Friday Fives

Friday Fives

1. What was your biggest accomplishment this year?
Getting a job and ending my unemployment.

2. What was your biggest disappointment?
Getting a job and ending my unemployment.

3. What do you hope the new year brings?
Getting a better job and not going into unemployment.

4. Will you be making any New Year’s resolutions? If yes, what will they be?
Lose some weight and make exercise a regular part of my day.

5. What are your plans for New Year’s Eve?
Slim Cessna and his Auto Club will be playing his annual New Year’s Eve show at the Bluebird. I will be there, right up front with the gang.

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1. List your five favorite beverages.
Denver Pale Ale, Bombay Gin and Tonic, Ice Tea, Coca Cola, and a life long devotion to seek out the perfect cup of coffee.

2. List your five favorite websites.
Fark; Metafilter; altercation at msnbc/Slate; Top 10 Conservative Idiots; Harper’s Weekly Review And the sites listed on the right hand side of this page.

3. List your five favorite snack foods.
Popcorn. Sante Fe Gold tortilla chips and salsa, Red Vines, Gummy Bears, Pringles.

4. List your five favorite board and/or card games.
Pinochle, Chess, Domino Train; Scrabble, Risk.

5. List your five favorite computer and/or game system games.
The Age of Empire Series; Empire Earth; Black and White; Hoyle Solitaire/Mahjong; Chessmaster 8000.

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1. Do you enjoy the cold weather and snow for the holidays?
Generally, yes. I like winter and the severe harshness of the elements, the peaceful calm of a snow storm, the whistle of the wind and, as the song says: “Walking in my Winter Underwear.”

2. What is your ideal holiday celebration? How, where, with whom would you celebrate to make things perfect?
My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. My dad was 35 year Postal Service veteran and as a result, Christmas to him was all drudge, muck and mire, filled with weeks and weeks of mandatory overtime and stress. This translated into a much bigger deal being made around the house for Thanksgiving rather than Christmas. Although I still dig midnight Christmas Mass services.

3. Do you do have any holiday traditions?
Recently, I have added Champagne Mimosa’s to the holiday tradition. But seriously, since my father has passed away and my mother remarried, the family is both adding new traditions and holding on to traditions. Thanksgiving is still a big, big meal with family and Christmas is becoming a catch as catch can affair celebrated in smaller groups. The biggest holiday tradition for me is The Memorial Day weekend/Birthday Affair wherein I try to host a huge meal somewhere surrounded by as many friends as I can rustle up. Plans are percalating for this year’s affair.

4. Do you do anything to help the needy?
Each year I send a check of $30.00 or so to the Denver Rescue Mission. And I shop at the thrift stores a lot. That counts, right?

5. What one gift would you like for yourself?
A really, really nice pair of gloves. (Sorry, it was cold out this morning and I am a bit obsessed.)

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1. What’s your favorite piece of clothing that you currently own?
My “Desert Storm” suede combat tanker boots. Buckles, tan, suede, boots. They have it all. I must get them resoled someday and sport them with pride once again.

2. What piece of clothing do you most want to acquire?
A really nice, big, well fitting London Fog tan rain coat, like the kind Bogart always wears in the movies. Either that or paper hats and name tags for the office.

3. What piece of clothing can you not bring yourself to get rid of? Why?
My “United Airlines Ramp Service” Employee shirt that I bought as a joke at a thrift shop. It is really, really comfortable.

4. What piece of clothing do you look your best in?
Turtlenecks. Olive green, burgandy or black turtlenecks. They make me look dreamy.

5. What has been your biggest fashion accident?
Black socks? No, really. In high school, there was this outfit in the men’s fashion section of the Speigel catalog – A white cardigan sweater, a red shirt and baby blue pants. All from Izod. I just had to have it. I ordered it, wore it to school and honestly looked dorkier than Mr. Rogers at a high school rodeo dance. A bad choice – about ten years older than 1981 fashion should have been – and way to expensive. It may be part of the reason I tend to avoid real fashionable looks and expensive clothes to this day.

Friday Fives

Friday Fives

1. Do you like to shop? Why or why not?
Not generally. I can get intimidated by the whole mall experience. I like to shop in small, small doses, but anything like the power shopping extravaganzas that are famous on the day after Thanksgiving is a bit beyond me.

2. What was the last thing you purchased?
A CD of Taj Mahal’s greatest hits and Springsteen’s new DVD “Live in Barcelona.”

3. Do you prefer shopping online or at an actual store? Why?
Depends. I use online shopping sites, like Amazon and even Ebay to do a lot of window shopping and price comparisons. But I tend to buy things at an actual store. I have made several online purchases though and it is generally a trouble free shopping experience. I spent the summer processing orders for an auction payment service. If you want to know how to get scammed online, just ask and I can teach you everything you need to do wrong in order to get bilked out of thousands.

4. Did you get an allowance as a child? How much was it?
A small allowance, yes. I recall it was $10.00 or $15.00 and involved lawn mowing and trimming and trash emptying.

