09.15.08
Posted in Meme at 11:10 pm by Meg
I got the idea for this when I was trying to find Girl’s Facebook page in order to friend her. I found someone in Philadelphia that had her exact name.
For each of these, don’t count yourself or your immediate family.
Number of people who share your last name - over 500
Number of people who share your maiden name - 34 (or your mother’s maiden name,or…) - Hey, I think I found a cousin!
Number of people who share your nickname - over 500
Number of people who share your given name (if it is different, like mine is really Margaret) - over 500
Number of people who share your common name and last name combination (to search: in Find People type your name in the search box inside of quotes.) - 3 (though they were all Megans, so they don’t match my anticipated search, but I can understand why they showed up)
How many people of your high school graduating class that have pages - 27 (out of nearly 600) and I know my page doesn’t not list my high school and year of graduation, so it doesn’t really count. There’s probably more like me.
Number of people who share your spouse/partner’s nickname - over 500
Number of people who share your spouse/partner’s given name - over 500
Number of people who share your spouse/partner’s common name and last name combination - 22
Number of people who share your child(ren)’s common name and last name combination
- Girl - 1
- Boy - 5
If anyone else does it, let me know.
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08.19.08
Posted in Meme at 8:06 pm by Meg
This looked different, so I thought I’d try it.
Bold those you have tried.
Strikethrough those you wouldn’t eat on a bet.
Italicize any item you’ll never eat again.
Asterisk any items you’d be interested in trying but have not yet.
Underline anything you eat regularly (more than once a month-ish).
Questionisk any items you’ve never heard of (okay, this will be way too many things and I haven’t googled anything to help me)
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. ?Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht - My Dad’s mother would feed us beet borscht every time we came to visit. I hated it
10. ?Baba ghanouj
11. Calamari
12. ?Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. ?Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. ?Epoisses -
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. ?Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. ?Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. ?Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. ?Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. ?Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. ? Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal - I don’t think I’ve actually ever had a Big Mac, let alone it in a meal. I usually get a quarter pounder.
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8 ABV
59. ?Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores - okay, I’m weird (what’s new) I like everything that goes into S’mores - I don’t like S’mores (but I also don’t like roasted marshmellows)
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. ?Currywurst
65. ?Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or ?andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. ?Louche absinthe
74. ?Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. ?Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. ?Lapsang souchong
80. ?Bellini
81. ?Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. *Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. *Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. ?Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. ?Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee - yuck, NO
100. Snake
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08.02.08
Posted in Meme at 9:07 pm by Meg
Hmmm, I’m still untangling biology. I thought I had it all set up for 10 kids…and then ended up with 11. It may seem minor, but that’s the difference between 3 or 4 groups which mean ordering more supplies….
but since we only have 3 microscopes, some labs will still be 3 groups. So I had to go through all the labs and think about organization and then recalculate supplies.
Sure wish I was charging for my time…
Anyway, Teresa had the meme up and it looked like about my mental level.
There is only one rule: you Google your first name with the word “needs” behind it and post the results.
And we get:
LOL - Meg needs a better name. The first thing that shows up is someone else doing the same meme! And the second. And the seventh.
so, the first “real” responses are:
Meg needs a Gay boyfriend - why? what am a I missing?
Meg needs to go - okay, where and are you paying?
Meg needs blood - Yes, I’ve been reading twilight and even the books behind Tru-blood, but I’m not a vampire yet…
Meg needs a new leg - I’m not going to comment, because I followed the link and it’s not something to make fun of.
Meg needs Key Man Insurance - What do I need to cover?
And that’s the first page of Google.
Anyone else try it?
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07.27.08
Posted in Meme, Books at 7:48 pm by Meg
I haven’t done a book oriented meme for a while and I can’t resist books.
I “saw” it at RedMolly, but for some reason she didn’t “do” all the books yet, so I went back to the source.
The RULES - because you know there has to be some.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read (as in the book is bought and sitting on my shelf).
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
So there are 98 books on the list.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Girl made me read it this year. She loves it, I’m so-so
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - I’ve read some of it? I just couldn’t get into it, though the Hobbit was fine and I LOVED the movies
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible - Which one? I read the Tanakh and parts of the new testament.
