Thursday Thunks

(long post....gonna play catch up)

April 7

1. How long can you hold your breath? Don't tell me you don't know... try it.

a minute or so....

2. Have you been watching the Decorah Eagles?

since I don't know what that is....I'd have to say no

3. Ever fallen off a horse?

no

4. Pick a color and a number and come up with a combination name for the new color.

pink and six.....how bout....pixink

5. Write a paragraph about 10 minutes of your morning, writing it in the 3rd person.

6. What events have you marked on your calendar for this summer already?

not much....taking my birthday weekend off, but not real plans as yet; my children *may* be going camping with their father (and ONLY their father), but that is not yet decided or confirmed

7. If you could have any realistic talent, what would it be?

all of my talents are real...thanks

8. What is the scariest place you've ever visited?

the house we rented when I was in high school was owned by the family of a former Mexican witch doctor...there was another house next door that they owned....one winter a homeless man took shelter in the empty house and started a fire.  Shortly after that, my then boyfriend and I walked around inside to look around...it was eerie.  I couldn't sleep for weeks.

9. If you were a cat, what already-made flavor of cat food (no chocolate flavors!) would you want to eat?

salmon

10. What were you doing the Friday 2 weeks ago in the afternoon?

I was at work...in a "called" dept meeting...my boss resigned.. 

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March 20

1. If all the world is a stage, where are the audience sitting?

all around

2. Taken from InsanityCafe Forums: If ghosts exist and are around us now, what happens if all life on Earth is destroyed? Would ghosts remain or also be destroyed? If ghosts are energy and energy on the planet is destroyed, wouldn't it destroy ghosts?

no...ghosts (I prefer spirits) are immortal...and there are different kinds of energy...

3. How do you know you live in the real world?

anything imagined wouldn't be this painful

4. What the best/worst April Fools Day joke that has ever been played on you? Same question for one that you have played on someone else.

on me....a coworker taped a dollar bill to a string and laid it on the floor....when picked up, the string would make it slip out of the holder's hand.  She got a good laugh from several of us.

on another...none to share..I don't do pranks very often

5. If you could pick the last year of your life, which would you pick and why?

my senior year of high school...before children, before marriage...so I woudn't feel like i was leaving those close to me behind

6. April showers bring May flowers. Have you ever been stuck in a rainstorm?

I have...I used to ride the city bus home, and had to wait in the rain on occasion...

7. Grapes. Green or red/purple? Seeded or seedless?

prefer green seedless, but i like them all

8. Someone knocks at your door asking where your neighbor lives, calling your neighbor by name, do you point them in the right direction?

maybe ....would depend on if they knew the address and just didn't know how to get there or where it was

9. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can, What can you touch?

the upright freezer

10. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?

about 430ish...taking the dogs out to do their business, just after getting Kraig off the bus

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March 23

1. Would you try a dog food flavored jelly bean? What about skunk spray or vomit flavored?

absolutely NOT...gross!

2. Are any keys on your keyboard worn off?

not at home...but some keys are more shiny than others

at work, my old keyboard had some letters that were no longer visible

3. Why are the lids on coffins nail/locked/sealed? Are we afraid they are going to get out?

maybe so....little does one know...nails or locks can't keep spirits in...  :)

4. True love. Define it.

can't....i don't believe it exists

5. Where is the strangest place you are ever fallen asleep?

hmmm.....not sure...if I'm tired enough,I can fall asleep anywhere...I once spent the night outside to get tickets to a concert

6. A doctor walks up to you and says "I will change anything you want... big or small... doesn't matter how much it costs, I'll do it for free!".

What do you have him fix or change on your body?

my chronic pains

7. The last picture you took - share it. Well, if it's not something we would probably find in Bud's recent photos.

8. Blue or black ink. Your preference?

blue

9. You are walking down the sidewalk on a city street and you see a little girl, about 3 or 4 years old, she asks you if you can tie her shoe for her.

What do you do?

tie it ...and then ask her where her mommy is

10. What channel numbers are ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX for you?

i have no idea....i always have to ask what number to put tv on for any show

11. Did/do you have any marriage deal breakers?

I did and do...it was broken...and my marriage is over. 

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March 15

1. There is a song out there about you... it's on the radio, the video is on tv (just not MTV) and everybody in the world knows this song is about you.

