I. Variations On Somewhat Standard Questions
1. Worst song ever: Uh... Ice Ice Baby?
2. Person who should be shot because he/she wrote/sang the ONE song that gets stuck in yer head and drives you to the brink: Vanilla Ice
3. Song for a happy day: Anything upbeat! Two Step! Flight of the Conchords!
4. Song for a sad day: Uh... I can't think of one right now.
5. Good driving song: Any Mates of State
6. Good song to aid in sleepiness: Cat Powers anything of hers
7. Know any classical?: Nah
8. Sexiest lead singer ever: I'm not sure I have an answer... I'll probably pick Andrew BIrd.
9. Do you know a guitar solo well enough to sing that part too? and if you do, what is it?: Oh yeah... ALL of Jessica. And Freebird.
10: Tell me about getting yer driver's license: I will let you know when it happens.
11. What was preschool like?: I don't really remember it.
12. I hate the "what's yer favorite color" question, so what color do you hate enough never to wear it and why? Hunter Green. I fucking hate that colour after working at the Humane Society and having to wear it daily.
13. Be honest (and no Google searching either), do you know who Thomas Moore was and what he wrote?: Nope.
14. Make up a Trivial Pursuit question: What Jersey shore beach is one of the finest in the country?
15. Tell me yer least favorite smell: Cat pee
16. Tell me one news story (that's happened in yer lifetime) that you were (or are) really interested in: Probably the Twin Towers incident
17. You're watching cartoons. What are you watching?: Futurama
18. What's one show you can't believed stayed on the air past season one?: Everybody Loves Raymond
19. Who's yer favorite TV news personality (and yeah, the weather and traffic guys count)?: Ashleigh Banfield. :)
20. You hate someone. Will they ever know?: Oh yes, I usually let them know it right away.
21. Ever had revenge? Spill it: I wish.
22. Tell me about yer closest friend: Robert :) He's great, he listens and he makes me laugh.
23. What do you dislike about yer parents?: The meddling.
24. Tell me an anecdote from a birthday party you've had: I got too drunk and went to a strip club? And a guy I liked was hitting on his step sister. Eew.
25. Tell me a dorky thing you do: Play the Sims 2
26. Tell me a hellish story about yer job: I was fired twice from it?
27. Name a place you've visited (vacation or otherwise) that you hated and tell me why you hated it: Chicago b/c the hotel sucked, it was hot, and it was a two day trip with a terrible driver in terrible traffic.
28. What's yer favorite musical?: RENT and Sweeney Todd
29. What's yer least favorite musical?: The Music Man
30. What are the call letters for your favorite radio station?: I have no idea, I don't listen to the radio
31. Ever get spanked?: Beaten more like it.
32. Either way, think it screwed you up?: For awhile, yes, but now we're over that.
33. At what age did you "discover" yer body? (thanks for the question Alice): I honestly don't know, 13 or so?
34. Who's yer favorite relative?: Currently I'd say my husband.
35. Name a friend you had when you were 7: Carlos
36. Tell me about yer relationship to boats: I love going out on a power boat!
37. What do you hate about surveys? (other than this one, smart ass): The fact that I'm usually dead bored when I'm doing it.
38. Put down a Rolling Stone lyric here: Uh, no.
II. Word Problems
1. All right. Yer gonna have 4 kids. Congratulations. Name them:
Sarah Felicita, Christopher Walken, Daniel Jackson, and Christina Katherine. Yeah, we got them picked out..
2. Okay so, this psycho's got a gun to his head and one of those comical bomb detonators under his arm and he tells you that just because you have a pretty face, he's going to let you pick which country he's going to blow up. Which country are you going to tell him? Okay, now he's asking why.
Switzerland... for being so damn neutral.
3.
There's a train traveling on the northeastern corridor to Boston from
New York and before that, Washington D.C. Do you need to get out in any
of those cities to see someone?
