{"id":839,"date":"2007-04-22T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-22T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=839"},"modified":"2007-04-22T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-22T12:25:00","slug":"whats-that-you-say-you-need-to-know-even-more-inane-and-excruciating-details-about-my-exciting-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/04\/22\/whats-that-you-say-you-need-to-know-even-more-inane-and-excruciating-details-about-my-exciting-life\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s that you say? You need to know even MORE inane and excruciating details about my exciting life?"},"content":{"rendered":"

James <\/a>tagged me for this mammoth meme, and I couldn’t resist.<\/p>\n

FOODOLOGY<\/p>\n

Q. What is your salad dressing of choice?
A. Paul Newman’s Balsamic Vinagrette<\/p>\n

Q. What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
A. Dairy Queen<\/p>\n

Q. What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?
A. Lone Star Texas Grill – partly for the fajitas, partly because it’s a great restaurant for families<\/p>\n

Q. On average, what size tip do you leave at a restaurant?
A. 15 – 20% – usually, the larger the bill the smaller the percentage<\/p>\n

Q. What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of?
A. Chocolate chip oatmeal cookies<\/p>\n

Q. What is your favorite type of gum?
A. Dentyne Ice peppermint<\/p>\n

TECHNOLOGY<\/p>\n

Q. What is your wallpaper on your computer?
A.
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Q. How many televisions are in your house?
A. One that works, two more that collect dust and work capriciously only when we don’t want them to<\/p>\n

BIOLOGY<\/p>\n

Q. What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s your best feature?
A. Um – I’ve always liked my dimples. And I’m vain about my hair, though I’m not sure it’s my best feature.<\/p>\n

Q. Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
A. Two massive boys (nine and ten pounds respectively) and a couple of teeth. Other than that, I don’t have any aftermarket alterations.<\/p>\n

Q. Which of your five senses do you think is keenest?
A. I like James’ answer about a sixth sense – I think my mother-radar is the most finely honed of my senses.<\/p>\n

Q. When was the last time you had a cavity?
A. I can rarely go a year without them. The only thing holding my teeth together is the fillings, crowns and caps. Lucky for us, Tristan has inherited my cavity-prone teeth. Sigh.<\/p>\n

Q. What is the heaviest item you lifted last?
A. Tristan decided he needed to be carried upstairs to bed last night. That’s a good forty-plus pounds. The wheelbarrow I built yesterday probably weighed near that.<\/p>\n

Q. Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
A. Only by drugs (the kind an anaestethiologist administers), not by concussion.<\/p>\n

BULLSHITOLOGY<\/p>\n

Q. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
A. Nope.<\/p>\n

Q. Is love for real?
A. If love isn’t real, nothing is.<\/p>\n

Q. If you could change your first name, what would you change it to?
A. I was about 11 when I started asking people to call me Dani. Now the only person left who calls me Danielle is my mom and I kind of miss it. (All this to say I seem to have more than enough names as it is.)<\/p>\n

Q. What color do you think looks best on you?
A. Depends on the season, but I look good in bright colours like yellow, coral and orange. Navy blue and black are flattering, too,<\/p>\n

Q. Have you ever swallowed a non-food item by mistake?
A. This seems like the kind of thing one would block from one’s memory.<\/p>\n

Q. Have you ever saved someone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life?
A. Not that I’m aware of.<\/p>\n

Q. Has someone ever saved yours?
A. In a physical and literal sense, no. But there are many people I credit with shaping who I am or helping me choose one path or another which, to paraphrase Robert Frost, has made all the difference.<\/p>\n

DAREOLOGY<\/p>\n

Q. Would you walk naked for a half mile down a public street for $100,000?
A. Heck, I’d do it for $20. (How far is half a mile, anyway? A kilometer or so? Can I at least specify that it be during the summer?)<\/p>\n

Q. Would you kiss a member of the same sex for $100?
A. I almost did it at a party a few years back just for the shock factor.<\/p>\n

Q. Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000?
A. Ick. No.<\/p>\n

Q. Would you never blog again for $50,000?
A. I loved James’ answer to this: “No, but someday I might never blog again for free.” I don’t know what my answer to this question would be – but I don’t think I’m offensive enough as a blogger (yet) that someone would actually pay me to stop.<\/p>\n

Q. Would you pose nude in a magazine for $250,000?
A. For a quarter-million? Could I at least have a feather boa?<\/p>\n

Q. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1,000?
A. Gotta agree with James’ answer here: “Hell, I might do that just for the bottle of hot sauce.”<\/p>\n

Q. Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for $1,000,000?
A. Of course not.<\/p>\n

Q. Would you give up watching television for a year for $25,000?
A. That one would be painful. I’d do it, but I would get awfully twitchy after the first couple of days.<\/p>\n

Q. Give up MySpace forever for $30,000?
A. Yes. Where’s my money? (Never actually been on MySpace. Now Facebook<\/em>…. that’s a different matter.)<\/p>\n

DUMBOLOGY<\/p>\n

Q: What is in your left pocket?
A. It’s 7:30 on a Sunday morning and I’m wearing track pants. No pockets. Besides, most women’s clothing doesn’t allow for pockets, let alone pockets you can actually put stuff in.<\/p>\n

Q: Is Napoleon Dynamite actually a good movie?
A. I haven’t seen it.<\/p>\n

Q: Do you have hardwood or carpet in your house?
A. Carpet. Ugly faded blue carpet in every. single. room of the house that I hate with a burning passion. Stay tuned for the really tedious series of posts where we endlessly angst over installing laminate on the main floor and do absolutely nothing about it.<\/p>\n

Q: Do you sit or stand in the shower?
A. Sitting is an option? That opens up a whole new world of choices, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

Q: Could you live with roommates?
A. Hell, I can barely share a room with my husband.<\/p>\n

Q: How many pairs of flip-flops do you own?
A. Flip-flops are nasty. I absolutely cannot wear footwear that jams things between my toes. *shudder*<\/p>\n

Q: Last time you had a run-in with the cops?
A. I got a ticket for an illegal right turn from Bank onto Slater about six years ago. (Livin’ on the edge, baby.)<\/p>\n

Q: What do you want to be when you grow up?
A. Once again, I couldn’t improve on James’ answer: “This.”<\/p>\n

LASTOLOGY<\/p>\n

Q: Friend you talked to?
A. Went to an Ottawa blog chix night out last night with Andrea<\/a>, Alison<\/a>, Chantal <\/a>and Alison<\/a>. Good times!!<\/p>\n

Q: Last person you called?
A. Er, um, ahhh – I have no idea. Oh wait, Lone Star last night to order takeout!<\/p>\n

RANDOMOLOGY<\/p>\n

Q: First place you went this morning?
A. The porch (to get the newspaper)<\/p>\n

Q: What can you not wait to do?
A. Um, win a million dollars? I’m drawing a blank on this one.<\/p>\n

Q: What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the last movie you saw?
A. Cars. It’s babysitting the kids as I do this meme. I’m such a good mommy.<\/p>\n

Q: Are you a friendly person?
A. Mostly.<\/p>\n

Want to be tagged? Let me know and I’ll link back to you! <\/p>\n

Edited to add:<\/strong> tagged – <\/em>Loukia <\/em><\/a>and <\/em>Karen<\/em><\/a> and<\/em> ScatteredMom<\/em><\/a> and Bex<\/a> and Nancy<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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