thefridayfive a day or 2 late...

1. Have you ever spent time on a farm?
I grew up (age 4-9) on a farm. It was a great childhood until my parents divorced. We had sheep, steers, horses, pigeons, chickens, ducks, geese, a goat, cats, dogs, snakes, a skunk, a turtle, bees, and butterflies.

2. Have you ever been to summer camp?
Nope, didn't have to when we lived on a farm.

3. What is your favorite summertime memory?
After moving to the city, riding my bike everywhere, all day long, just to explore.

4. Did you ever play Kick the Can or tag as a kid?
We played a tag game, can't remember the title, where the whole neighborhood played, in the dark, and the whole block was in bounds. Whoever was it had to tag people and they went to 1604 Taylor's front stairs where they would yell, "I need a back back back in!" and someone else could run by and tag them back in the game. Most fun ever!

5. Can you milk a cow?
I know how, but we never had milking cows.

This week's thefridayfive

How many schools (up until college) have you attended, in all?
Six.
Grades K-3 - South Elementary
Grades 4 - North Elementary (then parents divorced and we moved to the city)
Grades 4-5 - Mercy Open School
Grades 5-6 - Hancock Elementary
Grades 7-9 - Wilson Jr High (I was in the last class of 9th graders in middle schools)
Grades 10-12 - Central High School

How many states have you lived in before the age of 18? How many countries?
Just one - Minnesota. I didn't set foot in another country until I was 33.

Have you ever seen the hospital where you were born -- where is it/what's it's name?
I have never been back to St. Mary's, but I can see it from the freeway.

Do you plan to live in the same state in which you were born, or somewhere else?
"Plan" is the wrong word, unless you are a youngin. I do live in the same state and though I always wanted to live in NYC, I am trapped in MN.

Do you still talk to people from elementary school, middle-school or high school?
Yes, my best friend since 8th grade is still my best friend, 32 years later. I found the first boy (on Facebook) to ever kiss me and he told be how much in love he was with me when we were 9. I was the most popular girl in 4th grade, all the boys were chasing me. But my parents divorced and we moved and I never had that problem ever again. I always wonder what would have happened had I stayed in that town.

From fridayfiver:

1. Last laugh?
The Weezer "Pork and Beans" video!

2. What do you love?
My friends!

3. Gold or silver?
Gold.

4. Who do you hold hands with?
Kindergarteners.

5. Friday fill-in:
There's no time to take a nap.


From thefridayfive:

1. What were some of the smells and tastes of your childhood?
Sheep shit and chicken gizzards.

2. What did you have as a child that you do not think children today have?
Mumps and measles.

3. What elementary grade was your favorite?
Fourth grade, every boy in class was in love with me. Same year my parents divorced, we moved, and things were never the same.

4. What summer do you remember the best as a child?
1980. Cam's dad was my boyfriend and we both lived at the neighbors house and never went home.

5. What one piece of advice would you give to your younger self, and at what age?
Runaway NOW! Things could only get better!

From fridayfiver:

1. Are you a good worker?
I do my job well and no one ever tells me what to do. It's been a good year, I have avoided every single drama in the workplace.

2. What do you carry?
A backpack.

3. Do you know your neighbors?
I talk to 4 of them when I see them, but have no idea which apartments they live in.

4. Where do you like to go for a day trip?
What the fuck is a day trip? I never leave the house. I would love to go anywhere.

5. What is at your feet?
My safe. Makes a nice footstool.


From thefridayfive:

1. What's your favorite TV network?
Heroes is on NBC, Lost is on ABC, Survivor is on CBS, and The Simpsons is on FOX, and you expect me to choose???

2. If you could create your own channel, what would it be?
Star Wars 24/7, and not just the movies. What else?

3. What TV show did you watch as a child, that you wish they would bring back?
Gilligan's Island. Imagine the fun they could have with the way sitcoms are now... all sexual innuendo.

4. What show have you always hated, and wonder why they ever made such a dumb show?
No idea, I don't have room for random crap in my head.

5. What TV show's seasons would you buy on DVD?
I wish I had Heroes.

From fridayfiver:

1. What song frequently gets stuck in your head?
Jumping Jack Flash

2. Choose one line from a song that sums up your life thus far.
It's a gas gas gas!

3. Do you have one all-time favorite song (if so, what is it?) or do you skip around?
It changes all the time. Currently it is Fake It, by Seether.

