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Does "Gakked" mean "stolen"? If gakked means stolen then this is gakked from dinahmt.
(Also, what's with "meme"?)
1. First name?
Loretta. Lori to my family.
2. Were you named after anyone?
Yes, my dad's sister Loretta and my mom's sister Florence Loretta.
3. Do you wish on stars?
Yes, and I always wish for the same thing -- true love. Pathetic, ain't it?
4. When did you last cry?
A few minutes ago when I was reading Di's answers to these questions. I'm hopeless.
5. Do you like your handwriting?
Yeah, I guess. I have very small handwriting and it's fairly neat, unlike everything else in my life. (Car, house, yard, refrigerator . . . )
6. What's your favorite lunch meat?
I'm a vegetarian. :D
7. What is your birth date?
August 10 of the year that Di started her senior year in high school. :-P
8. What is your most embarrassing CD?
I don't really have any embarrassing CDs. I only have about a dozen all together. Well, I suppose SOME people might be embarrassed by my Bob Hope CD or my Fred Astaire Sings CD, but *I* like them.
9. If you were another person, would YOU be friends with you?
Gosh. I don't know. I don't get out much, so where would I meet myself?
10. Are you a daredevil?
I've been known to panic trying to decide what to have for dinner, so no.
12. Do looks matter?
I always think mine do :( but I never even notice other people's. Well, unless they're REALLY ugly. ;)
13. How do you release anger?
I cry. And then I get mad at myself for crying so I cry some more.
14. Where is your second home?
The library.
15. Do you trust others easily?
Yes, probably too easily.
16. What was your favorite toy as a child?
Probably Pup Dog, a stuffed dog my oldest sister got me when I was born. I wonder where he is now . . . should be put away around here somewhere.
17. Which class in high school do you think was totally stupid?
Distributive education. I didn't need any more credits but back then you couldn't go a half day, so I wound up in this dumb class. The teacher was a dimwit who flirted with all the popular girls. I wasn't popular and for some reason he got the idea I had a crush on him (I totally did NOT! I didn't even like him!) and called me into his office for this really belittling lecture. It was incredibly humiliating. I got so mad I . . . cried. :/ Which did NOT help. I SO wish I'd been brave enough to just tell him he was a moron.
18. Do you have a journal?
Other than this one? I'm trying to keep track of what I do writing-wise every day. Today I mailed a 13,975 word short story to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. :D
19. Do you use sarcasm a lot?
No, most of the people I'd like to be sarcastic to wouldn't get it.
20. What are your nicknames?
Um, Lori, Lo-reeta, Retta.
21. Would you bungee jump?
I'm stealing Di's answer. For a great deal of money!
22. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
Nope.
23. Do you think that you are strong?
I used to be, but anymore I'm a whimp.
24. What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
Baskin-Robbin's German Chocolate Cake ice cream. It's German chocolate flavored ice cream with coconut, a caramel ribbon, and HUGE chunks of solid chocolate. Bliss!
25. Shoe size?
If I buy men's shoes, eight and a half extra wide. If I buy women's shoes I have to get about a size twelve wide to get them wide enough and then they're way too long. :/
26. Red or pink?
Depends on what we're coloring. (Sorry, Di! Colouring. )
27. What is your least favorite thing about yourself?
Just now, about everything. :(
28. Who do you miss most?
(Di's answer: my mum - I never got to say goodbye to her.) See? This is what made me cry.
Probably a guy friend of mine. I've stopped going around where he is because he's getting married and I'm too attached, so I thought I'd better distance myself.
29. Do you want everyone to whom you send this to send it back?
I'm not sending it to anyone, but if anyone wants to gakk it, they should feel free.
30. What color pants and shoes are you wearing?
Light blue pinstriped jeans and black boots.
31. What are you listening to right now?
My tinnitis sounds like crickets so I'm pretending it's spring. :-D
32. Last thing you ate?
Uh, I'm not saying it WAS cheese curls and I'm not saying it WASN'T cheese curls but, uh, it MIGHT have been cheese curls . . . O:-)
33. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
Royal Blue
34. What is the weather like right now?
Right now it is clear and chilly, but today was sunny and in the fifties (farenheit) and tomorrow's supposed to be too. Yay! :)
35. Last person you talked to on the phone?
A woman who wants to sell me insurance.
36. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
I suppose the way they act. Attitude and all, you know?
37. Do you like the person who sent this to you?
Nobody sent it to me. :'( I had to gakk it.
38. What is your ethnicity?
Gosh, English, French, Scots, Irish, German, Native American, and honorary Italian by dint of living on pizza.
39. Favorite drink?
Dr. Pepper.
40. Favorite sport?
Baseball to watch, horseshoes to play.
41. Hair color?
brown.
42. Eye color?
Hazel? Sort of a bluey-greeny-grey. They look different in different light and when I'm wearing different things.
43. Do you wear contacts?
Nope. Big, thick Coke bottle glasses.
44. Are you single?
Yup.
