Living In the World, Not on It

From Mary Says... blog: "Presented by Jules on a lovely silver platter over at Just Because... , here's another fun Meme! If you like, you may take it to your blog and do one for yourself and let me know so I can come by and read it!" 1. What does your name mean? Aislinge is Gaelic and translates into "a vision or dream". Kellogg is Cornish for "butcher" - kill-hog. Isn't that something? 2. Where was your profile picture taken? At the hairdresser's place. 3. What is your current relationship status? POSSLQ - Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Same Living Quarters. I say married, though - 18 years together - whether or not New Jersey recognises common law marriage - is married. New Jersey does not, but I don't worry about such things. We've been together longer than more than half the weddings we've been to. There is a direct and inverse relationship between the amount of money spent and the size of a wedding to the length of the marria...

I got quite a few answers so far and I love them! 18 April 2008: Odd Nutty Anti-establishment Interesting Trenchant (my favourite!) Incorrigible (my 2nd favourite!) We shall see what else I get. So far, they are all rather descriptive of me. And all kind of in the same category. 19 April 2008: Odd (a different person) 22 April 2008 Mysterious Confident

This was in my inbox yesterday: Describe ME in one word.............just one single word. Send it to me & ME only. Then send this message to ALL of your e-friends/family & see how many strange & interesting things they have to say about you. This is really fun & don't get mad at the word they choose for you. Here's how to PLAY: 1. Hit the reply key & send ME my one word. 2. Them return to this message & forward it to your e-friends/family (including me) & see what people say about you when limited they're limited to just ONE word! Follow the directions people and don't mess this up............LMAO I', terrified and curious at the same time, so let's have it. Me - in one word!

This is kind of a strange thing... I've never put together something quite like this! 1. It starts out normal but continues on and on. I'm thinking it will be a trilogy comprised of five books (think David Eddings) 2. The title has to be something witty, like Lumps in the Sugar 3. The mian character is me, but will have a different name and not only by intelligent but not so ADD and physically stunning; dark hair, hybrid but deep eyes, a face that can support tons of thick curly hair like Julia Roberts' in Pretty Woman , and a killer body! 4. The pages are uneven parchment with old style font numbers 5. The font has to be Garamond. Or maybe Old Bookman 6. It will come out on tape with the voice of James Earl Jones or maybe the guy on Boston Legal who plays - oh, yes, James Spader 7. The cover jacket will have the stunning me in a Renassaince Festival outfit 8. The extreme religious right will burn it, but that's okay, it will be the number one best seller so they can...

Four jobs I have had in my life: Purchasing Assistant (Miller Harness) Graphic Artist (Miller Harness) HR Representative (PNY Technologies, USII) HR Manager (Current Job) Four places I have lived in my life: Trucksville, PA Wallngton, NJ Fairfield, NJ Parsippany, NJ Four places I have been on vacation: Ireland/Scotland/Wales/England Keene, NH Palm Springs, CA Las Vegas, NV Four of my favorite foods: Hummus Hawai'ian Pizza Foccacia bread (I make it with my father, funny, huh?) Anything either of my fathers make! Four places I would rather be right now: Right here (barring that...) Antartica (only in their summer) Any place haunted Any volcano Four friends or relatives I think will respond: Molly Daniela Ray We shall see!

Well, I had a day , so something to lighten it sounds good. Besides, I like these things... I think insight comes from doing these. Have a good time... This is a little different than the ones that usually come around. Place an X by all the things you've done, or remove the X from the ones you have not, and send it to your friends (including me). This is in your entire life! ( ) Smoked a cigarette ( ) Drank so much you threw up (X) Had feelings for someone who didn't have them back ( ) Gone on a blind date (X) Skipped school (X) Watched someone die (X) Been to Canada (X) Been to Florida ( ) Been to Mexico (X) Been on a plane (X) Been lost (X) Been on the opposite side of the country (X) Swam in the ocean ( ) Felt like dying (X) Cried yourself to sleep (X) Played cops and robbers ( ) Recently colored with crayon ( ) Sang karaoke ( ) Paid for a meal with only coins (X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't (X) Made prank phone calls (a million years ago) (X) Laughed ...

1. What time is it? 1354 2. What are your full names? Aislinge Kellogg 3. What are you most afraid of : Spiders 4. Place of birth? Manhattan, New York 5. Favourite food? Hawai'ian pizza 6. Your hair colour now? Reddish brown 7. Have you travelled? Yes 8. Do you scrunch or fold (toilet paper)? Fold 9. Love someone so much it made you cry? Yes 10. Been in a car accident? Yes. 1 September 2001 11. BMW or Mercedes Benz Neither. Acura 12. Favourite day of the week? Monday 13. Favourite Restaurant? The Garlic Rose 14. Favourite Flower? None 15. Favourite sport to watch? Olympics, the ONLY sport I will watch 16. Favourite Drink? Hot tea 17. Favourite ice cream? Red Bean 18. Disney or Warner Brothers? Warner Brothers! 19. Favourite fast food restaurant? None 20. What colour is your bedroom carpet? Faded burgundy 21. How many times you failed your driver's test? Never 22. Before this one, from whom did you get your last e-mail? Harry Trebilcox, my father 23. What ...

