the friday five

Hey, all! Here are my answers to this week's Friday Five:

You have just won one million dollars:

1. Who do you call first?
-If I find out during the day, I'd call Rodrigo first. If it were evening and he was home, then I'd call my grandma or my mom. Probably my grandma first.

2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself?
-My first reaction is to say a house, but I'd actually have to look for one I really liked, so I'd buy a car.

3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else?
-I'd take Brianna shopping to get whatever she wanted which at this time would mean some sort of Barbie thing. Alec, only being 7 months old wouldn't really want anything. The first thing I'd get him would be more clothes, I guess. Oh wait, I'd get him more things to decorate his room. I asked Rodrigo and he said he'd want a car, so a car for him.

4. Do you give any away? If yes, to whom?
-My family, Rodrigo to give to his family as he pleases and probably friends.

5. Do you invest any? If so, how?
-I don't know much about stocks and I'd be scared to lose it, so I'll say no even though I'd probably end up investing a couple of thousand in something that seems promising. I'd definately save most of it in college funds and cd's.

feeling: thinking of all the things I could do with a million dollars
listening to: nothing (working)
what I should be doing instead of blogging: paying more attention to work

i'm computer illiterate

Although I can spend countless hours playing online just looking through different pages and things that I like, you must know that I am completely computer illiterate. I know how to move around and work. I know how to successfully operate applications and can help friends when they have trouble but I know nothing about page design. Nothing. Just chaning my colors on the blog template was a big deal. I didn't know that every color had a code. For those of you computer people, this must sound really silly. In college I was majoring in unemployment taking courses like Philosophy and Anthropology and never took any programming courses or anything useful. I'm so dumb I thought Rodrigo's Java books were about coffee (ok, that's a joke). Anyway, I've been messing around with FTP and Rodrigo is turning blue in the face trying to explain all this to me. So, I will post my first image for my blog. This is Brianna at age three playing on the computer. Undoubtedly she will know how to "compute" much better than me.

feeling: like a computer genius
watching: The Doors
what I should be doing instead of blogging: getting that coffee that Rodrigo asked me for like half an hour ago.

wrong address

I received a package in the mail today from a lady who has the same name and last name as my friend Diana. In it, she enclosed my Christmas card which I sent to Diana and a letter stating that she received my card but doesn't recognize the details that I wrote about so this card was not for her. Here's the thing: they have the exact same name and live on the same street. I checked the address that I have for Diana and it is not the one that I mailed this to. How did I do this? I have no idea, but I found the wrong Diana. She was nice enough to mail back my card even though it was almost two months later. Now I'm thinking that Diana was probably thinking I was a bad friend who sent no Christmas card. This is too funny! I'm going to send this whole package now to the Diana that I do know. The new unknown Diana will now also be receiving a Christmas card from now on.

feeling: confused
listening to: Cake (Never There)
reading: 100 Years of Solitude
what I should be doing instead of blogging: laundry

i'm horrible

I took the Ethical Philosophy Selector quiz and it turns out that I am most like Nietzsche by 100%. Then I read the description:
We have free will
There is no God
Social conformity should not hold us back
The interests of others should not restrain us
We should be passionate beings
Masculinity, strength and passion are the highest qualities in a person
Conventional morality is a crutch to man

Ouch. I feel like a horrible person now. Like those people who just go around doing whatever they want and don't care who they hurt. But I answered the questions as honestly as I could so I wonder if I'm really like that. Hmmm...... So now I guess I'll start dressing only in black and talk about how tragically misunderstood I am while smoking and carrying around the collected works of Nietzche. Off to the coffeehouse I go. Heh heh.

feeling: pondering
listening to: Sponge (Wax Ecstatic)
reading: 100 Years of Solitude

my boring blog

Last Wednesday I spoke to an old friend who told me that my blog was boring. Boring. Not "you could use some images", or some sort of advice, just boring. He doesn't have a blog himself but I can't imagine that it'd be that much more interesting, unless of course he was writing about me. So, I hadn't written except to answer the Friday 5 until today. I got an email from someone who said he enjoys reading this and was wondering what was going on. Awwww. Anyway, to keep in my boring style, nothing is going on. Bye.

