Today we ripped this meme off a blogger known as Little Bark from the blog The Tree Unleashed She explains that she found it over at The Tree of Life. It appears it originated on that blog. So, of course, that will be as far as we go. Tracing back our theft’s thieves might take some time. Link back to us at Sunday Stealing!


Cheers to all of us thieves!


Sunday Stealing: The Pretentious Blogging Meme


1. How long have you been blogging?

Only since October of 2009.


2. What made you start?

I had tried to commit suicide in May, and after that I was given a diagnosis of major depression.  Some of my symptoms of depression were a very irrational anger.  or an overwhelming sadness.  We had just found a good mix of depression medications for me.  I still was having the irrational symptoms several times a week.  I decided to start the blog as a place to express those overwhelming emotions so at leas I could get them out there, but in such a way that I do not hurt other people.  Also as a place for me to meet other people with similar issues in their life.

3. Who inspired you?

No, person inspired me.


4. About how many hours a week would you estimate you spend on your blog?


To many to count.  I enjoy my blog a great deal.  I enjoy it more than I have enjoyed anything in the last few years.  So as a result I probably spend more time on it than I should, but I am OK with that.


5. What kind of experience or background do you have with writing?


Except for the papers  I wrote in college, absolutely none.  In fact, until about a year ago, I hated writing.  Even though I do not consider myself a good writer, I enjoy it. 


6. Talk about how you come up with blog topics. Where do you get your ideas?


Sometimes something will catch my interest about my day and I will write about it.  Sometimes it is a need to express what is going on in my head.  Other times I get ideas from conversations I have with people.  Sometimes it is from other blogs.  I also get some ideas from my daughter.  She will suggest something that she would like me to talk about. 


7. What or who inspires you and your blog?


My depression and how it makes me feel, act, and how it affects me and others is where I get my inspiration from. 


8. Where and/or how do your brainstorming for your blog?

All over the place.  


9. Do you have any blogging rules or guidelines you follow?


I try and keep my blog PG 13 since my daughter likes to read it. Because of the topics I write about, I know someone is bound to be hurt by something I post, but I never set out to be mean or hurt someone intentionally.  No porn.  That is all I can think of for now, I am sure the longer I blog the more guidelines I will think of.


10. Is there anything you will not blog about?

At  this  time, I do not think so.  That could change though.


11. Do you have any sort of a publishing schedule in terms of day of week or topic?

I have no particular topic I write about, it is whatever comes into my head that day.  I try to publish something other than meme’s at least once a day.

Today we ripped this meme off blogger named Flea from the blog Flea’s World. She states that she stole it at Warty Mammal. But, it was probably stolen there as well. So, of course, that will be as far as we go. Tracing back our theft’s thieves might take some time. Link back to us at Sunday Stealing!

Foods which disgust the crap out of me: liver from any animal

TV show I loathe:  Any of those young teen shows on the Disney Channel, where the main female character has a high pitched voice that reminds me of finger nails on chalk boards, example Hannah Montanna.

Movie I loathe:  Any movie where the main female character has a high pitched voice that reminds me of finger nails on chalk boards, example Hanna Montanna.

Music genres I loathe:  Any song where the main female singer has a high pitched voice that reminds me of finger nails on chalk boards, example Hanna Montanna and Lady Gaga

Magazine which annoys me:  teen magazines that have posters of half nekkid, young men stars in them, that my daughter hangs on her walls.

Makes me cranky at restaurant:  Rude, loud people

Makes me cranky in public:  Rude, loud people

Makes me cranky in general:  Forgetting to take my happy pills, and rude loud people

Pisses me off at home:  Rude, loud people

Pisses me off at work:  I do not work, thank goodness

Pisses me off in general:  Forgetting to take my happy pills, and again….rude, loud people.

Makes me impatient at home:  When people are rushing me.

Makes me impatient at work:  I am a slacker, no job
Makes me impatient in public:  When I am in a hurry and everyone around me is toooooo slooooooooooooow

Celebrity I hate:  hate is too strong of a word, dislike intensely….Brittany Spears

Music artist I hate:  hate is too strong of a word, dislike intensely….Lady Gaga

I could care less about:  answering negative questions, when I am trying to stay positive.

Annoys the crap out of me weekdays:  Sales Phone Calls

Annoys the crap out of me weekends:  Sales Phone Calls

Blogger’s habit that annoys you:I think I am too new to blogging because of now I cannot think of any blogger habit that annoys me.

Feature on your blog you hate:  Nothing.  I worked too hard on it to dislike it.

Movie star you despise:  I am too lazy to think of one.

Politician that you hate:  I never answer political questions.  It often leads to arguments.

My list of thirteen this week is thirteen possibly interesting and definitely gross facts.

This is just the kind of thing that amuses me.  There are a couple of facts that might not be suitable for small children.

1.  One pound of peanut butter can contain up to 150 bug fragments and 5 rodent hairs.  mmmm Sounds yummy!!

2.  House flies go to the bathroom roughly every 4.5 minutes.  That just makes me want to go on a picnic right now.


3.  On a daily average you will inhale 1 liter of others anal gasses.  I just do not know what to say about that.  With my farty husband I am sure I am inhaling way more than that.




