Exceedingly Mundane

OK, it occured to me that most of you won’t know what a meme is. After all, a couple of weeks ago I had never heard of one. Then I got on my blogging obsession and ran across them and quickly became enamored of memes and websites that post daily or weekly meme questions.

BTW, I *think* it’s pronouned meeeme, as in rhymes with dream. 🙂

Here’s a technical definition of meme from a website:

As defined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976): “a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.” “Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation.”
www.silcom.com/~barnowl/chain-letter/glossary.htm

And here’s a definition of a meme, as it relates to a blog (short for web log):

Definition: In the world of blogs and bloggers, a meme is an idea, question, statement or project that is posted in one blog and answered to in many other blogs. Memes are used to propagate ideas in the blogosphere. Some blogs or web sites post memes on a daily, weekly, fortnightly or monthly basis.

Does that help? 😀

Well, I’m really excited about my new blog… is anyone out there?! 🙂

Going to start off today with a meme – this one is for Friday, and came from a site called Friday’s Feast. You can click Here to check out the site for yourself.

Here’s the questions for today, then look for my answers below it. If anyone wants to play along, you can post a comment with your answers.

Appetizer – If you were a dog, what breed would you be, and why?

Soup – What does the color purple make you think of?

Salad – Approximately how long does it take you to get ready each morning?

Main Course – How many cousins do you have, and are you close to them?

Dessert – Take your initials (first, middle, last) and come up with something else those letters could stand for. (Example: SFO = Sweet Funny Otter)

STACY’S ANSWERS:

Appetizer – Well, I would have to be a golden retriever, like my beloved Chessie and Sally. Goldens are lovable, faithful, and love unconditionally. They are the most wonderful dogs on the planet, as far as I’m concerned, and I would love to aspire to have those traits.

Soup – the color purple, that’s a harder one. This time of year, purple makes me think of Mardi Gras, since there is a lot of those colors around (purple, green and gold). The rest of the year, I guess it makes me think of orchids!

Salad – getting ready. Well, if I’m in a hurry, it takes me 45 minutes start to finish (shower, shave my legs, wash my hair, blow dry my hair, get dressed, put on makeup). If it’s somewhere important that I’m going, or just not in a hurry, the same thing takes about an hour. I just take more time doing the same things!

Main Course – cousins. Easy one for me – I have 3 that I don’t even know their names and have never met them. Tim, on the other hand, is a completely different story!

Dessert – my initials are SKH – how about Sweet, Kind Hambone !!!! 😀

I have several sites bookmarked to check out for blogging ideas for each day of the week. I really like a lot of these sites, lots of good questions to get you thinking and just interesting questions. Well, interesting to me anyway!

Here’s the site I used for today (Thursday) – Click Here

http://www.othersideofglenroad.org/backporch/index.php

And, as much as I like today’s questions, I like last week’s even better! Last week’s questions (when I was not doing this and didn’t know about these sites!) were about chocolate! So, being the chocoholic I am, I am going to cheat and answer last week’s questions this week.

::Light or Dark::

Onesome: Light– Light chocolate or dark chocolate? …or no chocolate at all?

Wow, hard to pick. I actually like milk chocolate the best, is that considered light? I like dark chocolate too, you would be hard pressed to find a chocolate I didn’t like!

Twosome: or– Yeah, easy stuff this week : Coffee with cream or black as night? Or maybe: colas or clear sodas? …or just water, thank you?

Well, if you’ve read my previous journal entry on Hambones about coffee, you know that background. Started drinking coffee last summer, but only with lots of sugar (Splenda) and creamer. Can’t drink it without creamer, and I almost insist on flavored creamers. Milk is ok, but not nearly as desirable to me as a flavored creamer.

Threesome: Dark– Light-colored clothing or dark clothes? Which do you prefer to wear? Angel to goth, we’re curious?

I prefer to wear dark colors on bottom (jeans normally, but I like black too), and sometimes dark on top or light, depends on what I’m wearing and what time of year it is. In the summer, I’m a lot more likely to wear a light colored top, since it gets so hot here. In the winter, I’m normally in dark colors (and lots of warm clothes) head to toe!

😛