Today in My History

2000:  People Watching
2001:  Call of the Wild Huckle
2002:  15 Men on a Dead Man's Chest
2003:  Pedestrians
2004:  A Fable
2005:  No Good News Tonight
2006:   Trouble in River City
2007:  Four Whole Hours
2008:  Petri Dish

BITTER HACK
7 Brides for 7 Brothers

Books Read in 2009
 
Updated: 8/5
"The Watchers"

Recipes for Cousins Day Drinks
(updated 7/24/09)

Dads from Bev Sykes on Vimeo.

and on YouTube

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Look at these videos!

Shatner reads Palin's farewell speech
Pool playing toddler
Jon Stewart/Mike Huckabee on Abortion
(full interview)
Stephen Colbert Gets a Haircut
Bud Lite Commercial

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New on My

Tahoe Reunion

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ME-OLOGY

11 Aug 2009 

***********FOOD-OLOGY***************

What is your salad dressing of choice?
Ranch or Blue Cheese

What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?
Probably The Spinnaker in Sausalito.

What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of?
Crab (assuming it was fresh each day, and not just sitting in the fridge for two weeks!)

What are your pizza toppings of choice?
Sausage and mushrooms

What do you like to put on your toast?
Lots of butter, once in a great while some strawberry jam.

***********TECHNOLOGY***************

How many televisions are in your house?
3 that work and another one that doesn’t.

What color is your cell phone?
Red, baby!

Do you have an iPod?
yes.  Also an iTouch.

***************BIOLOGY******************

Are you right-handed or left-handed?
Left-Handed.  I was an adult before I learned that was supposed to be some sort of an impediment.

Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
My tonsils and five children (though technically I guess I removed the children myself!)

What is the last heavy item you lifted?
The 5 gallon bottle of water for the water cooler.

Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
No–but I fainted twice after giving birth to Paul.

************BULL-OLOGY**************

If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
I don’t think so.

If you could change your name, what would you change it to?
Probably Barbara, because when people don’t know me, they usually call me Barbara anyway.

Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000?
Good grief, no. I can’t even dip a tortilla chip in hot sauce!

**************FAVORIT-OLOGY****************

Season?
spring

Holiday?
Thanksgiving – fewer expectations!

Day of the week?
They’re all pretty much the same.

Month?
February, I think – not because it’s my birthday but because that’s usually when the blossoms start popping out.  And it's cool then too!

***********CURRENT-OLOGY*****************

Missing someone?
Several "someones"

Mood?
OK

What are you listening to?
"Touched by an Angel" (on the TV in the background)

Current worry?
Hoping my mother’s birthday party will turn out all right.

***************RANDOM-OLOGY*****************

First place you went this morning?
To the Sacramento Airport to take Lynn to catch her plane.

What's the last movie you saw?
"UP", a few weeks ago–but I hope to see "Julie/Julia" with some friends this week.

***************OTHER-OLOGY*****************

How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
None.  I wear Berkinstocks.

Last time you had a run-in with the cops?
Earlier this year when I got a flat tire on a frontage road with a HUGE pothole. The police came and stayed with me until the tow truck came.

Last person you talked to on the phone?
A girl named Kennedy Wenning, whom I was interviewing for a newspaper article.

Last person you hugged?
Pat, when I left her house this afternoon.

Do you always answer your phone?
No. That’s why I have caller ID.

It's four in the morning and you get a text message, who is it?
Jeri (it's 7 a.m., her time!)

If you could change your eye color what would it be?
I’m happy with hazel

Do you own a digital camera?
Yes indeedy.

Have you ever had a pet fish?
When I was a kid. I think we also had fish when our kids were young.

Favorite Christmas song?
Silver Bells

What's on your wish list for your birthday?
World peace and a clean house.

Can you do push ups?
I can barely hoist myself out of the recliner!

Can you do the splits?
Bwahahahaha. Getting down onto the toilet is about as close as I can get to the splits!!

Does the future make you more nervous or excited?
6 of one, half a dozen of the other

Do you have any saved texts?
Not sure what that means, but I’m sure I do.  I never throw any thing away.

Have you ever been in a car accident?
Yes.  Fortunately, not serious.

Do you have an accent?
Sure. Everybody does, to somebody else!

Plans tonight?
It’s 11 p.m. About all I plan to do is go to sleep.

Have you ever felt like you hit rock bottom?
Definitely

Name 3 things you bought yesterday?
Nothing. We were driving back from Lake Tahoe and didn’t stop anywhere.

Have you ever been given roses?
Yes.

Met someone who changed your life?
Fortunately, yes.

How will you bring in the New Years?
We will probably be at a party with a group of people who were all associated with the Davis Comic Opera Co.

What song represents you?
I’d like to say "Defying Gravity," but I’m not that bold.

Would you go back in time if you were given the chance?
The temptation is great. Perhaps.

Have you ever dated someone longer than a year?
yes

Do you have any tattoos/piercings?
One piercing in each ear.

Does anyone love you?
Yes.  I am very fortunate to be loved.

Would you be a pirate?
Argghhh...no!

What songs do you sing in the shower?
I don't sing in the shower

Ever had someone sing to you?
Yes.  Steve does it all the time.  All I have to do is buy an expensive ticket to go see him.

When did you last cry?
On the streets of Florence

Who was the last person you took a picture of?
The women I went to Lake Tahoe with.

Are most of the friends in your life new or old?
Old. Some older than others.

Do you like pulpy orange juice?
Yes!

What is something your friends make fun of you for?
Taking so many pictures.

PHOTO OF THE DAY

When I started reading this book, I discovered this is NOT
the Gabaldon book I started listening to in the car!!!

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