MCFAT 17

Wow. Seventeen. MCF has brought back his Astonishing Test after a hiatus.
Here are my answers.

1) What was the first swear word you learned?
(You can, of course choose to censor your answer.)

I honestly don't remember. Probably dang or crap.

2) If you could have a functioning version of any comic book character's accessory or vehicle, which would you choose and why?

You know, I can't really think of anything other than Batman's utility belt. I dunno... powered armor like Ironman might be cool. Or even better, the Cyclone powered armor/motorcycle from Robotech (do the Robotech freedom fighters count as superheros?).

3) What is your least favorite exercise?

Exercise.

4) Can you keep a secret?

What's the secret?

SPECIAL BONUS QUESTION: What is my middle name?
(I probably won't answer this one, but it will be fun to see what people say...)

Puddintane?

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MCFAT 17

Thirty Questions

My sister-in-law posted this on her myspace. I kinda like the questions, so here's my answers.

1. Have you ever been searched by the cops?
No.

2. Do you close your eyes on roller coaster?
I close my eyes when I get near a roller coaster!! You won't get me on one of those things!

3. When's the last time you've been sledding?
Probably winter before last.

4. Would you rather sleep with someone else, or alone?
Depends on when I'm sleeping. At night I prefer Rubi to be curled up next to me. If I've just finished working a 3rd shift and am trying to sleep quickly before I have to be back to work again in 8 hours, then I prefer to sleep alone.

5. Do you believe in ghosts?
Depends on your definition of ghosts.

6. Do you consider yourself creative?
Sometimes.

7. Do you think O.J. killed his wife?
Of course. Who doesn't?

8. Jennifer Aniston or Angelina Jolie?
Natalie Portman

9. Can you honestly say you know ANYTHING about politics?
I know I abhor it.

10. Do you know how to play poker?
Not really.

11. Have you ever been awake for 48 hours straight?
Don't think so.

12. What's your favorite commercial?
Can't think of one.

13. Who was your first love?
Hmmm.... probably Scarlett or Sheila.

14. If you're driving in the middle of the night, and no one is around you, do you run a red light?
Maybe after a pause to look around for 3rd shift cops.

15. Do you have a secret that no one knows but you?
Probably.

16. Boston Red Sox or New York Yankees?
Evansville Otters!

18. How often do you remember your dreams?
Sometimes.

19. What's the one thing on your mind?
That I'm only at number 19 of this freakin' list....

20. Do you always wear your seat belt?
Abso-friggin-lutely.

21. What talent do you wish you had?
I like the answer my sister-in-law gave: "knowing the winning lotto numbers"

22. Do you like Sushi?
Uh, No.

23. What do you wear to bed?
sweatpants and an old ratty tshirt.

24. Do you truly hate anyone?
Not that I can think of.

25. If you could sleep with one famous person, who would it be?
Why would I want to be sleeping?

26. Do you know anyone in jail?
Not at the moment.  Give some of my family members a bit though, and I probably will.

27. What food do you find disgusting?
Vegetables in-general (there are some that are okay).

28. Have you ever made fun of your friends behind their back?
Yes.  Some I've made fun of to their faces.

29. Have you ever been punched in the face?
Not that I can remember.

30. Do you believe in angels and demons?
Abso-friggin-lutely.

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Thirty Questions

Restaurant Meme

Carrie at Mommy Brain posted this meme, and I thought I'd play too.

Basically, I list my five favorite local restaurants. Not chains, local establishments.
I don't do the tag thing - so if you read this and want to play too, feel free!

I live in the biggest small town ever: Evansville (aka Evanspatch), Indiana, an old german city in Southern Indiana. It's actually a conglomeration of several old German towns. It's also the only real city in Vanderburgh County, the third largest city in Indiana, and one of the few places in Indiana on Central Time.