4.  An average person will consume 12 pubic hairs in their fast food annually.  Yeah, I am regretting my whopper now.


5.  If you swim one hour in a public pool you will intake 1/12 liters of urine.  One of the many reasons I do not go to a public pool.


6.  Roaches carry over 40 different pathogens which risk being transferred to humans. Pneumonia, plague, hepatitis, and typhoid fever just to name a few.  This is the grossest fact for me.  I hate roaches.  They give me the creeps.

7.  Need to use the bathroom? When a person pees, a small deposit of urine enters the mouth through the saliva glands.

8.  Next time you go out to the coffee shop think about this, diarrhea induced E.Coli was found on 10% of coffee mugs in the U.S.





9.  The longest recorded projectile vomiting is 27 feet.  I think my daughter came close to that when she was an infant.  She had reflux and projectile vomiting happened several times a day.  She had only one target in mind when she did it.  Me!  Most of the time it went down my shirt and into my bra.


10. We all like a man who gives a nice firm hand shake. However, you might want to think twice before returning the firm grip. Annually you will shake hands with 6 men who have recently masturbated and did not wash their hands.

11. Through contact with door knobs, counter tops, and other daily objects your hand will come in contact with 15 penises a day.  Yeah, just speechless here.

12. When we sleep we are the most relaxed and at peace. Who would’ve thought that while you are snoozing you were inhaling bugs! In a years time, most humans will consume 14 insects while in their sleep.

13. Enjoy a nice cup of yogurt? You might want to double check the ingredients again. Some yogurts and jelly sweets contain beef or pork gelatin.

Sometimes silly. Sometimes serious.
Always fun!
Step out of the box. Be creative.
Use your imagination.
No one’s answers are quite like yours

This is a royal twist on an old meme. I just wish I’d found these gems when I was actually twenty-one.This is how it works: You must follow the directions to the letter.

1. Find the nearest bookshelf of your favorite reads, cookbooks, tech books, magazines. It doesn’t matter. This will work for all print media. If you don’t have seven books lined up on a shelf, grab the first seven you see around the house.
2. Book #1: Turn to page 21. Read the 21st sentence (you may have to turn the page).
Write it down.
3. Do the same with the first seven books or articles you see. The sentences will make a paragraph. You must write them down in the order you found them.
4. When you are finished, read over your “story” and title it.
5. Show us your bibliography at the end of this meme. Hmmm…I wonder if we’ll be surprised at the reading material we may find. I just did mine. It was rather shocking! I didn’t cheat. I promise! Don’t you either….or it’s you-know-where for you.

“If Marmee shook her fist instead of kissing her hand to us, it would serve us right, for more ungrateful wretches than we are were never seen,” cried Jo. Grandmother never called for her.  “Then it’s time you learned,” said Martha, not realizing she was being rather bold for a maid.  ‘Cause while playing with my cousin, it fell off and rolled away.  And, as Eddie opened the driver’s-side door of John Cullum’s Ford Sedan:  “You been in a fight, mister?  To hear this pretty childish voice speaking his own language so simply and charmingly made him feel almost as if he were in his native land – which in dark, foggy days in London sometimes seemed worlds away. Edward asked when Charlie and I were done.




 I let my daughter pick out the books I used for this meme.  I hope it does not land me in the Dungeon.

“Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott
“Eleanr Roosevelt” by Shannon Donnelly
“The Secret Garden” Frances Hodgson Burnett
“Where the Sidewalk Ends” Shel Silverstein
“The Dark Tower” Stephen King
“A Little Princess” Frances Hodgson Burnett
“New Moon” Stephenie Meyer

3. You get an email from a candy company telling you that they will send you 6 pounds of delicious chocolate if you blog about their product. When you get the product and try it you realize that it is the worst chocolate that you have ever tasted. What do you do?

Most likely I would have said no in the first place because I am a diabetic, but for the sake of argument lets pretend that I would say yes to their offer.  If the chocolate came and tasted that bad, I would call up the candy company and tell them how much I disliked their candy.  I would also ask, if they would like for me to ship back the chocolate.


4. Texting while driving is one of the most dangerous and annoying things someone could do. Yet, what would you do if you were driving and listening to the radio when the announcer says that he will give $10,000 to the first person with your name that texts a message to him?

I have a hard time texting even when I am not driving….in this case though I would do like I usually do, ask my daughter to do the texting for me. 

5. You’ve been invited to your boss’s house for a dinner party. It’s dark out and there is poor lighting when you get there. As soon as you get inside you realize that you have stepped in dog poop and you have tracked into your boss’s house. What do you do?

I would pretend that I had to get something out of my car so I could wipe the poo that was on my shoe onto the grass.  Then I would not say a word, and hope the boss would not notice.  It was probably his dog’s poo I stepped in anyway.

