Memo: ...it's all about MeMe! No, I'm not sorry.
Things That Scare Me
1. Public speaking
2. Motorcycles
3. Passing out while giving blood (???)
People That Make Me Laugh
1. Kate
2. Morgan
3. Kathleen Madigan
Things I Love
1. Diet Coke
2. Training
3. Sunshine
Things I Hate
1. Cold
2. Flying bugs
3. Tobacco
Things I Don't Understand
1. Why it’s taking so long to build my house (SERIOUSLY.)
2. Why, despite training more & eating less, my f**king scale will.not.budge.
3. Why it is always freezing in my office
Things on my Desk
1. A phone that never rings
2. A note to call Kevin
3. A thin sheet of ice
Things I'm Doing Right Now
1. Sniffling because my nose is cold
2. Glancing down the hallway
3. Trying to look busy
Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die
1. See my girls have children of their own
2. Write a book.
3. Run a marathon. Travel through the Grand Canyon in a dorie. Karaoke in a
bar full of strangers.
Things I Can Do
1. Change a bike and car tire
2. Clean the hell out of a bathroom
3. Make you smile
Things You Should Listen To
1. The chime reminding you to put on your seatbelt
2. Fire alarms
3. Your heart
Things You Should Never Listen To
1. Your heart
2. Alarm clocks
3. Drunk people
Things I Would Like To Learn
1. How to cook meals my children will eat
2. Patience
3. Patience while attempting to cook
Favorite Foods
1. Breakfast
2. Lunch
3. Dinner
Favorite Beverages
1. Diet Coke
2. Cold skim milk
3. Lemon-lime gatorade
TV Shows I Watched, Books I Read as a Kid
1. Brady Bunch
2. Entire Little House on the Prairie set
3. the Love Boat
People I Would Like To Tag
1. Everyone who comments on my blog
2. Everyone who lurks in my blog (yes, that means YOU)
3. Pewter
1. Public speaking
2. Motorcycles
3. Passing out while giving blood (???)
People That Make Me Laugh
1. Kate
2. Morgan
3. Kathleen Madigan
Things I Love
1. Diet Coke
2. Training
3. Sunshine
Things I Hate
1. Cold
2. Flying bugs
3. Tobacco
Things I Don't Understand
1. Why it’s taking so long to build my house (SERIOUSLY.)
2. Why, despite training more & eating less, my f**king scale will.not.budge.
3. Why it is always freezing in my office
Things on my Desk
1. A phone that never rings
2. A note to call Kevin
3. A thin sheet of ice
Things I'm Doing Right Now
1. Sniffling because my nose is cold
2. Glancing down the hallway
3. Trying to look busy
Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die
1. See my girls have children of their own
2. Write a book.
3. Run a marathon. Travel through the Grand Canyon in a dorie. Karaoke in a
bar full of strangers.
Things I Can Do
1. Change a bike and car tire
2. Clean the hell out of a bathroom
3. Make you smile
Things You Should Listen To
1. The chime reminding you to put on your seatbelt
2. Fire alarms
3. Your heart
Things You Should Never Listen To
1. Your heart
2. Alarm clocks
3. Drunk people
Things I Would Like To Learn
1. How to cook meals my children will eat
2. Patience
3. Patience while attempting to cook
Favorite Foods
1. Breakfast
2. Lunch
3. Dinner
Favorite Beverages
1. Diet Coke
2. Cold skim milk
3. Lemon-lime gatorade
TV Shows I Watched, Books I Read as a Kid
1. Brady Bunch
2. Entire Little House on the Prairie set
3. the Love Boat
People I Would Like To Tag
1. Everyone who comments on my blog
2. Everyone who lurks in my blog (yes, that means YOU)
3. Pewter
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Things That Scare Me
1. Spiders
2. Snakes
People That Make Me Laugh
1. Craig Ferguson
2. The Howard Stern crew
3. Mitch Hedberg
Things I Love
1. The wife and family
2. "All you can eat"
3. Shower-baths
Things I Hate
1. Cigarettes
2. Coffee
3. People who drive their convertibles with the top down, but the windows up. Do you know how stupid you look? No, apparently not.
