5 posts tagged “qotd”

Do you have an unusual talent that you are ridiculously proud of?  If so, what is it, and why the smug look on your face? 
Submitted by mo.

I can crochet with very fine thread... i've made lace doilies with sewing thread, and for a while I even made 1:12 scale ones with lacemaking thread (which is finer than sewing thread). 

It's completely useless because no one even really uses lace anymore.  Occasionally I make them for people (or just for the hell of it) and give them away, or add them to my stash of things waiting for homes. It's therapeutic, sometimes, to do something that's basically repetitive and not too mentally taxing. I like the idea of keeping alive a craft that was well-known in my grandmother's generation, but is much less known now. 

Who is ringing in the New Year with you?  Who do you wish could be with you, but isn't there?

I spent New Year's Eve with most of my family.  Chaotic.  We made dinner together, stayed up and watched amateur fireworks being set off from our 11th floor patio.  It rained early in the evening, but fortunately cleared up so we could watch all the firework shells exploding near and far.

There weren't as many amateur fireworks as last year... makes me wonder if it's possible to create an economic index based on how much money people are willing to dump into blowing stuff up on New Year's Eve.  My brother Bob argues for the cardboard box index -- more or fewer cardboard boxes being sold relates to whether people are buying and/or shipping things.

My brother Ken wasn't here, though he sent us all tickets to the Tampa Bay Lightning / Philadelphia Flyers hockey game as a Christmas present.  I was disappointed he couldn't visit (I know he wanted to), but apparently he had no one to help watch his pets and it would have cost him a lot to board them all.

My sister Sarah and her husband already left for home, so they were also not here for New Year's Eve. Oh well.  I would have enjoyed spending more time with Sarah, but that's the way things work out. 

I have friends I would have enjoyed seeing on New Year's, but it just wasn't meant to be.  I was overwhelmed enough just mentally coordinating all the family-ness this weekend and holiday. I'm thinking of joining a community art class that starts in a couple of weeks.  I haven't done any regular drawing / art in about fifteen years, and I miss it. Not that I ever spent enough time at it to be good, but I enjoyed it.  Creating things makes me feel worthwhile in a way that not many other pursuits do.

When skimming a magazine (or book or newspaper) do you flip through the pages from front to back or back to front?
Submitted by enSue.

I always read magazines backwards.  It probably drives chief editors nuts when they hear statements like that. To me, the most interesting bits are usually at the back. Like "Abort, Retry, Fail" -- anyone remember that feature? It's been renamed "Backspace", I think, because most PC users today have never seen that old DOS prompt.

What's the story behind a time when you got locked out?

Oh man, it was just after my husband and I bought our first house together. The day after we installed deadbolts so that no one (including us) could break in 'the easy way' any more. Of course it was my fault. Need I say more?

We skipped the immediate next-door neighbors -- an accountant and a health-care administrator.  The next house down contained a family with two young boys.  I knew they would understand.  They took us in, helped us contact a locksmith, and chatted with us for a bit while we waited. 

If you're reincarnated, what do you think you'll come back as?
Submitted by Diana.

I had a dream once that I turned into a bird and could soar into the sky.  I was ecstatic, of course, at first. Until I circled back and found that my husband was a turtle and we were separated. Then I felt crushed.

I don't know a lot about this, but I think it's supposed to be a good thing to be human as opposed to an animal.