Comments (29) Whoa! I was surprised by the amount of comments on yesterday’s post! Funny to me, since I was hesitant about publishing it. Thanks for your feedback!
Do you wear perfume or cologne? When do you wear it, and what scent?
Wow, somehow, I have a lot of perfume… despite rarely wearing it. I only use the far right bottle, Burberry Brit. And I kind of just wear it when I remember. I never put it on if I have a headache though!
What are your nervous habits? Or (more fun) what are other people’s nervous habits that you have noticed?
Displaying our nervous habits*
After a meeting yesterday, two people told me (on separate occasions) that they stayed attentive during the meeting by paying attention to other people’s mannerisms. Ha ha ha. So it made me wonder if people would notice my nervous habits…
I looked online and there were pages dedicated to people’s nervous habits, and what it says about the people who have them. I chose not to read in to it. Ha ha.
*My mom wanted me to say that we are faking it – that we really don’t have any.
Are you an impulse buyer or a researcher?
Photo from November 2010
I know I’ve asked this before, so sorry for the repeat question!
I am most definitely an impulse buyer. That is how I ended up with my car and my netbook… and a lot of people’s holiday gifts this year. I am really bad at researching the things I want to buy, and buying them when there is a sale.
I guess this goes along with me being a very compulsive person. If I want to get someone for myself or someone, I want to do it now. This makes it very hard for me to have a box of holiday gifts in my closet, waiting to be given. It also makes it hard for me to not buy the things I want the few months before the holidays, but I’ve been good so far!
Do you tend to reread the books you own over and over, or do you read them once and are done with them?
I finished reading The Other Boleyn Girl for the second time last night, and I think it is the first time in my adult life that I have read a book I own twice! I reread books all the time when I was a kid, but I just don’t seem to do that anymore. Maybe it’s because I feel like I don’t have a lot of time to read books as it is, so I want to read the news ones I have? And I have some old books I haven’t even read… like the entire Star Wars series…
Guess I better start reading those since they are going to make sequels VII, VIII and IX!
And if I am being honest, I have to tell you that the reason I reread The Other Boleyn Girl is because we are watching The Tudors on Netflix and I wanted to reread Phillipa Gregory’s Tudor series. But after I finished it I started on a book in her Cousin’s War series so I guess I didn’t really stay on track. Ha ha.
What do you typically do for Thanksgiving (if anything at all)? Do you have any traditions (who you eat with, what you make, what you do…)?
I have to let you in on a little secret – Thanksgiving is not my favorite holiday! All the focus on a huge meal makes me feel a bit anxious. I try to follow a vegan diet and it makes me feel like an arse to attend anyone else’s Thanksgiving and have them stress over what I will eat and will not eat. So I selfishly try to host Thanksgiving as often as I can, or go to a someone’s home where I feel comfortable being a picky vegan (because I want to eat mashed potatoes and dressing too!).
We’ve had a lot of fun at Thanksgiving in the past few years, hosting our friends, and one time my sister and her fiancé. This year, we do not have big plans for Thanksgiving day (just a 5K for me and dessert at a close friend’s house later in the day), but Gina and her family are coming the day after Thanksgiving and we’re going to make our huge meal on Sunday! I can’t wait!
One funny tradition we seemed to have when I was growing up was to forget the cranberries (in a can) and bring them out late. So I try to do that each year. Ha ha.
Of your friends that you regularly keep in touch with (and I’m not talking about Facebook), who have you known the longest, and how did you meet?
Some of my newer friends!!!
This week, Rachel Bertsche wrote on her blog:
According to Katie Couric’s interview with friendship expert Irene Levine, most friendships don’t make it past seven years. The reason, she says, is simply that people change over time, so friendships change over time.
I read this and immediately thought, “Oh crap! Time is running out with Gina and Courtney!” I started talking to them in winter of 2006… it’s almost been 7 years… let the countdown begin!
Ha ha ha. Seriously though, those two are my friends that I have regularly kept in touch with for the longest amount of time. No one from my hometown. No one from college. Weird, right? I was thinking about this when we were in Kansas City last weekend. When we go there, it is usually a whirlwind of visiting people because Steven still has friends there from when he was in grade school. And they are a lot of fun to hang out with. It is NOT like that when we go to my hometown! It is all family all the time. WOO HOO!!!
