Another one of these

What do you find annoying, irritating or unbearable in these categories?

There’s really nothing on this earth that I currently find ‘unbearable’ and it’s senseless to dwell on the negative, but I decided to fill out this little survey anyway.  Because I got tagged, and I felt obligated.  How annoying! haha

Candy – those stupid little necklaces and bracelets made with hard candy. Candy should not be worn.

Song- just about anything by Shania Twain.

Bad Habit- Humming something out of tune and unrecognizable.  It makes me crazy.   STOP IT!!

School subject- I did not like French class because our teacher was a dweeb. I loved taking Latin. Which probably makes ME a dweeb.

Personality Trait- Having no consideration for anyone but me me ME.  Combined with whining about how horrible everything is.

Colour- Lime green,  lettuce green, apple green, swamp green….Hunter green is almost bearable.

Season- WINTER

Animal- rodents. Except squirrels are okay.

Celebrity- It’s not her fault, but Jennifer Aniston. I am so completely sick of seeing her face. Angelina is a very close second. Brad Pitt comes in third.

Food- cucumbers. Unless they’ve made it all the way to pickle-hood.

Tone of voice- high pitched little girl voices, unless they’re done by actual little girls. 

Style of music- rap, followed closely by country

Vehicle- great big trucks with great big wheels driven by great big idiots with great big egos 

Sound- an entire cell phone conversation performed by a loud stranger in a public place

Event- Boxing Day Sales.

Anything else? Shania Twain wearing a candy bracelet and driving a semi. I would hate that.

My Life in Songs

Using only song titles from one artist, cleverly answer these questions:

(HEY!! When I first did this I didn’t notice that “cleverly” part!)

Pick a band/artist: Sarah McLachlan

1. Are you male or female: Perfect Girl

2. Describe yourself: Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

3. How do you feel about yourself: Good Enough

4. Describe your ex boyfriend/girlfriend situation: Train Wreck

5. Describe your current boy/girl situation: Wear Your Love Like Heaven

6. Describe your current location: Strange World

7. Describe where you want to be: Building A Mystery

9. Your favorite color is: Rainbow Connection

10. You know that: I Will Remember You

11. What’s the weather like: Stupid

12. If your life was a television show what would it be called?: Dirty Little Secrets

13. What is life to you: Do What You Have To Do

14. What is the best advice you have to give: Don’t Let Go

15. If you could change your name, what would you change it to: Adia….or Angel

My Life According to Google

My Life According to Google

1: Type in “[your first name] needs” in the Google search:

Result: Lin needs 1. Mental Help
                                   2. Immediate hospitalization
(I had to share both of them, they were one right after the other!)

2: Type in “[your first name] looks” in Google search:

Result: Lin looks pale, denies having had brain surgery. (because it’s not that kind of hospital. doh.)

3: Type in “[your first name] hates” in Google search:

Result: Linda hates windows with the strength of a million suns. (well, doesn’t everyone??)

4: Type in “[your first name] goes” OR “[your first name] has gone” in Google search:

Result: Linda has gone flat!!! (Again, wrong hospital for getting that problem fixed.)

5: Type in “[your first name] loves” in Google search:

Result: … Lin Loves … and I love this idea of hers…she went out of the house one day with a pair of eyes and just stuck them on random objects. lol! … (and that’s no doubt one of the reasons why they came to take her away)

6: Type in “[your first name] eats” in Google search:

Result: Lin eats weird stuff. This lady eats things that fight back and wiggle on the way down. (cafeteria food)

7: Type in “[your first name] has” in Google search:

Result: Lin has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English language and literature, a Master’s degree in English-as-a-second-language education and a Doctoral degree in linguistics… (and a lot of other delusions)

8: Type in “[your first name] works” in Google search:

Result: Lin works at a table making miniature models of vegetables, bread, and bacon, each the size of a finger nail. … (HAHAHAHAHA!! What the hell, it’s something to do.)

9: Type in”[your first name] lives” in Google search:

Result: Lin lives in NT 2million new house; hitches ride to save money. (so she can buy more mini vegetable making supplies)

10: Type in “[your first name] died” in Google search:

Result: Whether Lin died in a plane crash while trying to flee to the Soviet Union or was killed for her role in the plot may never be known for certain. … (could be she just consumed a few too many miniature synthetic bacons)

11. Type in “[your first name] does” in Google search:

Result: Lin does the Hula. (How does Google KNOW these things about me???)

12: Type in “[your first name] will” in Google search:

Result: Did you mean: Lil will? Lil Wil is a rapper from Dallas, Texas. He recently made a big name for himself with recent hit singles: “My Dougie” & Bust It Wide Open” …
(Betcha he can’t hula.)