6. You are at a restaurant waiting for your food to arrive. You’ve waited nearly 30 minutes since the moment you placed your order when your food finally shows up. There is a hair on the top of the food. Do you send it back and wait another 30 minutes or do you deal? 

Oh!  I would send it back.  There is no way I would eat hairy food, especially when it was not my own hair.

7. If you had the power to do so, what would be the one question that you would like to ask anyone who reads this? 

What their answers to number 1 and 2 would be. 

Today we ripped this meme off a blogger and blog named

Sunday Stealing: The Trivia About Me Meme

Opening…

Do you get regular massages?

No

Do you have an answering machine?

No

What cuss word do you use the most?
 
I try not to cuss, but I have to admit the one I use the most is “Shit”
 
Are you underweight or overweight?
 
Overweight
 
Can you see your veins?
 
Yes, however even though they are visible they still stuck BIG TIME when it comes time for an IV.

Favorite…

Soap?

Anything with Lavender in it. 


Fruit?

naner

Kind of red meat?

Anything that comes from a cow, that is in the shape of a ribeye, that is cooked rare with sprinkle of blue cheese on top.

Fish?

salmon

Candy bar?

I do not eat candy anymore, but when I did, it was a tie between an almond joy and a kit kat.

Have You Ever…

Eaten a whole bag of potato chips?

That would be a no.

Eaten lobster?


mmmmm yesssss, good stuff!

Climbed a mountain?

Part of one

Been skydiving?

Why in the world would I want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane?

Been water skiing?

If by water skiing you mean, being drug behind a boat as I hung onto a rope, and had gallons of lake water streaming into my mouth, then yes, I have been water skiing.

Wish you could change something about your life?

Nope!  All of the parts make a whole.  With out those things, the good and the bad, I would not be who I am today. 
 
Like your nose?



When it is not dripping snot from allergies, which is all the time, so I guess I really do not like it.

Like salt and vinegar chips?

Love ’em!

Eat salsa?

Yep, my grandma’s home made salsa mostly.

Own a boat?

No way!  I get sea sick very very easy.

A small thing that people let slide but that actually has dire consequences?

Saying things that hurt other people’s feelings.  Words do damage.

Your most macho trait?

This one is hard, I am a girly girl.  I guess liking to argue, but not as much as I used to.

The longest relationship you’ve ever had?

Fourteen years.

Your most embarrassing thoughts?

Oh geez!  Those are very private.

Your most shameful moment?

After I tried to kill myself in May, I went into a coma, when I was coming out of the coma apparently, I became violent.  I had to be restrained.  I do not recall any of that, but when I finally became aware of my surroundings, I overheard the guards in my room talking about how I had behaved.  It made me feel ve
ry bad and ashamed, even though I obviously was not in my “right” mind when I did those things.
 
This/That…

Bath/Shower?

Bath
 
Markers/Crayons?

crayons, I cannot poke my eye out with them.

Pens/Pencils?

Pens

Jelly/Cream Cheese?

cream cheese

Bagel/Toast?

toast

My greatest weakness is…my emotions

I wish I was…mentally healthy

Three things I wouldn’t do for a million dollars are…cheat on my husband, be mean to my daughter, eat poo

The oddest thing I’ve ever put in my mouth is…these little tiny baby octopus

Credit card you had?

Visa

Loan you got was for?

Car

Paycheck was for how much?

I have not worked in fourteen years, so I cannot remember

Time you had stitches?
About five years ago, after a foot surgery.  I hated them.  I almost took them out myself, but my husband would not let me.  Something about blood and things coming out that should not.

Time you went to the hospital for something?
About three weeks ago.  I spent six days in the hospital for a very bad asthma attack.  I got to go home on Christmas Eve.

Lasts…

List everything you ate in the last 24 hours?

Last thing you used a credit card for?

American Girl stuff.

What was your job previous to the one you have now?

I have been a domestic engineer for 14 years, before that I was a secretary.

Last thing you celebrated?

The last thing I celebrated was something personal.  I was able to leave my “safety area” for hours and not feel anxious.

Last time you were at a sports bar?

I do not even remember.  It has been that long.

Unconscious Mutterings

Free association is described as a “psychonanalytic procedure in which a person is encouraged to give free rein to his or her thoughts and feelings, verbalizing whatever comes into the mind without monitoring its content.” Over time, this technique is supposed to help bring forth repressed thoughts and feelings that the person can then work through to gain a better sense of self.

That’s an admirable goal, but for the purposes of this excercise, we’re just hoping to have a little fun with the technique. Each week I’ll post ten words to which you can respond to with the first thing that comes to mind. 

“Rules are, there are no rules.” There are no right or wrong answers. Don’t limit yourself to one word responses; just say everything that pops into your head.

I say … and you think … ? 

1. Weak ::  Me
2. Flashy :: pinkie rings 
3. Sack ::  potato
4. Business ::  none of your
5. Purple ::  my favorite color
6. Fan :: oriental
7. Airline ::  Eastern
8. Guide ::  medicine
9. Lunch :: date
10. Exercise ::  ugh!!