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Post by stepper on Sept 7, 2009 21:29:28 GMT -6
I have to agree with that one. And, I was going to say no jewerly, but I have a wedding ring, so excluding the one ring - excluding two if you include an engagement ring, then no jewerly, no tats, no piercings, and no respect for those who excessively partake of those things.
Which did you look forward to more, the first day of school, or the last?
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Post by Phalon on Sept 8, 2009 4:23:07 GMT -6
Without a doubt - the first day of school! Whoo-hoo!!!
Oh, wait. You mean as a kid? I was thinking like a Mom. (Today's the first day of school for the girls! Whoo-hoo!!!)
When I was a kid, without a doubt, I looked forward to the last day of school more than the first.
Jump out of bed at the first ring, or hit the snooze button a few times?
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Post by stepper on Sept 8, 2009 20:13:19 GMT -6
One the first day of school, I made a daily count down calendar ending with the last day of school. (It also tracked the days to Christmas break.) M-F I get up at first ring, but S&S it's snooze time!
You have a head ache. Asprin or do without?
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Post by Mini Mia on Sept 8, 2009 21:31:29 GMT -6
Do without. It usually goes away on it's own. If it doesn't, then I take something.
morning person, or night owl?
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Post by Phalon on Sept 8, 2009 21:42:41 GMT -6
Any old headache, no; I don't take anything. Head-splitting, eye-closing sinus headaches, yes - I hit it full force with Allegra and prescription 500mg Ibroprofin (the combo is the only thing I found that works).
I am normally a morning person, but occasionally I'll get in a weird sleep pattern when it seems I function better at night. And sometimes I only think I'm functioning better at night - those times are the times to ignore any posts I may make. This is a disclaimer.
Chewing gum or hard candy/mints?
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Post by stepper on Sept 9, 2009 22:03:44 GMT -6
Night Owl & Chewing gum for me.
Glasses or contacts?
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Post by Mini Mia on Sept 9, 2009 22:30:01 GMT -6
Glasses. I'm blind in one eye and fear contacts could damage my good eye.
books or ebooks
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Post by Phalon on Sept 10, 2009 4:16:07 GMT -6
Since I only wear my glasses to drive at night, and have a difficult (impossible) time just putting eye-drops in my eyes, I'll go with glasses.
I haven't jumped on the e-book bandwagon yet, and I don't know that I ever will.
Summer or autumn? We're making the switch here, and fall has always been my favorite.
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Post by quettalee on Sept 10, 2009 10:21:45 GMT -6
Autumn.
Right-handed or left?
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Post by stepper on Sept 10, 2009 20:48:14 GMT -6
Books - they are easier to leave on the stand by the toilet. Autumn - less heat and more color. And who would turn down a ride along the Appalachians in autumn? Right handed, but since the left hand is controlled by the right hemisphere of the brain, only left handed people are in their right minds. (Don't you just love the old jokes?)
Mugs - plain or ornate?
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Post by Phalon on Sept 13, 2009 7:13:13 GMT -6
Ah.....so that explains everything in my case.
Sometimes I wish I had a set of plain matching mugs, just so when people come over for coffee I can serve it in something that doesn't say "Baltimore Maryland - Don't Bother Me, I'm Crabby", "World's Number One Dad", or "Kill Them All!!!". I've got a whole cupboard of mugs that I acquired on vacations or as gifts.....I even received a set of plain matching mugs once for Christmas from my sister-in-law; she mailed them and the postman left them on the front porch. Every single one cracked once I brought them from the cold inside the house.
More important than what's not on, or on the mug though, is how much coffee it holds. It's gotta be big enough for a full cup, but not too big so the coffee gets cold by the time you get to the bottom.
Grocery shopping - once a month, once a week, or everytime you fix dinner?
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Post by quettalee on Sept 13, 2009 21:10:59 GMT -6
Once a week...or throw in extra trips as needed. I love grocery shopping!
Regular potatoes or sweet potatoes? (I love sweet potatoes; baked, with sea salt and butter)
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Post by Phalon on Sept 16, 2009 6:03:26 GMT -6
You love grocery shopping, TG? Wow. You wanna do mine - I've got to go to the grocery today, and I hate shopping. You can always stay over and cook too, yanno. <smile>
Sweet potatoes or regular potatoes? Hhmmm, I like them both (sweet potatoes, baked, with butter and salt too), but since we have regular most often, and I love potatoes, mashed, hashed, or any other way, I'll go with regular.
