By now...
...I must have answered each and every one of these bloody things at least three times.
1) How old do you wish you were?
Alright, granted, it was never the best year for me, but 33 was a fine age.
2) Where were you when 9/11 happened?
At first in a car, and then on a bus. In the car, the news reports were still confused at first, and it sounded as though it was a couple of morons in Cessnas. As more was said, we began to think 'hang on...' Whilst I was on the bus, I noticed a fellow near to the door, bent over in his seat - his hands clapped over his ears. As we were nearing the transfer centre, he stood and bawlled out 'a plane's hit the Pentagon'.
I got off the bus and scarpered to the office. By then, the rumours were flying. A few moments later, my work mate, Kristen, came over to myself and my other work mate, Beth. Tears were streaming down her face. 'The Twin Towers have fallen', she said. I said to her 'Ah, no, I don't think they could do that', but then she said 'I watched it happen'.
Beth looked at me and said 'I'm scared'. I looked at her and said 'I don't want war'. Soon afterwards, a message from the CEO was broadcast across the country, instructing us to leave the cities. One of our New York offices was destroyed, but somehow, we only lost one person.
3) What do you do when vending machines steal your money?
Well, I don't use them much, actually. At my previous office, there was one with the habit of turning the spring not quite enough to cause the packet of crisps to fall. So it would be there, dangling, mocking me. Occasionally, I'd give it a smack or two. Rarely, that would be enough. Other people in the office were known to go ten rounds with it.
4) Do you consider yourself kind?
In the solace of my own mind? Not really. The saving grace there being that I rarely act on the vicious things that occur to me. :| New year's coming up. I detect the aroma of resolution on the wind. Either that, or I'm after burning the toast.
5) If you had to get a tattoo, where would it be?
If I had to do? As in, I'm being forced to do? Chances are, it'd be someplace practical - and in the same location as the other poor devils who shared my fate - across the back of a hand, or on the wrist or something.
6) If you could be fluent in any other language what would it be?
Well, if I'd applied myself at all, I'd be fluent in three languages now. :| Ah well, yeh? My first choice is Irish, and I'm still working on that one.
7) Do you know your neighbor?
I've met one chap upstairs who helped me with my car once.
8) What do you consider a vacation?
Going away to a place in which I've no real commitments or responsibilities. Somewhere in which I could do or see any number of things, yet I needn't do anything at all.
9) Do you follow your horoscope?
I used to read the ones at handbag.com and my eyes would widen at their accuracy. These days, however, they are none of them written for me. I've never been keen on astrology for anything other than occasional amusement.
10) Would you move for the person you loved?
I will do, likely in a handful of months.
11) Are you touchy feely?
Only with certain people, and in truth, there's really only one person with whom I am so consistently.
12) Do you believe that opposites attract?
Well, perhaps if one is a fridge magnet.
13) Dream job?
I hesitate to say, so.
14) Favorite channel(s)?
Strait of Gibraltar? (ooh, the cheek of her)
15) Favorite place to go on weekends?
I usually stay in at the weekends, or go to the shops and do errands.
16) Showers or Baths?
Showers, and quickly - although I'm finding it's taking longer than it used to do. I think I'm simply not awake enough of mornings to function properly whilst immersed in water.
17) Do you paint your nails?
Once in a blue.
18) Do you trust people easily?
Well, trust them to do what, exactly? And it depends upon who. For the simpler things, perhaps I trust too easily. I don't always trust people to be Honest with me, but never because I think yez all a pack of liars, but rather that I suspect it's you've deemed doing More Harm Than Good.
Erm...that really does make sense, but it might be you have to add or take away a few words.
19) What are your phobias?
I don't know whether I've got phobias (being irrational fears). Poisonous spiders worry me. The two chaps (unrelated) who are going about Georgia and doing girls a mischief worry me.
20) Do you want kids?
Not really.
21) Do you keep a handwritten journal?
Rarely. I mean, I've got them, but I rarely use them.
22) Where would you rather be right now?
Asleep. Seriously, I'm fagged.
23) What makes you feel warm and safe?
I'm beginning to suspect that it's tea. Sure, jeez.
25) Are you paranoid?
Clinically? I'm mostly not (I have, on occasion, suffered what I fear are near breaches with reality - I've got my eye on them, so). More 'wary of people', I'd say.
26) Are you impatient?
Only I'm late for something.
27) Who can you relate to?
Erm. In...what manner, please?
28) How do you feel about interracial couples?
Meaning 'do I think that the Neanderthal interbred with the Cro-Magnon'? Possibly, but scientists go back and forth on that one, so. 'S the only way we could achieve an 'interracial couple', a chairde.
