• Willing to give up blue skies for climate fix? – Climate Change- msnbc.com
  This sounds really scary to me. Like something we shouldn't be messing with…. It seems like a drastic measure to me that might not fix the problem anyway.

  This is the first I've heard of geoengineering. Maybe I just haven't been paying attention until a headline like "give up blue skies for climate fix" catches my eye. I'll have to read up on this and form a more-informed opinion.

  (tags: environment)

• HTC Dream – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  This is my new phone.
• (tags: technical)

• Flickr: The Anaglyph (Red-Cyan 3D Pictures) Pool
  3-D flickr group.
  (tags: fun 3-D 3d FlickR)

1. What time did you get up this morning?
Around 11am, but I kinda lazed around in bed snoozing off and on until 1pm

2. How do you like your steak?
Medium

3. What was the last movie you saw?
The Wonder Woman animated movie

4. What is your favorite TV show?
24

5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
no clue.  I like where I’m at.

6. What did you have for breakfast today?
I skipped breakfast and ate a huge meal at Outback Steakhouse

7. What is your favorite cuisine?
Mexican

8. What foods do you dislike?
ramen noodles.  Those things are disgusting.

9. Favorite Place to Eat?
Subway

10. Favorite dressing?
ranch or italian.

11. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
1994 Pontiac Grand Am

12. What are your favorite clothes?
jeans and a shirt

13. Where would you visit if you had the chance?
someplace warm where the water is blue

14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full?
1/2 full

15. Where would you want to retire?
haven’t thought that far ahead, but somewhere warm would be nice

16. Favorite time of day?
evening

17. Where were you born?
Potomac Hospital in Woodbridge VA

18. What is your favorite sport to watch?
watching sports is BORING.

19. Who do you think will not tag you back?
N/A

21. Who are you most curious about their responses to this?
N/A

22. Bird watcher?
not really.  I like them being around but I don’t go seek them out.

23. Are you a morning person or a night person?
I’d say night person

24. Do you have any pets?
2 cats that love to wrestle around with each other constantly.  So cute!

25. Any new and exciting news you’d like to share?
not much going on right now

26. What did you want to be when you were little?
a pilot

27. What is your best childhood memory?
There are so many – I had a happy childhood.

28. Are you a cat or dog person?
cat… dogs are OK, but I prefer cats

29. Are you married?
yes, happily

30. Always wear your seat belt?
yes

31. Been in a car accident?
I have been rear-ended twice

32. Any pet peeves?
annoying asshole drivers

33. Favorite Pizza Toppings?
olives, bacon, pepperoni, mushrooms

34. Favorite Flower?
peonies

35. Favorite ice cream?
pistachio

36. Favorite fast food restaurant?
subway

37. How many times did you fail your driver’s test?
none

38. From whom did you get your last email?
Parthena

39. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?
I hate shopping

40. Do anything spontaneous lately?
not really

41. Like your job?
yes, for the most part

42. Food you hate?
Isn’t this a repeat?  oh, i see the other one was dislike.  Well, I hate Ramen noodles… yuck.

43. What was your favorite vacation?
Assateague

44. Last person you went out to dinner with?
Clint’s family for his grandma’s birthday

45. What are you listening to right now?
usually music is playing 24/7

46. What is your favorite color?
purple.  The other day, I put on my purple pajama pants, a purple pajama shirt from a different set of pajamas, a purple hoodie, and my purple crocs… Yes, I love purple

47. How many tattoos do you have?
None…  I suspect I will have an allergic reaction to the ink anyway.

48. How many are you tagging for this quiz?
0

49. What time did you finish this quiz?
7:51 pm

50. Coffee Drinker?
yes, but decaf only since I’m not supposed to have caffeine (but I have been drinking caffeine more and more recently).

What annoys you the most?
tough call.. all work and no play is what I can come up with at this moment in time.

If you could, where would you go right now?
somewhere warm… I’m not ready for summer to end yet.

Generally speaking, how often do you think about love?
all the time.  I love Clint!

Choose an element: earth, wind, air, fire, water
earth (what’s the difference between wind and air?)

Which would you rather have: Ability to fly, to breathe underwater, or to move things with your mind (Telekinesis)?
telekinesis – which includes flying because I’d move myself with my mind

Would you rather not have to sleep or eat and drink?
I love all those things… I like sleeping and dreaming, but I guess I enjoy eating and drinking more.

Do you believe in aliens, UFOs, ghosts, or any other supernatural beings/objects?
I think these things are possible.  Space is in infinite thing so there is probably life out there somewhere.  I’ve seen a possible ghost, and my sister and aunt have seen unexplained ghosty things.

Choose one: Love or money?
love

Infatuation or inspiration?
inspiration

Day or night?
both, but I’m more likely to be awake during the day.

Imagination or knowledge?
both..

Describe your “perfect” place of living.
I like where I’m at, but somewhere sunny and warm would be nice right about now.  Stupid rainy cold day.

Lastly, is destruction a form of creation?
yes, something new comes in its place

So, Clint just did the “When you were 17..” survey, and so I decided to do it also…. then I noticed he linked to his senior year survey, and that reminded me that I had that survey sitting in my drafts since February 19th… So here’s both of them.