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - We have it, but I’ll probably never read it.
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - I started it years ago when Girl found it and a Christian friend mentioned “the problems” with it, I probably only got a third of the way into it before getting distracted.
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - again, some but not all.
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - HATED IT, HATED IT, HATED IT
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - Not something I enjoyed
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - Only a book or two of the series.
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
37. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
39. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
40. Animal Farm - George Orwell
41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Tried a chapter or two, that was enough. Of maybe I tried number 59…I don’t remember.
43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - I really, really dislike John Irving. I tried a couple.
44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
45. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
46. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
47. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
49. Atonement - Ian McEwan
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
51. Dune - Frank Herbert
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - Can you tell I was on Dickens kick at one point?
57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
63. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
68. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - It’s one of my favorite musicals (and dramas, but I never seem to be able to get into reading it. Maybe because I know it so well?)
71. Dracula - Bram Stoker
72. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
73. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
74. Ulysses - James Joyce
75. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal - Emile Zola
78. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession - AS Byatt
80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
82. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
85. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
86. Charlotte’s Web - EB White
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Again, does some of them count?
89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
90. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
91. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
93. Watership Down - Richard Adams - Oh, I really, really enjoyed this book as a teenager. I even read the second book. But I never got into his other stuff.
94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - I loved the movie from the 70s, and the book was so much more.
97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl -
98. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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07.19.08
Posted in Meme at 2:06 pm by Meg
This meme comes via Sandra Dodd. I saw it over there ages ago, but then got sidetracked and never did it.
The fine print:
Name 5 places you’ve lived. Be as specific or generic as you like.
List 5 memories associated with each of those places.
Tag 5 others.
I’m not going to tag anyone, but let me know if you decide to do it.
So, I’ve already given out a list of the 26ish places I’ve lived and so now I need to decide on which 5 to focus on. Read the rest of this entry »
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07.10.08
Posted in Meme at 12:25 am by Meg
For some odd reason, nobody tags me for a meme - and I enjoy doing them occasionally!
So, I have to go find them for myself. Since Jo has been so quiet this year, I figured I had to pick up the one she did.
Accent: I’m one of those people that tends to talk like the people around her (Except that I have this mid-western thing about my r’s in some words, and I’ve had it my whole like. For example: wash comes out like it has an r in it.) When Hubby and I got married he was finishing up grad school at Brown, which meant he was interacting with a wide selection of people from all over the world. I was working in a small engineering office just over the state line in Massachusetts. I shared my office with another engineer from Lowell, MA. She had a very, very strong Boston accent. We got married in Buffalo, and people kept coming up to Hubby asking him why he was talking normal and I sounded like I had been living in Boston.
Breakfast or no breakfast: BREAKFAST - definitely. Most often it’s a large glass of OJ and a bagel, though I won’t complain about eggs or pancakes, or even donuts. I can’t stand milk in the morning - it makes me feel sick to my stomach, and I don’t drink coffee.
Chore I don’t care for: CLEANING THE HOUSE - can I lump it all into one chore?
Dog or Cat: We have 1 dog and 2 cats, but I could live without the cats. I’d miss the beast.
Essential Electronics: Computer, cell phone, stereo, pda….I probably have too many
Favorite Cologne: Don’t have any, don’t wear any
Gold or Silver: White gold?
Handbag I carry most often: My leather purse - no big surprise
Insomnia: rarely. I’m the one whose head hits the pillow and I’m gone. Of course if I got more sleep, I’d probably take longer.
Job Title: Jack of all trades?
Kids: For sale - cheap. - oh, yes, two, one of each.
Living Arrangements: well, let’s see. I set up the house the way I want and Hubby tells me how he wants it arranged. Then we find a middle ground that works.
Most Admirable Trait: Obsession?
Naughtiest Childhood Behavior: Where should I start? I guess the one that I find ironic is from my high school public speaking class…..or maybe the time when I was 17 and on a junior drivers license (meaning that you needed to be off the roads at 9 PM) and went nearly 100 mph down the Vestal Parkway at 1 AM… or maybe…
Overnight hospital stays: Boy’s birth - a c-section - 3 days, Girl’s birth - a v-bac - 2 days, Repairing the damage from Girl’s birth - I don’t remember anymore.
