Seven Things I Love

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This meme is from the Little Firefly in Eire, and while I can think of more than seven things I love, let's keep it superficial and to a bare minimum---I'm already laying out half my life here in the WWW, let me retain a bit of mystery. I won't even go to TheHusband, Sharteeth, family, and stuff...para na akong sirang plaka. ["I'm like a broken record"...or a scratched CD?].

1. I love animals. Most animals. I especially love dogs and the affection they give. Hahaha, can I be any more needy? I find my dog's ebullience when I get home so endearing. I also love cats, but Sharkteeth has asthma and we couldn't keep cats at home.

2. I love the PowerPlant Mall. I love the stores (even if I cannot afford to shop in most of them); the subtle, quiet, unhurried, and relaxing ambience; the well-dressed (even in pangbahay shorts), articulate, and well-mannered people milling about; the nice and courteous staff; the well-stocked grocery; and most of all, the smell. I love the clean smell that I couldn't find in SM or Glorietta or even in the Podium or Shangri-La. If I ever have my own store for all things paper and kikay, I want it there. Wish. Wish.

3. I love pretty things. Who doesn't? Does it make me shallow? Perhaps. Does it make me happy, even for a moment? Of course. Paraphrasing Rebecca Bloomwood, "Everything is right in the world again."

4. I love comedy shows, whatever kind. I also love witty banter shows. I remember this scene in Veronica Mars:

Vice Principal Van Clemmons: Mr. Echolls, may I have a word?
Logan: Anthropomorphic. It's all yours, big boy.

5. I love collecting all things unimportant and inconsequential. Stationery. Scented things. Recipes. Information. Boxes. [READ: Pack rat]

6. I love planting flowers and vegetables and seeing them bloom and bear fruit. A farmer's daughter through and through.

7. I love 4 pm weekdays because it means I'll be going home soon. Home is where the heart is.

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Trenta

Thank goodness, Onyxx tagged me! I'm getting lazy, and this is the perfect pull-me-out-of-the-bed vehicle for me.

1. Where is your dad right now?
At home, eating dinner, I think.

2. Last time you kissed someone?
This morning.

3. Name five things you did today.
Prepared Sharkteeth's baon
Prepared to go to work and waited for a darn long time for a ride, which never came, by the way. Grrrrr! What a waste of an hour and a half.
Surprised Sharkteeth at school
Cooked dinner
Went for a walk with Sharkteeth and TheDog

4. Last person you text messaged?
An Ebayer

5. What kind of phone do you have?
I don't have a phone. I really don't. No, I'm not kidding. No joke. (I used TheHusband's phone for item 4.)

6. Where do(es) your best friends work?
Clinic and hospital, Nissan, pharmacy, Dubai, and New York; there's one whose work I really don't know but looks very successful in what she's doing; others are currently out of work and enjoying life

7. What are you listening to?
The dull hum of the aircon

8. What do you smell like?
Well, I just showered, and I used B&BW's Moonlight Path shower gel, so I probably smell like, let's see, lavender, roses, violets, and musk. Gosh, I smell pretty nice!

9. What color are your eyes?
D ark brown

10. Have you ever done a Chinese fire drill?
Nah. Am too square/chicken.

11. What color is your bedroom floor?
Ugh, cream! So drab.

12. Do you have a chair in your room? w/c room? bedroom?
Yes, bedroom. This is probably the most irrelevant question I've ever encountered.

13. What are you doing tomorrow?
Same old work. Would be going for a foot spa later in the evening, thanks to Trish's Li'l Nail Shop.

14. Do you know someone named Betsy?
No. But I know a Beth and a Betchay.

15. What color is your mom’s hair?
Very black, thanks to Wella.

16. Do you have a dog?
Yes. Sadly, my most favorite dog died during my wedding day.

17. Do you remember singing songs as a kid?
Yes. I remember singing Kapantay ay Langit, Sinta after the closing of the Pasyon during one Good Friday. Let the people do their penance! Worse than self-flagellation!

18. Are you married?
Yes. Unfortunately. Kidding! I love you, baby! Hehehe.

19. When was the last time you talked to one of your siblings?
Solong anak ako. Joke uli! No, we don't talk---semi-estranged.

20. Do you play an instrument?
No. Not a bit musically inclined. I tried to learn the piano. The teacher gave up.

21. Do you like fire?
If it's gonna cook my food and keep me warm, yes; if it's gonna engulf me or my home, no, thank you.

22. Are you allergic to anything?
Too much alcohol makes me all itchy-scratchy. But then, I'm not much of a drinker.

23. Do you have a crush on anyone?
Keifer Sutherland, baby!

24. Do you have a best friend?
Yes. She's the one with the clinic.

25. Have you ever been to a spa?
No.

26. Did you take science all 4 yrs. of High School?
Yes

27. Do you like butterflies?
More of them and less cockroaches would certainly brighten up my world.

28. Do you miss someone right now?
Yes.

29. Do you think they miss you too?
I'd have to ask them.

30. Have you ever seen your school counselor?
No, pero na-HR na ako. Remember, Onyxx, when I got cheeky with the company nurse? Hehe. My mouth sometimes (sometimes lang?) brings me trouble.

Quince

I don't do memes and such, but I was tagged by Zarine, and ever since I've known her, she has never asked for anything from me, so how can I say no? And, by the way, Zar, I promise not to check for grammatical and syntax errors, and I hope you wouldn't too. I dread the English Nazi's visit though; I believe you know her.

Fifteen weird/unknown(?) things about me:

1. I have a pillow that has been with me since I was a little girl, and I almost always bring it with me when I have to spend the night away from home.
   
2. I have a stationery collection that dates back to secondary school.
   
3. I prefer post over email. All I get now through post are bills. Sucks.
   
4. I studied cosmetology. For real. Seriously.
   
5. My handwriting is horrible! All the money spent on workbooks shot to hell.
   
6. This is not quite unknown---I don't know how to sing or dance (the singing and dancing genes were on a sabbatical when it was my family's turn to get it).
   
7. I "chose" passing the PT board exam over winning the grand prize in the lottery. One of my CBAs with God. He must be chuckling when He granted my wish and was probably saying, "Hmmm, bright enough to be a physical therapist, too stupid to get through life."
   
8. I love to sew, and I once made a quilt. Planning to make another.
   
9. Nobody would believe this, but I am extremely and painfully shy.
   
10. I was only 10 when I blackmailed somebody. Yeah, I'm evil.
    
11. I was a bit of a stalker back in college. Oh, the folly of youth.
    
12. I went to work wearing different shoes. And I'm not talking about a little different here---a ballet flat and a penny loafer, different colors!
    
13. I love taking long baths (more than chocolates!) and all bubbly and scented things related to it.
14. I love animals---7 dogs, 2 favorite cats (one of which is indifferent to mice, dangling one over him would only elicit a look of disdain that seems to say, "What? Me, eat a mouse? You must be out of your mind, woman!"), 1 Betta (thanks T2Rad!), 2 mallards (one of which died young; the one that survived became friends with the dogs and behaved like one till the day it died), 1 hamster, and 1 calf!
    
15. Totally humiliating secret: I watched Menudo back in the mid-eighties. And wrestling too. Live in Araneta. Ick.
    

I know I'm supposed to pass this on, but every person I know who has a blog seems to have made a list already. So, this ends with me. And now that you know my secrets, I would have to kill you.