Skeezed from kingdavey. This was too amusing to skip. I think I tried to go with the first real sentence of each search phrase, although there were some I could have selected that were slightly more amusing.

*Type in "[your name] needs" in the Google search:
Jodi needs deliverance from lust, unforgiveness and the mental ...

*Type in "[your name] looks like" in Google search:
Jodi looks like Miss Piggy in that awful gold thing!

*Type in "[your name] likes" in Google search:
Jodi likes me. She thinks I'm neat!

*Type in "[your name] says" in Google search:
Jodi says: You're Like a Drag Queen. So Much Drama.

*Type in "[your name] wants" in Google search:
If you have something Jodi wants she will be your best friend.

*Type in "[your name] does" in Google search:
IMHO I think its time Jodi does something with her hair.

*Type in "[your name] hates" in Google search:
Jodi hates attention.

*Type in "[your name] goes" in Google search:
Jodi goes to visit a nutritionist named Mary Donkersloot.

*Type in "[your name] loves" in Google search:
Jodi loves it when I don't bother to write and just post youtube clips

*Type in "[your name] has" in Google search:
Jodi has been called “a national treasure” by Rolling Stone magazine

*Type in "[your name] will" in Google search:
Jodi will bring water and something to make the water hot.

Yes, I know it's not the 15th. I like to let the day complete and then do the stats. I also know it's the top 18, but I'm trying to be fair. No new friends added during this period (probably a good thing since I struggle to keep up as it is.

1	kingdavey		18
2	louenn		14
3	ayoub		8
4	uawildcatgrl		7
5	mariaslilgurl		5
5	kikifitz		5
5	billzy		5
8	callita623		4
8	leanbysummer		4
8	rredhead		4
11	stellardreams81		3
11	msbluerasp		3
13	holding_on		2
13	nppyinzer		2
13	mrsbkwod		2
13	parlet		2
13	harmonyinmotion		2
13	sewcute		2

Generated with help from LJ Comment Stats and ljArchive

Total comments: 862 (with comments from myself and anonymous)
Total comments: 484 (without comments from myself and anonymous)

( ...because I'm feeling nice... )

Also, please welcome a few new friends (announced twice monthly):

chelchik
danaewhispering
nppyinzer
munkyette
ayoub
torturred_soul
sewcute

Ganked from stegzy:


( Click here to see! )

Well, it's not nearly as bad as I thought it would be, and to be honest, most of what put the scores so high happened in the past when I was on the road all the time or posting quizzes left and right. If I went through and did the quiz for only what my journal is like now, the scores would be much lower.

Thanks to kingdavey for finding this one.

The Ultimate LiveJournal Obsession Test
Category	Your Score	Average LJer
Community Attachment	35.48% There's something special about you. Every once in awhile, one of your topics gets everyone chatting.	22.82%
MemeSheepage	33.33% Easily amused	27.75%
Original Content	64.52% Newsweek, People, and your journal	38.06%
Psychodrama Quotient	20.48% Your dark side's safe with us	16.7%
Attention Whoring	50% You'd sell your mother for another three friends	20.7%
Take The Ultimate LiveJournal Obsession Test and see how you match up! (By The Ferrett)

Skeezed from rodshark and only because I want to be more like billzy:

( Who comments the most on this journal? )

billzy, perhaps I can snag some scripts from you for comment stats in exchange for some chocolates? ;)

In all honesty, these stats somewhat surprised me. I seriously didn't realize there were so many anonymous comments, nor do I know half the people who left one comment and disappeared. Very interesting indeed. Of course, this is over all time, and I've been around LJ-Land since fall of 2004.

Snagged from billzy

This is with my maiden name:



With my married name, I am now an army of two.

free Touch typing

This is depressing to me. Way back when, I used to teach a keyboarding class and when I started I was typing 42 words per minute (yeah, I sucked). By the time I reached the end of teaching that class, my scores were somewhere in the 90's. Of course, then I got lazy, I suppose. This test was taken on my laptop so it's possible I would get a slightly higher score sitting at a desk with a larger keyboard, but not by much, I'm sure. Perhaps if I take the test again


Edited to add: Taken again at 10:17 AM Sunday 1/27/2008 - Scored 78 with 0 errors. Yes, I am pathetic. I know this.

