Getting To Know Your Friends and Family

i've seen this email before but had never thought of "blogging" it until i saw it on my friend Lily's blog http://adayinthelifeoflily.blogspot.com/ (Thanks for the idea, lily)
Feel free to "comment" your answers.

Welcome to the new edition of getting to know your friends and family. Copy and paste this entry into the comments and change all the answers so that they apply to you.

1. What is your occupation? cancer registrar
2. What color are your socks right now? black
3. What are you listening to right now? the dog barking at a cat and the gentle hum of the computer
4. What was the last thing you ate? Luca's pizza
5. Can you drive a stick shift? yes
6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? green
7. Last person you spoke to on the phone? my spouse
8. Do you like the person who sent this to you? (if you phrase it "Do you like the person that you shamelessly stole this from?" then the answer would be "Yes"
9. How old are you today? 30-something :-)
10. Favorite drink? Joya de manzana (Apple flavored pop from Mexico)
11. What is your favorite sport to watch? soccer
12. Have you ever dyed your hair? yes, and i've bleached it, too
13. Pets? current or past? currently one dog
14. Favorite food? chocolate
15. What was the last movie you watched? Ice Age 2 - The Meltdown
16. Favorite day of the year: Just one day?!? February 15th - all the unsold Valentine's Day chocolate goes on sale :-)
17. What do you do to vent anger? now i take a walk but i have a scar on my knuckles from the way that i *used* to vent...
18. What was your favorite toy as a child? Lincoln Logs
19. What is your favorite fall or spring? Definitely fall. Spring cleaning makes spousey want to throw away my "stuff".
20. Hugs or kisses? Hugs
21. Cherries or blueberries? cherries
22. Do you want your friends to email you back? Yes, though this isn't being sent in the form of an e-mail, technically, I'd love to see how people respond. [ditto]
23. Who is most likely to respond? Don't know.
24. Who is least likely to respond? Not sure.
25. Living arrangements? With spouse, child and dog
26. When was the last time you cried? this question is proof that this was originally written by a woman - guys just don't (normally) ask each other this question.
27. What is on the floor of your closet? my shoes
28. Who is the friend you have had the longest that you are sending this to? n/a.
29. What did you do last night? Watched Ice Age 2 - The Meltdown
30. Favorite smells? spouse's hair
31. What inspires you? Friendship
32. What are you afraid of? not fulfilling my purpose in life
33. Plain, cheese or spicy hamburgers? Cheeseburgers
34. Favorite dog breed? Not really picky - any dog beats any cat any day of the week.
35. Number of keys on your key ring? It used to be 26 keys on one keyring but now its 5 on one keyring and 21 keys on the "extra" keyring
36. Number of years at your current job? 4+
37. Favorite day of the week? Friday
38. How many states have you lived in? 4 states and an American common wealth
39. Favorite holidays? Thanksgiving
40. Ever driven a motorcycle or heavy machinery? Motorcycle - yes (owned one for a while). Heavy machinery - does 'fork lift' count? If so, then "yes".

I NEED COMEDY!!!

If you don't know why I REALLY need some comic relief right now then let me clue you in. A died-in-the-wool ENEMY of Liberty and the 2nd Amendment is now Speaker of the House.

YouTube to the Rescue (sorta)

Ask A Ninja How to Kill A Ninja
Craig Ferguson Money for the Blind
Little Britain Season 1 Episode 1 Part 1 (Not for the easily offended)
MarkDayComedy The Smiley Intervention

Islam As Mental Illness

The title links to the original post on The Gathering Storm. i have to give credit to Faultline USA. Read their entry here about some scary internet censorship. Google is apparently using its liberal-leaning muscle to censor the truth.

News You Can Use

Here's a special deal on a book that claims that it is not only the right but that it is also the DUTY of Christians to be armed. The author is from South Africa but it is an interesting idea, nonetheless. From World Net Daily.

Media Research Center's 19th Annual Awards for Worst Reporting - the 2006 "Winners"

NRA News.com

Intelligent Design vs. Evolution is now a table game ! (i guess it was inevitable)

And finally, in case you missed it, here is a cool rant on why you shouldn't buy a Microsoft Zune.

Happy Politically Incorrect New Year!

YAY!! Its 2007!

This year's word: change.
Some of these changes i am not looking forward to (several friends moving away) but some of these changes promise to be challenging and exciting (promotion at work - added duties and responsibilities)

One thing that will NOT change is that i plan to be just as accurate and politically incorrect as ever.

