January | 2009 | Bluejacky: Existential Aspie

Month: January 2009

still another survey

Do you have any pets?
I'm a 'chicken fancier'. That used to be a nice term until the gays took it over. Anyway, I'm a hobbyist into raising different breeds of chickens and keeping track of development, mannerisms, hardiness, production, etc. My chickens follow me around, so I am also a successful chicken herder.

What color shirt are you wearing?
Still white so far, haven't spilled anything on it yet. Not that I care. It's one of those ancient t-shirts you love and can't part with, holes all over, restaurant logo on the back.

Name three things that are physically close to you:
Everybody jumped up yelling "Me! me!" Ok, let me choose-- the dirty kleenex, the empty mug with hot chocolate crusting inside, and a really cool slice of geode rock that looks like blue stained glass.

What is the last book you read?
I'm currently perusing "Birds", a handy pocket sized Golden Guide. Did you know there are 3 different regional colors for blue jays? I've had all 3 at my feeder this year.

Are you or were you a good student?
Yeah, I aced my way around the campus. I won't dazzle you with my ACT score.

What's your favorite sport?
Football, badminton, and horse racing. What a combo.

Do you enjoy sleeping late?
I'm almost always the first one up. I really like my quiet time, and sometimes the best way to get it is to get up around 3 in the morning.

What's the weather like right now?
Inch of ice and freezing rain, then sleeting for 12 hours straight, 4 inches of snow on top of that.

Who tells the best jokes?
The best jokes are the ones that spontaneously just happen and you laugh your head off at something.

What was the last thing you dreamed about
My chickens were helping Jack Bauer nab the bad guys. Good action.

Do you drive? If so, have you ever crashed?

Weird Al "She Drives Like Crazy"

Do you believe in karma?
I'm wondering who the heck I killed in my last life to deserve this kind of pain.

Do you believe in luck?
In spite of how everything looks, I feel incredibly lucky it's not all worse.

Do you like your eggs scrambled or sunny side up?
I have learned to never order eggs in a restaurant. No one cooks eggs as perfectly as I do, because I am so picky.  I have repeatedly asked for eggs over hard, poached hard, even scrambled dry, and I continually get eggs with runny whites no matter where I go. If I wanted raw eggs I would have asked for them. Not sure how other people are able to eat oozy eggs. To me that's like eating bloody meat. When I'm at home I make the most beautiful eggs, the whites perfectly done with the yolks just barely set so Scott can dip his toast in them, and it's NOT HARD to do that. So I don't know why I've never gotten a pretty egg at IHOP or any waffle house or other breakfast place I've been to. And people wonder why they're sick all the time.

Do you collect anything? If so, what?
I collect eggs every day. So far Dooney is ahead. (I keep a chart. They get stickers.)

Are you proud of yourself?
It's dangerous to reach that point. That's when people have to start bragging, and next thing you know, someone spills their guts about how smart they were committing some crime, and oopsie, they wind up in jail. No, I'm not the sort to be proud of myself.

Are you reliable?
To a fault, and I've decided to stop that. Too many people take me for granted.

Have you ever given money to a bum?
I never have enough money to even spend on myself. I pick pennies off of floors in public buildings.

What's your favorite food?
Lately it's sweet potato fries. I don't know how I lived all these years without them.

Have you ever had a secret admirer?
No one ever asks me if I've ever nearly been drilled right through the forehead by birds chasing each other doing 60 mph and veering off just in the nick of time.

Do you like the smell of gasoline?
Interesting answer coming up.  During an unusually longer than common stint with Bell's Palsy (complicated with the ongoing nervous system stuff going on with me), I lost my senses of smell and taste, and when the sense of smell started coming back, phantom smells about drove me crazy. One of the worst phantom smells was believing I could ONLY smell petroleum products, and it made me feel so sick that I'd crank windows open in the car and house all winter long. You can imagine how relieved everyone around me was when that wore off.

Do you like to draw?
Draw water? Draw flies? Draw blood? Give me more info here!

