Confessions of an Internet Junkie

A meme from drocera.



1. your name spelled backwards:
Eel Nna Tawlak. I always liked that. My friends and I went through a stage where we would only address each other by our backwards names. And no, we weren't 12 at the time.

2. where were your parents born?
--Mom, Wabash, IN Dad--New Britain, CT

3. what is the last thing you downloaded onto your computer?
--The seating plan for a theater at Stratford, ON

4. what's your favorite restaurant?
--The Symposium Cafe in Waterloo, ON. Desserts and drinks to die for.

5. last time you swam in a pool?
--About three years ago.

6. have you ever been in a school play?
--Yupper

7. how many kids do you want?
--Oh, that ship done sailed.

8. type of music you dislike most?
--Pretty much anything by Celine Dion.

9. are you registered to vote?
--Absolutely.

10. do you have cable?
--We have a satellite dish. Rural chic!

11. have you ever ridden on a moped?
--Nope. I've been on motorcycles, though.

12. ever prank call anybody?
--Yeah, when I was a kid. I blush to remember.

13. ever get a parking ticket?
--I lived in metro-Boston. They practically issue parking tickets along with your license.

14. would you go bungee jumping or sky diving?
--No, because you'd find a corpse at the end of my little trip.

15. furthest place you ever traveled:
--Berlin, back in the former East Germany.

16. do you have a garden?
--Not yet. I don't know if we'll actually get to it this year. Hope so.

17. what's your favorite comic strip?
--I have a file somewhere filled with clippings from Doonsebury. That and Berke Breathed's Outland and Bloom County.

18. do you really know all the words to your national anthem?
--But of course.

19. bath or shower, morning or night?
--Usually shower, mostly evenings.

20. best movie you've seen in the past month?
--Michael Moor's Sicko.

21. favorite pizza topping?
--Grilled chicken

22. chips or popcorn?
--Peanut butter and crackers, please.

23. what color lipstick do you usually wear?
--On those rare occasions, it's a neutral rosey tannish thingie.

24. have you ever smoked peanut shells?
--Ha! I haven't heard about doing that in decades.

25. have you ever been in a beauty pageant?
--No, but my mom considered entering my picture into the Miss Sunbeam Bread contest back when I was a wee lass in pipe curls.

26. orange juice or apple?
--Orange

27. who was the last person you went out to dinner with and where did you dine?
--Uh, Dar and I stopped to get a Dairy Queen cone a few days ago. We don't really go out to dinner that often. (Which is fine by me.)

28. favorite type chocolate bar?
--President's Choice dark chocolate with almonds.

29. when was the last time you voted at the polls?
--At the polls in person? The mid-terms back in '02. I did an absentee ballot for the Democratic primary this year.

30. last time you ate a homegrown tomato?
--Last summer

31. have you ever won a trophy?
--Yep. For bowling, of all things.

32. are you a good cook?
--It depends on what I'm cooking.

33. do you know how to pump your own gas?
--I can also change my own tires and my oil. Although happily I've had to do neither for many, many years.

34. ever order an article from an infomercial?
--No, but I have from the Home Shopping Network. I was weak.

35. sprite or 7-up?
--Sprite, although I prefer ginger ale.

36. Have you ever had to wear a uniform for work?
--Does a lab coat count? Because we had to wear those when I worked at the Red Cross blood lab.

37. last thing you bought at a pharmacy?
--Sleeping pills.

38. ever throw up in public?
--Oh, I threw up from one end of Main St. to the other after riding the Octopus at a carnival downtown.

39. would you prefer being a millionaire or find true love?
--Twue Wove for the win.

40. do you believe in love at first sight?
--Nah.

41. ever call a 1-900 number?
--I'm not even sure what that is. So, no.

42. can ex's be friends?
--Without a doubt.

43. who was the last person you visited in a hospital?
--Dar's son after his appendectomy.

44. did you have a lot of hair when you were a baby?
--Only on my head.

45. what message is on your answering machine?
--The typical list of the denizens of the house.

46. what's your all time favorite saturday night live character?
--Yow, that goes back to the very beginning. I don't remember the characters, but I loved Dan Akroyd and Jane Curtin unto death.

47. what was the name of your first pet?
--Buttons. (A little puppy.)

48. what is in your purse?
--What isn't?

49. favorite thing to do before bedtime?
--Play Scramble online.

50. what is one thing you are grateful for today?
--I did some stretches! Go, me!

51. if you were to die tomorrow who would you leave everything you own to?
--Mao. Kidding! Dar, of course.

52. name one person that you could stand spending a straight 24 hours with and not get the slightest bit annoyed with?
--My Darchen.

53. what would be the first thing you would do if you woke up one morning and you were the opposite sex?
-- Pass out.

54. what is your dream career?
--That would be a photographic journalist who works with animals while traveling around a lot.

55. if you could be in any movie as the lead role what movie would it be?
--Indiana Jones I or III. As Indie, of course.

56. what do you secretly love reading?
--The dictionary.

57. what do you secretly love watching?
--Home improvement shows.

58. you're allowed one super power, what would it be?
--Time travel would be very cool.

59. if you could eat only one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
--Peanut butter and its various conveyances: crackers, English muffins, rice cakes, toast.

60. what's the cheesiest thing you secretly love?
--Stuffed animals. I always have to stop and play with them when in a store.