29) Have you been burned by love?
I used to set my fingernails afire back in the day when I sported that Nasty Habit. I never meant to do, but it's happened. Once I ended up with a coal from a fag end between two of my eyelashes - you think that'd have been enough of a warning for me, yeh? It was some years afterwards that I was able to go away from it.
There have been times in which 'burnt by love' might apply to me. In one such time...an agreement was broken. A lie was told me (and it was stupidly told), there was an incident in a public laundry that involved me screaming into a telephone, and the next weekend that was that. Slán agus beannacht. We're rather good mates now; we don't bring this bit up.
30) What's your life motto?
You know, I haven't really got one at the moment, and I think that should change.
31) What's your main ringtone on your mobile?
Erm...it's a few stridently strummed guitar chords. I understand I can make my own ringtones, but...it's got to be something that I can't easily tune out.
32) What were you doing at midnight last night?
Talking with Shaddow.
33) Who was your last text message from?
Shaddow.
34) Who's bed did you sleep in last night?
My one.
35) What color shirt are you wearing?
It's black.
37) Name four things you have on you at all times.
I can't think of a single thing, really. During yesterday's baking frenzy, I thrice removed my wedding band lest it be covered in brightly coloured and very sticky dough.
38) What color are your bed sheets?
Beige with purple, brown, and fuschia - ah, the early 90s.
39) How much cash do you have on you right now?
Not a single brass farthing. I'm skint. I'll have to...shite. I'll have to change that tonight. Bloody hell, I should be after doing that yesterday.
40) What is your favorite part of the chicken?
The curried part.
41) What's your favorite town/city?
:D Baile Átha Cliath.
/cheeky
42) I can't wait til..
Friday.
43) Who got you to join livejournal?
Erm...janeymac, it's been years. I don't recall.
44) What did you have for dinner last night?
Fish and curried rice.
45) How tall are you barefoot?
157.5cm
I think. I may be shorter or taller depending upon how gravity's behaving that day.
46) Have you ever smoked heroin?
Not...that I can recall...
47) Do you own a gun?
'I don't even own A Gun, let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire rack' --Wayne Campbell
48) What do you prefer to drink in the morning?
Tea with milk. This morning, it was Assam. It was a bit stiff.
49) What is your secret weapon to lure in the opposite sex?
Surely you must be joking.
I don't want to Lure In anybody. I don't go for mating dances, sexual machinations, the lot. No thanks, let's be straightforwards, please.
50) Do you have A.D.D.?
Not really.
51) What time did you wake up today?
Och. Late. Nearly half-seven. Flailing and scarpering ensued.
52) Current worry?
That my life will become fiscally complicated in July.
53) Current hate?
The gyrations I feel I must make and the hoops through which I feel I must jump in order to be, well, acceptable. I also rather hate this sentence, it's too...too.
54) Favorite place to be?
With Shaddow. Preferably at a seisiun. :D
55) Where would you like to travel?
I'd like to go back to St Louis, after reading Wade Rouse's book, coastal Michigan sounds appealling. Back to Ireland, of course - that really goes without saying. Malta. Malta's recently come back onto my list as a place I fancy going.
56) Where do you think you'll be in 10 years?
Dhera m'anam. I've no idea. I'm presently existing in a state of mildly, yet perpetually, stunned. Anything beyond July isn't even a blur - it's simply not there. Tantamount to what's out my window this morning - rather a thick fog that has obscured everything. It seems as though the building's been whisked into Limbo.
57) Last thing you ate?
A handful of broken crisps.
58) What songs do you sing in the shower?
Oh, I stopped doing that decades ago. I have been known to do the 'bubbles' work out. It's silly, really. In the shower is one of the finest places to warm up a voice - there's less likelihood of doing oneself an injury in that moist heat.
59) Last person who made you laugh?
Shaddow; I scorched him in Mario racing last night. :D
60) Worst injury you've ever had?
Ooh, superstitious at the moment; I'll pass, please. :D
61) Does someone have a crush on you?
Somebody who isn't Shaddow? Sure jeez, I hope not.
62) What is your favorite candy?
My best girl mate's name is Candy, so she's my favourite. Sweet, but not too sticky.
63) What song do you want played at your funeral?
I tend to think more of my wake, really. 'Neckbelly reel', 'Maids of Mount Cisco', 'Mayor Harrison's Fedora', and 'The Hare's Paw' would have to be played - likely not in the same set.
64) Why do we do these stupid surveys?
Fuckall else to do?