45. Favorite food?
All-time favorite? I rarely get to eat it, but probably spanikopita. If you don't know, it's Greek spinach pie. I might have misspelled it.
46. Last movie you watched?
Um, . . . Paris Holiday? I have it on DVD. It's an old Bob Hope movie co-starring a French comedian named Fernandel who was HILARIOUS! I tried to find more movies he was in, but he was only in a couple other English language films and they are hard to come by. There are some French films with him, but my French isn't that good. :-/
47. Favorite day of the year?
The day I leave for MediaWest! :D
48. Scary movies or happy endings?
Happy endings every time. I don't need scary movies -- I have a big family. ;)
49. Summer or winter?
Stealing Di's answer again. Summer - I love the long evenings and early mornings. (Oh, but for my answer scratch the early mornings part! And add that I like not having to build a fire in the wood stove!)
50. Hugs or kisses?
Gosh, anything Hershey makes is fine with me!
51. Do you have any favorite rants and, if so, what are they?
I like to rant about bad books. My two favorite to rant about are one of the Star Trek novels and a book called Spindrift. I won't start now, though.
52. What is your favorite dessert?
Mmmm! Tiramisu!
53. Who is most likely to respond?
The little men with the butterfly nets?
54. Who is most likely not to respond?
Imaginary people?
55. What books are you reading?
Haunted Historic America by Michael Norman and the late Beth Scott. It's frustrating, though, because it's about ten years old and there's no point in trying to find someone connected with it to point out the mistakes to. (Ichabod Crane did NOT ride through Sleepy Hollow with his head under his arm! ONE, he was NOT the Headless Horseman and TWO that was a work of FICTION!!!! GRRRR)
56. What's on your mouse pad?
I'm not saying it's cheese curl dust and I'm not saying it's NOT cheese curl dust but . . . .
57. What did you watch last night on TV?
I haven't watched TV in years. (Literally!) I'm trying to rig up an antenna, though, so I can watch DMc on NCIS next week.
58. Favorite smells?
Vanilla, lavender, rain and the perfume Taboo.
59. Favorite sounds?
A man singing something lovely in a really nice baritone or bass. Have you ever heard "If I Can't Love Her" from the Broadway version of Beauty and the Beast? Sigh! :)
60. Rolling Stones or Beatles?
Beatles.
61. What's the farthest you've been from home?
Probably Oregon when I was ten. We went back to visit where we lived until I was three.
62. Do you have a special talent?
I have a really good, um, one of them, oh . . . what do you call them? Where you don't forget, uh . . . what was I saying?
(Also, what's with "meme"?)
1. First name?
Loretta. Lori to my family.
2. Were you named after anyone?
Yes, my dad's sister Loretta and my mom's sister Florence Loretta.
3. Do you wish on stars?
Yes, and I always wish for the same thing -- true love. Pathetic, ain't it?
4. When did you last cry?
A few minutes ago when I was reading Di's answers to these questions. I'm hopeless.
5. Do you like your handwriting?
Yeah, I guess. I have very small handwriting and it's fairly neat, unlike everything else in my life. (Car, house, yard, refrigerator . . . )
6. What's your favorite lunch meat?
I'm a vegetarian. :D
7. What is your birth date?
August 10 of the year that Di started her senior year in high school. :-P
8. What is your most embarrassing CD?
I don't really have any embarrassing CDs. I only have about a dozen all together. Well, I suppose SOME people might be embarrassed by my Bob Hope CD or my Fred Astaire Sings CD, but *I* like them.
9. If you were another person, would YOU be friends with you?
Gosh. I don't know. I don't get out much, so where would I meet myself?
10. Are you a daredevil?
I've been known to panic trying to decide what to have for dinner, so no.
12. Do looks matter?
I always think mine do :( but I never even notice other people's. Well, unless they're REALLY ugly. ;)
13. How do you release anger?
I cry. And then I get mad at myself for crying so I cry some more.
14. Where is your second home?
The library.
15. Do you trust others easily?
Yes, probably too easily.
16. What was your favorite toy as a child?
Probably Pup Dog, a stuffed dog my oldest sister got me when I was born. I wonder where he is now . . . should be put away around here somewhere.
17. Which class in high school do you think was totally stupid?
Distributive education. I didn't need any more credits but back then you couldn't go a half day, so I wound up in this dumb class. The teacher was a dimwit who flirted with all the popular girls. I wasn't popular and for some reason he got the idea I had a crush on him (I totally did NOT! I didn't even like him!) and called me into his office for this really belittling lecture. It was incredibly humiliating. I got so mad I . . . cried. :/ Which did NOT help. I SO wish I'd been brave enough to just tell him he was a moron.
18. Do you have a journal?
Other than this one? I'm trying to keep track of what I do writing-wise every day. Today I mailed a 13,975 word short story to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. :D
19. Do you use sarcasm a lot?
No, most of the people I'd like to be sarcastic to wouldn't get it.
20. What are your nicknames?
Um, Lori, Lo-reeta, Retta.