Three Things

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Lin
2. Mom
3. Grandma

THREE THINGS YOU DON’T EVER WANT TO BE CALLED:
1. Serious
2. Selfish (even though I am)
3. Bertha

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. My razor sharp wit
2. My incredible beauty
3. My blatant sarcasm

THREE THINGS YOU DON’T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. How I often worry about dumb inconsequential things
2. How much I enjoy doing nothing
3. The shape of my right foot – is that a BUNION for gawds sake???

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. Scottish
2. Irish
3. English

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. Rivers
2. Lakes
3. Oceans

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. My starbucks coffee mugs
2. My computer
3. My DS

THREE OF YOUR FAVOURITE COLORS
1. Red
2. Yellow
3. Redish Yellow

THREE OF YOUR FAVOURITE TV SHOWS
1. Heroes
2. Boston Legal
3. “Wherever”s Next Top Model. Those girls are all insane.

THREE THINGS YOU VALUE IN A RELATIONSHIP:
1. Laughter
2. Respect
3. I vaguely remember passion being important at some point or other…..

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE (in no particular order):
1. I would like to go back to Scotland
2. I love all things African
3. I’d like to drown at sea

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. Tole painting
2. Reading
3. Taking bad pictures

THREE THINGS YOU HAVE WISHED FOR
1. Rain
2. World peace
3. To win the lottery

THREE CAREERS YOU HAVE CONSIDERED
1. Teaching
2. Ophthalmic Assistant
3. Optician

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO:
1. To our island
2. To the east coast
3. To sleep

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. Live
2. Make the world a better safer happier place
3. Make W.’s life hell.
(oh – are we not still doing the truth truth lie thing??? lol)

Firsts

1. Who was your FIRST prom date? Chris Vandeloo. His ambition in life was to be Mick Jagger. I don’t think that worked out for him.

2. Do you still talk to your FIRST love? No, I lost track of him after about grade five.

3. What was your FIRST fav. cartoon? I always found cartoons to be either too violent or too stupid, so I don’t remember any that I liked. Now I like Dilbert. Apparently snark is fine.

4. What was your FIRST job? Waitress at the Blue Water Tea Room on the beach in Pt. Elgin.

5. What was your FIRST car? Blue 1971 Dodge Duster.

6. Who was the FIRST person to text you today? No one texts me because my phone is never on. And it’s never on because I don’t know how it works. HA!! I’m only half kidding.

7. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning? ……probably myself…..

8. Who was your FIRST grade teacher? Mrs McRae?? Johnson? Ribey??? They all looked alike.

9. Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane? Toronto to Winnipeg, en route to Cambridge Bay. It was also my baby daughter’s first plane ride.

10. Who was your FIRST best friend & do you still talk? Shirley, and yes, sometimes; we’re both grandma’s of five.

11. Where was your FIRST sleep over? My Aunt May’s with my cousin Elaine. A whopping eight miles away. I got homesick in less than two hours.

12. Who was the FIRST person you talked to today? The one and only W.

13. Whose wedding were you in the FIRST time? I was a flower girl for my aunt and uncle (mom’s brother) when I was four or five. I had to wear PURPLE!! It was very stressful.

14. What was the FIRST thing you did this morning? Had a shower.

15. What was the FIRST concert you ever went to? ummmmmm……Christmas concert in grade one??? Went to see the Moody Blues once. I prefer my concerts televised I guess.

16. FIRST tattoo? Has not happened yet.

17. First piercing? Ears. It was so much fun I did it twice.

18. First foreign country you’ve been to? The U. S. of A. New York state I think. But it could have been Michigan.

19. FIRST movie you remember seeing? Mysterious Island and Old Yeller. OMG. I am ancient.

20. When was your FIRST detention? My alias in school was Miss Goody Two Shoes. If I ever did anything worthy of detention I never got caught.

21. What was the first province you lived in? Ontario.

22. Who was your FIRST roommate? I don’t know – does my sister count? We always shared a room.

23. What was the FIRST thing you thought of this morning? Having a shower. I have a one track mind.

24. What was the FIRST thing you ate today? A bowl of raisin bran cereal. Washed down with copious cups of coffee.

One Word Only

Adding a one word explanation??  Not as easy as it looks!