65) Where did you get this from?
Amber
1) How old do you wish you were?
Alright, granted, it was never the best year for me, but 33 was a fine age.
2) Where were you when 9/11 happened?
At first in a car, and then on a bus. In the car, the news reports were still confused at first, and it sounded as though it was a couple of morons in Cessnas. As more was said, we began to think 'hang on...' Whilst I was on the bus, I noticed a fellow near to the door, bent over in his seat - his hands clapped over his ears. As we were nearing the transfer centre, he stood and bawlled out 'a plane's hit the Pentagon'.
I got off the bus and scarpered to the office. By then, the rumours were flying. A few moments later, my work mate, Kristen, came over to myself and my other work mate, Beth. Tears were streaming down her face. 'The Twin Towers have fallen', she said. I said to her 'Ah, no, I don't think they could do that', but then she said 'I watched it happen'.
Beth looked at me and said 'I'm scared'. I looked at her and said 'I don't want war'. Soon afterwards, a message from the CEO was broadcast across the country, instructing us to leave the cities. One of our New York offices was destroyed, but somehow, we only lost one person.
3) What do you do when vending machines steal your money?
Well, I don't use them much, actually. At my previous office, there was one with the habit of turning the spring not quite enough to cause the packet of crisps to fall. So it would be there, dangling, mocking me. Occasionally, I'd give it a smack or two. Rarely, that would be enough. Other people in the office were known to go ten rounds with it.
4) Do you consider yourself kind?
In the solace of my own mind? Not really. The saving grace there being that I rarely act on the vicious things that occur to me. :| New year's coming up. I detect the aroma of resolution on the wind. Either that, or I'm after burning the toast.
5) If you had to get a tattoo, where would it be?
If I had to do? As in, I'm being forced to do? Chances are, it'd be someplace practical - and in the same location as the other poor devils who shared my fate - across the back of a hand, or on the wrist or something.
6) If you could be fluent in any other language what would it be?
Well, if I'd applied myself at all, I'd be fluent in three languages now. :| Ah well, yeh? My first choice is Irish, and I'm still working on that one.
7) Do you know your neighbor?
I've met one chap upstairs who helped me with my car once.
8) What do you consider a vacation?
Going away to a place in which I've no real commitments or responsibilities. Somewhere in which I could do or see any number of things, yet I needn't do anything at all.
9) Do you follow your horoscope?
I used to read the ones at handbag.com and my eyes would widen at their accuracy. These days, however, they are none of them written for me. I've never been keen on astrology for anything other than occasional amusement.
10) Would you move for the person you loved?
I will do, likely in a handful of months.
11) Are you touchy feely?
Only with certain people, and in truth, there's really only one person with whom I am so consistently.
12) Do you believe that opposites attract?
Well, perhaps if one is a fridge magnet.
13) Dream job?
I hesitate to say, so.
14) Favorite channel(s)?
Strait of Gibraltar? (ooh, the cheek of her)
15) Favorite place to go on weekends?
I usually stay in at the weekends, or go to the shops and do errands.
16) Showers or Baths?
Showers, and quickly - although I'm finding it's taking longer than it used to do. I think I'm simply not awake enough of mornings to function properly whilst immersed in water.
17) Do you paint your nails?
Once in a blue.
18) Do you trust people easily?
Well, trust them to do what, exactly? And it depends upon who. For the simpler things, perhaps I trust too easily. I don't always trust people to be Honest with me, but never because I think yez all a pack of liars, but rather that I suspect it's you've deemed doing More Harm Than Good.
Erm...that really does make sense, but it might be you have to add or take away a few words.
19) What are your phobias?
I don't know whether I've got phobias (being irrational fears). Poisonous spiders worry me. The two chaps (unrelated) who are going about Georgia and doing girls a mischief worry me.
20) Do you want kids?
Not really.
21) Do you keep a handwritten journal?
Rarely. I mean, I've got them, but I rarely use them.
22) Where would you rather be right now?
Asleep. Seriously, I'm fagged.
23) What makes you feel warm and safe?
I'm beginning to suspect that it's tea. Sure, jeez.
25) Are you paranoid?
Clinically? I'm mostly not (I have, on occasion, suffered what I fear are near breaches with reality - I've got my eye on them, so). More 'wary of people', I'd say.
26) Are you impatient?
Only I'm late for something.
27) Who can you relate to?
Erm. In...what manner, please?
28) How do you feel about interracial couples?
Meaning 'do I think that the Neanderthal interbred with the Cro-Magnon'? Possibly, but scientists go back and forth on that one, so. 'S the only way we could achieve an 'interracial couple', a chairde.
