senoritafish | Entries tagged with lists

(Tagged a long time ago by

runsamuck's cousin Connie at FB - sorry, it's only taken me a month-and-a-half to get done...)

Rules: Once you?ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 16 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 16 people to be tagged.

Not tagging anyone because several have already stated they don't do these things; I, however, am usually pathetically thrilled to be tagged. Why is that - I'm tickled, but I think it must bother anyone else? I leave it to you; if it feels good, do it.

By the way, the Monitor has an entire opinion piece on this survey. Is this new to FaceBook or something? Because if you click the "Stoopid Quizzes" or "Surveys" tag over to the right, you'll find a metric ton of these things - I sometimes do them to try and kick start writing something else. They've been around in various forms on LJ since I started here in 2002, at least. Why does Facebook get all the press? I have a hard time with calling it a "fad" and a "craze" though - that implies repeated behavior, at least on an individual level, for a period of time. I played with my hoola hoop for months before I got tired of it, and I wore my Dittos jeans until they wore out. Things like this? Phbbbt, do 'em once, then forget 'em. Sheepage, though, yes.

( to the point... )

(Tagged a long time ago by

a_hollow_year here and

( ...of my favorite things... )

Current Mood: content
Current Music: people on phones

( ...of my favorite things... )

Current Mood: content
Current Music: people on phones

Over the last year or so:

A tricked-out Subaru sedan, with an additional four headlights in the front and a gigantic spoiler on the back, making it look like a monstrous Hot Wheel®.

A teenager wearing a rainbow clown wig, walking backwards up the hill on Seal Beach Blvd.

A dirt-bike style motorcycle, heading south down the 405 with a pastel Easter basket, firmly affixed to the back.

A guy with a large sign on a street corner, pointing to "Self-Storage." The sign is vaguely arrow-shaped, but also reminiscent of the shape of a coffin.

Another young man with a similar sign, pointing toward a new apartment complex. He is flipping, twirling, and tossing it high in the air, drum-major style, on the island in the middle of the intersection.

A man riding a bike backwards through a church parking lot.

A carved Halloween pumpkin, sitting on top of a control box beside the freeway

The kites of kite surfers, hovering over a row of beach houses like brightly colored fermatas over a bar of music.

A very bright rainbow that seems to end over my place of employment, while the other end seems to be somewhere in the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station.

A license plate that says PLAQLADY. Is the driver a dental hygienist or does she own a trophy shop?

A woman in a suit, talking on her cell phone, on the island in the middle of Ocean Blvd. This in itself was not so unusual, but when I first saw her I thought she was a little person. When I drove past, I realized she was standing in a knee-deep hole in the dirt. Maybe it was the only place her phone had good reception?

A couple of blocks later, hordes of matronly women in purple skirt suits with pink blouses. My God, a Mary Kay convention must be in town. Sure enough, I passed the sign for the Sports Arena/Terrace Theater/Convention Center and guess what it says?

Oxymoron of the Day - a truck getting on the freeway onramp has the words "TRU-GREEN CHEM-LAWN" on the side. If you have to spray a bunch of chemicals on your lawn, is the result truly the color that grass was meant to be? I always seem to see these trucks driving away from golf courses.

Current Mood: good
Current Music: Finn Bros. - We're All God's Children (and God is a woman)..

Over the last year or so:

A tricked-out Subaru sedan, with an additional four headlights in the front and a gigantic spoiler on the back, making it look like a monstrous Hot Wheel®.

A teenager wearing a rainbow clown wig, walking backwards up the hill on Seal Beach Blvd.

A dirt-bike style motorcycle, heading south down the 405 with a pastel Easter basket, firmly affixed to the back.

A guy with a large sign on a street corner, pointing to "Self-Storage." The sign is vaguely arrow-shaped, but also reminiscent of the shape of a coffin.

Another young man with a similar sign, pointing toward a new apartment complex. He is flipping, twirling, and tossing it high in the air, drum-major style, on the island in the middle of the intersection.

A man riding a bike backwards through a church parking lot.

A carved Halloween pumpkin, sitting on top of a control box beside the freeway

The kites of kite surfers, hovering over a row of beach houses like brightly colored fermatas over a bar of music.

A very bright rainbow that seems to end over my place of employment, while the other end seems to be somewhere in the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station.

A license plate that says PLAQLADY. Is the driver a dental hygienist or does she own a trophy shop?

A woman in a suit, talking on her cell phone, on the island in the middle of Ocean Blvd. This in itself was not so unusual, but when I first saw her I thought she was a little person. When I drove past, I realized she was standing in a knee-deep hole in the dirt. Maybe it was the only place her phone had good reception?

A couple of blocks later, hordes of matronly women in purple skirt suits with pink blouses. My God, a Mary Kay convention must be in town. Sure enough, I passed the sign for the Sports Arena/Terrace Theater/Convention Center and guess what it says?

Oxymoron of the Day - a truck getting on the freeway onramp has the words "TRU-GREEN CHEM-LAWN" on the side. If you have to spray a bunch of chemicals on your lawn, is the result truly the color that grass was meant to be? I always seem to see these trucks driving away from golf courses.

Current Mood: good
Current Music: Finn Bros. - We're All God's Children (and God is a woman)..