What's your favorite invention?
Interactive holocomputing, but it's only come up in my dreams so far. And I'm not talking about the Star Trek kind.

Is your room messy?
My mess is roomy.

What do you like better: oranges or apples?
I see that the strawberry market might be affected by unusual freezing spells going further south than normal. All this dang global warming, driving up the price of strawberries... I'm really confused about all that.

Are you a good guesser?
I freak people out.

Can you read other people's expressions?
They fear me. I may not be good at reading what the expression is supposed to express, but I can spot a fake from a mile away.

Are you a bully?
I guess I have succumbed to being an intellectual bully on occasion, but the idiots deserved it.

Do you have a job?
Survey test dummy.

What time did you wake up this morning?
4:30. No alarm. I just do that.

What did you eat for breakfast this morning?
We discovered that Braum's has hotcakes and sausage the other day. It saved our lives.

When was the last time you showered?
Ok, ok, I can take a hint. I'll go right now, ok?

What do you plan on doing tomorrow?
I've gotta find a way to slide down the hill and get some water to my poor chicken. I have a chicken who refuses to flock with the new batch, so she stays in the old house, and her water freezes.

What's your favorite day of the week and why?
Tuesday. What Day of the Week Were You Born On?   I think I must have picked a Tuesday before I was born, because I've always just loved Tuesdays. There's Fat Tuesday, Super Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, and if you wanna keep track of all kinds of weird silly celebratory days, go to www.brownielocks.com, there's some pretty good stuff, there. For instance, Freethinkers Day is January 29th, from January Holidays 2009 (Official). Fun At Work Day is on the 30th. I hope you all celebrate THAT one!!!

Do you have any nicknames?
I seem to be collecting them over the years. Oddly, I never had any in childhood.

Have you ever been scuba diving?
I pay to see that on tv. Actually saves me thousands of dollars, and I get a better view.

What's your least favorite color?
As much as I like a stunning variety of hues of blue, I'm not fond of navy.

Is there someone you have been constantly thinking about? If yes, who?
Jack Bauer. He seriously needs to have some owies kissed.

Would you ever go skydiving?
I saw a show in some satellite channel the other day about a guy who was wearing a 'wind suit' and jumping off cliffs and gliding down like a big bird. Was rounding a bend and hit the cliff... I'll let the magic of television bring the world of skydiving into my livingroom, thanx.

What's the worst injury you have had?
Rolled a car, yada yada.

What's the last movie you saw?
Was in a Terminator mood a few days back, so it was Rise of the Machines.

What do you want to know about the future?
Am I about done cycling through human lives, because I'm getting really tired of this. I'm ready to move on to the next planet on the roster.

What does your last text message say?
Incoming or outgoing? You forgot to specify.

Who was the last person you spoke over the phone to?
I wish I could call up my chickens and have a chat.

Whats you best subject?
Don't you mean 'who'? Yes, I am running experimental tests on lab 'volunteers'.

What's your least favorite school subject
I never could figure out if it was history that was so dull, or the teachers.

Would you rather have money or love?
There is an alarming trend around these parts about local lottery winners finding out they have cancer or dying from something within days of winning the lottery and stuff. If you try to hand me money, I will run screaming.

What is your dream vacation?
I don't vacate well. You'd have to excavate me out of my home and go through considerable effort hauling me off.

What is your favorite animal?
Owning chickens is like owning modern dinosaurs, so they say.

Do you miss anyone right now?
I actually kinda miss Scott this morning. Too bad he couldn't have a snow day from work.

What's the last sporting event you watched?
Barely staying ahead of a very full dvr timer during an Outer Limits marathon is totally a couch potato sport. What a rush.

Do you need to do laundry?
I practically rip the clothes off people to fill the machine. I *need* to do laundry... It's a craving I can't quell.

Do you listen to the radio?
I don't care how many tomatoes hit the monitors over this one, but I thought Rush's 'save the economy' open presentation to Obama was priceless. When one of the first things a new president says to Congress is "We've got to stop Rush Limbaugh", you have to ask yourself who has the real power. Rush says the American people do. I believe him.

