tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28333421.post5375784799659445012..comments2023-10-30T08:04:57.279-05:00Comments on It is what it is...: Memo: ...it's all about MeMe! No, I'm not sorry.mimikatemomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00574640676666558198noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28333421.post-62522400586461730972007-02-06T22:19:00.000-06:002007-02-06T22:19:00.000-06:00I guess I'm a little late to this party, but I fig...I guess I'm a little late to this party, but I figured I'd add my two cents, anyway.<br /><br />Things That Scare Me<br />1. The idea of being stuck in a rut...forever<br />2. Heights (when combined with roof pitches)<br />3. Not having very interesting answers for this meme<br /><br />People That Make Me Laugh<br />OK, let's start with the heavyweights first...<br />1. Dave Barry<br />2. Steve Martin (brilliant writer)<br />3. Al Franken<br />4. Ellen DeGeneres<br />5. Adam Sandler<br />And just off the top of my head...<br />6. Christopher Titus (not his canceled sitcom, cuz that kinda blew. but his 90-minute special, "Norman Rockwell is Bleeding." good stuff.)<br />7. And after reading many of his blog entries, and comments...Greg Pagel.<br /><br />Things I Love<br />1. Concerts<br />2. Clear nights when you can see about a gazillion and fourteen stars in the sky<br />3. Books! BooksBooksBooksBooks!!<br />4. Hangin' with friends and laughing<br /><br />Things I Hate<br />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.)<br />2. The "n" word<br />3. Writer's block<br /><br />Things I Don't Understand<br />1. Quantum physics<br />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<br />3. Why I'm not worth at least 49 mil by now<br /><br />Things on my Desk<br />1. A Post-It note with an unattributed quote that says, "My karma ran over your dogma."<br />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)<br />3. Many, many black and blue roller ball pens, and a few Sharpies<br />4. Clutter<br />5. More (and more) of No. 4<br /><br />Things I'm Doing Right Now<br />1. Wondering when the hell it might reach six degrees <i>above</i> zero!<br />2. Listening to "Hate Me," by Blue October<br />3. Pondering<br /><br />Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die<br />1. Go to a book signing and be the guy sitting <i>behind</i> the desk, asking, "Who should I make this out to?"<br />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.<br />3. Be my own boss<br />4. Save a life<br />5. Find my "The One"<br /><br />Things I Can Do<br />1. Write a little<br />2. Shoot a pretty good dart<br />3. Hold my own at "Trivial Pursuit: Pop Culture Edition"<br /><br />Things You Should Listen To<br />1. Your iPod<br />2. Your mother when she tells you to always wear clean underwear<br />3. Your heart (cuz Roxette told you to)<br /><br />Things You Should Never Listen To<br />1. Self-doubt<br />2. Self-absorbed, condescending assholes<br />3. Rush Limbaugh/Michael Savage/Ann Coulter/Sean Hannity/Bill O'Reilly<br />4. Michael Bolton<br /><br />Things I Would Like To Learn<br />1. Speed reading<br />2. To play the piano<br />3. How to beat the blackjack tables in Vegas with a foolproof card-counting method<br /><br />Favorite Foods<br />1. Pizza<br />2. Sandwiches (a la Joey)<br />3. Most fruits and vegetables<br />4. Pickled beef tongue (no, I am <i>not</i> making that up)<br /><br />Favorite Beverages<br />1. Dasani water, or City of Two Rivers water<br />2. Diet 7-Up/Diet Dew<br />3. Um...beeeer<br /><br />TV Shows I Watched, Books I Read as a Kid<br />Many of the ones already listed above...<br />1. Love Boat<br />2. Fantasy Island<br />3. Land of the Lost<br />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.<br /><br />People I Would Like To Tag<br />1. Adam Duritz<br />2. Edward Norton<br />3. Barry Sanders<br />4. Bill Parcells<br />5. Natalie Goldberg<br />(can't argue with Natalie Portman, either.)Gregghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07472476562600663387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28333421.post-75662422964671221402007-02-01T13:19:00.000-06:002007-02-01T13:19:00.000-06:00Things That Scare Me
