It’s that time again, you old so and so. Time for the Friday quiz where I ask you, the internet, some random questions, and you reply in the comments wherein you find all other sorts of delicious answers to my random questions. Unless you are the first to answer, because then you’re totally gypped of other peoples’ answers. Unless you, like, check back obsessively. Or subscribe to the comments, which, hey, did you know that you can do that?
Shall we dance?
1. What are your thoughts on sausage?
OK. I used to think that sausage was quite possibly the most disgusting food ever created. The thought of sausage made me gag. But, somehow, over the years, I have developed the Thompson adoration for sausage. My children have turkey sausage every single morning. No, EVERY SINGLE MORNING. No special breakfast or brunch is prepared in this family without pork sausage. We do enjoy Italian sausage as well. I’m not so far as to like, just eat a sausage, you know, hot off the grill. But it’s probably coming someday in my future
2. What are your thoughts on emoticons and text speak such as LOL?
I think they are the scourge of language, grammar, and meaningful expression. ;)
3. Tell us about your first pet.
I don’t remember her to be honest. I’ve seen pictures. I’m pretty sure her name was Scamper. Apparently she was kind of insane and shed more hair than it seemed that she even had to begin with. And I think the color of her eyes didn’t match either. Whenever her name comes up in conversation, one of the grown ups in my family just goes, “Oh. My. GOD! Scamper…” I hope that’s actually her name.
4. What part of your body do you spend the most time preparing on a daily basis to be seen in public?
This answer is so sad. I spend about 1 minute on my hair. That is the longest I spend on any one particular section. That is… just… so telling.
5. Bookmark, fold the page, or set the book face down and open?
All of the above, depending on my mood, the availability of something that could serve as a bookmark (as in, do I have to stand up to go get one?), and how much I treasure the book.
Happy weekend, tiny dancers. I hope it’s filled with sausages or not, whatever your preference, and laughing so hard that your milk almost comes out your nose, but doesn’t, because obviously that would be painful and gross. Also, do you even drink milk?
1. Gross. Fatty. Gristly. Shivers.
2. Emoti-suck.
3. Bro and sis cats. Typical – the prowling tom and the constantly knocked-up mama.
4. My response is so very like Gen’s.
5. Ditto.
1. I only like sausage if it is of the flat, disc-shaped variety. Anything that requires “casing” makes me want to gag. Also, I hate bratwurst.
2. I prefer, always, to say hahahahaha… LOL. Seriously, though, I am not a fan of them except in the form of ;’ ), =-), :), or
:-(… though I hope I don’t have to use that last one too often.
3. My first pets were two goldfish that I won at a carnival. I thought I was so incredibly creative by naming them “Pepsi” and “Cola”… I could then refer to them as a collective being: “Pepsi-Cola”… Pepsi died within 48 hours and Cola lived for a whopping like 10 years. I don’t know if that’s even normal, but that fish was with me through grade-school and some of high school. I drink Coke now. Maybe in protest to the death of PepsiCola.
4. Daily basis … hmmm… teeth. I brush them. Gen, you should brush your teeth for more than one minute. LOL… I mean, Hahahaha…
5. Mostly fold the corner… if I am in the middle of a page and need to get up to tend to something and will be back momentarily to read again, I will place it face down and open… though this often proves to be a bad decision because it will inevitably fall off of whatever I placed it on and lose my page. I had some really cool bookmarks – but I lost them. So now I’ll just use a piece of paper or something if it’s nearby.
Milk makes me snotty.
1. What are your thoughts on sausage?
Tee hee. You said sausage.
2. What are your thoughts on emoticons and text speak such as LOL?
Emoticons and text speak should never be used in a romantic context. Never. Ever.
3. Tell us about your first pet.
Daisey the Dog was a cocker spaniel, who in retrospect reminds me of Jeff Bridges as the Dude. Daisey’s motto should have been: This dog abides. Nothing rattled her, truly, and she shared his grooming habits and love of long hair.
4. What part of your body do you spend the most time preparing on a daily basis to be seen in public?
I spend the most amount of time trying to figure out how to strategically dress my mid section so it appears smaller and less boxy. I SHOULD spend waaaay more time on my hair. Really, the hair makes the look.
5. Bookmark, fold the page, or set the book face down and open?
Fold. As someone who worked in a library, I know it’s a highly discouraged practice, but I love a broken-in book.