My favorite local eateries include:

1. Turoni's (Pizza and Brewery and Bakery).  Excellent pizza, yummy brownies. Don't know about the locally brewed beverages, but they have many.  They specialize in the "cracker-crust" type of pizza, a very thin and crispy crust "party cut" into squares instead of your normal pie slice.  My favorite pizza there is pepperoni and chicken.  They have two locations in town.  This is one of those joints that has local memorabilia plastered all over the walls.

2. Shylers BBQ.  Mmmmm, barbecue.  Excellent everything here.  They have a yummy "appetizer" that is a big plate of french fries with some pulled pork and sauce over them, then cheese melted over the whole thing. Woo-hoo! Clogged arteries! Their ribs and pulled pork in sauce are amazing.  But I usually avoid the ribs because I don't like to wear my dinner.  They have excellent chocolate pie too.

3.  Los Bravos. Mexican food. Good stuff. They have several locations in the area. And some of the family split off and opened another mexican joint too. I heard it's just as good, but I haven't eaten there.

4. Big Top Drive-in.  This is a dive.  A small walk-up eatery that serves what I call carnival-type food.  In addition to the normal burgers and fries you can get anywhere, they have giant pork tenderloins, fried ...well, fried everything, and hot dogs, corn dogs, soft-serve ice-cream (the vanilla and/or chocolate kind), and just about anything else you might want.  The ice cream is really inexpensive, a large dish is about a buck and you get like a bucket of the stuff.  But the draw is their fries. They have the best fries ever! They use the crinkle-cut fries. I don't what's so different about they way they deep fry them and salt them, but they taste amazing.

5. Donut Bank Bakery: A gazillion varieties of donuts both of the yeast variety and the cake variety. Their cream-filled long-jonhs use a secret recipe for the cream-filling so it's not just your normal whipped-cream filled donut, but tastes more like a buttercream frosting in the middle.  Their cake donuts are my favorite: plain vanilla cake donutes with white icing and sprinkles, or lightly glazed and rolled in a crumb-topping.

Special Mention: The Slice pizzeria.  This is a local pizza joint across the street from a local university.  They serve a buffet one slice at a time. They have one size of pizza only but you can just about any topping you want if you order a whole pie. This is another place where they have good chicken on their pizzas.  You can also get ranch dressing instead of tomato sauce - which is really delicious combined with pepperoni and chicken.  The prices on their menu is what you pay - they've already figured taxes into their prices and list the price you pay.  They say they round everything to the nearest quarter too.  This is owned by a local guy.  In fact, I stopped in once and he had his baby strapped to his back while he was making and serving pizzas.  That's just cool.

Well, now that I've made myself hungry... I need to go forage in the kitchen.

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Restaurant Meme

dignity...

Do you have any miss elizabeth?

No, I dropped it while I was on the zip line! it goes so fast and its so long!

Yea, ok, so what is dignity?

IDK!! chatspeak rulez!

yea, I can tell you lost your dignity..

dignity...

Burnout

Monday is the start of a weeklong vacation from work for me!

 

Technically, I'm only using 4 days of vacation, but with my work rotation, I don't have to be back to work until the following Tuesday.

 

I am so looking forward to not going to work. For probably a month now I've been aware that I've been burnt out on my job, which means in reality I've probably been burnt out longer than that. 

 

What am I doing on my vacation you may ask?

 

A whole bunch of nothin'.

A world of nothin'.

 

I have absolutely nothing that absolutely has to be accomplished.  No errands to run. No classes to deliver kids to. Rubi can drive herself to her work.  And I will not be thinking about my work!

 

But what will I do? I will probably mow my lawn one day.  I might mow my parents lawn one day too.  I'll obviously do my usual around-the-house stuff like fix the kids meals, load the dishwasher, and laundry.  I also plan on trying to upgrade our computers.  And Rubi and I will be playing a ton of Guild Wars.  I'll also get to catch up on some reading, both books and stuff on the internet.  Plus my local Star Wars Fanforce Book Club meeting is Tuesday, and I'll finally get to go again (I've missed the past two). 

 

Hopefully, after 8 days of a whole bunch of nothin', I'll be refreshed and can go back to work with a new mindset.

