Erin Writes

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Yes, this is the quiz that’s been making its way around facebook. I’m amused by it. If you’re not, feel free to move along.

Click here to take it on facebook (if you’re my friend there), or just see below the break for the answers!

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You Are Likely an Only Child

At your darkest moments, you feel frustrated. At work and school, you do best when you’re organizing. When you love someone, you tend to worry about them. In friendship, you are emotional and sympathetic. Your ideal careers are: radio announcer, finance, teaching, ministry, and management. You will leave your mark on the world with organizational leadership, maybe as the author of self-help books.

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The movie quote meme, which I saw first at So Anyway…

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search or other search functions.

Looks like we’ve got ‘em all, folks…thanks for playing!

1. I got a question. If you guys know so much about women, how come you’re here at like the Gas ‘n’ Sip on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere? (Say Anything, Emma)

2. There’s a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours. (The Princess Bride, Adam Selzer, Eden)

3. That’s it? Some faceless guy rips off all your clothes, and THAT’S the sex fantasy you’ve been having since you were twelve? (When Harry Met Sally, Emma, Eden)

4. I’ve loved two women in my life. I lost one to cancer, and I lost the other ’cause I was so busy keeping my job I forgot to do my job. (The American President, Emma, Adam Selzer)

5. I mean, Led Zeppelin didn’t write tunes everybody liked. They left that to the Bee Gees. (Wayne’s World, Eden)

6. Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K. (Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Adam Selzer, Eden)

7. I’ll trade with anyone who has a Jacuzzi. (The Muppets Take Manhattan, Lyanne)

8. I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you’ll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me. (The Shawshank Redemption, Amanda/pafuts)

9. This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then - explode. (Serenity, voiceofkiki)

10. I got it! You daughter’s not your daughter, and the cash that used to be the jewels is now your underwear! (Oscar, guessed correctly by mom! Yay, mom!)

11. Oh, Joel Miller, you’ve just found the marble in the oatmeal. You’re a lucky, lucky, lucky little boy. ‘Cause you know why? You get to drink from the fire hose! (UHF, Adam Selzer)

12. In fact, I think most Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. (So I Married an Axe Murderer, Eden, Jenn)

13. It’s not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting *ideas*, and *thinking*… (Beauty and the Beast, Eden, Deoris)

14. Son, if I’d only gotten to be a doctor for five minutes… now that would have been a tragedy. (Field of Dreams, Adam Selzer)

15. Please get out of my Van Halen t-shirt before you jinx the band and they break up. The Wedding Singer, Adam Selzer

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I’ve done so many of these things (including the 100 things about me list) that I’m running out of things to say. I did this “Seven things” meme back in the summertime, so I’m reposting it with one new random thing instead of coming up with eight new ones.

Tagged by Ontario Emperor. Rules:

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. List EIGHT random facts about yourself.
3. Tag EIGHT people at the end of your post and list their names.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged.

1. I’m really short. All the women in my family are short, but I think I’m the shortest. I just barely crack 5 feet.

2. To date, my longest relationship has lasted 3 years and approximately three months. I’m looking to break that record this October. Three years and six months. Record broken. Woohoo!

3. I slept with a teddy bear well into my adult life.

4. I have weird fingernails. My nail beds are wide, and the nails flatten out when they get long. It looks bizarre, so I keep them short. (I had acrylic nails for a while, in my 20s, but the upkeep got to be both too expensive and too time-consuming for my taste)

5. I’m pretty low-maintenance, appearance-wise. I wear little (if any) makeup, I hate spending more than 5 minutes on my hair, and I’m not into fashion at all.

6. I have a weakness for sandals. I don’t buy expensive shoes, but my sandal collection is larger than it probably needs to be.

7. I hate, hate, hate “stepping in wet.” If my socks get wet (by stepping on a wet bath mat, for example), they must be changed immediately. I do everything in my power to avoid this circumstance.

um…

8.When I was in college, I joined a sorority. Oddly enough, one of the things you seem to do quite a lot of in a sorority is sing. A group of us named ourselves the “tone deaf club.” I am not tone deaf, and I know this…but many of the women in my sorority were really good singers and that intimidated me. I am slowly but surely overcoming my fear.

I have somewhat more interesting answers for the five random things meme.

I’m breaking the rules and not tagging. If anyone does choose to participate, please post a comment linking to your answers!

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One of these days, I’ll post some actual content. But not today. Seen at All Things Jennifer first, then at Samantha Says.

These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users.

Bold what you have read, italicize books you’ve started but couldn’t* finish, and strike through books you hated. Add an asterisk* to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your TBR list.

