Exceedingly Mundane

Feast One Hundred & Forty Four
May 18, 2007

Appetizer
List 3 emotions you experienced this week. Ugh, this was not one of my better weeks. Hate to not be positive. My three words would be depressed, bitter and frustrated 🙁

Soup
Name a car you’d love to have. You know, I’m SO not a car person. I am happy to have a decent, reliable vehicle to drive. I don’t have a dream car I would just love to have.

Salad
Describe your typical morning routine. Well, since we got Beau, this now involves dragging out of bed before daybreak to let Beau out. Usually multiple times before I really want to get up. On a good day, we get up and get dressed and go walking. If Tim is busy with work, the weather is bad or we’re not feeling well (like this week), we get up and Tim goes directly to work on his computer. I take care of Beau, make the bed, get clean water for Beau, feed Beau, grind the coffee beans and make coffee, fix our breakfast, etc. Then I start picking up – glasses in the sink that *someone* left out, clean dishes in the drainer from the last night, pick up stuff in the den, fluff the cushions on the couch, etc. Boring, huh?!

Main Course
Have you ever emailed someone famous? If so, who, and what did you say to them? Did they reply? Nope. Never. Gee, I’m really boring with these today 🙂

Dessert
Do you listen to podcasts? If so, which ones? I’ve listened to a couple, but it’s not something I do often. I’ve listened to them for TV shows (Lost and Battlestar Galactica) and I’ve listened to some from a local hospital on women’s health issues. But, I don’t think to update or listen to them very often.

Feast One Hundred & Forty Two
May 4, 2007

Appetizer
Name something you would not want to own. A motorcycle. Tim wants one and I do not want him to have it. A close second would be a snake for a pet. Over my dead body. Tim has a friend who has one. Yuck.

Soup
Describe your hair (texture, color, length, etc.). Gosh, I don’t like this question. I have icky hair. If I didn’t color it, it would be grey. It’s coarse, frizzy and has a mind of its own. It wants to flip one way one day and the opposite way the next day. I wish I had good hair 🙁

Salad
Finish this sentence: I’ll never forget ___________. The vacations that Tim and I take together. They are all great, each and every one.

Main Course
Which famous person would you like to be for one day? Why? Well, this didn’t specify living or dead. I wouldn’t want to be a famous person, but I would like to go back in time and see how so many famous people handled famous situations. Like FDR when Pearl Harbor was bombed and he had to give his famous speech. Or a meeting of the Continental Congress. Or sit back and watch Edison think and invent things. Stuff like that, fly on the wall kind of stuff rather than being in that person’s place for a day.

Dessert
Write one sentence about yourself that includes one thing that is true and another thing that is not. I wanted to be a pilot when I was younger, but I ruled it out because I suffer from motion sickness.

Feast One Hundred & Forty One
April 27, 2007

Appetizer
How fast can you type? Hmm, I haven’t got a clue! The last timed typing test I took was in high school and it was fairly high. I think I type average to moderately fast. We won’t talk about mistakes and having to backspace though 😀

Soup
What is your favorite online game? I don’t play a lot of online games. A bunch of games came on my new laptop and I’ve been playing those. I like Zuma and MahJongg, and I play Bejeweled every now and then.

Salad
On a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 as highest), how intelligent do you think you are? About a 7, maybe?!

Main Course
Name three of your best teachers from your school years. Here we go again with the memories and reminiscing. If you know me in real life, you know I can’t remember much of anything from childhood, growing up, school or even college. I’ve effectively blocked it out. I don’t remember any teachers, much less good ones 🙂

Dessert
What are your plans for this upcoming weekend? My dad turns 84 tomorrow and we hope to celebrate with him. I think he’s going to drive up and visit with us, but I’m not totally sure. Since my mom died almost 5 years ago, he likes to be footloose and fancy free and make decisions at the last minute. She was a planner and I think he enjoys making last minute decisions 🙂

Feast One Hundred & Forty
April 20, 2007

Appetizer
What is your favorite kind of bread? Good grief, what kind of bread don’t I like? I love most any bread hot out of the oven with butter slathered all over it.

