LadyGypsy.net – the blog of Kimberly Dowd of New Jersey

Rabbit rabbit and happy April first! Today’s Friday Five is about “clean” – a subject that I’m pretty ambivalent on. I’m not a neat freak. I’m not even … neat. I live among clutter (except work, oddly enough) and I don’t mind. But anyway, here we go!

1. What’s in need of a good cleaning?
Max. Seriously. He needs a bath. Ollie had a grooming appointment a few weeks back and he is so snuggly and sweet and shorn. Max looks like a homeless Ewok.

2. What’s your idea of good, clean fun?
The TV program “Wipeout” which cracks me up every single Thursday. It’s funny, but not in a mean way.

3. How clean is your driving record?
Right now it’s completely clean. I have a lead foot so I’ve received my share of speeding tickets through the years. I haven’t had one since I lived in my Voorhees apartment and was still working the 5:30am – 2:00pm schedule. So…2001 or 2002. I miss that schedule, by the way.

4. When did you last make a clean escape?
I never do. Seriously. The people I work with, frankly, can slip out easily. “Oh yeah…I have a, uh, sales call. In … the town where I live. At, uh, 4:45pm. So, uh, I’m heading there now and I’ll TRY to come back but, you know, traffic.” Me? I’m the one being emailed at 4:58pm with a problem.

5. What are your feelings about dirty language?
I used to be so uptight about it all. Now all of my uptightness has been tied to one foul and dirty four-letter word which begins with “c” and if you say it, I turn into a ball of raging and angry fury.

[paula deen] Hey y’all [/paula deen] it’s time for the Friday Five!

Put on your cape and Underoos because this week’s topic is SUPER1

1. There are superheroes named Superman, Superfly, and Supergirl. Based on your performance this past week in whatever you do, what would have been your Super_____ name?

I dunno. SuperAdScheduler is pretty lame. SuperCoordinator is pretty anti-climatic. When you have a job that doesn’t add anything to society, it’s pretty hard to be super. SuperPixelPusher? SuperSpreadsheeter?

Resolved: Find something to be super at. Next question!

2. This week, what has been superterrific and what has been superlame?

Superterrific: Coming home at night to a warm apartment full of love and food. Seriously, when I’m sacked out on the sofa before bedtime and I have the dogs & cat with me and glance over to see WM on the computer I am bowled over by how lucky I am. This is NOT how life was supposed to turn out for me by now, but I’m so stinking happy.

Superlame: Some work stuff. I don’t want to go into detail because – HI, WORK PEOPLE! – but we have a LOT of projects starting at the same time and I’m already behind on one.

3. Which of Superman’s abilities would have been the most useful this week?

Based on Superman’s modern abilities I think that photographic memory would be useful to me any week. It’s too cold to fly!

4. What do you most expect will be super this weekend?

I’m going to make a loaf of cinnamon bread in my breadmaker, play some World of Warcraft, go back to church, do some simple baking & possibly hit up some thrift stores. Tonight I very well may spike my coffee. Any of these has the potential to be super!

5. What are your thoughts this week about the coming Super Bowl?
The Philadelphia Eagles and their classless sociopath-hiring management and boorish fans has cultivated in me a hatred of football and its culture. I quit caring about the Super Bowl years ago when they stopped using current artists for the halftime show. Now that I can watch all of the cool commercials online the next morning, I’m finally freed from the five-hour-long SuperBowl process.

Have a SUPER day!

Just when my brain is squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezed dry by NaNoWriMo (still on track, story still stinks), in comes the Friday Five to give me literal and figurative things to write about!

1. Do you prefer to be in the driver’s seat or in the co-pilot’s chair, literally and figuratively?

Literally & Figuratively:
If there is someone who would rather take control, that’s great. But let’s not confuse the co-pilot’s seat with the backseat. I love being the navigator/second in command, both in the car and in RL.

2. Do you have a lot of baggage, literally and figuratively?

Literally: I think we have 4 suitcases, so not too much.
Figuratively: I do, but it’s fully claimed, inspected and put away in an orderly fashion. So while it’s there (and who doesn’t have it?) it’s not falling out on my feet while I’m entertaining.

3. How much junk have you got in the trunk, literally and figuratively?

Literally: Not much at all. Some jumper cables that don’t work. A few reusable shopping bags. Tire jack.
Figuratively: It’s the stuff legends are made of. Baby got back.

4. At celebrations where people are drinking, are you more likely to be literally or figuratively drunk as a skunk?

Literally: I don’t think skunks get drunk often, so yes, I’m literally as drunk as a skunk.
Figuratively: Not anymore. I’d rather have 2 good glasses of wine than 16 foul-tasting shots or watered down beer.

5. What’s something you enjoy that’s literally cheesy, and what’s something you enjoy that’s figuratively cheesy?

Literally: Have you tried the queso burrito at Qdoba? OMGeezers….yum! It’ll stop your heart but you’ll have a smile on your face!
Figuratively: The Saturday night Sci-Fi channel movies, namely the really bad ones like Sharktopus! Have you seen this? It’s wretched.

But it really made me want to vacation in Puerto Vallarta.