4. How do you listen to music most often (pod, radio, etc)?
On my Walkman to and from work and on my computer at home.

5. American Idol: fantastic show or overrated?
It's okay... some seasons. David Cook ROCKS!!


From thefridayfive:

1. If you became ruler of the world, what three things would you do first?
Fix the economy, end the wars, take a vacation.

2. If you were a superhero, what would be your name and what powers would you have?
Blizzard Skies, the power to heal.

3. You can ask one question to someone who knows EVERYTHING. What is it?
What happened to the dinosaurs?

4. If you were invisible for a day, what would you do?
Find Mick Jagger and grope him.

5. If you saw a mythical/religious deity walking down the street, what would you do?
If? I see them every day. I let them go about their business.

From fridayfiver:

1. What have you sold?
Nothing I can think of. Cam does the selling on our house.

2. What do you want to change?
Nothing big. And everything.

3. What does your answering machine / voice mail message say?
Never use it.

4. Where did you go to school?
St. Paul Central

5. Friday fill-in:
If you'd like to reach me, you have to come a little closer.


From thefridayfive:

1. What type of food do you most like to eat?
The kind that tastes good.

2. What type of food do you most like to cook?
The kind that Cam will eat.

3. What ingredient could you not live without?
BBQ sauce.

4. What do you never let in your kitchen?
It can come in, but chances of it getting out are slim.

5. What is your favorite drink?
Diet Sunkist.

From fridayfiver:

1. Are you a people watcher?
Yahoo webcams anyone??

2. Who do you hang out with?
Cam, mostly.

3. Did you work hard this week?
Nope, only one day. Spent the rest of the week at the hospital with Cam and being a mom.

4. How do you show a date a good time?
Invite him in.

5. What's your favorite rule to break?
I can't think of one, I don't live by rules.

From fridayfiver:

1. Do you like the thrill of a chase?
Only if they chase back.

2. What winds you up?
Idiots.

3. Are you a loud talker?
No, but I am not a quiet talker, either.

4. What comes easy to you?
Remembering names and faces.

5. What did you dream about recently?
Men.


From thefridayfive:

1. Do you consider yourself to be a good housekeeper? Why or why not?
No, I hate cleaning.

2. Are there any household chores that you enjoy doing? If so, what and why?
Cooking, when I have food.

3. Which household chore frustrates/angers you the most?
I would say dishes, but we don't own any for that reason. Taking out the trash, because that's Cam's job, NOT MINE!

4. When doing household chores, what do you do to make them seem less of a "chore"?
Play really loud metal music.

5. Which chore do you find yourself doing most often, and why?
Laundry. I only own 5 pair of pants, so it's a weekly job.

From fridayfiver:

1. What are you missing?
My emotions. I basically don't give a shit anymore.

2. How do you feel?
Horny. Hungry. Rushed. Itchy.

3. What have you let go?
My want for a family.

4. Who have you hurt?
A few guys around here.

5. What do you deserve?
Nuthin.


From thefridayfive:

01. What types of portable audio devices do you use?
A broken walkman radio.

02. What format of music do you listen to most often?
Radio.

03. How do you get your electronic music files? (pay service [i.e Napster, iTunes, eMusic, etc.], file sharing, artist/label web sites, etc.)
Limewire.

04. What type of headphones do you use?
Generic Target ones I think.

05. What is currently on your portable music player that you are using? (Post artist, album title, please.)
Everything under the sun... it's a radio!

From fridayfiver:

1. Tell us something you love:
I love all my friends.

2. Tell us something you know to be true:
My true friends will always be there.

3. Tell us about someone new in your life:
My newest friends are on YouTube. Beth, Gary, Doug, Darla, Justin, Leia, Andy, Curt, Lori, Geir, Tammy, Peggy, Chris, Jim, etc. I adore them all and they are part of my everyday life now.

4. Who can you never please?
Cam. All he does is bitch lately. I wish diabetes didn't cause so many damn mood swings.

5. Friday fill-in: You know I am allergic to purfumes, colognes, candles, and soaps? My own mother doesn't.


From thefridayfive:

1. When did you "lose your innocence"?
Since it is in quotations I assume they mean virginity. 23. But my innocence was long gone by then.