Things I Don't Understand
1. How Paris Hilton became famous.
2. Why the music video became more important than the music. Music is for the ears, not the eyes.
Things on my Desk
1. A 1981 Star Wars figure of R2D2 (With senserscope)
2. A 2002 Javon Walker football card
3. A Simpsons' page-a-day calendar
4. A collage of Brett Favre photographs
Things I'm Doing Right Now
1. Getting ready to call an attorney in Mississippi
2. Drinking water
3. This
Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die
1. Have sex in all 50 states (15 to go)
2. Have sex on all seven continents (six to go)
3. Celebrate a new Major League Baseball labor agreement which includes 100% equal revenue sharing for all teams - like every other fucking sport has already accomplished!
Things I Can Do
1. Karaoke in front of strangers
2. Enjoy public speaking (Seriously)
3. Talk backwards, and sing the Flintstones' theme backwards in real time
4. Move my ears up and down
5. Stop a fan with my tongue
Things You Should Listen To
1. Rock & Roll
2. The waves crashing onto a Hawaiian shoreline
Things I Would Like To Learn
1. The guitar
2. Self-confidence
3. To pilot an airplane
Favorite Foods
1. Pizza (A cliche, I know)
2. My lovely wife's "Survivor" chicken
3. Buffets
Favorite Beverages
1. Soda
2. Fruity alcohol drinks
TV Shows I Watched, Books I Read as a Kid
1. The Flintstones
2. The Dukes Of Hazzard
3. Battle Of The Planets
4. Little House On The Prarie (Guilty pleasure, to be sure. Today we have the entire series on DVD)
5. The Jeffersons
6. Sanford & Son
7. The Brady Bunch
8. Star Trek
9. Scooby Doo
10. Leave It To Beaver
11. "Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing"
12. "Superfudge"
People I Would Like To Tag
(Not sure what tag means in this case)
1. Natalie Portman
Love Mitch Hedberg :) Thanks xm radio. Feel free to change the rules btw. ;) Tag means who you want to do the meme.
The late, great Mitch Hedberg... We have two of his CD's.
People I Would Like To Tag - I took it to mean "touch."
1. Pewter (good choice)
2. Everyone else who comments in this little blog family
3. Natalie Portman - it'd be so cool if she stopped by.
(I removed my first post because I wanted you guys to check out my new blog!)
Technically, when you do a meme it is supposed to be posted into your own blog, but following the trend, here I go:
Things that scare me:
1. Republicans
2. Screwing up my kids.
3. Losing my parents.
People that make me laugh:
1. My hubby
2. My kids
3. Everything spoken and not spoken on The Office
Things I love:
1. Going to bed with just the hubby.
2. When my kids climb in bed with me in the morning.
3. Accomplishing something.
Things I hate:
1. The battle of the bulge
2. How I feel after yelling at my
kids (stole this from Paula).
3. Close-mindedness
4. When people say "irregardless" and "boughten".
Things I don't understand:
1. All-things arithematic.
2. Why I can't stop shoving food into my mouth!!
3. Ditto on the Paris Hilton thing!
Things I'm doing right now:
1. Trying to get a little time to myself.
2. Fighting urges to binge.
Things I want to do before I die:
1. Enjoy life.
2. Move to a warm, tropical climate.
3. See my kids grow up and have
kids of their own.
