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catscradle Mar. 5th, 2003 03:18 pm)
catscradle Mar. 5th, 2003 03:18 pm)Today begins the first day of the lenten season. As some of you know, Catholics abstain from all meat but fish on Fridays from now till Easter. They also (if they're serious Catholics) tend to give something they like up as a sacrifice during this season. I'm not sure what I'm going to do this year yet. With the excitment of the new dog and work related busy-ness, I've not really had time to think about it before now. Need to. Though I don't really follow to the Catholic Hierarchy or believe it's the one true church or, heh, that Jesus was a deity, I do keep to many of the traditions still. For my own reasons I find value in them.
And in honor of Ash Wednesday, I'm posting these surveys:
ANGER
1. Who did you last get angry with?
A friend's mother.
2. What is your weapon of choice?
Words.
3. Would you hit a member of the opposite sex?
In defense, yeah.
4. How about of the same sex?
Same as three
5. Who was the last person who got really angry at you?
I don't know.
6. Do you keep grudges, or can you let them go easily?
I don't keep grudges. Hanging on to suffering is generally a bad idea.
SLOTH
1. What is one thing you're supposed to do daily that you haven't done in a long time?
Exercise.
2. What is the latest you've ever woken up?
6pm, but I hadn't slept in 3 days prior. Just out of laziness - 1pm.
3. Name a person you've been meaning to contact, but haven't:
Leah
4. What is the last lame excuse you made?
Sinus headache - which I did have, but that seldom stops me from going out.
5. Have you ever watched an infomercial all the way through (one of the long ones...)?
No. Made it halfway through Davy Jone's oldies anthology on the station preview channel though.
6. When was the last time you got a good work-out in?
Um, yesterday walking the dog.
7. How many times did you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock today?
Woke up before it went off today. God bless my dog . . .
GLUTTONY
1. What is your overpriced yuppie beverage of choice?
Chai
2. Meat eaters: white meat or dark meat?
Both.
3. What is the greatest amount of alcohol you've had in one sitting/outing/event?
10 whiskey sours, gratis sci-fi/fantasy author Robert Asprin in New Orleans. . . That was also the worst reaction I had to alcohol as the hangover lasted about a week. The 3/4th bottle of tequila about a year ago in Denver in a close second.
4. Have you ever used a professional diet company?
No.
5. Do you have an issue with your weight?
Yes.
6. Do you prefer sweets, salty foods, or spicy foods?
Sweet and/or salty. Some light spice.
7. Have you ever looked at a small housepet or child and thought, "LUNCH!"?:
No.
LUST
1. How many people have you seen naked (not counting movies/family)?
10 or so.
2. How many people have seen YOU naked (not counting physicians/family)?
Maybe 8 or so. . .
3. Have you ever caught yourself staring at the chest/crotch of a member of your gender of choice during a normal conversation?
No - don't find myself attracted to people physically.
4. Have you "done it"?
Yeah.
5. What is your favourite body part on a person of your gender of choice?
Never thought of it before - the tactile ones, I guess. Breasts and butts.
6. Have you ever been propositioned by a prostitute?
Once in New Orleans.
7. Have you ever had to get tested for an STD or pregnancy?
Yes
GREED
1. How many credit cards do you own?
One.
2. What's your guilty pleasure store?
Any book or music store.
3. If you had $1 million, what would you do with it?
Travel, give some to friends and fam, buy a house.
4. Would you rather be rich, or famous?
Comfordable and obscure.
5. Would you accept a boring job if it meant you would make megabucks?
Depends on the hours I'd have to work and if I'd have enough free time to do other things. If not, then no.
6. Have you ever stolen anything?
Yes.
7. How many MP3s are on your hard drive?
None.
PRIDE
1. What one thing have you done that you're most proud of?
Living on my own and finishing my masters degree.
2. What one thing have you done that your parents are most proud of?
Going to Grad school.
3. What thing would you like to accomplish in your life?
I want to make life a little less hard and painful for someone - and do no harm to anyone.