 

 

 

Burnout

Funny..

I found a few of these on Virtual magic kingdom. com and unless you hate reading my posts, you should know what that is by now

first one: The Secret To vmk is.. my little sister stuck my toothbrush up what?

Two: I told my brother he was a girl and he hit me with his purse

three ( Most People have heard this ): You smile I smile You cry I cry You jump off a bridge I laugh

four: I just realized something, Blue whales aren't Green!

five ( if you know the answer to this post a comment PLEASE!! ) The next sentence is true, the first sentence is false

Funny..

I don't think so

Well, today I'm supposed to Blog Like It's The End Of The World.

But I just can't bring myself to do it... you see, there are zombies running rampant all over my town. And I'm afraid if I sit here too long, they'll catch up with me.

So, gotta go.

I don't think so

June Blog Events

A couple of interesting blog events happen this month.

First, June 13 the everyone is supposed to Blog Like It's The End Of The World.
Really.

The following day, June 14, is International Weblogger's Day. In the past, the point was just to blog about blogging: why you blog, how blogging has affected you, etc. This year, though, they actually have a theme.

Join in, have fun with the first one and then get serious with the 2nd one.

June Blog Events

Evansville Book To Be A Movie?

Awhile back, I read Invitation To Valhalla, a spy novel by an Evansville high school history teacher. Set during WWII, about a spy living in Evansville spying on the local shipyards; it's a good book. Great story, familiar settings.

Now it's possible it could be made into a movie.

How cool is that?

Evansville Book To Be A Movie?

Belated Happy Anniversary

To Star Wars. I forgot to post something about it a week ago during the "official" 30th anniversary of the original release of Star Wars.

I first saw Star Wars, the original, in the theater with my older brother and my youngest older sister one Sunday afternoon after church. I remember being five years old, which would make it the late summer of 1978, was Star Wars still in theaters at that point? If not, then I must have been four years old when I first saw it.

That's really all I remember about it. I remember a little more about the trip itself, but not seeing the movie for the first time. I remember my sister and her friends didn't want to sit with my brother and his friends, and I had to choose which group to sit with. I chose both, and ran back and forth between the groups at least once during the movie. I think my sister got mad at me for that.

I've been a Star Wars geek ever since.

Belated Happy Anniversary

Words We Should Know

It's not really a meme... but feel free to take it and run with it.
From a press release comes the 100 words every high school graduate should know.
I'll bold the ones I, as a high school and college graduate know (or have somewhat vaguely heard of).

abjure
abrogate
abstemious
acumen
antebellum
auspicious
belie
bellicose
bowdlerize
chicanery
chromosome
churlish
circumlocution
circumnavigate
deciduous
deleterious
diffident
enervate
enfranchise
epiphany
equinox
euro
evanescent
expurgate
facetious
fatuous
feckless
fiduciary
filibuster
gamete
gauche
gerrymander
hegemony
hemoglobin
homogeneous
hubris
hypotenuse
impeach
incognito
incontrovertible
inculcate
infrastructure
interpolate
irony
jejune
kinetic
kowtow
laissez faire
lexicon
loquacious
lugubrious
metamorphosis
mitosis
moiety
nanotechnology
nihilism
nomenclature
nonsectarian
notarize
obsequious
oligarchy
omnipotent
orthography
oxidize
parabola
paradigm
parameter
pecuniary
photosynthesis
plagiarize
plasma
polymer
precipitous
quasar
quotidian
recapitulate
reciprocal
reparation
respiration
sanguine
soliloquy
subjugate
suffragist
supercilious
tautology
taxonomy
tectonic
tempestuous
thermodynamics
totalitarian
unctuous
usurp
vacuous
vehement
vortex
winnow
wrought
xenophobe
yeoman
ziggurat

Some of those I could define poorly but I'd be close! Some of the words I've heard, and even remember looking up at some point, but couldn't even come close to telling you what they mean now.

Words We Should Know