If there’s a water option, that’s me. And apparently flaky too, that’s nice.
You Are a Mermaid |
You are a total daydreamer, and people tend to think you’re flakier than you actually are. While your head is often in the clouds, you’ll always come back to earth to help someone in need. Beyond being a caring person, you are also very intelligent and rational. You understand the connections of the universe better than almost anyone else. |
Modern, Cool Nerd
65 % Nerd, 52% Geek, 21% Dork For The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd.
Nerds didn’t use to be cool, but in the 90′s that all changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn’t quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and “geek is chic.” The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice/an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)!
Take the test HERE
Girl 1: If they sent some guy who didn’t know what he was doing to my house to give me an estimate, I’d feel gyped.
Girl 2: Gyped is actually a derogatory term, did you know?
Girl 1: Really? For what?
Girl 2: It’s short for gypsy.
Girl 1: Oh, well I didn’t mean it like that. I meant like a con, a scam, a sheister.
Girl 2: Sheister is actually a bad term too.
Girl 1: What?
Girl 2: It refers to Shylock in Shakespeare- he was a Jew.
Girl 1: Why does everything have racist overtones?
Girl 2: That’s just the world the way is.
Girl 1: Who’s scammer offensive to, the people who live on the island of Scam?
later, with the same girls-
Girl 1:Your dad is crazy.
Girl 2: My dad’s a Nazi.
Girl 1: I was going to say that, but I figured it was offensive.
Girl 2: Why, because I’m Jewish?
Hooray for political correctness!
Easter candy is the best of all the holiday candy. Mmmmmm, candy!
We’re moving in 10 days. 10 DAYS! Did I mention, 10 DAYS?? Where are the elves to help me pack up the house?
One of my to-do’s for the year was to use Netflix more often. Since I made that goal I’ve gotten 6 movies, two that I sent back without watching: Lost in La Mancha (I just wasn’t in the mood, but want to see it later) and Stick It (it’s coming on TV in HD, so we’ll just watch it then), and 4 that I’ve watched and thoroughly enjoyed.
I got Matchpoint and
Alyssa’s comment on the last post reminded me of something really funny. Remember back a couple years ago when Stephen King’s TV mini-series Rose Red came out? It was about a professor who took people with paranormal abilities to investigate Rose Red, a reported haunted house. At the same time, a book came out purporting to be the discovered diary of Ellen Rimbauer, the original owner of Rose Red who had a Sarah Winchester-like compulsion to build her house larger and larger to keep evil spirits at bay.
The whole thing was fiction- the diary and the rest of the story- and it was all really well done.
I’ve read 4 books in the last while- it seems like it takes forever to finish anything lately. I never used to read more than one book at a time, but now I have a book I read while Zoe’s going down for her nap (translation- I read it in 10 minute chunks), a book I read before bed, and then if I get really sucked into something I read it superfast all through the day.
Glimpses into the Life and Heart of Marjorie Pay Hinckley was a before bed book. Sister Hinckley was such a wonderful woman, and this book is a collection of her remembrances about her life, as well as stories told by family members and friends. It’s divided into sections such as “Sense of Humor” or “A Good Listener”, and I was so touched by her loving approach to life. Reading about her makes me want to be a better person, and since reading it I find myself asking how she would deal with situations, and then modifying my response as needed. I’m not deifying her or anything, we just need human heroes to look up to, and she definitely is one of mine.
The Redeemer: Reflections on the Life and Teachings of Jesus the Christ was a nap time book. It’s a series of essays about different aspects of Christ, and it’s extremely good. The essays are insightful and well written, and I learned a lot.
Journal: The Short Life and Mysterious Death of Amy Zoe Mason by Joyce Atkinson and Kristine Atkinson was one I just zoomed through. It’s short, so that wasn’t too difficult. It’s presented as the journal of a young mother who is journaling in an “altered book”- meaning she took an old book and is scrapbooking in it. She’s in the process of selling the family home so that she and the kids can move to the city where her husband is away for work, and then things start getting ominous.
Before I begin this post, can I just mention that I love the word “parade” lately, and I have no idea why. Everything is a parade, Zoe’s toy bugs are always “bugs on parade”, Zoe herself is often “queen of the parade”, I don’t know where it came from. It’s just fun to say. But anyway.
B totally wins at Valentine’s Day. This morning he surprised me with a new sleek little 30GB iPod with video and photo and I’m pretty sure color too. The best part? In the tradition of my original iPod, it’s engraved on the back: “Maryanne’s New & Improved Magical iPod OF DOOM!”. (The original is Maryanne’s Magical iPod of Doom”, you see.)
I try, on the whole, not to give unsolicited advice (and usually fail miserably, I’m a terrible meddler). But I feel pretty secure in sharing these 3 pieces of advice based on my cookie making experience of today.
1. If it seems like it’s taking longer than usual for the oven to preheat, follow your instincts and check it out.
2. If the cookies smell like they’re burning even though they haven’t been in for long enough to be cooked, take a look, don’t just assume everything is fine.
3. Baking cookies at 475 degrees for 10 minutes has a much different result than baking them at the prescribed 375 degrees.
From me to you.