Navel gazing

Courtesy Woo-Woo.

A to Z the first things in my life

Apartment
When we got married, we lived in a very small one-bedroom apartment in a building built in the 1920s. We had about 25 square feet of floor space total in the bathroom, and about 6 square feet of counter space in the kitchen. It was an adjustment.

Best Friend
Laura Moore. The earliest I remember anyway. I think there were some toddler friends, but I don't remember them.

Car
Sad confession: I've never owned my own car, in my own name alone. But the first car I drove, and loved, was my mom's 1971 Toyota Corolla. It was fun to drive, if hideous to look at, and it was so decrepit that by the end of its life you had to push a button and turn the key in the ignition to start it.

Date
I think I was 16. He drove his 70s-era Honda Civic to the theater, but we had a flat tire on the way. He had no jack. I held the back corner of the car up while he changed the flat. Look closely at that car; this is not exactly a feat of strength. What movie did we see? Who knows?

Enemy
I can't think of one. Plenty of obnoxious kids in school, but only one stands out for sheer meanness: Bill Keith. And even at the time I remember thinking what a miserable life he must have to pick on me. As an adult, the Psycho-Boss-From-Hell, but again, I don't think it was personal.
Maybe it's because I don't care anymore if people hate me?

Funeral
My Nanny, mom's mom. She was 93 when she died. I was 9. It was February, but I remember it being a sunny day. [It usually is in Denver.] I got in trouble for swinging around the light pole in the cemetery while we waited for the service to start. I think I was entertaining my 3-year-old niece, but that could be later justification.

Gamble
Telling the truth at my first job about not being able to complete my shelf-reading duties. I lost.

Heartbreak
Wow, I can't think of one. Probably in college, when Ken never wrote back. I have a hunch that I saw most stuff coming and broke things off first so I wouldn't have to be heartbroken. And even with Ken, I cried but not in a suicidal way. I was closer to suicidal over some incidents with The Beast while we were dating. But tit wasn't heartbroken, just frustration and anger because he wouldn't get his shit in a heap and deal with it.

Intoxication
Age 17. Warren's house. My dad was in the hospital after having open heart surgery. Warren walked me home (3 blocks), and I remember my sister was at home to keep Mom from losing her mind. I came in and tried to listen to the serious talk, but was annoyed by a fly, so I got the flyswatter from the kitchen and tried to kill the damn thing. Did I? Don't know. I don't think Mom or my sister suspected a thing. I don't even remember what we were drinking.

There is a possibility that I got drunk on Tequila Sunrises in Mexico at 16 while on a school trip. The hotel passed them out to all guests as they checked in. They were pretty weak, and I certainly don't remember feeling goofy. We only realized they had alcohol in them because, like me, one girl--what was her name??--drank hers and a friend's. She got very loopy. I didn't.

[We never had any alcohol in our house growing up, not even cooking sherry. It took great creativity for me to find avenues to drink.]

Job
Unpaid: Working in the toddler room at church on Sunday mornings at age 13. I did that for at least 4 years.
Paid: Library page.

Kiss
Lewis, of the Honda Civic story. First kiss and I knew that this was not "It." On a later date, tongue kissing told me the same thing only moreso. I always think of that scene in "Back to the Future" when Lea Thompson kisses Michael J. Fox. That's exactly what it as like.

Does Ron kissing me at a Christmas dance because he had mistletoe attached to his hat so he could kiss everyone count? No, I didn't think so either. But I enjoyed it more.

Love
The kind that's returned? Or not?

My first love was Chris down the block. I proposed. We were 5.

The first REAL love was Beast. The kind that makes your stomach fall out if you think about doing without it.

Movie
"Oliver." I was so terrified (at age 5) by Mr. Bumble that I had to be carried, screaming, from the theater.

Nickname
I don't remember anything until high school when Annie called me Tater Tot occasionally.

Overnight Sleepover
I'm sure it was Laura, but I don't remember how old we were. I don't even clearly remember if she ever slept over at my house. I do remember a memorable night when she called the "popular" radio station multiple times requesting "Carolina in the Palms," so I could hear it. I still haven't heard it. Then there was the time we overnighted with other friends in their camper in the driveway. Just as we got started with the Ouija board, her older brother came out with his friends and started rocking the truck.

