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Random stuff about moi

I smurfed this from a friend’s MySpace:

1. Who is the last person you high-fived?

Jessie

2. If you were drafted into a war, would you survive?

Doubt it, I seem to have a knack for pissing off just the right people in power.

3. Do you sleep with the TV on?

Every night.

4. Have you ever drank milk straight out of the carton?

Hell no, that’s gross.

5. Have you ever won a spelling bee?

Came close … received 2nd place. Zac Willis beat me. :cry:

6. How many times have you been engaged?

Once. Like my ring?

7. How fast can you type?

Around 70 wpm … now ask me how accurate I am. *g*

8. Are you afraid of the dark?

Depends on your definition of “dark”

9. Eye color?

Mostly blue unless I’m wearing green or brown.

10. Worst fear?

Drowning. Or something happening to Jim/Jessie.

11. When is the last time you chose a bath over a shower?

Whenever I had the time for it. (READ: too long ago for me to remember when, LOL!)

12. Do you knock on wood?

*smirk* I don’t think he likes it when I do that.

13. Are you drinking anything right now?

Mtn Dew

14. Do you think you’re attractive?

I’m no Aphrodite, but I think I do alright.

15. Can you hula hoop?

Not in front of crowds.

16. Are you good at keeping secrets?

Yes — which is why Jimmy Hoffa’s body still hasn’t been found.

17. What do you want for Christmas?

A new job. (Or a Nintendo Wii )

18. Do you know the Muffin Man?

Why of course! Drury Lane is just down the road from me.

19. Do you talk in your sleep?

Yep. And I’m told that I sometimes hold complete conversations with myself.

20. Who wrote the book of love?

Wasn’t me … because I would have proofread that shit a little more!

21. Have you ever flown a kite?

Yes.

23. Do you consider yourself successful?

Successful at what?

24. How many people are on your cellular contact list?

None, I don’t have one.

25. Have you ever asked for a pony?

Nope.

26. Plans for tomorrow?

Work.

27. Can you juggle?

Nope.

28. Missing someone now?

Nope … my aim is a lot better than it used to be!

29. When was the last time you told someone ‘I love you’?

Last night.

30. When was the last time someone told you that?

This morning.

31. How are you feeling today?

Better than yesterday.

32. Are you black?

HAH! Let me put it this way … if I were any lighter, I’d glow in the dark!

33. Have you ever been suspended or expelled from school?

Nope, came close once.

34. What are you looking forward to?

Pay day.

35. Have you ever crawled through a window?

Yep.

36.Have you ever eaten dog food?

Commercial, no. But then again, my dog had “people food” so would that count as a ‘yes’?

38. Can you handle the truth?

Almost always, and prefer it.

39. Do u like green eggs and ham?

I hate eggs. Ham’s good fried though … with gravy and mashed potatoes.

40. What 3 things can always be found in your refrigerator?

Pickles, mustard, hot sauce.

41. Any cool scars?

On my left hand where I nearly took off my finger. (still hurts if you put pressure in just the right spot!)

42. Do you like or have a crush on anyone?

My fiance. Shhhhhhhhhh! Don’t tell!

43. How many kids do you plan on having?

None.

45. Have you ever been in love?

Yes.

46. Do you talk to yourself?

Every damned day.

47. Do you like dancing?

Yep.

48. Three of your favorite foods:

Chinese/Japanese, Mexican, Thai.

49. Three things about the opposite sex that appeal to you the most:

Eyes, smile, arms.

50. Who are you thinking about right now?

My fiance.

51. Who did you last talk to on the phone?

A client.

52. Where is your phone?

I don’t have a cellphone.

53. What was the last thing you ate?

A taco salad from Habaneros.

54. What is (are) your favorite color(s)?

Blue. (Black if it’s clothing)

55. what is the last movie you’ve watched?

Talladega Nights

56. What song do you currently hear?

None, listening to talk radio.

57. Are you currently suffering from a broken heart?

Nope.

58. Would you ever date anyone on your friends list?

I don’t think my fiance would like that, do you?

NOTE: Did anyone notice there’s no # 37? lol

Week/Weekend Agenda

I’m going out of town tomorrow for a M$ tech conference. Friday we are celebrating Jessie’s and Jim’s mom’s birthdays — his mom’s was the 2nd (she was out of town at the time) and Jessie’s is today’s, but we won’t get her until late tomorrow night. Saturday is a LAN party at Moporoco’s, but I don’t know yet if I’m going. We’ve got a lot of shite going on at work, so it will depend on how I feel this weekend.

