Food meme

Snagged from Ottermatic's blog:

Bold what you’ve eaten and strike through what you would never eat.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

I've done 76 of the 122 Stupidest Things

Snagged this from nesmith's livejournal. Honestly, many of these I don't classify as "stupid" as much as "having a life."


Level 1

(x) Smoked A Cigarette

( ) Smoked A Cigar

( ) Kissed A Member Of The Same Sex



SO FAR: 1

Level 2

(x) Are / Been In Love

(x) Dumped Someone

(x) Been Fired

( ) Been In A Fist Fight



SO FAR: 4

(What? No level 3?)



Level 4

(x) Had A Crush On An Older Person

(x) Skipped Class 

(x) Slept With A Co-worker

( ) Seen Someone / Something Die



SO FAR: 7

Level 5

( ) Had / Have A Crush On One Of Your Facebook Friends

( ) Been To Paris

( ) Been To Spain

(x) Been On A Plane

(x) Thrown Up From Drinking



SO FAR: 9

Level 6


(x) Eaten Sushi

( ) Been Snowboarding

( ) Met Someone BECAUSE Of Myspace

( ) Been in a Mosh Pit



SO FAR: 10

Level 7

( ) Been In An Abusive Relationship

(x) Taken Pain Killers

(x) Love/loved Someone Who You Can’t Have

(x) Laid On Your Back And Watched Cloud Shapes Go By

(x) Made A Snow Angel



SO FAR: 13

Level 8

( ) Had A Tea Party

( ) Flown A Kite

(x) Built A Sand Castle

( ) Gone mudding (offroading)

(x) Played Dress Up



SO FAR: 15

Level 9

(x) Jumped Into A Pile Of Leaves

( ) Gone Sledging

(x) Cheated While Playing A Game

(x) Been Lonely

( ) Fallen Asleep At Work / School



SO FAR: 18

Level 10

(x) Watched The Sun Set

( ) Felt An Earthquake

( ) Killed A Snake



SO FAR: 19

Level 11

(x) Been Tickled

(x) Been Robbed / Vandalized

(x) Been cheated on

(x) Been Misunderstood



SO FAR: 24

Level 12

(x) Won A Contest

( ) Been Suspended From School

(x) Had Detention

(x) Been In A Car / Motorcycle Accident



SO FAR: 27

Level 13

(x) Had / Have Braces

(x) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night

( ) Danced in the moonlight



SO FAR : 29

Level 14

(x) Hated The Way You Look

(x) Witnessed A Crime

( ) Pole Danced

(x) Questioned Your Heart

( ) Been obsessed with post-it-notes



SO FAR: 32

Level 15

(x) Squished Barefoot Through The Mud

(x) Been Lost

( ) Been To The Opposite Side Of The World

(x) Swam In The Ocean

(x) Felt Like You Were Dying



SO FAR: 36

Level 16

(x) Cried Yourself To Sleep

(x) Played Cops And Robbers

(x) Recently Colored With Crayons / Colored Pencils / Markers

(x) Sang Karaoke

(x) Paid For A Meal With Only Coins



SO FAR: 41

Level 17

(x) Done Something You Told Yourself You Wouldn't

( ) Made Prank Phone Calls

(x) Laughed Until Some Kind Of Beverage Came Out Of Your Nose

( ) Kissed In The Rain



SO FAR: 43

Level 18

( ) Written A Letter To Santa Claus

(x) Watched The Sun Set/ sun rise With Someone You Care/Cared About

(x) Blown Bubbles

(x) Made A Bonfire On The Beach Or Anywhere



SO FAR: 46

Level 19

( ) Crashed A Party

( ) Have Traveled More Than 5 Days With A Car Full Of People

(x) Gone Rollerskating / Blading

(x) Had A Wish Come True

( ) Been Humped By A Monkey 



SO FAR: 48

Level 20

(x) Worn Pearls

( ) Jumped Off A Bridge

( ) Screamed "Penis" or "Vagina"

( ) Swam With Dolphins 



SO FAR: 49

Level 22

( ) Got Your Tongue Stuck To A Pole/Freezer/ice Cube

( ) Kicked A Fish
(x) Worn The Opposite Sex's Clothes

(x) Sat On A Roof Top



SO FAR: 51

Level 23

(x) Screamed At The Top Of Your Lungs

(x) Done / Attempted A One-Handed Cartwheel

( ) Talked On The Phone For More Than 6 Hours 

(x) Recently stayed up for a while talking to someone you care about



SO FAR: 54

Level 24

(x) Picked And Ate An Apple Right Off The Tree

(x) Climbed A Tree

(x) Had/Been In A Tree House

(x) Been Scared To Watch Scary Movies Alone



SO FAR: 58

Level 25

(x) Believed In Ghosts

( ) Have had More Then 30 Pairs Of Shoes

( ) Gone Streaking 

(x) Visited Jail



SO FAR: 60

Level 26

( ) Played Chicken

(x) Been Pushed into a pool with all your clothes on
(x) Been Told You're Hot By A Complete Stranger

