Crowded Upstairs

Yeah, because I have so much time on my hands. *snerk* But there really isn't anything I can be doing just at the moment; I've made the dummy copy of the bulletin, updated the schedule for VBS, called the hospitals, and even gone over my lines for tonight. So I took an LJ break and saw this on morningstar4's journal.

My result is so incredibly accurate that it borders on the ridiculous. ( I am a NINE )

Phone will not stop ringing this morning. Yeesh. Turns out that last week, the senior citizen housing complex here in town was evacuated due to a broken water pipe. I hadn't heard about it, and only found out today when the daughter of our second-oldest church member called to let us know where her mother is staying. Craziness.

Anywho. Memetiems. Stolen from rurouni_jedi. Bold the statements that accurately apply to you. ( It's a long list. )

At the behest of my darling destinedtofly:

IF YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, I want to know 36 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, if you're more of a lurker, or if we already know everything about each other.

BE HONEST! Answer the questions in a comment, then repost on your own journal!

( Questions below )

I have exactly one item of interest to report: Pastor is home.

Since I am otherwise boring as hell, I shall blather at length about myself. In other words, Q&A memes.

Stolen from wens: ( 50 questions, 50 answers )

Because I wanna be cool like alphaloria, I took a love test. The love test says I am a warm and fuzzy.

It looks like you're someone who's very down-to-earth when it comes to love. You tend to be pretty realistic about what makes a lifelong partnership work. You understand the value of forging a love based on friendship, respect and shared values. In fact, often your relationships develop out of friendships and your lover tends to be your best friend. Marriage and children are probably central to your life. As far as you're concerned, a true relationship is one that matures with time and work. Just make sure that you keep the spark of passion alive.

You feel most comfortable in a solid relationship based on trust. Love is your life-blood. It fills you with energy and makes the world seem even more beautiful. Right now you couldn't imagine a better place to be. You're positively glowing with happiness and feeling very secure. Just how you like it.

Home life is really important to you. It is the focus of all the love that you have to give. For you, love is about feeling relaxed and comfortable in your own space. Your choice of animal shows that you are a very loyal person. You like to look out for the one you love and have very strong protective instincts.

Love is cuddling up on the sofa with a glass of wine or lounging in bed with the Sunday papers. You like grand romantic gestures. Your hear tleaps whenever your lover does something special for you. You dream of growing old with the one you love. A strong friendship is the secret for a true lovematch. You're a gentle soul. Quiet comopanionship and understanding is really important for a long-lasting relationship. Once the spark of passion has died down, this is what will truly endure.

Having shared my embarrassing little bit of 'no, Laura doesn't hear very well,' I'm chilling. Went with my mom to help her take Molly (the World's Biggest Golden Retriever) to the vet, where her ear infection was treated. Had other things I planned to do today, but that ended up taking nearly four hours, and now I'm tired.

Vincent D'Onofrio became the father of a little boy on Valentine's Day -- his name is Luka. *prods Clez with a grin*

So for the lulz, I stoled a meme from morningstar4. ( High school memecal )

And because I'm still not up to thinking. Stolen from naiadea. ( This should convince my kids that I'm old... )

Thank you for all of your kind words about Aunt Dorothy. Pastor, at my request, went in to visit her last night and gave her last rites "just in case," and my mom just called to say that she and Ravi and Aunt Bonnie are on their way to the hospital now to see her.

Or at least, everybody seems to want me to answer the memes, judging by how many times I've been tagged lately. So these are the two for which I've been tagged a lot.

List eight random facts about yourself.

1. Does the fact that I have a cat named Random count as a random fact, or is that cheating? Either way, it's true.

2. I have excessively distinctive hands, almost to the point where I wonder if they're deformed. I'm a nail-biter, which I know has something to do with why my nails are so oddly shaped, but the hands themselves even without the nails are weird. They're plump hands, but at the same time, they're really small.

3. I am extremely claustrophobic, to the point where just the idea of being in a small space gives me the shakes if I think about it too much. I read a Reader's Digest article once about two boys who were trapped in a cave, and I thought I might hyperventilate.

4. I'm very finicky about food textures. Depending on my mood, health, and even just the time of day, I will not eat something if I think it's going to feel "funny" in my mouth. This applies most often to breads.

5. If I have a headache, the idea of eating ham makes me sick. I don't know why.

6. I can't stand to eat breakfast within the first half hour of my waking up. My body does not want it. Given that this is usually the only chance I have to eat any breakfast, the result is a little unfortunate.

7. I get very annoyed by the commercials for the ABC Family network's original shows Kyle XY and Wildfire. They just try too hard to make it sound like what's happening in the next episode is going to have relevance to the viewer's life; I half want to write to them and say "You can't force me to care about these stupid shows!" Wildfire especially irritates me. They do that with their original movies too, to the point where I just want the movie to be over so I can stop hearing about it. (Although I didn't mind when they were advertising the one that had Stuart Townsend in it...)

8. When I brush my teeth, I wet the bristles and apply toothpaste, but then wet the toothpaste. I have an extremely dry mouth, and to use "dry" toothpaste -- even if it's a gel -- is uncomfortable.

List ten things that make you happy.

