So I am stealing this from just about everyone! I know you may be thinking, "this lazy bitch can't even post something real?". Just so you know, this stinking meme took a lot of work, especially being sick and all (quick, cue the violins!). Anyway, the real reason for doing it, besides laziness and actually liking it, is that I have no idea what the state of my blog will be this weekend. Will it go down, will it go up? (TWKS). So this is a good place to pause, methinks.
The concept: 1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search. 2. Using only the first page of results, pick one image. 3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Big Huge Lab’s Mosaic Maker to create a mosaic of the picture answers.
The questions: 1. What is your first name? 2. What is your favorite food? right now? 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?
Listen up, bitches! I know you run right past memes in the feed reader however...this one is different. Dfferent, how? Well cause really, I am only doing it because I can use these six things towards my "100 Things List" love Sugarpanties. So yeah, I don't know how this thing started out but by the time it got to me, it's all about listing six random and weird things about myself...that's not that freaking hard, unfortunately ;).
The rules according to Karen Sugarpants, the delicious cherry who tagged me:
1. Link to the person who tagged you. 2. Post the rules on your blog. 3. Write six random/weird things about yourself. 4. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs. 5. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website. 6. Let your tagger know when your entry is up.
Yeah I don't know how many of these rules I will actually follow when all is said and done, but let's get to the gettin' and figure it all out from there, m'kay?
Weird Hilly Thing #1 - I go to Starbucks every weekday morning, where I proceed to order a Venti Americano with 2% milk and 2 packets of Splenda. The kicker is that I only drink about two-thirds of the damned coffee, if that. Every morning I think to myself, "I should just get a Grande instead" and yet...I don't. I pay for the Venti and you want to know why? Just in case that day is the day I want it all.
Weird Hilly Thing #2 - I get a sick secret satisfaction (alliteration!) when people who have resisted the urge for so long, come down the rabbit hole and join us on Twitter. It makes me grin especially wide if it is someone who smack-talked it forever before succumbing to the sweet sweet twats.
Weird Hilly Thing #3 - I have to eat all things frozen (like ice cream and frozen yogurt) with a plastic spoon. In fact, I won't eat those things with a metal spoon at all. Hrm, it seems the secret to my weight loss might lie in plastic silverware!
Weird Hilly Thing #4 - I'll watch TV shows even if I know that they'll be a total train wreck....just so I can have had the experience of watching it. You've seen my teevee blog so I know that you know that I know that you know what I mean ;).
Weird Hilly Thing #5 - Whenever a song comes on in the grocery store, drug store, or really any kind of store, I feel the need to sing along with it. I don't even care if it is a song that I hate or if Celine Dion is singing it. Not only that, but suddenly that becomes the best damned song ever made and before I know it, I'm in the middle of the Border's checkout line with a Kelly Clarkson CD in my hand. Le sigh.
Weird Hilly Thing #6 - Since we're talking about music now, I have something terrible to admit. But since that *is* the point of this whole freaking post, here goes. Whenever *I* get an earworm, especially a very heinous one, I like everyone else to get it in their heads and suffer with me! That being said, some of you were privy to my latest foray into musical madness last night, but just in case not...I give you my stinky stupid earowrm:
Weird Hilly Thing #7 - I don't follow rules all that well, as illustrated by the fact that I made up a seventh freakstick thing about me just so that I could grab your attention! Do I have it? Great, now please go over to Miss Britt's blog and show her support in whatever way you can. You see, her family lives in a small town that was destroyed by the tornado in Iowa and she immediately drove a gajillion miles to be with them. Avitable is updating her site daily, so please check in. You don't have to donate money (although there are links to do so) but please offer a hug, some support, some prayers and juju (or "JewJew", as Shiny would say) or just plain let her know that you're there. Right so, don't follow rules too well especially when my friend-loyalty comes into play. Seriously.
And....here is where the little rebel in me comes out to play. I'm not tagging anyone. Nope, not gonna do it. I will say, however, that I'd love all of you to do this! Please? For me? Okay okay, manipulation gets me nowhere, I see ;).
I blatantly and unashamedly stole this post idea from Miss Anne Derstood. I was tooling around the Internets, intent on making a more serious post before taking off tomorrow but eh....I will worry about that tonight. For now....
