r|break: one letter choo-choo

another fbook cross-over from nanette ...

Rules: It's harder than it looks! Copy to your own note, erase my answers, enter yours, and tag 10 people. Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real. . .nothing made up! If the person before you had the same first initial, you must use different answers. You cannot use any word twice and you can't use your name for the boy/girl name question.

Have Fun!!

1. what is your name: shirlsd
2. a four letter word: sure
3. a boy's name: sam
4. a girl's name: sara
5. an occupation: salesperson
6. a color: sienna
7. something you wear: smile
8. a food: scone
9. something found in the bathroom: sponge
10. a place: sofa (where i nap!)
11. a reason for being late: sleep
12. something you shout: save
13. a movie title: superbad
14. something you drink: sake (hot preferred)
15. a musical group: stylistics (love that old school)
16. an animal: seal
17. a street name: sunset
18. a type of car: sedan
19. a song title: swingset chain (by loquat)
20. a verb: sing

your turn?

r|break: just answering the Qs ...

from my friend who gave me the nickname snatch basket. (uh-huh) i'm late posting, but oh well...

Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your friends. Okay, here's what you're supposed to do, and try not to be a SCROOGE!!! Just copy (not forward) this entire email and paste into a new e-mail that you can send. Change all the answers so that they apply to you. Tis the Season to be NICE! HO HO HO

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? reuse wrapping paper, reuse gift bags, fabric swatches, fabric remnants that can later be used to make something, recycled material, biodegradable stuff ...
2. Real tree or Artificial? real - 'cuz i just decorate the few house plants (and around the few house plants) that i have managed to keep alive.
3. When do you put up the tree? (see response to q2)
4. When do you take the tree down? (see response to q2)
5. Do you like eggnog? nope, but i like the smell of eggnog.
6. Favorite gift received as a child? operation (that little game of skill/dexterity-ish)
7. Hardest person to buy for? hmmm? none.
9. Do you have a nativity scene? nope.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? if i snail mail, it's 'cuz there is something else i'm also sending over. else, may e-mail ... may not.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? funky, regifted book end (one) - maybe not worst ... just funky
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? first one that comes to mind - a christmas story. however, i do like the story the christmas shoes (and liked the t.v. movie enough)
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? got my eye out all year but still shopping (bricks & mortar + on-line) a few weeks headed toward christmas
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? of course and have done so admittedly
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? panetonne
16. Lights on the tree? depends; see response to q2.
17. Favorite Christmas song? two ... merry christmas darling (the carpenters) & this christmas (donny hathaway - original; and also version by whispers) (over here)
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? home
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers? eventually
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? depends - see response to q2.
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? dependent on family & when peeps around and over either a glass of wine or hot chocolate
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? incessant countdown
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? blue, actually (and white)
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? lumpia (ha!)
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? just to be around family & friends
26. Who is most likely to respond to this email? joanne

almost new year's eve! tick-tock-tick - ...

mosaic moi ...

i miss my fix, so i decided to start stalking spinning girl again
'cuz she's fabulous,
but enough about her - now about moi.

The concept:

• Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
• Using only the first page of results, and pick one image.
• 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?

1. shirley temple boronia and pug, 2. Sweet Potato Fries or 'Chips' as we say in the UK - From Vegan With a Vengeance, 3. 1.29.08, 4. Marooned, 5. Scott Speedman, 6. it'll keep you warm, 7. Che l'Uomo sia lacerato dal Cielo e dalla Terra..., 8. Leche Flan, 9. the idealist..., 10. her passion was influenced by imagination, 11. Quirky bananas at a festival food stand, 12. pigdog