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Snackie Sunday: Hey Baby, What’s Your Sign?

October 5th, 2008

I have no idea how I ended up on an Astrology site yesterday afternoon.  I’m guessing that it had something to do with clicking something that I shouldn’t have (thanks Facebook) and then not being able to look away.  There were not only daily horoscopes but all of these fascinating * different kinds* of horoscopes to choose from.  I spent a good hour telling the website all of my intimate details then another two hours wondering how each version of my horoscope was so different.  I guess it’s sort of like religion in that you pick just one and stick with it, even though the others intrigue you?  Oh wait, it’s not like I do *that* either.  In any case, I was intrigued for a bit however it ended when the next shiny thing caught my eye.

It’s time for…

1. WHEN IS YOUR BIRTHDAY (I keep a calendar for ecards!)
2. WHAT’S YOUR SIGN, BABY?
3. DO YOU EVEN BELIEVE IN ASTROLOGY?

You have no idea how many times people have asked what my sign is after meeting me.  When I say “Scorpio”, they say “ahhhh, no wonder!” as if they were looking for an explanation for my antics!  All joking aside, I’ve always thought that the basic astrological qualities and associations of Scorpios completely go hand in hand with who I am.  Let’s take a look at what Wikipedia has to say about the basic traits of a Scorpio…

Associated Traits
intense, powerful, determined/tenacious/preserving, emotional/sensitive, calm but seething, reserved/withdrawn, secretive, deep/profound, passionate/sexual, loyal, ambitious, extreme, willful, mysterious/magnetic, deeply resentful/brooding/potentially destructive.

Attributes
Likes (totally me): activity, mysteries, secrets, winning, being acknowledged, strategy.
Dislikes (totally not me): being analyzed, being asked personal questions, people who think they know more than Scorpios do, too many compliments, having to trust a stranger.

Now then, as far as my Daily Horoscope goes?  I don’t believe it nor do I read it.  In high school and my early 20’s, I was the exact opposite.  Man oh man, I would read that thing every day and look for the sign just to prove that it was all true.  Besides, they are all so generic.  Today’s horoscope said:

“It’s a good time for taking risks with money or emotions. You aren’t able to control yourself anyway typically, so you may as well go all-in! It might not pay off, but the ride is worth the admission price!”

You see?  That’s not really telling me anything that someone else couldn’t tell me and also?  It’s a common Scorpio trait to take risk with their emotions anyway!  Pffft.

Oh and my birthday? That I forgot to add on the original post?  November 4th…Election Day!

Burgundy Corduroy Bell Bottom Kisses,
Me

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Snackie Sunday: Food Favorites

September 28th, 2008

Today I am keeping things really simple…no big story, no grand explanation.  Nope, today is all about questions, answers and probably uh…salivating.  Just copy the list of food items I’ve made below and give me YOUR answers, m’kay?  Pretty please?  With frosting on top?  Oh hell, time for me to shush.  Moving right along…

Let’s have fun with…

FOOD FAVORITES:  FINDING OUT WHAT YOU LIKE!
What is your favorite…

Breakfast Food: French Toast (off diet) or scrambled eggs with salsa (on diet)
Pizza: Veggie or Cheese & Tomato
Ice Cream: Ben & Jerry’s NY Superfudge Chunk
Caffeinated Beverage: Coffee with lowfat milk and two yellows
Vegetable: Artichokes or squash
Fruit: I hate fruit however I will say apples or mango
Dessert: Tiramisu or super decadent chocolate cake
Fast Food Chain: Chick Fil-A
Store-bought Beer (or soda if you don’t drink beer): Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (Coke Zero)
Type of Cuisine: Mexican

BONUS: What kind of food are you the best at cooking/baking?
ANSWER: Italian food of all kinds. I make a kick ass baked ziti, lasagna, chicken cutlets parmesan, and cannoli.

Not Going To Cheat On My Diet Kisses,
Me

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Snackie Sunday: Scaredy Cat

September 21st, 2008

One good thing about having been so sick (we’re up to a possible ear infection now, woohoo!) is that I’ve had time to do things that I normally would not have.  Both Friday and Saturday, I spent some time organizing my electronic files and backing everything up to my external drive.  This took some time because well…I am prone to save everything to the desktop while I am working on it.  However, because I hate a cluttered desktop, I save it to a file called “to sort”.  I’ve lied to myself and promised that I’d clean that out once a week but uh…let’s just say that it had been about four months since my last file scrub-a-dub-dub!  Anydiddle, while going through old files and organizing them, I came across some pictures from 2006, which included the Queen Mary adventure I took with Foo and Karl (among others).  Every time I think of that day out, I am reminded of how I freaked the fuck out in the tiny elevator that moved as slow as molasses.  It was so claustrophobic in there that I started crying.  Yes, real tears of I have no idea what…maybe anxiety?  Luckily, I was with people that all knew me well enough to understand that I am certifiably bat-shit crazy.