It's Miss Anne Derstood's "Fill-In-The-Blanks-Why-Dontcha?" comment game:
1. Hilly is ______________.
2. But I am _______________.
3. Just once, I'd like to ________________.
4. I wish I'd ______________ when I was younger.
5. I regret that I once ______________.
6. I love to _____________________.
7. ________________ makes me really fucking mad.
8. ______________ is Stoo-pid.
9. As a special treat, I often like to ______________.
10. You will never see a picture of me __________________.
All you do is fill in the blanks...see how simple it all is? I will answer in comments as well but later...I don't want to taint anyones answers. Hrm, I sure have used the phrase "taint your answers" a lot lately. Must look into that.....
And now for a radio promo that Jester made for me....bwahaha, I only said that NSFW phrase ONE time!
Oh Lord....I think I may be coming down with something! I've been prattling on and on all week about how sucky my allergies are and uh, all of the sudden it hurts to breathe and swallow. Thank God tomorrow is Friday so I only have to sludge through work for one more day.
Enough of that....I hate blogging about feeling sick over and over again. How droll. But what I do love is when one of these little Internet ditties actually strikes me as interesting. I mean, how PERFECT of a slogan did I get? I almost want to make that the subtitle of every networking site that I am on (uh which amounts to all of Twitter, haha). I know I'm totally phoning it in today but I promise you, I am working on an awesome post (in my mind). I too have thoughts on "the rules of Twitter", getting "Twitter-dumped" or blog dumped and why in the hell it seems so important to us to know that you are out there reading (aka commenting). There are some great reference posts for me to scoop up and I've just been waiting to feel like throwing it all together.
Until then...let's play a game! How about you take the little quizzie below and tell me WHAT YOUR SLOGAN IS! Also, if you feel like it, make up your own slogan as well. MY self-made slogan would be: Hilly. Chicken Soup for the Foul Mouth's Soul.
I spent way too much time on this site yesterday...and I do mean "wayyyy". I found out that I am only 46% Geek, can only name a minimal amount of colors in five minutes and am apparently also a total drunkard lush!
However, I liked this one here because it actually tested my knowledge....
Can I just say that watching Survivor and The Amazing Race probably added 20 points that I otherwise would not have even dreamed of seeing? Un yeahhhh, Geography much?
A MEME IN PICTURES (stolen shamelessly from Adena)
Here’s how it works: 1. Go to www.photobucket.com 2. Type in your answer to the question in the “search” box 3. Use only the first page 4. Insert the picture into your Blog
Thanks to Sizzle and Diane, I immediately dropped everything I was doing (playing with Photoshop CS3) and started in on MY version of the Interactive Movie Meme. Of course, because it's me...I'll be putting my own spin on it. But for now, here's how the meme works (I'll add my optional addition at the end):
* Pick 15 of your favorite movies * Go to IMDB and find a quote from each
movie (or quote them from memory because you are that bad ass) * Post them on
your blog for everyone to guess * Fill in the film title once it’s been
guessed
These are your rules: * No Googling or using IMDB search functions (Don’t
cheat!) * Leave your answer(s) in the comments
1. "There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them." (Dream for an Insomniac- guessed by Jamie)
2. "I am not deceitful! And I am not a liar. For if I were, I should say that I loved you. I do not love you. I dislike you more than anyone in the world, except your son." (Jane Eyre- guessed by Amanda)
3. "You can't really dust for vomit." (This Is Spinal Tap- guessed by Suze)
4. "But if staying here means working within 10 yards of you, frankly, I'd rather have a job wiping Saddam Hussein's arse." (Bridget Jones' Diary- guessed by Sizzle)
5. "Looks like two pigs fightin' under a blanket." (Steel Magnolias- guessed by Alissa)
"6. Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." (Ferris Bueller's Day Off - guessed by Brandon)
7. "No sugar? Damn. Y'all ain't never got two things that match. Either y'all got Kool-aid, no sugar. Peanut butter, no jelly. Ham, no burger. Daaamn." (Friday - guessed by Brandon)
8. "But you know the thing about romance is people only get together right at the very end." (Love, Actually- guessed by Suze)
9. "As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no "I" in team, but there is an "i" in pie. And there's an "i" in meat pie. Meat is the anagram of team... I don't know what he's talking about." (Shaun of the Dead- guessed by Adena)
10. "Hey, try not to suck any dick on the way to the parking lot! " (Clerks- guessed by Sizzle)
11. 'Let me tell you what 'Like a Virgin' is about. It's all about a girl who digs a guy with a big dick. The entire song. It's a metaphor for big dicks." (Reservoir Dogs- guessed by Brandon)
12. "A woman without love is like a flower without sun; she wilts [Une femme sans amour, c'est comme une fleur sans soleil, ça dépérit.]." (Amelie- guessed by Adena)
13. "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." (Moulin Rouge- guessed by Suze)
14. "You have exactly ten seconds to change that look of disgusting pity into one of enormous respect!" (The Producers- guessed by Amanda)
15. "I don't wanna sound like a queer or nothin', but I think Depeche Mode is a sweet band!" (Orgazmo- guessed by Diane)
AND NOW FOR THE REMEDIAL SECTION: Because most of my favorite movies have the most recognized quotes in the world, this is the remedial section of favorite quotes from my REAL favorite movies....bonus points for you!
