georgette_b

Xmas meme

2009-12-27T03:56:21Z

http://www.blogthings.com/whatpartofchristmasareyo...

You are an indulgent and generous person during the holidays.
It's important to you that everyone you know is taken care of... including yourself!

You are always going that extra mile to make people feel loved this time of year.
From baking delicious cookies to picking out perfect presents, you do a better job than Santa himself!

What Part of Christmas Are You?

Goddess meme

2009-03-31T16:41:19Z

What Greek Goddess are you?

You are Demeter!
You are like Demeter, goddess of agriculture, harvest and earth. You are very altruistic, as you have natural instinct to nourish and provide for those around you. Without "mother-earths" like you, this world would be without hope and underdeveloped, both mentally and physically. You are the foundation on which we stand and the sustenance in what we consume.

Ironic?

Extreme Sheep Herding. Enjoy!

2009-03-23T15:09:59Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw

Guess it's Quiz Day - another MEME

2009-03-13T18:13:30Z

What's Your Personality Type?

You Are An ISFJ

The Nurturer

You have a strong need to belong, and you very loyal.
A good listener, you excel at helping others in practical ways.
In your spare time, you enjoy engaging your senses through art, cooking, and music.
You find it easy to be devoted to one person... a partner who you do special things for.

In love, you express your emotions through actions.
Taking care of someone is how you love them. And you do it well!

At work, you do well in a structured environment. You complete tasks well and on time.
You would make a good interior designer, chef, or child psychologist.

How you see yourself: Competent, dependable, and detail oriented

When other people don't get you, they see you as: Boring, dominant, and stuck in a rut

Body of Water MEME

2009-03-13T18:03:51Z

Anyone else wonder why skinny dipping wasn't listed on the last question?

I LOVE the ocean but this description is just silly. I'm not deep - in fact I usually try to avoid "deep" thinking. LOL

What Body of Water Are You?

You Are an Ocean

You are impressive and fascinating. People are drawn to your glory.
You are a profound and passionate person. You are boundless in your power.

You have a philosophical and poetic soul. You take a lot of time to reflect.
You are mysterious and captivating. You are too deep for anyone to figure out.

Five things about me, MEME

2009-03-07T00:14:48Z

These are five things that </a></b></a>freewaydiva associated with me together with my responses. If you comment I will give you five words I associate with you, and then you can pass it on!

Food
I love because it's yummy, but more than that it brings people together in a way that nothing else does. The sharing of food is very primal. Food is our first pleasure (I'm thinking I have book idea in that). It can be sustenance for the soul as much as the body.

Family
My mom sent me the quote, "family is a circle of people who love you," many years ago when I was far from home. It feels more true as each year passes.

French
Oh how people love to hate the French but they've been doing things right for a long time. Heard of the Slow Food movement in the US? In France it's just good ole home cooking. And let's not forget the CHEESE.

Hawaii
Tuberose, Plumeria, Puakenikeni, Paradise. Warm salt water. Surfing turtles. Plate lunch with 2 scoop rice & macaroni salad. Hard work. Long days. Lazy days. Cliff jumping with my mom and her look of joy when she came up for air. That smell of saltwater, sugarcane, and tropical flowers on the breeze.

Love
There are many kinds of love but the first word that comes it mind is... Joe. Best friend/Love. Tough guy/Teddy bear. Suprisingly romantic. Makes me laugh until I pee. Fiercely loyal. If I have a bad day he'll stop everything to be at my side. Same if I'm having a good day. :) He's the best part of my day, every day. I always wanted it all, but never thought I'd get it.

For freewaydiva...

2009-03-04T22:51:13Z

http://www.bakonvodka.com/

Mmmmm... this martini is bacony. :)

Nerdy Sheep

2009-01-28T22:55:03Z

MEME Tarot

2009-01-19T22:35:31Z

Okay, I had to post this after reading the full description. Eerie.

You are The Empress

Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation.

The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents, beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. You may be good at home decorating, art or anything to do with making things beautiful.