2. Would you say you have an accent?
You betcha.

3. Do you hope to be married (married again if divorced)?
No. The only reason I want to get married is to get silverware from my parents. My 4 siblings have been married 6 times and they all have expensive silverware. I have 600 plastic spoons from Sam's Club.

4. If you could take one technology to a desert island (the obvious satellite phone excluded), what would it be?
My digital camera. Imagine the gorgeous pictures.

5. What is the last activity you bought a ticket for?
The State Fair in August. Wow, I haven't even been to a movie since then.

From thefridayfive:

1. What is your favorite experience in your life so far?
Being a mom.

2. What motivates you to keep going every day?
Being a mom.

3. Where do you want to go in life? What do you want to accomplish?
Being a mom.

4. Is there anything that you regret? Do you try to change it?
Nothing.

5. What is your most cherished gift you have received? Why do you cherish it so much?
See #1-#3. No explanation needed.


From fridayfiver:

They are sleeping on the job!

From fridayfiver:

1. What's the last thing you threw away?
A wheat thins box.

2. Have you ever been to Paris?
Paris Casino in Vegas.

3. What do you stare at?
Men with long hair.

4. What do you hurry for?
The bus.

5. Friday fill-in: I could have been married and divorced.


From thefridayfive:

1. What is one food (or meal) you used to hate but now love?
Hamburgers.

2. If you had to give up one of your favorite foods (or meals) for good, what would it be, and why?
Mountain Dew, and I already went cold turkey on it because I got diabetes.

3. Which food seems like it should be healthy and isn't, and do you eat it? Why?
I am too poor to sit around and think about these things.

4. If you were an item of food, personified, what would you be and why?
A gord. I could be orange and shapely.

5. You've seen tomatoes and pies used for this purpose... now think of a more inventive item of food one could throw at someone. What is it and why would throwing it at someone be hilarious?
Bananas. Bananas are just funny!

From fridayfiver:

1. Who do you owe?
The bank and the hospital.

2. What do you wait for?
Teachers who are always late to the library and too self involved to ever tell me they are going to be late.

3. What do you disguise?
My life of poverty.

4. Tell us a lie:
I am fine.

5. Friday fill-in:
I can't get enough of my friends on YouTube.



From thefridayfive:

1. What is something you collect? Why?
Star Wars toys, because they make me happy.

2. If you could make one ice cream flavor, what would the ingredients be and what would be the name?
Chocolate ice cream with fudge and oreos, called Creamy Center.

3. What can't you go a day without?
Water.

4. What position do you sleep in? *back, right side, left side, stomch...ETC*
Curled up on my left side.

5. What is your typical morning routine before work/school?
Shower, wake Cam, dress, check the news for the weather, leave for the bus.

From fridayfiver:

1. What's your personal hell?
Working with supervision. Luckily I never, ever have to work like that.

2. Do you prefer brightly lit rooms or dim spaces?
Brightness!

3. What's the weather like today?
A brisk, fall day. It's 1:00am and 49F.

4. Is it easy to be you?
No.

5. Friday fill-in:
My heaven is being loved..


From thefridayfive:

1.If you could go back in time and change anything that has occurred in history, what would you alter and why?
I would have stopped whoever shot Bobby Kennedy.

2.If your current life was to end today and in the next moment you were born again, where everything was the same as when you were actually born, however, you retained all of what you know from your first life, what would you do differently?
Huh?

3. If you could choose to become someone who has lived or who is living, who would you become and why?
I don't want to be anyone else.

4. What do you feel is the most intense experience that is currently happening or may soon come to happen, that may "affect" our survival and what (if) any changes must occur, to continue our existence here?
WTF?!

5. Recalling your most earliest memories/awareness up to now, during your life so far name one thing that you consider a positive experience involving humanity now then from what you can recall in your earliest memories. Name one negative experience also.
These questions eat shit!

From fridayfiver:

1. Who do you look up to?
My friends. A couple co-workers. And my heroes.

2. What is the last thing you cleaned?
My bedroom. Myself.

3. Do you measure with a ruler or do you eyeball it?
A tape measure.

4. What do people compliment you on?
My eyes. My ability to remember every single kid in the school AND the entire Dewey decimal system.

