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Posted in life or something like it, tagged on July 4, 2009| 1 Comment »

Coral has her girlfriends over and they are working on wedding invites.  Madelyn is sleeping.  I have a beer going on and a Lou Reed record fired up.  I should be learning about photoshop, or learning about steak, or maybe take Mads to the pool, or get started on dinner… but beer, Lou Reed and sure, a blog sound like fun.

1. What is your current obsession?

hmm, lately I have been thinking about grilling and food.

2. What is your weirdest obsession?

medieval history?  Canadian World War One history?  Is that weird, not to me.

3. Recall a fond childhood memory?

Not a childhood memory but I thought about it today.  A bunch of years ago my friend Bob came to visit me after I first moved to Victoria and we rented scooters and tooled around Victoria like tourists do.  We ended up at Maude Hunters for some pints.  The weather today is similar to that day and I went for a ride on my scooter to the library and thought about that time.

4. What’s for dinner?

I am going to grill up some Blue Cheese Burgers, corn on the cob and I think Caitlin brought a salad.

5. What would you eat for your last meal?

I really like good buffets.  Like the buffet at a Mexican resort of Vegas or the John B on a Sunday morning.  Lame, maybe but I am the one condemned to die, so indulge me please.

6. What’s the last thing you bought?

Does late fees at the library count?  a lotto tickets.  Our numbers today are 02, 10, 11, 24, 31, 49.  Wish us luck!

7. What are you listening to right now?

Lou Reed’s “Transformer.”  Lou Reed is turning into my weekend music.

8. What do you think of the person who tagged you?

I wasn’t “tagged.”  I read this questionnaire on Huckdoll’s blog.  I like her because she is sweet and writes about the strange and wonderful things that go on in her world.

9. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished, anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Coral and I drove around Cordova Bay the other day and there were some very gorgeous couple acre properties on the ocean there, so maybe there?

I could get used to Hawaii but the isolation might kill me in the long run.

I have always loved the desert, so Vegas.

10. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?

Greenland.  I’d run around asking all the natives where they keep the penguins?

11. Which language do you want to learn?

woman

12. What’s your favourite quote (for now)?

right at this second:

‘You are not a person in a situation. You are it. You are the situation.’

ha, I stole it from an article on sex from the Times Colonist. Now how fucked up is that?

13. What is your favourite colour?

blue

14. What is your favourite piece of clothing in your own wardrobe?

I like my National T-Shirt

15. What is your dream job?

I guess I’m living it.  Time for a new one.

16. What’s your favourite magazine?

I am not a big magazine reader, but I enjoy Rolling Stone or National Geographic.

17. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?
I better give it to Coral to get that hair cut she wants so badly.  Or a Victoria Seals baseball jersey.

18. Describe your personal style?

dork.

19. What are you going to do after this?

Start on those burgers

20. What are your favourite films?

Last of the Mohicans!

21. What’s your favourite fruit?

lately I’ve been all about apples.

22. What inspires you?

all sorts of things.  That’s kind of a boring answer but its true.  I’ll find inspiration in the weirdest places.

Listening to music late late late at night is a good time to think or when I go for a walk.

23. Your favourite books?

The Grapes of Wrath
these old fantasy novels I read as a kid.
Marching to Armageddon (a book about the Canada during world war one).

24. Do you collect anything?

not so much.  Hats?  Music?  I wouldn’t say I collect them, I just have them and I like them.

25. Any advice that’s come from bitter experience?

Never get a credit card ever for any reason, ever.

26. What makes you follow a blog?

If I learn something from ity, or its entertaining.

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meme

Posted in life or something like it, tagged , , on July 3, 2009| 2 Comments »

Coral and I were talking about the word meme the other day.  We had finished reading Huckdoll’s blog where she posted a meme and I said, “What’s up with Mommy bloggers writing autobiographies and calling them meme’s?”

Coral said, “first off its not pronounced Me! Me! its pronounced meem, like cream.

And I think it comes from a sociology thing, but has since been co-opted by the internet to mean those little questionnaire things that spread around the internet.”