Where were you when 9/11 happened?
Working a jewelry counter in a big retail chain. I couldn't believe people were still shopping. I would have dropped everything to rush home and glue myself to the tv, and I told the customers that. I mean, geez, we get attacked on our own soil for the first time in how long, it's living history in an age where we can instantaneously see what's happening around the world, and people are complacently trying on watches and diamond rings like it's not real or something.

What do you do when vending machines steal your money?
What do you do when a vending machine gives you too much change, or gives you an extra item?

Have you ever caught a butterfly?
They just land on me, as evidenced in an earlier survey.

What color are your bed sheets?
Next time *I* get to pick the plaid. This dark maroon and yellow stuff on brown is getting old. I need a perky blue and purple or something.

What's your ringtone?
I hover between silent and vibrate. Ring tones make me want to kill and smash things.

Who was the last person to make you laugh?
Oprah. Isn't her self righteousness adorable? Accidentally caught the last minute of something before another show. By the way, we have two Big O's now, Oprah and Obama. I dub their followers CheeriOs.

Do you have any obsessions right now?
*Aspie checking obsession list...*

Do you like things that glow in the dark?
Fireflies synchronize in the dead of night. I once woke up and the walls in my room glowed with a faint pulsing strobe, so I got up to look outside thinking I'd see a UFO, but what I saw was the whole forest strobing in pattern about 2 a.m. on a hot summer night. I watched for a long time, then looked it up, and sure enough, fireflies will synchronize. What I saw was so rare that most people on this planet will never see anything like that, even on tv.

What's your favorite fruity scent?
It's heavenly when people make their own jelly.

Do you watch cartoons?
I have a few fave South Parks. My ultimate fave is "The Ungroundable".

Have you ever sat on a roof?
I highly disturbed my mother. I didn't do it on purpose, I just couldn't get back out of the tree, so I had to find another way.

Have you ever been to a different country?
I think Mexico should start referring to themselves as North Americans, go more continental, start a trend. Maybe the Canadians will catch on. Europe is doing it, why can't we?

Name three people in the world you dislike?
I have a deep distaste for anyone who has sex with children, for people who torture others and laugh, and for parents who destroy their children's lives out of selfishness. I tend to dislike in groups.

Has a rumor even been spread about you?
The funniest rumor was that I was part of a hostile takeover on an actor's message board because some chick didn't like that a convention owner called me on the phone to talk about making a free 'ad' to put on my fan site. Okaaayyyy....

Do you like sushi?
I'm terrified of sushi.

Do you believe in magic?
I like the word 'magical'. It just feels cool to think something is magical.

Do you hold grudges?
Wo, let's end on a sour note here. I like the happy ending surveys better, not the bitter feeling endings. Yes, I am holding a grudge this morning. I want my 21 year old stepdaughter to stop calling me to sob that she was up all night puking again and if she misses one more day of work she'll be fired. I want her to suck it up, grow up, and start figuring out what she brings on herself and how to problem solve. I used to think older people were so mean for turning their backs on the younger generations, now I totally understand why it's necessary. As long as we have a 'poor me' generation rising, we will have old people rolling their eyes. I'm still trying to figure out why she always calls *me* when she tells everyone I'm the evil stepmother. I've just stopped answering the phone, I'm tired of being on call for weekly crisis intervention. When I was her age I was married and two months away from giving birth, and we were so poor I washed cloth diapers in the bathtub. And I never called anyone sobbing about my horrible day because we were too poor to afford a phone. I think someone needs to get a grip.
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from old to new survey

Goodbye Old Year, Hello New Year

2008 General
What was the best thing that happened this year?: I got a new flock of chickens.

Did you get your driver's license this year?: Better! I got my permanently disabled parking tag.

Did you graduate high school or college?: I figured out how to put my cell phone on silent.

Did you get married?: Pie fixes everything.

Did you become a parent?: I am so loving the empty nest...

Did you become an aunt or an uncle?: I hope I'm all done with the 'becoming' part. The birthday cards are adding up. Won't be long till graduations start rolling around.