But back to my “friends for the longest amount of time” – it is kind of funny how Gina and Courtney and I hooked up. A college friend of mine knew I had a blog and recommended Gina’s blog to me because it was about her cat. Then we found Courtney’s blog, because she had cats. Yep. We’re cat ladies. But I guess cat ladies stick together because we still write long emails to each other to this day!
Daylight saving time – for it, or against it?
Starting next week, the sun will set earlier in many areas.
This Sunday at 2:00 am, most of us will gain an hour of sleep, as we leave Daylight saving time (DST). The wikipedia page on DST is quite interesting – both the history of it, and the pros and cons of it.
Anyway.
Short answer – I would be happy to keep one time year round, but I think it would be DST, with more light in the evening. I have to get up when I have to get up in the morning, and the light then isn’t helping me too much (and I don’t mind running in the dark). I just get really bummed in the winter when I get home from work and it’s already dark. And not to mention, moving the clocks around really seems to mess with me!
Has anyone ever lived somewhere where they did not practice DST? What did you think about it?
What candy did you most hope to get while trick-or-treating as a kid? Do you still love that candy?
(and how awesome is it that we can just buy what we want, now?!)
Mine was definitely Dots, and still is.
We would go trick-or-treating in my mom’s mom’s hood, and get a ton of candy. Afterward my three siblings and I would lay it all out by type of candy and do some trading. My candy lasted me two or three days at best. Yes. I’ve had compulsion/delayed satisfaction issues since childhood.
Do you have business cards for your blog?
And since that question is not answerable for non-bloggers, how about business cards for real work?
I keep meaning to design and order business cards for my blog. My blog name is not easy to remember (maiden name + studio, since I have a design degree) so I thought cards would help when I met people and told them about le blog. But I have not ordered them yet.
I am going away this weekend to run ZOOMA (you can still register in person tonight!!!) with a group of bloggers… and will potentially meet other bloggers I don’t know, so I thought I better whip out some quick business cards at home. My idea for the cards was to use my favorite masthead images, so the cards are not all the same. They’re like collectibles! Which one will you get?!!?! (<– so totally kidding)
Can you tell I cut them myself? Yeah. These will have to do until I get some real ones printed. Ha ha.
As for work business cards… meh. I have them and rarely hand them out.
What is your worst movie theater experience? And since that question is so negative… what is the best movie you’ve seen in the movie theater lately?
Ha ha ha. Have you seen this drawing from The Oatmeal about how movie theaters should be designed? Muah ha ha.
I thought of this question because we went to 7:00 pm PG-13 movie last night, and one couple brought their toddler daughter. Who was well behaved most of the time, except for when she was talking, crying, whining… the movie was boring FOR ME, I cannot imagine how it was for her.
But that was not my worst experience. We went to see one of the Fast & Furious movies (the one where they drive through a cave at the end) and I could not even follow the plot of this simple movie because teenage boys were running up and down the stairs in the (stadium-seating) theater the whole time. That was the worst experience I can recall.
We don’t go to many movies, and a lot of times we use coupons for $5 movies when we do go, so the movies are not as new, and there are less people in the theater… which is a good thing. People seem to lack common courtesy in the theater.
I do have to say though – one of my favorite movie experiences was seeing Zombieland with Steven and his brother. I think it was opening night, the theater was full, everyone was talking back to the screen, and for some reason, it was just hilarious. It worked well for that movie.
The best movie I have probably seen recently in the movie theater is The Avengers. So that shows you my movie taste. Or, maybe it just shows you how few movies I have seen recently!
Hi! I'm Kim, a 34-year-old living in Chicagoland with my husband, Steven, and our cats, Khali, Apollo, and Starbuck. I work in the design industry (architecture), follow a vegan lifestyle, am addicted to running, and am an ACE certified personal trainer (working at Essential Fitness, LLC ("Efit"))! I write about a variety of topics, and consider this a "life" blog - a place I can share anything that's on my mind. Please visit the "About" page to get a better idea of who I am! :-)
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