7 Deadlies Meme
WRATH
1. With whom did you last get angry?: Myself. I can do self-loathing like nobody's business.
2. What is your weapon of choice?: Explosives! Go big and go boom or go home. :) More realistically, I most commonly use The Silent Treatment and shunning.
3. Would you hit a member of the opposite sex?: In the appropriate circumstance, yes.
4. How about of the same sex?: Same as the above.
5. Who was the last person who got really angry at you?: Besides me getting angry at myself? Probably my mother. If anyone else has been really angry at me lately I haven't known it.
6. What is your pet peeve?: I have many. People who are so weak that they have to resort to being bullies to feel better about themselves is probably the biggest thing though, if that can even be considered a pet peeve. Also, people who confuse "mute" and "moot". It's definitely peevish, but it really annoys me. And when cabinets do not get returned to their closed positions or TV/lights are left on in an empty room.
7. Do you keep grudges, or can you let them go easily?: I am a vindictive bitch, and I will remember forever.
SLOTH
1. What is one thing you're supposed to do daily that you haven't done in a long time?: Hahahaha, shaving my legs. I've been holding out as long as possible to break out my capris.
2. What is the latest you've ever woken up?: 1 PM, and I absolutely deserved that.
3. Name a person you've been meaning to contact, but haven't: That's going to get me into all kinds of trouble, so nope. Not naming.
4. What is the last lame excuse you made?: "I didn't hear you." Because I was actively trying not to listen.
5. Have you ever watched an infomercial all the way through (one of the long ones)?: Yeah, I find them very soothing actually, especially the ones for beauty products. Just show me a make-over or some before and after shots and I melt into a puddle of relaxation and contentment.
6. When was the last time you got a good workout in?: I am very bad about getting good workouts in. That's something I definitely need to improve. The last good one was probably two weeks ago, when I took the dogs hiking in the park for several hours.
7. How many times did you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock today?: I never hit the snooze button. My alarm is about 3 feet higher than my bed so I'm forced to get up to make it stop. Then the bladder kicks in, and the dog wakes up, and sleepytime is over.
GLUTTONY
1. What is your overpriced yuppie beverage of choice?: Errr... chai? Hot chocolate? I usually just drink water at restaurants and water, milk, or juice at home.
2. Meat eaters: white meat or dark meat?: Both, sometimes simultaneously.
3. What is the greatest amount of alcohol you've had in one sitting/outing/event?: I'm not really a big drinker. Once I had 6-8 glasses of wine within an hour. I don't really remember the exact number, for what should be fairly obvious reasons.
4. Have you ever used a professional diet company?: No.
5. Do you have an issue with your weight?: Do I ever.
6. Do you prefer sweets, salty foods, or spicy foods?: I tend to crave sweets the most consistently, but I'll take what I can get.
7. Have you ever looked at a small housepet or child and thought, LUNCH?: No, I can't say that I have.
LUST
1. How many people have you seen naked (not counting movies/family)?: Five or so that I've known, and then random strangers.
2. How many people have seen YOU naked (not counting physicians/family)?: Upwards of 10, a fact greatly aided by that one time I went to a bathhouse in Hot Springs and my towel slipped.
3. Have you ever caught yourself staring at the chest/crotch of a member of your gender of choice during a normal conversation?: More often than I probably should admit to.
4. Have you done it?: If you mean sex, yes, I have done sex.
5. What is your favorite body part on a person of your gender of choice?: I like hands. Also, lips, cheekbones, clavicles, male genitalia. That last one is appealing to me more in a fun "oh wow, you've got built in hydraulics!" way than anything aesthetically. Guys look weird down below, but they can do some pretty neat things.
6. Have you ever been propositioned by a prostitute?: Not that I can recall. I don't think they've been prostitutes.
7. Have you ever had to get tested for an STD or pregnancy?: Yes to both.
GREED
1. How many credit cards do you own?: Three.
2. What's your guilty pleasure store?: Shopping at all has become my guilty pleasure lately. I'm trying to cut back on my spending. Right now I really only indulge to eat out at restaurants. Traditionally, though, it's bookstores, not that I ever felt particularly guilty about it. Also, anyone remember the days of Suncoast? Oh yeah, I dropped a lot of money on them a decade or more ago.
3. If you had $1 million, what would you do with it?: Well, after Uncle Sam got his cut, I'd have... what? Around $650,000 left? Less? I don't know what the tax rate is for that much money. I'd pay off my student loans and my car, buy and furnish a house, set aside $100,000 for easy emergency access/traveling, and then invest the remainder.
