I got this meme from Joan Harvest. I like it, and Like Joan, I’m not tagging anyone for it but if you want to do it I’d love to read it. I’ve thrown some photos in here that have nothing to do with anything…I just wanted to break up the text.
1. What does gobbledygook mean to you? As un-PC as this sounds, gobbledygook is when people are speaking to me in a foreign language like Chinese or mathematics, though I have recently adopted Maxine’s phrase of “hibbityhoo” which is far more descriptive.
2. What do you like about yourself? I have no idea.Maybe that I’ve gotten to know myself over the years, which has made my life a lot easier. I no longer sign up for classes like “Conversational French” or agree to go to baby showers.
3. What activity do you enjoy doing, that you never thought you would until you tried it? Watching Denise Richards: It’s Complicated.
4. What have you learned about yourself from your previous (and current) romantic relationships? I’ve learned to back off and stop trying to be alpha dog. I’ve also learned to heap on well-deserved praise, and really listen to what Buck’s saying. All anybody really wants is to be heard and appreciated, and life’s too short to withhold these things from your spouse or anyone else.
5. What physical traits do you find attractive in the opposite sex? — I look for no physical traits whatsoever. My turn-ons in the opposite sex are humor, intelligence, creativity, masculinity, being well-read, and loving me for who I am and be supportive of my writing. Must love dogs; all animals, really. Oh, and having a healthy interest in sex without being a fucking pervert; sexy lingerie is cool (Victoria’s Secret is the only store where Buck will let me use his credit card) but if anyone ever asked me to don a zipper mask and urinate on them I’d call the police.
6. Do you believe in any superstitions, or have some particular ritual? I’m not superstitious (I was born on the 13th) but I have created my own personal religion in my head where Karma plays a big roll and I make up the rules as I go along. For rituals, I make coffee the night before and set the timer on the coffee machine so I can just wake up and stumble to the kitchen where my coffee is ready and waiting. Or maybe that’s a phobia, a fear of waking up and not having my coffee ready.
7. What’s the nicest thing you’ve ever done for somebody? I had to really think about this and this is what I came up with: I was in a new-age store once when a hysterical woman ran inside screaming and crying because her house, which was next door, was being auctioned off by the bank at that very minute. She had her grandson with her, a toddler whom she was raising, and she was scaring this little kid with her hysterics. I took her outside and calmed her down and gave her grandson a box of donuts I had in the car, and because I was helpless to stop the auction, I had a long talk with her about how this could be a new beginning for her and her grandson both. I told her that every day after this could only get better and better, that these past few months must have been fucking hell for her with this looming foreclosure, and that every time one door closes another opens. She stopped crying and really thought about what I was saying. She smiled, she laughed, and I drove her to her sister’s house. She felt a lot better, and I was really glad I could help her in that small way. I hope Karma didn’t make a liar out of me.
8. If you could do something with your blog (cost, time and other factors irrelevant), what would you do?– I’d add video and audio, or a webcam, which is do-able but I just haven’t figured it out yet.
9. Books, chocolates, sex. Make a sentence with it. After sex women should be presented with a big box of chocolates and a gift certificate to Barnes & Noble to buy books and magazines.
10. If you were dead now, what would people most remember about you? That girl was insane; where else could you attend a funeral where they blasted the Dandy Warhols’ “Bohemian Like You” on giant speakers and handed out hot fudge sundaes and copies of Franny and Zooey? And who invited all these dog? That German Shepherd over there just bit me.
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Bohemian Like You (This video contains very brief nudity used as HUMOR…so if that’s something you know will freak you out DO NOT WATCH IT or your eyes and nose will bleed. You know who you are, so hopefully you’re not even here and if you are here don’t come crying to me after the fact.) I think of this song as the theme song to Buck and my relationship, though if he was aware of that he’d probably disagree because he’s a die-hard Cure fan.
I’m glad you did this meme. I liked this one and loved your answers. I love #9. You and Barbara about the coffee. I think it would put her over the edge if she woke up to no coffee.
I just heard about the Denise Richards show yesterday and also they have a dog groomers show? Didn’t expect that one.
Go to Stop and Shop and all you’ll hear is gobbledygook. I can’t understand what anyone’s saying to me anymore.
I bought Barbara those Jesus bandages for Christmas one year. I wonder if she’s ever used them?
Sister J
HEY!!! For some reason your video isn’t working for me, and I was sooo looking forward to seeing some boobies or something. WTF???
Haha I love this so much and I’m so glad somebody else knows the song Bohemian Like You because I have it on my ipod and nobody knows it and i listen to it at the gym… ahh joy.
[…] 8, 2008 by dragonfly3085 I got this meme from Wendy. Like Wendy (who stole it from Joan Harvest) I like it and wanted to do it; if you want to do it […]
@ Joan – Barbara probably has those band-aids in her exorcism kit on the wall.
@ Peter Parkour – NO! You can’t see it? That’s too bad…I don’t know why that is. You can go to YouTube and find it, though. But like I said, the nudity is brief and used for humor. It’s full frontal, but funny the way it’s used. I think it’s funny, anyway.
@ Dragonfly – You know the song…Excellent! Nobody ever knows it when I mention it either. I’m glad you’re hip. 🙂 And I’m glad you did this meme!
Ok, for what ever reason the video worked for me today and I must say, I am very disappointed with the male to female nudity ratio, but the video was still pretty cool, I guess. 😐 It really could have used more boobs. 😉
I did read this when you posted it but I’m just now actually signing in to WP and really visiting… and my thought upon seeing this awesome post is:
WENDYs BACK! WENDYs BACK!!