Soup
When was the last time you bought a new pillow? Not that long ago, probably within the last 6 months. And I’ll be buying new ones soon. Tim is very hard on pillows and I buy 1-2 sets a year. I wash them a lot. Oh, and just yesterday, I bought some pillow protectors, but I haven’t taken them out of the package yet to try them.

Salad
Approximately how many hours per week do you spend surfing the ‘net? Oh wow, we REALLY don’t want to go there, do we? Let’s just say, too much

Main Course
What’s the highest you remember your temperature being? I have no idea, maybe 103º

Dessert
Fill in the blanks: When I ____________, I _____________. When I am tired, I am really grumpy and irritable. 🙂

Feast One Hundred & Thirty Nine
April 13, 2007

Appetizer
When you were a child, which crayon color was your favorite? When you were a child, what do you mean, “when you were a child“??? I still love crayons and I love to color! I try to coerce my youngest niece and nephew into coloring with me any chance I get. I love to color! It drives them nuts, because I color within the lines. I am drawn to the bright colors – red and orange. Probably red would be my most favorite 🙂

Soup
On a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being highest), how likely would you be to change jobs if it required you to move? Probably a 1 or 2! We like where we live, and family is close by, so we don’t want to move away from all of our family

Salad
Take all the numbers in your birthday and your phone number and add them up, one by one. What’s the total? 60 (I think I did this right, not sure!) – that’s if you leave out the 19 out of 19xx for my birthday year. I also included my area code. Interesting question!

Main Course
Have you ever “re-giftedâ€? anything? If so, what was it and who did you pass it on to? No, I have never re-gifted in the truest sense of the word. I have passed along something I have gotten as a gift if it’s something I didn’t want or wouldn’t use, but I told the person it was something I received and wouldn’t use, did they want it? I never try to pass it off as another gift.

Dessert
Name something you need from the store. MILK! Headed out in a little while for milk and orange juice and maybe a couple of other things. We drink a lot of milk around here 🙂

Feast One Hundred & Thirty Eight
April 6, 2007

Appetizer
When you travel, which mode of transportation do you prefer? Although I love the convenience of flying and getting somewhere quick, I hate the hassle of airports, rental cars, etc. I really would rather drive. Tim and I mostly drive on our vacations, and we love getting to spend the time together. However, we’ve about exhausted all of the places we want to go within a day’s driving distance from our home. Time to start hitting other parts of the country 🙂

Soup
Have you ever met a blogging friend in person? No, but I certainly have several that I do want to meet!

Salad
When was the last time you were really, really tired? Hmmm, I can’t really remember. I know when we went to Washington DC a couple of summers ago, and we walked one entire day, from the Capital to all of the monuments and memorials on the Mall, to the White House and other places, we were completely exhausted. More tired from the exertion than from lack of sleep. Our legs hurt so much, we both came back to the hotel and just crashed for hours.

Main Course
If you could have dinner with any one fictional character from a book or movie, who would it be?Oh wow, a real “thinker” question! I don’t know if I’ve had enough coffee yet to come up with a good answer. The first one that comes to mind is Father Tim in the Mitford books.

Dessert
Fill in the blank: One day, I hope to see _______________. London, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Paris, Vienna and Rome would be on there too.

Ooh, how exciting! I go to check the Friday Feast meme this morning and find out that Susie has a new site, a great new look, and the cutest little buttons. Yippee, it all looks so good 🙂

Without further ado, time to feast!

Feast One Hundred & Thirty Seven

Appetizer
What are you proud of? I’m proud of our website that Tim and I have built, and of my blogs. When I started blogging, it was sort of on a whim. I’d never been able to keep a journal or diary in my life. I always gave up after a month or two at most. I’m proud that I haven’t given up on it. I’m also proud that I’ve been able to keep up my Project365 photo blog every day.

Soup
What is the best thing you’ve ever won as a prize? I’ve won two trips before. Once when I was a pre-teen, to the Bahamas. I took my mom for a week! 🙂 Then, a few years ago, I won a trip to Dallas to see the Dixie Chicks in concert at the Cotton Bowl. That was back when I actually liked them though, so that one doesn’t count as much now. They are much too controversial and against what I believe in now, for me to support them.

