The List of Firsts

As I sit here and wait for the laundry to finish it's extra rinse cycle, I can blog this fairly quickly and easily... so I will. That and I've gotten my fill of discussing politics and the economy at work, and everything else in my life (i.e. the green-eyed monster rearing its ugly head again) seems inconsequential.... At least this is fun :) If you don't think so - blame Farrago for pointing me there!

1. Who was your FIRST prom date?
Went to my Jr and Sr proms without dates, so the first prom date was the exchange student whom I met when I was in college.

2. Do you still talk to your FIRST love?
Yes.

3. What was your FIRST alcoholic drink?
Gin martini (icky)

4. What was your FIRST job?
Snack bar waitress

5. What was your FIRST car?
Midnight blue metallic 1984 Ford Thunderbird

6. Who was the FIRST person to text you today?
Friend inquiring about my day

7. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning?
The one who should've been in the bed with the cat and I

8. Who was your FIRST grade teacher?
Mrs. Brondyke

9. Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane?
New Orleans

10. Who was your FIRST best friend, and are you still friends with him / her?
Kirsten - nope

11. Who was your FIRST kiss?
Robert

12. Where was your FIRST sleep over?
My grandma's house.

13. Who was the FIRST person you talked to today?
Coworkers

14. Whose wedding were you in the FIRST time?
Dear Friend from college whom I still keep up with to this day

15. What was the FIRST thing you did this morning?
Hit the snooze

16. What was the FIRST concert you ever went to?
Sylvia

17. FIRST tattoo or piercing?
First piercing, ear lobes

18. FIRST foreign country you went to?Canada

19. First movie you remember seeing in the theater?
The Muppet Movie

20. When was your FIRST detention?
Never got one

21. What was the FIRST state you lived in?
Same one I'm in now

22. Who was the FIRST person to really break your heart?
To break it at the time in as much as I knew of love? Mr Sr. Prom Date
To truly break my heart? Mr. Scientist

23. Who was your first roommate?
College, freshman year

24. With whom was your FIRST date?
Keith

Stage or Screen?

Okay, okay... I've been gone for a while. I've been writing, they've just been long and involved emails to my friend's new girlfriend talking about the meaning of life and the timing of love and all the deep, thought provoking things I used to write here, but I've been too tired to copy over for your reading interest.

Anyway, Farrago has been badgering me to return to the pixel pages that are my blog... and I was strting to formulate a good return post. Had it all in my head, then went to read his tag.... and it's a meme. No worries. I'll just have to let the other idea stew a while longer....

Popcorn? or Candy?

Popcorn, hands down! There's NOTHING like that movie theater popcorn all sogged down in ooey-gooey butter... mmmmm. And then finding that one kernel so damp it's dripping and the butter has soaked all the way through.... Oh, sorry... are you still reading? Back to business.

Name a movie you've been meaning to see forever.

Um, just about anything that the rest of the world has already seen... I'm not a big movie person, so I'm always WAAAAAY behind. But I guess I'd have to say... The Graduate?


Steal one costume from a movie for your wardrobe.

Oooo... so many choices, so little time to wear them all... I tend to go for mvies that really don't have iconic costumes, and those that do I'd not want to add to my wardrobe. So I'll have to say anything worn by Juliette Moore in The End of the Affair. I do so love period pieces, the 40s attire accentuates my waist, and hats are my forte.

Your favorite film franchise is…

Star Wars, hands down. Unless you can count John Hughes' 80s movies or John Cusack's 80s movies.

Invite 5 movie characters over for dinner. Who are they and why did you invite them?

This question really makes me wish I watched more movies....

Rob Gordon from High Fidelity. I'd love to quiz him and listen to his music tracklists for any occasion over the evening.
Inara from Serenity. Okay, this one is cheating - I'm actually basing the question on her character in Firefly, but she's in a movie playing the same character, so all is good.
Princess Buttercup from The Princess Bride . 20 years have passed since her true love came to town. How'd she fare?
Christian from Moulin Rouge - to learn how to live without the love that slipped through your fingers.
And the last comes in a pair - Jesse and Celine from Before Sunrise because I think I could learn so much from their story.

Wow - too much talking and not enough action. Oh well.


