all greasy and won’t wash off in water and melt right before our very eyes. Why, I have a good mind just to put you in the closet and forget all about you! But then, you somehow manage to warm my bitty heart by slathering so nicely on the warm, crusty bread and even eaten alone, you are yummy. So, let’s not tell anyone that the kind of whipping we do in private is of the … gentler kind.

4. Do your spoons spoon in the drawer? Have you ever noticed? And more importantly, if wooden spoons spoon do they get splinters?
I just wanna know if a spoon will spoon with me. I don’t care about splinters or a chilly metallic feel. I just needs me some spooning. (And yes, I have noticed and like my life, my spoons don’t spoon. /sob/)

5. You hear: “Dumpling, my Dumpling, come hither.” The candles are lit, the fondue is dipping, the Godiva is pouring, the scallions are steaming and the music is playing…..but wait, the windows are open. Why did you close them?
Because my damn neighbors are busy either hacking up a lung (here, have another cigarette, Greg), playing bagpipes (yes, I love the song “Amazing Grace” as well) or zooming up and down the street in their dumbass faux race car. I cannot have my ‘private time’ with any kind of distractions. I can hear angels speak, so you think I don’t have finely tuned hearing? Think again. (And close that other window, would you?)

6. Do you need a recipe to cook or are you a bohemian chef? Show us your reckless and wild side in the kitchen. Don’t have one? Here’s a recipe I made just for you: You will need a spatula, a whisk, a gallon of Chardonnay, a banana and a rump roast. What is the name of your dish?
/Puts the banana and rump roast into a big pan inside the oven, turns it on and hopes for the best. Takes several swigs from the bottle of Chardonnay which then emboldens me to pick up the spatula and whisk. Chases dog and cat around the house with said implements until I pass out from self-medicating. Cat and dog have seen this movie, so they take the banana roast out of the oven and place it on the table whereup they feast for many hours. The End. P.S. I eventually wake up and realize it’s all been a bizarre dream except for the empty wine glass on the floor and a weird banana taste in my mouth. Hmmm./

Oh wait, you just wanted a name? Well then. How about Banana Pupkins?

7. After dinner, the dishes are so dirty that the dishwasher refuses to wash them. What did they say to get in hot water?
My dishwasher would never do such a thing! It knows how important it is to me and how I love on it just right so it obeys me without question.

(This whole meme has gone off on a very “Alice in Wonderland” tangent, hasn’t it?)

8. Is your pot black?
Why yes, the kettle told me so!

9. What is the sexiest spice or condiment in your cabinet? What makes it so?
I’d have to say the cumin for reasons that should be obvious to you.

10. How much crock is really in your crock pot?
So much crock that I need three separate pots to hold it all! With lids! And little feeties at the bottom! Extra lots of crock. I haz it.

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Queen's Meme

Sunday Stealage

July 26, 2009 Written by Lisa

1. Who was your FIRST date?
Seriously, I have no idea. I’m gonna say it was Paul G. with whom I was madly in love. He had this blonde hair that was NOT to be touched (was his pride and joy) and he really had no personality but for some reason, I adored him. I have a suspicion he went on to be gay. (Blame that NOT on me!)

2. Do you still talk to your FIRST love?
I’ve googled the aforementioned Paul G. but can’t find anyone that fits what I remember of him. And I doubt I’d even have anything to say other than “Hi! Remember me?” So, no.

3. What was your FIRST alcoholic drink?
Probably what my dad drank: Seven and Seven. I know it wasn’t Boone’s Farm Tickle Pink. heh

4. What was your FIRST job?
I worked at a fast food place and often got in trouble for eating the french fries. That was like putting the proverbial kid in a candy store. I LOVED french fries with every fiber of my being at that time. Suffice to say, I did not have the requisite customer service skills to make me a stellar counter chick. I was snarky even at 16.

5. What was your FIRST car?
HA! It was the family station wagon (bought to tote dad’s wheelchair around) which had this hideous brown paneling on the side and an AM radio. Yes, I jammed to AM radio on the way to school. Is that this generation’s equivalent of “I had to walk 10 miles in the snow to school” complaint? Andy Gibb 4-evah!

6. Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane?
I went to London in my sophmore year of high school and we had to fly to NY to catch the plane to England. First plane ride was to NY and I wasn’t scared at all. Why are people afraid of flying? (Why are people afraid of anything? There is no rationale that can be applied here.)

7. Who was your FIRST best friend & do you still talk?
A nice girl named Teresa Jones when we lived in Dundalk (horrors! I know.)

8. Whose wedding did you attend the FIRST time?
Oh good Lord … we Italians have weddings every five seconds. I’m pretty sure it was before I could even speak.

9. Tell us about your FIRST roommate.
Heh – moved in with Laura and Sharon. Laura was really nice but sort of …. persnickety. Sharon’s mom had recently moved far away and she was feeling very lonely so in order to assuage those feelings, took up with an idiot named Ron and they had sex constantly and loudly. She got pregnant (a tradition in her family, apparently) within two months of moving in with us and moved out to be with the idiot father in his dorm room at Hopkins and left me and Laura without 1/3 of our rent payment. Yeah. That was fun. After two years of random roommates, I moved out on my own and NEVER looked back. I will not live with another roommate if I have any say-so about it.

10. If you had one wish, what would it be (other than more wishes)?
To feel really good and strong in my body. I don’t have to be thin (well, it’d be nice, of course) but I just want to feel good about what I do have.

11. What is something you would learn if you had the chance?
I have been guided to re-learn piano of late (keyboard, actually) so found a used one on Craigslist and am getting that to noodle around with for a bit. We’ll see if it ends up going to a yard sale in 6 months, right?

12. Did you marry the FIRST person you were in love with?
Oh hell no! Who does this?

13. What were the first lessons you ever took and why?
Probably piano from the heinous Sister Dorothy back in first or second grade. Oh, she was a nasty one.

14. What is the first thing you do when you get home?
Change out of my work clothes. Must have comfy clothes in which to lounge.

(And now a small rant:
Dear people who participate in a meme: if you have a blog, the point of it is to WRITE. If you join in on a meme, the point of said meme is to enlighten those who read your blog about your own self. One word answers to questions are stupid and a waste of your time writing and my time reading. Damn. BE CREATIVE with words or don’t have a blog. WTF? Jeesus.)

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Lists and more lists, Stolen from The Gal Herself