1. Working things out
2. Chan...Things That Scare Me<br />1. Working things out<br />2. Changing course after the original course has been set<br />3. Not living long enough to see each of my kids grow up.<br /><br />People That Make Me Laugh<br />1. Gen X'ers<br />2. Next Gen'ers<br />3. Certain parents at kids' sports, theatrical, etc. events<br /><br />Things I Love<br />1. Sticking to my guns, right or wrong<br />2. Getting a baby-sitter one way or the other for some "me time"<br />3. People agreeimg with me, sympathizing with me, feeling my pain, etc. - right or wrong, self-inflicted or not<br /><br />Things I Hate<br />1. People who don't agree with me, symapthize with (for) me, feel my pain etc.<br />2. People who pretend to be "deep" and feel the need to show everyone how "deep" they are<br />3. Quitters<br />4. Selfishness<br />5. Anything that includes alcohol<br /><br />Things I Don't Understand<br />1. Why we all just can't get along<br />2. Why honest communication is essential on making things work between human beings<br />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.<br /><br />Things on my Desk<br />1. Bills<br />2. More bills<br />3. My "advisors" (aka Self Help books)<br />4. The only "person" I can really talk to, my PC<br /><br />Things I'm Doing Right Now<br />1. Keeping myself from vomitting<br />2. Wondering what I am doing here<br />3. Thinking "how ashsme" it all is<br />4. Wondering if I made a mistake<br /><br />Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die<br />1. Watch the kids grow up, not miss a thing, and see them start their families<br />2. Improve my relationship with my significant other (really)<br />3. Get fit<br /><br />Things I Can Do<br />1. Avoid confrontation<br />2. Avoid fixing anything<br />3. Let things bother me but not tell anyone<br />4. Make my own decisions<br /><br />Things You Should Listen To<br />1. People who don't agree with you<br />2. People who have been there, done that<br />3. Your kids<br /><br />Things You Should Never Listen To<br />1. People who like to tell you what you "should" do who have never done it themselves<br />2. Some person trying to sell a book to make "you" better<br />3. Bloggers<br />4. Most people who have never been married, never had kids, never owned a home giving advice about the same<br />5. People who agree with everything you say, everything you do even when it is wrong<br />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<br /><br />Things I Would Like To Learn<br />1. How to explain life's little lessons to the kiddos<br />2. Tolerance<br />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<br />4. Why people will listen to anyone that agrees with them all the time<br /><br />Favorite Foods<br />1. Scallops<br />2. Chocolate<br />3. Pizza<br /><br />Favorite Beverages<br />1. Water<br />2. Skim milk out of the jug<br />3. Almost anything non-alcoholic and/or w/o caeffine.<br /><br />TV Shows I Watched, Books I Read as a Kid<br />1. Homeword Bound<br />2. Moonbeam<br />3. The Big Valley<br />4. Love American Style<br />5. The Night Stalker<br />6. The Twilight Zone<br />7. Leave It To Beaver<br />8. The Munsters<br />9. The Beverly Hillbillies<br />10. Speed Racer<br />11. The Incredible Journey<br /><br />People I Would Like To Tag<br />1. "Tag"??<br />2. "meme"??<br />3. not hip to the lingoBob Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17848416268973419886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28333421.post-49552425883696095242007-02-01T11:31:00.000-06:002007-02-01T11:31:00.000-06:00Things That Scare Me
1. Rich white men
