PromoGuy dot Net: Monday Mission 3.40

1. If you were to go on a diet (not that you should, babe, you look marvelous), which of the “fad diets” sounds the most appealing to you? Eh. Definitely not the Atkins diet. I love pasta too much. I think I would go the tried and true method of working out. Appalling concept sometimes, but now that I’m near the park, I’ll just have to make use of the bike path…

2. I only ask, because with the holidays coming up, there will be a lot more food in our house than usual. It tempts me. Maybe if I exercise I can loose some now, and eat then and have it all balance out. Do you get much exercise? Hah. No. But I swear I am going to start. There’s an Aikido place down the street…yoga too, maybe I can get my lazy butt over there.

3. When I was walking the other night, I noticed a rent house was being cleaned out by the landlord. Apparently the owners just took the essentials and left a lot of junk in the house. The owner had stacked piles of junk on the lawn for the sanitation collectors. But I noticed several things in that mess that maybe I could use (like a gas powered hedge trimmer). I may still go back some dark evening. Have you ever raided someone’s junk pile that was left out for the garbage truck? Or gone dumpster diving? What did you find? Umm. Trash pile yes, but never for anything very big. No dumpster diving unless I mistakenly threw something away.

4. Also in that same dumpster was the most awful shade of bright green carpet you’ve ever seen. Seriously, you wouldn’t believe it if I showed you (and I will try to get a photo). Do you have any memories of ugly carpeting in your home or someone else’s? Well, we’ve got a really bad brown/tan/orange shag rug down in our basement…guess why it’s in the basement?

5. As summer draws to a close, it means fewer outside chores. One I won’t miss at all is mowing the lawn! What summertime chores will you be glad to see go away for the winter months? Er. I don’t really do outside chores.

6. Of course, it is hard to mention fall without at least touching on football. Do you have a(ny) favorite football team(s)? Do you and your family root for the same teams to win? The only reason I have a favorite football team is because there is one in my city. Go Rams! Eh. I’m not a football fan though. It just seems silly to me to have grown men running around after a little leather ball and beating each other up.

7. I will be heading to Anaheim next month to stay a few days for a convention. It would be great to meet up with some Bloggers, but I just don’t know many out there. If you were to visit California, are there any Bloggers you’d like to meet up with? (And if you are in California, then who would you like to come see you!) I’m sure there are….but I don’t know where alot of my fellow bloggers are from, therefore it might be a little difficult to elucidate that…

BONUS: Where can you begin to make your dreams all come true on the land or on the sea? Hmmm. The internet?

the friday five

1. What vehicle do you drive? A teal 93 Saturn SL1.

2. How long have you had it? Me personally, only a couple of months. The family in general…for about seven years.

3. What is the coolest feature on your vehicle? It functions.

4. What is the most annoying thing about your vehicle? The brakes squeal (this is recent) and the (not-factory-installed) sunroof leaks…sometimes (this has been since we got the car, used).

5. If money were no object, what vehicle would you be driving right now? A Chrystler Sebring convertible, green with tan top.

It’s official: I am a Hopeless Romantic. Of course, if you read any of this journal while I was crushing on people in college you’d know that already.

I can’t wait to light the candles in the apartment. Yay for good smells!

Hee! Go read the Dork Tower comic. It’s funny. And almost true…

PromoGuy dot Net: Monday Mission 3.39

1. US presidential candidate Wes Clark said recently that the American people are “really embarrassed” by the Bush administration, though no source was quoted and no figures were provided. Do you believe this is true? As a US citizen, are you embarrassed by President Bush? I’m a little embarrassed by him. At least learn proper grammar and vocabulary. And he sent us to war, which in my book is about the dumbest thing he could have done at that point in time. Of course, I’m a Democrat and didn’t vote for him in the first place. I really can’t see him getting a second term…I am so sorry he got one at all.

2. Do you have good friends in countries other than your own? Which is the furthest away? How did you meet them? What makes them such a great friend? I have some pen pals/online im buddies from the Philippines, and one from France. Met all of them online at the FF boards, which sadly are having some server problems, but hopefully will be back soon.

3. Two cars on the road right now bug me more than any others. The PT Cruiser and the Hummer. I am just so tired of seeing a PT Cruiser everywhere I look! I thought these were supposed to be special, but they are just everywhere. Even the new VW Beetles weren’t this bad. Sure there were a lot of them, but that was nothing compared to the PT’s omnipresence. It just bugs, that’s all. And the Hummer. I didn’t mind so much when they were rare. When Ahhhnold drove his, it was special. Then you’d see one or two here and there. Maybe it is the attitude of the young men driving these monster tanks. They way they love to intimidate other drivers, the smug attitude they have looking down on you (literally). Of course, I am generalizing so if you drive either of these, you know I don’t mean you. Are there any models of automobile on the road that irritate you when you see them? The PT Cruiser doesn’t bother me that much although I think it’s a little odd looking. Hummers, on the other hand, bother me very much unless you are in the military. There is absolutely no need for such a huge car that takes up so much space and uses so much gas. And how many people buying a hummer (and who has that $50,000 lying around just for a car!?!?!?!) are actually going to use if for its intended off-roading purpose? Ha. I don’t think so. They’re just too honkin’ big and I don’t think anyone needs them.

4. When you were in school, did you ride the bus? Do you have any school bus horror stories? What really went on in the back seats anyway? I rode the bus. Too far to walk but too close to drive…the beauty of a small school district. I never minded the bus too much, sometimes the seats were cold, old, or sticky from the patching tape, but that was about it. Nobody ever wanted to sit in the back of the bus because the seats were smaller to make way for the emergency exit.

5. Last week, I asked what sort of things a man should never say to a woman. Now it is time to turn the tables. There are a few things a woman can say to a man that can totally emasculate him. Such as: “Hold my purse.” What sort of things should a woman never say to a man? I have no idea. Not too many men say things to me period therefore it’s hard for me to have a clue about what’s allowed in conversation 😉

6. Do you have a favorite cartoon Super Hero? Who and why? Er. Spiderman, I suppose, but Superman and Batman are pretty cool too…though I never was much of a comics fan. And it’s been far too long since saturday morning cartoons so I have no idea what I liked back then.

7. Just what does it take to make you happy? A really good book, fixing a website, making a layout, anything Lord of the Rings.

BONUS: How can you wait anymore when you’re wondering what you’re waitin’ for? I always feel like I’m waiting for something…I’ll let you know when I figure out what it is.