4. Do you get annoyed by coming in second place?
No. Nice that I placed at all. I do get annoyed if someone undeserving gets first, but I don't usually think *I* am the one that deserved it.
5. Have you ever entered a contest of skill, knowing you were of much higher skill than all the other competitors?
Yes.
6. Have you ever cheated on something to get a higher score?
No.
ENVY
1. What item (or person) of your friends would you most want to have for your own?
I'd like to travel like Nick has. . .
2. Who would you want to go on "Trading Spaces" with?
My sister.
3. If you could be anyone else in the world, who would you be?
I don't always want to be me, but I don't have anyone else in mind.
4. Have you ever been cheated on?
Yes.
5. Have you ever wished you had a physical feature different from your own?
I want to weigh less.
6. What inborn trait do you see in others that you wish you had for yourself?
Stamina and the steam to get things done quickly.
7. Do you wish you'd come up with this survey?
No.
8. Finally, what is your favorite deadly sin?
Lust.
FAITH
1. What religion do you follow?
I'm a non-practising atheist.
2. What religion were you raised as?
Catholic.
3. Do you believe that forgiveness is a religious property, or a human property?
They're not mutually exclusive - so both.
4. Do you believe in magic?
Certain forms of it, yes.
5. What was the last promise you broke?
To my mother about 4 years ago
6. Have you ever said the words to a prayer and not meant it?
No. I don't see the point of that.
7. Do you believe that anyone could be perfect?
No.
HOPE
1. Did you get everything you wanted over the last holiday season?
More than I wanted.
2. Regarding your future, what is the best thing you could hope for?
Health, happiness and making sure I don't cause suffering to others - maybe make a few lives a little happier.
3. Do you let yourself get your hopes up for something even if you know that there is a large chance of failure?
Sometimes. Not as much now as when I was younger.
4. Have you ever bought a lottery ticket?
Yes.
5. Do you gamble?
Responsibly.
6. Have you ever had something called off on account of bad weather, but then gone ahead and done it anyway?
Yeah.
CHARITY
1. What causes do you support?
Anti-war, environment, gay/lesbian, education.
2. What causes have you given money or time to?
Anti-war, environment, gay/lesbian, education.
3. Have you ever worked in a soup kitchen or done another kind of outreach for the homeless?
Helped a homeless crack addict find a shelter in New Orleans. I've given food to some on the streets. I've given money to homeless organizations. . .
4. Would you ever consider joining the Peace Corps, Amnesty International, or another travel-inherent worldwide charity group?
I have in the past, but health reasons kept me out.
5. Do you give money to the homeless on the street?
Sometimes. If I have cash on me.
6. Have you ever helped out a friend with basic needs, like rent or food?
Yes.
7. What's the greatest extent you've gone to help a friend in need?
I always do what I can to help when I'm able to. I don't know which would be classified as the "greatest extent".
FORTITUDE
1. What are you most afraid of?
Not finishing my thesis.
2. What did you do today that was really brave?
Logged on.
3. Who is your favorite superhero, and why?
Snoopy. He's a dog and he fought the Red Baron.
4. Would you put your life in danger to rescue someone?
Yes.
5. If you were to face the Wizard, would you want more courage, more brains, or more heart?
Courage.
6. Have you ever gotten stage fright?
Giving reports - all the time.
7. Do you consider yourself to be a leader or a follower?
I follow my own path and don't concern myself with following or leading.
JUSTICE
1. Have you ever been summoned for jury duty?
No.
2. If they reinstituted the draft (for both genders), would you go, or would find some way out of it?
I would not go - I don't believe in killing for the state unless it's attacked and purely defensive. Since Korea, we've been engaging in wars where were we're not attacked. That is not a cause I can support. I'd go into exile first.
3. Do you support capital punishment (the death penalty)?
I don't support state executions as there is a 66% margin of error in our court system.
4. Do you believe that Dubya is rightfully President of the USA?
No.