Things I can do:
1. Listen without talking.
2. Function on very little sleep.
3. Learn.
Things you should listen to:
1. Your mom
2. Your favorite music
3. Your baby's breathing in the middle of the night.
Things you should never listen to:
1. Politicians.
2. Anything that says "6 seconds to better abs!"
Things I would like to learn:
1. To be more patient
2. To be a better person
3. To be more positive (Wow, Paula, I think you and I were separated at birth).
4. How to be a productive businesswoman.
Fav Foods:
1. Cheese Pizza
2. Rice Pilaf
3. Potatoes
4. Mozzerella Sticks
Do I see a carb/cheese theme here?
Fav Beverages:
1. Diet coke
2. Diet Dr. Pepper
3. Water (well, it will be my favorite soon!)
4. Tea (see #3)
Shows Watched/Books Read as a kid:
1. Christopher Pike books
2. Ramona books
3. Sweet Valley High
4. Babysitter's Club
Things That Scare Me
1. Illness
2. Unfamiliar places
3. Confrontation
People That Make Me Laugh
1. Melissa
2. My kids
3. Meff
4. My little brother
5. "FARTING PREACHER TWO!!" (on YouTube)
6. The Marx Brothers
Things I Love
1. The wife and kids
2. fleeting moments of contentment
3. Gigs that go well
4. Talking with good friends
5. "anime night" with the wife (sadly, that's NOT a sex thing)
Things I Hate
1. Greed, hatred, ingnorance
2. abused religion
3. Violence
Things I Don't Understand
1. How Bush won the 2004 election
2. Why so many smart people listen to stupid music
3. Why so many smart people watch such stupid TV shows
4. why more people can't see the connection between 1,2 & 3 above.
Things on my Desk
1. a melodica
2. a picture of Collin half-naked at my brother's wedding
3. "Piano Music of Robert Schumann, book one" edited by Clara Schumann
4. some Legos
5. "Meiczyslaw Horszowski plays Bach, Schumann and Chopin" CD (recorded when he was 100!)
6. A deck of "Tibetan Buddhism" cards Jenny sent me!
7. A Sony Handycam
8. a $5 Subway coupon
9. red, orange, blue, green and black Sharpie markers
10. A whole lot of other stuff
Things I'm Doing Right Now
1. thinking I should clean my desk
2. listening to Paige Ruh play "School's Out" (by David Glover, not Alice Cooper)
3. Smiling
Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die
1. See a cure for Chrohn's disease that I'm not allergic to
2. See a cure for diabetes
3. Make more money from playing and composing
4. See my kids grow up to have happy families of their own.
Things I Can Do
1. Watch my breath for several minutes (sometimes)
2. play jazz
3. work out on the elliptical for about an hour
4. make my kids laugh by impersonating Toshiro Mifune
5.
Things You Should Listen To
1. your true nature
2. whomever is speaking
3. George Webb
Things I Would Like To Learn
1. Japanese
2. a Martial art (I don't care which)
3. To pilot an airplane
Favorite Foods
1. anything Italian
2. Pad Thai
3. flaky cereal
Favorite Beverages
1. diet coke/pepsi
2. red sugar-free kool-aid
TV Shows I Watched, Books I Read as a Kid
TV:
1. Battlestar Galactica
2. Doctor Who
3. Battle Of The Planets
4. Mork and Mindy
5. Happy Days
6. 6 Million Dollar Man
7. Cheers
Books:
8. The novelized versions of "Star Wars" movies
9. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and it's sequels
10. about 4 of the "OZ" books by L. Frank Baum
People I Would Like To Tag
(Not sure what tag means in this case)
1. Tha Dalai Lama
These are some great comments!
By the way, despite my past blog experience, I had never heard of the term "MeMe" until today. So please forgive my breach of etiquette. It turned out for the best anyway. So there!