Pet
We had a parakeet, Peppy, when I was really little. When I turned ten and stopped going to Mrs. Becker's after school, we got Tippy (which I insisted should be spelled "Tippi") to protect me. He was a Heinz-57 terrier and suffered me dressing him up in my clothes and many other indignities. I loved that dog. And my siblings have reminded me that "THEY never got to have a dog." Yeah, well, I never got to have proper siblings, either, did I?

Queer Experience
None. Sorry, very boring. Too Presbyterian, definitely very heterosexually-interested. I do remember watching a TV show when I was 12, a documentary, that mentioned homosexuality. [I wonder where my mother, the TV police, was? She wouldn't even let me see the 'pregnancy episode' of Welcome Back Kotter!] I had to go look it up in our unabridged dictionary. It was a surprise to me when I found out what the word meant that a dictionary from the 1940s would contain that word! I was awfully benighted as a child....

Road Trip
We did road trips all the time when I was a child. It was the only vacations we ever took. Driving to Casper, driving to Ouray, driving to Wisconsin, etc. My first non-family road-trip was with a church group to the Marin County area of California in high school. We slept on the floors of churches in our sleeping bags. One night was in Lake Tahoe, CA, although we ate in a casino across the state line. One clear memory is burning off Dave's (limited) chest hairs. And Utah sucked. Not the scenery, although some of that was miserable, but the people!

Speeding Ticket
Nope, never had one. My mom worked for the cops/courts growing up; I didn't want to see her in court! I've only been stopped twice, both times for blowing stop signs. Both times I got out of a ticket: 1) because the cop knew my mom and I was picking her up from work, and 2) I was on my way to Bible Study and right in front of our church when the cop pulled me over.

Time
Er, all you non-prudes will not believe this: my wedding night. Things improved steadily from that point forward.

Unchaperoned Concert
Paul Young, age 21 with the people I worked with that summer. My boss was one of the roadies, but low on the food chain so we couldn't meet 'the star.' We did get good seats though. Better than a lot of the screaming teenie-boppers.

Visit to Another Country
Age 14. To England. I'd turned down an earlier trip when I was 10. I stayed with my "Wisconsin" sister for five weeks while my parents when to visit my "England" sister. What a dope! But I appreciated Wisconsin more than I would have enjoyed England. By age 14, I enjoyed history and all the tourist stuff we did.

Westward Migration
I've actually migrated EAST, sadly. I keep hoping to head west someday eventually, but I'll be retired at this rate!

X-Ray
I think the only X-rays I had were dental ones. The first 'real' X-ray was probably in 1997.

Yoni Tree
No clue. I think I'm missing the subtext, but I don't really 'do' Wicca or whatever.

Zombie Movie
Still waiting. No with much anticipation. Scary movies are not my idea of a fun time.

Book meme

Certainly can't resist this...thanks Amy. And Annie.

1. We've all heard the phrase, "Don't judge a book by its cover." Have you ever picked up a book based solely on the title or the picture on the cover?

I do it all the time. It's pretty subconscious, I think. I'm trying to do less of it, seeing as how I've compiled a long enough list of titles I'll never get through at this point anyway. The most recent example is Molvanîa: a Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry (A Jetlag Travel Guide), by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner & Rob Sitch.

2. Along the same lines, do you ever look at whichever book someone else is reading in public or whatnot, and based on that make a snap judgment about their character or literary taste?
No, I really don't. I'm usually too involved with my own reading material to look around much. Having said that, I have a knee-jerk reaction to pink, especially hot-pink. Someone reading a pink-covered book will likely be female, nowadays likely reading chick-lit. Guys, you really ought to check out the genre, because I'm telling you it will tell you more about women than 30 years of marriage!

3. Do you buy books online? If so, where is your favorite place to find them?
I like Amazon, even tho' the Social Conscience Nerd in me says I need to find somewhere else.

4. From someone who's had more than her fair share of library fines... what is the largest late fee you've ever incurred at a library for returning a book past the due date? Have you ever borrowed a book from a library and never returned it?
Whatever the maximum was at the library in my hometown when I was a kid. None recently; it's a lovely perk that I use and abuse, this lack of library fines.
Borrowed a magazine as a child and never returned it, but purely by accident. It disappeared into the black hole that was my closet, to be found when I was about age 13.

5. What is the first book that you can remember reading by yourself as a child?
I've talked about this before: Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang was the first book I learned to read by myself, with my sister's patient teaching. My favorite picture book was The Little House (by Virginia Burton). I read constantly, so beyond those two, I really have no specific memories of early reading. I have a lovely memories of myself on the 8-foot-couch--long story--in the dim living room with my legs crossed, ankle on knee, while my parents read in the chairs across the room in the evening. Same vision, daytime, involved me popping up regularly to go outside and jump rope until I could be still enough to read again.

