I am SO relieved that none of you asked me to explain that stain on the pool table or the scar on my left knee… and as such I am happy to provide the answers to the questions you did ask!
I was going to wait and answer them all at once, but they keep rolling in, so I will post the ones I have already, and add more as they come!
From: Shylah
1. What was your favorite cartoon as a kid?
Bugs Bunny. No contest. Snarky, sneaky, snazzy.
2. If you could only carry three things in your purse from now on, what would they be?
Wallet, keys, phone. I will sacrifice sexy lips for connectivity.
3. Paper or Plastic?
Plastic. We recycle!!!
From: Emily
1. What is your drink of choice?
Non-alcoholic: Diet Coke. Alcoholic: Yes, please. Oh. Um, wine. Good wine.
2. What was your first car?
A 1982 olive green VW Rabbit Diesel. It was like driving one of those old exercise machines in which you wore the belt around your waist. Smoked like a mofo. I actually got a speeding ticket in it once, and the officer and I both laughed.
3. Your favorite location in the U.S.?
Anywhere my children are. Barring that (or in addition, whatever), for living, I’d say the Bay Area. From my house I can get to the beach in 25 minutes, the mountains in 4 hours, and San Francisco in one hour. For peacefulness, it’s tough to beat Tuolumne Meadow in Yosemite. For sheer beachy goodness, I am not sure I have ever been happier than on the shores of Destin, Florida, with my extended family.
From: Zeno
1. If it were up to you what would be the only human made object visible from space?
GWB’s isolation chamber.
2. Milk in the cup before or after the tea?
After. Pshaw.
3. Are those real?
No, and you’d think they’d have tried harder. I mean, *sputter* you pay good money for what look like real rubies for your custom-made tiara, and… oh. Um. Yes, for what it’s worth.
From: Cyn (who REALLY needs a blog)
1. What’s your very favorite animal? (Doesn’t have to be domesticated)
I am torn between horses and dogs, both for sheer pleasure of being around them and for the astounding ways in which they have extended our own species’ social and industrial development.
2. How old were you when you first…....kissed a boy? (or was kissed BY a boy)
Twelve. In the Horkay’s basement, with the boy I loved for years after that. (And yes, it was reciprocated!)
3. What’s your favorite food? (other than those milano cookies and peanut butter m&m’s) get specific now!!
Filet mignon, medium rare. There are so many ways to prepare it that I don’t even want to get specific!
From: Lee
1. If you could change any one single event in your life, what would that be?
You know, I answer this question the same way, every time. I don’t know that I would change anything. Everything to date has led me here, and if I change anything, I might not have or be some of the things I love the most. But just to play the game… I think I would NOT try to drive myself home from the Christmas party at the Velvet Turtle on December 1, 1990, on crutches with a partially severed Achilles’ tendon and get a DUI and have to spend the night in jail and then limp sans crutches one mile to the nearest pay phone to find someone to pick me up and help me locate my car as I had just moved to the area and had no idea where I was and go to 4 months of drug rehab even though I have never used drugs and am not much of a drinker and lose my license for a year and pay a huge fine and have to spend two days of community service picking up trash in the rain at a municipal park and get harassed by the overseer who offered to “cut time off my assignment” and kept calling me at work… yep, I think I would play that one a little differently if I had the chance.
2. Is it ok if I refer to you a Melindermommy?
Of course. It’s better than a common ore. *growls*
3. Can I have my Sean Connery mask back now?
No. Um, I have to get it cleaned.
From: zed
1. what’s your favourite meal/food ?
I loves me a great filet mignon. But my favorite meal is the kind one might have at Chez TJ’s in Mountain View: five to seven courses with a flight of wine for each course… *faints dead away from the ecstasy*
2. black or white ?
Grey. Many, many shades of grey.
3. how many times a week ?
Ugh, I can let that go for much longer than it should go… that poor toilet just doesn’t get the frequent cleaning it deserves…. oh. Wait. You mean sex? I don’t even remember what that is.
From:shaunacat
1. Stranded on an island, what 3 things do you have with you? (Not including family and pets)
One of those massive libraries with three stories and ladders on wheels to reach all the dusty volumes, a magic refrigerator that has whatever I wish inside of it whenever I open the door, and a companion to help me read the books and eat the food.
2. You are given a shopping spree in a Sears store - what sections of the store are you raiding?
Ooooh, power tools, kitchen wares, and toys.
3. You’re in your home with your family and suddenly it’s an Earthquake. You have precious seconds to react, what do you do? Do you panic or remain calm?
Calm, always. Remaining calm and collected and rational in an emergency is truly one of the things I do best.
From: Snowball
1) In any marriage, which should be the highest priority, the happiness of the spouse or the happiness of the children?
Ooooh, tough one! I think that if the parents as a unit are happy, the children are happier… but if one had to choose, of course, I would work harder to ensure the children’s happiness.
2) When explaining to children under the age of 5 what it is you were doing when they caught you having sex, what is the best thing to say?
A friend told me that this is what they say to their children, and I thought it was great: “Daddy is giving Mommy a special hug.”
3) When the children are driving you absolutely insane as only children can do, who should get the valium? The children to shut them up, the mommy because she’s going to come unglued, or the spouse who sits back and says this is all your fault because you’re too permissive?
ME. ME! The children can have Disney, the spouse can have a swift kick, and I get to have the calmed nerves.