5. What was your favorite media circus trial?
None.
6. Have you ever written a letter to a politician?
Yes.
TEMPERANCE
1. What do you have the hardest time moderating yourself on?
The foods I eat and execise.
2. Do you collect anything?
No.
3. Are you addicted to anything?
No.
4. Have you ever put anything on layaway or used an installment plan?
No.
5. What's your preferred method of paying for things?
Debit visa card.
6. Tell us one thing you wish you hadn't let yourself do:
Gain the weight I had lost a few years ago back.
7. Do you feel that you obsess over things?
I used to as a kid, but not anymore. Figured out that life is too short for that nonsense and nothing is worth that sort of attention and stress.
PRUDENCE
1. Who is the wisest person you know?
Not sure. There are several people whose opinion I value, but I wouldn't call one wiser than the other.
2. Have you ever participated in a vigil?
Yes.
3. Do you take advice when it's given?
Depends on the advice, you have to weigh each case. Just because someone gives you advice, it doesn't make it good or bad.
4. What area are you wisest in?
Rather stupid question.
5. Do you drive defensively?
Don't drive at all anymore.
6. Have you ever had unprotected sex outside of marriage?
Yes.
7. What did you learn today?
My dog is a spaz.
In dog news, Frodo is doing great. He's house broken, it seems. And he's SO playful now that he's out of the animal shelter. He's a totally new dog - mostly for the better ;) He is a dog though, so I'm now trying to train him on the rules of the house. He's faultering a bit, but I'd say he's doing pretty good for only being with me a few days. I would like to kill whoever owned him before and let him eat table scraps - though I'd like to just kill them for letting him roam around till he was taken to a shelter too - seems the Shelter people found the owner and tried to contact them and they never returned the calls =P
And Frodo is so loving . . . he keeps following me around the house and hitting me in the back of the legs with the cone he has on his neck - the poor thing is bumping into everything (he has to where it till his stitches heal). He didn't like the cone at first, but he now finds it useful while playing in the snow. He runs head first into snow banks with it and flings the snow around.
Will take pictures as soon as he's groomed. And Glowbug too while I'm at it =)
And in honor of Ash Wednesday, I'm posting these surveys:
ANGER
1. Who did you last get angry with?
A friend's mother.
2. What is your weapon of choice?
Words.
3. Would you hit a member of the opposite sex?
In defense, yeah.
4. How about of the same sex?
Same as three
5. Who was the last person who got really angry at you?
I don't know.
6. Do you keep grudges, or can you let them go easily?
I don't keep grudges. Hanging on to suffering is generally a bad idea.
SLOTH
1. What is one thing you're supposed to do daily that you haven't done in a long time?
Exercise.
2. What is the latest you've ever woken up?
6pm, but I hadn't slept in 3 days prior. Just out of laziness - 1pm.
3. Name a person you've been meaning to contact, but haven't:
Leah
4. What is the last lame excuse you made?
Sinus headache - which I did have, but that seldom stops me from going out.
5. Have you ever watched an infomercial all the way through (one of the long ones...)?
No. Made it halfway through Davy Jone's oldies anthology on the station preview channel though.
6. When was the last time you got a good work-out in?
Um, yesterday walking the dog.
7. How many times did you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock today?
Woke up before it went off today. God bless my dog . . .
GLUTTONY
1. What is your overpriced yuppie beverage of choice?
Chai
2. Meat eaters: white meat or dark meat?
Both.
3. What is the greatest amount of alcohol you've had in one sitting/outing/event?
10 whiskey sours, gratis sci-fi/fantasy author Robert Asprin in New Orleans. . . That was also the worst reaction I had to alcohol as the hangover lasted about a week. The 3/4th bottle of tequila about a year ago in Denver in a close second.
4. Have you ever used a professional diet company?
No.
5. Do you have an issue with your weight?
Yes.
6. Do you prefer sweets, salty foods, or spicy foods?
Sweet and/or salty. Some light spice.