Feasting at lunctime

Perfect Friday Feast:

Appetizer - If you could have a free subscription to any magazine, which one would you like to have?
What a strange question: if I wanted a subscription to a magazine I'd just subscribe. There are plenty of freebie deals out there, too. On top of which, it's not an issue (sorry, couldn't resist) of which magazine, but what time. There's just not enough to read everything.
So instead I'm going to answer "What magazine subscription could you not live without?" Real Simple. Entertainment Weekly. It's a tie. I scour these two, start to finish. Other magazines I read faithfully are Guideposts and Ms. See, I am schizoid.

Soup - If you were to suddenly become famous, what would you choose as your stage name?
"Jo Eno." Short, easy to prounounce and spell, personal connection. But I'd really probably use something like my own name if I became famous.

Salad - What ingredients make an awesome salad? Dressing? Croutons?
Lettuce, spinach, radicchio and other "greens", along with carrot shreds (just a few), celery, a couple of mushroom slices, sprouts.... Real rocquefort dressing, on the side. A few plain croutons would be fine. Sunflower seeds are good too. Bacon wouldn't be awful. Freshly ground pepper, especially if freshly ground by a gorgeous waiter!
It's easier to include the NO THANK YOUs: tomatoes, cucumbers, egg all come immediately to mind.
(The odd thing is that I just read something about why you rarely get celery in salads. How strange. My reading taste and the timing of this question.)

Main Course - What do you like most about your current job?
The freedom to decide what to do when.
And of course, books.
I like my job completely, so this is harder than expected.

Dessert - Who is your favorite instrumental musician (not a singer)?
Depends on the musical style. Overall favorite is Yo-Yo Ma. But I love B.B. King. And to get out of the repetitive-first-name thing: Carlos Santana.

Time travel can be heartening

Library Despot's Senior Year of High School Meme.

1. What year was it? 1981-1982

2. What were your three favorite bands? Alan Parsons Project, Styx, Bob Seger

3. What was your favorite outfit? Jeans. Because my mom had finally given up the fight. [I never wore a skirt if I could help it, just to piss her off.] T-shirts, including the one that says (I still have it): Sex Drugs Peace and Brew, We're the Class of '82. [Mom really loved that.]

4. What was up with your hair? Short, Princess Di cut. [I just got my mom's 8 x 10 of my senior pic back....The Horror!]

5. Who were your best friends? Laura, Teri, Beth, Rene. I'm still good friends with Laura and Beth.

6. What did you do after school? Worked. No, wait, that was junior year. Uhm, nothing much: TV, I guess, and homework.

7. Did you take the bus? No. Only kids from Goat Hill rode the bus. Laura's dad occasionally took us to school. Beth--or John, or Teri--occasionally brought me home. [My parents built the house where they did so that we could walk to all our schools: five short blocks to elementary, five blocks to junior high, eight short blocks to high school. I had no excuse for not walking, except laziness.]

8. Who did you have a crush on? I don't specifically remember senior year's crushes, but Jeff, Ron, and John were a few of the general high school era names. Oh, and Warren. Of course. What a sweetie/cutie!

9. Did you fight with your parents? Yes--of course, but not as much as about four years previous. We mostly "discussed" choices of college.

10. Who did you have a CELEBRITY crush on? As much as it pains me--I just saw him doing an infomercial last night--Erik Estrada. And Larry Wilcox, and Tom Wopat.

11. Did you smoke cigarettes? Nope.

12. Did you lug all of your books around in your backpack all day because you were too nervous to find your locker? My locker was in the band hallway. I lugged books because it was a pain to get all the way down to the bandroom and back up two floors where most of my classes were held during the allotted five minutes' passing time.

13. Did you have a 'clique'? Yeah, I guess. The brainy kids have to stick together, yes? And I was in band, which was a big deal at my school; we were the best in the state nearly every year at competitions. Actually, band was a great tolerance-teacher for me: there were Smart Kids, Popular Kids, Freaks, Student Government Kids, Sluts...a real cross-section. The teacher especially appreciated the flute-playing sluts....

14. Did you have "The Max" like Zach, Kelly and Slater? Mr. Gatti's pizza place. Yummy pizza, never particularly busy, big-screen TV and tolerance for kids.