5. What is behind you?
An angry, hungry teenager.


From thefridayfive:
Nothing, because I am not ready for X-mas!

From fridayfiver:

1. Do you like looking at stars?
Love it! We were driving in the country last night and I was marveling at the sky.

2. Who do you say "I love you" to?
My son. My boyfriend. My parents. My sister. My friends.

3. Did you say "good night!" to anyone last night?
Yes, my boyfriend as he fell asleep while I was watching Poker After Dark.

4. When is the last time you felt blue?
I can't remember.

5. Tell us one of your dreams:
I dreamed a dinosaur once tried to eat my mom and she tried to hide in a 50 gallon drum and got stuck. I was about seven.


From thefridayfive:

1. What was the most sick that you've ever been?
When I was 14 I was in bed for a week and puking all over my bedroom and no one took care of me or fed me and I laid in puke for days. My sister brought me water a couple times so I didn't die.

2. What disease are you afraid of getting?
Diabetes. Oh, wait, nevermind, I already have it.

3. Are you a big baby when it comes to taking medicine/shots for your illnesses?
Nope, I take six pills a day and I have taken shots daily when I had gestational diabetes.

4. Is going to the doctor really THAT bad?
Nope. I have a great, young, gorgeous doctor who is a problem solver. He won't stop until he KNOWS the problem and fixes it.

5. Would you have the flu twice a month if you were paid $1,000 for having it?
WTF?! The flu lasts far more than a month! Hell no!

From fridayfiver:

1. Have you ever run away?
From a few things.

2. What is the longest you've dated someone?
19 years and 7 months.

3. What don't you like to think about?
Death.

4. What was your last illness?
When I got sick in LA.

5. Do you like to get revenge?
Occasionally.


From thefridayfive:

1. Who is your best friend?
I have a few people I can tell anything to. Becky (for 28 years), Terrance (8 years), Ron (8 years), Shana (7 years), and Stuart (1 year). But Since I see Shawn almost every day, he has become my new bestest friend (Though I never want to replace his best friend.)

2. Why did you become friends?
Stupid question. Why does anyone become friends. Because he and I were both looking for someone with things in common to hang out with.

3. How did you meet?
On JustSayHi.com

4. Why have you stayed friends?
We will stay friends for a looooong time, because we get along and we know how to work things out with humor and not hurt each other.

5. How long (realistically) do you think you'll be friends?
Realistically? Forever.

From fridayfiver:

1. Who never returns your phone calls?
I never leave a message, so I never expect call backs.

2. What was your favorite childhood toy?
Crayons.

3. Who is the last person you greeted at your door?
Shawn.

4. Who do you need?
Shawn.

5. Do you break hearts or do you have your heart broken?
Both and neither. And not going there again.

From fridayfiver:

1. At the end of today, do you think you'll feel spent or refreshed?
Refreshed! It's a nice relaxing Friday and I am happy!

2. Do you like back rubs?
Yes!

3. When did you last mislead someone?
Never, what you see is what you get. If you don't like it take a hike.

4. What color are your eyes?
Hazel

5. Friday fill-in:
Lastly, let me know when we can do it again.

thefridayfive

1. What is the best part about late summer?
The Minnesota State Fair!

2. What is your favorite memory and why?
When Cam sang a song he wrote, in the talent show, in front of the entire school (with parents), in 6th grade and got a cheering and screaming standing ovation. Why? Because I am a mom!

3. When you were small, did you realize summer vacations were not going to happen forever?
What are you talking about? Who says? I am on summer vacation right now! You just have to go into the right line of work. ;) ;) ;)

4. Where was your favorite summer vacation? why?
To Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada to spend two weeks with mr_loki!!!

5. If you could have one last real summer vacation and cost was not an issue, where would you go and why?
I don't want to have one last anything. WTF?! They did this FF in a freakin hurry and misspelled crap, too.

From fridayfiver:

1. What is your local lake/river/sea?
I am a mile from the Mississippi. Less than 20 miles from where the bridge fell in. :(

2. Do you believe in dragons and unicorns?
Not until I see some.

3. What is your favorite fruit?
Bananas

4. Do you smoke?
Never. Vomit!

5. Friday fill-in:
Together they would rule the galaxy as one.



From thefridayfive:

1. If you were a fruit, which would you be and why?
An orange, soft and juicy.

2. If you wake up and smell smoke, and you have to get everybody (pets included) out of the house safely, but you have time to grab one item, what would you grab?
Cam's baby pictures.

