11 posts tagged “qotd”

Other than TeamVox, who was the first person you added to your Vox neighborhood? What made you want to be their neighbor?
Submitted by TheFiercestCalm.

shellakers, who added me first, by what my uncle would call "Divine coincidence".  We were meant to know each other.  She has been an incredible friend and inspiration, and I feel honored to be allowed into her life.

Which popular slang expression drives you nuts?

Well.  "That's so gay," and it's lame-brained first cousin, "that's so hot."

It annoys me not just because anyone who says either of those two things immediately loses IQ points (in my eyes, at least) but because both of those things so utterly lack imagination.  If you want to insult or compliment someone, do it with at least a halfway original thought.  If someone is acting like an imbecile, don't say, "dude, ur so gay", say something like, "even a dachshund with a lame leg could get it's work done quicker than you."

Laugh at how long it takes them to work out what a dachshund is and why it's having a lame leg would matter before they manage to get angry at you.  Trust me, it's worth it.

Oh, and have I mentioned the fact that I have no internets is making me cranky?

What do you bring most to a friendship?

obscure talents.

And cheese snacks.

Also- rhetoric.

(Anyone else miffed by this one?)

What's the worst thing that could happen to you today? Bonus question: How would that thing potentially benefit you?

I just ordered a book off of Lulu.  It could end up being a hilarious Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas-esque memoir:

Or it could be the literary equivalent of stepping in poo.

I'm hoping the earlier.  I'm hoping the book itself (binding, cover, paper) is also good quality, because if I like the pages and cover and binding, I'll publish with Lulu if I give up on finding an agent.  If I feel that the book (pages, etc) is a good value for the money, I won't regret buying it.  If I feel that the story is a good value for the money as well, expect me to plug it like there's no tomorrow on my blog, because seeing as I'm looking at the possibility of depending on word of mouth to make money off my own literary attempt, I want to put out some good karma.

So, worst thing that could happen:

I could hate the book and wish I'd ordered something else.

Good thing that could come of it:

I'll know what it's like to be on the purchasing end of Lulu's services prior to asking my friends and family to support me.

What's the biggest leap of faith you've ever had to take?

There was this one time when this building was burning and I was trapped in it and this big burly man I'd never seen before said, "do you trust me?" and I said, "yes!" even though these things never end well, and we jumped and we landed in this water and swam to shore where these guys with guns chased us and we hid in this rundown motel and I cut my hair and dyed it black and then we had the most INCREDIBLE runaway fugitive sex and then we hatched this plot to get revenge on the CEO of this front company for the mafia and we implicated government agents in the process and then took all of this money we found in a hedge account and then went back to The Island where our plane had crashed a while ago and...

Oh, wait, that's like the plot of several movies and TV shows garbled together.

I married my husband.  That was a leap, of faith.  I got two babies out of the deal which is nice.

What's the meanest thing you've ever said to someone?

I could answer this truthfully and talk about all of the tear filled half-screamed heart to heart conversations my husband and I had, back in the days that neither one of us were sure if this relationship would last.  I could, but I won't, because I don't feel like reliving it and I doubt any of my Vox neighbors would appreciate being subjected to that sort of thing.  In fact, QotD, I'm a little miffed at you for asking a question that would lead to such an exposure.  You must not have thought this one through very well.  While a lot of people will probably jokingly answer, "I once told so and so they had an ass face" I honestly find mean things that are said in jest to really be, well, not actually mean.  The meanness comes not only from meaning, but intent, and to talk about times where one has felt such intent...  well, I wouldn't want to.

    Although, I must confess, I call my son Stinky Butt so often that he answers to it.  I hope it doesn't stick.  I can just picture his high school year book caption:
    Josiah "Stinky Butt" ShushSon
    "Not all that glitters is golden..."

    At least we plan on enrolling our kids in a mixed martial arts course so they can defend their honor...
   

You crash your friend's car because you're driving too fast in bad weather. Everyone's okay, but the car has to go into the shop. Who pays the deductible?

  ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

Okay, I realize that lately every time I answer a QoTD it's me complaining, but, seriously?  Really?  Whatever happened to personal responsibility?  If I were driving too fast in poor conditions in someone else's car, I would absolutely pay because it's my fault.  Now, I would never drive too fast in poor conditions, ESPECIALLY in someone else's car.

QoTD, why don't you ask me, "if you went into a hulk-rage in someone else's house and threw a chair through a window, who would pay to replace it?"

Or: "if you pulled down your pants and defecated on a friends chair, who should clean it up?"

Or:  "are you a self-absorbed and careless idiot?  Would you like to tell us about it?"

Sorry.  I'm in a bad mood today.  I seem to be saying that a lot, lately.

What would you do if you had one day to live and you were still young and healthy?
Submitted by Green Tea Adelaide.

Am I the only person who realizes how INSANE this question is?  Why would I know I'm dying in one day, if I am still YOUNG and HEALTHY?  What would I be dying FROM?  Have I somehow been given a window into the future, and know, for instance, that I am to be murdered?  If so, I would do everything within my power to find some way to have my potential killer put behind bars, or in this fantasy world perhaps I would try to kill him first (although by the rules of such fantasy, in doing either one of those things I would probably trigger the event that would lead my killer to murder me, thus ensuring the poetic spiral of such things)

Or...  maybe I know I'm going to die from an accident of some kind.  If I knew I were to drown, I'd go to a mountain lodge with only a normal shower and no tub and no body of water for me to drown in.  If I knew I were to be in a car wreck I'd go out into the desert.  If I knew I were to die in a plane crash I'd certainly not get into a plane.  If all I knew was it was an accident, no details, I'd likely have a nice evening out with all of my friends and go blog about it, just to find out that it was a "blogging" accident.  *cue weird music*

In any case, this question is boggling and I find it hard to answer, except to say:

I'd do everything within my power to make it more than one day, because that is human nature.*

*We spend our entire lives struggling against reality, only to die.

What have you changed your mind about? 
Submitted by chitoes.

My mind regularly changes itself about any manner of things.

I still believe God is Love.  That's the only absolute, non-negotiable truth.*

*That and chocolate ganache.  Raspberry truffle!  I'll never change my mind about that.

When did you really get to make a difference for someone else? 
Submitted by bodhibound.

    Here, I have this wonderful idea.  Why don't I tell you how amazing I am, and then you can kiss my feet and sent me chocolates? 

    I'd much rather confess to all the times that I made a difference in a BAD way, but I'm sure that's not the way this question will be taken.  Self-aggrandizement and self-deprecation are equally annoying.  But, between the two, I'd choose self-deprecation any day.  When you build yourself up you live in fear of the moment you topple from your wobbly handmade pedestal.  When other people build you up you are left in no doubt of your own quality.

    That's all.