( ) Broken A Bone

(x) Been Easily Amused



SO FAR: 63

Level 27

( ) Caught A Fish Then Ate It Later

( ) Made A Porn Video/got asked to make one

( ) Caught A Butterfly

(x) Laughed So Hard You Cried

(x) Cried So Hard You Laughed



SO FAR: 65

Level 28

( ) Mooned/Flashed Someone

(x) Had Someone Moon/Flash You

(x) Cheated On A Test

(x) Forgotten Someone's Name

( ) French Braided Someones Hair

( ) Gone Skinny Dipping

( ) Been Kicked Out Of Your House

(x) Tried to hurt yourself



SO FAR: 69

Level 29

(x) Rode A Roller Coaster

( ) Went Scuba-Diving/Snorkeling

(x) Had A Cavity

( ) Black-Mailed Someone

( ) Been Black Mailed



SO FAR: 71

Level 31

(x) Been Used

(x) Fell Going Up The Stairs

( ) Licked A Cat

( ) Bitten Someone

( ) Licked Someone



SO FAR: 73

Level 32

(x) Been shot at/or at gunpoint

( ) Had sex in the rain

( ) Flattened someones tires

(x) Rode in a car/truck until the gas light came on 

(x) Got five dollars or less worth of gas


TOTAL: 76

What kind of nerd am I?

Snagged from Whizgidget's blog:

What Be Your Nerd Type? Your Result: Artistic Nerd   Whether it's painting, sewing, drawing, arts and crafts; or just splashing paint onto a canvas and calling it art; you mostly fit this description. Lots of people envy the artists, but be humble and keep working on it. There is a shortage of true artists today who actually contribute anything to society.
Literature Nerd
Musician
Drama Nerd
Social Nerd
Gamer/Computer Nerd
Science/Math Nerd
Anime Nerd
What Be Your Nerd Type? Quizzes for MySpace

Fun little meme

Found this on Darla's blog
Scattergories - harder than it looks!
If you want to tag yourself, go for it.
Rules: Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following.
Your Name: - Mindy
1. Famous singer/band: ---- Metallica
2. 4 letter word: ------ meat
3. Street name: ------ Maryland Ave in Aldan
4. Color: -------- magenta
5. Gifts/presents: ----- money
6. Vehicle: -------- Mercury
7. Things in a souvenir shop: -- magnets
8. Boy name: ------- Matt
9. Girl name: ------- Melanie
10. Movie title: ------ Maverick
11. Drink: -------- martini
12. Occupation: ------ machine operator
13. Flower: ------- marigold
14. Celebrity: ------- Melanie Griffith
15. Magazine: ------- Men's Health
16. U.S. city: ------- Milwaukee
17. Pro sports teams: ---- Mets
18. Fruit/vegetable: ---- mandarin orange/moth bean (No idea, had to look up veggies)
19. Reason late for work: --- Manhole cover was stolen and I drove into it (sounds strange, but there was a guy in NE Philly stealing them last week)
20. Something you throw away: - matchsticks (after used, of course -- and cool)
21. Things you shout: ---- Mother of God
22. Cartoon character: ---- Mr. Magoo

Christmas Meme

Stolen from Whizgidget's blog:


1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Depends on the gift and recipient. I prefer wrapping paper but am not good at wrapping odd-shaped presents, and some people have a hard time opening gift wrap if they have arthritis or other health problems. Even if a gift is an odd shape, I will wrap it if it's for a kid -- they love ripping all that paper off.

2. Real tree or artificial? Definitely artificial! I'm allergic to pine.

3. When do you put up the tree? Day after Thanksgiving while I'm avoiding the shoppers.

4. When do you take the tree down? Jan. 6 or the first weekend after Jan. 6.

5. Do you like eggnog? Usually. Depends on how strong it is.

6. Favorite gift received as a child? An art kit. I always circled stuff in the Sears catalog and circled the biggest one. I didn't actually expect it and would have been happy with a small one, but I got it! It had acrylics, oils, brushes, pen & ink, colored pencils, and some kind of waxy crayon-type things. There were papers and charcoal, also.

7. Do you have a nativity scene? A very small one. It's a one piece ceramic nativity of just an arch and the family. I don't have room for a large one, but would like to someday.

8. Hardest person to buy for? Grandma. She has so much stuff that she doesn't really need anything to add to the pile.

9. Easiest person to buy for? Tim.

10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? A canister of chocolate from a so-called friend. She knew I was working on losing weight and had lost some and was then thinner than her, so she gave me chocolate. I was nice and thanked her, but I knew what was going on. She's the one I sometimes refer to as "The Liar" and this gift was one of the NICE things she did for me, lol!

11. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail, but email's OK.

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Christmas Vacation. It doesn't matter that I've seen it a million times, it still makes me laugh.

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? I shop a little here and there and pick things up for people if I think they'd like them. I store them for birthdays, last-minute gifts, Christmas, etc. I also start making little ornaments for some people in the summer.

