I finally did a friday five

[lumy12]

This week's thefridayfive is about ch-ch-changes:

1. If you had the ability to legally change your name, would you? To what?
Nah, I like my first name now. In middle school I wanted to change the spelling to "Wendi" so I could put a little ♥ over the "i." But I'm glad I didn't. For my last name... Mondragon. That's my favorite last name ever and I don't really have a good reason for it, I just like how it sounds. But what do you mean "if"? I can change it if I want to. But why go through all that legal hassle?

2. What do you do with change that you receive from banks/purchases/find on the ground?
Put it in my purse. Spend it. If there gets to be too much I dump some out on the counter at home.

3. If you could travel back in time to change the course of one historical event, what event would it be?
Them's murky waters... as others have said, ripple effects and all. Also, if I somehow prevented a war from happening, who's to say it wouldn't happen 20 years later or so anyway? History repeats itself. I'd kind of like to save Jack the people on the Titanic, but that tragedy taught the world a lesson, as tragedies often do.

4. Would you rather live a safe, stable, moderately interesting life or one where every day was dangerous, volatile, and different?
Definitely safe and boring.

5. What do you think you'll be remembered for when you die and, if you could, would you change it to something else?
I won't be remembered at all. That's the sad thing about not having children. I've been thinking about death lately (two coworkers are currently out for deaths in the family, one expected and one not)... what will become of my crap after me and my brother are both gone? I imagine my paper journals will get tossed. I mean, who else would care to read all that crap about someone they don't even know? It's sad to think that our family line dies with us. Hopefully my brother will have kids someday!

Or maybe I'll be remembered for the paintings I sold. There are only three, and two were to the same person. But both of them were older than me, would they pass those down to their families, who won't even know me and may not care to keep them, and end up garage-sale-ing them or something. Weird to think of those "living" on after I'm gone. Like my LJ will!

Comments

[kevthejedi.livejournal.com]

Wow, this one's a bit deep.
I like the ability to change an historical event question, like you say, murky waters!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Impossible to know how many tentacles each event has! Not just in world history but in personal history.

[kevthejedi.livejournal.com]

The funniest thing is if time travel were possible, just by going back and breathing you'd be changing (ever so slightly) the concentration of O2 and Co2 etc in the air, which could effect small things ever so slightly, but over a longer period of time effect more substantial things.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

That's true! But yeah, miniscule if only one person were doing it. Or even everyone filling out this fridayfive.

[kevthejedi.livejournal.com]

But just think, that minuscule difference millions of years before dinosaurs existed could entirely change the time or way in which evolution occured, essentially wiping out the human race!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

BWAH it boggles!!!

[kevthejedi.livejournal.com]

But fascinating all the same! If I could, I would.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

That's not too expensive, no, but everything else you'd have to change your name on seems like a hassle! And don't you have to run ads in the paper too?

Yay Star Wars heaven!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I just heard you're supposed to do that? Maybe if you're changing both first and last names? Though it seems that if you have warrants out for your arrest, that would pop up somewhere along the line during the name changing process.

I need a new license because mine's all faded and has the wrong address, but it doesn't expire until 2039, so... heh. Lazy.

Nooooo, Darth Vader will be there too! Go watch the end of Return of the Jedi again! ♥

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

I don't think I knew that. The resident Johnny Depp expert is one of the people who's out though (her daddy died :( saaaad). She may have mentioned it at some point. JACK is a good name. And Jack in the Box RULES.

Go nap! Tanning or yardwork will give you skin cancer! Heh, says the girl who failed to put on sunscreen last weekend. My back is all itchy and annoying now.

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

That is a deep thought for #5. This is why I say 'we' (as in you) should donate your eggs to science. That way, someone will remember you!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it be an anonymous type thing though? No one would remember me :(

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

I said donate to science, not a fertility lab. Fertility labs are anonymous. If you donate it for research, you will be listed as a contributor for the research.

[karinablack.livejournal.com]

1984! Safe and boring! RUN!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

I've never read that, actually. How horrible of me.

So are you FINALLY giving up responding to darkp_hawk???

[karinablack.livejournal.com]

NEVER.

He can give up and quit first.

HARUMPH!

hehehe...

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha! I wonder who will be the first to give in. You'd think HE would, because he says his browser LOADS all those damn comments when he replies. *gasp*

[karinablack.livejournal.com]

I know. Poor thing. Next he'll tell me he's on IE or something horrid..

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Looks like you won! Your randomness has broken his brain! You go girl!

[karinablack.livejournal.com]

Nope, he's caught up ;D