...that you consider an accomplishment but might be considered lame by others: (I found this on Mary's blog, Mary Says... Daily Blog , and I thought I would give this a shot, as I really like the things that make me think.) 1. Getting my EMT certification. I am terrible at testing and usually not as dedicated to studying as I can be. But I did this with fervor and did nothing but work, sit through all the lectures and practicals (even when sick - I did not miss ANY lectures at all!) all day Saturday and Sunday, work on the volumnious amounts of homework and practice with friends and ride my Wednesday shift every week. I made it through and passed every module test except one on the first shot (and all my scores were 88 and higher. However, the peds one I got a 67 the first time and a 77 the second. Easily my lowest score. The peds stuff is hard - all the numbers are different for stats. I took my state boards and scored a 77 and then on the National Registry test (which is no longe...

Some interesting questions were sent to me by Mary (Crystal Chick) and I think it is time to answer them: 1. Do you consider yourself smarter than most people? Why/why not? I don't think it is as easy as that. Do I think I'm smarter than most people... well, when I see the most popular television shows and movies, and how crude and stupid a lot of it is, I have to say that yes, I'm likely to be more intelligent than other people. Or, maybe I just have no sense of humour, as Luis likes to tell me. But there are a great many people that are much, much smarter than I am. And I am not all-around smart. I'm also not strong with common sense things, either. What I know about, I know a lot about. What I don't know about, I really, really don't know about. So I don't think that this is an easily answered question. If I have to say that I am, the biggest reason why is due to voracious love of reading. I have tons of books and I love to read them. I read new ones and ...

Below is Dr. Phil's test. (Dr. Phil scored 55; he did this test on Oprah - she got a 38.) Some folks pay a lot of money to find this stuff out! Read on, this is very interesting! Don't be overly sensitive. The following is pretty accurate and it only takes 2 minutes. Take this test for yourself and send it to your friends. The person who sent it placed their score in the e-mail subject box. Please do the same before forwarding to your friends (send it back to the person who sent it to you.) Don't peek, but begin the test as you scroll down and answer. Answers are for who you are now --- not who you were in the past. Have pen or pencil and paper ready. This is a real test given by the Human Relations Dept. at many of the major corporations today. It helps them get better insight concerning their employees and prospective employees. It's only 10 Simple questions, so grab a pencil and paper, keeping track of your letter answers to each question. Make sure to change the sub...

I always enjoy these things. My friend in England, the Bean, sent it to me - I haven't read it yet, so this should be interesting. So let me answer it, and see what others will discover. Two Names You Go By: 1. Aislínge or Ash 2. Bunkie (my parents call me that - no one else!) Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now: 1. My claddagh ring 2. Deep purple golf shirt Two Things You Would Want (or have) in a Relationship: 1. Luis show more emotions 2. Stay happy like we have been and are Two of Your Favorite Things to do: 1. Blogging/writing 2. Riding on the ambulance Two Things You Want Very Badly At The Moment: 1. No more back pain 2. Autumn Two pets you had/have: 1. Puss-puss, a black and white cat when I was a kid 2. Cheryl - a black and white Guinea pig Two people who will fill this out: 1. Rich 2. Not sure! Two things you did last night: 1. Read more of Under the Banner of Heaven 2. Watched CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Two things you have eaten today: 1. BBQ chicken pizza 2. Pistach...

Quiz: Are You the Annoying Co-Worker? Kate Lorenz, CareerBuilder.com Every office has at least one jerk, pest or loudmouth who drives the rest of the workers crazy. Could it be you? Take this quiz to find out how annoying you might be: How many of these statements describe you? 1) You make provocative statements to "foster dialogue" or needle others. 2) You often find yourself delivering a discourse consisting solely of buzzwords and catch phrases. 3) You make up nicknames for all of your co-workers and refer to them only by these names. (e.g. "Good job, Chachi!"; "I'm going to have to disagree with you there, T-bone!") 4) Your office is completely decorated in your children's pictures and artwork. 5) You have plastered your cubicle with photos of yourself taken with famous people. 6) It is your trademark to recite rhyming or other cutesy messages as your voice mail greeting.7) The questions you ask at meetings are preceded by long monologues of...

Raise your hand if you love telemarketers. Come on, you know you do. Lately I've been getting automated calls from carpet cleaning people. After about a dozen of them I actually listened to the end. Turns out there's a button you can push to make them stop calling. The confessions of this telemarketer over at Consumerist can't stop automated calls (which I thought were supposed to be illegal anyway if you were on the Do Not Call list), but it's sound advice on dealing with old-fashioned human kind. I won't hold you breathless. The secret, he says, is to be extremely firm in your mandate to get you off their call list: Soft refusals are called back again a few days later. After 2 soft refusals, you generally won't get called again on that survey. If you get very angry or start cursing, you get marked as a "hard" refusal and aren't called again for that survey. However, any of those three methods will just get you off of our list for that particular...

I LOVE these things: WHO ARE YOU? 1. FIRST NAME ? Aislínge 2. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? No 3. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY? Yesterday, at the end of "Cars" - Joe Ranft died in 2005 (Pixar showed every character he's voiced) 4. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? I love it, although there is always need to improve 5. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? Rosemary [smoked] ham This is missing a Question #6... that's how I got it! 7. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Yes, definitely! 8. DO YOU HAVE A JOURNAL? Yes, this is it 9. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? Too often. Sometimes I need to watch myself 10. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS ? Yes, and my appendix, too. 11. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? I would try reverse bungee jumping 12. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Cheerios 13. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? Always 14. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? Physically, no; personality/psychologically, yes 15. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? Pastacio - wi...