Edited to add: Taken again at sometime Monday 1/28/2008 - Scored 81 with 0 errors. I just had to beat B. Now, I need to get a life. ;)

We're stuck on movies for the moment. I really will get around to other top five lists, I promise. ;) Remember, if you have ideas for lists, let me know! For this poll, please pick your top five favorite MOVIE soundtracks. Please try to avoid movies made from musicals if possible. That's another top five for later. ;)

Poll #1071148
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Top Five: movie soundtracks

Top Five: movie soundtracks

Top Five: movie soundtracks

Top Five: movie soundtracks

Top Five: movie soundtracks

If you want to play along, comment and I'll pick seven interests from your profile for you to explain. This round of interests has been picked by strawberry6703.

She also picked 37, Common Rotation, and Jackopierce, which can be found in previous posts.

42: This is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. Who wouldn't be interested in that? ;) For those of you who don't care to click the external link, it's the brainchild of Douglas Adams, author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and other books. If you haven't read his writings yet, I highly recommend them.

alpacas: I love these adorable creatures. I want to own a couple alpacas along with the sheep someday. They have marvelous fiber for spinning (which I really do plan to learn eventually).

Alton Brown: This man is my hero. He is so smart and witty and talented. Good Eats is by far my favorite show on television, but I also love Feasting on Asphalt and Iron Chef America. Alton Brown is the only person I know who takes the time to break down all the silly little cooking rules and explain why things are done a certain way. It makes cooking so much easier when the why is understood, too. Since he does this in a quirky Bill Nye sort of way, I love it even more.

budget living: Right now we are a one income family. We are trying to make this work for us, and we keep talking about how important it is for us to have a budget and stick to it. However, it's much easier said than done. We are awful about budgeting and are well aware of this. I've lived off a budget before so I know it's possible. In the meantime, I've made a point to cut back spending on certain luxuries (we rarely go out to eat, for example), and make extra income when possible (blog ads, anyone?). I also write out a grocery list and stick to it and try not to take random unnecessary trips to the mall (those trips almost always wind up in impulse buying). The activities we do tend to be fairly low in cost (half price day coming up at the zoo). Hopefully, we'll have a budget written out soon to see where else we can cut back on our spending.

decluttering: We have gone through periods of time where all we do is accumulate crap. To counter that, we have random periods of time where we go through a serious decluttering. I'm sure the decluttering doesn't happen as often as it should, and we don't get rid of as much as we should. Thankfully, in limiting our spending, we are doing pretty well with managing the clutter right now, but we still have mounds of stuff to eliminate. We've given away some things to various charities and I've sold a few items through eBay and Craigslist. I just really need to crack down on this and get rid of more. I hate having things in the house we don't use, when I know someone else could get some use out of them. We're not so bad that we need to be on Clean Sweep, but we're not minimalists by any stretch of the imagination. This interest goes hand in hand with my interest in organization.

euchre: This particular interest proves I am a child of the north. I don't think it's possible to live in Michigan and not at least know what euchre is. I love card games and haven't had much of a chance to play them since I moved to Texas since I don't know anyone here who plays cards other than poker (which is SO not me). Euchre is a card game that involves trump and following suit and is not entirely dissimilar from the game of hearts. It can be played with varying numbers of players and varying numbers of cards, but usually is played with four people (two teams of two) and the 9-A cards. If you haven't played before and enjoy card games, take the time to read up on it and learn it because it can be quite fun. I skipped many classes for euchre tournaments in college, simply because we would get so caught up in the game.