Anyways, I’ll be out of pocket for the next few days. If anyone NEEDS to reach me, hit up my Google Mail account and I’ll get back to you when I have internet access.

They come in 3′s

I smurfed this off of someone’s DA blog:

Name 3 schools you went to:
1. Hueytown Elementary
2. Corner Elementary & High School
3. University of South Alabama

Name 3 things in your purse/wallet:
1. keys
2. lipstick
3. usb flash drive

Name 3 things you always wear:
1. my ring
2. my eye of horus pendant
3. socks

Name 3 things you do when you are really stressed:
1. cuss
2. get clumsier than usual
3. cuss more

Name 3 favorite songs right now:
1. dq blizzard by mc chris
2. spiel met mir by rammstein
3. engel by rammstein

Name 3 favorite places to shop:
1. New Orleans, LA
2. San Francisco, CA
3. Tampa, FL

Name 3 places you go to on a daily basis:
1. work
2. home
3. -

Name 3 things you like to do:
1. read
2. sing
3. muck up my coding

Name 3 most valuable possessions:
1. Jim
2. Jessie
3. my car

Name 3 favorite fruits:
1. apple
2. grapes
3. bananas

Name 3 things you are addicted to:
1. macadamia nuts
2. oreos
3. m&m’s

Name 3 favorite hobbies:
1. reading
2. singing
3. mucking up my coding

Name 3 career choices:
1. Web Designer
2. Chef
3. Opera Singer

Name 3 goals in 2006:
1. get in better shape
2. fix my credit
3. get a better job

Name 3 plans for next week:
1. doctor’s visit
2. see a local musical production of Pinocchio
3. port a PHP-nuke theme to WordPress for Jim

Three Names You Go By:
1. Nicki
2. Boo (Jim’s pet name for me)
3. Small Fry (reserved only for best friend)

(call me Nicole or Shannon and I promise you will die a slow horrible death)

Three Parts of Your Heritage:
1. Irish
2. English
3. Scottish

Although I feel obliged to add a fourth: White trash

Three Things That Scare You:
1. Water
2. Radical Islamists taking over the US
3. Martha Stewart

Three of Your Everyday Essentials:
1. socks
2. my USB flash drive
3. lipstick

Three Things You Are Wearing Right Now:
1. makeup
2. robe
3. hair product

Three of Your Favorite Bands or Musical Artists:
1. Metallica (circa the Black Album)
2. Billie Holliday
3. Led Zeppelin

Three Things You Want in a Relationship (OTHER THAN LOVE):
1. Trust
2. Compassion/Forgiveness
3. Communication

Two Truths and a Lie (in no particular order):
1. I love my fiance more than I have ever loved anyone
2. I like my job
3. I don’t like people touching my feet

Three PHYSICAL Things about the Opposite Sex that Appeal to You:
1. Eyes
2. Smile
3. Arms (particularly forearms and bi/tri-ceps)

Three Places You Want to go on Vacation:
1. Japan
2. Oregon
3. New Orleans

God Bless America, Land that I Love

It’s a jungle out there …

I ran across an interesting article yesterday and it struck me as funny, in a thought-provoking kind of way:

From Fortune Magazine, via Yahoo News:

Calls of the wild
Thursday June 8, 10:54 am ET
By Tim Carvell, FORTUNE Magazine

When you’ve phoned in sick, have any of your co-workers ever been thoughtful enough to come over and regurgitate blood into your mouth? If not, then your team doesn’t have anything on vampire bats, who’ll routinely do just that for their ill comrades. It’s one of many behaviors found in the wild that suggest that humans aren’t the only creatures that know how to cooperate. And animals do it without the benefit of management consultants.

And it’s probably a lot cheaper that way too!

Seriously, growing up I would learn about only a handful of animals that would tend to their sick and/or elderly the way that we humans do. How funny that now scientists are learning that “they” and “we” aren’t quite so different anymore.

Biologist Lee Dugatkin of the University of Louisville has written about animal cooperation in the delightfully titled book, Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees. He argues that critters act according to a rudimentary cost-benefit analysis: They cooperate when doing so gets them something more than they could get on their own.

My cat is proof of that. LOL!

“I don’t want to be petted now. Stay away from me.” — an hour later — “I’m hungry and I can’t get into the pantry, I need you now! Please feed me. See? I’m cute!! *purrrrrrrr*”

So lionesses will band together to hunt large prey, like gazelles or giraffes, that they cannot catch on their own, but they’ll split off to hunt, say, warthogs, individually.