2. Our envi...Things That Scare Me<br />1. Rich white men<br />2. Our environmental situation<br />3. public speaking<br /><br />People That Make Me Laugh<br />1. Gilda Radner<br />2. Stephen Colbert<br />3. All the writers who write for "The Onion"<br /><br />Things I Love<br />1. drinking too much coffee on a rainy day<br />2. my dog's silky belly<br />3. bedtime<br /><br />Things I Hate<br />1. Politics<br />2. violence/war<br />3. our current administration<br /><br />Things I Don't Understand<br />1. why our healthcare system sucks<br />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)<br />3. violence<br /><br />Things on my Desk<br />1. a biohazard container<br />2. lavender aurum cream<br />3. acupuncture needles<br /><br /><br />Things I'm Doing Right Now<br />1. drinking yerba mate with cream<br />2. looking at my sweet slumbering dog<br />3. stressing on all my paperwork for damn insurance companies<br /><br />Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die<br />1. see the dalai lama in tibet<br />2. give birth in the deserts of mongolia surrounded by buddhist nuns<br />3. get my doctorate<br /><br />Things I Can Do<br />1. sit in full lotus<br />2. a plethora of zany yoga poses<br />3. cure a hangover<br /><br />Things You Should Listen To<br />1. blackaliscious<br />2. my husband's attempt to sing like a tuvin (throat sing)<br />3. my dog snore<br /><br />Things I Would Like To Learn<br />1. The guitar<br />2. Tibetan<br />3. How to knit<br /><br />Favorite Foods<br />1. Chicken tortilla soup<br />2. Nepalese Food (takari)<br />3. Ethiopian Food (Injera and alicha)<br /><br />Favorite Beverages<br />1.coffee<br />2. tea<br />3. water<br /><br />TV Shows I Watched, Books I Read as a Kid <br />1. H&R puff and stuff shows<br />2. Fantasy Island<br />3. gilligan's islandjennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08229317376895745562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28333421.post-77198115734193888482007-01-31T21:34:00.000-06:002007-01-31T21:34:00.000-06:00These are some great comments!
By the way, despit...These are some great comments!<br /><br />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!TWORIVERSWALRUShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00566745440702304518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28333421.post-76647770309072157462007-01-31T18:40:00.000-06:002007-01-31T18:40:00.000-06:00Things That Scare Me
1. Illness
2. Unfamiliar plac...Things That Scare Me<br />1. Illness<br />2. Unfamiliar places<br />3. Confrontation<br /><br />People That Make Me Laugh<br />1. Melissa<br />2. My kids<br />3. Meff<br />4. My little brother<br />5. "FARTING PREACHER TWO!!" (on YouTube)<br />6. The Marx Brothers<br /><br />Things I Love<br />1. The wife and kids<br />2. fleeting moments of contentment<br />3. Gigs that go well<br />4. Talking with good friends<br />5. "anime night" with the wife (sadly, that's NOT a sex thing)<br /><br />Things I Hate<br />1. Greed, hatred, ingnorance<br />2. abused religion<br />3. Violence<br /><br />Things I Don't Understand<br />1. How Bush won the 2004 election<br />2. Why so many smart people listen to stupid music<br />3. Why so many smart people watch such stupid TV shows<br />4. why more people can't see the connection between 1,2 & 3 above.<br /><br />Things on my Desk<br />1. a melodica<br />2. a picture of Collin half-naked at my brother's wedding<br />3. "Piano Music of Robert Schumann, book one" edited by Clara Schumann<br />4. some Legos<br />5. "Meiczyslaw Horszowski plays Bach, Schumann and Chopin" CD (recorded when he was 100!)<br />6. A deck of "Tibetan Buddhism" cards Jenny sent me!