A. "Oh, I'm sorry. Did I break your concentration? You were sayin' somethin' about "best-intentions". What's the matter? Oh! You were finished? Well, allow me to retort!" (Pulp Fiction- guessed by Fig)
B. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." (Princess Bride- guessed by Sizzle)
C. "Didn't throw up? No? Maybe it was a dream then, you know... a very weird... bizarre... vivid... erotic... wet... detailed dream. Maybe we had malaria." ETA: Maybe I should help you out with another quote from this movie: "Well my nuts are halfway up my ass but other than that I'm perfect!" (Weird Science- guessed by Dan)
D. "Man, he's like tripendicular, ya know?" (Valley Girl- guessed by Jenny)
E. Relax, would you? We have seventy dollars and a pair of girls underpants. We're safe as kittens. (Sixteen Candles- guessed by Sizzle)
F. * Quote the title for even more points! (Pulp Fiction- guessed by Fig)
HERE IS WHERE THE OPTIONAL PART COMES IN: These will probably get guessed pretty quickly if I know my readers. So to ensure mass participation, you may not only guess the quotes but also try to stump me in comments with a quote of your own. Once all of my quotes are guessed, I will work on guessing YOURS. And no, I don't Google on the first date. Remember, this part is highly optional but can be fun...
In any case, get to guessing! I'll be here waiting to pimp your name out when you guess correctly!
Well the time has come to give you the answers to the little Quizzy Quiz that you took on Thursday. I was impressed with a lot of your answers and even though they couldn't all be the right ones, you guys nailed a lot of more important ones and that just plain rocks! As I said, the winners will be receiving an email from me with instructions on what they can and cannot "multiple choice" dare me to do, say or blog. Holy Macaroni...I am so glad that some certain people did not win!
I decided that I would grant this honor upon the three highest winners! You want to know who they are? Yeah well, suck it. I kid, I kid! But first, let's take a look at what the answers actually are and then you greedy bitches will get to know who won!
It's time for yet another Hilly Quiz! Throw your hands up in the air and yell "yayayayay" just like Grover does, yo! Okay, then when you're done getting all silly and stuff, I'd love for you to play my little quiz that I've cooked up for your pleasure. Oh and guess what? It's a contest! Whoever guesses the most correct answers will get to send ME a multiple choice list of dares/things they want me to write about and I will pick one (and only one, freakshows). We'll get to the rules of what actually constitutes a "dare that Hilly will do" later on but for now....it's anyone's game.
So please, come test your knowledge..... 1.) I'm a reality teevee whore and even *I* think this is a bad idea:
I'm quirky...I get around. I'm quirky...and I'm always down.
It's Meme Day! Party hats and balloons, bitches!
Ahem, anyway....so there's that meme thing that's been going around the Wide Wide World of Web. There are all these rules that go along with it like linking the person who tagged you, posting the rules, listing some shit, tagging other people, naming your unborn child after the person who you tagged first, then mixing your dinner in a blender and eating it. But I don't really swing that way so I'm just gonna list six quirky things about myself and let you decide if you want to post this on your blog.
SIX QUIRKY THINGS ABOUT MISS HILLY...
1. I take regular songs and use/abuse them by adding my own words to them ALL OF THE TIME. That little ditty up there at the beginning of the post? That used to be "She's Crafty" by the Beastie Boys. Karl and I made a whole song about Dave and Artificial Duck set to the tune of Depeche Mode's "One Caress".