~ Where is your cell phone? somewhere

~ Your significant other? double-you

~ Your hair? short

~ Your mother? Keepsakes

~ Your father? Memories

~ Your favorite thing? Fun

~ Your dream last night? whacked

~ Your favorite drink? Coffee

~ Your dream/goal? retire

~ What room are you in? bedroom

~ Your hobby? art

~ Your fear? oceans

~ Where were you last night? here

~ Something that you aren’t? energetic

~ Muffins? sure

~ Wish list item? renovations

~ Last thing you did? garbage

~ What are you wearing? socks

~ TV? contests

~ Your pet? heaven

~ Friends? awesome

~ Your life? ordinary

~ Your mood? pensive

~ Missing someone? yes

~ Drinking? overrated

~ Your car? dirty

~ Something you’re not wearing? tiara

~ Your favorite store? homesense

~ Your favorite color? red

~ When is the last time you cried? October

~ Who will resend this? unknown

~ My favorite place to eat? OUT

Twenty Things

Twenty Things You Maybe Didn’t Know About Me

1. I am incredibly lazy. Some days I do as little as humanly possible just to keep breathing.
2. Travelling scares me.
3. Large bodies of water scare me even more.
4. I love my family, close and extended, even the weird ones.
5. Not sure I could live without coffee. Not willing to give it a try.
6. There are a lot of movies that make me cry.
7. My dream vacation would be to move to someplace warm and never come home.
8. I hate winter.
9. I love to read.
10. Math and chemistry and physics all confuse the hell out of me.
11. I was a teacher for awhile. NOT my thing.
12. My favourite color is red. But my clothes are predominantly black.
13. I don’t like to fight, or even listen to people fight. Or debate. Or disagree however remotely with eachother.
14. I would like to decorate my entire house in an African theme. Two rooms just doesn’t seem like enough. I don’t think I’m African, so who knows where that came from.
15. I love to paint.
16. Stupidity makes me crazy.
17. I LOVE MY CROCS!!
18. I used to have very long straight dark hair. I don’t think it’s necessarily true that blondes have more fun.
19. Obsessive compulsive disorder makes perfect sense to me.
20. I have a very hard time throwing useless things out, but no problem at all buying new useless things.

How I Spent February 2009

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No really, I’ve been incredibly INCREDIBLY actively busy doing stuff.  And by stuff I mean mostly those facebook quality time wasters, which I’ll copy and paste here because it’s all I can think of to fill up space at the  moment.  The other thing I’ve been doing is playing Rune Factory 2, yet another DS game that has me completely and utterly hooked.  It’s a blessing and a curse to have such an addictive personality.  I pick it up and start playing and the day goes up in smoke.  There are pages and pages and pages of material written out by insane gamers and shared on the internet.  I thought I was doing okay with my first game until I checked it out on line and realized I’d missed a lot of first generation events by going all gung ho for the second generation where I become my child.  So I started over again!!  Because the child inherits everything, including money and skills and assets and tamed monsters.  Wouldn’t it be nice if real life were like that?  But I digress.  And I have no idea how to explain this fascination in a brief and concise manner. 

But here goes anyway.  My character is an amnesia sufferer who finds himself befriended by people in a strange land where he takes up farming, fishing and mining to survive.  There are four seasons in the year consisting of 30 days each in the village where he lives.  But there are also four areas surrounding the town where it is perpetually a different season in each.  So you can go to the spring area and grow spring crops, the summer island and battle priate goblins, the winter area and stay overnight in a fur sleeping bag,  the fall area and pick grapes off a tree every three days.  Those are mere random features, and in each area there are different monsters depending on the time of day or night, and gateways to new places that are not accesible until the second generation.  ANYWAY!  In this game I’ve amassed a fortune in money and goods so that my ‘child’ can inherit all of it.  Plus I have tamed different monsters who supply milk, lay eggs, produce wool, and also four who help with the watering and harvesting of crops.  I think I’m wildly successful.  Now I just have to get married, have a child, build a school…..and take off in the middle of the night abandoning everything so my offspring can take over. 

Just really mirrors real life, doesn’t it???  (LOL)  Well there’s no Canadian Idol this year so I have to do SOMETHING!!  And I haven’t even mentioned the interaction with all the other characters who say and do sometimes quite hilarious things.  I have no clue why I find this such fun.  W. certainly doesn’t get it.  Maybe it’s a control thing.  Like right now I have all these girls with high ‘heart levels’, any one of whom I could marry.  Problem is I know from the first game that once she’s married she does nothing but sit in the bedroom all day.  Even when the child arrives, she just continues to sit there rocking it day after day doing nothing else.  Not sure which girl really deserves that fate.   They all appear to get back to their normal activities once we zip into the future 9 years later.  And I’ve read that the child never grows up.  Obviously THAT really appeals to me.

Okay!  Enough for now.  It’s a snowy blustery day and W. suggested I not go anywhere today because the roads are awful, new snow over ice.  So by the end of today I could be off on totally new adventures, and on and on into the night.