It was a pretty good read so I will do one now, but I think I will fill out about Coral and see if I can get anything right.

1. What is Coral’s current obsession?

Coral is the kind of person that finds something she likes or is interested in, then dives in full force.  Right now I don’t think there is any one thing I’d classify as Coral-Level-Obsessed.  I’d say she is in between obsessions.

2. What is her weirdest obsession?

Willie Pickton.  Fucking weird.  Love you.

3. Recall a fond childhood memory?

Coral always talks about the old house they lived in in Airdrie, Alberta and she talks about the time her and Alyx ran away form home.  They made it as far as the corner store across the field which I guess as little kids, was pretty darn far.  Then they got hungry and the jig was up!  Time to go home.

4. What’s for dinner?

That is far to far into the future.  My Coral can leave a comment and let me know!  She has the day off today with Mads so maybe they can put their heads together and think of something.

5. What would she eat for her last meal?

I am not too sure what Coral’s fave restaurant of all time is… but since we’ve been together it always makes her happy when we hit Mo:le so I’d say Mo:le and it would have to have something to do with pesto potatoes.

6. What’s the last thing she bought?

Boring, diapers and food for yesterday’s dinner.

7. What is Coral listening to right now?

She is sleeping, but her alarm is set to the Ocean?  WTF?  The drive into work she jams out Kid Carson.  The last music she downloaded was from Frankie Valli and some Madcon (cuz he samples Franki Vallie).  She says summer is a top 40 time for her.

8. What does she think of the person who tagged you?

She wasn’t tagged.  But I stole this meme from Huchdoll and I think Coral likes her as she reads her blog pretty regular like.  She introduced me to Huck’s blog… Coral had an obsession with Mommy Blogs and was reading tons and as she put some together and read and read, she found a few girls were based outta Coquitlam and had a similar age to me and the next thing you know, the Highschool Year Books were on the floor as she tried to detective all the characters.

9. If she could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished, anywhere in the world, where would it be?

On the ocean in Oak Bay.  Coral also likes Los Angelas so on the ocean there… and she’d handle a vacation home in Vegas too I think.

Her jet setting lifestyle might also include a flat in London.

10. If Coral could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would she go?

The future on Saturday after 6PM so she could see what the lottery numbers are.

11. Which language does Coral want to learn?

English better, she wants to be an editor.

12. What’s her favourite quote (for now)?

Coral isn’t really one to share quote she has collected with me, but one she wrote down is: “Life is just a chance to grow a soul.”

13. What is her favourite colour?

Oh I should know this…. hmmm… purple?

14. What is her favourite piece of clothing in her own wardrobe?

Coral hates most her clothes. Pajama pants?  The striped ones she is wearing right now.

15. What is Coral’s dream job?

a writer.

16. What’s Coral’s favourite magazine?

I don’t know if she has A favourite.  She’ll read the gossips but she’ll also jam out a National Geographic.  I also catch her reading interior design magazines and once she even jammed out Wired.

17. If she had $100 now, what would she spend it on?
A haircut. or paper for wedding invitations or likely she’d try and do both and make the $100 go as far is it can.

18. Describe her personal style?

She is pretty casual in appearance but her new glasses make her rock that hot librarian thing pretty hard.

19. What is she going to do after this?

Set her daughter up with an RESP then maybe she’ll go to the mall and pick our camera up form the camera fixer shop.

20. What are her favourite films?

Fern Gully!

(but she said, “hey that’s not my favourite, favourite movie!  The Little Mermaid”)

21. What’s her favourite fruit?

Strawberries and Blueberries.

22. What inspires Coral?

She might have a different answer but what I notice drives Coral to action is her friends and some bloggers.

23. Her favourite books?

Coral reads a TON.  I don’t what her favourite one book is… but she has shelves of them here at home and borrows tons from friends.

24. Does she collect anything?

Books.

25. Any advice that’s come from bitter experience?

hmmm, that is a hard one for me to answer for Coral.  Don’t use your credit card too much. ha.

26. What makes her follow a blog?

She likes people that tell good stories, strong writing style and people that update frequently.

OK… maybe Coral will comment to see how well I did.

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