4. Would you rather be rich, or famous?: Rich. I don't care about the attention.
5. Would you accept a boring job if it meant you would make megabucks?: That depends on what exactly you mean by megabucks and to what degree I would be allowed to entertain myself on the job as long as my boring work got done.
6. Have you ever stolen anything?: Hearts. All the time. Seriously, I'm sure I've picked up something I wasn't supposed to somewhere along the way--my dissolute youth and all--but I can't think of anything specific at the moment.
7. How many MP3s are on your hard drive?: Over 6,000.
PRIDE
1. What one thing have you done that you're most proud of?: Surviving graduate school.
2. What one thing have you done that your parents are most proud of?: Gone as far through college as I did. I was first in the family.
3. What thing would you like to accomplish in your life?: Living happily and reasonably healthily to a very old age.
4. Do you get annoyed by coming in second place?: That depends on how strongly I believe myself worthy of first place. It also depends on the activity or subject matter and whatever level of intrinsic joy I get out of it.
5. Have you ever entered a contest of skill, knowing you were of much higher skill than all the other competitors?: Yes. I did it for the money. $80 bucks, baby.
6. Have you ever cheated on something to get a higher score?: Years and years ago.
7. What did you do today that you're proud of?: I... answered all the emails that needed answering? I don't know; I don't feel any great glow of accomplishment about today.
ENVY
1. What item (or person) of your friends would you most want to have for your own?: Self-confidence is more an intangible, but I'd love to have gobs of it. I want a certain husband or at least someone approximately like him who is as handsome, intelligent, hard working, wonderful, and devoted to me as he is to his wife.
2. Who would you want to go on Trading Spaces with?: This is an old meme, isn't it?
3. If you could be anyone else in the world, who would you be?: I think I still want to be me, just a better version of me.
4. Have you ever been cheated on?: Yes.
5. Have you ever wished you had a physical feature different from your own?: Most of them, really. I particularly hate my face. The excess weight I can do something about, but despite professional dermatological intervention there seems to be little hope for the bad skin. Or crooked bone structure. I'm interesting and even beautiful in my way, but I'm not particularly pretty. I'd also like smaller feet so I could actually buy the shoes I like.
6. What inborn trait do you see in others that you wish you had for yourself?: I would like a higher energy level. I would also really love to have more artistic and/or foreign language ability than I do.
7. Finally, what is your favorite deadly sin?: Sloth, followed closely by Gluttony.
1. With whom did you last get angry?: Myself. I can do self-loathing like nobody's business.
2. What is your weapon of choice?: Explosives! Go big and go boom or go home. :) More realistically, I most commonly use The Silent Treatment and shunning.
3. Would you hit a member of the opposite sex?: In the appropriate circumstance, yes.
4. How about of the same sex?: Same as the above.
5. Who was the last person who got really angry at you?: Besides me getting angry at myself? Probably my mother. If anyone else has been really angry at me lately I haven't known it.
6. What is your pet peeve?: I have many. People who are so weak that they have to resort to being bullies to feel better about themselves is probably the biggest thing though, if that can even be considered a pet peeve. Also, people who confuse "mute" and "moot". It's definitely peevish, but it really annoys me. And when cabinets do not get returned to their closed positions or TV/lights are left on in an empty room.
7. Do you keep grudges, or can you let them go easily?: I am a vindictive bitch, and I will remember forever.
SLOTH
1. What is one thing you're supposed to do daily that you haven't done in a long time?: Hahahaha, shaving my legs. I've been holding out as long as possible to break out my capris.
2. What is the latest you've ever woken up?: 1 PM, and I absolutely deserved that.
3. Name a person you've been meaning to contact, but haven't: That's going to get me into all kinds of trouble, so nope. Not naming.
4. What is the last lame excuse you made?: "I didn't hear you." Because I was actively trying not to listen.
5. Have you ever watched an infomercial all the way through (one of the long ones)?: Yeah, I find them very soothing actually, especially the ones for beauty products. Just show me a make-over or some before and after shots and I melt into a puddle of relaxation and contentment.
6. When was the last time you got a good workout in?: I am very bad about getting good workouts in. That's something I definitely need to improve. The last good one was probably two weeks ago, when I took the dogs hiking in the park for several hours.
7. How many times did you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock today?: I never hit the snooze button. My alarm is about 3 feet higher than my bed so I'm forced to get up to make it stop. Then the bladder kicks in, and the dog wakes up, and sleepytime is over.
GLUTTONY
1. What is your overpriced yuppie beverage of choice?: Errr... chai? Hot chocolate? I usually just drink water at restaurants and water, milk, or juice at home.