NY to see Ant and family and New Jersey to see the mother in law :)
4. Your language teacher from high school decides one day that she's madly in love with you. The only way to get her off your back is recite something dumb you remember from that language class when she tells you she loves you (example: "I love you!" response: "Yo quiero Taco Bell!"). What are you going to say to her? What language are you speaking?
Non, je NO t'aime NO! Uh... sort of French.
5.
So your kindly, but slightly senile relative who hasn't seen you in ten
years wants to give you a little gift just for being so wonderful (and
you are wonderful, aren't you?) but they mess up and end up giving you
a fifty dollar gift certificate to a place you'd never even breathe the
air in. Where's that gift certificate supposed to be spent?
Abercrombie & Fitch
III. Fill It In
Let's walk in the: woods, wearing a hockey mask.
Let's run through: the sprinklers in our swimsuits.
Let's look at the: stars, they sure are bright.
Who are those: people in our front yard?
What a nice: old lady, they're usually all racist.
Where did all these: markers come from?
When will they: invent a cat that doesn't pee so stinky?
How are your: parents? Doing okay?
Why can't you: just give me a chance? I deserved it more than her.
So where did you find: your mind? In the gutter?
Sing the: national anthem, you communist.
Easier than: pie?
Closer than: Chris's house, and that's across the street!
Look at my: boobs, are they on straight?
I'll stay if: you promise not to do that again.
Silly, little: faggot.
Show me some: skin, baby.
The sky is: endless and infinite.
Tell me a: good joke, about tigers and strawberries.
Hide me: because I'm a felon.
Love me: hardcore, baby, hardcore.
Grab the: paper towels, Teal'c peed again.
I hate your stupid: cat today. I could send him away.
My mom thinks you're: an amazing boy!
He's not: nearly as good for me as you are.
Are you that: annoying? Stop shouting at me in Meatwad's voice!
I missed: your body next to mine.
Can't you: see that a kiss is not a contract?
Lovely little: furpig.
IV. Thankful
- Five Material Things You're Thankful For
1. Robert2. Lola
3. My computer
4. My parents
5. Adderall
- Five Immaterial Things You're Thankful For
1, Love2. Compassion
3. Forgiveness
4. Good memories
5. Rationality
- Five Things You Feel Are The Scourge Of Hell And Are Not Thankful For
Animal Neglecters/Abusers
Child Neglecters/Abusers
People who don't know how to use a blinker
Billy Bob Thorton
Nazis
- Five Songs You're Thankful For
1. Of Montreal - Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse
2. The Mountain Goats - Bluejays and Cardinals
3. The Beatles - In My Life
4. Mates of State - For the Actor
5. Andrew Bird - Fake Palindromes
- Three Things About Yourself You're Thankful For
1. I'm in a good mood
2. I'm taken care of
3. I'm considered beautiful by a very handsome boy
V. Memorable
1.Quote a song.
I always wanted to be
The face in front of me
Debating a life
Sipped out the energy
Made out of finer things
Pile it high
So we could barely see it
"My Only Offer" - Mates of State
2. Quote a person.
Anthony Bourdain - "I have found that mystery meat gets better the dodgier the area serving it is."
I don't really remember where I heard this, but it goes like this... "Get your God in my way and I will bring you the rapture!"
4. Quote your mom.
"What? Are you pregnant!?"
5. Quote yourself.
"I'm just saying..."
I'm quite emotional right now, but I was doing pretty good until I decided to ask Rob to have a baby with me. He has reason in telling me no, when we can barely afford to feed ourselves, we probably shouldn't bring another life into this world. But for some reason, I got really sad and just started bawling once I got into the bathroom. I'm not mad with him, I'm just in a really shitty mood now.
Goddamn PMS and Bipolar disorder, the worst combination to have, seriously.
In other things, Rob's dad hasn't given up on bringing Rob to FL and myself if NEED be. I don't know what to think about that. Everything's so in the air right now, my Visa is getting processed, I can't work obviously, and Rob's broken arm and our poorness has really taken an emotional toll on me. I don't know what to do and I can barely fucking take it.