From: RaynDragon
1) If you had one personal wish that would be granted, what would it be? (personal means for YOU, none of that “ooh! World Peace!” crap)
Wish involving magical powers: to be able to touch a person’s forehead and make them utterly content with their lot in life WITHOUT taking away the drive for innovation, success, and self-actualization. Wish not involving magical powers: that I am able to teach my children that it is FINE to love who you are the way you are, and to have great self-respect and self-esteem.
2) If you had to change any one thing about your personality, what would it be and why?
I would like to be more patient, and less abrasive. Sometimes I can’t wait, and sometimes I can’t suffer the fool. It’s very, very difficult for me.
3) If you had the chance to plan the last five minutes of your life, what would you plan to do and why?
I would spend it telling each of the people close to me how much I love them, and describing in detail how they have enriched my life and the lives of those around them so that they may never doubt their value and impact.
From: Scott
1. If you could know the exact time and day you were going to die, would you want to know?
Maybe I would. I’m a planner.
2. If you had to choose, which would it be:
a) No chocolate ever again.
b) No coffee ever again.
c) No TV ever again. Only because I can get most of the same information from my computer!!
3. If you could cure just one disease and only one, which one would it be?
AIDS, because I think it would have the greatest, most widespread positive influence.
From: Missy
1. You have to lose a limb- arm or leg?
A leg. I need to be able to snuggle and hug and eat and cook.
2. Read a book or watch a TV show?
Book, hands down, no contest.
3. Shave your head or get a tattoo?
Tattoo! Am already considering this…
From: owen
1. Least favorite children’s movie you’ve had to watch with your kids more than three times?
Thomas’ Snowy Surprise. Knowing it’s Alec Baldwin doesn’t make it any better. Especially when he pinches his nose to make his voice sound different for that one stupid train.
2. Oldest item in medicine chest?
HAS to be that bottle of SPF 45 Water Babies sunscreen. Only a new mom would big such a big, honking bottle of that stuff.
3. Last pair of shoes which made you really happy?
My new Coach wedgie mules. They are comfortable, sexy, versatile, and they make me so very, very happy.
From: Jilbur
1. What’s the worst idea you ever had?
Aside from the one I desribed in Lee’s section? Maybe dropping out of college to pursue modeling and then getting married at 21 to an Iranian-American Jehovah’s Witness with serious daddy-issues and a tendency to job-hop. Either that, or thinking that the first year of marriage is an OK time for one of us to take a job 3,000 miles away for six months and buy and remodel a house at the same time. Just a hunch.
2. What’s the worst piece of clothing you can ever remember owning/wearing (shoes count)?
WOW. I think some items were classically silly, but BAD? Hmmm… I once owned a pair of flamingo-pink Gloria Vanderbilt jeans and a purple-and-teal GV jogging suit. Those may be tied with the Mork & Mindy jeans I had in the sixth grade that boasted a satin lightning bolt splitting an egg on one back pocket, and “Mork and Mindy” stitched on the other in gold thread. (BTW: small world note: if you look over on the link list to the left, you’ll see “A Socialite’s Life” which is the blog of none other than Miu Von Furstenberg… daughter of Diane Von Furstenberg, the other designer whose jeans we all craved at around that same time, say, 1982).
3. What’s the worst meal you’ve ever eaten in a restaurant?
Oh, so you don’t mean what was my worst experience at a restaurant where I didn’t necessarily get to eat a meal? Well, I think that would have to be the fish dinner I inexplicably ordered at a Holiday Inn in Victorville, CA (which, btw, has NO business selling fish—it’s in the middle of the DESERT for christssakes) on the night that Gil proposed to me. Said proposal was conveyed via the billboard in front of the Holiday Inn. On one side, it read, “Brunch: $9.95” and on the other, “Minders, will you marry me?” I shit you not. We were on our way to a week-long houseboat trip on Lake Powell.
From: avrialeden
1. What made you decide to start a blog?
It started out as a diary and a record of my second son’s critical illness so that I would not forget how it all went. I realized that after all of the trauma wore off, I began to develop amnesia about much of it. Plus, I am a miserable scrapbooker, I don’t keep up with the baby books, and I suck at making photo albums. But I am GREAT with the computer.
At the same time, we were having trouble keeping the grandparents up to date with pictures and stories, so I created our first web site for that purpose. After I while, I discovered this bloggy thing that would allow me to have a journal along WITH photo albums. And it just snowballed from there. Who knew???
2. If you could change one thing in the world what would that be?
The need to depend on money for security and the things that hold our lives together.
3. If you could have your cake and eat it too would you put milk on it??
No, I prefer to have it on the side in a tall, cold glass. YUM!
From: Deng
1. what IS that scar on your left knee?
Dammit, Deng, that was a bluff!!! I don’t, in fact, have a scar on my left knee. I have many others, and if I ever become desperate enough for topics, or if you all ever become monumentally, mind-numbingly bored, I will post a recitation.
2. where were you on February 26th 1993?
Let’s see, that wa a Tuesday… I was most likely either at my office in Palo Alto, or at my home in Campbell, CA. Specifically, in the second block of condos at Cedar Glen, on the second floor, overlooking the pool and party room. I was three months away from being married, and working at the only job from which I have ever been fired.
3. Is the stain on the pool table what I think it is?
I don’t have a pool table. Anymore.
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