who's your best friend & why?

my mom.

i am very lucky to have some really amazing friends in my life. i cherish everyone of them.

what were your best & worst christmas presents?

i can only remember my worst -- a scale!
i'm a big girl, even when i was younger. you don't get a junior high girl a scale for christmas, really mom?!

favorite nouns

apple
sun
moon
grass
tree
flower
owl
cupcake
bird

write a rhyming poem. you choose the length & subject.

edgar the elephant wanted a pair of pants
most were too small, some were too tall
so he gave up and decided to wear none at all

what's your favorite game to play?

my favorite game to play is actually a nintendo game. i started playing it in the 80s when i had my first computer. it was on a nice big 4.5 inch floppy disc. remember the ones that when you put them in you had to type in a password (for each game) to get it to work? it BUBBLE BOBBLE! i'm really excited b/c three years ago when i got my wii i discovered that it was a downloaded game off the nintendo store. of course i bought right away. my friend kelli and i would play it for hours way back when, so when she visits we usually try to get at least one game in. i still play it over, and over and over...

if you could have chosen your name, what would you have picked?

growing up i would often think of a new name for myself. i really liked dawn b/c she was my favorite character in the babysitter's club books. now that i'm older i really think that my name suits me well. my mom wanted to name me lindsay since her name is linda, but my gram would have none of that. then she thought (will help from gram of course) to name me after both my gram and grandpa. she named me april after the month of my grandma's birth and my middle name is eugena after my grandpa, eugene. since i was little they would call me april gene, my aunt still calls me that. i really don't see me being anyone other than april.

favorite adjectives

peaceful
tiny
little
yellow
turqouise

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merry christmas!

who knows you best?

my mom.

if you had to choose, which reality tv show would you be on?

i would like to be on the amazing race. i know that i'm in any kind of physical shape to actually be on the show, but i'd really love to visit all of the countries and experience the culture even if it's for a brief amount of chaotic time. it's a great show and slightly educational.

what's your sign?

i am a virgo.

Traditional Virgo Traits

Modest and shy
Meticulous and reliable
Practical and diligent
Intelligent and analytical


On the dark side....

Fussy and a worrier
Overcritical and harsh
Perfectionist and conservative

i think this hits on my biggest traits, good and bad.

favorite verbs

imagine
create
dream
capture
smile
hope
wish
laugh

in what television-show home would you want to live?

i could only think of a movie home. i would want to live in the cullen's house from twilight. it's full of windows in the middle of the forest. it would be inside outdoor living. i would want it to be in the woods, and back up to the beach. i'd love to look and listen to the water and enjoy the beauty of the forest.

you're going undercover (you pick the profession/circumstance), what would you choose as your alias?

imogene bleu

i have no idea what i'm thinking, that's the first thing that popped into my head. it's probably a better stripper name, but i really don't think they're that creative. don't they mostly go by candy or destiny...?

alcoholic beverage of choice

this is easy too. i'm not much of a drinker, so i don't really have one. i like girly/fruity drinks, but i don't really drink much at all.

i'm really excited to be listening to the two owls in my backyard hooting back and forth. at least one of them is a great horned owl. we haven't had owls in our area for years. i can remember being little and listening to them at night and now they are back for a bit. eeek!

what are you reading now?

this is easy, nothing. i read in spurts, sometimes i have really long dry spells. i was doing really good. i had read about 5 of the sookie stackhouse novels and just stopped in the middle of one. i needed a break. and right now i have no motivation to get back in to it. hopefully i will soon b/c i really do enjoy reading.

favorite tv personalities

The Cast of the Office
Liz Lemon
Leslie Knope
Allison DuBois
Will Schuester
Felicity Porter
Cast of Seinfeld
Cast of Friends

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Benson the bat/owl. He started out as an owl, but he turned out to be more of a bat.

what talent or skill do you wish you had?

this one was easy. i wish i could sing. good. i love to sing in the car or on rockband. i've loved to sing since i was a little girl, but i'm just not good enough. i'm an alto and can only sing low and even that isn't in tune.

who is your kryptonite?

i guess i'm not really sure what this means. i think that kryptonite was bad for superman, but it was an object, not a person. i would think that my kryptonite would be mean people and really stupid drivers. i hate unsafe drivers. just today, my mom was losing traction going up a hill, but there was an SUV right on her tail. when he could he passed her and honked the horn. i flicked him off and my mom honked at him, so i guess we became mean over it. it's really upsetting, that people get in cars and think they're suddenly invincible, when in realty, it's probably one of the most dangerous things to do.

go to Google and type in your first name. click on Images and post the first image that comes up.

this is what came up in my search. her name is april scott. she is an actress and model. she's been on CSI and entourage to name a few.



it like this pic though.

and if i type in my full name i get
wriggleby!!

