a weekend meme

because i utterly lack any inspiration due to having stayed up very, very late attending a wedding yesterday (08.08.08) and because i have run around doing errands all day and because it's been almost a week since ANYONE has posted on this blog, i thought i'd do a little meme i just came across on woman on the verge. i will in no way be as funny as gwen was, but here you go:

1.  what is your favorite quotable line from a movie?

"i'm goin' crazy up here on the lake." - fargo

"have fun storming the castle." - the princess bride

"he was just funny lookin' in kind of a general sorta way." - fargo

"it's good to be the king." - history of the world, part 1

"it was abby something....abby normal." - young frankenstein

i think it was supposed to be one quote, but there you have it, i'm already violating the meme. (and what does that word mean anyway?)

2.  who's the most famous person you've talked to?

although i used to frequently go to the movies with charles barkley when i lived in phoenix, i never really talked to him, since you don't really talk during a movie, right?

so, i guess it must be crown princess mary of denmark. before she became the crown princess, of course and was just some australian chick who worked at microsoft so she could get a work permit to stay in the country.

3.  how many boxes or bags of chips are consumed in your household per month?

maybe like one if we're having people over, and what is up with this question anyway? this is a pretty random meme.

4.  what foreign dish do you prepare from scratch and serve?

pretty much any dish i prepare is foreign in some sense, since i am a foreigner living outside my home country. and when i go "home" and prepare danish dishes, they're foreign there. and since most of my cookbooks come from the UK, you might say that all the food in them is "foreign" in some sense too. so who can imagine what was really meant by this question? i suppose i could safely say sushi, which i have made a couple of times, but don't do very often.

5.  what is your favorite section at the supermarket?

the produce section in føtex

the fun/special item section at irma (by this i mean where they have interesting flavored vinegar and such)

all of trader joe's when i get a chance to visit one.

all of whole foods when i get a chance to visit one.

the tea section in sainsbury's when i'm in london.

the last question of this meme is too stupid to do, so i'm leaving it out.

ok, sis, i expect you do this one too. :-) 

flickr meme

i've been seeing this meme all over the place and so i finally decided to give it a whirl.

what you do is answer these questions, using the search function in flickr:

1. What is your first name?

2. What is your favorite food?

3. What high school did you go to?

4. What is your favorite color?

5. Who is your celebrity crush?

6. What is your favorite drink?

7. What is your dream vacation?

8. What is your favorite dessert?

9. What do you want to be when you grow up?

10. What do you love most in life?

11. What is one word that describes you?

12. What is your Flickr name?

Then you do as follows:

• Type your answer to each of the questions above into Flickr search.

• Using only the first page of results, pick one image (this didn't prove possible for me, I must admit, I went to page 2 a couple of times)

• Copy and paste URLs for the images into Big Huge Lab's Mosaic Maker to create a mosaic of the picture answers.

1. Nachtigal, 2. i'll take this end of the boat ok?, 3. Driving to Eastern South Dakota - 7, 4. purple colored black butterflies, 5. Bill Clinton 7, 6. Hendrick's Gin, 7. stellenbosch_delheim 240, 8. Delicious Cheese, 9. Underwood, 10. Not available, 11. From above...12. Not available

note: i cheated on the first one, as all of the "julie" ones were something i couldn't really identify with. also, it takes much longer than you think. at least for me, who spends little or no time on flickr. i like the mosaic tool tho', it's cool. have a go if you have the time!

seven random things - julie

before i left for halfway across the world, i read jaime's meme posting on seven random things and vowed to do it. i have been wondering which seven random things to write, but have landed upon these:

1. i have the absolutely worst queue karma in the world. no matter what. if you should ever come up behind me to wait in line, run like the wind, even if the other lines are twice the length, go get in them. you will not regret it.
2. i steal airline spoons. but only if i don't already have them or they have a new design.
3. i have lived for seven years without a bathtub. (don't worry, we do have a shower.) (and thankfully, it's not for much longer, as we're redoing the bathroom.)
4. when i sing patsy cline's crazy, patsy possesses me.
5. i love iPods and have 6 of them (each with their own purpose).
6. although i try to pretend i'm not, i'm still gleefully pleased when i fly business class.
7. i love being gold on an airline, but i'm a little disappointed if it's too easy. for example, it took only two flights to go gold on KLM. granted, it was two flights to manila, but still. last year i requalified for gold status on SAS in under a month.

now it's your turn, sis. bear in mind, it's seven random things about YOU.

our first meme

i keep seeing this one everywhere on the other blogs, so let's do it...

What was i doing 5 years ago today: still wondering what it meant that microsoft had bought the company i was working for (they took awhile--like over a year--to do anything to us--not sure they realized they had bought us) and getting ready to go to a training conference in arizona.

5 snacks I love:

1. hummus
2. slices of sausage and hard cheese
3. salty almonds
4. even saltier green olives stuffed with almonds
5. edamame
   

5 things on my To Do list today:

1. finish article for tanker update
2. finish up communication plans
3. get article to jens so he can do drawings
4. prepare questions for manila trip
5. get up really early and catch first train to airport

5 things I would do if I were a billionaire:

1. travel and then travel some more
2. stay for a month at the manila pen
3. cleaning lady and a kitten
4. pay off the house and FINISH it!!!
5. pay back mom and dad for all their pain and suffering

5 bad habits I have:

1. buying all the stuff i want and not leaving anything for presents
2. not exercising enough
3. investing in stash and then not using it
4. spending too much time in front of the internet
5. white wine

5 places I've lived:

1. south dakota
2. iowa
3. arizona
4. california
5. denmark

5 jobs I've had:

1. secretary to a vice president
2. newsroom assistant
3. project manager
4. global training manager
5. profiler/writer

your turn....