I'm kidding. But since I am a TV dork, I saw the Golden Globes last night. Ok, "House of Sand and Fog", "Monster", "Lost in Translation", "In America", "21 Grams", and "The Barbarian Invasions". Do you know what all of these movies have in common? Yes, they have received good reviews and/or award nominations, but what they have in common to me is that I really want to watch them but they are not shown here in El Paso. ARGH! If I want to watch "Honey" or Torque" I can catch it in several locations, but for a good movie I'd probably have to drive to Albuquerque. Either that or cross the border into Mexico. Yes, they show better movies there than here. Granted you get annoying captions, but at least you get to see the film. Needless to say, I miss living in Phoenix. There was like a million more things to do there than there is here. I love my city, but I think it is soooo badly managed. I guess I shouldn't even complain because nobody is forcing me to live here. Anyway, the Oscar nominations are being presented tomorrow and I'm really looking forward to that. Usually by the time the academy awards are aired, I've seen most if not all of the films nominated in the major categories. I don't think that'll be the case this year. It's too bad "Torque" or "Too Fast Too Furious" aren't nominated since I'd have ample viewing opportunities for those. That's it for now. I'll probably come back later this evening. Oh, and as for my boring blog critic, as soon as blogger starts taking upgrades again, I'll start adding images for your viewing enjoyment.

feeling: missing Phoenix
listening to: nothing (working)
reading: 100 Years of Solitude

the friday five

Here are these week's Friday Five responses:

At this moment, what is your favorite...

1. ...song?
-I can't say that I have a favorite song but I definately listen to these whenever they come out and they remain in my head long after I've heard them: "Megalomaniac" by Incubus, "White Flag" by Dido, "You and I Both" by Jason Mraz, and "This Love" by Maroon 5.

2. ...food?
-I can drink coffee at night, so lately I've been having a honey wheat bagel with nutella spread and chocolate toffee coffee with amaretto. Yum!

3. ...tv show?
-I'm really enjoying the American Idol auditions right now.

4. ...scent?
-lemon!

5. ...quote?
- I used to hate when my mom told me this, but it works as the end of conversation and is the only answer after everything else has failed to answer "why?": -"Because I said so!"

feeling: busy
listening to: nothing (working right now)

oops, sorry blogwise people

I submitted my blog onto blogwise. I checked the next day and it wasn't up. I checked later and it still wasn't up. I went into the page and read that it would take 1-2 days to appear and I'd get a comfirmation email. No email. Right then I knew I'd done something wrong. Even if they reject you, you still get the email. So, i resubmitted my page and once I was done I read something that I had failed to read before. It stated that blogs would go into queue and it would take about 30 days for a response. It went onto ask to please not resubmit blogs. Oops. Sorry. Now they're going to think I'm an idiot and reject me. They'll stamp a huge, red "REJECTED" sign across my page.

I've been meaning to write about a billboard I saw last week. It was a PETA billboard that read "KFC: Kentucky Fried Cruelty. We do chickens wrong." On it was a drawing of Colonel Sanders slaughtering a chicken. I've never seen a PETA billboard here in El Paso before. I thought people would be complaining left and right but so far, I haven't heard anything. How odd. Now, I was PETA girl for a while, but I think that a few of the members are too extreme. I love animals and I understand what the activists mean, but I don't think that they go about it the right way. A lot of people think PETA members are whacko. I don't like meat too much, but that's just personal taste. I wasn't too much into meat then I saw a documentary on how meat was produced and I was totally grossed out. I didn't have meat for about 8 or 9 straight months after that. During that time, though, I was not trying to get everyone I came across to do the same. I won't wear real fur and I agree that testing shampoo in kittens' and rabbits' eyes in order to determine how much shampoo can go into your eyes before your eyes bleed is unnecessary. Now being a mother, though, I have to admit that some of my views have changed. I mean, the worst thing in the world is when your baby has a fever or a cough and you don't know what to do. If whatever I had to give my baby to make him better happened to be tested on animals, I wouldn't hesitate. I hate to admit that, but it just wouldn't stop me. Maybe it's that I'm over my post-adolescent "save the world" phase. I feel the same, though. I think it's more that my priorities have changed. That's ok. Another point as to why I'm old. Good night.

feeling: old again
watching: Conan O'Brien