2. I'm always drinking out of two water bottles at the same time...one upstairs and one downstairs. It has nothing to do with being lazy but moreso with being forgetful.
3. I sleep with my own blanket. Sure, I share a bed with my husband but before I go to sleep each night, I take our comforter and move it to his side of the bed then I grab my smaller sized white down comforter that used to be on our guest bed and cover myself with that.
4. I watch an episode of The Simpsons every night before bed. When I am sort of feeling sleepy, I play one of my various recorded episodes and fall asleep while watching it. I have no idea why Homer Simpson makes me go night-night!
5. Once I meet and hang out with someone for awhile, they immediately get a nickname. Hell, sometimes I just have to know them online for that to happen. Still...I don't think I have one friend that doesn't have at least ONE nickname that I've given them, if not more.
6. I often do memes and posts and leave stuff out, like number six of this meme. Thanks to Jamie, I now have a number six, haha! Seriously though, I do that all the time. I end up editing my posts after they are live. I think my brain moves way too fast.
Valentine's Day is not a favorite holiday for most
people. I can take or leave "Pepto-Bismol Day" quite frankly. We're often told that diamonds are
forever, chocolate equals love and that flowers will win her over.
We're somehow brainwashed into thinking that if we don't have anyone to
celebrate this day with, then we are "less than" and should feel bad
about ourselves and/or depressed on February 14th. Even those of us
who are in touch with our emotions, claiming to be smarter than the
greeting card companies, sit and wonder......is this FTD bouquet coming
into the office actually mine? And then, when it passes us by we STILL
go home and keep our ears open just "in case" the doorbell happens to
ring with our present from a secret admirer. Don't think that married
people have it any easier, because we have a whole new set of mental
masturbation to conquer. Therefore we are bringing back...
Self-Love Day (aka "Learning To Love Me") Valentine's Day, February 14th!
No more "how much do I love thees"... rather ask yourself the
question, "how much do I love ME?" Even if you have someone on this
special day, take the time to think about yourself, list your good
qualities, have some positive perspective on who you are and treat
yourself better than you ever have. This is a day to pamper yourself,
be happy with who you are and declare yourself free from wondering if he went to
Jared!
Last year, everyone took one of the banners and posted it on their sites with their Self-Love Day blog post. Please feel free to do the same this year and if you'd like to pimp this out on your blog beforehand...that'd be funky fresh too!
HERE ARE THE RULES!!!
1.) Post one of them thar banners on your blog and declare February 14th as the day you not only love your one and only, but the day that you love yourself!
2.) Post one nice thing about yourself......then ask others to post one thing that they really like about you.
3.) Enjoy yourself!
If you'd like to see an example of what the fuck I'm talking about, here is my Self-Love Day post from 2007, and here aresomeothers.
I"ll remind you again next Wednesday!!! And just in case I wasn't crystal clear, you can pimp the idea whenever you want but "SELF-LOVE POSTS" go up on V-Day itself.
LET'S MAKE A BAND:
1. The first article title HERE is the name of your band. 2. The last four words of the very last quote HERE Is the title of your album. 3. The third picture HERE, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. 4. Now take your pic, add the band name and title to it, then post it.
Who says you need Guitar Hero to be a total rock star?
Now then....back to my regularly scheduled "not gonna post until I have something of interest to say" phase.
Happy Friday Kisses!
Now that I've taken enough pills to ward off my psychosis had some time to think it over, I've decided that posting my memes are not such a bad thing. To tell you why I don't like doing them would most assuredly make me sound like a heinous bitch so I tell you what....let's just forget I ever went crazy said I didn't like to do them and get to it, shall we?
This one is brought to you (and me) by the lovely Geeky Tai-Tai! Here are the rules:
Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself on your blog, tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
Since I'm already working on that "100 Things About Me" List, these seven will also count towards that and will be entered accordingly when I combine the hell out of those suckers. Hey, betcha never thought I'd get to the rest of the "things", right? Anywayyyyy....
1.) When I am behind a driver from another state, say Arizona, I roll my eyes and bitch at how slow they are going. When I am behind a California driver, I roll my eyes and bitch about them being in such a fucking hurry. Bottom line? I bitch a lot when I drive.