The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While the Magician is the primal spark, the idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born. This is why her symbol is Venus, goddess of beautiful things as well as love. Even so, the Empress is more Demeter, goddess of abundance, then sensual Venus. She is the giver of Earthly gifts, yet at the same time, she can, in anger withhold, as Demeter did when her daughter, Persephone, was kidnapped. In fury and grief, she kept the Earth barren till her child was returned to her.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

MeME for YouYOU

2009-01-18T00:23:51Z

Swiped from Renart, because I can't resist craftyness.

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
- What I create will be just for you.
- It'll be done this year.
- You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry. I may draw or paint something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you have to put this in your journal as well. We all can make stuff!

Very late to the MEME party

2008-11-18T22:16:28Z

1.My uncle once: Slept on the Goldengate bridge. He climbed up and suspended his sleeping bag; I'm pretty sure he was arrest on his way down in the morning.

2. Never in my life: Have I owned a passport. Sad really, must remedy that.

3. When I was five: I stayed home from Kindergarten (because my birthday is in the Fall) and drove my mom nuts by trying to get her to teach me to read.

4. High school was: Probably not as bad as I thought it was.

5. I will never forget: My daughter Persephone.

6. Once I met: Charlie Trotter (famous chef) and made one of his recipes for him. He was the guest chef at the restaurant where I worked. Nice guy.

7. There's this girl I know: Who sometimes snorts when she laughs and it makes us all laugh harder.

8. Once, at a bar: I chipped my tooth on a beer bottle. Very trashy.

9. By noon, I'm usually: Ready for my nap.

10. Last night: I ate leftover mac and cheese and watch The Daily Show and Colbert Report with J and K.

11. If only I had: Not had that second helping.

12. Next time I go to church: It will be for a wedding or funeral.

13. What worries me most: Ugh!

14. When I turn my head left I see: The office phone.

15. When I turn my head right I see: My cell phone.

16. You know I'm lying when: I'm sure I have a tell but I don't know what it is.

17. What I miss most about the Eighties is: Mix tapes from friends.

18. If I were a character in Shakespeare I'd be: Beatrice or the nurse from R&J.

19. I have a hard time understanding: why it matters to the religious right if gays and lesbians get married. It doesn’t make sense; I just don’t get it. (This is monkeybung's answer but it's so good I'm sticking with it.)

20. If I ever go back to school: I'd take art history.

MEME

2008-11-13T17:17:15Z

Viktoria Szupiany's Dewey Decimal Section:
003 Systems

Class:
000 Computer Science, Information & General Works

Contains:
Encyclopedias, magazines, journals and books with quotations.

What it says about you:
You are very informative and up to date. You're working on living in the here and now, not the past. You go through a lot of changes. When you make a decision you can be very sure of yourself, maybe even stubborn, but your friends appreciate your honesty and resolve.

Find your Dewey Decimal Section at Spacefem.com

Fifth Element MEME

2008-10-22T17:29:35Z

When you see this, post your favorite "Fifth Element" quote in your LJ.

"Mmmmm... chicken good."

Book MEME

2008-10-14T15:54:21Z

nicked from copper_oxide

Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

"We had unknowingly stumbled onto one of the most famous of the old Parisian restaurants, which had been in business since about 1750."

My Life in France, Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme

Princess Bride Meme

2008-10-10T16:40:52Z

Nicked from freewaydiva

When you see this, post in your own journal with your favorite quote from The Princess Bride. Preferably not "As you wish" or the Inigo Montoya speech.

"Anybody want a peanut?"

National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day

2008-10-03T18:28:11Z

Please help spread awareness. Thank you.

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day: Take Action

October 15th is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day in the United States. More than 25,000 children are stillborn in the United States every year leaving mothers, entire families and communities devastated. Estimates of the rate of occurrence of stillbirth make it at least as common as autism.

Stillbirth is not an intractable problem. Greater research would likely significantly reduce its incidence, but good research requires good data. H.R. 5979: Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act is under consideration by Congress. This proposed bill would standardize stillbirth investigation and diagnosis, thus providing more data for the needed research. Better research means fewer children born still.