15. Admit it, were you popular? See above, question 14. I didn't think so at the time; looking back, it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

16. Who did you want to be just like? My brother. Failing that, my dad. In the Big Wide World, Laura Ingalls Wilder. Actually, I just wanted to BE her.

17. What did you want to be when you grew up? I had no idea. I had already worked for over a year at the public library as a page, but time and circumstance had nipped that budding career...or so I thought!

18. Where did you think you'd be at the age you are now? I never considered being my age now: 41. In the vague future, I guess I saw myself vaguely married, vaguely raising children, and vaguely working somewhere. So I guess I vaguely nailed it. I never thought it would be as hard as it's turned out to be!

Jeez, what a gift...

...I just hope it's been washed. Thanks Amy. And yeah, ok, this is totally going to mess up my blogstats, but I guess it's not something I've ever been given as a gift, in this context...so here goes:

1. Have you ever used toys or other things during sex?
Whaddaya think? I'm married. Jeez. Yes.

2. Would you consider using dildos or other sexual toys in the future?
See above. Yes, given the right set of circumstances...etc.

3. What is the kinkiest fantasy you have yet to realize?
It's a bit of a challenge, really. At the highest elevation in all 50 states. I wasn't thinking big enough when I issued the challenge: I should have included a few countries besides the U.S.

4. Who gave you this dildo?
See above top.

5. Who are the ones to receive this dildo from you?
Truthfully, I can't think of anyone I'd be likely to share with. I wouldn't in reality, so why do it in this context. I think I'll just keep it. However, if anyone's wanting to steal it and use it for themselves, I guess I can't be fussy.

Since I don't post photos

...this is the closest you'll get to a picture of me.

However, I'm allergic to dogs, so it's also a tiny bit of wishful thinking.

80s Songs

Your 80s Theme Song:

Your 80s Theme Song is The Power of Love by Huey Lewis and the News

What's Your 80's Theme Song?

Which I got when I typed in the new U2 CD title. This made me wonder.

So...

Your 80s Theme Song:

Your 80s Theme Song is Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinead O'Connor

What's Your 80's Theme Song?

Because I typed in "She Bangs."

Hmmm.... Something's rotten in this quiz, methinks. [Although, I do like Sinead...]

Type A?

You Have A Type A- Personality

A- You are one of the most balanced people around Motivated and focused, you are good at getting what you want You rule at success, but success doesn't rule you. When it's playtime, you really know how to kick back Whether it's hanging out with friends or doing something you love! You live life to the fullest - encorporating the best of both worlds

Do You Have a Type A Personality?

Oh, if it were but true...

My first thought was, "Oh, no, I didn't get an A." Pavlovian reaction. Hi, Dad.

Extreme Sports

You Should Try Skydiving

Don't look before you leap And you'll become a hardcore extreme sports addict

What Extreme Sport Should You Try?

I'm up for that. Definitely.

A meme to hold me while I'm gone

Friday's Feast (a day late)

Appetizer - If you could have a free subscription to any online service, which would you like to have?
This is surprisingly hard. Uhm, Ancestry.com would be up there. FirstSearch. Novelist. But I can get all of these via my library's website, and while I'm here at work. So, I guess it's the old standby: OED.

Soup - Describe your bathroom (furnishings, colors, etc.).
My bathroom--well, mine and The Beast's--is pretty boring. White walls. Eventually, they'll probably be a pale blue with some deep red highlights somehow. Besides the requisite mirror, towel bars, etc. we have hung up a poster we found at Ikea of a lighthouse in a storm (ours has a baby-blue frame instead of black). Lots of cupboards, very unorganized, but not full. BIG tub/shower combination. Lighthouses on the shower curtain. Lighthouses on one of the rugs in there; the bathmat is dark blue, as are the towels. Yankee candles on the counter and next to the tub (both in jars, not votives, and no I don't light them both at once...ick). On the counter is Kleenex, ceramic fish design soap dispenser and cup set, small pale blue vase holding my toothbrush (Beast's is in the medicine chest). Small ceramic platter for my earrings and watch. I believe there is a paperclip and a safety pin lying there for some reason today, and a book. Possibly two. Oh, yes, and magazines on the counter and in a pretty wire box on the floor.

Salad - What does the shape of a triangle make you think of?
Delta. Studying chemistry in college with The Beast. The three of us in my family.