2.) Speaking of driving, I'm not a honker. In fact, unless you are about to be hit by someone or hit *them*, the horn is useless. I hate it when people honk horns in bumper-to-bumper traffic. I am, however, a yeller/cusser. I won't waste horn time on you, but you best believe I just called you a cock-snuggling assjacket after you cut me off!
3.) When I am truly dieting in "WW Nazi" fashion, I hate getting asked out to lunch or dinner. It's like even though I know that I can order something healthy when I am out, I won't. Sometimes I even find excuses *not* to go. Le sigh...did I mention my Dad is in town and we are having dinner with him tonight? Gotta go though, it's my Dad.
4.) I've had sex with 22 people....yes, I *did* say twenty-freaking-two. I sort of blabbed it out on Fab's radio show a few weeks ago, but thought I'd just announce my whoredom here. Sadly, almost all of those people except for three were "done" from the age 17-25.
5.) When I was about six years old, I got my right index finger slammed in the front door and the tip from the top knuckle up came completely off. They sewed it back on and gave me a splint....you can't even tell to look at it, which is kind of odd and neat at the same time.
6.) I watch reruns of Wingsevery night before I go to sleep. Contrary to my self-proclaimed love-sex-crush thing for Tim Daly, that's really not why I watch. Even all these years later, that show makes me laugh out loud due to the comedic timing of Tony Shalhoub and Thomas Haden Church.
7.) I know sign language. I may not be exactly fluent but I do know all the cuss words and enough to get by conversationally (even without the naughty lingo). I learned it when I worked for the California Relay Service for the Deaf.
Now then, here are the 7 people I am tagging: you, you, you, you, you, you, you. Yes, you! Ya like apples? How do you like *those* apples?
And just to show that I'm totally insane a totally good sport, I'll repost my iTunes Meme under the jump.
Good Lord...why did I promise to "birthday blog" every day PLUS promise to do a complicated meme all in one week? Either I love you all sooo sooo much or I am a masochist....you decide. In any case, I did promise SJ like months ago that I would participate in the "Behind The Mask: Who's That Blogger" Halloween Challenge.
The basic gist, once again, is that you as readers are trying to match the blogger with the thing that corresponds to them. Some people are doing quotes, others are doing foods, but you know me...I am doing lyrics. I've listed seven bloggers and seven different song lyrics below....it is your job to decide who goes with what lyrics the best you can. You can guess one, two or all of them! The person who guesses the most correctly gets....well, nothing really except for maybe a few kisses from me and my undying love and respect. So, no pressure!
Okay here we go...match that blogger! Also, keep in mind that I am an abstract person at times and you are trying to guess what *I* think goes with each person. It's like a very demented version of Apples to Apples! Also because of this...if your name is on the list below, I still encourage you to play especially to see if you can guess what I picked for you (and the others, of course!)
Yesterday Bre posted this list of words that she uses too often...well Miss Thang has started a meme because I am so going to copy her and do my list here! Some of you that know me may have additions to the list and if you feel that I say something a fuck-ton that I don't mention here, don't be scared to chime in!
SNACKIE'S OVERUSED AND OVER-ABUSED PHRASEOLOGY!
1. "Whatever. I don't care." - The trick about this one is that I generally say it more when I *do* care and need to convince myself otherwise.
2. "Really?" - You know the tone...it's that sarcastic voice saying it as if to ask, "are you fucking kidding me?".
3. "Seriously?" - See above plus....imagine Grey's Anatomy and every iteration of the word used therein.
4. "Right/Right?" - When I am listening to someone tell a story, I generally say "right" as they are talking just to let them know I am listening (not to show how bored I am as someone once thought!). I use "Right?" as a shortened way to say, "I know, right?".
5. "Yahyahyah" - This is another one that I so wish I could stop! Again when conversing with someone who is usually telling a very animated story, I will say "yahyahyah" really quickly to show that I understand.
6. "Totally" - Let's face it, it's hard to take the California out of the girl. I use "Totally" as a stand-alone word more than as a preceding adjective but still, I use it a lot!
7. "Fucktard" - While driving, this is the most common obscenity to come out of my mouth. I say it quite a bit while traveling down the 405. "Asstard" may be a close second!
8. "Faboo" - You know, as in "Hilly's hair is so faboo!"
9. "Is it sad that.....?" - I will start half of my emails this way and my conversations as well. I have no idea why but generally it goes a little something like, "Is it sad that I am too old to know who those people are?" rather than just stating that I don't know who the fuck they are.