29) Have you been burned by love?
I used to set my fingernails afire back in the day when I sported that Nasty Habit. I never meant to do, but it's happened. Once I ended up with a coal from a fag end between two of my eyelashes - you think that'd have been enough of a warning for me, yeh? It was some years afterwards that I was able to go away from it.
There have been times in which 'burnt by love' might apply to me. In one such time...an agreement was broken. A lie was told me (and it was stupidly told), there was an incident in a public laundry that involved me screaming into a telephone, and the next weekend that was that. Slán agus beannacht. We're rather good mates now; we don't bring this bit up.
30) What's your life motto?
You know, I haven't really got one at the moment, and I think that should change.
31) What's your main ringtone on your mobile?
Erm...it's a few stridently strummed guitar chords. I understand I can make my own ringtones, but...it's got to be something that I can't easily tune out.
32) What were you doing at midnight last night?
Talking with Shaddow.
33) Who was your last text message from?
Shaddow.
34) Who's bed did you sleep in last night?
My one.
35) What color shirt are you wearing?
It's black.
37) Name four things you have on you at all times.
I can't think of a single thing, really. During yesterday's baking frenzy, I thrice removed my wedding band lest it be covered in brightly coloured and very sticky dough.
38) What color are your bed sheets?
Beige with purple, brown, and fuschia - ah, the early 90s.
39) How much cash do you have on you right now?
Not a single brass farthing. I'm skint. I'll have to...shite. I'll have to change that tonight. Bloody hell, I should be after doing that yesterday.
40) What is your favorite part of the chicken?
The curried part.
41) What's your favorite town/city?
:D Baile Átha Cliath.
/cheeky
42) I can't wait til..
Friday.
43) Who got you to join livejournal?
Erm...janeymac, it's been years. I don't recall.
44) What did you have for dinner last night?
Fish and curried rice.
45) How tall are you barefoot?
157.5cm
I think. I may be shorter or taller depending upon how gravity's behaving that day.
46) Have you ever smoked heroin?
Not...that I can recall...
47) Do you own a gun?
'I don't even own A Gun, let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire rack' --Wayne Campbell
48) What do you prefer to drink in the morning?
Tea with milk. This morning, it was Assam. It was a bit stiff.
49) What is your secret weapon to lure in the opposite sex?
Surely you must be joking.
I don't want to Lure In anybody. I don't go for mating dances, sexual machinations, the lot. No thanks, let's be straightforwards, please.
50) Do you have A.D.D.?
Not really.
51) What time did you wake up today?
Och. Late. Nearly half-seven. Flailing and scarpering ensued.
52) Current worry?
That my life will become fiscally complicated in July.
53) Current hate?
The gyrations I feel I must make and the hoops through which I feel I must jump in order to be, well, acceptable. I also rather hate this sentence, it's too...too.
54) Favorite place to be?
With Shaddow. Preferably at a seisiun. :D
55) Where would you like to travel?
I'd like to go back to St Louis, after reading Wade Rouse's book, coastal Michigan sounds appealling. Back to Ireland, of course - that really goes without saying. Malta. Malta's recently come back onto my list as a place I fancy going.
56) Where do you think you'll be in 10 years?
Dhera m'anam. I've no idea. I'm presently existing in a state of mildly, yet perpetually, stunned. Anything beyond July isn't even a blur - it's simply not there. Tantamount to what's out my window this morning - rather a thick fog that has obscured everything. It seems as though the building's been whisked into Limbo.
57) Last thing you ate?
A handful of broken crisps.
58) What songs do you sing in the shower?
Oh, I stopped doing that decades ago. I have been known to do the 'bubbles' work out. It's silly, really. In the shower is one of the finest places to warm up a voice - there's less likelihood of doing oneself an injury in that moist heat.
59) Last person who made you laugh?
Shaddow; I scorched him in Mario racing last night. :D
60) Worst injury you've ever had?
Ooh, superstitious at the moment; I'll pass, please. :D
61) Does someone have a crush on you?
Somebody who isn't Shaddow? Sure jeez, I hope not.
62) What is your favorite candy?
My best girl mate's name is Candy, so she's my favourite. Sweet, but not too sticky.
63) What song do you want played at your funeral?
I tend to think more of my wake, really. 'Neckbelly reel', 'Maids of Mount Cisco', 'Mayor Harrison's Fedora', and 'The Hare's Paw' would have to be played - likely not in the same set.
64) Why do we do these stupid surveys?
Fuckall else to do?
65) Where did you get this from?
Amber