Fivers on a Thursday -- whoot!
'Cause I'm in a meme mood....
fridayfiver:
1. Who do you look up to?
Tall people.
2. What is the last thing you cleaned?
My teeth (hey, chocolate bars can be murder sometimes!)
3. Do you measure with a ruler or do you eyeball it?
Both; depends on how lazy I am at any give time.
4. What do people compliment you on?
Uh. Sometimes I get compliments on jewelry I've made. That's about it.
5. What is behind you?
The ability to date anyone normal, apparently. Oops, did I say that out loud? My bad.
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thefridayfive:
1) Did you write a list to Santa when you were little? Do you write a Christmas present wish list now?
Yep, I wrote a list to Santa when I was little, but that stopped when I was around 11 or so. I don't write lists out now.
2) What are the top 10 things on your list this year?
See above.
3) What are the three (or 1, 2, 4, 5) best presents you ever received as a child and why?
Is it Christmastime? What's up with this fiver? Okay:
- The Book Of Lists: because it's got fantastically weird stuff in it
- Danse Macabre, by Stephen King: it's the first thing I asked for as a "grown up" (read: after I stopped making lists to Santa)
- Theodore Edward Bear the Third, ESQ.: because everyone's gotta have a bear.
4) What are the top 5 movies you think everyone should see and why?
I hate movie questions prolly because I love so many movies for so many different reasons, so it's hard to winnow down to a handful. So for today, the top 5 "you've gotta see 'em" flicks are:
- Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb: It's Kubrick, it's Peter Sellers, and it's "precious bodily fluids". C'mon; what's not to love?
- The Best Years of our Lives: An amazing portrait of life in the US immediately after WWII
- The Princess Bride: all the movie quotes you'll ever need in your life, pt1
- Monty Python and the HOly Grail: all the movie quotes you'll ever need in your life, pt2
- All About Eve: because everyone needs to see Bette Davis kick celluloid ass
5) Which comes first, success or happiness? Or, to think of it a different way, does happiness follow success or are you only successful when you achieve happiness? Are they even necessarily related?
You're damn lucky if you've got both goin' on at the same time. Thank Your Lucky Stars damn lucky. 'Cause they don't even reside in the same zip code. The trouble is, most people believe that you are what you do. And therefore, if you're successful, you're whole (and by extension, happy). However, success, like money, doesn't cause happiness. In fact, if someone is too successful, it could pull him/her away from family and friends, causing that person pain rather than happiness. As for happiness without success, have you ever seen a dog roll around in the grass with a huge shit-eating grin on his face? Don't need success to be happy like that. And that's quality happy. All you need a perfect circumstance. And then it's up to you to make the most of it, even if that perfect circumstance is seeing a cloud in the sky that looks like a fluffy bunny, or someone you love hugging you tight.
fridayfiver:
1. Who do you look up to?
Tall people.
2. What is the last thing you cleaned?
My teeth (hey, chocolate bars can be murder sometimes!)
3. Do you measure with a ruler or do you eyeball it?
Both; depends on how lazy I am at any give time.
4. What do people compliment you on?
Uh. Sometimes I get compliments on jewelry I've made. That's about it.
5. What is behind you?
The ability to date anyone normal, apparently. Oops, did I say that out loud? My bad.
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thefridayfive:
1) Did you write a list to Santa when you were little? Do you write a Christmas present wish list now?
Yep, I wrote a list to Santa when I was little, but that stopped when I was around 11 or so. I don't write lists out now.
2) What are the top 10 things on your list this year?
See above.
3) What are the three (or 1, 2, 4, 5) best presents you ever received as a child and why?
Is it Christmastime? What's up with this fiver? Okay:
- The Book Of Lists: because it's got fantastically weird stuff in it
- Danse Macabre, by Stephen King: it's the first thing I asked for as a "grown up" (read: after I stopped making lists to Santa)
- Theodore Edward Bear the Third, ESQ.: because everyone's gotta have a bear.
4) What are the top 5 movies you think everyone should see and why?
I hate movie questions prolly because I love so many movies for so many different reasons, so it's hard to winnow down to a handful. So for today, the top 5 "you've gotta see 'em" flicks are:
- Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb: It's Kubrick, it's Peter Sellers, and it's "precious bodily fluids". C'mon; what's not to love?
- The Best Years of our Lives: An amazing portrait of life in the US immediately after WWII
- The Princess Bride: all the movie quotes you'll ever need in your life, pt1
- Monty Python and the HOly Grail: all the movie quotes you'll ever need in your life, pt2
- All About Eve: because everyone needs to see Bette Davis kick celluloid ass
5) Which comes first, success or happiness? Or, to think of it a different way, does happiness follow success or are you only successful when you achieve happiness? Are they even necessarily related?
You're damn lucky if you've got both goin' on at the same time. Thank Your Lucky Stars damn lucky. 'Cause they don't even reside in the same zip code. The trouble is, most people believe that you are what you do. And therefore, if you're successful, you're whole (and by extension, happy). However, success, like money, doesn't cause happiness. In fact, if someone is too successful, it could pull him/her away from family and friends, causing that person pain rather than happiness. As for happiness without success, have you ever seen a dog roll around in the grass with a huge shit-eating grin on his face? Don't need success to be happy like that. And that's quality happy. All you need a perfect circumstance. And then it's up to you to make the most of it, even if that perfect circumstance is seeing a cloud in the sky that looks like a fluffy bunny, or someone you love hugging you tight.