lumy12

If anyone wonders how Jeremy's visit went... in a word, it was AWESOME. The only problem is now I miss him like crazy. Sigh.

Here, have some memes! It's been a while!

This week's thefridayfive is about goals:

1. We are a third of the way through this year. How are those New Years Resolutions coming along? I didn't really make any, but the only goal I had at the beginning of the year was completely shot by the end of the first month. Thanks, Jeremy!

2. Have your goals for the year changed? YES.

3. When working on personal achievements, do you do better when left alone, or do you need a support network of friends/family? I feel like I'm supposed to say I need a support network, but... hmm. I tend to keep things to myself to avoid public failure; I flog myself for failure more than anyone else probably would anyway. Having people nag or judge me doesn't tend to motivate me.

4. Who is your best personal airbag? Me, myself, and I!

5. What song or quote do you think best describes you right now? I will let the next meme decide that:

Music meme stolen from ladyhadhafang, who posted it nearly a month ago... yup, that's how I roll, very sloooooooooowly. I love music memes, especially now that I have an awesome iTunes collection again :D

According to my shuffle...

( ...hey, some of these almost make sense... )

Out of the hundreds of artists available to shuffle amongst, I find it odd that there are two repeats up there. That's happened previously when I've shuffled, too. What gives, iTunes?

This week's thefridayfive is about newspapers. How could I resist? I love newspapers! And they're more obsolete every day :(

1. What is your favorite section of the newspaper?
Living!

2. Sunday comics or weekday strips? Which comic is your favorite?
Sundays because that includes Foxtrot (my fave).

3. Do you read your daily horoscope? Do you believe in it?
I read it faithfully every day even though I think it's hogwash. I believe there may be SOMEthing to astrology (I identify with my Pisces sign... but, hmm, maybe it's a self-fulfilling prophecy type thing there? I know how I'm supposed to be and therefore I am? ...except for the water part. I'm not much of a fish) but not the daily stuff. My mom and I are both Pisces, does that mean we should have the same type of day every day??

4. Does the paper become bird cage lining, do you recycle, or does it get thrown in the trash?
I recycle it on weekends, after saving various sections for people. At work I leave it in the kitchen for all to enjoy and it wanders off with people. I think very little of it gets thrown away.

5. Where do you read the paper? At home, at work, or elsewhere? On the weekends I curl up on the couch with kitties and coffee and enjoy it... am about to go do that now. During the week I read it at work before I start working (I go in early partly for this reason) and drink the free coffee there.

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In other news, it rained last weekend... then was sunny all week... now that it's the weekend again and I have a chance to do yardwork (eww), guess what - it's gonna rain again! Poor wenchcat at Faire in the mud! But I'm not complaining. Any excuse to put off yardwork is a good one. I'd rather change 10 litterboxes than deal with weeds and mowing the lawn. I'm annoyed because I faithfully put down some weed'n'feed a month ago and I still have weeds. I guess just not as many as I would have had?

Here, have a pic from last weekend:

( Rainbowwwww )

In other other news... I've concluded that there is something about me that appeals to guys at first but then morphs into something unlovable. IDK. It's not just "men are scum" because it's ME -- I am the common denominator here. And most people I know are married or HAVE been married. Marriage is just a completely foreign concept to me at this point. The bio clock isn't ticking quite as loudly as it was a couple months ago, but I think that's mostly because I self-medicate with Sims2.

I haven't done thefridayfive in a while:

1. What is your morning routine?
Wake up to the current Star Wars CD in the rotation. Pull on glasses, fire up laptop (yes I sleep with it). Roll over and check email/f-list(s) if there's time. Remove splint. Pee. Check for outside kitties. Feed kitties. Bathe/dress/primp/contact lenses for work.

2. What is your nightly routine?
I need one, actually. I don't do stuff in the same order and sometimes put things off (for reasons besides laziness -- okay this might be a summer problem as it involves going out in the heat) until I'm too tired to care to do them... it takes me too long to do everything, especially if I'm distracted by AIM. Would like to stick to "off the interwebz before 10:00" plan too.

