:: Ever wonder? ::

:: Friday, February 13, 2009 ::

Tell everyone (or at least anyone who reads this) something about yourself.


Here are the rules - post this list in a comment, replacing my answers with yours. it's because I want to know more about YOU! But, you know, no pressure. I'll post the answers as they come in. If you like, add an additional question at the end.



1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? Yes, my cousin. AKA The father of the "Weather Gnome" (Those of you in Minnesota will get it.)



2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?Tears for joy finding out Tom Daschle was out of the Obama administration



3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? Not Particularly



4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? Salami



5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS? Three -All boys



6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Probably, with reservations.



7. DO YOU USE SARCASM? Who, me?



8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? Yes



9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? Nope, never. Not even a consideration. I will not bungee jump.



10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Shredded Wheat. (Do they still make that?)



11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?

Not usually



13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? Butter Brickle



14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? Eyes



15. RED OR PINK? Red



16. WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? I'm lazy.



17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? My Grandmother.



18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO COMPLETE THIS LIST? Of course!



19. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? Blue/blue.



21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? Gordon Ramsay.



22. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?periwinkle



23. FAVORITE SMELLS? Coffee and bacon cooking over a campfire, just a hint of cigarette smoke on the wind, pipe tobacco, jasmine on a warm summer evening, cinnamon rolls.



24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? My son, Tim.



25. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO ASKED YOU TO COMPLETE THIS? Yes.



26. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH? Mexican Cat Juggling



27. HAIR COLOR? Blonde. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.



28. EYE COLOR? Blue



29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? No



30. FAVORITE FOOD? Mexican, Cajun.



31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? Happy endings.



32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? Do animated Scooby Doo movies count?



33. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? Black



34. SUMMER OR WINTER? Summer



35. HUGS OR KISSES? Both



37. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? Don't know



38. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? Don't know



39. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? The Hour I First Believed.



40. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? A picture of me, my father and my two oldest boys in a pedal boat.



41. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT? American Idol (Kind of.)



42. FAVORITE SOUND(S). Thunder



43. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? Beatles



44. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME?Australia

45. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? Not that I'm willing to admit.



46. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? St. Paul, MN



47. WHOSE ANSWERS ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING BACK? Everyone's


48. HOW DID YOU MEET YOUR SPOUSE/SIGNIFICANT OTHER? On-line. Write me and I'll give you the whole story about how I almost corrupted a perfectly wonderful woman.
:: PokemonGuy101 10:04 AM [+] ::
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I've decided it's time to revive this old turkey, adding content that I find interesting or unusual. Ideas are always welcome, and so are you.

Kip
:: PokemonGuy101 9:51 AM [+] ::
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Not to be outdone by my wife, here's my list.

The idea is to put in boldface the things you've actually done, then add five more items at the bottom, three of them things you HAVE done and two that you WANT to do.

Betsy added a caveat: You should pick five things on the list (ones that you didn't add) that you WANT to do, and upper-case and change the color of them.