This brings me to…

DO YOU HAVE ANY PHOBIAS (OR ANXIETY-TYPE FEARS?)

I found a great list of phobias at Wikipedia as well as on About.com’s Phobia List.  I was floored when I saw how many there truly are!  I tried not to get all “mental hypochondriac” when reading them, yanno…just cause I wanted one with a cool name!  However, I have to say that my biggest phobia is pretty standard.  It’s Caustrophobia.  I always thought I had a general fear of elevators (which I do) but I think that boils down to being afraid to be stuck in a confined space.  How do I know this is true?  Hell, I *refuse* to sit in the back seat of a two door car…that’s how much I can’t stand being “trapped”.  Hrm, pardon me while I scan the list to see if I have any others…*whistles*.  Oooh, I know - Erotophobia!  Oh wait, I’m the exact *opposite* of that, haha!  I really can’t see any others that apply to me except, I have a skeevy fear of snakes.  What’s that called? Ooooh, “Ophidiophobia”…how fancy!

Anyway, your turn…have any fears, phobias, or anything else that makes your skin crawl? And hey, no judgment here at ALL! Hell, I used to have anxiety disorder and extreme Agoraphobia. I didn’t leave my house for a year. Yes, ME! Can you believe?

They’re Coming To Take Us Away (HO HO HEE HEE HA HA) Kisses,
Me

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Snackie Sunday: Whistle While You Work

September 14th, 2008

Usually I have some huge story that precedes the weekly Snackie Sunday question, right?  Yeah…not so much this week.  The thing is that this question came to me as I was trying very hard to keep a pleasant mood all day Saturday while doing some work stuff.  To say I’ve been the poster child for PMS these last couple of days would be putting it *mildly*, truth be told.  Knowing that, I tried hard to stay level headed and not let the beastie within come out to play.  In order to do so, I kept singing “Whistle While You Work”.

Which brings me to…

IF YOU WERE ONE OF THE SEVEN DWARFS, WHICH ONE WOULD YOU BE?
(Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sneezy, Sleepy, Bashful, or Doc)

Before I give my answer, I just want to say that clearly I am Snow White.  I mean…duh!  I’d be the dumb ass girl in the forest, wanting to believe that people are kind and altruistic therefore taking some fugly ass bitch’s apple with no second thought.  I mean, yanno…plus there’s the whole “shacking up with seven dudes” thing.  Honestly, this has nothing to do with being the fairest of them all because let’s face it…I’d look at the mirror and say, “Wow Mirror, you are so full of shit today, aren’t you?  What do you want?”.  However, for the sake of playing fair, I would have to say that my dwarfy equal is Doc. I mean, just look at the description I kyped from the Disney Vault:

If the Seven Dwarfs have a leader, it has to be Doc (though he’s far too good-natured to ever make it official). When there’s an important decision to be made, Doc is usually the one to make it. Doc’s mind often works faster than his mouth when he’s excited, but his judgment’s always sound. Doc takes it upon himself to convince his fellows that the hardships they must endure in allowing Snow White to stay are worth it — even that strange custom of washing up. And only he knows how to get that “old warthog” Grumpy into the wash trough. Sometimes Doc himself doesn’t know how wise he is. As the dwarfs leave for the mine after Snow White arrives, he warns Snow White, “Now don’t forget, my dear, the old Queen’s a sly one, full of witchcraft. So beware of strangers.”

Seriously! That’s me! He’s not just a smart one…he’s cunning in his own way. I like that about Doc.  Yep, if I can’t be Snow White then he’s my guy.  But what about you?  Which one would be be or which do you identify with most?  If you need help remembering what each dwarf is about, The Disney Vault has some great descriptions!