21. Would you bungee jump?
I'm stealing Di's answer. For a great deal of money!
22. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
Nope.
23. Do you think that you are strong?
I used to be, but anymore I'm a whimp.
24. What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
Baskin-Robbin's German Chocolate Cake ice cream. It's German chocolate flavored ice cream with coconut, a caramel ribbon, and HUGE chunks of solid chocolate. Bliss!
25. Shoe size?
If I buy men's shoes, eight and a half extra wide. If I buy women's shoes I have to get about a size twelve wide to get them wide enough and then they're way too long. :/
26. Red or pink?
Depends on what we're coloring. (Sorry, Di! Colouring. )
27. What is your least favorite thing about yourself?
Just now, about everything. :(
28. Who do you miss most?
(Di's answer: my mum - I never got to say goodbye to her.) See? This is what made me cry.
Probably a guy friend of mine. I've stopped going around where he is because he's getting married and I'm too attached, so I thought I'd better distance myself.
29. Do you want everyone to whom you send this to send it back?
I'm not sending it to anyone, but if anyone wants to gakk it, they should feel free.
30. What color pants and shoes are you wearing?
Light blue pinstriped jeans and black boots.
31. What are you listening to right now?
My tinnitis sounds like crickets so I'm pretending it's spring. :-D
32. Last thing you ate?
Uh, I'm not saying it WAS cheese curls and I'm not saying it WASN'T cheese curls but, uh, it MIGHT have been cheese curls . . . O:-)
33. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
Royal Blue
34. What is the weather like right now?
Right now it is clear and chilly, but today was sunny and in the fifties (farenheit) and tomorrow's supposed to be too. Yay! :)
35. Last person you talked to on the phone?
A woman who wants to sell me insurance.
36. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
I suppose the way they act. Attitude and all, you know?
37. Do you like the person who sent this to you?
Nobody sent it to me. :'( I had to gakk it.
38. What is your ethnicity?
Gosh, English, French, Scots, Irish, German, Native American, and honorary Italian by dint of living on pizza.
39. Favorite drink?
Dr. Pepper.
40. Favorite sport?
Baseball to watch, horseshoes to play.
41. Hair color?
brown.
42. Eye color?
Hazel? Sort of a bluey-greeny-grey. They look different in different light and when I'm wearing different things.
43. Do you wear contacts?
Nope. Big, thick Coke bottle glasses.
44. Are you single?
Yup.
45. Favorite food?
All-time favorite? I rarely get to eat it, but probably spanikopita. If you don't know, it's Greek spinach pie. I might have misspelled it.
46. Last movie you watched?
Um, . . . Paris Holiday? I have it on DVD. It's an old Bob Hope movie co-starring a French comedian named Fernandel who was HILARIOUS! I tried to find more movies he was in, but he was only in a couple other English language films and they are hard to come by. There are some French films with him, but my French isn't that good. :-/
47. Favorite day of the year?
The day I leave for MediaWest! :D
48. Scary movies or happy endings?
Happy endings every time. I don't need scary movies -- I have a big family. ;)
49. Summer or winter?
Stealing Di's answer again. Summer - I love the long evenings and early mornings. (Oh, but for my answer scratch the early mornings part! And add that I like not having to build a fire in the wood stove!)
50. Hugs or kisses?
Gosh, anything Hershey makes is fine with me!
51. Do you have any favorite rants and, if so, what are they?
I like to rant about bad books. My two favorite to rant about are one of the Star Trek novels and a book called Spindrift. I won't start now, though.
52. What is your favorite dessert?
Mmmm! Tiramisu!
53. Who is most likely to respond?
The little men with the butterfly nets?
54. Who is most likely not to respond?
Imaginary people?
55. What books are you reading?
Haunted Historic America by Michael Norman and the late Beth Scott. It's frustrating, though, because it's about ten years old and there's no point in trying to find someone connected with it to point out the mistakes to. (Ichabod Crane did NOT ride through Sleepy Hollow with his head under his arm! ONE, he was NOT the Headless Horseman and TWO that was a work of FICTION!!!! GRRRR)
56. What's on your mouse pad?
I'm not saying it's cheese curl dust and I'm not saying it's NOT cheese curl dust but . . . .
57. What did you watch last night on TV?
I haven't watched TV in years. (Literally!) I'm trying to rig up an antenna, though, so I can watch DMc on NCIS next week.
58. Favorite smells?
Vanilla, lavender, rain and the perfume Taboo.
59. Favorite sounds?
A man singing something lovely in a really nice baritone or bass. Have you ever heard "If I Can't Love Her" from the Broadway version of Beauty and the Beast? Sigh! :)
60. Rolling Stones or Beatles?
Beatles.
61. What's the farthest you've been from home?
Probably Oregon when I was ten. We went back to visit where we lived until I was three.
62. Do you have a special talent?
I have a really good, um, one of them, oh . . . what do you call them? Where you don't forget, uh . . . what was I saying?