10. "Fucking" - Yah yah, the cussing is normal for all of us, but I say "fucking" as an adjective more than I'd like to admit. I usually never just say "fuck" of "fuck you" but when I talk about that "lame fucking commercial", I mean it!
11. "Gay or GAY-gay?" - Not to be offensive but, I have this one friend who is way worse of a Valley Girl than I am. She still thinks it's okay to call everyone she hates "totally gay". I have to admit, sometimes in my own home, I will mutter that my toaster it "so gay" but watch that outside of the home. God the 80's were way too tolerant. Anyway, I have to ask her all the time if she means "Gay or GAY-gay?".
12. "Ding-dang it!" - This is the preferred way of faux swearing while at work or around kids. Some others include "fudgehog", "fudge monkey" or "holy schmoley!".
14. "Swank!" - Yes this means what you think it means.
15. "Amazing" - This is my preferred adjective of choice. Everything that is extremely awesome is "amazing".
Phew...okay that's it! Of course that probably isn't it and some of my BFF's are going to come here and cream me, but it's all good.
So now I ask you....what word(s) do YOU tend to overuse? Hrmmmm???
I have this gut wrenching internal vomitosa ready to spill out onto the blog page, just not today. Today I feel like being frivolous while waiting for the perfect words to come that will explain my emotional state and random thought processes therein. But as I was hound-dogging mah friend's politically inclined post, I realized that I was giving crystal clear signals as to my political affiliations, even though who really cares if I was.
Then the idea was born!!!
"Hrm", I thought, "how fun would it be to give my blog buddies some random multiple choice questions about me and see how well they do?". Partially, I am just going to be amused at some of the answers but this also really does tie in to this bug post that is brewing in my nether regions brain.
So how well do you know me? To be more specific, how much have I let you in? Sure, some of you that know me on a more intimate level might get more right (so no one copy them!) but still, let's see how it goes! And hey, I am all for followers...if anyone else wants to do this, I certainly will play and link you back! Come with me under the jump:
I believe I have a bunch of new readers since the last installment of Snackie's Confession Booth! What the hell is a Snackie Confession Booth, you ask? Well it's kind of a post where you get to confess whatever is on your mind either with your real bloggy name or anonymously. It's been successful bothtimes that I've had one because I don't really care if you get out something small or get out something huge...this is YOUR place to vent and throw away whatever is inside.
Here were the "rules" posted last time:
So I got to thinking.....we need a good old, soul cleansing
confessional here in the PRB. Of course, if you want to talk about
crazy things that have major psychological depth, Post Secret
always loves to hear from people. But what about the small stuff?
Life's aggravations, accomplishments, random thoughts, and various
other things that we never admit to anyone?
Well, that is where the "Snackie Confession Booth"
comes into play! You are welcome to come here and confess to
something, no matter how big or small. If you want to get real deep
and do so anonymously, I won't out you. If you want to be "yourself"
and talk about random stuff that you would just LOVE to confess, dig
it....and then do it!
Everyone is welcome! In fact, tell your friends to swing by and let
a load off of their chests, if only for a moment. You can confess to
one thing, two things or many things and can come by as many times as
you like!
IMPORTANT ADDITION: If you want to comment anonymously, please use a fake email address such as [email protected] and you can use www.snackiepoo.com as your URL or it will revert to the one you have used here before!
Little do you know that I often post anonymously on this post....sometimes I just need to say things that nobody needs to really know. As usual, my confessions will be in comments and I'll agree with half the things you say either cause I am a joiner OR cause I totally "get" you.
So, there is that "Desktritus" meme that is goingaroundthePRB. I figure that if all the cool kids are doing it, I need to be a total joiner cause that's how I roll....well not usually, but today I am joining the pack! Those of you who saw this in your feed reader before I got off of my lazy ass and took a new picture might have seen last year's pic that I took for Kevvy Kev on Blog Appreciation Day. But I decided to stop being so effing lazy and give you a picture taken moments ago because more had changed than I thought!
CLICK TO ENLARGE!