Wake Me Up Now Kisses,
Me

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Snackie Sunday: My Incompetent Lateness And Yapping

September 7th, 2008

One…
Two…
Two and a half…
Two and three quarters…

She never gets to three. “She” being some random woman in our complex, counting down nightly in order to get her kid to go to bed.  I hear her voice wafting whenever I go out on our patio to eat dinner.   For some reason, it makes me smile every time because I imagine that’s the type of Mom I’d be…giving my wee one more chances than necessary because I’m just sure that he or she will do the right thing.   Yanno, before I go ballistic.

There’s another woman that seems to scream at her husband a lot.  You can sort of hear his muffled voice, probably asking her to calm down.  From what I can deduct with my Mrs. Kravitz-like skills, he baits her and she reacts, looking like the looney.  Have I mentioned that I have really good hearing?  Anyway, the other night as they were yelling at each other, I could hear their kid scream, “Can you PLEASE be quiet?  I’m watching Super Robot Monkey!”  Hey, I don’t even know what a Super Robot Monkey is but I sympathize with the kid.  No one should be talking during his “stories”, sheesh!  Okay, I kid a little…maybe it bugs me because he shouldn’t hear his parents fighting.  Maybe I totally relate.

You see, when my parents got divorced I was probably about 4 years old and I was hooked on the magic that was Sesame Street.  I mean really, even back then I sat smack dab in front of the TV screen and got yelled at to move back more than not.  The day my Dad left my mom, I remember them fighting.  I also remember marching upstairs and politely asking if they could please shut the fuck up because Seasame Street was on.  Yes, creative license…I probably didn’t use the words “shut”, “up”, or “fuck”.  It occurs to me now that I was wayyyy too out of the loop about what was really going on, which is a good thing, right?  However, I blame my parents for making me this crazy TV nazi who will hunt you down and kill you if you talk in the middle of her programs.

Huh what?  I bet you this Snackie Sunday is soooo not going where you originally thought it would!  Yeah yeah, I wanted to tell the story AND do the normal gig so sue me!

Anywayyyy, it’s time for…

WHAT’S YOUR STANCE ON TALKING DURING MOVIES AND/OR TV SHOWS?

Dude, as mentioned before…shut the fuck up if I am watching my shows.  Thank GOD for Tivo because sometimes Shawn will come in with a fully legitimate question and I imagine that were it not for the pause button, there’d be a lot more, “shhhh…geez!  I am watching a show here!”.  And yeah, that’s good for no one.  The only time talking is okay is during reality shows, quite honestly.  In fact, I wish I had someone here to watch Amazing Race, Survivor and Big Brother with me all of the time, among other of those types of programs.  However, if you open your mouth during Pushing Daisies, I will cut a bitch!  As far as movies go, oy to the vey…no talking!  At least don’t talk to *me*.  There are times when a funny statement here and there are okay to me…like where there is a large audience at a funny movie.  But hey, I don’t really go to movies all that much because I at least recognize that I am far too bitchtastical to deal with other people’s idiosyncrasies in a theater setting.

Your Turn Kisses,
Me

I apologize for posting this Sunday NIGHT.  Maybe I should call it Snackie’s Manic Monday this week?


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Snackie Sunday: Use Your Words!

August 31st, 2008

Lately I’ve been all about the resurrection and revival of good things.  Therefore, today we are going to play the second installment of a very a fun “word association game”.  The best way to make this super radical badical is to see how many people come up with either tons of the same answers or tons of different answers for the same word!  That means y’all playas need to well…..play!  Try not to look at what anyone else has said before you comment!

Yeah, you know what time it is…

WHAT WORDS DO YOU ASSOCIATE WITH THE FOLLOWING?

[The rules are simple…you copy and paste the following words into the comment box. Then you answer each word that I have typed below with the FIRST word that comes into your mind. For example, if you said "snackie", I would say "poo" (written: snackie - poo).  Easy enough, right??? Let’s play!]

1. bush
2. home
3. smelly
4. money
5. poker
6. lip
7. feel
8. very
9. be
10. dork
11. sexy
12. love
13. my
14. soft
15. hard
16. sock
17. lick
18. heart
19. hand
20. drama
21. temporary
22. barn
23. song
24. gamma
25. blue
26. Hilly

My answers will be in the comments section because I know how hard it is to come up with your own word when you have already got someone else’s all stuck in the nooks and crannys of your mine!

“That’s Telekinesis, Kyle” Kisses
Me

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A Bigger Bite

August 23rd, 2008

Heya, people! I’m Winter. Our favorite Snackstress is out of town for a few days visiting her family, so she asked me to come by and guest post for her. She didn’t realize I would come over here, plop my ass on her blog-couch, and try to figure out how I can get those cupcakes off of the tree. I mean, c’mon. Haven’t you ever looked at her blog template and gotten hungry?