Did you have any run-ins with the cops?: I called the police department about an emu that fell out of a trailer on a highway ramp.

Did you move somewhere new?: I am slowly renovating my cave.

Did you make any new friends?: They made me. They always find me.

How many people did you kiss this year?: Hang on, lemme check the kiss log.

How many people were you romantically involved with?: *More* romantically involved with since the empty nest thing...

Did anyone close to you die?: We killed a couple of rats living under the chicken house. Definitely too close.

Did you get a new car?: I have never in my life owned a 'new' car.

Did you dye your hair?: Blue. I didn't bleach it first, so it didn't show up very well for very long. But in certain lights you can still see a faint blue glisten here and there.

Did you go out of the country?: I got to see Galveston before it was blown out of the country.

What was the worst thing that happened to you this year?: Little did I suspect at the time, it was catapulting down my yard and having to get staples in my knee, which not only did I turn out to be allergic to, but have spent months in therapy for the spinal trauma.

Did you go to a wedding?: I was invited (kid you not) to not one, but TWO very posh weddings this year, but alas, I don't travel well. And that's not counting my own daughter's wedding that it's probably good I missed because Ike took out the entire beach she was going to have it on a few days later.

Did you make a NY resolution at the start of 2008?: I have looked high and low for those, and have only found this in an old myspace post.

Resolution Solution
After a bizarre gadolinium contrast reaction with slight infiltration and the first cup of coffee I've had in probably two years (slinging a brain around on spin cycle, as it were, details unimportant), my ultra genius has come to a simple conclusion to the whole blogging conflict problem aforementioned. (Sorry, that post is gone now.) I am drawn to specifically verbalize, yet I loathe to vaguely socialize, right? Sorta like slapping the occasional poster up on a public wall for passers by. However, I feel I have a solution. Sound bytes! Instead of clogging up myspace with piles of posts, I shall make one post a month, entitled with the name of the month, and, should I feel like it, write one sentence (or very short paragraph) a day next to a number that stands for the date that I am adding the sentence.

Hang on a sec, I have to stand back and admire the proper comma placement in that last sentence... ~Beautiful!~ *wiping tear*

BTW, New Year's Eve plans-- going to try to stay up and watch the ball drop, and hoping someone will play my new POTC monopoly with me while we wait.

Did you keep it?: Nah. I got bored.

Did you go to the hospital?: Yep, even drove myself in bruised and bleeding to get those staples.

What was the best movie you saw in theaters this year?: Do you mean any movie that simply opened in a theater, or do you mean I had to be IN the theater to see it? I no longer sit in theaters, so I deem the question moot.

Best book you read?: See the book featured in the left column of this blog. Thank you.

Greatest achievement?: Going through withdrawal off handfuls of meds I'd been taking for 20 years for lupus and fibro, without any support whatsoever. I dare any Hollywood actor to talk to me face to face about that.

Are you dating the same person you were dating at the start of 2008?: Scott still likes me.

What was the best cd released this year?: I'm going to answer this differently. The best soundtrack I ran into this year was the 5th season of "24" when I went through a complete series marathon to catch up before the new stuff comes out in a couple of weeks. (I missed season 5 because I was very ill that year.) I would love to get that soundtrack.

Are you still friends with the same people?: I'm still romantically dating Scott.

Did you get a tattoo this year?: I got an awesome scar on my knee, and I'm wondering if it will always be this outstandingly discolored. It's been 5 months and still looks kinda creepy.

How about a piercing?: Staples. Nine. Allergic reaction. Ugly.

Did you meet anyone famous?: I *always* meet someone famous. You guys have no idea how 'enchanted' my life is. Ask me if it was someone I actually liked. NO.

Did you get any new pets?: Macy, Dooney, Spencer, and Bean. Macy and Dooney are laying the most eggs so far.

The "Lasts" of 2008
Who was the last person you kissed?: Yes, you know the answer, duh.

Last person you told "I love you"?: That one is debatable. I have no idea.