1. Chilling on the wonderful new sofa for a movie afternoon. If I didn't have so much housework to do, I'd schedule a marathon tomorrow. Maybe I'll have one Sunday after church.

2. Doing things with the youth group. I love those kids, especially Jesse, Libby, and Katie.

3. Winning at video games. I'm an old-school gamer geek; I still have a functioning NES and will occasionally play Zelda or Mario -- the originals, that is! Last year I sat down and played Zelda for the first time in at least ten years, and it took me all of three hours to beat it. I remembered where almost everything was...it was sort of scary. ;)

4. Pulling off something clever here at work, like yesterday's little adventure with soap.

5. Going to bed at night with the feeling that I did something in the course of the day to make someone else's life a little better. I don't have that experience every night, but when I do, it's very gratifying.

6. Getting a paycheck for one of my magazine articles. I love to write, but those things really do make me work for the money, so to see the fiscal result is nice.

7. New reviews for my fanfic.

8. Surprises in the mail. We had some yesterday, which are worth telling about; I came home and found, sitting inside the house, a large package covered in heart and Cupid stickers. It was addressed to Kevin. I asked him who was sending him such things; the return address was blocked by other mail. He just smiled and told me to take a closer look. Underneath his package was a similar one of my own, both from the same person -- blcksunaphelion sent us each a box of candy for Valentine's Day. Good thing too; if anybody other than one of the kids had sent Kevin something covered in hearts, I really would not have been very happy. ;) I wasn't worried, because he left it sitting right there where I could see it, but it did give me a genuine WTF? moment at first.

9. Feeling well enough to climb a mountain, and actually going to do exactly that.

10. It's egotistical, but it honestly does make me happy -- seeing either myself or something of my creation mentioned positively in someone else's LJ.

I tag anyone who has not yet done these and would like to do them. If you've done one, I tag you to do the other.

Sent my way by alphaloria:

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, (even if we don't speak often) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me. It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE. When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your journal and be surprised (or mortified) about what people DON'T ACTUALLY remember about you.

And here are the answers to yesterday's music meme. I stumped lots of you, it would seem, with one in particular. ;) If you'd like to hear any of the songs you didn't recognize, just let me know and I'll YouSendIt to you.

1. "We're both looking for something we've been afraid to find" -- from "First Time" by Lifehouse, correctly guessed by nobody

2. "It's in the rhythm of the dancer, it's in the standard flag unfurled" -- from "Heart and Soul" by Wolfstone, correctly guessed by nobody

3. "I was sick and tired of everything when I called you last night from Glasgow" -- from "Supertrooper" by ABBA (or in the case of the one I was actually listening to, performed by the A-Teens), correct guessed by blaze_rocket

4. "Once I rose above the noise and confusion just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion" -- from "Carry On Wayward Son" by Kansas, correctly guessed by clez

5. "I get such a thrill when you look in my eyes" -- from "Best Years of Our Lives" by the Baha Men, correctly guessed by siddyq

6. "Go ahead as you waste your days with thinking" -- from "Move Along" by the All-American Rejects, correctly guessed by hezyfaerie

7. "There you see her, sitting there across the way" -- from "Kiss the Girl" on The Little Mermaid OS, correctly guessed by hezyfaerie

8. "One, two, princes kneel before you" -- from "Two Princes" by the Spin Doctors, correctly guessed by nobody (to my utter confusion, given that the title is in the line!)

9. "Let me know that I've done wrong, when I've known this all along" -- from "Dirty Little Secret" by the All-American Rejects, correctly guessed by destinedtofly

10. "And the streets turn me inside out" -- from "Stay With You" by the Goo Goo Dolls, correctly guessed by clez

11. "I once had a dream where no one had to walk two hundred miles" -- from "Brave Foot Soldiers" by Wolfstone, correctly guessed by both siddyq and _revolutionary (very good, girls!)

12. "You remind me of the babe" -- from "Magic Dance" by David Bowie (Labyrinth OS), correctly guessed by blaze_rocket

13. "One day I looked up, and there you were" -- from "Dela (I Think I Know Why the Dog Howls at the Moon)" from the George of the Jungle OS, correctly guessed by nobody

14. "I want to have the same last dream again, the one where I wake up and I'm alive" -- from "The Adventure" by Angels and Airwaves, correctly guessed by nobody

15. "All the colors of the rainbow, all the voices of the wind" -- this is NOT from "Colors of the Wind," as people kept guessing! It's from "Testify to Love" by Wynonna (on the Touched By an Angel TV series CD).

16. "Out on the borderline, somewhere between heart and mind" -- from "Saved By Love" by Triumph, correctly guessed by nobody

17. "Is it fate, or random chance? How can I decide?" -- from "Somebody's Out There" by Rik Emmet, correctly guessed by nobody

18. "Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods?" -- from "Holding Out for a Hero" by Jim Steinman (sung by Jennifer Saunders), correctly guessed by clez

19. "I'm afraid it's been too long to try to find the reasons why" -- from "Waiting for the World to Fall" by Jars of Clay, correctly guessed by siddyq

20. "When in the springtime of the year, when the trees are crowned with leaves" -- from "The Mummers' Dance" by Loreena McKennitt, correctly guessed by hezyfaerie

Tada. :)