I had a few ideas in mind when Hilly first asked me to do this. I know that all of you are used to her talking about her feelings a lot. You’re used to her being the Queen of Cryptic and the Snarkstress. I have had my fair share of being like that, but I’m not so much in that place in my life at the moment. So, I tossed out all my ideas for coming over here and baring my emotions and talking about “stuff”.

Then I saw Adam’s guest post for Karl’s Summer of Love. That gave me a really good idea. I mean, I am pretty good at swapping heads in Photoshop. I should totally be able to duplicate Adam’s efforts by replacing the heads in this photo with mine and Hilly’s.

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Snackie Sunday Retro Revival: Culpa

August 10th, 2008

Cats and kittens, it’s that time of year again! Wait, what time? Blogiversary time! In one week from today, on August 17th, Snackie’s World will be turning three! I’ve been blogging for a lot longer than three years however if I am going to be true to a Blogiversary date for this blog, well yanno. As part of the whole celebration, I thought I’d dust off some old entries, try to revive them, compare what I wrote “way back when” to how I feel about things today, and so on and so on. Dontcha worry though, I’ll add some sort of pizazz to the whole rigmarole to make it way more exciting than “oh look, she’s posting an old entry”. Hey, some days I may just take an *idea* from an old entry and run with that! Anydiddle, without further adieu, let’s get to our first “revival”, shall we? Truth be told, this is one of my favorite Snackie Sunday questions, even though it was never the most popular. I think this one is a fun question to post again because a.) my readership has changed a ton in just a year and b.) I’m curious to see if all of our answers are the same a year later or if our vices have changed a wee bit over time, With that said, I bring to you this week’s “Retro Snackie Sunday!”

We all have our faults and we all have our vices.  The Catholic Church even defines seven of them as “deadly” or “cardinal”.  But what if you’re not Catholic?  Does that matter?  Not here…not today!  Taking religious connotation out of the equation, we can still identify with those Seven Deadly Sins no matter which walk of life we come from  Hell, they were even featured in the movie that Brad Pitt starred in before he got annoying….yanno, Seven.

The Seven Deadly Sins are as follows:

1. Lust
2. Gluttony
3. Greed
4. Sloth
5. Wrath
6. Envy
7. Pride

Holy cripes…if I *were* a Catholic, I’d spend a helluva lot of time genuflecting, that’s for sure!  But since I’m not, I can take these at an every day value and tell you which one of them I am guilty of the most.  Not that there’s much room between some of these in my personal bag of “woopsies” but still, if I had to pick just one it would be lust probably.  Sure, sloth and gluttony are probably right behind lust but still…I have to base my decision some dude or chick on the street…lust!  Every time I flirt flirt flirt…lust! Other stuff I just don’t talk about on my blog…lust!  Lust lust lust, lusty lust!  I guess I can just be thankful I am not most guilty of the original sin…Pride.

So my question for you today is:

WHICH OF THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS
ARE YOU MOST GUILTY OF COMMITTING???

Again, you don’t have to believe in the religious aspect of it all…if you are not religious, pretend you are watching the movie Seven and you just have to make that choice!  Oh and for the record, my answer is exactly as it was a year ago, maybe even more so…zoinks!

Slutty Kisses,
Me

ETA:  For those of you who want to see if you answered last year and what you said, AFTER you answer today, here is the link!


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Snackie Sunday: Put My Lover On A Shelf…

August 3rd, 2008

I’ve been really lax on my reading this past year and I totally intend to change that.  The other day, I finally went in and updated my Goodreads profile, then tooled around looking for book suggestions and quotes that I like.  I’m always saying that I just don’t have the time to sit down and read, but that is a pile of horse shit, really.  The problem is that I’ve not been able to properly shut off my head long enough to read something without my mind wandering to whichever beast I need to slay next.  Somehow and some way, I have got to just sit down and let everything go, submerse myself into the story and just…breathe.

Yep, you guessed it!  Time for…..

1. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BOOK OF ALL TIME?
2.  WHAT BOOK ARE YOU CURRENTLY READING?

My favorite book of all time? Really that’s a tie between Jane Eyre and Of Mice and Men. Yes, I like the classics.  Jane Eyre touches every romantically adventurous bone in my body while Of Mice and Men speaks in quiet volumes that simply resonate months after reading it. So yeah, love those books.

