A Handful of Answers
As called out by The Amazon Iowan in her post of many questions (I’ve gone on a bit… it just happened, quite beyond my control really, so it’s all after the break): Read the rest of this entry »
Getting Away With It
Like there was ever any doubt. At least I’m in good company.
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None: You could easily get away with murder. You have the cold and calculating logic of a sociopath. For all our sakes, go hug someone. |
Well There Ya Go
Not for lack of anything better to post, but just because - found at Keziah Hill’s blog:
You are The Empress
Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation.
The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents,
beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. You may be good at home
decorating, art or anything to do with making things beautiful.
The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While the Magician is the primal spark, the idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born. This is why her symbol is Venus, goddess of beautiful things as well as love. Even so, the Empress is more Demeter, goddess of abundance, then sensual Venus. She is the giver of Earthly gifts, yet at the same time, she can, in anger withhold, as Demeter did when her daughter, Persephone, was kidnapped. In fury and grief, she kept the Earth barren till her child was returned to her.
What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.
Subliminal Schtuffs
Today’s Unconscious Muttering:
Traditional :: Valenciennes Lace
Popeye :: Spinach
Gin :: Bathtub
Harsh :: Mistress
Topless :: Tassel
The thing :: Rock-hard Abs
Defiant :: Western
Huge :: Penis
Food :: Drink
Lenny :: Bruce
Because It Was There
All the real stuff I’d post about right now is depressing and stuck, so in lieu of depressing and stuck I give you this:
| You Are a Dirty Martini |
 You are a sexy, sometimes belligerent, over the top drunk. You tend to get in a lot of trouble. When you drink, there are no rules.You should never: Drink in the company of strangers. Seriously. Your ideal party: Is so good you black out in the middle of it. Your drinking soulmates: Those with a Margarita Martini personality. Your drinking rivals: Those with an Orange Martini personality |
Four Things
Found on Jill’s notebook:
Four jobs I’ve had:
1. web designer
2. steakhouse waitress
3. surgical tech
4. horoscope writer
Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. The Sound of Music
2. Kill Bill I & II
3. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
4. Battlestar Galactica - The Miniseries (okay, so it’s not strictly a movie)
Four places I’ve lived:
1. Santa Barbara
2. Santa Monica
3. Palmdale
4. other bits of Los Angeles
Four TV shows I love:
1. Battlestar Galactica
2. Monk
3. I Dream of Jeannie
4. Star Trek: The Original Series and Deepspace 9
Four places I’ve vacationed:
1. Hawaii
2. Great Britain
3. Lebanon
4. Big Sur
Four of my favorite dishes:
1. chicken korma with garlic naan
2. dark chocolate brownies
3. couscous
4. kibbe
Four sites I visit daily:
1. Yahoo
2. CNN
3. Arts & Letters Daily
4. eBay
Four places I’d rather be right now:
1. Hawaii
2. Santa Barbara
3. Big Sur
4. Big Bear
Four people I’m tagging with this:
Nope, there are three readers out there, they know who they are, and they can have fun making mock.
Seven Sevens
Doing my bit to keep the meme alive - the Seven Sevens Meme of Life from Resurrection Song (that kinda has a nice ring to it, no? and no it’s not resplendant with linkage because I’m lazy):
Seven Things To Do Before I Die
1. climb Kilimanjaro
2. go whitewater rafting
3. sell/publish a novel
4. wake up in Rome
5. take my mother to Ireland
6. visit my father’s grave
7. travel around Europe with Stephen
Seven Things I Cannot Do
1. fly a helicopter
2. everything I want at once (dammit!)
3. walk on water
4. levitate
5. lift more than twice my body weight
6. get my dog to obey any command besides “sit”
7. admit that I need a hug
Seven Things That Attract Me To… (foreign and domestic bodies)