01. Buy everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swim with wild dolphins
03. Climb a mountain
04. TAKE A FERRARI FOR A TEST DRIVE
05. See the Pyramids at night
06. Hold a tarantula
07. Take a candlelit bath with someone
08. Say 'I love you' and mean it
09. Hug a tree
10. Do a striptease
11. Do a bungee or parachute jump
12. Visit Paris
13. Watch a lightning storm at sea
14. Clean behind the fridge
15. Stay up all night long, and watch the sun rise
16. Ask the/a question you've always been too embarrassed to ask
17. See the Northern Lights
18. Go to a huge sports game - football, rugby, baseball, American football, etc.
19. Create your own masterpiece
20. Grow and eat your own vegetables
21. TOUCH AN ICEBERG
22. Have an office relationship
23. Sleep under the stars
24. Compromise
25. Change a baby's nappy/diaper
26. Take a ride in a hot air balloon
27. Watch a meteor shower
28. Get drunk on champagne
29. Take a luxury holiday
30. Give more than you can afford to charity
31. Look up at the night sky through a telescope
32. Have an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
33. Have a food fight
34. Bet on a winning horse
35. Take a sick day when you're not ill
36. Get a pet
37. Ask a stranger out
38. Have a snowball fight
39. Photocopy your bottom on the office photocopier
40. Scream as loudly as you possibly can
41. Hold a lamb
42. Enact a favorite fantasy
43. Take a midnight skinny dip
44. Hear the words 'I love you'
45. Fly on Concorde
46. Take an ice cold bath
47. Have a meaningful conversation with a beggar
48. See a total eclipse
49. Ride a roller coaster
50. Hit a home run
51. Fit three weeks miraculously into three days
52. Dance like a fool and not care who's looking
53. Adopt an accent for an entire day
54. VISIT THE BIRTHPLACE OF YOUR ANCESTORS
55. Gave a grand romance with costumes and everything
56. Made up a screenname to stalk someone
57. Gone shopping for no reason
58. Actually feel happy about your life, even for just a moment
59. Just be held
60. Have an adventure where nothing goes as planned
61. Kissed someone you truly wanted to kiss
62. Went clubbing and thought to yourself "I could out-dance them if i wanted to"
63. Called your relatives by their relationship in another language
64. Have two hard drives for your computer
65. Cuddled
66. Visited all 50 states
67. Love(d) your job
68. Taken care of someone who was shit faced
69. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
70. Have amazing friends
71. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
72. Swim during a formal
73. Stolen a sign
74. Backpacked in Europe
75. Taken a road trip
76. Rock climbing
77. Nose piercing
78. Midnight walk on the beach
79. Sky diving
80. Visit Ireland
81. Saw what you wanted and did all it took to seize it
82. Fell in love then fell harder and faster from heartbreak
83. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had lunch/dinner with them
84. Visit and/or tour Japan
85. Benchpress your own weight
86. Stolen from your parents
87. Alphabetized your records
89. Pretended to be a superhero
90. Sang karaoke
91. Made someone cry for no good reason
92. Lounged around in bed all day
93. Posed nude in front of a room full of strangers
94. Dressed sexy for no reason
95. Got it on to "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye
96. Kissed in the rain
97. Played in the mud
98. Played in the rain
99. Gone to a drive-in theater
100. Done something you should regret, but don't
101. Visited the Great Wall of China
102. Fell in love with a job that has nothing to do with the degree you're pursuing
103. Discovered that someone who's not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog
104. Dropped Windows in favor of something better
105. Started a business
106. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
107. Toured ancient sites around the Mediterranean
108. Taken karate
109. Swordfought for the honor of a woman
110. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
111. Gotten married
112. Been in a movie
113. LARPed
114. Loved someone you shouldn't have
115. Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy
116. Gotten divorced
117. Had sex at the office
118. Surprised yourself with a talent you didn't know you had
119. Been to Macchu Picchu
120. Gone without food for 5 days
121. Never left the continental United States
122. Made cookies from scratch
123. Won first prize in a costume contest
124. RIDDEN A GONDOLA IN VENICE
125. Gotten a tattoo
126. Got another tattoo the next day because you didn't feel balanced
127. Find that the texture of some materials can turn you on
128. Rafted the Snake River
129. Blazed it up at Burning Man
130. Gotten flowers for no reason
131. Masturbated in a public place
132. Gotten so drunk you don't remember anything
133. Been addicted to some form of illegal drug
134. Traveled the world
135. Performed onstage with a famous symphony orchestra
136. Been to Las Vegas
137. Met Madonna
138. Recorded music
139. Eaten shark
140. Had a one-night stand
141. Gone to Thailand
142. Had the courage to speak my mind
143. Saw Robert Smith and Siouxsie live
144. Bought a house
145. Earned my degree
146. Broke my neck
147. Been in a combat zone
148. Buried my father
149. Buried my mother
150. Was adopted
151. Am the oldest child in my family
152. Had chicken pox
153. Ran barefoot in the woods
154. Lived on the beach by the ocean
155. Vacationed in Hawaii
156. Married a woman i met on the internet
157. Taken ecstasy
158. Built a webpage confessing my love for someone to the world
159. Made snow angels in Colorado
160. Told my mother that i loved her
161. Gave birth
162. Known you were going to die if something drastic didn't happen, and quick!
163. Had group sex
164. WRITE A NOVEL
165. Learn to love myself
166. Taken piano lessons
167. Marched in a band in front of 70,000 people
168. Had needles through my nipples
169. See the ruins of castles and cathedrals in Europe
170. Wake up with someone I love on a daily basis
171. Visited Germany
172. Moved someplace without knowing anyone there
173. Live(d) someplace I always dreamed of living
174. Visit the Louvre
175. Have Godiva Chocolates whenever I desire
176. Rode a horse
177. Been homeless
178. Took Viagra
179. Own a horse
180. Spend an extended amount of time in Ireland.
181. Got married in Las Vegas
182. Been a stepparent
183. Written something that pissed off a lot of people
184. Visited England
185. Met a favorite author
186. Scuba dived in Australia
187. Sailed a 12M racing boat
188. Visited Scotland
189. Cruised through the Panama Canal
190. Paddleboated on the Suez Canal


:: PokemonGuy101 11:12 AM [+] ::
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No more rain! Yes!
:: PokemonGuy101 7:38 AM [+] ::
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It's been raining here off-and-on for five days; the ground is so squisy, the sidewalks are sinking.

At least the whirly-girls stayed away - They all got sucked into Iowa and Wisconsin.

Whew.
:: PokemonGuy101 3:30 PM [+] ::
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Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'.

That's damn right.