7. Have you ever looked at a small housepet or child and thought, "LUNCH!"?:
No.
LUST
1. How many people have you seen naked (not counting movies/family)?
10 or so.
2. How many people have seen YOU naked (not counting physicians/family)?
Maybe 8 or so. . .
3. Have you ever caught yourself staring at the chest/crotch of a member of your gender of choice during a normal conversation?
No - don't find myself attracted to people physically.
4. Have you "done it"?
Yeah.
5. What is your favourite body part on a person of your gender of choice?
Never thought of it before - the tactile ones, I guess. Breasts and butts.
6. Have you ever been propositioned by a prostitute?
Once in New Orleans.
7. Have you ever had to get tested for an STD or pregnancy?
Yes
GREED
1. How many credit cards do you own?
One.
2. What's your guilty pleasure store?
Any book or music store.
3. If you had $1 million, what would you do with it?
Travel, give some to friends and fam, buy a house.
4. Would you rather be rich, or famous?
Comfordable and obscure.
5. Would you accept a boring job if it meant you would make megabucks?
Depends on the hours I'd have to work and if I'd have enough free time to do other things. If not, then no.
6. Have you ever stolen anything?
Yes.
7. How many MP3s are on your hard drive?
None.
PRIDE
1. What one thing have you done that you're most proud of?
Living on my own and finishing my masters degree.
2. What one thing have you done that your parents are most proud of?
Going to Grad school.
3. What thing would you like to accomplish in your life?
I want to make life a little less hard and painful for someone - and do no harm to anyone.
4. Do you get annoyed by coming in second place?
No. Nice that I placed at all. I do get annoyed if someone undeserving gets first, but I don't usually think *I* am the one that deserved it.
5. Have you ever entered a contest of skill, knowing you were of much higher skill than all the other competitors?
Yes.
6. Have you ever cheated on something to get a higher score?
No.
ENVY
1. What item (or person) of your friends would you most want to have for your own?
I'd like to travel like Nick has. . .
2. Who would you want to go on "Trading Spaces" with?
My sister.
3. If you could be anyone else in the world, who would you be?
I don't always want to be me, but I don't have anyone else in mind.
4. Have you ever been cheated on?
Yes.
5. Have you ever wished you had a physical feature different from your own?
I want to weigh less.
6. What inborn trait do you see in others that you wish you had for yourself?
Stamina and the steam to get things done quickly.
7. Do you wish you'd come up with this survey?
No.
8. Finally, what is your favorite deadly sin?
Lust.
FAITH
1. What religion do you follow?
I'm a non-practising atheist.
2. What religion were you raised as?
Catholic.
3. Do you believe that forgiveness is a religious property, or a human property?
They're not mutually exclusive - so both.
4. Do you believe in magic?
Certain forms of it, yes.
5. What was the last promise you broke?
To my mother about 4 years ago
6. Have you ever said the words to a prayer and not meant it?
No. I don't see the point of that.
7. Do you believe that anyone could be perfect?
No.
HOPE
1. Did you get everything you wanted over the last holiday season?
More than I wanted.
2. Regarding your future, what is the best thing you could hope for?
Health, happiness and making sure I don't cause suffering to others - maybe make a few lives a little happier.
3. Do you let yourself get your hopes up for something even if you know that there is a large chance of failure?
Sometimes. Not as much now as when I was younger.
4. Have you ever bought a lottery ticket?
Yes.
5. Do you gamble?
Responsibly.
6. Have you ever had something called off on account of bad weather, but then gone ahead and done it anyway?
Yeah.
CHARITY
1. What causes do you support?
Anti-war, environment, gay/lesbian, education.
2. What causes have you given money or time to?
Anti-war, environment, gay/lesbian, education.
3. Have you ever worked in a soup kitchen or done another kind of outreach for the homeless?
Helped a homeless crack addict find a shelter in New Orleans. I've given food to some on the streets. I've given money to homeless organizations. . .