<br />7. A Sony Handycam<br />8. a $5 Subway coupon<br />9. red, orange, blue, green and black Sharpie markers<br />10. A whole lot of other stuff<br /><br />Things I'm Doing Right Now<br />1. thinking I should clean my desk<br />2. listening to Paige Ruh play "School's Out" (by David Glover, not Alice Cooper)<br />3. Smiling<br /><br />Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die<br />1. See a cure for Chrohn's disease that I'm not allergic to<br />2. See a cure for diabetes<br />3. Make more money from playing and composing<br />4. See my kids grow up to have happy families of their own.<br /><br />Things I Can Do<br />1. Watch my breath for several minutes (sometimes)<br />2. play jazz<br />3. work out on the elliptical for about an hour<br />4. make my kids laugh by impersonating Toshiro Mifune<br />5. <br /><br />Things You Should Listen To<br />1. your true nature<br />2. whomever is speaking<br />3. George Webb<br /><br />Things I Would Like To Learn<br />1. Japanese<br />2. a Martial art (I don't care which)<br />3. To pilot an airplane<br /><br />Favorite Foods<br />1. anything Italian<br />2. Pad Thai<br />3. flaky cereal<br /><br />Favorite Beverages<br />1. diet coke/pepsi<br />2. red sugar-free kool-aid<br /><br />TV Shows I Watched, Books I Read as a Kid<br /><br />TV:<br />1. Battlestar Galactica<br />2. Doctor Who<br />3. Battle Of The Planets<br />4. Mork and Mindy<br />5. Happy Days<br />6. 6 Million Dollar Man<br />7. Cheers<br /><br />Books:<br />8. The novelized versions of "Star Wars" movies<br />9. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and it's sequels<br />10. about 4 of the "OZ" books by L. Frank Baum<br /><br />People I Would Like To Tag<br />(Not sure what tag means in this case)<br />1. Tha Dalai Lamakarmadoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16529578964655359852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28333421.post-76304184718791384462007-01-31T15:47:00.000-06:002007-01-31T15:47:00.000-06:00(I removed my first post because I wanted you guys...(I removed my first post because I wanted you guys to check out my new blog!)<br /><br />Technically, when you do a meme it is supposed to be posted into your own blog, but following the trend, here I go:<br /><br />Things that scare me:<br />1. Republicans<br />2. Screwing up my kids.<br />3. Losing my parents.<br /><br />People that make me laugh:<br />1. My hubby<br />2. My kids<br />3. Everything spoken and not spoken on The Office<br /><br />Things I love:<br />1. Going to bed with just the hubby.<br />2. When my kids climb in bed with me in the morning.<br />3. Accomplishing something.<br /><br />Things I hate:<br />1. The battle of the bulge<br />2. How I feel after yelling at my <br />kids (stole this from Paula).<br />3. Close-mindedness<br />4. When people say "irregardless" and "boughten".<br /><br />Things I don't understand:<br />1. All-things arithematic.<br />2. Why I can't stop shoving food into my mouth!!<br />3. Ditto on the Paris Hilton thing!<br /><br />Things I'm doing right now:<br />1. Trying to get a little time to myself.<br />2. Fighting urges to binge.<br /><br />Things I want to do before I die:<br />1. Enjoy life.<br />2. Move to a warm, tropical climate.<br />3. See my kids grow up and have<br />kids of their own.<br /><br />Things I can do:<br />1. Listen without talking.<br />2. Function on very little sleep.<br />3. Learn.<br /><br />Things you should listen to:<br />1. Your mom<br />2. Your favorite music<br />3. Your baby's breathing in the middle of the night.<br /><br />Things you should never listen to:<br />1. Politicians.<br />2. Anything that says "6 seconds to better abs!"<br /><br />Things I would like to learn:<br />1. To be more patient<br />2. To be a better person<br />3. To be more positive (Wow, Paula, I think you and I were separated at birth).<br />4. How to be a productive businesswoman.<br /><br />Fav Foods:<br />1. Cheese Pizza<br />2. Rice Pilaf<br />3. Potatoes<br />4. Mozzerella Sticks<br />Do I see a carb/cheese theme here?<br /><br />Fav Beverages:<br />1. Diet coke<br />2. Diet Dr. Pepper<br />3. Water (well, it will be my favorite soon!)