What is the appropriate punishment for people who answer cell phones in the movie theater?

Stealing their popcorn and drink while they're gone (or turning them over to their movie companion, should they have one) and forcing them to mortgage their home and sign away their first-born to pay for a second set of movie concessions at those over-inflated prices.

Choose a female bodyguard:

Um...Angelina Jolie! Really! Is there a doubt?

What's the scariest thing you've seen in a movie?

The logic that shows most large corporations fit the WHO criteria for a psychopath. Yeah, sad that a documentary fits here, but I don't watch scary movies.

Your favorite genre (excluding “comedy” and “drama” ):
Historical fiction

You are given the power to greenlight movies at a major studio for one year.
I would find three big blockbusters and make them - one to release at the start of summer, one at July 4th and one at Christmas. Those would finance everything else I did for a year. Then I'd go find all the Oscar contenders that no one wanted, the movies that tell a story and that could make a difference. The art film, the period pieces, the biographies and the quirky comedies that people don't know they want to see because they never get made.

Bonnie or Clyde?
Thelma and Louise!

Told ya I'm Royalty!

I'm branching out to other blogs again and this morning I went to Clarity of Night. Jason had posted a What Tarot Card are you? test, and we all know my affinity for those little click and tell tests! So I took it. The Result:

I am the Empress: I can't get the code to copy and paste out of a tabbed browser, so I'll have to type out the info. Forgive me for not offering the cool tarot card picture...

You are The Empress
Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation.
The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents, beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. You may be good at home decorating, art or anything to do with making things beautiful.
The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While the Magician is the primal spark, the idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born. This is why her symbol is Venus, goddess of beautiful things as well as love. Even so, the Empress is more Demeter, goddess of abundance, then sensual Venus. She is the giver of Earthly gifts, yet at the same time, she can, in anger withhold, as Demeter did when her daughter, Persephone, was kidnapped. In fury and grief, she kept the Earth barren till her child was returned to her.

What Tarot Card are You?

Take the Test to Find Out.

My Bar Tab Is $520.50

So I'm sitting here trying to catch up on some long lost blogs I've not read in a while, and I stumbled onto a post from Wordnerd that looked kinda fun. Basically, it's a sort of purity test....you go through the list and each questions is assigned a dollar value. At the end, you don't admit which ones you've done, just your tab.

Mine's $520.50

Wow...I'm not as dull as I thought I'd be. Maybe that's why I couldn't find anything else to say right now. Either that or knowing I have a few other things I should do before I come back and write more....

Tag - I'm it.

It's midnight as I start to write and I really have nothing to write about. However, with the time change today, it only FEELS like 11pm and I'm not tired. So instead, I'll sit down and start plugging away. Perhaps this will turn into something worth reading or maybe it will just be drivel, but I've got to get back in the habit of writing when I feel like this.

It's been a depressing day, so I don't want to go there. And I figure you guys could care less about the random thoughts swirling in my head right now... I know - I'll answer the tagging that Farrago hit me with....Five little known facts about myself. The flip side - five bloggers to tag - won't be happening because I've been such an unknown in the blogosphere of late that I don't even have five addresses (that's what happens when you have to rebuild your computer from the hard drive up. Ugh!)

Let's see...what to tell you...Farrago, don't be offended if I catapult off of your admissions.

1) Like any good teenager of the 80s, I sported a mouth full of orthodontia for two and a half years. The glorious day finally came - my orthodontist removed the hardware and made impressions for retainers to keep the teeth where they belonged. In the two days it took to get the retainer made, my teeth went right back to where they were two years before. Another sign of my stubbornness.

2) Were it not for computers, I wouldn't be a writer. My handwriting is abysmal, and typewriters gave me writer's block from looking at all my failures and bad ideas.

3) I didn't get into the habit of drinking alcohol until I was a year and a half out of college.

4) I used to smoke clove cigarettes in college. That lasted about 6 months until they started making me sick.

5) I've read Dangerous Liasons in the original French.

Okay - who next....Flash, have you done this? Ultra? Scott?

Today's Rhetorical question

So as not to offend Ultra by spending too much time engaged in real, spoken conversation, I've decided to bring one of my more recent verbal discussions to the blog. Too bad no one's still reading to weigh in.

