A Cool Stolen Forty

Thanks, Mole!

Forty Questions (minus scary #14)

1) Who is the last person you high-fived? -- Echo, my Mom's parrot

2) If you were drafted into a war, would you survive. -- definitely, unless i saw something really gross like a dead person. then i would cry over the nauseating meaninglessness of it all and someone would probably sneak up on me and poke me real hard with something pointy.

3) Do you sleep with the TV on? -- they say it's bad joujou

4) Have you ever drunk milk straight out of the carton? -- only when i have guests who i know will drink after me, then i laugh privately to myself

5) Have you ever won a spelling bee -- i was a geek, but not that much of a geek

6) Have you ever been stung by a bee -- once, bottom of the foot. he was hiding cleverly amongst some white clover just waiting for my tender young instep to find his bad barbed stinger

7) How fast can you type -- depends on how much i've had to drink and how long i have procrastinated

8) Are you afraid of the dark? -- dark good....

9) Eye color -- moss

10) Have you ever made out at a drive-in? -- old, but not that old, so no

11) When is the last time you chose a bath over a shower? -- normally i would bathe regularly to soak in my herbs and oils, however, i hate my current tub. what i really want is to design my own bathroom in my own house and put a disposal under the drain so i don't have to sift out all the flotsam i sprinkle in there to make my bath teas

12) Do you knock on wood? -- the fake stuff in my Jeep, although i do use the saying

13) Do you floss daily? -- no, but thanks for the guilt-heaping

15) Can you hula hoop? -- yup, i win regularly against the Hooters chicks

16) Are you good at keeping secrets? -- wait'll you hear this.....

17) What do you want for Christmas? -- a vacation, this Master's business is a real drag

18) Do you know the Muffin Man? -- i know a Man who likes my Muffin

19) Do you talk in your sleep? -- shhhhhh, don't you know you shouldn't use the pink rollers??!!!!!!! Mom will kill you

20) Who wrote the book of love? -- gabriel garcia marquez - a couple of them actually

21) Have you ever flown a kite? -- one of those double stringed stunt kites... smokin'

22) Do you wish on your fallen lashes? -- nah, wishes are for fishes

23) Do you consider yourself successful? -- in some realms

24) How many people are on your contact list of your cell? -- too many

25) Have you ever asked for a pony? -- still do

26) Plans for tomorrow? double step @ 8:30am, pay the rent, study for finance, clean bird room, study for finance, eat, study for finance, nap, study for finance, and finally, study for finance

27) Can you juggle? -- nope, used to have a set of juggling penguins, but....

28) Missing someone now? -- indeed

29) when was the last time you told someone I Love You? -- wrote it to my Dad yesterday

30) And truly meant it? -- it was true by my definition

31) how often do you drink -- constantly - water, tea... oh, you meant alcohol, once a week

32) How are you feeling today? -- a tad compressed and burnt out

33) what do you say too much? -- it used to be "crikey", but now it's probably "don't bite"

34) Have you ever been suspended or expelled from school? -- not a chance

35) What are you looking forward to? -- the next adventure

36) Have you ever crawled through a window? -- definitely, B&E is my specialty

37) Have you ever eaten dog food? -- tried a biscuit

38) Can you handle the truth? -- when it is not brutal

39) Do you like green eggs and ham? -- it's not really the color of food that bothers, it's the texture

40) Any cool scars? -- tooth marks from pitbull on forearm, really more of a good story than scar

But did you know???

As interesting as a "leftie" snail might be, did you know that when snails court, and they do fall in love, they shoot eachother with "love darts"? Snails are hermaphroditic, having both male and female reporductive stuff, but do not self fertilize; and have a store of small, sharp darts which they shoot at the objects of their affection. This apparently conveys a competitive advantage to the sperm which are exchanged between the two lovers, and has been the metaphor for Cupid's darts for centuries. Often upon close inspection, you can see snails sporting multiple darts protruding carelessly from their necks and heads - a sign of their fecundity.

Next time you are in your garden, look carefully at the snails.

Sad but illustrative

250 years of taking his time, eating plenty of fruits and veggies, and just plain clean livin'. maybe we should try it. However, would anyone really want to live that long??? Discuss...

I Love Grapes

The green ones - firm flesh, tart juice, crisp palate. I loved 'em when I was a kid, ate boatloads of 'em until my belly ached. Handy, no mess, lovely color. I really do love grapes. Maybe that makes me a pre-vino wino.

Uh....What the *&%$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Texans have always prided themselves on being a "breed apart". Huge state, monstrous egos, ginormous hair, colossal politicians... but when I saw this on the news and then read about it, I wondered out loud. One of the last states to ban drinking and driving, we have historically flung our collective fingers at the law. Flaunted all that is bumpkin and continued on our merry Texan ways. Pretty soon we'll just go to the bar to, well, uh... look at the interesting interior design???????