On October 15th, remember the thousands of unfinished children lost and the families who remain to grieve them. Honor them by taking action. Let's help pass H.R. 5979.

Action Steps:

Step 1. Use Your Blog to Enlist Others
-Copy the contents of this entire post and publish it on your blog immediately.

GOAL: Enlist 10 of your readers to spread the word

Step 2. Use Your E-mail to Enlist Others
-E-mail 5 bloggers and ask them (nicely and in an unspammy way) to publish these action steps on their blog. Consider contacting celebrity bloggers, political bloggers, medical bloggers, or bloggers who are not part of your reading community.

GOAL: Enlist 3 bloggers outside of your normal blog sphere to spread the word in other online communities.

Step 3. Help Pass the Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act
-By October 15th, publish a post on your blog supporting H.R. 5979 Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act. For maximum impact, title your post: "Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act."

GOAL: 1,000,000 Google results on October 15th when that term is searched for. Currently, Google only returns 20,400 pages - most of which have nothing to do with the bill.

Why do they do it?

2008-08-18T23:21:53Z

Because they can...
http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/gallery.php?startpoint=294

lol

MEME swiped from gravygrrl

2008-08-14T19:21:37Z

Your result for The Personality Defect Test ...

Robot

You are 57% Rational, 43% Extroverted, 29% Brutal, and 14% Arrogant.

You are the Robot! You are characterized by your rationality. In fact, this is really ALL you are characterized by. Like a cold, heartless machine, you are so logical and unemotional that you scarcely seem human. For instance, you are very humble and don't bother thinking of your own interests, you are very gentle and lack emotion, and you are also very introverted and introspective. You may have noticed that these traits are just as applicable to your laptop as they are to a human being. You are not like the robots they show in the movies. Movie robots are make-believe, because they always get all personable and likeable after being struck by lightning, or they are cold, cruel killing machines. In all reality, though, you are much more boring than all that. Real robots just sit there, doing their stupid jobs, and doing little else. If you get struck by lightning, you won't develop a winning personality and heart of gold. (Robots don't have hearts, silly, and if they did, they would probably be made of steel, not gold.) You also won't be likely to terrorize humanity by becoming an ultra-violent killing machine sent into the past to kill the mother of a child who will lead a rebellion against machines, because that movie was dumb as hell, and because real robots don't kill--they horribly maim at best, and they don't even do that on purpose. Real robots are boringly kind and all too rarely try to kill people. In all my years, my laptop has only attacked me once, and that was only because my brother threw it at me. In short, your personality defect is that you don't really HAVE a personality. You are one of those annoying, super-logical people that never gets upset or flustered. Unless, of course, you short circuit. Or if someone throws a pie at you. Pies sure are delicious.

To put it less negatively:

1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.

2. You are more INTROVERTED than extroverted.

3. You are more GENTLE than brutal.

4. You are more HUMBLE than arrogant.

Compatibility:

Your exact opposite is the Class Clown.

Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Hand-Raiser, the Emo Kid, and the Haughty Intellectual.

Foodie MEME from Ula1066

2008-08-14T18:48:13Z

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) ~~Cross out~~ any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here at http://www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses (no, but would love to try it)
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns (bao wow! love these)
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras (yes, and I still don't like it)

24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn or Headcheese (tried it but never liked it - my dad used to make his own)
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper (I like a little spice but I know my
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda (no, but would love to try it)
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (Cognac NO cigar, I don't smoke!)

37. Clotted cream tea (heavenly)
38. Vodka jelly (Aka. "Jello Shots". Bloody Brits.) Hell yes!!
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects (I would try them under the right circumstances)
43. Phaal (sadly too hot for me)
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth $120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear (as delicious as it is gorgeous)
52. Umeboshi (popular in Hawaii)
53. Abalone (YUM!)
54. Paneer (I've had this in a dish but not on it's own)
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini (I had a sip, but I hate gin)
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine (no, but I'd love to try it. I've been told it's a great hangover cure.)