I thought I was doing pretty good, but now I'm not so sure.
R
Since I've become the lone wolf again, and I don't have to share, I am convinced that I am addicted. I haven't been to sleep in a few days, and aside from 1/2 a bowl of cereal, I haven't kept anything in my stomach. At the same time, it's the only way that I know how to deal with my anger/temper issues, my sadness, and my horrible personality.
I don't know what happened to Old Cio, but I want her back and I want this bitch gone.
Share a song you listened to in 6th grade.
I LOVED this song back in the day...and still do. I remember going to my first junior high dance and this was played and dancing with some cute boy (can't remember who at this point) with my arms around his neck and his arms around my waist old school style...how sweet. Those were definitely the days!
Show us the very last picture you took. No cheating!
Well I didn't take it, but it's the last photo taken on my camera.
Show us something unlucky.
I'd say this is more than just a little unlucky. Utter devastation in my homestate. And my college town of Iowa City is expected to be devastated as well.
So I had to work 12 hours last night. About 2300 my phone rings in the ER and it's the Health Alert Network informing that a large hospital in Cedar Rapids is evacuating and to be ready for a radio request for bed availability. I inform my ER doc and Nursing Supervisor and she tells me how many beds we have. Sure enough about an hour later the radio in dispatch starts calling all these other hospitals in an extremely wide radius. I inform Iowa Department of Public Health we can take 8 patients. Other hospitals answered with anywhere from 2-12 available beds. So about 2 hours after that they start calling all of us hospitals again on the IDPH radio and ask each one if they can take so many patients. It was utterly fascinating to hear each hospital respond. "This is Mary Greely, we can take 4 skilled, 2 pulmonary. This is Mercy Des Moines, we can take 2 psych and 6 Med/Surg. This is Marshalltown, affirmed we can take 5 skilled and 3 neuro." When a hospital was unable to take the number asked another hospital would jump on and say they could absorb those. It really was amazing to see the effort put in not only by IDPH, but also all the surrounding hospitals, some which were well over 100 miles away from the evacuating hospital. So 176 patients needed to be evacuated and in only 2 hours they had placement for 119 of them. I assume the other 57 patients were too critical and OB/newborn patients that were transferred closer the the hospital. My hat goes off to the Iowa Department of Public Health, Mercy Hospital in Cedar Rapids, and all hospitals, including my own that were so willing to help in what is certain to be an event that will go down in history books. We received the first patient right before I was leaving work and I must tell you the ambulance crew and nurse from the evacuated hospital looked physicallly and mentally broken. I cannot imagine the task they were given and the speed in which they accomplished it. It's times like these where I am proud to say that I'm a midwesterner and part of the Iowa health care system.
So we received 2.5 inches of rain here again last night. This is starting to get a little old. I wanted to post a couple pictures my sister emailed me of downtown Cedar Rapids. These photos just shocked me.
Well we knew it was inevitable, flooding has now taken over almost the entire state of Iowa. I must admit it's pretty fascinating to watch all of the coverage on the news. Gradually watching all of the rivers rise over the hours, watching the forecast for even more heavy rain tonight and tomorrow morning, and seeing all of the flooding already happening and it's devastation has kept me glued to the tv. What's bad is that they say it's only going to get worse, especially with all of the rain forecasted. Luckily for me, my home is not in any immediate danger. The only way out of town is to the west and south. Even then, you really can't go too far. Rivers are crossing many state highways making travel anywhere virutally impossible. My husbands job is putting up the employees in a hotel so that they will be able to make it to work. The highway my husband takes to work will probably be closed here shortly as the river is about to cover it. All other routes are already closed, so apparently it will only be Presley and me here the next couple nights. I tell ya, between the severe thunderstorms, tornado warnings, and flooding, this spring has been one catastrophic one for Iowa.