Phobias: falling uncontrolled, high narrow bridges (especially driving over ones with no real shoulders - the I90 bridge north of Buffalo unto Grand Island is the worst and I’ll go out of my way to avoid it.)
Quote: “oh shot” or “fair enough”
Reason to smile: My family
Siblings: 2 older half-sisters (though we grew up together and Dad adopted them), 1 older brother, 1 younger step-brother (don’t really know him), and 1 younger step-sister (got to know her as adults)
Time I wake up: When the alarm goes off - anything from 6 to 10 AM
Unusual Talent or Skill: I guess my leatherwork?
Vegetable I Refuse to Eat: Sweet Potatoes - can I say UGH?
Worst Habit: I’m not telling, though I bet Hubby could name a few.
X-rays: I’m not sure any more. I had a chest x-ray in high school when I considering going ROTC, I’ve had my ankle’s xrayed at least once, and don’t forget about teeth.
Yummy Stuff: Chocolate, Cheesecake….
Zoo Animal I Like Most: Yeah, right. I guess a lion. I’ve always been partial to the big cats.
Let me know if you decide to play along.
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06.08.08
Posted in Meme at 12:25 am by Meg
Courtesy of another soggy Hoosier - Kim.
1. What were you doing 10 years ago?
1998 - I was a Stay-at-home mom with one child in a private school and another in pre-school while I was working on a MBA.
2. What 5 things are on your to-do list for today?
1. Go grocery shopping - if they will let me out of the house; as of now, the roads are still closed.
2. Vacuum
3. Put out ant traps
4. Come up with a design for the new bowl I’m making
5. Pump water out of the pool
3. List some snacks you enjoy.
Chocolate
Doritos
Cookies
4. What would you do with a billion dollars? - didn’t the question used to be a millions dollars?
1. Pay off our mortgage
2. Fix up the house
3. Get Hubby the Mercedes he’s always wanted
4. Have Hubby take a looooong vacation - if he wants
5. List the states you have lived.
Ohio
Wisconsin
New York
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
California
New York
California
Indiana
New Mexico
Indiana
6. List the jobs you have had.
Girl Scout Camp Counselor
Dining Hall cafeteria line worker
Sales clerk
Bookkeeper
Engineering Intern
Teaching Assistant
Civil Engineer
Project Manager
Mommy ‘n Me class facilitator
7. List the people you want to know more about.
Is this just the new way of tagging people?
I’m assuming it is, so I’ll say ‘I want to know more about anyone who’s going to play.’
Let me know if you do!
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05.15.08
Posted in Meme at 3:30 pm by Meg
and I’ve certainly been writing up a storm.
So, I thought it might be time … stolen from Carrie we have 2 word meme…
1. Where is your cell phone? leather purse
2. Where is your significant other? office - working
3. Your hair? brown, short
4. Your mother? amazing, creative
5. Your father? hardworking, opinionated
6. Your favorite thing? family together
7. Your dream last night? don’t remember
8. Your favorite drink? cold coke
9. Your dream/goal? unsure, unclear
10. The room you’re in? long room
11. Your hobby? leatherwork, reading
12. Your fear? hurt child
13. Where you want to be in 6 years? working, traveling
14. Where were you last night? homeschool dinner
15. What you’re not? outgoing, social
16. Muffins? chocolate chip
17. One of your wish list items? paint livingroom
18. Where you grew up? southern tier
19. The last thing you did? dropped kids
20. What are you wearing? jeans, sweatshirt
21. Your TV? mostly off
22. Your pets? sleeping, hairy
23. Your computer? always on
24. Your life? busy, full
25. Your mood? copacetic, peaceful
26. Missing someone? not now
27. Your car? Toyota Sienna
28. Something you’re not wearing? earrings, necklace
29. Favorite store? Barnes/Noble
30. Your summer? busy, travel
31. Like someone? Hubby, kids
32. Your favorite color? always blue
33. When is the last time you laughed? last night
34. Last time you cried? don’t remember
Anyone can tag themselves, but let me know if you decide to do it.
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