Memes of My Father: March 2009

Monday, March 30, 2009

Things You Wouldn't Think to Ask, From Christy

1. Have you ever been searched by the cops? No.

2. Do you close your eyes on roller coaster? Sometimes.

3. When's the last time you've been sledding? Provo, Utah Winter 1996

4. Would you rather sleep with someone else, or alone? With Someone else (my wife)

5. Do you believe in ghosts? No.

6. Do you consider yourself creative? Yes.

7. Do you think O.J. killed his wife? Yes.

8. Jennifer Aniston or Angelina Jolie? Both have admirable qualities.

9. Can you honestly say you know ANYTHING about politics? Yes.

10. Do you know how to play poker? Yes, but I'd never play it for money because I'm not that good at it.

11. Have you ever been awake for 48 hours straight? Yes. And might be again in the near future if my sleep schedule gets eratic enough.

12. What's the name of a song stuck in your head right now? Poing. It just sprang into existence at this question. You probably don't want to learn it or hear it.

13. Who was your first love? Not something I'd rather think about. I've got a better one now anyway. :) First REAL love = golddame.

14. If you're driving in the middle of the night, and no one is around you, do you run a red light? Well if I did it would be kind of dumb to admit it online, wouldn't it? :)

15. Do you have a secret that no one knows but you? No. But I have secrets that no one knows about but Jennifer and I.

16. When was the last time you cried? 18 days ago but only a little.

17. Have you ever been ice skating? More like 'ice skating'/Crashing a lot.

18. How often do you remember your dreams? Often.

19. What's the one thing on your mind? GET. A. JOB.

20. Do you always wear your seat belt? Yes.

21. What talent do you wish you had? Entrepreneurial Instinct.

22. Do you like sushi? Blech.

23. What do you wear to bed? Usually tshirt and underware.

24. Do you truly hate anyone? Yes, but no one I know personally.

25. If you could sleep with one famous person, who would it be? This is kind of like the traffic light question isn't it? Well in fact I wouldn't ACTUALLY sleep with any of them. If there was a time warp bizarro world of darkness where I had never met Jennifer, I could conceive that I would find Jennifer Conley attractive.

26. Do you know anyone in jail? Yes.

27. What food do you find disgusting? Squid.

28. Have you ever made fun of your friends behind their back? Very rarely.

29. Have you ever been punched in the face? Not since I was like...5.

30. Do you believe in angels and demons? I am open to the possibility, but find it unlikely. If they do exist, they are dead people, not feathered/batwinged monsters.

31. How old were you when you think you actually became a 'grown-up'? 35.

32. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? maybe NY city or Australia or Italy

33. Have you ever been in the hospital? Yes

34. Are you happy with your life today? Yes

35. Have you ever had a stalker? No, but I know someone who stalks friends online such that I am forced to keep my identity in that forum secret lets I too be stalked.

BBC Book Meme from my Aunt Cindy

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier --
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -- Have I read this book? Is the Pope Catholic?
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding -- no, but I skimmed enough to get an A on an essay about it.
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen --
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens --
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad --
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo --

Friday, March 27, 2009

According to the President's Quiz I am

William McKinley
Very ambitious. Always trying to keep up with the times, without spending too much money. Though some might accuse you of being a suck up, it always boils down to politics. You are almost friendly to a fault. Even though peace is your primary concern, if a fight is needed, your opponent has one. You are compatible with Grant.
And now make your own Quiz!
Millions of people will take it - its really easy and fun!

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Tween Fantasy Romance Power

Sheep Power

Fear them.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Forks

My sister recently thought profoundly about Forks, and I couldn't help but think about this:

I also thought of the Muppet Movie Fork in the Road bit, but apparently it isn't on the internet.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Stomp.

You Are Combat Boots

You are a complete and total rebel. You refuse to do what you're told, and you're quite stubborn.

You really don't care what other people think of you. You are tough and often ruthless.

You are independent, iconoclastic, and countercultural. You resent authority figures.

You are very headstrong. No one is going to pressure you into being someone you're not!

What Kind of Boots Are You?