The last place you went?: El Puente. Awesome food.

The last person you spoke to?: I need a 'Scott' button to just click for this stuff.

The last movie you watched?: Mystery Men. Yes, again.

The last song you heard?: The Auld Lang Syne song that everyone was singing when the ball dropped in Times Square.

The last color shirt you wore?: Maroon. I have a picture, but it sux and I'm not posting it.

The last person to call you?: One of my sisters. This was a joke pic she sent my brother for something, but I think she's still so cute at 37.

The last time you cut your hair?: No clue. This is starting to bore the heck outa me.

The last thing you ate?: The *very* last thing that I ate? I had a whole bunch of little snacks going, there is no way I could remember what the actual last bite was.

The last thing you drank?: I'm pretty sure that one was water.

The last book you read?: I've been kinda in the middle of several...

The last person you hugged?: [press Scott button here]

The last time you went swimming?: Does pool therapy count?

The last game you played?: Yahtzee. I recall having a pain pill and counting dots... Oh, wait, here's proof. We were so wiped out we could barely make it through this to the ball dropping.

last of '08, barely awake

The last guy you hung out with?: (Scott... tee hee) Hey, me too!

The last girl you hung out with?: The redheaded uber 3/3 winner in the above vid.

The last family member you hung out with?: Ok, what more do you want, addresses and background checks?

The last time you went to theaters?: I drive by them occasionally, don't really keep track of the dates.

The last time you went to Walmart?: Oh, good lord. I keep trying to grind through to the bitter end, but this is the survey that never ends.

The last person you told "Happy Birthday" to?: Someone must have spent a New Year's Eve alone or something and had nothing better to do than think up questions like these.

How old did you turn on your last birthday?: I'm one of the quirkier prime numbers this year. You can find many more fun facts such as these at Prime Curios!: 47.

--"There is an abnormally high use of the prime number 47 in episodes of Star Trek. For example, in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Infinite Regress," Naomi Wildman reveals that there are 47 sub-orders of the Prime Directive."

--"The AK-47 is the most widespread weapon in the world. "

--"47 is self-conscious: 4 + 7 = 11, 7 + 11 = 18, 11 + 18 = 29, and 18 + 29 = 47. It refers to itself. "

--"It is approximately 47 degrees from the Tropic of Cancer (the greatest distance north that the sun can appear directly overhead) to the Tropic of Capricorn (the greatest distance south that the sun can appear directly overhead). "

--"There are 47 miracles of Jesus recorded during his lifetime. "

47 is also one of my magical '11' years. My next one is 58. Every '11' year has very symbolic turning points in my life, I have noticed.

The last thing you bought?: I'm pretty sure it was food.

The last time you went to the doctor?: December 30th. Feeling nosy? Want details? I'm on a Z-pack (antibiotic) and medrol pack (prednisone) for severe sinus infection going into my lymph system. If I'd spiked a fever at all, I'm sure they'd have checked me for viral meningitis. Very icky, yes.

The last person you dated?: [press Scott button here]

The last restaurant you went to?: See "last place I went", above, several miles up.

The last person's house you went to?: I've been avoiding all houses but my own for quite some time.

2009 General
What are you most looking forward to this year?: Actually feeling better for an extended period of time. I dream big.

Will you turn 16 this year?: Oh, geez...

Will you turn 18?: Dang it, this is stupid.

21?:

40?: We stop at 40? For crying out loud.

Are you getting married this year?: Just made another pie, we're good.

Are you going to become a parent this year?: *Bite* *your* *tongue*.

How about an aunt or an uncle?: Great, recycled questions...

Will you be going to a new school this year?: Why do I do these? Doesn't anyone having a midlife crisis ever make a survey? The questions would be SO much more interesting, like "Has another spouse mysteriously disappeared?" or "What do you do in retaliation for him hitting the bars?" and stuff like that.

Will you be graduating high school or college?: I feel like I'm on another planet.

