69 posts tagged “qotd”

What would you do if you had one day to live and you were still young and healthy?
Submitted by Green Tea Adelaide.

Kiss my loved ones and give everything away.

What food item would you miss the most if it were removed from your diet and recipes? 
Submitted by scorpion1116.  

Cheese!!!

What do you do with the cards and letters you receive?  Do you keep them all, just keep the photos, throw them away? 
Inspired by jacolily.

1. I keep all photographs.

2. I try to keep as many of the letters and cards as I can without creating a paper avalanche. Even so, sometimes I create some massively huge heaps of papers and documents that need to be weeded out periodically. I keep all letters and cards with significant, heart felt messages on them. If a card just has a signature below a printed message, unless that person is now dead, I toss the card or note. If there is something pretty on the card or note that I can use in a future art project, then I recycle the pieces.

What are you most grateful for in your life right now?
Submitted by Becca-Pink.

 

I am grateful that my mother is still alive and doing fairly well today; she is in her 70's now and her family has a history of heart and circulatory problems. Mom had a heart attack in 2003 on the same night that my father died; it was mainly a stress induced heart attack and it only stunned her heart tissue. She was able to recover almost 100%. But lately she has felt some odd "fluttering" sensations in her chest and this week the physicians documented a heart murmur. More tests are required to determine what to do. I am grateful I have had my mother in my life this long and I hope she stays with us and is happy and healthy for many more years.

What are five words you really like? 
Submitted by purplesque.

1. biscuit

2. wicked

3. doppelganger

4. sisu (Finnish word meaning "courage" or "guts")

5. popple

Which are your favorite sites for shopping online?

Oh man, being a shopaholic, there are too many to mention. Here's just a few:

• www.sephora.com for bath and body products galore
• www.wishingfish.com, www.fredflare.com, and www.etsy.com for unique and weird gifts
• www.seejanework.com for cute and special office products
• www.finnstyle.com for Finnish products

Audio: What's your favorite carol or holiday song?

"Hating You for Christmas" by Everclear. It's actually quite a funny and uplifting sounding pop song.

Today is Veterans Day.  Is there anyone you know who has served or is serving in the military that you'd like to honor today? 

1. Thank you to my brother-in-law Jim Gegg of North Carolina--and Happy Marine Corps Birthday one day late, too! Jim served in the first Gulf War.

2. Thank you Dad, wherever you are out there. My father Bill served in the Navy during World War II. (He passed away in 2003).

3. Thank you to all of my military customers for being such great people!

Where is the farthest you have ever been away from home? Did you get homesick? 
Submitted by Melissa.

1. Tokyo.

2. No.

I rarely get homesick when I am traveling. The feeling of being in Tokyo was strange, but a good strange. I was deposited there because of my job, with very little prior preparation or knowledge about Japan, the Japanese language, or the frightening monster size of Tokyo. I also had no idea how arduous a 14 hour flight from New Jersey to Tokyo would be. At the 36-consecutive-hours-awake mark, my body broke down entirely, and it made things extra surreal and dreamlike. What I remember of Tokyo:

A. The Japanese people work very hard, and for many long, painful hours every day.

B. The Japanese know their snacks--good stuff. I came home with a suitcase full of candy and dried fish and even fake little cakes made out of plastic that I don't need but had to own anyway.

C. If you go up to the top of the Tokyo Tower, all you see is skyscrapers stretching to the ends of the earth in every direction, plus a little gray smudge in the distance that people claim is Mount Fuji.

D. Don't get in the way of all those serious-faced commuters all dressed in black wool overcoats all walking in the same direction at the same pace at the same time--you'll be a flattened bystander pancake in no time!

E. The lights of Akihabara are blinding and just as beautiful as what you see on television.

F. I want one of their mint green retro mini fridges. Why can't we have those here?

What's the most memorable crush you have had? 
Submitted by spectacular.  

Duckie Dale, 1986. Andie ended up with the wrong guy (at least in the movie version--the book ends differently).