24 posts tagged “qotd”
What's your morning beverage of choice? Coffee, tea, juice? Homemade or store-bought?
Once upon the time, the answer was coffee. I'd walk into my office half-awake and stop by the kitchen for coffee before anyone could come near me. Alas. Nowadays, it's juice, or the milk I slurp from the remnants of my cereal bowl. I was on a cranberry kick for a while, but for the past month, it's been homemade orange juice.
Today's combination? Honey tangerines, Florida and California navels, mineolas and blood oranges. It's pulp heavy, because I like me some chew in my morning beverage.
Here's one for the ladies: What's in your handbag right now?
Submitted by Kadeeae.
For the first time in a long time, I'm not switching purses on a regular rotation, so this is fairly unedited, in terms of how much crap I keep in purse on a day-to-day basis. Behold, the bad and its innards:
From top to bottom, left to right, this is the list of contents:
01. Sansa
02. wool gloves with loose contents put into handy holder ( one hair clip, tweezers with eclipse mint stuck in between, sample Jo Malone Honeysuckle & Jasmine cologne, one toothpick, two hair ties, two gum wrappers, one paper clip, one bobby pin, one starlight candy, one Flower by Kenzo sample cologne, one immodium tablet, $3.46 and 0.20 euros in loose change)
03. hair stick
04. 2008 planner
05. sunglasses in case
06. wallet
07. Sony Ericsson phone
08. travel size Crest Extreme Herbal Mint
09. La Mer hand treatment
10. towelette from Air France
11. Yu Be cream
12. passport
13. 0.5 L coke bottle
14. Trident spearmint gum
15. Excedrin Migraine
16. Farrah Olivia business card
17. Sephora's women's fragrance finder
18. Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
19. Transparency by Frances Hwang
20. four pens hawking prescription medicine
21. four tubes of lip gloss (softlips, Beauty Rush Passion Fruit flavored, Sisley, Shiseido Chianti Rose)
22. tea tree oil blotting paper from The Body Shop
23. envelope from the bank with $38 inside
24. box of Rose hip tea (courtesy of WishBear -- she succeeded where I failed in my quest to find it) received tonight!
25. Shout wipes
26. all of it was on top of my trusty orange wrap/scarf
And this is not including the container with the eclair, the bottle of Sprite, the croissants, the honey butter, or the tangerine oil I had in earlier.
Good day!
Have you ever done anything out of pure spite? What did you do?
Submitted by Hydranokaori.
Yes.
I haven't the cajones to be more specific than to say it was in college, and it involved a water bottle, a chair, a computer and the beast.
It was not a bright and shining moment in my salad days.
But it still makes me giggle. Oh, to be stupid and young again.
Do you have an unusual talent that you are ridiculously proud of? If so, what is it, and why the smug look on your face?
Submitted by mo.
It's ma question! Wee hee! I actually posed it right after I successfully grabbed a hair tie off the floor with my monkey toes. Why wouldn't I be proud of that? My toes pick up all sorts of things. I do it in the name of sloth, but it occurs to me that it's more effort than just stooping down and picking it up with my hands... Tra la!
What are five words you really like?
Submitted by purplesque.
yes
no
and
free
phenylalanine
the
scapegrace
explanations to follow after i go to the grocery store for ingredients. i thought i was going to eat cereal today, but suddenly, i'm inspired to attempt a mushroom risotto...
Yes. It's a good word. It's small, and it has a positive connotation to it. Everyone needs a little optimism.
No. I seem to use this word a lot in my day to day life, so here it is. I put up an argument during most conversations, so no comes up a lot as a preface.
Free. I'm not going to explain this. It explains itself. No hyphens in front of it, though.
The. It's so...definitive, isn't it? Lovely word. An anagram of het. Don't ask.
Scapegrace. Not used enough. It just doesn't look like what it means. It might be my word to use for January.
La, words.