Jonathan Strange & M. Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One hundred years of solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveller’s Wife
The Iliad
The Blind Assassin
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Atlas shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury tales
The Historian
A portrait of the artist as a young man
Love in the time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
Emma
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes
The God of Small Things
A people’s history of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A confederacy of dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The unbearable lightness of being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

*I’d like to add that some of the italicized books aren’t necessarily ones I couldn’t finish, just ones I didn’t finish and never bothered to go back to.

And since I can’t underline, here are books I think I might like to read at some point:

Wuthering Heights
Emma
The Kite Runner
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Middlesex
Wicked
Anansi Boys
Eats, Shoots and Leaves (have it, read parts of it…)
In Cold Blood
Angela’s Ashes

I’m not sure if I want to read Love in the Time of Cholera, since I’m not sure if I like Gabriel Garcia Marquez. There, I admitted it.

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Tagged by Eden

8 things I am passionate about:
1. Writing
2. Love
3. Teaching
4. Books
5. Rand
6. Family
7. Calligraphy projects
8. My friends

8 things I want to do before I die
1. Go to Italy
2. Learn sign language
3. Pay off my student loans
4. Publish a novel
5. Get a “real” job
6. Sing
7. Get a Ph.D. (maybe?)
8. Grow old with Rand

8 things I say often (the nearly all-school edition)
1. “I don’t know.”
2. “You love me…”
3. “I’m not kidding.”
4. “Ladies and gentlemen, please sit down and take out your agendas.”
5. “Would you like to go see Mr. W?” (the principal)
6. “No”
7. “And what does your paper need to have on top?” (answer: a heading)
8. “Sit down”

8 books I’ve read recently (not necessarily finished; not necessarily novels)
1. Uglies
2. The Diary of Anne Frank (play)
3. Girls Guide to Witchcraft
4. Beige
5. Runaways
6. Confessions of a Blabbermouth
7. Neptune Noir
8. Y the Last Man

8 songs I could listen to over and over
1. “Black Monday”
2. “Without Me”
3. “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree”
4. “That, For Me, Is You”
5. “Callin’ Baton Rouge”
6. “No Hurry”
7. “Cold, Cold, Heart”
8. “Cowboy Secret Space Detective”

8 things that attract me to my best friends
1. Loyalty
2. Intelligence
3. Trustworthiness
4. Generosity
5. Sense of humor
6. Honesty
7. Creativity
8. Common interests/experiences

Consider yourself tagged if you want to be. Just leave me a comment if you decide to play!

I have a feeling someone else tagged me this week, but I can’t remember who…feel free to leave me a comment to remind me.

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So while I was at home over the weekend, I learned that Bigfoot has been sighted in Elk County.

I also attended my cousin’s wedding. More on that tomorrow, but for now, some photos are up here.

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Kelly tagged me. Here goes.

INSTRUCTIONS: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot, like so.

1. The Urban Recluse
2. No Smoking in the Skull Cave
3. Electronic Cerebrectomy
4. Byzantium’s Shores: The Occasional Meditations of yada yada yada.
5. erin-go-blog!

Next, select five people to tag.

1. Samantha
2. Caoimhe
3. Stephanie
4. Ensie (ha! got you back…)
5. You!

(Seriously, I won’t be hurt if you don’t do it…)

And now for the questions!

What were you doing ten years ago?

In 1997, I was settling into my first real job as a reporter at the DuBois Courier-Express and getting used to the idea that K was indeed not coming back.

What were you doing one year ago?

Lamenting the fact that I had deleted my blog’s database. *weep*

Five snacks you enjoy.

1. Berries
2. Craisins and almonds mixed together
3. Doritos
4. Popcorn
5. Ginger (both chocolate-covered and regular!)

Five songs to which you know all the lyrics.

1. American Pie
2. Brown-Eyed Girl
3. The entirety of Jesus Christ Superstar
4. Black Monday
5. The Girl That’s Never Been

Five things you would do if you were a billionaire.

1. Pay off all debt for myself and family members.
2. Get married/buy a house without worrying about how much it costs.
3. Donate a bunch of money to my favorite charities.
4. Earmark a bunch for the scholarship fund at Allegheny.
5. Invest well, live off the interest, and write.

Five bad habits.

1. Procrastination
2. Spending more than I should
3. Drinking soda (or pop)
4. Not finishing things I started
5. Puttering

Five things you like doing.

1. Watching my favorite shows
2. Reading
3. Voting for Democrats (I like that, Kelly…I’ll leave it!)
4. Baking
5. Cuddling

Five things you would never wear again.

Again? Assuming that means things I’ve once worn…

1. Stirrup pants. Leggings of any kind, really, but mostly stirrup pants.
2. Tube tops
3. Polyester pantsuits
4. Bubble skirts
5. Uncomfortable shoes