Exceedingly Mundane

OK, some Exceedingly Mundane random and assorted questions for today:

1) What is the price of milk where you live?

2) When was the last time you printed out a photograph?

3) What’s a movie or TV show you are liking or have enjoyed recently?

4) Do you have an area in your house that has clutter? Something that piles up on you, like mail or dishes or laundry or receipts?

5) How much is gas where you live?

I’ve had this in my drafts folder for a long time. Years, actually! Ha, how about that for punctual blogging! 😀

There’s a site you can check to see how common your name is, and what the top names currently are in the United States. You know, in case you’re really bored and don’t have anything else to do!

Go check out your name and see just how “common” you are!

Go here to take a fun little quiz (it’s short too, just 10 questions), and see if you can guess which items have the most calories. It’s tough to pick between donuts, chick-fil-a sandwiches and burgers 🙂

I must admit – I only got 6 out of 10 correct. Of course, the second time through, I got them all correct, LOL! 😀

If you take it, leave me a comment and let me know how smart you are 🙂

How fast do you think you type? I actually thought I was a little faster than this, sniff, sniff 😀

76 words

Speed test

If you take it, be sure to post at your blog, or let me know what your results were!

OR… you could go play TypeRacer. Tim and I played this for a few days, back when I was taking my short bloggy break. I posted much higher scores here (usually in the low 90’s), but it was harder at times. They have some difficult quotes and book excerpts that they use on this site. Fun stuff, if you’re in a typing mood 🙂

Have a great day!

OK, sometimes I really like taking these things! This one is about half right – I am very ordered and I do love to make lists! The brilliant stuff though, well, that’s just poppycock!

You Are a Colon

You are very orderly and fact driven. You aren’t concerned much with theories or dreams… only what’s true or untrue. You are brilliant and incredibly learned. Anything you know is well researched. You like to make lists and sort through things step by step. You aren’t subject to whim or emotions. Your friends see you as a constant source of knowledge and advice. (But they are a little sick of you being right all of the time!) You excel in: Leadership positions You get along best with: The Semi-Colon

What punctuation mark are you?! 🙂 If you hop over and take the quiz, be sure to let me know how you scored!

I’ve seen this on a couple of blogs, and goodness knows, I normally love these little quizzes. This one, however, couldn’t be further from the truth!!!

What Stacy Means

You are the total package – suave, sexy, smart, and strong. You have the whole world under your spell, and you can influence almost everyone you know. You don’t always resist your urges to crush the weak. Just remember, they don’t have as much going for them as you do. You are a seeker. You often find yourself restless – and you have a lot of questions about life. You tend to travel often, to fairly random locations. You’re most comfortable when you’re far away from home. You are quite passionate and easily tempted. Your impulses sometimes get you into trouble. You are usually the best at everything … you strive for perfection. You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive. You have the classic “Type A” personality. You are very open. You communicate well, and you connect with other people easily. You are a naturally creative person. Ideas just flow from your mind. A true chameleon, you are many things at different points in your life. You are very adaptable. You are a free spirit, and you resent anyone who tries to fence you in. You are unpredictable, adventurous, and always a little surprising. You may miss out by not settling down, but you’re too busy having fun to care.

I’m neither restless nor do I love to travel. I’m the epitomy of a homebody. 🙂
I’m the polar opposite of a Type A personality. I’m perfectly content to be second, or third, or last. 🙂
I don’t connect or communicate well with others, especially at first. I don’t have a creative bone in my body.
Free spirit? Hah! Adventurous and unpredictable? Double Hah! These describe someone else with my name, but not me!

It was fun though, go check it out and see what it says about you!

I was going through another old magazine yesterday and saw another one of these fun polls. These are in Woman’s Day magazine, in case you’re interested (since I keep stealing their ideas and posting them here!). This is one of those magazine subscriptions I get for free – I cashed in some points at one of my “read emails/take surveys” points sites online, and I get several magazine subscriptions free every year from doing that. Anyway, here’s another good one.

If money were no object, where would you go on vacation?

1. A Theme Park like Disney World, in style with deluxe accommodations
2. On safari in Africa
3. A cultural tour of Paris, Rome and London (museums and art, baby!)
4. The sunny islands: Hawaii or the South Pacific

Cast your vote now 🙂

I was going through an old magazine the other day (still a work in progress, this “going through and throwing out my huge mountain of magazines” project), and I ran across a quick poll they posted. I thought it was a good question, so I thought I’d ask here.

What would you do?

If you found a $100 bill on the sidewalk, what would you do?

1. Put it in my wallet (hello, new shoes!)
2. Pass it by. Gross. Germs!
3. Give the money to charity
4. Add it to my savings

Cast your vote now 🙂

Another one of these little quizzes that is right on target for me. We are totally not beach people. Something about fair skin, freckles, burns in 10 minutes, doesn’t like to sweat. Something like that. In fact, in the eleven years we’ve been married, Tim and I have never been to the beach! “Been to the beach” as in a destination choice, vacation spot, some place we intended to go. We’ve stopped as we’re passing by or stuck our feet in the sand or water for 10 seconds, but that’s it. We’re totally and completely “mountain” type of people, so this quiz was spot on for me 🙂

You Should Spend Your Summer in the Mountains

You’re quiet, introspective, and a great thinker. You need a summer vacation that gets you away from the crowds and the heat. So retreat to the mountains, where you can clear your head.

OK, how about a quick “Question of the Day“: Are you more of a beach person or a mountains person? You can just pick one! Leave me a comment and let me know!