Scooby Doo or Pluto?
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Post by quettalee on Sept 18, 2009 20:59:25 GMT -6
I should be on the road right now, sis...headed that way! I could've done the shopping and then catered a very special birthday dinner for my friends. Nothing would make me happier! Ooo, tough choice! ...uhmmm.... ...just because Mare and I both were Disney kids. Run around in a towel after showering or get dressed immediately in the bathroom?
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Post by Phalon on Sept 19, 2009 23:00:51 GMT -6
Nothing would make me happier than to have you come visit.....my stomach would be quite happy too, I'm sure!
Depends who's on the phone, who's at the door, or who I'm trying to impress...(eye-roll).
Mostly I get dressed in the bathroom.
Least favorite chore inside the house: clean the bathroom, or the kitchen?
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Post by stepper on Sept 20, 2009 18:19:42 GMT -6
Like TG shop once a week and throw in extra stops as necessity or desires dictate. Regular potatoes - I've only recently begun to appreciate sweet potatoes. Although I will sometimes add half a wax rutabega. Pluto or Scooby. Tough choice! Well gosh! Pluto I guess. Towel right after a shower. (I quit fooling myself about impressing anyone about 20 years ago.) Cleaning the kitchen includes doing dishes and takes longer. The bathroom is only a close second.
fall - red or golden leaves?
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Post by Phalon on Sept 20, 2009 22:12:36 GMT -6
I absolutely can not even begin to decide on this one. One color sets off the other, I think. People tend to prefer red, it seems; I see it at the nursery this time of year, when the yellow leaved trees and shrubs are overlooked in favor of the reds. But if there is all red without the yellow and gold to complement it, the reds don't seem as special. And don't forget the oranges! I'm a sucker for anything orange.
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Post by stepper on Sept 23, 2009 22:54:16 GMT -6
Jelly or Preserves?
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Post by Phalon on Sept 24, 2009 20:40:52 GMT -6
Preserves, I suppose - I really don't care for either, except for my ex sister-in-law's blackberry preserves.
Egotistical doctors: Dr. Gregory House (of House) or Dr. Doug Ross (of E.R.)?
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Post by stepper on Sept 25, 2009 21:55:51 GMT -6
House - until the last show from last season, and the first show for this season. They've ruined the show as far as I'm concerned, and I'm done with it now.
Rock, or Easy Listening?
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Post by Phalon on Sept 27, 2009 5:57:24 GMT -6
No House? Maybe it's a woman thing, (or maybe a Phalon thing - I'm a sucker for a bit of vulnerability. Oh, and blue eyes; they make me melt.), but I liked the current storyline. I think he needed to be brought down a peg or two, and show a bit of weakness. But last year was the first season I watched, and though I caught a bunch of reruns from previous seasons on cable, I don't know the characters that well.
Rock, leaning more toward the metalistic side.
Relaxing Sundays, or get-everything-done-in-a-blur-of-activity Sundays?
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Post by stepper on Sept 27, 2009 10:59:01 GMT -6
Nope. No more House. The last few shows remind me of the Rift Arc in Xena. That was a terrible mistake from which the show never recovered - it was a slow decline from that point on. I see that same with House. A big part of the show was his "defect" for lack of a better description. Now they've removed that strength of character by which he overcame his personal adversities. He's a shell of the person he used to be to his detriment, but this time I'm not hanging around while the show undergoes that slow painful dismembering of what make it worth watching.
I prefer relaxing on Sundays. Sometimes it's necessary to do otherwise, but I prefer to relax and recharge on Sundays.
Decorate for Halloween and Thanksgiving just a little, or are these worthy of more effort?
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Post by Phalon on Sept 28, 2009 21:23:52 GMT -6
Thanksgiving gets some attention - a centerpiece, and some gourds strewn here and there, (if they haven't rotted yet).
Halloween though, is a holiday worthy of going all out - even more so than Christmas at my house. It's my favorite of all holidays.
Pens or pencils?
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Post by stepper on Oct 3, 2009 0:33:37 GMT -6
pens - except for crossword puzzles
scented or unscented candles
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Post by Phalon on Oct 4, 2009 6:05:11 GMT -6
Scented, usually for the season, but nothing too flowery. I've got a nice orange currant one I've burned this past week that smells all fallish. My favorite candle ever was one that was scented like fresh tomato leaves. I loved it but everyone else didn't care for it very much; Hubs said it smelled like dirt. When it had burned down to the bottom of the glass, I asked the owner of the shop if she could get me another because I couldn't find it anywhere. She said the company stopped making that scent....probably because it smelled like dirt. But it was a good dirt; tomatoey fresh.