making lists: This is a sickness I have. For everything I want to do, everything I am doing, and everything I have done, there is most likely a list. I even will make lists of which lists I need to make or have made. B makes fun of me because I'm always making lists. Whenever we're talking about something (I'm sure he can tell I do this in my head a lot), he'll just spout off something like, "Why don't you make a list?" a little bit sarcastically. I don't mind, though, because I usually wind up making a list anyhow. ;) Most of my lists are of the To Be Done nature, because along with making lists, I love to cross things off. It always gives me a sense of satisfaction to write up a list and be able to cross things off as they are completed, much in a "see what I can accomplish" sort of way. Sometimes I will even put things on the list that have already been completed or are about to be completed, just for the satisfaction of crossing them off the list. ;)

Okay, I know quite a few of you played along last week. I made mention of the top five in one of my bullet posts, but I don't think anyone caught it (I have a feeling most people skip those posts anyhow). The comments have all been unscreened if you're interested in checking them out.

So, question for you, my dear friends: Would you be interested in continuing the Top Five here? Would you rather participate at top_five (currently inactive, but I am planning to work on that)? Hmm... I think this calls for a poll. ;)

Poll #1066667
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Top Five!

If you check out the community, ignore everything over there for now. I haven't made any changes yet and only acquired it last week I think.

Also, if anyone is interested in playing and would care to submit topics, feel free to comment or send me an email or IM.


Okay, kids. Hurricane Sophie has hit once again, so I need to clean up the aftermath...

No poll this time, just a meme. Feel free to answer the questions here or snag and post in your own blog. If you don't post your answers here, please at least stop to recommend a movie to me. Thanks!

Snagged (with a few minor additions) from cynkaba:

1. Name a movie you have seen more than 10 times.
2. Name a movie you've seen multiple times in the theater.
3. Name an actor/actress who would make you more inclined to see a movie.
4. Name an actor/actress who would make you less likely to see a movie.
5. Name a movie you can and do quote from.
6. Name a movie musical in which you know all of the lyrics to all of the songs.
7. Name a movie you have been known to sing along with.
8. Name a movie you would recommend everyone see.
9. Name a movie (any movie) you own.
10. Name an actor who launched his/her entertainment career in another medium but who has surprised you with his/her acting chops.
11. Have you ever seen a movie in a drive-in?
12. Name a movie you keep meaning to see but you just haven’t gotten around to yet.
13. Have you ever walked out of a movie?
14. Have you ever turned off a movie and not finished watching it?
15. Name a movie that made you cry in the theater.
16. Name a movie that made you jump in the theater.
17. Name a movie that made you cheer out loud and clap in the theater.
18. Popcorn?
19. Other snacks?
20. How often do you go to the movies?
21. How often do you rent movies?
22. Do you belong to Blockbuster, Netflix, or similar program?
23. What’s the last movie you saw in the theater?
24. What’s your favorite/preferred genre of movie?
25. What’s the first movie you remember seeing in the theater?
26. What movie do you wish you had never seen?
27. What is the weirdest movie you enjoyed?
28. What is the scariest movie you’ve seen?
29. What is the funniest film you have ever seen?

( my answers )

A poll :)

Call me curious.

The following questions are just for straight television, no DVDs or videos. It does include TiVo and other DVR solutions.

Poll #1066256 tv
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Do you watch television?

How often do you watch television?

What is your favorite channel?

What is your favorite television show?

Do you watch movies on television?

If you want to play along, comment and I'll pick seven interests from your profile for you to explain. This round of interests has been picked by fbl80 :

Acoustic Guitars: I love the sound of an acoustic guitar. I used to love watching VH1's Unplugged because of this. What happened to the good shows and the music videos? Now it's all just a bunch of crap (except for the I Love the X's shows). Anyhow, I prefer acoustic over any other guitar and would really love to learn to play it some day.

Jackopierce: This is a group B shared with me when we were first dating. I've seen Jackopierce once in concert and I love them. My favorite song of theirs is Vineyard. Yeah, I cheated and copied this from my first entry. ;)

Ice Cream: If there was one dessert I absolutely adore and would hate to give up, it's ice cream. Sure, I love just about any dessert, but nothing comes close to ice cream. My all time favorite ice cream is candy cane or peppermint, but it's so darn hard to find! I couldn't even find it at Christmas time last year. I am also a huge fan of many Ben and Jerry's flavors. I can't stand crap ice cream that is all fluff when it melts. I love ice cream sandwiches (love to make my own) and other novelty ice cream. I can't stand chocolate chips or jimmies/sprinkles on my ice cream, but just about anything else is fair game. I especially love a good ice cream cone from Marble Slab or Coldstone Creamery. Mmm!!

