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I saw this on a few websites. Lots of questions. Today is a rainy afternoon interrupted with yardwork and Olympics. I figured what the heck.

1. Your name spelled backwards. nospmohT ekalB

2. Where were your parents born? Both here in Mississippi

3. What is the last thing you downloaded onto your computer? A spreadsheet generator for fantasy football

4. What’s your favorite restaurant? I’d probably have to say Harvey’s right now.

5. Last time you swam in a pool? July

6. Have you ever been in a school play? Only once. My senior year in high school. Had a semi-lead role too. That was the last of my acting career.

7. How many kids do you want? Between 3 and 5.

8. Type of music you dislike most? Polka.

9. Are you registered to vote? Indeed.

10. Do you have cable? The small cable package. It has the major networks and a few extras. But the channels I really want (besides networks) are higher up.

11. Have you ever ridden on a moped? Yep. My granddad had one that he let me ride up and down his street.

12. Ever prank call anybody? Used to do it all the time w/ my cousins from Virginia. When they’d come to my grandmother’s once a summer, we’d call the same people. They hated us. A friend of mine and I used to do it a lot too. Oh, the pre-teen years!

13. Ever get a parking ticket? Not by the police. But campus police in college got me a few times.

14. Would you go bungee jumping or sky diving? Yeah, sounds cool, but expensive.

15. Farthest place you ever traveled. Mexico or San Diego.

16. Do you have a garden? No.

17. What’s your favorite comic strip? Fox Trot. Found a book in the book store once, bought it and loved them. Then they started being in my local paper. Yah for me. Now I’m 30 and still like them. Dilbert is amusing. Non Sequiter is decent. Fat Side was genius.

18. Do you really know all the words to your national anthem? Of course.

19. Bath or Shower, morning or night? Shower in the morning

20. Best movie you’ve seen in the past month? Past month? I’ve seen a few, but none that were great. Top Gun on TBS.

21. Favorite pizza topping? Italian Sausage.

22. Chips or popcorn? Chips.

23. What color lipstick do you usually wear? Invisible.

24. Have you ever smoked peanut shells? Only with my preachers.

25. Have you ever been in a beauty pageant? Is this quiz from Cosmo Girl? No, I’ve not been in one. My mom almost entered me into one of those Little Mr. Small Town deals as a tiny kid. She says I got sick. I probably did on purpose.

26. Orange Juice or apple? Orange.

27. Who was the last person you went out to dinner with and where did you dine? With The Wife and The Kid @ Vanellis.

28. Favorite type chocolate bar? One of 3. Either plain Hershey’s, Nestle Crunch, or Whatchamacallit.

29. When was the last time you voted at the polls? The last time I saw the crowds at the booth. It was local elections.

30. Last time you ate a homegrown tomato? The last time I had a turkey sandwich….Thursday, maybe.

31. Have you ever won a trophy? Lots of little ones that don’t really count.

32. Are you a good cook? Depends on the dish.

33. Do you know how to pump your own gas? Cosmo Girl strikes again. Yes I do.

34. Ever order an article from an infomercial? No. But I’ve ordered something I saw on an infomercial. The Pest Offense. $30 and it sucked.

35. Sprite or 7-up? Sprite.

36. Have you ever had to wear a uniform to work? Nope.

37. Last thing you bought at a pharmacy? Vitamines I think.

38. Ever throw up in public? Heck yeah. At some County Fairs and used to do it in school all the time with the migraines.

39. Would you prefer being a millionaire or find true love? True love with a millionaire?

40. Do you believe in love at first sight? No

41. Ever call a 1-900 number? Nope

42. Can ex’s be friends? Yes, but it takes mature people.

43. Who was the last person you visited in a hospital? A friend w/ kidney stones. It was just yesterday actully.

44. Did you have a lot of hair when you were a baby? Only on my back.

45. What message is on your answering machine? “You know what to do after the beep.” My voice mail on the cell phone says something about “While your call is very important, all operators are currently assisting other callers….please leave a messsage and we’ll get back w/ you.”

46. What’s your all time favorite Saturday Night Live Character? Mr. Robinson from Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood.

47. What was the name of your first pet? Timothy. It was a cat that stayed at my dad’s house when I was about 7. I thought he ran away. I found out way on into my 20’s that he got smashed by a car.