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ferdinand the penguiin got a new hat to keep him warm in the arctic chill.

write today's post without the letter P.

hmm. what to talk about. i think this is fairly easy. maybe another letter would have made this a tad harder. consider the letter r, or t. those are much more common than that certain letter that i can't mention. i mean on wheel of fortune, they give the contestants r, s, t, l, n, e for the bonus round. they obviously have a much more common usage. and with that i am done for today. (i have seriously read this five times to make sure i didn't use that letter)

what is something you should change about your life that you have no intention of changing? maybe along the lines of a resolution you have no intentio

that would probably be eating better and exercising. it's something that's really hard for me to keep up with, esp. since i don't have my treadmill anymore. i'd love to have one again -- damn that fire. maybe i'll be able to afford one one day.

your most embarrassing moment

i have had many embarrassing moments over the years. i can't really chose one as the most, but i'll tell you one of them which i am willing to tell. here it goes...

ever since i was little i've had sinus issues. i was always blowing my nose and carried kleenex with me just in case. before photo day in second grade, my mom and grandma prepared me. they said, sit up straight, bring your pigtails to the front, brush your hair and the big one blow you nose before the picture. well i forgot the last one. in my second grade photo, in my mickey & minnie mouse t-shirt, i have a booger and it's in the yearbook for all eternity!

tell us about the last dream you remember having

so i did have a dream last night. it was very strange. i was in a car with my friend steffany who was driving (i haven't seen her in a couple of years), i think that Becca (not 'becca) was there too. oh and my really good friend from high school, jenny (who i haven't seen since about high school). anyway were driving out in the country and came up to an outdoor flea market (kind of like the one i went to a the covered bridge festival). we walked up to this shed type thing. which looked like a large sheet of corrugated metal bent into a half moon shape. i know why i thought of this type of building b/c i drive past one everyday, but yesterday my mom asked "what do they keep in that thing?".

anyway we go into this barn and it's set up with a couple tables and candles. so it was a eatery of some type. well actually it was polish. the lady that ran it was a gypsy. there wasn't any food, but she told us that if we all thought about eating food, the people from poland would suddenly come and make us food to eat. (the whole polish thing came from a fact that i had heard on tv that morning about chicago having the highest polish population, only second to warsaw.)

that's about all that i remember b/c it started to turn into another dream that i didn't get too far into. i have a vivid memory of a gas smell (like nipsco). when i woke up i even checked for it. and my friend jenny was right there, totally in my face. i haven't seen her in ages. we used to email all of the time and then we lost touch about sophomore year of college. i search her out sometimes, but she has a really common last name and i can't find her.

if you go through your facebook list, how many peple would you delete if you weren't worried about their feelings?

here's my makeup.

i would probably delete more than half. most of my "friends" on there are people that i knew in high school. some of which weren't really my friends to begin with. we were just classmates. i accepted b/c i didn't want to be seen as a bitch. i think that a lot of people in high school saw me that way b/c i was so quiet. they didn't understand why i didn't talk to them, so they assumed i was a snob or something. i was really terrified to talk to people and horrified of being made fun of even more than i was. shyness isn't a good thing in high school, i guess. i do have a lot of great high school friends on there that i wouldn't delete. they know who they are. and of course the people that are currently in my life i would definitely keep!

disconnected

The internet mysteriously went down. i can't remember todays topic. hopefully i can make up for it tomorrow. this phone blogging thing is really annoying. :o}

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santiago the neurotic owl

Christmas cards: enjoy sending them or just a chore? enjoy receiving them or do they go right in the trash?

i'm not really into sending christmas cards. i used to do it and my mom actually did it one year too. it's just not a family tradition of ours. i think that maybe my grandma sent them out.

i really do enjoy receiving them. i always display them on our piano for everyone to see.

i am such a hypocrite.

what is your favorite comfort food?

this is easy. a grilled cheese sandwich with tomato soup and chocolate milk. it was a lunch staple for me growing up. my gram made the best grilled cheese. oh and it needs to be cut in half, sometimes in quarters for fun!

free day

today is a free day for our monthly blogging. i've actually decided to keep going for another month. it's a good thing for me. i need to push myself a little more and stop being so lazy. it also gets me away from the tv -- another good thing!

in other news i got my PC at work. so now i have developed a PC brain with all of those quick keys. i keep getting confused at home now b/c i have a MAC *hear the angels sing*. so yea i have a PC brain and a MAC brain now. for a while, at work, i actually had a PC living in my MAC and i could use both simultaneously. yea that was REALLY confusing. in the end, MACs rule!