Salad
Name something you do that is a waste of time. Duh. Surf the Internet, read blogs, read message boards, look for recipes, etc. I can waste an inordinate amount of time online.

Main Course
In what year of your life did you change the most? Gosh, I don’t know. I guess the year that I got married, I changed a lot. For the better 🙂

Dessert
Where is a place you consider to be very tranquil? My backyard and deck, this time of year or in the fall. The birds are chirping and flying around. I can hear the church bells chime on the hour from the church near my house. Beau runs around chasing the birds, squirrels, bugs and lizards he thinks he sees. I can sit out on my glider, prop my feet up and read a book. The sun is shining, a breeze is blowing and all is right with the world. 🙂

Friday, March 23, 2007
Feast One Hundred & Thirty Six

Appetizer
Who is your favorite news anchor/reporter? Why? You know, I really don’t have a favorite. I don’t watch a ton of news in the traditional news hour/anchor format. I guess I like Brian Williams on NBC and I do like Charles Gibson on ABC. I also sort of like Shephard Smith on Fox, but I wouldn’t really have a preference to any of them at this point.

Soup
Name 3 foods that are currently in your freezer. Boneless skinless chicken breasts, bone-in pork chops, whole green beans (and tons of other stuff; I’m a hoarder!)

Salad
If you were to have the opportunity to name a new town or city, what would you call it? How about Happiness or Sunshine or something cheerful?!

Main Course
What will most likely be the next book you read? After I finish “44 Cranberry Point” (4th in the Cedar Cove series by Debbie Macomber), I’m going to finish the 5th and final book in the Abram’s Daughter series by Beverly Lewis. After that, I haven’t decided yet! 🙂

Dessert
What’s the first thing you notice about the opposite gender? Eyes, smile

Friday, March 16, 2007
Feast One Hundred & Thirty Five

Appetizer
Name two things that made you smile this week.My perennial answer would be – Tim and Beau 🙂

Soup
Fill in the blank: Don’t you hate it when ________? People pull out in front of me when I’m driving down the road at oh, say, the speed limit or under it, and make me slam on my brakes. I hate that!

Salad
When you can’t go to sleep, what is your personal remedy to help yourself drift into Lullabyland? I try to do some breathing, slow deep breaths, inhale through the nose, hold it, blow out slowly through the mouth. If that doesn’t work (and it doesn’t a lot of the time), then Tylenol PM is sometimes my friend.

Main Course
What is something about which you’ve always wondered but have not yet found a good answer? Why some people are clumsy and some people aren’t. Why I can cut back on what I eat and exercise and work so hard to lose one pound, then all I have to do is look at a candy bar and I gain that pound back. 😛

Dessert
What is your favorite pasta dish? Aww man, that is too hard to narrow down. I love pasta and I love Italian food. When I eat Italian out, I usually get something different every time. I love manicotti, seafood lasagna, eggplant Parmesan, shrimp scampi over angel hair, fettuccine Alfredo, etc. When I make it at home, I have a good Cajun fettuccine Alfredo I like to make.

Friday, March 09, 2007
Feast One Hundred and Thirty Four

Appetizer
What is your usual bedtime? Do you like that, or would you rather it be different? Well, now that I’m not rushing out early in the AM to fight traffic, I sit up later than I used to. Bedtime now is usually around 10:30 to 11 PM.

Soup
When it comes to advice, do you give more or receive more? I think I receive more, but I might have family or friends who disagree with that.:roll:

Salad
Describe a memorable meal you’ve had. My birthday meals are always great – Tim takes me to my favorite Italian place and I eat to my heart’s content. Then, I order tiramisu for dessert and have to share it with my darling husband. 😀 Another memorable meal for me was one we had years ago at Big Cedar Lodge and Resort. I had a meal with cabbage. I didn’t think I liked cabbage, but I tasted it and it was good. Of course, they cooked it with a ton of bacon, so it was really tasty!

Main Course
Name a work of fiction that affected the way you think about something. Well, not for how you think, but probably The Da Vinci Code. Not because I believe it at all, but because it opened my eyes to the fact that people believe what I do not. The world is very big and very different and it was eye-opening for me to see how many people might not believe all of the things that I believe so strongly in.