3. Do you like to listen to the radio when you sleep or have it quiet?
Quiet. Or listen to something gizzi1213 sent me.

4. What do you like to sleep in?
Comfy things, even if I'm too fat for some of them >.> Who cares.

5. What is the first thing you think about when you wake up in the morning?
I wonder if ansketil_rose posted that porn I wonder how many comment notifications I have.

*yawn* Naptiems nau.

I haven't done thefridayfive in ages! I like this one okay so here goes:

When did you last...
1. scrounge for change (couch, ashtray, etc.) to make a purchase?
Um... never? I try to keep my change centrally located.

2. visit a dentist?
Last week :)

3. make a needed change to your life?
This one's hard. I skipped it and came back and still can't pinpoint the last time. "Needed change" sounds so major. I'll say 4-5 months ago.

4. decide on a complete menu well in advance of the evening meal?
I do this regularly >.> Of course, my meals are not exactly gourmet.

5. spend part of the day (other than daily hygiene) totally/mostly naked?
A month or so ago maybe? Some weekend day when I didn't leave the house. I like being naked or nearly-naked when it's hot :)

Yeah, so, I was bad and snagged some stuff to fill out in Word to copy/paste here at work real quick. The girls aren't working very hard today so I don't feel TOO bad about it. It IS Friday, after all!

First, a survey from drusilla_malfoy:( Random )

Next, you get two thefridayfives for the price of one. I never did last week's!

( The Friday Ten )

And, yoinked from jellybellys. The version I last tried to do ended up being... well, unpostable. Re-doing now with 75% less wangst!

( The passive aggressive meme )

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And now I ponder a minor moral dilemma before lunchtime.

This week's thefridayfive is about money, and it's a set I suggested like... eons ago. I guess they really DO look through old ones sometimes. Cool, eh?

1. Did you get an allowance as a kid, and if so, how much was it? My first one was 25 cents a week. LOL It kept going up to... I think $5 or $10 max? I don't remember when it stopped, maybe when I started babysitting all the time for money.

2. How old were you when you had your first job, and what was it? I started babysitting at 12, but my first "paycheck" job I was 16, I think, maybe 15? working at a little restaurant. I SUCKED at that job, I was too immature for it, really.

3. Which do you do better: save money or spend money? Lately, spend money. I go through my frugal phases, though.

4. Are people more likely to borrow money from you, or are you more likely to borrow from them? I am the Bank of Wendy. Come on in.

5. What's the most expensive thing you've ever bought? Definitely my house. As for the most expensive thing that's paid off -- my car.

I tried to donate blood to azurien's vampires again today, but again they didn't want it! And I didn't even get my little mini physical out of it. Lesson learned: next time do not joke about how often I get rejected and thus make them do the iron test first to avoid the "hassle" of checking everything else. Hehe. My blood was all eager to come out too, when they did the prick thing (twice!). They say I'm a fast bleeder.

I did weigh myself, though. Why did I type "more than last time" as my weight last time? I wanna know what I was. Phooey.

So, my limited stats:

Hemoglobin: 11.3 (minimum is 12.5)
Weight: 144
My BMI is 22.something (checked that from reading my company's newsletter. Less than 25 is good, so I guess I'm not technically fat, I just FEEL fat)
If you wanna know my bra size, just ask Nam!

This week's thefridayfive is about... stuff.

1. If you knew that you had only one day left to live, what would you do for the 24 hours?
I'd probably spend all of it crying, but if I could get past that I'd have to post in my various LJs to say goodbye. I'd go eat at Claim Jumper with my family and any friends who could make it. I'd make as many arrangements as I could have time to make, probably laying most of that on my brother and Aaron so between the two of them nothing would get neglected/forgotten. I'd wonder when I was going to wake up from this horrible nightmare. And hopefully I'd come to accept it towards the end and I could control when it happens, so I could go to some really nice hotel and be comfortable and then no one would have to deal with the pain/awkwardness of me dying in the house.