3. If you were stuck on an island, who would be the one person you would want with you and why?
Some young, strong, resourceful man who likes to cuddle. I don't know his name, yet.

4. If you could change one thing about your physical appearance, what would it be?
My teeth.

5. If you could spend the day with one famous person, dead or alive, who would you choose?
I'd like to say Mick Jagger, but I don't want to spend the day in shock. So Robin Williams, so I could spend most of the day cracking up!

From fridayfiver:

1. Tea or coffee?
Neither.

2. Do you speak your mind?
Yes, only when it won't hurt anyone.

3. What is your escape?
There is no escape.

4. When is the last time you cried?
Wednesday.

5. What are your bedtime rituals?
Turn off the computer and pass out.


From thefridayfive:

1. Have you ever been to summer camp?
Never, too poor.

2. Have you ever made a s'more?
Yes, tons.

3. Have you ever slept under the stars (no tent/tarp)?
Yes.

4. Have you ever had a member of the opposite sex sleep over at your house?
Not in a couple years, unless you count teenage boys and they were not MY guests.

5. What type of bed do you have (queen, twin, bunk, etc.)?
Queen.

From fridayfiver:

1. Have you ever gone fishing?
Yes, tons. I used to be the worm ripper when we took 30 kids fishing for summer school.

2. Do you have an aquarium?
Yes, with two huge commit gold fish.

3. Do you eat fish?
Yes, I had fish and rice for dinner last night.

4. Have you ever seen Finding Nemo?
Yes, and I love it more than anyone I have ever watched it with.

5. What do you think of Sushi?
It was okay when zedekk bought me some in LA.

From fridayfiver:

1. What troubles you?
A great many things.

2. Do you like thunderstorms?
Yes, as long as I don't have to catch the bus in them.

3. Do you sleep easily or toss and turn?
Toss and turn.

4. What do you offer a friend?
A drink.

5. Friday fill-in: Please don't BUY ME SHIT!.


From thefridayfive:

1. What was the best gift you received?
Mikey's hair when he shaved his head.

2. What was the worst gift you received?
It's a tie: a) An address book from my aunt where she had just erased the addresses she had wrote in it. And b) a 45 record from the same aunt in a sleeve that said John Lennon's Imagine, but it was some shit by Yoko Ono. (I kept both for 20 years and just threw both away in 2005 when I got rid of half my possessions.

3. What gift did you wish for, but never got?
An Easy Bake Oven when I was 9.

4. What was the best present you gave?
I don't give good presents. Ever.

5. What was the worst present you gave?
Some play-doh to a girl in 5th grade in 1977. I don't think she ever talked to me again.

From fridayfiver:
1. Are you attracted to the naughty or the nice?
I like Nice men!

2. Do you let your dirty laundry pile up?
Yes, I collect piles of it. I have a great collection!

3. What's the last excuse you made?
"It must have been my little helpers."

4. Do you play it safe or do you take risks?
I am a safety girl!

5. Friday fill-in:
Let's go to Famous Dave's and have some ribs!


From thefridayfive:
1. Remember the scene with Molly Ringwald putting lipstick on by holding it in her cleavage? Name one really bizarre thing you know how to do. No matter how small.
I can make my freaky right ring finger become a half inch longer than my right middle finger.

2. What's your favorite way to pass the time?
YouTube.com

3. What's your favorite restaurant and why?
Ooo, I have Famous Dave's on the brain! I haven't been there in a while and I have no chance of going there anytime soon. I absolutely love it!

4. Which TV/Radio show did you like that's not aired any more?
Roseanne! I would love her to come back to a sitcom!

5. If you had a choice of learning another new language, what would you choose? What do you think that reflects about you?
I always wanted to learn Italian. And who cares about reflections, what a stupid question.


The fortysomething Four:
1. Do you still make a wish when you blow out the candles on your birthday cake? I haven't had a birthday cake since 1987.

2. Have you ever been told that you have a sexy voice? All the time.

3. Should Sean Connery come out of retirement to do another Indiana Jones movie? Hell YES!

4. If you were to write a biography about Paris Hilton what would the title of the book be? Paris Hilton: Did you Swim in her Pool?