Who sings it?

either Martina McBride or Taylor Swift

4. Have you ever sneaked..snuck...snucked...what is the right word? into a movie?

um...NO

3. Déjà vu; meaning "already seen", is the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation, even though the exact circumstances of the previous encounter are uncertain and were perhaps imagined. Thoughts on what it is? Have you experienced it?

I have felt like I have previously experienced some things or met people that I haven't nor could have ever done or met...a recent example is a new family that moved into our congregation at church...the mom looks so very very familiar to me, I would swear I know her...but there is no way.  Our paths have never crossed before...but every time I see her, I have the feeling that I have met her in the past.

My thoughts are this....I believe we all lived together in the previous life; I think sometimes the people that seem familiar to us or events that happen are familiar because we DID know them, but our progression in  this life causes our memories of our previous life to fade.

2. Stick it to me, baby.

What is the last bumper sticker you saw and why do you remember it?

oh my, I don't even know...people where I live are more clever with their license plates than with bumper stickers...I love to see others creativity and try to figure out what they mean.

One of my favorites is this:  XQAMOI

10. Ever wonder what fish think about?

um no....i do not

 

8. If you could paint President Obama's fingernails any color, what would it be?

i don't know nor do I care...I'd just as soon not be in the same room with him let alone close enough to paint his nails

7. Do you have seat covers on your car seats?

What do they look like?

no I do not....probably gonna try to get some by summer....leather seats are HOT in the summer sun

6. For the rest of your life you can eat one spice and one spice only (on whatever food you want, of course), what spice do you choose?

garlic pepper salt

9. If you could slide down a rainbow, which side would you slide down?

the side that lands in the pot of gold, of course

5. So a mom is suing her kids' preschool because it failed to prepare the child for the kindergarten entrance exam... did you eat paste in preschool?

not that I recall....
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March 9

1. Charlie Sheen is an idiot and will probably end up with his own stupid reality show that will get 40 million viewers the first day and then people will fall asleep and quit watching.

What person, celebrity or not, would you watch every eppy of a reality show if they were the center of it all?

I don't even watch most reality shows....some of the cooking ones, but that's about it....so no idea.

2. We all pay bills and wish we didn't have to. We all work and wish we could just lay around all day doing nothing. We all have those grown up responsibilities that we wish we could give to an African Elephant.

Besides all the things the African Elephant got from you for the day, what is something from your high school years that you miss most of all?

not sure...I think most anything from high school I might miss...I still have.  My yearbooks, my letter jacket, my Senior pics, graduation cap and tassle...

3. Sometimes we want to grow wings and fly.

Whats the farthest you've fallen?

physically/literally....when I was young, I slept in the top bunk...and fell to the floor.  Had a huge goose egg on my forehead for awhile.

emotionally/spiritually...I've fallen as far as a person can...but am on my way up, ever so slowly.

4. There is square bread, wheat bread, circle shaped bread, bread with nuts in it, funny named bread.

When you open a bread bag, do you twist it when you are done or put the metal tie thingie back on? (And did you know that if you look at that metal tie thingie, it has a day of the week printed on it?)

I used to twist the package back and tuck it under the loaf (but didn't keep the metal tie)...now we have these loaf keeper things that the wrapper folds over the outside and the lid goes on

5. Some spoiled little brat (hey.. my opinion) called 911 on her teacher because he shook his own desk to get the students attention in the class. (I know, right?)

Think back... what clever ways did a teacher of yours use to get the attention of the class or a particular student?

6. Artwork, pictures, notes, appointments.

How many magnets are on your refrigerator?

a ton....so many that I am not going to count them...some of them were collected from places we have traveled, some are for my son (ie blue's clues, letter/number magnets)

7. Cats are fluffy, dogs are soft, snakes are leathery, fish are wet.

What is an animal that you have held or petted that you don't think many people have had the chance?

i pet a snake as a child...but i think many have.  I pet a tiger once...even have a picture sitting next to me (I was like....6 or 7)

8. I'm coming to your house to paint your kitchen. I'm bringing the paint.

What color should I not have with me?

orange..bleh

9. Snow falls down, sometimes sideways. It still ends up on the ground.

If snowflakes came in all different colors, which color snowflake would fall the fastest?

because once color falls faster than another....

10. We caved... well at least I did.

Are you glad Thursday Thunks is back?

ABSOLUTELY!!!  Didn't even know it was back till today!