Category: about me

Feb 03 2009

I Go To Rio

Yes, this is another meme. I fully admit that I do not read blogs that are full of nothing but meme’s, so it is kind of pathetic for me to be doing these. They’re lazy ways to fill blogs with junk. That said, for some wacked out reason these things are making a comeback on Facebook, I was tagged over there, and I since I avoided meme’s like the plague before, ‘they’re new to me!’

Now, I don’t actually BLOG on Facebook – Facebook notes aren’t quite a blog to me – and have no intention to start now. Plus, I’ve written enough “real” stuff over here that I think I’m allowed a meme. Or two. Right?

Skip this post unless you’re interested….and I’m not sure many people would be. Once again, I’ll tag people on Facebook. If you want to see who I tag or whatever, just add me over there.

Okie, now for the meme. I have strange taste in music, including lots and lots of broadway, so this will be interesting. To me, at least.
The rules:
1. Put your iTunes/iPod/MP3 on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your next answer.
3. You must write that song name down no matter how outrageous it sounds!
4. Tag 10 friends who might enjoy doing the game as well as the person you got the note from.
5. Add commentary

IF SOMEONE SAYS, “IS THIS OKAY” YOU SAY?
“Looking Down” – Audiovent

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
“I’d Be Surprisingly Good For You” – Evita

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
“To Have and To Hold” – Depeche Mode
(I guess this one kind of makes sense? Ish?)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
“Tether” – Indigo Girls

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
“My Grown Up Christmas List” – Kelly Clarkson
(uhhhhh. Ok?)

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
“The Answer” – Bad Religion

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT OFTEN?
“Take Me Away” – Avril Levigne
(hahahahaha)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
“How Much Longer – Eve6

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
“As Long As You Love Me” – Backstreet Boys
(ok, finally something kind of accurate. Kind of).

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
“Could I Be You” – Matchbox 20

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
“Nobody’s Home” – Avril Lavigne

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
“King of the Stereo” – Saliva

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
“Contrary Mary” – Kix

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
“Only the Young” – Journey

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
“The Rules” – Hoobastank

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
“Symphony no. 35″ – Mozart

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
“Touch of my Hand” – Britney Spears
(Kinky!)

WHAT’S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
“Perfect Stranger” – Erasure

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
“The Stone” – Ashes Divide

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
“I’ll Be There for You” – Bon Jovi

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
“Strange” Tori Amos

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
“Are You Happy Now?” – Michelle Branch

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
“Coming Home Now” – Boyzone

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
“Bones in the Sky” – Dan Fogelberg

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
“I Remember You” – Skid Row
(kind of fits. I guess?)

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
“How I Know You” – Aida
(Surprisingly accurate…if you know the musical and where the song fits in)

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
“Two Steps Back” Saliva

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
“I Go To Rio” – Finale from Boy From Oz

Best subject line ever!! Why? Because the only thing you can possibly do when you hear this song is dance around. I wish anyone luck sitting still, really, it’s not possible. Da da da daaaa….

Gotta admit, this was kind of fun – I rarely put my ipod on shuffle, primarily because the soundtrack music does bleed in, and I hate listening to musicals out of sequence. I did hear some music I haven’t listened to in ages, though.

But now I’m off to listen to all of Aida. Because, ya know, that song got me started….

Jan 25 2009

25 things you might not know about me

I was tagged to do this on facebook, but since I have a blog, and my blog entries end up on facebook anyway….I’ll write it up here, and tag everyone there.

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with
25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose
25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I
tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.

(To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these
instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag
25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)

1. One of my favorite things to do is sleep all day, but I can rarely sleep past 9am anymore.

2. I am terrified of lightning.

3. I was a New York State certified EMT-D and rode on an ambulance corps for 5 years. I don’t remember much anymore, beyond ALS-CPR (which I will never forget) and basic first aid stuff.

4. My brother was born on Memorial Day. I was positive the parade for Memorial Day was actually a parade celebrating his birth.

5. I used to call the hospital every birthday to ask if I was old enough to be a candy striper yet. I was SO excited when they said yes, and was one until I left for college.

6. I am a published author in an MIT book on Women and Games. Looking back at it now, I like the content of my article, but think it was very poorly written.

7. I am a bread geek, and can go on and on and on about uses of different flours, sourdough, and fillers in bread, and what they do to the end result.

8. Kurt Cobain spit on me one week before he died. I still don’t really know why – he walked out of his hotel angry and spitting. I threw out the sweater as fast as I could take it off. Dave Grohl was very nice, though.

9. I am very hyperactive, and was tied to my chair by my second grade teacher for not sitting still. I was embarrassed by it, and my parents only found out when my best friend told my mom.

10. I can “speak” American Sign Language, but I forget more and more every day.

11. I love all things Broadway, and was part of Putnam County Spelling Bee when I got to be one of the people in the spelling bee. I was out in the first round, but at least I can say I’ve been on Broadway.

12. I have a lot of grey hair. It’s covered well.

13. When I was 4, I walked into my neighbor’s house and sat down at her piano to play. I didn’t know her, but she was a piano teacher and started teaching me. I stopped playing in high school, and just started playing again four years ago. It drives me nuts that I can’t do what I could do then, my head knows what to do, but my fingers can’t do it.

14. I built my first website ’96 at nycmetro.com/~bobbi. It was all about the X-Files, and “worked best in Netscape.”

15. I used to spend all day every Sunday at the library playing with their computers when I was in elementary school.

16. I become obsessed with things very easily.

17. I once got an A+ in a statistics class at NYU that I only went to twice. Once for midterm review, and once for the final review.

18. I love to write fiction. I think I’m damn good at it, and my secret fantasy is to publish someday.

19. I cannot handle silence. There always needs to be some background noise, doesn’t matter what it is, there just has to be something.

20. I am my own worst critic.

21. I worked in a cancer research lab in high school doing necropsies on rats and mice. I lost the job when New York passed a law saying that “children under 18 could not work in hazardous conditions.” I worked with formalin, so….I was crushed when I couldn’t work there anymore, I loved it.

22. I hate beer.

23. I have a huge collection of stuffed animals, and as much as I know I should get rid of some of them, I can’t decide which to give away. Every stuffed animal contains a memory.

24. I cannot live without a watch, which I wear on my right hand, even though I’m right handed.

25. My hands shake. My right hand shakes more than my left. It’s called “minor tremor,” according to doctors it is ‘harmless,’ and the only thing that stops it is alcohol.

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