I don't have all my pics up yet so in the mean time....

fridayfiver1. What year were you born?
1966

2. Who do you like to hug?
I love to hug anyone who will let me, especially my darlins in summer school (who have a lack of hugs in their lives).

3. Do you runaway or face your problems?
Run, Forest, Run!

4. How much cash do you have on you?
Probably $40 leftover from C4.

5. Friday fill-in:
I know exactly how to make a man purr.


thefridayfive

I think not. What a load of shitty questions! Is it recycle week???

fridayfiver

1. What do you obsess about?
Work, Star Wars goodness, my friends online and the people I stalk on YouTube.

2. What do you do for a living?
I run a library, talk to kids and make sure everyone is happy.

3. Where do you call home?
A little hole in a wall in Minnesota.

4. Have you lived up to your parents' expectations?
Nope and I could care less. They didn't live up to mine.

5. Are we more likely to find you in a coffee bar or a nightclub?
Neither one, I never go anywhere for lack of someone to go with.


thefridayfive

1. If you were a nocturnal animal, what nocturnal animal would you be?
A slow loris. Google him.

2. Which is better: to obey the law to avoid punishment, to obey the law because the law makes sense, or to obey the law because everyone should?
To obey the law to avoid punishment, because not all laws are right and not everyone should obey them.

3. Who is your favorite all time movie villian?
Darth Vader!

4. Are any kind of ethics involved in wearing a hat?
Eh? That's over my head. ;)

5. When is the best time for you to take a 20 minute nap? Why?
When I ride the bus, because I need it and it's a long ride.

I haven't done these in quite a while, the questions have been so lame lately.

thefridayfive
1. What is your all time favorite book?
The World According to Garp by John Irving

2. What is your all time favorite movie?
Aliens The second movie in the series.

3. What are you reading right now?
Only books to my K-3 students.

4. What is your favorite show on TV?
I can't choose. I have three right now that I can't miss for anything. Heroes, Lost, and Survivor.

5. What is the last movie you saw in the theater?
Blades of Glory


fridayfiver
1. Turn your head to the right -- what do you see?
A fifth grade classroom and two kids waving at me.

2. Stand-up -- do you like how tall you are?
5'8"

3. Do you believe in heaven or hell?
No.

4. What is your favorite piece of jewelry?
A necklace from girlpirate, a bracelet from rockawilly and my watch from deneren that just died today. :(

5. What is the last thing you took from someone else?
Hmmm, I haven't taken anything in a while. Maybe Cam's freedom, but I gave that back last week.


fortysomething
1. Name one thing you do everyday.
Post at http://galacticsenate.com/

2. Name two things you would like to learn.
Sign language and the Hmong language.

3. Name three things you love to eat but rarely do.
How about three places: Old Country Bugget, Famous Dave's, and Red Lobster!

4. Name four things that make you feel good.
Laughing, sharing, being loved, and loving someone.

From fridayfiver

1. What do you dream about?
Nightmare things. Last night I woke up furious because real life crap at work snuck into my dreams and someone told me, "Wanna put those away" basically telling me to do THEIR job for them. Grrrrrr!

2. Who has been mean to you, lately?
No one. I made a promise to Bill to never let anyone be mean to me. People may think they are being mean to me, but it doesn't bother me, they are just a bunch of losers who have no control over their lives.

3. What makes you tremble in fear?
Watching my son run through traffic.

4. Tell us something you've destroyed:
I destroyed a friendship once because I told him I loved him. Make that more than once. Even though I meant it as "I love you like a friend". Men are so touchy.

5. Do you feel in control over your life?
Yes. I am in complete control. But sometimes I wish I had more people I could depend on so I didn't have to be in control all the time.


From thefridayfive

1. If you could suddenly speak one language fluently (that you don't currently speak) what would it be?
Hmong.

2. If you were to suggest a foreign film, that you really enjoyed, what one would you suggest?
My Life As a Dog.

3. If you had to call another country home (other than the one you currently live in) what one would you choose?
Canada.

4. If you went out to buy an import music CD, what one would you buy?
No clue.

5. If you were to chose an ethnic dinner, what would it be?
Italian or Chinese, the American versions.