Main Course - Name 3 things or activities that you consider to be luxuries.
Baths.
Massages.
Manicures.
(and many many others)

Dessert - What was the last really great movie you watched?
"Chocolat" was the last movie I watched (got it for Christmas). Not sure if it's GREAT, but it was enjoyable. The last great one was probably...hmmm....I can't think of any recent ones. Sorry.

Double-whammy

My color is...

Your Power Color is Green You feel most at home in a world of ideas. You're curious and logical - and enjoy a good intellectual challenge. You're super cool, calm, and collected. Very little tries your patience. Your only fear? People not realizing how smart and able you are! What's Your Power Color? Take This Quiz :-) Find the Love of Your Life (and More Love Quizzes) at Your New Romance.

Thanks, Annie! This is outrageously wrong, IMHO. But laughing is good, right? And I do like the hat "I'm" wearing...
___________________
Which brings me to what kind of 'girl' am I?

You are a Brainy Girl! Whether you're an official student or a casual learner, you enjoy hitting the books. You know a little bit about everything, and you're always dying to know more. For a guy to win your heart, he's got to share some of your intellectual interests. A awesome book collection of his own doesn't hurt either! What Kind of Girl Are You? Take This Quiz :-) Find the Love of Your Life (and More Love Quizzes) at Your New Romance.

Bravo! Exactly right, not that I'd classify myself as Brainy. More like Attempting to be Brainy.

The Cataloger goes vamp

The Great Archives determine you to have gone by the identity: Belle West

Known in some parts of the world as: Curse of Evil

The Great Archives Record: The purest evil of all evil, and evil comes in many forms!


Get your own Vampire Name.
_________________________

When I use my legal name, I am a whole different person:

The Great Archives determine you to have gone by the identity: Marchioness of Flesh
Known in some parts of the world as: Seductress of The Hungry
The Great Archives Record: One of the poor who howl at the door of the Rosary and the garlic strung cross.

Act my age?

You Are 30 Years Old

30 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more!

What Age Do You Act?

Or maybe not. But I like this description anyway.

Gee, kindly Sgt. Krupke...

Threat rating: Medium. Your total lack of decent family values makes you dangerous, but we can count on some right wing nutter blowing you up if you become too high profile.

What threat to the Bush administration are you?
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Heh. I always wanted to be morally deficient, too.

from Jenica and somewhere else, don't remember where...Cyber Choc??

Last one, then to work

Tuesday Twosome

1. Two celebs that you feel are the most overexposed: Jessica and Ashlee Simpson. Hands-down, easy, no contest. Make them go away.

2. Two news items you wish the press would stop talking about: Anything related to George Bush (fat chance), and anything to do with radical wingnut Christian fundamentalists (fatter chance). OK, if we have to live in reality, anything related to either Donald Trump or Rupert Murdoch.

3. Two songs that you are tired of hearing on the radio: I don't listen to the radio, and this is precisely why: there were always at least 20 songs I was sick of/hated. So I've moved on. On a flyer the other day, I turned on a pop station and was assaulted by Mariah Carey's massacre of Michael Jackson. sigh

4. Two TV shows that should NOT be renewed for another reason: Don't really watch TV, but the two that immediately jumped into my head (neither of which I've watched at all) are "The Swan" and "The Apprentice."

5. Two movies (that are currently showing) that you would recommend: I enjoyed "The Incredibles" (is it still showing?) and the Lemony Snicket movie. However, if you haven't read the books the latter is based on, well, it's probably not going to work very well for you.

Anti resolutions

This is just so much more my style:

Ten "bad for me" things I will continue doing this year

1. Blog (not really 'bad' just not particularly inspirational or 'good' either)
2. Drink gallons of Diet Dr. Pepper every week
3. Eat. Maybe less, but I'm not giving up food!
4. Complain about my family; specifically my origin, not the ones I live with
5. Read mysteries (again, not really 'bad' but not necessarily the 'best use of my time')
6. Not get enough sleep (I see no way around this)
7. Worry (ditto #6 above)
8. Be impatient (again, ditto #6)
9. Volunteer for too many things
10. 'Allow' The Beast to do the laundry

Nerd?

I think I'm better off with the candy...

Thanks to the Mermaid.

More

Unconscious mutterings

I say ... and you think ... ?

Pistol:: Whip
Rick:: Ranger Rick
Full circle:: Life
I wish:: Don't bother
Frame:: Picture frame
Adult:: 21
Photography:: Digital
Stew:: Yum--I should make that next weekend...
Cheat:: Poker
Brad:: ...and Janet

And more....

