meme stolen from melissa of moustache ride fame…
1. What is your occupation? tightrope walking yarn spinning artsy fartsy junk loving coffee drinking bleeding hearted liberal. how’s that?
2. What color are your socks right now? none. bare feets whenever possible.
3. What are you listening to right now? myself typing. and my stomach growling. and jakie sleeping.
4. What was the last thing that you ate? a giant granny smith apple and then my sleeping pill. so technically the pill.
5. Can you drive a stick shift? no. i was a nanny right out of high school (which kinda put me off of kids) and they wanted me to learn to drive their 100 year old stick shift volvo even though they lived right in squirrel hill, which is very easy to get around with the kids, and attempted to make me learn on the hills, even though the car would stall and not start unless you ran it down a hill. i left the job in the end.
7. Last person you spoke to on the phone? barbe wire. i mean barbe st.john.com hee.
8. Do you like the person who sent this to you? yes, i do! she is a kewl grrrrrl.
9. How old are you today? 35. wow. i can’t believe that. people tend to be surprised that i am THAT old. which would be insulting if they didn’t mean that i didn’t look it. does that make sense?
10. Favorite drink? coffee, i think. i am a total coffee snob, so only good coffee, black, one spoon of raw sugar. um. i love guava juice too. but not the sugary one.
11. What is your favorite sport to watch? strong man. oh, when i actually can catch it, i loooove the ecochallenge too.
12. Have you ever dyed your hair? nope. my natural color is pink. i mean black. i mean blonde. i mean red.
13. Pets? 4 cats. pavel is the only boy. izzy is the krazy kitten. kahlo and peeps are sisters and they hate each other.
14. Favorite food? hmmmmm. tricky. sticky rice with mango. i loves that stuff. i like sesame cold noodles and i love middle eastern food. all of it. okay, most of it. lamb makes me violently ill, and i would feel bad eating it anyway, but most other stuff i love. i especially like that there are tons of different little things to eat in a meal since i have a short attention span whilst eating, so that is perfect for me. also, i love spinach lentil soup from ali baba, which is nice and thick and lemony. soo good. i should learn to make it.
15. Last movie you watched? caberet.
16. Favorite Day of the year? valentine’s day, i think. i alway wished i had someone who loved me and spoiled me, since i was little. and now i do! who would of thunk it? i have always tried to send my single friends something sweet on v day because nothing sucks more than to get nothing from anyone. remember in high school when they have that crappy thing where you can buy a rose or something for someone and they get them delivered in home room so that the person that gets nothing can feel like an asshole? i would send anonymous ones to the people that i knew were nice but wouldn’t get anything. i should have sent myself one. i usually at least got one from a friend, although when you are in high school you are still humiliated to sit next to someone with 3 dozen roses.
17. What do you do to vent anger? fall down the stairs. oh wait, that is what causes the anger, a cat tripped me. or puked inside my purse (that has happened. more than once) if it is a cat, i might yell halfheartedly. no one is even kind of scared of me. they don’t stop what they are doing or even blink. it is embarassing, really. and then i feel dumb that i yelled at all. i hate yelling. if it is any other thing, i tend to swear a lot. and then, there are the times that i don’t feel well and get really pissy, in which case, i just take a pill and a shower and try to relax.
18. What was your favorite toy as a child? we didn’t have many toys because i abused them and my mom didn’t want to buy them. i had a spirograph that i enjoyed and my dad always let me have records and books and some art supplies. those things i of course love to this day. thanks dad. i was also known for breaking other people’s stuff and trashing their barbies. gee i wonder why. i would break something, put it back and then leave, promptly, waiting all night for the call saying that i was going to be a 4 year old in prison
19. What is your favorite season? summer or spring. i would say fall, except that i get bummed out knowing it will be winter in a second and can’t really appreciate it. i wish it lasted longer.
20. Hugs or kisses? both.
21. Cherry or Blueberry? i love both if they are fresh. i hate cherry flavored stuff, though. ew.
26. When was the last time you cried? last bad migraine i had. i was in the shower in the middle of the night crying. i usually feel better after that for some reason.
27. What is on the floor of your closet? a box full of vintage fabric, linens and aprons. also a laundry basket with clean laundry that jakie did for me and i never put away because i am a lazy mofo.
30. Favorite smells? jakie’s skin. he has such a nice smell that is the same since i met him 14 years ago. the smell that comes from the laundry exhaust outside. the smell of rain (oooooooh yeah!) pies and bread baking. sexy smells. i like em. i don’t think that anyone should think that they smell bad. unless they do, then they should!
31. Who inspires you? my friends…i have several close friends that have gone through really really rough times, making their way with no help from their family, dealing with mental illness in addition and still being able to find a wonderful partner and a nice life for herself, or just dealing with a history of abuse and neglect and still growing up to be a world traveling, artsy craftsy animal lovin’ diva. some wonderful women that i have had the pleasure to meet that have severe health problems, more than i do, yet are insanely productive and always positive, which really is such a huge thing, especially when you feel crummy. that inspires me. and my husband. he is the most kind, generous, openminded, forgiving, sweet and sexy man i have ever known. he is a super organized and neat person. i am the opposite. and then some. he never yells at me. he never tells me not to bring anything new in. he never tells me to stop hanging my things up everywhere. he never tells me to get a REAL job. he always has my back. even though he went a christian school, he is very worldly. he knows soooo much about all kinds of music and literature and it was all on his own. all. he is like a sponge, just ready to take more and more in. open and ready. i wish i could be more like that. i will try. i will try to be more like all of the positive people that i admire.
32. What are you afraid of? my husband being hurt in any way, my animals being hurt, sick or getting lost. i am also afraid of the dark. always have been. except now, if i try to walk down the hall in the dark, i imagine samara from the ring walking after me on the broken ankles with the water behind her and it freaks me out. odd, eh?
36. Number of keys on your key ring? 2 because have been too lazy to pick up the rest of my keys from gabe.
37. How many years at your current job? 3 or 4 i think.
38. Favorite day of the week? friday or saturday. weekends are jakie days. woot woot!
40. Do you think you’re funny? i crack myself up sometimes. sad, but true. giggle. i reread my journal sometimes and i haven’t even intended it to be funny but it cracks me up.
i worked on more of the circle pieces today. i need to take photos of those. i did take photos of the other ones but not the ones i just finished a bit ago. i am really tired. so i am outta here.
if you want to do the meme, go ahead and do it. make sure you let me know so i can seee!