ETA: Mushroom risotto is delish. I used it as a side for gorgeously huge sea scallops, and um! As I said to WB on the phone, I think I must be cooking out some of my cravings before Restaurant Week. Currently on the hit list: Oya, Farrah Olivia, and Smith & Wollensky. I'm iffy on the last, it being a steak house, but I did let someone else have a choice for a change. I'm going back to my dinner -- I wish I knew where my camera was -- but make reservations, ya'll. Time to eat.
Were your holiday cards store bought, handmade, online, TBD or MIA?
I would love to answer that I create my own design, go to a printing press and crank out my own product...but no. I go shopping in stores. I could very well go to my favorite online paper peddlers, but alas, I look for a deal. I usually shop post-holiday the year prior, but not this year. Instead I paid full price on all but two of my pack of cards. I can't help it; I'm a paper whore. Two of this year's offerings:
A vague, non-denominational card that is only seasonally appropriate for greetings. I have to have one option. And the other:
I love me some animals being cute. And isn't the red a pretty one? Somewhere between vermilion and scarlet...
Which reminds me; I need to get some cards out. Son of a gun.
If money were no object, which five luxury items would you rush right out and buy?
Submitted by lorilyn.
1. A Jimmy Choo Tish bag. It appeals to the flashier side of my super conservative handbag sensibility.
2. A beachfront resort in the Maldives. Lord knows I love my vacations, so why not just buy one and live there forever?
3. A Maserati Quattroporte. In black. Because it's a family car.
4. Thomas Keller. Or Grant Achatz. Or Ferran Adrià. A girl's gotta eat.
5. A Mikimoto necklace. Am still deciding which.
You asked for luxury, not realism. :)
Who was your first celebrity crush?
Submitted by Glory.
I preface this by saying that I was born in 1980, and I came late to television. So I choose to pick two:
1. Ricky Stratten, as rocked by Ricky Schroder.
Look at him! Just look at him! How could I not? He's adorable. He was the beginning of my secret crush on the staid, starchy types with boyish good looks. I will never fall for the damaged guy. But I had a good old crush on Ricky. Such a teenage heartthrob.
2. Optimus Prime.
Dude, I count cartoon love. How I glowed when Optimus Prime was saving the day. How I tensed when I thought he was a goner. My puir naive child mind thought that he would actually be taken out for good. And there's something very comforting about him as a ginormous truck. Also, he kind of looks hardcore in the picture, no?
Why isn't there a question about my current celebrity crush? It would require more thought, as there are many, but I could totally hone it down to a list of five. ;)
What are five things you're good at?
Submitted by HapaLove.
1. Making people uneasy. While I've been told my face is very friendly, I am also very hostile looking at times. I think because my expression is so quicksilver, people can't tell what's what with me. Just yesterday I had someone back away from me because they didn't like the look in my eye even though I had a smile on my face. What's with that?
2. Pie crust. It's just good. It will also clog the arteries of the average person.
3. Cursing. Like a foul-mouthed harridan.
4. Eating. Must I explain this? I have the tummy, the appetite, the fervor, the everything that marks me as a champion eater. Okay, maybe I can't be a competitive eater, but time will tell how much I will eat.
5. Traveling. Seriously. I'm good at it. I enjoy packing (including an extra bag to stuff all my extra crap in.) I'm good at dressing for travel (layers and simple.) I enjoy sitting in airports: the books, the magazines, the music, the bad food. I enjoy wandering cities, getting lost, learning new things, making the best of the worst days. I'm mostly considered a relatively good travel buddy. In turn, I feel I can travel with almost anyone. Heh.
If you were stranded on a desert island, what five people would you eat first?
Submitted by James Poling.
The ones I could outrun and take down with my coconut machete. All while running away from someone else trying to kill me, of course. And really, if I had the chance to be selective, I'd try to find someone who eats really well, because then they're just an extra tasty stuffed human, aren't they?