5. What was the last thing you regret purchasing?
My Nikon digital camera. After I bought it , I had to send it to the shop, so I didn’t get as good of a deal as I had hoped. I still dig the camera, but I ended up paying full price for it and I regret that.

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1. List five things you’d like to accomplish by the end of the year.
Start exercising, get Christmas shopping done, learn more guitar chords, master chess, visit Colorado microbreweries.
2. List five people you’ve lost contact with that you’d like to hear from again.
Mostly Army friends – Doughty, JP, Dominck and Sgt. Gil de La Madrid. And a childhood friend – Clancy Kingsbury.
3. List five things you’d like to learn how to do.
Learn to paint watercolors; learn how to lift weights; learn how to bake pasteries; learn new photography skills; learn to play the guitar ( a remnant from last year. )
4. List five things you’d do if you won the lottery (no limit).
Pay off mom’s ranch; take family and friends on the world tour of food; buy a villa on the coast of Spain; buy a loft apartment in Denver; pay for college for family and friends.
5. List five things you do that help you relax.
Let go; take a walk; listen to loud music; cook a huge meal in the kitchen; watch tv.

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1. Using one adjective, describe your current living space.
Unincorporated.

2. Using two adjectives, describe your current employer.
Previous, generous.

3. Using three adjectives, describe your favorite hobby/pasttime.
Drunk, wet, carousing.

4. Using four adjectives, describe your typical day.
Investigative, systematic, proving, protecting.

5. Using five adjectives, describe your ideal life.
Small, rural, published, curious, well-fed.

Friday Fives

Friday Fives

1. What food do you like that most people hate?
Beets. I like beets. There, I said it.

2. What food do you hate that most people love?
Hate is such a strong word, hard to pin this down. I love food and will generally try anything and am pretty accepting of most things. However I really do not like bologna. Thanks to the Oscar Meyer commercials that I remember as a child, I can spell it.

3. What famous person, whom many people may find attractive, is most unappealing to you?
Pamela Anderson. Forget the enormous breasts. She is just not a pretty woman. Too much work has been done or something, but there is something not right with her.

4. What famous person, whom many people may find unappealing, do you find attractive?
Kathy Najimy maybe? Or John Malkovich in an odd way?

5. What popular trend baffles you?
Young people wearing those baggy pants. I just don’t get. Have you ever seen a guy with baggy pants walking down the street and trying to keep those things held up? It doesn’t look at all comfortable.

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1. What was your first Halloween costume?
I believe I was an Army guy. A soldier. Little GI joe. Either that or a hobo. I have memories of both but can’t remember which was earliest.

2. What was your best costume and why?
I went to a party a few years back dressed as Barney the Dinosaur in a violent hunting accident. I had a Barney mask and dyed a pair of long underwear purple. I sewed on a tail. Then I put a fake bloody arrow wound in my chest with the tip of the arrow hanging out. It was a big hit. I also went as a Jesus as an Elvis Impersonator. A Jesus wig and and a too tight jumpsuit and voila! The King of Kings was the King of rock and roll.

3. Did you ever play a trick on someone who didn’t give you a treat?
No. But I have gone trick or treating for drinks on Halloween. Trapsing from door to door with a cocktail glass asking for a cocktail. Quite fun and definitely not for the weak stomached or tee- totaller.

4. Do you have any Halloween traditions? (ie: Family pumpkin carving, special dinner before trick or treating, etc.)
Not really. I don’t generally go out on Halloween. It is an amateur night. I tend to not be at home either, as I hate answering the door for trick or treaters. So I guess the only real tradition is to not stay home and not go out.

5. Share your favorite scary story…real or legend!
Hmmmm. I don’t scare too easy. But I was always very frightened any time my Uncle Ray was in the room. He was a real drunk and tended be just a bit unkept and when he came in the room I trembled. Scary stuff.

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1. How often do you do laundry?
Usually a couple of times a week, meaning I do a load a day over the course of about two or three days. However, having said that, I am a bit behind so will be doing all the laundry this weekend. I must get cracking.

2. What’s in a typical wash load?
Well, I don’t sort the clothes. I have no elaborate system. In fact I despise laundry. So generally a load is a handful of clothes from the hampter tossed into the wash. I am a pretty cheap clothes shopper, so I have very few items that need to be treated with any kind of special care.

3. Front or top loader? Powder or liquid detergent?
Top loading washer, front loading dryer. The pair are full size stackables that you don’t see too often. I bought them from a lady who placed an add in the newspaper. I got a fairly new washer and dryer for a $100.00. And except for a few scratches and dents from some unfortunate moves, they work great, although the dryer is starting to be a bit slow.

4. Do you use fabric softener in the rinse cycle?
I use a fabric softner ball that goes in at the beginning. And then I use fabric softner sheets. I double soften. My clothes smell nice.

5. Dryer or clothesline?
Dryer. I don’t trust the clothesline – the weather in Colorado can turn in a second! And how many movies have you seen where someone like Ferris Bueller goes running through your yard and upsets your clothes. Who wants that. With a clothes dryer, it is set it, and forget it.

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