48. What is in your purse? My Man Card.

49. Favorite thing to do before bedtime? Snuggle with The Wife.

50. What is one thing you are grateful for today? The rain.

I may have done this a long while back, can’t remember. But I took the test again. Here’s where I reside (according to this test):

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.26

Not really sure what it all means…other than I’m pretty much in the middle of everything. Some questions I wanted a “No Opinion” option. But it wasn’t there.

You can take the test here.

No, I don’t have a migraine, but I noticed a post over on Kevin’s blog about him having one. I know where he’s coming from. I use to have them at least once a week when I was a kid. From around Kindergarten to around early middle school I seemed to get them about once a week at a minimum. Man, they sucked.

I hated telling the teachers I had a headache. They thought I was like most of the kids and faking, wanting to go home or get out of work. They’d tell me, “Blake, my head hurts too. It’s been a long day. Just go back and sit at your desk and sit quietly.” So I’d walk my droopy self back to the desk and put my head down, waiting for the sudden goosh of saliva to fill my mouth telling me I was about to show her that I needed to call my mom.

It only took a few times. Before long they started letting me call my mom when I told them that. I guess they figured out it was easier to send me to the office to call her rather than having to look at that day’s partially digested cafeteria food splattered across the classroom carpet.

But I got a headache every day we had either hotdogs or hamburgers. Turns out the hotdogs were pumped with red food dye, that set me off. And the hamburgers were soybean burgers (not real meat) so I wouldn’t eat them…and not eating set me off on a migraine too. Chocolate would sometimes give me a headache too…and I LOVED chocolate…I mean LOVE.

Mom would come get me, strip me of my clothes, put me in bed and I’d have to try and sleep it off. I couldn’t eat because I’d throw it right back up. Man, those days were horrible. Thankfully I don’t have them anymore. Sometimes I’ll get a headache now and then, but not on a migraine level.

Here’s a quote from Croom in today’s paper. Hopefully it will come true.

“They’ve been through a lot,” Bulldogs coach Sylvester Croom said. “It’s time to go home, see their mommas, get a good meal, see their girlfriends and they can all tell them how great they are.”

And then?

“They can all come back and play like it,” Croom said.

Appetizer
What is a word that your family uses that would not be considered common?
Lasterday. The Kid came up with it for yesterday.

Soup
What theme of calendar do you have on your wall this year?
Do not even use a wall calendar

Salad
Name 3 people you speak with on a daily basis.
The Wife, The Kid, The Dogs

Main Course
If you could put a new tattoo on someone you know – who would it be, what would the tattoo be of, and where would you put it on them?
I’d tatoo a gold medal around Paul Hamm’s neck and the words “Eat this, Korea!”

Dessert
What is the last beverage you drank out of a glass bottle?
Um, probably Ale 8 when I was in Kentucky.

Not posted in a little while.

Mykel posted this on his blog…interesting.

Date To Save

A U.S. soldier over in the Middle East marries an Iraqi woman he fell in love with. The entire story is linked below, but here are a few quotes from it.

Robert Hall, 23, says he knew within a month that he would marry Vivian Mansour, 21, of Baghdad, even though at first neither spoke a word of each other’s language.

For them, cultural differences are offset by a shared Christian faith. Mansour is a Kurdish Christian — a population that makes up just 3 percent of Iraq’s 24 million people.

“It’s such a learning experience,” Hall said. “Our cultures are different, but the way we look at it is, we’re both children of God.”

Mansour’s English is still a work in progress, but she knows what attracted her to Hall.

“Heart first,” she said, pointing to her chest.

Full CNN Article

I’m nearly complete with my paper. Now I need to read, proof, and correct, email it to my prof. So I’ll give myself a little time for the Friday’s Feast.

Appetizer
What does the color pink make you think of?
The Kid. She told me it was her favorite color yesterday. Of course it changes all the time, but that what it is at the moment.

Soup
Name something you have lost but later found.
My keys. I lose them every day. But I find them everyday too. Frustrating. Something is usually placed on top of them or something.

Salad
In 3 words, describe this past week.
procrastinate, paper, writing

Main Course
What are you obsessed with?
Ooh…good question. I’m supposed to say God or my wife or something right?

Dessert
What kind of perfume or cologne do you like to wear?
I wear either Woods by Abercrombi (don’t think they make it anymore) or Curve. But it’s because that’s what my wife bought me and it does okay for me. I used to like Obsession a lot, but The Wife doesn’t. But it was a deep, woody, spicy smell.

I’m enjoying the Olympics. I really am. But as I sat and watched (instead of writing a paper) I realized that there’s only one time every four years that I’m even remotely interested in men’s gymnastics or swimming.