Dessert
What is your favorite type of fruit juice? Oooh, TOUGH question! I can’t pick just one. I love juice. I love orange juice, but it can’t have pulp. I love apple juice, grape juice, cranberry juice, fruit blends, all of it. Yummy!

Friday, March 02, 2007
Feast One Hundred & Thirty Three

Appetizer
What does the color pink make you think of? Sweet baby girls

Soup
Name something you thought you had lost, but later found. Five pounds, LOL!

Salad
In 3 words, describe this past week. Hard Drive Failure.

Main Course
What are you obsessed with? Exceedingly Mundane things. Like blogging, watching my favorite TV shows, reading, playing with Beau. 😀

Dessert
What kind of perfume or cologne do you like to wear? Clinique Happy

Friday, February 23, 2007
Feast One Hundred & Thirty Two

OK, I realize I am excruciatingly late with this. 🙄 Sorry about that! My sister Gail and I have been out shopping all day and I haven’t had a chance to get anywhere near the computer. You can also check out my photo for today over on my Project365 blog. I just got it posted too.

Appetizer
Where on your body do you have a scar, and what caused it? I have a tiny scar on my forehead that I got when I was very small, maybe 3 or 4. A brick fell on my head! 🙂 Yes, that’s what is wrong with me now 😀

Soup
What is something that has happened to you that you would consider a miracle? That I finally found Tim 🙂

Salad
Name a television personality who really gets on your nerves. First one that pops into my head is Kelly Ripa. I used to like her when she was on All My Children but now she grates on my last nerve. I absolutely cannot stand her.

Main Course
What was a funny word you said as a child (such as “pasketti” for “spaghetti”)? I have absolutely, positively, no idea!

Dessert
Fill in the blank: I have always thought ______ was ______. I have always thought chocolate was a necessity in life!

Friday, February 09, 2007
Feast One Hundred & Thirty

Appetizer – Have you been sick yet this winter? If so, what did you come down with? Not really sick, but a minor sinus thing here and there. I got really run down around Christmas and it took me a few days to feel better and get my strength back. Thankfully, nothing very serious (knock on wood, I don’t feel that great today!)

Soup – What colors dominate your closet? Black and khaki mostly, with some white, red, pink and blue thrown in for good measure.

Salad – How would you describe your personal “comfort zone”? OK, maybe it’s because I have a headache, but I’m confused by this question. Does comfort zone mean where I’m most comfortable? If so, then at home or around family and friends. I’m not fond of big crowds and I have this thing about my “personal space” when I’m in a crowd with strangers. If comfort zone means what is a place where I’m comfortable or what does it look like…. again, home. Big comfy chair, wrapped up in a quilt, with some hot chocolate and a book, that’s comfort for me

Main Course – On which reality show would you really like to be a contestant? None of them, but if I had the guts and the abilities to do it, I’d like to do Amazing Race with Tim. Thankfully, I’m smart enough to realize my limitations and know that I would NOT do well in a stressful situation like that 🙂

Dessert – Which holiday would you consider to be your favorite? Probably Christmas, although I like them all!

Friday, February 02, 2007
Feast One Hundred & Twenty Nine

Appetizer
What was one of the fashion fads when you were a teenager? I was so totally unfashionable, it’s not even worth talking about. But, when I was in high school, I asked for a Polo for Christmas and got one. I was tickled pink. So, I guess the preppy stuff!!!

Soup
Name one thing you think people assume about you when they first meet you. That I’m a bit standoffish. Mostly, I’m shy and reserved and very uncomfortable around new people until I get to know them. 🙂 After that, watch out people!

Salad
On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being highest, how hard do you work? Umm, is -25 not an option?! 🙄

Main Course
If you were given a free 30-second commercial during the Super Bowl to sell anything you currently own, what would you advertise? I have no idea, but I’m sure Tim could come up with something to sell.

Dessert
Fill in the blank: I love to ________ when it is _________. I love to drink hot cocoa (my homemade) when it’s cold outside.