When animals do choose to cooperate, biologists have found something intriguing, and a bit depressing. In the wild, as in the office park, freeloading is rife, such as the ring-tailed lemur that can’t be bothered to help protect its territory. So, many species have developed systems to keep freeloading to a minimum. When impalas, for example, groom one another’s necks for ticks, they take turns. The monkeys of the Tai forest in West Africa have a different anti-slacker technique. Researcher Christophe Boesch found that when they hunt a tiny colobus monkey for dinner, they divide the spoils according to how much work each chimp did.

I can remember when pay-scales used to be that way … talk about depressing! ;P

In other words, they work on commission. What links the impalas to the chimps – and all animals that want to prevent freeloading – is that they are able to remember who did what. Call it the oversight committee.

But for all the teamwork that goes on in nature, the animal world tends to be governed by an old-fashioned command-and-control structure. Suzanne MacDonald, a professor of psychology at York University in Toronto who volunteers as an animal behaviorist at the Toronto Zoo, describes the social structure among baboons: “If you’re on the bottom rung of the dominance ladder,” she says, “it pays to be submissive and, frankly, a bit sycophantic, because you’re more likely to earn the favor of those higher up the ladder. Eventually this pays off, and you can move up the ladder yourself and gain access to big perks like mating opportunities or first crack at dinner.” Sound familiar? As MacDonald notes, “Throw in a really cool car, and that sounds a lot like an executive bonus system.”

Take a wild hairy guess which system applies to my workplace. :roll:

I love the sauce

Hot sauce that is, hehe.

I hate dayjobs. If I could work for a place doing what I’m doing now, but only at night, that would rock. Oh well, at least I can sleep somewhat decent hours on holiday/extended weekends.

I got up at dawn to see Jessie off when her mom dropped by the house. I thought about going back to bed, but decided to play Vampire: the Masquerade Bloodlines for a couple of hours. (perfect game time is when the house is quiet) A new patch came out last week, so I’d been wanting to get in another game anyways. I’ve played about half of the clans already.

This week I’m a Ventrue.

Played until about 8:30 and went back to bed. Got up around 5, showered, and went by Zaxby’s for a quick lunch/dinner. (Yum, I love their hot sauces!!!)

Yesterday Jim and I left work early and caught X-Men 3: The Last Stand. OMG, what a TEAR-JERKER!!!! I won’t say that the movie was bad, per se` … but it definitely wasn’t what I expected. I won’t spoil it, but it wasn’t the shiny happy ending I was looking for. However, it DID leave an opening for another sequel, but I seriously doubt it will happen. The only concern I have now is that reactions to this movie may affect the Wolverine movie if/when it comes out.

Oh well … que` sera, sera.

I saw the previews for the new Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest due out soon. I also saw a teaser for the new Nicolas Cage movie … Ghost Rider. OMG, it looks SECK-SEE as HELL!!

Also saw the previews to The Omen remake … I’ve no interest in seeing that one. The first one was bad enough, thank you. And I’ve too many demons of my own, I don’t want to watch anyone else’s.

I was reading online last night that there’s going to be another Hellboy movie (Hellboy 2: The Golden Army). Sweeet!!! There’s also going to be another Pumpkinhead movie, so I’m looking forward to that too!

Yay.

Lordi, Lordi, What’s going on?

I swear, everytime I sit down to blog, I’m interrupted.

Oh well, I’ll live. I had actually wanted to sit and rant about a few things last weekend, but have since cooled off, and I’m in too good of a mood today to ruin it.

After a lot of study and consideration, I reopened the coven site last week. But it will pretty much serve as an online archive from now on. I simply don’t have the time or resources to do more with it now, but that’s all good I think.

I’ve been amusing myself during my lunch breaks by watching various videos from Google Video on my Google page. I ran across one, it was by the Finnish winners of the Eurovision song contest, Lordi, called ‘Hard rock hallelujah‘. I had heard this song on Hard Radio the other night and it was buggin’ me because I couldn’t remember the artist’s name. This *so* reminds me of the stuff I used to listen to in high school and college, and they look like a cross between GWAR and Rob Zombie. In fact, the lead singer reminds me (in the video anyways) of Big Jim of Obliviaxe. *grins*

Anyways, I’ve been diggin’ on that a lot lately. Not much else is happening, but I may post more personal things later.

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