2. Meat eaters: white meat or dark meat?: Both, sometimes simultaneously.
3. What is the greatest amount of alcohol you've had in one sitting/outing/event?: I'm not really a big drinker. Once I had 6-8 glasses of wine within an hour. I don't really remember the exact number, for what should be fairly obvious reasons.
4. Have you ever used a professional diet company?: No.
5. Do you have an issue with your weight?: Do I ever.
6. Do you prefer sweets, salty foods, or spicy foods?: I tend to crave sweets the most consistently, but I'll take what I can get.
7. Have you ever looked at a small housepet or child and thought, LUNCH?: No, I can't say that I have.
LUST
1. How many people have you seen naked (not counting movies/family)?: Five or so that I've known, and then random strangers.
2. How many people have seen YOU naked (not counting physicians/family)?: Upwards of 10, a fact greatly aided by that one time I went to a bathhouse in Hot Springs and my towel slipped.
3. Have you ever caught yourself staring at the chest/crotch of a member of your gender of choice during a normal conversation?: More often than I probably should admit to.
4. Have you done it?: If you mean sex, yes, I have done sex.
5. What is your favorite body part on a person of your gender of choice?: I like hands. Also, lips, cheekbones, clavicles, male genitalia. That last one is appealing to me more in a fun "oh wow, you've got built in hydraulics!" way than anything aesthetically. Guys look weird down below, but they can do some pretty neat things.
6. Have you ever been propositioned by a prostitute?: Not that I can recall. I don't think they've been prostitutes.
7. Have you ever had to get tested for an STD or pregnancy?: Yes to both.
GREED
1. How many credit cards do you own?: Three.
2. What's your guilty pleasure store?: Shopping at all has become my guilty pleasure lately. I'm trying to cut back on my spending. Right now I really only indulge to eat out at restaurants. Traditionally, though, it's bookstores, not that I ever felt particularly guilty about it. Also, anyone remember the days of Suncoast? Oh yeah, I dropped a lot of money on them a decade or more ago.
3. If you had $1 million, what would you do with it?: Well, after Uncle Sam got his cut, I'd have... what? Around $650,000 left? Less? I don't know what the tax rate is for that much money. I'd pay off my student loans and my car, buy and furnish a house, set aside $100,000 for easy emergency access/traveling, and then invest the remainder.
4. Would you rather be rich, or famous?: Rich. I don't care about the attention.
5. Would you accept a boring job if it meant you would make megabucks?: That depends on what exactly you mean by megabucks and to what degree I would be allowed to entertain myself on the job as long as my boring work got done.
6. Have you ever stolen anything?: Hearts. All the time. Seriously, I'm sure I've picked up something I wasn't supposed to somewhere along the way--my dissolute youth and all--but I can't think of anything specific at the moment.
7. How many MP3s are on your hard drive?: Over 6,000.
PRIDE
1. What one thing have you done that you're most proud of?: Surviving graduate school.
2. What one thing have you done that your parents are most proud of?: Gone as far through college as I did. I was first in the family.
3. What thing would you like to accomplish in your life?: Living happily and reasonably healthily to a very old age.
4. Do you get annoyed by coming in second place?: That depends on how strongly I believe myself worthy of first place. It also depends on the activity or subject matter and whatever level of intrinsic joy I get out of it.
5. Have you ever entered a contest of skill, knowing you were of much higher skill than all the other competitors?: Yes. I did it for the money. $80 bucks, baby.
6. Have you ever cheated on something to get a higher score?: Years and years ago.
7. What did you do today that you're proud of?: I... answered all the emails that needed answering? I don't know; I don't feel any great glow of accomplishment about today.
ENVY
1. What item (or person) of your friends would you most want to have for your own?: Self-confidence is more an intangible, but I'd love to have gobs of it. I want a certain husband or at least someone approximately like him who is as handsome, intelligent, hard working, wonderful, and devoted to me as he is to his wife.
2. Who would you want to go on Trading Spaces with?: This is an old meme, isn't it?
3. If you could be anyone else in the world, who would you be?: I think I still want to be me, just a better version of me.
4. Have you ever been cheated on?: Yes.
5. Have you ever wished you had a physical feature different from your own?: Most of them, really. I particularly hate my face. The excess weight I can do something about, but despite professional dermatological intervention there seems to be little hope for the bad skin. Or crooked bone structure. I'm interesting and even beautiful in my way, but I'm not particularly pretty. I'd also like smaller feet so I could actually buy the shoes I like.
6. What inborn trait do you see in others that you wish you had for yourself?: I would like a higher energy level. I would also really love to have more artistic and/or foreign language ability than I do.
7. Finally, what is your favorite deadly sin?: Sloth, followed closely by Gluttony.