Let's have a great year and don't let our elected officials get away with anything.

(Or make resolutions that you know you can keep like "This year i will eat more and exercise less" :-)

We're Back

Had a great time with the in-laws but VERY glad to be back in the U.S.A. !

Tamales for Breakfast

The fireworks explosions lasted until after 3am last night. Somehow i find lying in the dark in a strange country, listening to the whine and report of rockets and the ¨BOOM¨ of homemade explosives a tad unsettling. Tonight will probably be more of the same, despite the fact that some of these folks have to go to work tomorrow.

Our Christmas celebration was really good - chock full of all the cheesy stuff holidays are supposed to be about - family friends and good food. i was even able to make the acquaintance of several people that i had previously only known from photographs.

As part of my own celebration, i took my dear sweet time getting out of bed. Then i had real, honest to goodness, homemade by my Mexican mother-in-law tamales for breakfast. Seriously, you are SO jealous.

Fireworks for Christmas

My family is staying in the front room of the building my in-laws live in and my in-law´s dear lovely sweet darling precious wonderful neighbors are REALLY starting to get on my nerve with their tradition of exploding fireworks in the street on the wee hours of any holiday.

At least i don´t have to work in the morning.

Feliz Navi-blog!

i just want to take this opportunity to wish everybody MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR and throw in a quick THANK GOD FOR THE SECOND AMENDMENT!

Where i am right now its ¡FELIZ NAVIDAD y PROSPERO AÑO NUEVO!....

In case you didn´t know, here in Mexico personal ownership of a firearm is VERY RESTRICTED and is, for all intents and purposes, illegal. Interestingly enough, the national murder rate here is about double the national murder rate of the United States. Go figure.

We Made It

DESPITE the hassle with obtaining visas to travel and a permit for the car (the rules are different every year - no joke) we were FINALLY able to get everything in order, pick up my brother-in-law and drive to my in-laws in Monterrey, Mexico.

All of us are watching a Trace Bundy DVD so my brother-in-laws showed me this on You Tube. (its in Spanish but you´ll get the idea)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78WikcTWe4M Tony Melendez

In-Laws

Wow! This month has been a blur! Its been really good, though. Lots of good important stuff - time spent with friends, time spent with family and in a few hours we will make the trek to spend some quality time with my in-laws. (My mother-in-law is an awesome cook - trust me, you're jealous!)

More details tomorrow. :-)

Domestic Electric

And now for the very mundane. I love my electric company. Yes, you read that right. But, you see, I have a very good reason.

Previously we lived in a small house where the electricity was provided by CP&L. (They service much of Oklahoma and Texas) When we moved into our current home, we almost doubled our living space. I was bracing myself for horrendous electric bills because, like our last house, this is an "All-Electric". When the first bill came, I read it over and over. It was almost the same amount that we were paying monthly in the tiny house. There is one key difference between that house and this house.

Now we get our electric from an electrical co-operative. Magic Valley Electric Cooperative. And the service is better, too.

I told you it was mundane.

Corn Maze

This Friday we'll be going with a group of students to a local corn maze. They say that it can take 3 to 4 hours to go through. I may have to buy a digital camera for this. This should be a good week.

Where did this year go?

More Chavez

Early election results tonight (73% of votes counted) show Hugo Chavez being re-elected as president of Venezuela by an almost 2-1 margin.

i guess that means that we can settle in for another several years of Chavez-esque U.S. bashing.

Posada

All in all, this was a good week. Tonight we went with my dad to the local Posada. (Pop was just in town to chauffer a friend down into Mexico)

The Posada is an interesting Christmas season Hispanic tradition. I am told that the Posada originated in the Catholic church as a procession to celebrate the Holy Family. I have no idea if that is true or not but I have seen the local Posada held in the downtown park a couple different years now. This has evolved into parade, county fair-type food booths, pictures with Santa, big stage, small stage, little rides for kiddos.

I didn't get to see the whole parade (we went to see my daughter in a hand bell choir) but i did see a couple of the floats leaving the area after the parade. This was probably more entertaining than seeing the actual parade. On one float was a "shepherd" smoking a cigarette like it was his last meal and another had guys in kilts with swords and longarms. I have no idea what that has to do with Christmas but made me want to yell "Huzzah!".