<br />4. Tea (see #3)<br /><br />Shows Watched/Books Read as a kid:<br />1. Christopher Pike books<br />2. Ramona books<br />3. Sweet Valley High<br />4. Babysitter's ClubNicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06725046933190911444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28333421.post-20901350011956523072007-01-31T11:27:00.000-06:002007-01-31T11:27:00.000-06:00The late, great Mitch Hedberg... We have two of hi...The late, great Mitch Hedberg... We have two of his CD's.<br /><br />People I Would Like To Tag - I took it to mean "touch."<br /><br />1. Pewter (good choice)<br />2. Everyone else who comments in this little blog family<br />3. Natalie Portman - it'd be so cool if she stopped by.TWORIVERSWALRUShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00566745440702304518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28333421.post-33526125241339490322007-01-31T11:02:00.000-06:002007-01-31T11:02:00.000-06:00Love Mitch Hedberg :) Thanks xm radio. Feel fre...Love Mitch Hedberg :) Thanks xm radio. Feel free to change the rules btw. ;) Tag means who you want to do the meme.mimikatemomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00574640676666558198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28333421.post-41149901995367996032007-01-31T10:57:00.000-06:002007-01-31T10:57:00.000-06:00Things That Scare Me
1. Spiders
2. Snakes
People ...Things That Scare Me<br />1. Spiders<br />2. Snakes<br /><br />People That Make Me Laugh<br />1. Craig Ferguson<br />2. The Howard Stern crew<br />3. Mitch Hedberg<br /><br />Things I Love<br />1. The wife and family<br />2. "All you can eat"<br />3. Shower-baths<br /><br />Things I Hate<br />1. Cigarettes<br />2. Coffee<br />3. People who drive their convertibles with the top down, but the windows up. Do you know how stupid you look? No, apparently not.<br /><br />Things I Don't Understand<br />1. How Paris Hilton became famous.<br />2. Why the music video became more important than the music. Music is for the ears, not the eyes.<br /><br />Things on my Desk<br />1. A 1981 Star Wars figure of R2D2 (With senserscope)<br />2. A 2002 Javon Walker football card<br />3. A Simpsons' page-a-day calendar<br />4. A collage of Brett Favre photographs<br /><br />Things I'm Doing Right Now<br />1. Getting ready to call an attorney in Mississippi<br />2. Drinking water<br />3. This<br /><br />Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die<br />1. Have sex in all 50 states (15 to go)<br />2. Have sex on all seven continents (six to go)<br />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!<br /><br />Things I Can Do<br />1. Karaoke in front of strangers<br />2. Enjoy public speaking (Seriously)<br />3. Talk backwards, and sing the Flintstones' theme backwards in real time<br />4. Move my ears up and down<br />5. Stop a fan with my tongue<br /><br />Things You Should Listen To<br />1. Rock & Roll<br />2. The waves crashing onto a Hawaiian shoreline<br /><br />Things I Would Like To Learn<br />1. The guitar<br />2. Self-confidence<br />3. To pilot an airplane<br /><br />Favorite Foods<br />1. Pizza (A cliche, I know)<br />2. My lovely wife's "Survivor" chicken<br />3. Buffets<br /><br />Favorite Beverages<br />1. Soda<br />2. Fruity alcohol drinks<br /><br />TV Shows I Watched, Books I Read as a Kid<br />1. The Flintstones<br />2. The Dukes Of Hazzard<br />3. Battle Of The Planets<br />4. Little House On The Prarie (Guilty pleasure, to be sure. Today we have the entire series on DVD)<br />5. The Jeffersons<br />6. Sanford & Son<br />7. The Brady Bunch<br />8. Star Trek<br />9. Scooby Doo<br />10. Leave It To Beaver<br />11. "Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing"<br />12. "Superfudge"<br /><br />People I Would Like To Tag<br />(Not sure what tag means in this case)<br />1. Natalie PortmanTWORIVERSWALRUShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00566745440702304518noreply@blogger.com