1. intelligence
2. humor
3. honesty
4. integrity
5. endurance
6. open-mindedness
7. courage
Seven Things I Say Most Often
1. Doode!
2. I love you lots and lots.
3. Poopers!
4. Whatever.
5. Babydogs! Who’s got the best fuzzy tummies?
6. Oy. Eesh. Mumph.
7. Tits on a rock.
Seven Books (or series) That I Love
1. Old Man’s War, John Scalzi
2. A Hymn Before Battle, John Ringo
3. Don’t Look Down, Bob Mayer & Jennifer Crusie
4. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
5. War For The Oaks, Emma Bull
6. Dogtown, Will Shetterly
7. Ancient Shores (and everything else), Jack McDevitt
Seven Movies (cheating and going with Shows) I Watch Over And Over Again
1. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
2. Battlestar Galactica (any of the series)
3. Monty Python and The Holy Grail
4. Star Trek: TOS (any of the series)
5. Star Trek: DS9 (any of the series)
6. Buffy (any of the series)
7. Angel (any of the series)
Seven People I Want To Give This To
Stephen (TGP)
Da Goddess
Skits
Kat
Armed Liberal
Jenny
Will
38 Things
I’ve been called out by Cybele, who is one of my writing imps (her avatar sits on my shoulder and pokes me in the back of the ear with a pitchfork or some other shiny, pointy thing, possibly a pencil, but chrome and ruthless, to remind me to set words to paper, or pixels to screen, on a regular basis…all hail Cybele).
1. What is your full name now?
Kari Jane Hayes
2. What color trousers are you wearing?
black
3. What are you listening to right now?
a coworker typing
4. What was the last thing you ate?
a cinnamon-raisin bagel
5. Do you wish on stars?
the occasional falling star
6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
jade green
7. How is the weather right now?
overcast, cool, misty
8. Last person you spoke to on the phone?
TGP - my Better Half
9. Do you like the person who sent this to you?
abbalutely - even if I did have to go find it so technically nobody sent it to me
10. How old are you today?
36
11. Favorite soft drink?
Dr. Pepper, orange cream soda, key lime soda… wow, I like soft drinks way too much
12. Favorite sport?
kickboxing
13. Hair color?
dishwater blonde roots with bleached ends
14. Siblings?
an older half-brother I’ve never met, several step-brothers
15. Favorite food?
yams, couscous, b’stilla, blanc mange, the t-bone steak of the gods
16. What was the last movie you saw?
Serenity - woo Joss Whedon
17. Favorite day of the year?
any day a good thunderstorm complete with lightening and wind strikes
18. What was your favorite toy as a child?
scissors - both stabby and cutty
19. Summer or winter?
winter
20. Hugs or kisses?
depends on from who - mostly hugs
21. Chocolate or Vanilla?
homemade vanilla ice cream with flecks of bean still in it, drizzled with hot bittersweet chocolate with flecks of bean still in it… smooth, gritty, sweet, bitter, hot, cold, all in one - who needs to choose?
22. Do you want your friends to email you back?
um, if they want, but this isn’t getting mailed around, and since only 3 people have ever been documented as reading my blog, not likely
23. Who is most likely to respond?
again, not likely
24. Who is least likely to respond?
a fourth reader
25. Living arrangements?
in a house - roof, four walls, windows, attack puppies
26. When was the last time you cried?
last night, mourning my ex-marriage, the children I’ll never have, how hard we both tried only to have it fall apart… nostalgia is a dangerous thing
27. What is under your bed?
better not be no dust bunnies stalking my toes - I’m afraid to look
28. Who is the friend you have had the longest? Continuously?
Anne Wohlcke the longest - continuously, not sure, as there have always been periods of silence between me and all my oldest friends, rarely on purpose
29. What did you do last night?
did the first three chapters in my Human Anatomy coloring book for my A & P test, read the first chapter in the textbook, played The Sims - Nightlife, rubbed puppy bellies
30. Favorite TV shows?
Battlestar Galactica, Monk, Stargates
31. What are you afraid of?
pain, loss, being seen - all in conflict when the imp pokes me in the ear, as then I fear losing the ear and being in pain while trying to be published anonymously
32. Plain, buttered or salted popcorn?
buttered
33. Favorite car?
only one? 1966 Mustang, Mini Cooper S, Porsche 928
34. Favorite Flower?
lilac, freesia, hydrangea, tulip, honeysuckle
35. Number of keys on your key ring?
many on two key rings - not sure how many total
36. Favorite vacations?
any trip to Big Sur
37. Three Bloggers who don’t blog enough:
TGP, Armed Liberal, DirtyFez
38. Six friends who you are tagging:
I have no spray paint thus cannot tag
It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time…
From DaGoddess, and just like her, I’ve put what I’ve done in bold, ‘cuz that’s me, bold… um, yeah.