I'm not big into having a bunch of crap all over my desk, as you can see....it bugs me to try to work on things when there is junk in my way! So, my desk is comprised of the monitor, speakers, mouse, printer with my "Princess" baseball cap on it, flashlight, telephone, Homer Simpson Bobble Head complete with necklace which is basically all of my TC '07 Badges by Dave hanging wildly from his
bobble-neck. We also have a Scooby Doo notepad and some pens, some hand lotion, a vial of DuWop Lip Venom, the speaker remote control, my iPod resting under my monitor and of course, the cable modem! You'll take note that my rolling drawers thingie is a mess...I have so many cd's from my car that I need to burn burn burn!
One last thing to remember is that I am usually on a laptop on a couch somewhere so yanno....easy to be clean! As you can see, I am a pretty boring princess when it comes to the desk area! I like to hide my messes inside of things, kind of like I do with my life ;).
It's a damn good thing I didn't actually claim "hiatus" the other day, huh? I seem to be going through phases of loving to be in the PRB versus just not having the energy due to focusing it on real life dramas and traumas. But today I could not resist....a meme came my way via my friend at Vox and in reading her comments, it totally made me giggle.
The premise is basically this: I will list twenty things about myself that you have to answer. I can't call them questions because it's more like..."finish this sentence". The amusement for me comes in when I see who actually knows me well enough to answer some of the questions seriously and/or who makes up the best and most random answer to things that they don't know! I would LOVE it if some of you did this meme as well so that I could come play with you....er, I mean at your blog!
THE TWENTY "QUESTIONS" MEME
Hilly is..... Hilly needs..... Hilly's best friend is..... Hilly's cat is named..... Hilly smells like..... Hilly drives like..... Hilly craves...... Hilly's favorite TV Show is..... Hilly hates the actor whose name is..... Hilly's alcoholic drink of choice is..... Hilly's NON alcoholic drink of choice is..... Hilly's favorite musical artist is..... Hilly's favorite cupcake flavor is..... Hilly's hair is..... Hilly's celebrity crush is..... Hilly's occupation is..... Hilly's favorite book is..... Hilly's favorite color is..... Hilly hates..... Hilly wishes.....
I've been sitting here for a good hour, emailing back and forth with Dave while listening to music, just hoping that one of those things would put a little inspiration in me. Alas, I gave up and walked away and just as the lights dimmed on my laptop, it came to me....the golden warm glow of a post brewing in my brain matter. Ok ok, really it was Dave posting HIS picture that got me thinking.
We're gonna play a little game! So I have this Flickr account, right? Many of you have one too. Well, one of the neat-o things that it does is tells you which of your pictures are the most popular, most commented on, most viewed, etc.
Of these three pictures, which do you think is the MOST VIEWED at my Flickr page????? Don't be shy...take a guess! And please, feel free to click on each pic to see it large and in charge! I will tell you that these ARE the top three so it's not like I am totally messing with you and giving you two loser pics and one clear winner!
1. Dave2 gets in on pic popularity! 2. The infamous OC Princess Tiara Pic 3. Uhhmmmmmm....
Anyway ONE of those three is the most popular picture in the wide wide image world of Snackiepoo....can you figure out which one?
By the time MOST of you non-insomniacs read this, I will be in my very last "Dental Disney" session! The implants that they waited a year to put in are finally here and I will be in oral surgery all day(Dr. Scott just called me with hot talk of splitting my gums open and other awesome shit). Lemme tell you though, I will be so stoked to be able to chew on both sides again! I feel so trashy having just said that, LOL.
So I thought that while I was drugged up and under a knife, I would leave a little game for you lovely readers. We like to call it "How Well Do You Know Snackie?". It's quite simple really.....there are 10 questions below that require a "true" or "false" answer. Just comment with your guess to each statement and when I get home and am happily doped up on pain meds (nobody worry), I will email you back and tell you if you are even close. The top five contenders will be rewarded in a way that you can't even imagine! In fact, *I* can't even imagine it either because I haven't thought of it yet, bwahahaha!
So don't be shy...no matter how well or little you know me, you can totally guess. There are only one or two people that will probably get all of these right and they are not qualified to win, even though I still want them to play. And no, I will not name them because then you will copy them!
Anyway, think of me fondly sitting there with the hot dentist torturing me all day long and have a Happy Hump Day!
THE SNACKIE QUIZ: TRUE OR FALSE?
I hate both marinara and Alfredo sauces.
I've never been in the BACK SEAT of a police car.
I prefer hard liquor to both wine and beer.
I brush my teeth three times a day.
I've been on more trips to Vegas than anywhere else.
I eat my pancakes with apricot jelly.
