6 posts tagged “qotd”
Do you remember your first flight? Where did you go? Why?
Submitted by Laurel.
My first flight was to Acapulco, Mexico when I was about 10. We went for a family vacation-- we took one every year, but we usually drove to somepalce in the US. I remember being excited by the flight and being amazed by seeing the tops of clouds out the window of the plane.
I also remember swimming in the ocean and shopping for blankets and ponchos in the Mexican market. One afternoon my parents hired a babysitter for us through the hotel that didn't speak English, and my sister and I had fun hanging out with her. There are pictures of Stacy and I wearing matching outfits consisting of white shorts and a shirts with red, white and blue sailboats on the front, complete with real rope embellishments. Nice.
If you are going to dress up for Halloween, what will you be? Why?
Submitted by Auweea.
I don't know! I need an idea. I'm supposed to dress up for the "Halloween Boofet" (yes, I try not to puke every time I see that..) at work, but I'm not feeling it.
Which of your five senses (touch, taste, sight, hearing, or smell) do you value the most?
Submitted by Elisheva.
I would have to say my sight-- I can't imagine not being able to see all the quail and pet antics, and not being bale to design.
But I have reason to believe that I have a pretty above average sense of smell, which I would miss as well.
How many pets have you owned in your lifetime? Tell us about them.
Submitted by jennajellopy.vox.com.
Francis & Felix were goldfish that I had when I was about 2 or 3. Every so often, one of them would disappear from the bowl. When I asked my mom where he was, she would say, "He swam back to K-Mart to see his friends". A couple of days later, he would be back. Thus, I fear I will not be able to accurately report how many goldfish I had as pets.
Flopsy was a cat I had at about the same time. She had 3 kittens-- Pepper, Scamper, and Frisky. I named Frisky. This was during the time when I was naming everything Frisky, including the robots I made out of my Legos. We gave the kittens away, and Flopsy "ran away" when we moved when I was 5.
Brandy was a dog we adoped from the pound that had an issue with housetraining. He liked to pee in my sister's bedroom, and we didn't keep him long.
Muffy was the best dog in the entire world, that I had from the time I was about 6 or so until the middle of college. She was a small mutt, they said she was part terrier, but it looked more like she was part daschund. She had the best trick called "doing the snake" where she would spread out on her belly with her back feet behind her and pull herself around by digging the claws of her front feet into the carpet. She would scoot around like this for what seemed like hours. She got breast cancer and had about a million surgeries, and still lived to be quite old. I miss her every day.
Solstice is a dog that is tied with Muffy for the best dog in the world. She is half Australian shepherd, half husky, and half genius, which you can see in the photo. She makes me laugh every day.
Gypsy is a cat that was born in the wild and we had to catch with a fishing net. She wanted nothing to do with us, until we opened up a can of cat food and gave her some. Then she started loving us, and she has slept cuddled up with me and purring ever since.
Let's make a list. What are 20 things in your life that you're grateful for?
20 things? Wow, that's a lot.
- Brian
- Solstice
- Gypsy
- My family
- My friends
- My health
- Brian's health
- My education
- My sense of humor
- My talents, such as they are
- Brian's job
- My house
- Effexor
- Margaritas
- Coffee
- My laptop
- 80's alternative music
- Bananas Foster
- Microbrew beer
- The web design community
What's the last thing you usually do or think about before you fall asleep?
I almost always read before I fall asleep. I jealsously guard that hour or so in bed with a book before calling it quits for the day. This is one of the main reasons that I like Vox as a platform-- it makes it really easy for me to add the books that I'm reading and comment on them.
Right now I am reading The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon.
The last thing I think about ususally has to do with the book I'm reading, but if I have a major meeting or excursion happening the next day I will think about that. And if there was major drama that happened that day, sometimes I can't help going over that endlessly, and creating fantasy scenarios where I used my cutting wit to defeat my enemies and save the day.