Have you ever…
01. Bought everyone in the pub a drink - it was a small pub
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said ˜I love you” and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Done a striptease
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Stayed up all night long, and watch the sun rise
15. Seen the Northern Lights
16. Gone to a huge sports game
17. Walked the stairs to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
18. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
19. Touched an iceberg
20. Slept under the stars
21. Changed a baby’s diaper
22. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
23. Watched a meteor shower
24. Gotten drunk on champagne
25. Given more than you can afford to charity
26. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
27. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
28. Had a food fight
29. Bet on a winning horse
30. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
31. Asked out a stranger
32. Had a snowball fight
33. Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier
34. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
35. Held a lamb
36. Enacted a favorite fantasy
37. Taken a midnight skinny dip
38. Taken an ice cold bath
39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar
40. Seen a total eclipse
41. Rode on a roller coaster
42. Hit a home run
43. Fit three weeks miraculously into three days
44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
45. Adopted an accent for an entire day
46. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
47. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
48. Had two hard drives for your computer
49. Visited all 50 states
50. Loved your job for all accounts
51. Taken care of someone who was shit faced
52. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
53. Had amazing friends
54. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
55. Watched wild whales
56. Stolen a sign
57. Backpacked in Europe
58. Taken a road-trip
59. Rock climbing
60. Lied to foreign government’s official in that country to avoid notice
61. Midnight walk on the beach
62. Sky diving
63. Visited Ireland
64. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love
65. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
66. Visited Japan
67. Benchpressed your own weight
68. Milked a cow
69. Alphabetized your records
70. Pretended to be a superhero
71. Sung karaoke
72. Lounged around in bed all day
73. Posed nude in front of strangers
74. Scuba diving
75. Got it on to “Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye
76. Kissed in the rain
77. Played in the mud
78. Played in the rain
79. Gone to a drive-in theater
80. Done something you should regret, but don’t regret it
81. Visited the Great Wall of China
82. Discovered that someone who’s not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog
83. Dropped Windows in favor of something better
84. Started a business
85. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
86. Toured ancient sites
87. Taken a martial arts class
88. Swordfought for the honor of a woman - me, I mean, I fought for my own honor
89. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
90. Gotten married
91. Been in a movie
92. Crashed a party
93. Loved someone you shouldn’t have
94. Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy
95. Gotten divorced
96. Had sex at the office
97. Gone without food for 5 days
98. Made cookies from scratch
99. Won first prize in a costume contest
100. Rode a gondola in Venice
101. Gotten a tattoo
102. Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on
103. Rafted the Snake River
104. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
105. Got flowers for no reason
106. Masturbated in a public place
107. Got so drunk you don’t remember anything
108. Been addicted to some form of illegal drug
109. Performed on stage
110. Been to Las Vegas
111. Recorded music
112. Eaten shark
113. Had a one-night stand
114. Gone to Thailand
115. Seen Siouxsie live - opened for Bowie on the Glass Spider Tour
116. Bought a house
117. Been in a combat zone
118. Buried one/both of your parents
119. Shaved or waxed your pubic hair off
120. Been on a cruise ship
121. Spoken more than one language fluently
122. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone
123. Bounced a check
124. Performed in Rocky Horror
125. Read - and understood - your credit report
126. Raised children
127. Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood toy
128. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
129. Created and named your own constellation of stars
130. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
131. Found out something significant that your ancestors did
132. Called or written your Congress person
133. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
134. - More than once? - More than thrice?
135. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
136. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
137. Had an abortion or your female partner did
138. Had plastic surgery
139. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
140. Wrote articles for a large publication
141. Lost over 100 pounds
142. Held someone while they were having a flashback
143. Piloted an airplane
144. Petted a stingray
145. Broken someone’s heart
146. Helped an animal give birth
147. Been fired or laid off from a job
148. Won money on a T.V. game show
149. Broken a bone
150. Killed a human being
151. Gone on an African photo safari
152. Rode on a motorcycle
153. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100 mph
154. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
155. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
156. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
157. Rode a horse
158. Had major surgery
159. Had sex on a moving train
160. Had a snake as a pet
161. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
162. Slept through an entire flight: takeoff, flight, and landing
163. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours - amazing what being seriously ill can do to a body
164. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
165. Visited all 7 continents
166. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
167. Eaten kangaroo meat
168. Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground
169. Been a sperm or egg donor
170. Eaten sushi
171. Had your picture in the newspaper
172. Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime
173. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
174. Gotten someone fired for their actions
175. Gone back to school
176. Parasailed
177. Changed your name - when I got married
178. Petted a cockroach
179. Eaten fried green tomatoes
180. Read The Iliad
181. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
182. Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them
183. - and gotten 86′ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you
184. Taught yourself an art from scratch
185. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
186. Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt
187. Skipped all your school reunions
188. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
189. Been elected to public office
190. Written your own computer language
191. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
192. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
193. Built your own PC from parts
194. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
195. Had a booth at a street fair
196: Dyed your hair
197: Been a DJ
198: Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal
199: Written your own role playing game
200: Been arrested