Shawshank Redemption
Steven King
:: PokemonGuy101 3:03 PM [+] ::
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Another Memorial Day washout. Why do we live here again?
:: PokemonGuy101 10:38 AM [+] ::
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Hey, I have comment thingys now! Cool.
:: PokemonGuy101 12:14 PM [+] ::
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It's Friday! The long holiday drought is over!! Woo-hoo!!
:: PokemonGuy101 12:06 PM [+] ::
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It's Friday!!! Woo-hoo!!
:: PokemonGuy101 7:54 AM [+] ::
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Hey, I'm getting buried out here!!
:: PokemonGuy101 4:06 PM [+] ::
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Help...Can't....breathe....in...meeting...hell..Arggggg.
:: PokemonGuy101 10:46 AM [+] ::
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Drought? What drought? We're swimmin'!
:: PokemonGuy101 9:53 AM [+] ::
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Bleach! What a day. I hate project accounting.
:: PokemonGuy101 4:43 PM [+] ::
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Working in my bathrobe this morning. I have become Dilbert.
:: PokemonGuy101 9:21 AM [+] ::
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Hello 
:: PokemonGuy101 3:42 PM [+] ::
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What?? It's been six months since I've blogged????? WTF??? *sigh*
:: PokemonGuy101 3:22 PM [+] ::
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A gift from Betsy on our third anniversary

A long time ago, I thought I knew what love was.
I thought I knew all about marriage.
Love, I was sure, was all roses and diamonds and sunshine, and
I knew that marriage was even and steady and never bumpy.

Then I found you.

Now I know that I was wrong about both marriage and love.

Marriage is bumpy sometimes. A lot of times it's hard.
Occasionally it isn't very pretty or happy.
(That "sickness or health" thing?
Sometimes that comes up.)
Sometimes snoring, or no money, or mixed signals come up.
And sometimes you even say things you don't mean,
and feel really bad about it later,
and wish you could take it all back.

But when you're married to the only person in the world
whom you should be married to …
well, then it doesn't matter.
The bumps, the tough times, the "sickness or health" …
even the mean things that got yelled.
(You still wish you hadn't said them,
but you know I don't mean them.
Even when I'm saying them.)

I can reach for you in the middle of the night,
or the middle of a scary or romantic movie,
or the middle of a crowd of people,
and I know your hand will be there,
and it will grip my hand just as tightly.

Even when you don't think everything is going to be OK,
you tell me they will.
And I believe you, and I feel better
(even though I know you probably don't believe it either).

Being married to you and in love with you
are the best things that will ever happen to me.
If I hadn't found you, I'd still think I knew all about love and marriage.
But I wouldn't.

I love you. I will always love you.

Even at 3 a.m. when you're snoring and I can't sleep.

(Really. Even then.)

Thank you for showing me every day what love and marriage are.
Thank you for loving me and for marrying me
and for giving me Andrew
and for always holding my hand.

:: PokemonGuy101 8:50 AM [+] ::
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Overheard quote of the day:

"I'm out of hormones, and I have a gun."

I'm outta here.
:: PokemonGuy101 3:39 PM [+] ::
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My new favorite quote.

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

-- Albert Einstein

Evidence to follow?
:: PokemonGuy101 1:03 AM [+] ::
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OK, Summer is over: It's snowing here in the Great White North, and I feel like hibernating. Must be a recessive gene or something.

What a fantastic Summer/early Fall we had. Aside from a magical trip to NYC, which happened to be on my birthday, our annual series of treks to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival, apple harvesting, and lots of stuff I mentioned when I was actually keeping up on my blogging, we made three concerts on our "Must see but don't think we ever will" list. Steely Dan, The Eagles, and Simon and Garfunkel. Hell didn't just freeze over, it froze solid. Of the three, I'd be hard pressed to pick a favorite. The Eagles was the best show, and it was obvious that they were having a blast. S & G was by far the most emotional; Betsy wasn't the only one weeping. My first album ever was "Bridge over Troubled Water," recovered from my parents moldy collection. I guess they didn't quite get the '60s.

Last night, we carved Andrew's first jack-o-lantern. He was enchanted with the "gutting" of the thing, but lost interest in the carving portion. He decided that it was pretty cool that it had a candle inside, however. Overall, it was a hit - Even if the inside of the pumpkin was too gooey to touch. We're all looking forward to Halloween, despite a less-than-perfect weather forecast. Low 40s and rain/snow showers. I guess it's been worse.

I'm so happy for Betsy having her new job! YAY!! She's really found a niche, one which she's VERY adept at and most of all, enjoys. The guys she's working for seem to be scrupulously honest, fair, and by all accounts, good to work for.

I'll try to do better at keeping up.
:: PokemonGuy101 12:54 PM [+] ::
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How did August get here so fast?!
:: PokemonGuy101 11:12 AM [+] ::
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