I think a pumpkin-scented candle would be nice this time of year. I love those wonderful orbs of orange.
The purpose of a pumpkin: carving into scary jack-o-lanterns, or eating in the form of pies and soups?
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Post by stepper on Oct 4, 2009 22:29:37 GMT -6
They're meant for carving! And candles too!
Pumpkin pie or pumpkin bread?
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Post by Phalon on Oct 10, 2009 22:25:42 GMT -6
I'd have to say pumpkin bread...round in shape with a hole in the center...uhm...like pumpkin doughnuts. Oh, oh, oh - and I had a special treat this evening. BP and I stopped in the ice-cream parlor, (it was only 42 degrees outside, and we decided we needed ice-cream!). October's seasonal ice-cream flavors are "Apple Crisp" and "Pumpkin Pie". I had the pumpkin pie. No matter how cold it gets in the next few weeks, I'll of course have to stop in to get the some apple crisp ice-cream before the month is over.
Mind if we stick with the Halloween theme here for a bit?
Scary or cutesy Halloween decorations and costumes?
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Post by stepper on Oct 11, 2009 14:23:35 GMT -6
Scary costumes except for little kids. It's more fun to see them in the cutsie outfits.
Purchased or home made costumes?
A few years ago a friend brought her daughter. They had cut holes in the sides of a paper bag and cut out the bottom. Then attached another bag just a bit lower so the "costume" would be low enough. Green stockings, empty grocery boxes and milk containers, etc., almost spilling out the top, and the painted her daughter's face bright red like a tomato, and put some kind of gree thing over her hair to complete the tomato look. She was a bag of groceries and I have to admit, she was one of the cuties that year.
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Post by Phalon on Oct 17, 2009 23:23:35 GMT -6
It sounds like it! Homemade costumes get much more creative, and are way more fun than store-bought. We always had homemade costumes as kids, and that was a huge part of the fun of Halloween. I only bought the girls costumes once - they were medieval princesses....and only because we were attending a wedding with a medieval theme before Halloween, (can't pass up a double-duty costume, you know). LX - always one with a flair for the macabre - decided the medieval princess needed to be "dead" for Halloween. She's always been a 'scary' instead of a 'cutsie'. BP's tastes are in-between - usually a scary figure, done in a cutsie way.
LX was reminiscing the just this week about her favorite costumes over the years....Xena, of course is up there; there was also the demented chef carrying a cleaver and a platter of body parts, followed up with the next year when she was "dinner" - more specifically, a head on a platter. Then there was "road-kill". The totally gruesome dead bride was a huge hit with the entire neighborhood, and last year's Johnny Depp-like pirate was accompanied by my non-Johnny Depp-like "Sweeney Cod: The Demon Fisherman of Fleet Street". We both agreed BP's best costume was the year I made her up to be a ladybug. She was just too cute!
All this reminiscing was done because LX was lamenting the fact that I won't be helping make her costume this year - she's going with store-bought. I offered, but she wanted an "authentic-looking" one - a straight-jacket, which I did not offer to help pay for; she's on her own because it was way too expensive by my standards. Although I was able to talk her out of the "zombie-eyed" contact lenses which only show the whites of her eyes, and are for looks only - a person can't see through them to actually walk. Not to mention they cost nearly $100.00....of which she has nowhere near that kind of money. She opted instead for some latex gouged out eyes which only show black holes were the eye-balls should be. (eye-roll...literally). Yes, I can introduce her as my insane teenaged daughter, and everyone will now actually believe me.
BP is going as a witch....a cute witch, of course, and one with eye-balls intact.
This one came up at work today: Which do you think is more frightening....
Viewing horror movies on the big screen in a theater, or from your living room with the lights turned down low, where you can hear every creak and bump inside and outside the house, which makes you wonder what's lurking in the shadows?
Oh, and btw, Stepper, I love your Halloween avatar!
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Post by stepper on Oct 19, 2009 20:26:33 GMT -6
I prefer my living room. Theater seats aren't comfy, and the screaming teenagers are always spilling X-Tra Large Root Beers too close to where I'm sitting. Besides, it's more fun to lean over and scream BOO while you're home and it's unexpected.
Halloween candy for the kids: Mini candies (Snickers, etc.) or Mini Tootsie Rolls?
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