What color are you? Go take the test and see! I would say this one is right on for me 🙂

You Are A Gold Girl

You’re dependable and hard working. You never miss a deadline – and you’re never late. You have a clear sense of right and wrong. You’re very detail oriented. You get frustrated when your friends are sloppy – or when they don’t follow through. You’re on top of things, and you wish that everyone else was!

Good grief! Usually these things are not all that accurate for me, but this one is spot on. I have a degree in math and computer science and I consider myself a very logical person. I love dogs, I love reading, and I love and adore peace and quiet. Crave it, really. The only part that isn’t right (and this would be my 25%, I guess), is that I do like sports, especially football!! 😀

You Are 75% Left Brained, 25% Right Brained

The left side of your brain controls verbal ability, attention to detail, and reasoning. Left brained people are good at communication and persuading others. If you’re left brained, you are likely good at math and logic. Your left brain prefers dogs, reading, and quiet. The right side of your brain is all about creativity and flexibility. Daring and intuitive, right brained people see the world in their unique way. If you’re right brained, you likely have a talent for creative writing and art. Your right brain prefers day dreaming, philosophy, and sports.

I saw this the other day over at Debi‘s blog, and thought it looked like fun. Thanks for doing it and posting the link Debi!

OK, my sister Gail tagged me for this meme. The object, apparently, is to list 9 weird things about yourself. The innate problem with me doing this particular meme is that Gail and I are very very much alike. We’re more like twins separated by several years (although I’d love to tell you how many, Gail would kill me!!! ), so we like and dislike a lot of the same things, and surprisingly, we have a lot of the same quirks.

So, my answers could easily be many of the same ones that Gail answered (read hers here)… but, I’ll strive to be different. Without further ado, 9 weird things about me:

1. I have this thing about stuff being in the right place. For example, if Tim puts the mayonnaise jar back in the fridge (but not where it’s supposed to go, on the shelf on the door), I will move it back to it’s rightful spot the next time I open the refrigerator. Every single time.

2. Similarly, since I like things in their “correct” place, I have a tendency to move things like keys or coasters. Tim will drop his keys on the countertop in the kitchen, so I hang them up on their hook on the key holder. If he moves his coaster on the end table to the coffee table, I move it back to the end table. It’s the OCD/Monk syndrome in me

3. Tim offered this one for this meme – when I cry, I sweat a little on my upper lip. 🙄

4. When I read a book or magazine, I won’t use anything but a bookmark or a spare piece of torn paper to mark my page. I won’t stick anything else in it, bend it back on the spine, or turn the corner of the page down. I don’t like messing up my books and magazines 🙂

5. I used to win things all the time on the radio. I’ve won 2 trips (one to the Bahamas when I was 12 and one to Dallas to see the Dixie Chicks a few years ago), tons of movie tickets, albums, cassettes and CD’s (yes, I’m old), and even food. One year I won a honey-baked ham at Thanksgiving and one year at Christmas I won a huge tray of stuff from Chick-Fil-A. Alas, I haven’t won anything lately though. Since we got digital cable and I got an iPod, I don’t listen to local radio much anymore!

6. I have never seen the Wizard of Oz. And I never will. All of my family thinks that I am weird, but I don’t care. I didn’t see it as a child and I know it won’t mean anything to me as an adult.

7. On the same wavelength, I have never seen an entire episode of certain shows on television from start to finish. Shows like The Andy Griffith Show, Everybody Loves Raymond, Law & Order, etc. I have seen snippets, bits and pieces, but I’ve never sat down and watched one from beginning to end.

8. There are TV shows that I love though, and movies too, and I can quote long sections of dialogue. TV Shows like Friends and Mad About You (which I ADORED!) and movies like The Sound of Music, You’ve Got Mail, Princess Bride, all of the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings movies… I know tons of dialogue and even inflections in their voices and can replicate it.

9. Tim says that my obsession with Chinese food is “weird”. He gets burned out on certain kinds of food, and for the last several YEARS, it has been Chinese. I could eat it every day, but I have to settle for once every few weeks or months. He thinks I’m weird because I want to eat Chinese so much. I don’t think it’s weird, but I did ask his opinion on this meme, and he threw that one out at me

BONUS: I just realized, as I was sitting here at my computer, in my computer chair, thinking about these and typing them up, that I sit in my chair with one leg up under me (or sometimes, both legs!). I do it all the time, and never think a thing about it. Other people might think it’s weird though. I have to have one or both legs up in my chair when I’m at the computer. I can’t sit here correctly, ergonomically, with my feet on the floor in a correct position. I just can’t. 😛

I won’t tag anyone specifically, but please feel free to play along, either at your own blog, or leave me a comment here about something that is “weird” about you, or that other people think is weird, and you think it’s just fine!!!!

OK, today seems to be a “don’t have anything to blog about” kind of day. I’ve been doing a lot of memes lately, and I couldn’t find one I wanted to do today. Plus, my days have be minorly boring, with nothing really interesting to blog about (I could blog about the amount of golf my better half is playing, but, I won’t!).

So…. Let’s do a simple poll… please feel free to leave a comment with more info, if you’d like 🙂

Have a great day!

OK, some of what this says might be true. But, I’m definitely not a morning person, I’m a night owl! I don’t function well in the AM 😀

You Are Sunrise

You enjoy living a slow, fulfilling life. You enjoy living every moment, no matter how ordinary. You are a person of reflection and meditation. You start and end every day by looking inward. Caring and giving, you enjoy making people happy. You’re often cooking for friends or buying them gifts. All in all, you know how to love life for what it is – not for how it should be.