One-word!

I've seen this going around in many blogs... and on Maggie's this morning. Let's see if I can do it.

1. Where is your cell phone? Mmmmm...
2. Your significant other? Sleeping
3. Your hair? easy
4. Your mother? Model
5. Your father? Saudades
6. Your favorite thing? books
7. Your dream last night? none
8. Your favorite drink? water
9. Your dream/goal? heaven
10. The room you’re in? bright
11. Your church? Catholic
12. Your fear? winter
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? here
14. Where were you last night? family
15. What you’re not? thin
16. Muffins? homemade
17. One of your wish list items? sunroom
18. Where you grew up? Rio
19. The last thing you did? type
20. What are you wearing? slippers
21. Your TV? dusty
22. Your pets? kittens
23. Your computer? Vista
24. Your life? gift
25. Your mood? optimist
26. Missing someone? duh
27. Your car? big
28. Something you’re not wearing? make-up
29. Favorite store? GloriaDeo
30. Your summer? gardening
31. Like(love) someone? husband
32. Your favorite color? green
33. Last time you laughed? yesterday
34. Last time you cried? yesterday
35. Who will re post this? why?

Six Quirks

I was tagged by Jeff of Thursday Night Gumbo. He wrote in my comments box:

I'm playing along with a blog meme here and tagging you to reveal six of your "unspectacular quirks." (You may continue to keep your spectacular quirks to yourself.)

Rules:

1. Link the person(s) who tagged you.
2. Mention the rules on your blog.
3. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours.
4. Tag 6 fellow bloggers by linking them.
5. Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they’ve been tagged.
   

OK, here it goes:

1. I detest any type of practical jokes.

2. Surprise parties, I believe, would be much better if the person being surprised would enjoy beforehand the fact that others are throwing them a party. (I guess this ties in with the first quirk: I don't like people put in awkward positions).

3. I don't drive on the interstate. Any interstate.

4. I think man should come up with other means of transportation from here to Rio besides the aeroplane.

5. No horror movies, ever.

I tag: Candise, Alicia, Mary-Eileen and Christine.

Another book meme

I found this at CurtJester this morning via googlereader:

1) Which book do you irrationally cringe away from reading, despite seeing only positive reviews? Harry Potter. But irrationally wouldn't be the right word.

2) If you could bring three characters to life for a social event (afternoon tea, a night of clubbing, perhaps a world cruise), who would they be and what would the event be? A summer cabin perhaps by the water would do for me. And our companions, because Husband would be there too, would be Flannery O'Connor (after all she is a character in The Habit of Being in a way), Lizzie and Darcy, Kristin Lavransdatter, Laura Ingalls (she's also a character!) and my newest friend Aloysha.

3) (Borrowing shamelessly from the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde): you are told you can’t die until you read the most boring novel on the planet. While this immortality is great for a while, eventually you realise it’s past time to die. Which book would you expect to get you a nice grave? Any Chesterton. (Did I say that?)

4) Come on, we’ve all been there. Which book have you pretended, or at least hinted, that you’ve read, when in fact you’ve been nowhere near it? The Brothers Karamazov. I didn't pretend, but I have hid the fact that I have yet to work through it. The only reason I am admitting it now is because I am happily announcing I am finally doing it, page by page.

5) You’re interviewing for the post of Official Book Advisor to some VIP (who’s not a big reader). What’s the first book you’d recommend and why? (If you feel like you’d have to know the person, go ahead and personalise the VIP). Brideshead Revisited. Why? It's a great Catholic book, a page-turner, and a well known, respected author.

6) A good fairy comes and grants you one wish: you will have perfect reading comprehension in the foreign language of your choice. Which language do you go with? French, of course. Ah, to read some of the greatest literature in the original.

7) A mischievous fairy comes and says that you must choose one book that you will reread once a year for the rest of your life (you can read other books as well). Which book would you pick? Pride & Prejudice... but I believe I may already do that.

8) I know that the book blogging community, and its various challenges, have pushed my reading borders. What’s one bookish thing you ‘discovered’ from book blogging (maybe a new genre, or author, or new appreciation for cover art-anything)? Not sure it comes from blogging, but I wouldn't have read the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series if not for blog readers Susan and John.

9) That good fairy is back for one final visit. Now, she’s granting you your dream library! Describe it. Is everything leather bound? Is it full of first edition hardcovers? Pristine trade paperbacks? Perhaps a few favourite authors have inscribed their works? Go ahead-let your imagination run free. It looks very much like a conglomeration of my friends' libraries: Susan R. in NJ, Anne M. in NE and Nancy here. All of the books recommended in good homeschool programs are there, as well as the complete works of every great author. Every Ignatius Press, Sophia Press and Bethlehem book is there! What else would I want?

Blogger meme, if somewhat truncated

1. Do you attend the Traditional Latin Mass or the Novus Ordo? Both! We're bi-ritual, as Husband calls it.

2. If you attend the TLM, how far do you drive to get there? A good 30 minutes. We've done one hour-plus in the past, when we were desperate.

3. If you had to apply a Catholic label to yourself, what would it be? Bi-ritual. Or, better explained: Forget-the-fluff-and-banal-music-and-treat-the-subject-seriously-please-
-plus-bring-on-at-least-some-Latin!

4. Are you a comment junkie? Not really.

5. Do you go back to read the comments on the blogs you’ve commented on? Mmmm... I may at times.

6. Have you ever left an anonymous comment on another blog? No. And I don't like receiving them either, unless I know it's from someone who didn't manage to do it any other way.

7. Which blogroll would you most like to be on? I actually don't care. I blog for family and friends, and as an outlet for myself.

8. Which blog is the first one you check? Patrick Abroad, and then Love2Learn. I like to see what Alicia posted in her Google shared items.

9. Have you met any other bloggers in person? Of course.

10. What are you reading? I can't put it down-- R. Arroyo's Mother Angelica. What a woman!

Bonus Question! Has your site been banned by Spirit of Vatican II? No, but it should.

If it has, who do you think Father Tim really is? Don't know, but he has an admirable sense of humor. I wonder if he has visited Prince of Peace in TX... We stumbled onto it once and the trauma has been deep and ugly.

Hat tip: Sarah at Just Another Day...