Do you have any big vacation plans for this coming year?: We would, but Scott needs new teeth. See, THAT is the kind of answer you could be getting, right? HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

What movie are you most looking forward to coming out?: I haven't seen this one yet.

Mirrors Trailer

What new music album?: Who knows.

What book?: Anything brand new involving physics and cosmology.

What game?: These are cool. Games - South Park Studios

Are you moving this year?: I might move over to the couch in a minute after I pace the floor some more. This prednisone has got me pretty wired.

Are you currently dating anyone?: [press Scott button here]

Did you make a NY's resolution?: Yes, I made 10 of them.

Have you broken it yet?: There hasn't been time to break any of them yet. By the time you reach my age, you get more careful making resolutions that are easy to keep.

Did you kiss someone at midnight?: Sorry, I conked as soon as the ball dropped, and for me in central time, that was before midnight.

Who were you with?: Scott was conked, too.

Did you watch the New Year's day parade?: Wow, it's like you can read my mind.

Do you know anyone getting married this year?: Good grief. I get better questions than these in doctors' offices.

What time did you get up this morning?: I'm assuming this survey was created on New Year's Day. Since this isn't New Year's Day any more, who cares?

What color shirt are you wearing?: Ha, it's my Crab House t-shirt and says "Feelin' Crabby?"

What do you most want to happen this year?: My mom has been stuck in a nursing home for several years, so riddled with strokes that she can barely function at all, can't feed herself or even press a call button for help, nearly completely immobile, and no longer communicates or remembers us. I've asked God to let her move on so she doesn't have to live that way. This may sound awful, but I wish my mom would get to die now. She had a living will, and I'm her DPA, and even with well established non-invasive and non-resuscitate instructions, she's just stuck here. She has outlived several residents sharing her room. If any of you out there are neglecting something serious like diabetes with hypertension or something, thinking a quick stroke will do you in and you won't have to worry about it, here's your wake up call.

2009 Firsts
Who was the first person you talked to?: My sister and niece popped their heads over the banister, it was really cute.

Who did you first tell "I love you"?: I honestly couldn't say. Sometimes it pops out, sometimes it doesn't.

Who was the first person you called or who called you?: I think I remember more about the last of 2008... Odd. And I didn't drink a drop of alcohol. At any rate, I'm not a phone person, not sure I got a call at all or called anyone.

Where's the first place you went?: To the bathroom. Duh. Okay, okay, I didn't leave the house.

What was the first thing you ate?: Not a clue. I think I dug back into the snacks from the night before.

The first thing you drank?: Hot chocolate. Always.

The first green thing you saw?: Grass. We had a nice week out, for a change.

What was the first electronic device you used besides a computer or cell?: Microwave. Some of us need some blood sugar before we interact with others and kill them.

What was the first movie you watched?: The new Mummy movie with Brendan Fraser and Jet Li. The very beginning was awesome, the middle was underwhelming, the ending was kinda cool.

Who was the first person to wish you a "Happy New Year!"?: Again, no clue. My head gets weird when there's more than just Scott here in the morning. I blame the Asperger's. I tend to be reclusive and don't pay attention to some things. I know that sounds weird, but mornings are different from night.

What was the first pair of shoes you wore?: I give up, I don't know. I don't even know if I wore my slippers.

What was the first song you heard?: (Something on CMT...) Ok, I'm remembering now why I closed down and shut the world out.

The first thing you saw on TV?: The first thing I paid attention to was a dog trick contestant show of some kind.

The first thing you bought?: Well, the first thing I bought in 2009 was food, but it wasn't on New Year's Day.

Who was the first girl you hung out with?: Fortunately, the same girls I'd hung out with the night before, but I didn't get video this time.

The first boy?: [press Scott button here]

The first relative?: Okay, this is dumb.

What was the first thing you did the moment it became 2009?: Slept right through the moment. Imagine that.
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I've started transferring my survey posts over to Surveypalooza so people coming in from search engines on mobile devices will be able to see the surveys.

Apologies for the missing vids, another upgrade during the server migration swept through like a scan sweeping through the Enterprise. I'll fix those later, kinda busy...