Daily Dirt

1. Do you believe in life after death?
Yes, in the sense that our souls live on. Still working through the whole resurrection thingy, but generally I'm on board: yes it happens, but I don't quite see how...
2. What do you think comes after death?
Heaven. Can't explain it, don't even want to try. I think what happens after death is dependent on how you spent your time here. Not just how "good" you were, but a scale of helpfulness/usefulness/self-knowledge/fulfillment and other stuff.
3. Have you seen ghosts or anything abnormal?
Nope. I've certainly had plenty of opportunity. But...nope.
4. Would you like to see ghosts or get a message from them?
Nope. Thanks, I have enough difficulty dealing with the still-living.
5. Do you know anyone who has died and then came back to life again?
In the sense that the heartbeat stopped and restarted, yeah. But in a surgical, controlled way. No one for whom CPR was useful.
In the sense of Lazarus, buried for three days and stinking? Not personally, no. Thank the good Lord whose laws of nature generally remain unbroken.

Sunday night filler

Sunday Brunch
Painting
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." - Henry Ward Beecher

1) What color (or colors) is your home painted on the interior?
Unfortunately, it's still painted Builder White. We're a little slow on the whole paint-choosing thing...

2) What color (or colors) is your home painted on the exterior?
Uhm, well there's the siding, which is sagey-green. The trim is painted a sort of deep bluish-gray. It sounds like a mess, but it works.

3) If you could paint your car any color with no loss in value, what color would it be?
It's dark green now; I think I'd lighten it a shade. Not much, just enough to make it not look so close to black in dim light.

4) Do you paint your fingernails and toenails? What is your favorite color for each if you do?
When I have fingernails, and energy, I paint them, usually pale colors: mauves, pinks... I do my toenails in the summer, usually bright or brick reds.

5) Have you ever played paintball? Have you ever wanted to?
No. And no.

Although, one of my coworkers suggested this week that we, as a staff, should do that. I talked him down to Lasertag, and then to bowling, which is achievable. I'd rather do Lasertag, but the median age of the staff is about 49.

Emotional Intelligence Quotient

Quiz time.

Your EQ is

113You usually have it going on emotionally, but roadblocks tend to land you on your butt.

What's Your EQ (Emotional Intelligence Quotient)?

Ain't that last phrase the truth!

More philosophy from...

Philosphers Net

This time it was the one called Taboo. Here are my results. Interesting. As presented, I can't imagine scoring much higher. But then again, these weren't exactly real world 'problems.'

Then I did the Morality Play, with these results. I guess I'm not "morally parsimonious" although since that's a bit hard to understand, I'm not sure if I'm pleased with the result or not.

Fascinating

...stuff from Cyber Choc:

A Random Name Generator ... for writers, but fun anyway ;-)
Here's my list, set at 30
1. Reta Ruffins
2. Roxanna Mccormic
3. Reina Harken
4. Mandi Levario
5. Vesta Pelcher

And a montage generator, which is quite cool, if a little annoying (I can't get rid of the ugly maps in the one I tried)

And finally:

You scored as Grendel's Mother. Vengence will be yours! At least, it would have been if Beowulf hadn't decided to take up the cause against you. Here you are, decended from Cain, yes, but keeping to yourself in your fen, when they kill your son. In revenge you go after one of the King's best friends, which even they can't fault you for. Too bad blood feud was so popular in those days...In any event, you put up a tough fight, and nearly get the annoying little bugger before he snicked off your head. Grendel's Mother 67% Grendel 58% Wiglaf 58% Beowulf 42% Hrothgar 33% Wealhtheow 33% The Dragon 25% If You Were in Beowulf... created with QuizFarm.com

Heh. Always a mother...never a monster. Yet. heh heh

Puppies

You Are a German Shepherd Puppy

Intelligent, quick witted, and a bit aggressive. You've got the jaw power to take a bite out of anyone you choose.

What Breed of Puppy Are You?

This is cool, if only wishful thinking on my part...

Bookshelf

From the Cataloguer:

Copy this list of ten authors, then replace any authors not in your bookcases with authors who are. My replacements in bold.

1. Laura Ingalls Wilder
2. Earl Emerson
3. J.R.R. Tolkien [...not because I read them, however! The joys of a shared bookspace...]
4. Diana Gabaldon
5. Susan Cooper
6. J.K. Rowling
7. Charles Dickens
8. C.S. Lewis (Narnia)
9. Charlotte Bronte
10. William Shakespeare