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? No. I'd get too confused and give it to the person who gave it to me in the first place.

15. Favorite thing to eat and drink at Christmas? My mom's Christmas cookies and milk, tea or hot chocolate. They must be my mom's recipe -- nobody's are better!

16. Clear lights or colored on the tree? I like clear, non-blinking. Tim likes color, blinking. I have white ones on the big tree and colored on his sci-fi tree. Neither blink because it drives me crazy, but when I get a bigger tree for his sci-fi tree I may give in and make the lights blink.

17. Favorite Christmas song? This goes against my childree persona, but I'd have to say "Merry Christmas Little Zachary" by John Denver. It's just a beautiful song.

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? I prefer to stay home, but when your closest relatives are 6 hours away you sometimes have to travel. I tend to visit my parents every other year and have Christms with Tim's family the other years. His family is just 30 minutes away.

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers? Dasher, Prancer, Donner, Blitzen, Comet, Cupid, Vixen, Rudolph. There's at least one I'm missing there. (I can't even remember how many he's supposed to have.)

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star. Angels kinda freak Tim out.

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Morning.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? Rude people. I hate shopping this time of year (thank God for online shopping!) because people are so obnoxious. I can't stand the fighting over the last toy for Precious, and that Precious' life will be over if he or she doesn't get that exact toy. I hate that everybody thinks they are in more of a hurry than everyone else. A little hustle and bustle is one thing, but it's really gotten out of hand.

23. Favorite thing about the Christmas Holidays? Being cozy at home with the cold outside and the trees lit, hanging out with Tim and Smokey watching a movie or stitching on the couch under a blanket.

24. Most Memorable gift? It wasn't for Christmas, but when I first moved here in Oct. 1995 I had very little money. Thanksgiving was coming up and I really didn't know anyone and was planning on just hanging out in my apartment reading -- didn't have a tv, either. One of my good friends I left behind in FL surprised me by getting me train tickets so I could take Amtrak to NY so I could have Thanksgiving with my uncle and grandmother. It was a very thoughtful and unexpected thing for him to do and I've never forgotten it.

25. What's the one thing you seem to never get done at Christmas time? There are always a few cards I don't get out because I can't find new addresses.

Musing on Movies

See, this is what happens when you give me a day off -- serial blog postings. :)

Are there any actors that you so strongly identify with one particular role that you have trouble accepting them in other roles? What actors do you find the most versatile (i.e. it is easy to accept them in a wide variety of rolls)?

They aren't movie characters, but for me it's the "Seinfeld" cast. Judging from the difficulty many of them have had finding new roles, I guess it's not just me. There was a short-lived sitcom starring Jason Alexander as a father, and I couldn't watch it because I kept picturing him as George Costanza and couldn't POSSIBLY picture him as a father. Same with Michael Richards and his Kramer character. I was glad to see that Julia Louis-Dreyfus just won an Emmy for her new tv show. Maybe she's broken that curse. I feel bad that I can't get past those characters, but "Seinfeld" is my favorite tv show ever and it's tough to get beyond those roles.

I think one of the most versatile actors today is Johnny Depp. I think he could play any role you gave him. I also think Russell Crowe can play different roles. Same for Cate Blanchett.

Various memes

I haven't answered the SBQ or Movie Meme in a while, so figured I'd do so before I forget.

Many of us have a few pairs of embroidery scissors and some even have
a "collection". How many pairs of scissors do you have? Feel free to
share a photo of your favorite pair or pairs with us! I only have 3 embroidery scissors. They aren't anything fancy but get the job done. One is for metallics only, the other two are for cotton and silk floss

Do you have a favorite needlework tool that you like to work with?
What is it and why do you like using it? I guess my favorite "tools" are my Q-snaps and my OTT-lite. I'll never go back to hoops again, and I can't stitch without that fantastic little light!

I personally collect film scores, the usually instrumental music played in the background of a film (like the Jaws theme). Do you tend to notice the score in a film or not? How many film scores do you own? Do you have a favorite? Do you have a favorite film score composer?

Oh, I totally notice the score in a film! I don't own a lot of them, though. I do own the one for LOTR: Return of the King and intend to buy those from the other two LOTR movies. I also own the Titanic score, although I don't listen to it much. I'd like to get the soundtrack to Clerks, just so I can have that "Chewbacca" song on CD. I liked the score to Gladiator, too. Well, there are a lot that I like. It also makes a difference if I don't like the music. I've said it before, but I can't watch Bladerunner because I can't stand the Tangerine Dream music.

Movie Meme

Let's change things up a little. You're on a desert island with a TV, DVD Player and 5 DVDs (plus enough batteries to run them). Which ones are they?

This is tough, I have lots of movies! Well the first three are pretty easy -- all three Lord of the Rings DVD sets. They are the extended versions so not only do I have the movies but I have plenty of commentary and extra footage to watch. The other two would have to be Dodgeball and Wedding Crashers. I'll need some stupid funny movies to break things up a bit.