60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads (amazing fried)
63. ~~Kaolin~~ (why?)
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. ~~Louche absinthe~~
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill (chili)
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare (wild cotton tail rabbit is better)
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Late to the MEME...

2008-08-08T21:14:17Z

Instructions: Go over to Wikipedia and enter the day you were born (such as "March 11") and then pick 3 events, 2 births and 1 holiday that occurred on your birthday!

Events:
1542 - Explorer Cabrillo discovered Santa Catalina Island off California coast. (I've been there - it's lovely.)
1944 - World War II: Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jews burn down crematoria.
1998 - Gay University of Wyoming student, Matthew Shepard, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. (I lived in Wyoming as a kid and this shames me greatly.)

Births:
1589 - Maria Magdalena of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1631) (Why can't I be the Grand Duchess of Tuscany?)
1955 - Yo-Yo Ma, French-born cellist
1959 - Simon Cowell, English recording executive
I know there are only supposed to be 2 birthdays but does anyone else find it disturbing that Yo-Yo and Simon have the same birthday?

Holiday:
Brazil - Composer Day

Chess MEME

2008-07-10T20:35:24Z

Your result for Which Chess Piece are You Test? ...

The Knight's City Guard

Congrats! Only 10-13% of the population score this!

The Knight’s City Guard is characterized by the desire to serve others in times of need. Sometimes this drive is so powerful that the standard ‘give-and-take’ is unsatisfying. They are bound very much to social convention and don’t like to include moral or political controversy. The City Guard is often forgotten because they are so reliable. They are loyal and great producers of quality – which end up allowing others to take for granted what the City Guard gives. They are hurt by being treated as a doormat but are unwilling to toot their own horn about accomplishments. This is due to that it feels somewhat wrong to want a reward for doing work which is a virtue in itself.

The City Guard can be overworked and suffer from self inflicted headaches. They are methodical workers with good memories and analytical abilities. They are great in small groups because of their patience. They make pleasant co-workers and better employees. They tend to feel a bit harried by supervisory roles. They form strong loyalties of a personal nature. This is opposed to institutional loyalty. If someone leaves the company that’s close to this type – they may leave as well. They are perfect as teachers, administrators, clerics and fit right in amongst nursing or medical careers.

The Knight’s City guard is concerned with harmony and traditional behavior. They have a few close friends and are extremely loyal. Don’t confront them, they hate that. Also if the Knight’s City Guard is moody – it could be because they haven’t shared something of importance. Most friends of the City Guard feel ashamed later when finding out why the Guard refused to share the source of their trouble. This ‘Pawn’ is wonderful because they are the diplomat of emotions and needs. They are society’s most constructive and protective member.

fancy wool

2008-07-08T20:29:37Z

for

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http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=sr_gallery_19&listing_id=7350247

What were they thinking?

2008-07-02T21:58:53Z

http://www.notfoolinganybody.com/27gilstrap/

funny.

Name MEME

2008-05-15T17:39:05Z

(Sheepishly following the freeway and gravy train.)

ROCK STAR NAME (first pet, current car): Marvin Buddy

GANGSTA NAME (favorite ice cream flavor, favorite kind of shoe): Pistachio Flats (sounds more like a cartoon Western)

HIPPY NAME (what you ate for breakfast, favorite tree): Hashbrown Sequoia

SOAP OPERA NAME (middle name, city where you were born): Marie Manchester

STAR WARS NAME (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 of your first name): Szuvi

SUPERHERO NAME (favorite color, favorite drink): Cobalt H2O

NASCAR NAME (the first names of your grandfathers/grandmothers): Maddy Charles

STRIPPER NAME (the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy): Vera Wang Truffle

TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME (Your 4th grade teacher’s last name, a city that starts with the same letter): Smith Springfield

SPY NAME (your favorite season/holiday, flower): Halloween Lilly

CARTOON NAME (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now): Mango Socks

BIG hugs to freewaydiva

2008-05-14T18:43:26Z

I'm so sorry! Unfortunately these things always hurt more than we think they should. Many, many hugs to you.
oxoxoxoxox
Twin from Another Mother