The Friday Five

1. How many houses/apartments have you lived in throughout your life? two. six if you count the four years of college dorms.

2. Which was your favorite and why? I like this house. But I liked living in the apartment senior year the best, I suppose.

3. Do you find moving house more exciting or stressful? Why? Stressful because I have to clean. But it’s nice to clean, in a way. I just hate doing it sometimes.

4. What’s more important, location or price? Price.

5. What features does your dream house have (pool, spa bath, big yard, etc.)? Lots of space. Windows. A studio. pool, basketball court, hill for sledding, huge entertainment center. Massaging shower. I could go on but it’s late, so I won’t.

True Talent Test: Jennifer, your true talent is spatial ability.

Well, I knew there was a reason I became an engineer.

The beginning of the week memes:

PromoGuy’s Monday Mission 3.13

1. How old will you be on your next birthday? I will have attained 23 years of life on August 27, 2003.

2. One of the presents I was given for my birthday was a “George Foreman Grill.” I’ve always joked about them, so it was kind of a joke gift. But it turns out, it is a really neat little grill. Then it hit me, this is a gadget, except it is for the kitchen. Then I thought about it and realized that “gadgets” aren’t just techno-toys, gadgets are everywhere. What is your favorite gadget? Um. I don’t really have gadgets, I don’t think.

3. Tell me about someone that you lost touch with several years ago. Would you like to get back in touch with them again? What caused the separation? Has enough time passed? Would you still get along? Hmm. I guess I’d like to know what’s going on with people from high school. Ironically enough, if it happens, this year is my five year anniversary from hs. Eek. Most of the people I just lost touch with because we all got away from this town and went to college or got married, etc. Of course, I lost touch with some of them because I broke up with Chris. Sigh. Men. Can’t live with them, can’t avoid getting dumped on by your friends who suddenly became his friends.

4. I’ve not met many online friends in real-life (I.R.L.), but I’ve always assumed we’d get along great if we met. But then again, if we would since my online personality  (brash, outgoing) seems so different from how I see my RL offline version (introverted). Is there a difference between your online personality and your real-life version? Or are you pretty much the same person either way? I hope I’m pretty much the same. I’m possibly more talkative online than in rl, but I have no idea as I’ve never met anyone who can tell me 🙂

5. Being the quiet type, I have often felt like the online world has given me a greater chance to meet people I’d never meet IRL. In fact, I would bet that I would have never met any of you IRL if we had been in the same bookstore or coffee shop. So in that sense, I think the Internet has helped inter-personal communication for many people. Can you think of any ways that the Internet hinders person-to-person communication? What could we do to change things? Well, if we all had webcams life would be great. It’s hard to not be able to see the emotions on the person’s face, which is why there are emoticons, I suppose. I’m happy I have internet. Otherwise I’d have never met people from Cali, Canada, Australia, and the Philippines, to name a few. Besides, sometimes it’s nice to talk, but to not have to talk face-to-face.

6. Last night, about 1AM I was overcome with this amazing sense of inner peace. I hadn’t prayed, or done anything spiritual, yet, I felt like life was truly good and things could only get better. It seemed like I was given a mental “nudge” as if to say, quot;You’re doing great kid, stay with it and everything will keep getting better.” When was the last time you felt truly happy, or had that sense of perfect inner-peace? What does it take to get that feeling back when you need it? sheesh. sometime in school, most likely sometime during a track meet where the team was winning and I wasn’t doing so badly myself. I miss that feeling. Sometimes I get it when I’m reading a book, but alas, I’m a quick reader, so the feeling doesn’t last.

7. There are times when I just want to tell someone off. I don’t usually, since I have to work with them. Sometimes it is a family member and that would be even worse on down the road if I cut loose. If you could just verbally let loose on someone and be able to say anything you want, without repercussions, who would you say it to and what would you say? I have no idea. Perhaps Bush and I’d rail at him for sending us to war. Stupid Republican. Sometimes my mom and I’d ask why she thinks I should be off the computer at midnight. Sometimes God for not answering me. But I don’t do any of those…I’ve even gotten better at holding my tongue.

BONUS: Are we alive or just a dying planet? I hope we’re alive….

and:

This or That Tuesday

First, the April Fool’s Edition:

1. The Bogey-Man or Henry Kissinger? who?

2. Whips ‘n chains or soft ropes with furbound cuffs? um. no experience with that yet. probably the cuffs.

3. Fish sticks or Amazon.com? Yeah. Amazon, if they’d ever get their butts in gear and send me the darn CoD soundtrack!

4. Whitewall tires or color TV? Color TV.

5. Leather or lace? Leather.

6. Abraham Lincoln or leftover turkey? turkey.0

7. Movable Type or Star Trek? Neither. I’m a Greymatter babe, myself.

8. Happy Happy Joy Joy or Bounce Bounce Bounce like Tigger? Bounce Bounce Bounce.

9. The Michelin Man or the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man? I used to be scared of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. Darn Ghostbusters.

10. Thought-Provoking Question of the Week: If you HAD to marry one of the talking M&M’s in the TV commercials, would it be the red one or the yellow one? Why? aww. Probably Yellow. I feel sorry for him. Although no one remembers the Blue m&m. what about him?

and the Classic Games edition:

This-or-That: Classic Games Edition

1. Tag or hide & go seek? Tag. Or more likely, Red Rover.

2. Hopscotch or wiffle-ball? Wiffle-ball/softball.

3. Chutes & Ladders or Candyland? Chutes & Ladders.

4. Chess or checkers? Checkers.

5. Parcheesi or backgammon? Neither.

6. Twister or Yahtzee? Twister!

7. Trivial Pursuit or Scrabble?er. Never really played scrabble, so I can’t compare. I’d like to play Trivial Pursuit, just to see if I’m any better at it now.

8. Monopoly or The Game of Life? Life.

9. Go Fish or Gin Rummy? Go Fish.

10. Thought-Provoking Question of the Week: You have a young child (or just babysit one), who is about 6-7 years old, and you like to play various games with him/her. Do you: let the child win sometimes to help improve his/her self-esteem, or play normally, in order to teach the child that we can’t always win in life? I’d hopefully remember to do both.

Happy April Fools!

the friday five

1. What was your most memorable moment from the last week? er. my life is not very exciting right now. Perhaps it was reading Golden Fool. A good book 🙂

2. What one person touched your life this week? My mother.

3. How have you helped someone this week? yeah. I ground a lot of paper for my mom’s business.

4. What one thing do you need to get done by this time next week? a new layout for et.com.

5. What one thing will you do over the next seven days to make your world a better place? clean.

Satisfaction consists of doing things we were made for. —Marcus Aurelius