Things That Scare Me
1. Rich white men
2. Our environmental situation
3. public speaking
People That Make Me Laugh
1. Gilda Radner
2. Stephen Colbert
3. All the writers who write for "The Onion"
Things I Love
1. drinking too much coffee on a rainy day
2. my dog's silky belly
3. bedtime
Things I Hate
1. Politics
2. violence/war
3. our current administration
Things I Don't Understand
1. why our healthcare system sucks
2. why anyone would want to run an ironman triathalon(i volunteered in the medical tent this summer and saw way too many near death experiences)
3. violence
Things on my Desk
1. a biohazard container
2. lavender aurum cream
3. acupuncture needles
Things I'm Doing Right Now
1. drinking yerba mate with cream
2. looking at my sweet slumbering dog
3. stressing on all my paperwork for damn insurance companies
Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die
1. see the dalai lama in tibet
2. give birth in the deserts of mongolia surrounded by buddhist nuns
3. get my doctorate
Things I Can Do
1. sit in full lotus
2. a plethora of zany yoga poses
3. cure a hangover
Things You Should Listen To
1. blackaliscious
2. my husband's attempt to sing like a tuvin (throat sing)
3. my dog snore
Things I Would Like To Learn
1. The guitar
2. Tibetan
3. How to knit
Favorite Foods
1. Chicken tortilla soup
2. Nepalese Food (takari)
3. Ethiopian Food (Injera and alicha)
Favorite Beverages
1.coffee
2. tea
3. water
TV Shows I Watched, Books I Read as a Kid
1. H&R puff and stuff shows
2. Fantasy Island
3. gilligan's island
Things That Scare Me
1. Working things out
2. Changing course after the original course has been set
3. Not living long enough to see each of my kids grow up.
People That Make Me Laugh
1. Gen X'ers
2. Next Gen'ers
3. Certain parents at kids' sports, theatrical, etc. events
Things I Love
1. Sticking to my guns, right or wrong
2. Getting a baby-sitter one way or the other for some "me time"
3. People agreeimg with me, sympathizing with me, feeling my pain, etc. - right or wrong, self-inflicted or not
Things I Hate
1. People who don't agree with me, symapthize with (for) me, feel my pain etc.
2. People who pretend to be "deep" and feel the need to show everyone how "deep" they are
3. Quitters
4. Selfishness
5. Anything that includes alcohol
Things I Don't Understand
1. Why we all just can't get along
2. Why honest communication is essential on making things work between human beings
3. Why it's so difficult to just turn the page when I didn't like the previous page and didn't really want to do anything to improve it.
Things on my Desk
1. Bills
2. More bills
3. My "advisors" (aka Self Help books)
4. The only "person" I can really talk to, my PC
Things I'm Doing Right Now
1. Keeping myself from vomitting
2. Wondering what I am doing here
3. Thinking "how ashsme" it all is
4. Wondering if I made a mistake
Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die
1. Watch the kids grow up, not miss a thing, and see them start their families
2. Improve my relationship with my significant other (really)
3. Get fit
Things I Can Do
1. Avoid confrontation
2. Avoid fixing anything
3. Let things bother me but not tell anyone
4. Make my own decisions
Things You Should Listen To
1. People who don't agree with you
2. People who have been there, done that
3. Your kids
Things You Should Never Listen To
1. People who like to tell you what you "should" do who have never done it themselves
2. Some person trying to sell a book to make "you" better
3. Bloggers
4. Most people who have never been married, never had kids, never owned a home giving advice about the same
5. People who agree with everything you say, everything you do even when it is wrong
5. People who want to touch your shoulder, hold your hand, give you a hug when they should really be kicking you in the ass
Things I Would Like To Learn
1. How to explain life's little lessons to the kiddos
2. Tolerance
3. How to tactfully, respectfully, sincerely tell the people who are important in my life how I feel in a timely fashion and with a real sense of trying to improve the situation or at least understand it better
4. Why people will listen to anyone that agrees with them all the time
Favorite Foods
1. Scallops
2. Chocolate
3. Pizza
Favorite Beverages
1. Water
2. Skim milk out of the jug
3. Almost anything non-alcoholic and/or w/o caeffine.
TV Shows I Watched, Books I Read as a Kid
1. Homeword Bound
2. Moonbeam
3. The Big Valley
4. Love American Style
5. The Night Stalker
6. The Twilight Zone
7. Leave It To Beaver
8. The Munsters
9. The Beverly Hillbillies
10. Speed Racer
11. The Incredible Journey
People I Would Like To Tag
1. "Tag"??