Natural Parenting: I am interested in many aspects of natural parenting. I don't think this is the only way to parent, and I found that not all beliefs in natural parenting applied to us, but I have been able to take a few ideas and use them with Sophie. She sleeps with us and I nurse her to sleep. While that's pretty much the only time she nurses, it's at least four times a day/night, so I believe we're into extended nursing at this point. We do the whole cloth diapering scene (I love it) and I've tried to stick with homemade foods when I can or organic foods when possible. Now, that said, I couldn't get into the whole baby wearing thing and I really didn't think elimination communication was for us, either. I'm sure there are other parts of natural parenting I haven't even explored yet.

Recycling: We are firm believers that every little bit counts and we are doing what we can to leave a smaller footprint. We recycle everything we possibly can and compost most of our food waste. Thankfully, Fort Worth has a wonderful recycling system. More often than not, our recycle bin is full before our garbage bin is, and they're the same size bins. I am extremely frustrated by people who don't bother to recycle out of pure laziness (our neighbor NEVER recycles because he thinks it isn't worth the effort and has told us to just put our recyclables with our garbage when we ran out of room in the recycle bin before). I am also frustrated by cities that don't make it easier for people to recycle (my parents can only recycle cardboard, paper, glass, and #2 plastic through their city). I applaud the apartment complexes and business offices that are making it easier for people to recycle. It's really not that difficult to do. EVERYONE should be doing it! :)

The 80's: I am such a child of the 80's. I loved the music and movies and even the television shows, not so much the fashion. ;) I like the more alternative style 80's music but there was some pop music from that decade that was worthwhile as well. Say Anything and Pretty in Pink were probably two of my favorite movies during that time. I remember my favorite song in '86 was If You Leave by OMD, from the Pretty in Pink soundtrack. I was in love with John Cusack and Andrew McCarthy and... Kirk Cameron! I don't know why it is that Growing Pains was my favorite show because it makes me cringe now, but I thought Kirk Cameron was the absolute coolest guy ever. Of course, that was mid 80's. I finally figured out that Growing Pains kinda sucked, but probably not soon enough. ;) Even though I loved the 80's, I don't think I could handle reliving that era... ever.

WAHM: I am currently a stay-at-home-mom (SAHM) but am looking to become a work-at-home-mom (WAHM). I want to do my part in bringing in money, but I do not want to put my daughter in daycare (multiple reasons). This is one of the reasons I do the whole advertising by blog thing.

I know there is still one more list of entries out there. So far there's only one repeat!

If you want to play along, comment and I'll pick seven interests from your profile for you to explain. This round of interests has been picked by blondieoubre:

Common Rotation: This band opened for They Might Be Giants when we went to see them at Trees a few summers ago. Common Rotation is probably the best opening act I've ever seen. We actually wound up buying a CR CD that night and NOT a TMBG CD. Then again, I think we owned just about all of the TMBG CDs anyhow. ;) Seriously, check out their music if you get a chance. B and I both love them (it says a lot that we agree on this).

DIY (what all do you like to diy?): We pretty much like to do just about whatever we can if possible. It gives such a great sense of satisfaction. I think the only things we refuse to tackle are tougher electrical and plumbing tasks. We don't hire people to take care of our yard (B loves doing it and our yard isn't very big). We don't hire people to paint (I love doing it). I like to be all sorts of crafty whenever possible and would rather refinish a dresser than buying one new. Of course, just because we like to do these projects doesn't mean they always get done... ;)

Domo Kun: Hah, I love this little guy! Domo Kun is a Japanese creation. He's an alien and is addicted to television and he is just TOO cute! There are video clips available all over the innarwebs. Check him out, seriously.