4. Would you ever consider joining the Peace Corps, Amnesty International, or another travel-inherent worldwide charity group?
I have in the past, but health reasons kept me out.
5. Do you give money to the homeless on the street?
Sometimes. If I have cash on me.
6. Have you ever helped out a friend with basic needs, like rent or food?
Yes.
7. What's the greatest extent you've gone to help a friend in need?
I always do what I can to help when I'm able to. I don't know which would be classified as the "greatest extent".
FORTITUDE
1. What are you most afraid of?
Not finishing my thesis.
2. What did you do today that was really brave?
Logged on.
3. Who is your favorite superhero, and why?
Snoopy. He's a dog and he fought the Red Baron.
4. Would you put your life in danger to rescue someone?
Yes.
5. If you were to face the Wizard, would you want more courage, more brains, or more heart?
Courage.
6. Have you ever gotten stage fright?
Giving reports - all the time.
7. Do you consider yourself to be a leader or a follower?
I follow my own path and don't concern myself with following or leading.
JUSTICE
1. Have you ever been summoned for jury duty?
No.
2. If they reinstituted the draft (for both genders), would you go, or would find some way out of it?
I would not go - I don't believe in killing for the state unless it's attacked and purely defensive. Since Korea, we've been engaging in wars where were we're not attacked. That is not a cause I can support. I'd go into exile first.
3. Do you support capital punishment (the death penalty)?
I don't support state executions as there is a 66% margin of error in our court system.
4. Do you believe that Dubya is rightfully President of the USA?
No.
5. What was your favorite media circus trial?
None.
6. Have you ever written a letter to a politician?
Yes.
TEMPERANCE
1. What do you have the hardest time moderating yourself on?
The foods I eat and execise.
2. Do you collect anything?
No.
3. Are you addicted to anything?
No.
4. Have you ever put anything on layaway or used an installment plan?
No.
5. What's your preferred method of paying for things?
Debit visa card.
6. Tell us one thing you wish you hadn't let yourself do:
Gain the weight I had lost a few years ago back.
7. Do you feel that you obsess over things?
I used to as a kid, but not anymore. Figured out that life is too short for that nonsense and nothing is worth that sort of attention and stress.
PRUDENCE
1. Who is the wisest person you know?
Not sure. There are several people whose opinion I value, but I wouldn't call one wiser than the other.
2. Have you ever participated in a vigil?
Yes.
3. Do you take advice when it's given?
Depends on the advice, you have to weigh each case. Just because someone gives you advice, it doesn't make it good or bad.
4. What area are you wisest in?
Rather stupid question.
5. Do you drive defensively?
Don't drive at all anymore.
6. Have you ever had unprotected sex outside of marriage?
Yes.
7. What did you learn today?
My dog is a spaz.
In dog news, Frodo is doing great. He's house broken, it seems. And he's SO playful now that he's out of the animal shelter. He's a totally new dog - mostly for the better ;) He is a dog though, so I'm now trying to train him on the rules of the house. He's faultering a bit, but I'd say he's doing pretty good for only being with me a few days. I would like to kill whoever owned him before and let him eat table scraps - though I'd like to just kill them for letting him roam around till he was taken to a shelter too - seems the Shelter people found the owner and tried to contact them and they never returned the calls =P
And Frodo is so loving . . . he keeps following me around the house and hitting me in the back of the legs with the cone he has on his neck - the poor thing is bumping into everything (he has to where it till his stitches heal). He didn't like the cone at first, but he now finds it useful while playing in the snow. He runs head first into snow banks with it and flings the snow around.
Will take pictures as soon as he's groomed. And Glowbug too while I'm at it =)
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And you may find that he gets better behavior-wise once he settles. Luna had a couple of days of breaking lots of rules but once she knew what they were she settled down. So Frodo may just need to test his boundaries and then he'll be fine.
Has he chased any bunny yips yet?
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Not chasing bunny yips, or guinea's for that matter - so that's good *g*