2. "meme"??
3. not hip to the lingo
I guess I'm a little late to this party, but I figured I'd add my two cents, anyway.
Things That Scare Me
1. The idea of being stuck in a rut...forever
2. Heights (when combined with roof pitches)
3. Not having very interesting answers for this meme
People That Make Me Laugh
OK, let's start with the heavyweights first...
1. Dave Barry
2. Steve Martin (brilliant writer)
3. Al Franken
4. Ellen DeGeneres
5. Adam Sandler
And just off the top of my head...
6. Christopher Titus (not his canceled sitcom, cuz that kinda blew. but his 90-minute special, "Norman Rockwell is Bleeding." good stuff.)
7. And after reading many of his blog entries, and comments...Greg Pagel.
Things I Love
1. Concerts
2. Clear nights when you can see about a gazillion and fourteen stars in the sky
3. Books! BooksBooksBooksBooks!!
4. Hangin' with friends and laughing
Things I Hate
1. Making typos (I know, I know. Go scour my blog...I know they're there. But that doesn't mean I have to like 'em.)
2. The "n" word
3. Writer's block
Things I Don't Understand
1. Quantum physics
2. Why 98 percent of the utterly STUPID reality shows all over cable and the networks haven't been canceled yet, and how they continue to invade my television
3. Why I'm not worth at least 49 mil by now
Things on my Desk
1. A Post-It note with an unattributed quote that says, "My karma ran over your dogma."
2. Five parrots (two furry, two wooden, and one made out of some cheap ceramicky material, but I bought it anyway cuz it was a parrot)
3. Many, many black and blue roller ball pens, and a few Sharpies
4. Clutter
5. More (and more) of No. 4
Things I'm Doing Right Now
1. Wondering when the hell it might reach six degrees above zero!
2. Listening to "Hate Me," by Blue October
3. Pondering
Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die
1. Go to a book signing and be the guy sitting behind the desk, asking, "Who should I make this out to?"
2. Spend several days in Taos, New Mexico, with some good books, my camera and a notebook and pen, trying to put into words how blue the sky is there.
3. Be my own boss
4. Save a life
5. Find my "The One"
Things I Can Do
1. Write a little
2. Shoot a pretty good dart
3. Hold my own at "Trivial Pursuit: Pop Culture Edition"
Things You Should Listen To
1. Your iPod
2. Your mother when she tells you to always wear clean underwear
3. Your heart (cuz Roxette told you to)
Things You Should Never Listen To
1. Self-doubt
2. Self-absorbed, condescending assholes
3. Rush Limbaugh/Michael Savage/Ann Coulter/Sean Hannity/Bill O'Reilly
4. Michael Bolton
Things I Would Like To Learn
1. Speed reading
2. To play the piano
3. How to beat the blackjack tables in Vegas with a foolproof card-counting method
Favorite Foods
1. Pizza
2. Sandwiches (a la Joey)
3. Most fruits and vegetables
4. Pickled beef tongue (no, I am not making that up)
Favorite Beverages
1. Dasani water, or City of Two Rivers water
2. Diet 7-Up/Diet Dew
3. Um...beeeer
TV Shows I Watched, Books I Read as a Kid
Many of the ones already listed above...
1. Love Boat
2. Fantasy Island
3. Land of the Lost
Books? I'm completely ashamed to say that I can't remember many of the books I read as a kid. Except the Star Wars trilogy.
People I Would Like To Tag
1. Adam Duritz
2. Edward Norton
3. Barry Sanders
4. Bill Parcells
5. Natalie Goldberg
(can't argue with Natalie Portman, either.)
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