Dream Dinners: I absolutely love Dream Dinners. We have done it for three months now and I don't want to stop! It makes menu planning ten thousand times easier. They always have excellent meal choices, too. We have a greater variety of meals now and we definitely eat healthier side dishes now.

Jackopierce: This is a group B shared with me when we were first dating. I've seen Jackopierce once in concert and I love them. My favorite song of theirs is Vineyard.

Sheep: Someday, I want to own sheep. I think they're adorable, but I want them mostly for the never ending supply of wool! See below.

Spinning: I absolutely love yarn. I love most kinds of yarn (cheap acrylic need not apply, though), but I especially love hand spun yarn. I am dying to learn to spin, but just haven't had time with Sophie and all. I have a drop spindle, but it's a bit of a pain in my butt. I really need to practice with it. I want to be able to say someday that not only did I knit an item, but I also spun the yarn for it. :)

I have two other friends from whom I requested lists (yeah yeah, I know)

It's been a long time since I've done a Top Five list. I'm not even sure I've ever posted one here before or not. I really need to get into the habit of it.

Actually, I think I'm going to make this an ongoing participatory event. I might need to work out a few kinks, but let's try this.

How to participate:

1. I will post a Top Five topic in my blog, with my top five list behind a cut.


2. You must have five items and only five items in your list!


3. State if your list is in no particular order or number it if it is.


4. Please don't peek behind the cut until you've commented with your Top Five. We don't want to taint lists. ;)


5. I probably will need to screen comments, won't I? *sigh* I will keep them screened for a few days. Someone may need to remind me to unscreen them. Perhaps I will screen them until the next Top Five is announced. I'm thinking I'll do this once a week.


6. Feel free to supply me with lots and lots of topics. :)


7. Also, feel free to offer advice to make it run more smoothly!! :)

Is there a community for this? I should do a search. Later, perhaps.

If you've never seen the movie High Fidelity before, I highly recommend you check it out.

( My Top Five )

Quick refresher: I posted some food polls recently and covered quite a bit of ground. I had planned to have one more and nearly forgot all about it! I know some people don't think dessert is all that special, but I love to bake and I have a bit of a sweet tooth, so I absolutely love dessert. This is not to say I have dessert every day, because I don't. I think it is great for a special and occasional treat.

Please feel free to comment about favorite desserts or sweets, things you hate, and anything in between. :)

( On with the poll!! )

Snagged from rodshark

( My Interests Collage! )

I know we hit on beverages a bit during the breakfast poll, but I don't think I did it justice, so we're revisiting here.

( clicky clicky )

Yet another food related poll - please feel free to share more info in the comments. :)

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Continuing with our theme of food, here's another poll. Please feel free to add comments. :)

( More poll goodness! )

I love food. I love to taste it. I love to make it. I hope to soon be able to grow it. I love to share recipes and learn what other people like so I can get ideas. I have a little recipe community where I keep most of my frequently used recipes (family_recipes). I have planned out menus before, but have never had much success sticking to it. Dream Dinners certainly helped with that, though.

aellwynde recently had two journal entries regarding foods, which has inspired a similar post here.

Firstly, a poll:

( I cut because I care... )

Secondly, question and answer time:

Please explain all yes or no answers when possible (same goes for you maybes out there).

1. Are there any foods you eat that others might find a little bizarre?
2. Do you have any memories related to food scents?
3. Does texture play a roll in your likes and dislikes of food?
4. Are you a Harry or a Sally when it comes to ordering at a restaurant?
5. Corner pieces, yes or no?
6. Do you have any other quirks in the kitchen, such as which utensils are used for which foods?
7. What is your favorite dish to make?
8. Do you wish you had different pots and pans? If so, what type would you prefer?
9. Do you have a nice set of knives? If so, are they stored in a block?
10. Do you prefer to cook or to bake?
11. What is the one dish you make that could be considered your signature dish?

Thank you so much for playing along. I'll be voting and answering in comments just like anyone else. Enjoy! :)

Ganked from aellwynde

~sm00bs~

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