When I was 17…

1. My favorite musician was:  NoMeansNo

2. My favorite song was: Who the hell knows at this point?  We can just say “What Slayde Says” and leave it at that.

3. My favorite subject was: Algebra 2

4. My favorite teacher was:  Either Mr. Linz the physics teacher or the Algebra 2 teacher.  I think her name was Mrs. Potvin.  I can’t remember for sure.  But I would write little stupid things all over my papers and she’d write back.  One time, the answer was 54, so I wrote, “Car 54, where are you?” next to it, and she wrote back being like, “You’re too young to remember that.”  But the only reason I knew about it was from staying up all night watching Nick at Nite, so she had a point.

5. I had a crush on:  Clint. I also had some psuedo-boyfriends while we had an open relationship, so I had a crush on a couple of guys before making the move on them.. Muahahaha,  Bill The Cat, Ian (who, oddly enough, I can’t remember his bbs handle…. weird, huh?), Bob (same thing.  I can’t remember his bbs handle, but he was Wishbringer’s neighbor).

6. Favorite food was:  uhh, all food was delicious.

7. My favorite hangout was: Skate City, or hanging out at one of the Fearsome 6’s house.

8. I wished I could be: with Clint
9. My plans for the future were: to get into Virginia Tech so I could be with Clint

10. My favorite TV show was:   I didn’t watch that much TV, but I think it was Seinfeld and Mad About You

11. I hated:  being away from Clint

12. It was the year: 1993

13. best memory: hanging out with friends

14. Worst memory: I must have blocked it.  Probably just being away from Clint in general.

When I was a senior…

1. Did you date someone from your school? Clint

2. Did you marry someone from your high school? Clint
3. Did you car pool to school? I drove my brother to school.

4. What kind of car did you have? I didn’t have my own car, but I drove my mom’s 1990 Mazda Miata, and pretty much considered it mine.

5. What kind of car do you have now? 1994 Pontiac Grand Am

6. Its Friday night. Football games or Party? I only occassionally went to football games my freshman and sophomore years.  My junior & senior years, Friday nights were usually spent at Skate City in Manassas…

7. It is Saturday night? Probably hanging around with the Fearsome 6.

8. What kind of job did you have in high school? My junior and senior year, I had a part-time data entry job in the dining services of a retirement home.  I got it through the Co-Op program.  Best decision I ever made was to say “Yes” when my Information Technology teacher asked if I wanted a job.  Leaving school at 1pm my senior year = WIN!

9. What kind of job do you have now? Government Credit Analyst

10. Were you a party animal? Nope.  I drank alcohol once my senior year when I visited Clint at college

11. Were you considered a flirt? Nope. I got more flirty after college (same as Clint’s answer, oddly enough)

12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? I was in orchestra in middle school

13. Were you a nerd? When I was called a nerd, I resented it.  But I guess I was….

14. Did you get suspended or expelled? Never

15. Can you sing the fight song? Nope

16. Who was/were your favorite teacher? Mr. Linz is a good one, but I think I liked the information technology teacher better… How bad is it that I don’t remember her name?

17. Where did you sit during lunch? Bah, I think I sat on the floor in the hallway and ate ho-hos..  Not sure if that was freshman or senior year though.  Sophomore year was with Clint, I think.  I’d sometimes eat with my friend Tanya if our lunches coincided, but I think I was usually in the different lunch period than her.  Grumble.

18. What was your school’s full name? Woodbridge Senior High School

19. When did you graduate? 1994

20. What was your school mascot? Viking
21. If you could go back and do it again, would you? Yes.

22. Did you have fun at Prom? Yes, because I was with Clint.  I think I had more fun leading up to the proms and having the flower fiascos than the actual proms themselves.

23. Do you still talk to the person you went to Prom with? Yes. He is at home sleeping.
24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion? Sure, why not.  I did go to my 10-year because Clint insisted that I’d regret it.  I did not regret it – that made-to-order pasta was AWESOME!

25. Do you still talk to people from school? Not really, unless you count facebook.  I did just add a bunch of old acquaintances to facebook… Oh, wait, AE and of course Clint.

I am finding myself really annoyed by Smallville. I don’t have high expectations for that show this season. I think the dialogue is stilted, and the character development is annoying. I barely want to watch it, but I just keep hoping maybe the story might redeem it once they get going with it.

• Mazda giving green twist to rotary engine – The Driver's Seat- msnbc.com
  I like RX-8s, and I like saving the environment.
  (tags: energy environment car)

• Sewing Tip – The magical Australian knot
  Sewing tip: Tying a knot at the end of the thread
  (tags: sewing house)
• How to Thread a Needle and Tie a Knot (with video) – wikiHow
  Sewing trick: tying a knot at the end of the thread – with pictures
  (tags: sewing house)

• 2 In 1 Pet Carrier- new in box -holds 20LBS FREE SHIP – eBay (item 250244889840 end time Aug-28-09 06:43:29 PDT)
  I need an early Christmas present.
  (tags: animal shopping wishlist)