Blue is my favorite color.
I speak French.
I'll only eat dark meat (chicken, turkey, etc).
I never leave the house without makeup on.
I've partied with crack whores (trick BONUS question!).
By the way, I am looking for someone who wants to do a guest-post here at Snackie's World. I've got to go out of town on business in a week or two and would love someone to babysit. I've begged Brandon on bended knee and all that, but I have no idea if he is booked already or not! Of course, it would be pretty hard to beat the last babysitter.
Sometimes my life gets five kinds of weird all at the same time. Like last week, I had strep that turned into a bronchial thing shortly thereafter. I spent a week bored off of my ass recuperating and suddenly on a weekend that was really bad for me, I had three sets of people from the PRB that wanted to hang out! I'd had plans to meet the LACouple for dinner in Long Beach on Saturday but ended up postponing Friday afternoon. I already had another set of plans I'd made weeks ago and knew that I would be way too tired and icky to do both. Then, I got a call from Neil and Sophia, who were on their way to Irvine for the ballet. They wanted to know if I wanted to come hang out and have dinner....geez, why did I have to be sick? The good news is that I did manage to reschedule a day with Neil and Sophia next weekend as well. Oh oh oh, and the LA Blogger Party is coming up in May...sweet.
The one thing that I did manage to do was go to lunch with Fruity McCakey. Because I am just that lazy, I will direct you to her post where she eloquently details our afternoon. Good times were had by all....she is a great lunch companion and it was amazing how easily we bonded and got along. There are, of course, pictures at mah Flickr for those interested.
Talking with Fruitcake made me come to another horrible realization. It started with a conversation about blogging and comment whores. We I made fun of that for a bit, then we started to get more serious. We talked about how sometimes we get hurt when people don't take the time to comment on our blogs, especially those that we care about. I was rationally explaining that it took me awhile to get over that and realize that everyone either is busy, not intersted in my shit all of the time or maybe that they read but don't always know what to say. In either case, admitting our "blog comment quirks" and talking about them made me remember something not-so-awesome about myself.
It was with great trepidation that I went balls-to-the-wall and let the intensely amusing and crazy Avitable ask me questions in this very different kind of meme. What makes it different? Well first of all, it is not the sort of meme that you get tagged with or that you can just steal. Oh no, you have to follow the instructions at the bottom of this post if you want to play. And you know me...I want you ALL to play!!!
Throughout life, I was never one to have many female friends. I always had more male friends than female ones and like it that way. It's
not that I disliked having a close girlfriend or two but anything more
than that was viewed as excess in my mind. Maybe it was the whole
"girl clique" mentality that really got to me. I never wanted to be in
a circle of catty females, making fun of the poor person who dared to
slightly irritate one member of the pack. For a long time, I really
didn't have a close female friend (we like to call that time B.F. -
Before Foo). But
once I met Princess FooDiddy, everything changed. Here was a woman
just like me - strong, independent, funny in a semi-vulgar way, into
hair and makeup but not girly, and more things along those lines. So I
started making more friends with women and found out that it wasn't so
bad after all. I'm really good at my one-on-one friendships with women
now but still somewhat fear them in a group setting ;).
So imagine the horror when Karl
begged me to go to BlogHer. Okay maybe "beg" is a bit of an
exaggeration, but there was much asking and many things brought up in
an attempt to sway me over to the dark side. "Hilary", he said (for Karl rarely calls me Hilly), "I
guarantee you that you WILL know people there and there are probably
more women out there who know who you are than you even realize!".
Uh huh....but women in crowds and cliques? Why isn't there a BlogHim
that I can infiltrate and perhaps piss people off in the process?
Anyway, as I expressed my concerns regarding not really knowing a lot
of the BlogHer crowd, Karl tried to convince me again that I do...then
he threw in the fact that maybe Chase will go again this year. He had me leaning in, listening a bit closer and then whammo...he hit me with the big one. "You know, if Kevin's not out of town, we can make arrangements to meet him and Katie for dinner." Oh sure, rat bastard....play the Kevin
card. So now I am in flux....girls, if I go, will any of you go with
me? Meh. Anyway I promised Karl that I would think about it and so
yeah...that is where I stand.
Speaking of Kevin...here is a movie meme that I stole from him. Dave and Fruity McCakey already did it but I am always fashionably late, dahlinks!