Anyway, here it is:

Can love...last?

On second thought, maybe I shoulda warmed you guys up with a softball...like "Newcastle or Sam Adams?"

Answer either.

I suck

Okay, you know it's been way too long since posting when blog-readers have to track you down and ask if you're blogging around on them. No, I've not blogged anyone else. I'm not blogging behind your back. I've simply, in the past, used this space as a place to pontificate and lately, there have been a few pair of ears who wanted to hear my thoughts. So I've been doing more speaking than writing....and it's taken away from my time to connect with the written word.

To the faithful who still read here, I apologize. I've likely run you all off anyway. However, I promised two posts within a week. A slightly longer vacation than I anticipated allowed me to miss that deadline. However, I'll post again soon. And sooner. And sooner.

After all, these conversations have led me to a number of questions to pose. Some rhetorical, some just damn funny. And some random observations to make...no wonder a friend tried to register "random" as part of a domain name for me.

Talk to you all soon. I hope.

Random quiz time

Okay - question of the week.

For those of you without kids, do you want kids?

For those parents who read these ramblings....were you ready to have kids when you did?

No, I'm not in a family way or anything like that. Just a random question inspired by the whole family time of year

One word survey

Holy mackerel, we won the Stanley Cup. The Freakin' Stanley Cup! I can't even BEGIN to explain how much this means! So suffice to say that I'm on a high that hasn't even come close to ending yet!

Anyway, I don't want to flood you all with words on ymreturn to blogosphere, so here's something I was sent - the One Word Survey. Give it a shot!

1. Yourself: Thrilled
2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend: Unsure
3. Your hair: Long
4. Your Mother: Relaxed
5. Your Father: Bored
6. Your Favorite Item: Music
7. Your dream last night: Odd
8. Your Favorite Drink: Wine
9. Your Dream Home:Mine (as in "not the bank's!"
10. The Room You Are In: Messy
12. Your fear: Regret
13. Where you Want to be in Ten Years? Happy
14. Who you hung out with last night: Co-Workers
15. What You're Not: Supermodel
16. Your Best Friends: Fun
17. One of Your Wish List Items:Comfort
18. Your Gender:Female
19. The Last Thing You Did:Dishes
20. What You Are Wearing: T-shirt
21. Your favorite weather:Fall
22. Your Favorite Book? Hardback
23.Last thing you ate? Cereal
24. Your Life:Insane
25. Your mood: Calm
26. The last person you talked to on the phone: Co-worker
27. Who are you thinking about right now? Mr. Karaoke

Kick it up a notch

This has been an intense couple of days. Car shopping....parental visit....Stanley Cup Playoffs...work pressures....second job pressures... But I do have to say I got in some good dances last night, so that makes it all better. Well, maybe not ALL better, but significantly so.

Anyway, with all this going on, I choose instead to write about something in the news - The best album of all time. According to a poll taken on NME.com, the best album of all time is not the Beatles or Nirvana, but Oasis "Definitely Maybe" I have to admit, that WAS a kick-ass album, but I would have put Joshua Tree above it. That said, we all know what a U2 fan I am! It is nice, however, NOT to see Kurt Cobain atop one of those lists. Just goes to show, the public isn't always wrong.

That said, what's your favorite album of all time?

And you know, I haven't posted a random baker's dozen in a very long time.....now that I use iTunes more, I'll have to do that again in the coming days. Maybe tomorrow night where there's no hockey game to stress me out.

Help me!

Here lately, I've had the song "You Can Leave Your Hat On" running through my head. Of course, when I tried to tell people at work where it came from, it appears I'm the only one who has seen9 1/2 Weeks.

That said, you now know why I had to post the results of this last online quiz:

Your Stripper Song Is

Closer by Nine Inch Nails "You let me violate you, you let me desecrate youYou let me penetrate you, you let me complicate youHelp me I broke apart my insides, help me I?ve got no Soul to tell" When you dance, it's a little scary - and a lot sexy.

What Song Should You Strip To?

Of course, I changed one answer on which I waffled, and I got "Master and Slave" by Depeche Mode. What about you?