2. Do you think that life has meaning?
For some.

3. What was your favourite childhood toy/object, or some of your favourites?
When I was really wee I had this pink plastic car with yellow wheels. I lugged that thing around with me everywhere and I slept with it at night. It was like my security blanket. But then according to my mom, one day we were down at the shore, I was playing in the sand, and a wheel came off of it. Suddenly the car was dead, I buried it in the sand and didn't care about it anymore. !!! Wtf? I don't remember that, it sounds quite "out of character" for me. After that I'd say it was various action figures (including the Bossk one in my icon! My brother and I luuuuuuurved our Bosskies) and these seal/sea lion plushes that we gave different personalities to and played with All.The.Time.

4. When you clasp your hands, do you put your right thumb over your left thumb, or your left thumb over your right thumb?
Right over left. What a random question!

5. If you had to teach the most ignorant person on earth the most difficult thing you have ever learned, how would you go about doing it?
The most difficult? Calculus. Only I quite failed at it so I guess that doesn't count as learning it - and I sure as hell don't remember any of it now. I suppose the most difficult LIFE lesson is something along the lines of "time passes/things change" but I have no idea how to teach someone else that they're stronger than they think they are, and that time is the best healer.

This week's thefridayfive is... random again, I guess.

1. What's harder to live without, chocolate or alchohol?
Oh man. That's tough. Chocolate, I suppose.

2. Does the colour yellow remind you of anything?
Anakin's starfighter. ^_^

3. Who most annoyed you last week?
I can't think of anyone who annoyed me. Sorry.

4. Do you have a cutesy romantic nickname for your partner (or previous partners)?
Oooo almost a N/A until they threw in the parentheses! Mostly "sweetie."

5. What is your favourite Stephen King movie?
I haven't seen that many. Cujo (sp?) was Stephen King, though, right? That's the first scary movie I remember watching when I was young that FREAKED THE CRAP out of me. I bet it wouldn't faze me now if I saw it again, though.

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Back to work now. If I work my ass off today maybe I won't feel like I NEED to come in tomorrow. I WAS caught up on my f-list but I see some of you have written long entries that need to wait until I get home! Sorry!

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!

This week's thefridayfive is about LJ:

1. How long ago did you join LJ? A little over 3 years ago - November 2004.

2. How did you find out about LJ? I'd been reading my friend Z/havergal13's LJ for like a year or so before. One day I just decided to browse around the site and I thought, hey, I should do this too.

3. If someone introduced you to LJ, is s/he still on your friends list? Yes! He doesn't post so much these days but he's there.

4. Have you introduced anyone to LJ? Yup, Aaron/aaronisthebest. Who also doesn't post much these days. *shakes fist* He still likes MySpace better though. Ewwwwwwwww MySpace. Oh, and sleuthgirl27 - we made a deal where I would play the Sims if she would keep an LJ. We both failed >.> I miss her! I have no idea where she is cuz she no longer works for my company (she's in Kentucky but we worked for the same employer). T_T I have an old cell phone # but I'd feel too weird just randomly calling it.

5. Is your LJ public or friends only, and why? It's public for the most part. I have to keep it that way so my brother can read it because he refuses to make one. Even though I told him it's not like he has to POST with it, he could just log in to read mine! But no, he refuses. He'll make a MySpace but not a LJ! Anyway, I do have a few filters I use every once in a while, and I tend to lock the dorky voiceposts now because my brother doesn't need to hear my voice, he hears it all the time. Ha ha. But I'm not paranoid about undesirables finding me on here or anything. I'm an open book!

I'm definitely making a to-do list for the weekend, but I'll be a dork and save that for tomorrow so I can post on 2/29. Yes, I'm strange. I could just post something else tomorrow but nah... once I post a to-do list I tend to try not to post after it 'til I've made good headway on it. (Again, I'm strange.)