What am I reading now? As I said before, I have been slowly making my way through my reading so I’ve been on the same book for about a month now (it usually takes only an afternoon).  However, the book I am reading is so freaking good that I don’t mind cracking it open once a day to read a chapter and giggle my little heart out. “What book is that?”, you ask. Well it is a book called The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow The Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs. I can’t even begin to tell you how amazingly funny this book is. Besides all of the religious knowledge that I am gaining by reading it, the fact that I giggle at almost every other page impresses the hell out of me.  Even if you are not a deeply religious or spiritual person, I think you will get a lot out of this book.  Knowledge is power and A.J. manages to give you that knowledge without cramming any sort of religious view down your throat.  Here’s an excerpt:

The Hebrew scriptures prescribe a tremendous amount of capital punishment.  Think Saudi Arabia, multiply by Texas, then triple that.  It wasn’t just for murder. You could also be executed for adultery, blasphemy, breaking the Sabbath, perjury, incest, bestiality and witchcraft, among others.  A rebellious son could be sentenced to death. As could a gluttonous or a drunkardly son.

The most commonly mentioned punishment method in the Hebrew Bible is stoning.  So I figure, at the very least, I should try to stone.  But how?

I can’t tell you how many people have suggested I get adulterers and blasphemers stoned in the cannabis sense.  Which is an interesting idea.  But I haven’t smoked pot since I was at Brown University and I wrote a paper for my anthropology class on the hidden symbolism of bong hits.  (Brown was the type of college where this paper actually earned a B+).

Instead, I figured my loophole would be this: the bible doesn’t specify the size of the stones.  So…pebbles.

A few days ago, I gathered a handful of small white pebbles from Central Park, which I stuffed in my back pants pocket.  Now all I needed were some victims. I decide to start with Sabbath breakers.  That’s easy enough to find in this workaholic city.  I noticed a pot-bellied guy at the Avis down our block had worked on both Saturday and Sunday.  So no matter what, he’s a Sabbath-breaker.

Here’s the thing, though: Even with pebbles, it is surprisingly hard to stone people.

My plan had been to walk nonchalantly past him and chuck the pebbles at the small of his back.  But after a couple of failed passes, I realized it was a bad idea.  A chucked pebble, no matter how small, does not go unnoticed.

My revised plan: I would pretend to be clumsy and drop the pebble on his shoe.  So I did.

Anyway, I highly reccomend that you check out ALL of the books I have mentioned here today. And I am also hoping that by you gracing me with your “Snackie Sunday” presence, I will learn of more amazing things to read as well!

Disco Funkstar Kisses,
Me

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Snackie Sunday: Booze Whores Unite!

July 27th, 2008

It’s no secret that I was at DaveDiego last night and it’s also no secret that thanks to Vahid, I was also slightly drunk.  Since we were at a bar called “Whiskey Girl“, I decided that I’d go ahead and yanno…drink whiskey.  What was the drink of choice?  Whiskey Sours!  The funny thing is that I’ve changed my “signature drink” quite a bit lately.  I mean, it used to be that you’d see me going up to a bar and you’d know that I’d come away with a Lemon Drop, no doubt about it.  I’ve been changing booze lately like I’ve been changing panties so yanno, let’s just get my booze whore status up to a whole new level by using it as Snackie Sunday’s latest and greatest!.

Before I do though, I have to say that DaveDiego was a blasty blast!  I know that there are pictures trickling in slowly but surely (since most sane people are either asleep or at ComicCon) so I will post links to them later this week!  I do have to say that Dave was, as always, a generous host as well as a drunken little funbag.  Also, let me swoon over this one more time…Vahid actually took off his shirt so that Motley could wear it when she got really cold.  Yeah yeah, he had another shirt on underneath but still…it is hard to find men so debonair in this day and age!  I think we all had a really great time last night, booze or no booze.  Even after Dave and Vahid turned into pumpkins and went back to their hotel room, the rest of us decided we’d hit up this local “boho” art show, which was interesting as well.  At one point in time, I was sitting on a couch in the loft turned gallery, thinking to myself, “Life is good and with friends like these, you’re going to be okay no matter what rocky roads lie ahead.”.  And for a moment or two, it was nice to feel loved and accepted, just the way I am.  Okay wait, this just got sappy and it’s supposed to be about booze, dammit.

Let’s move on to…..

WHAT IS YOUR COCKTAIL OF CHOICE?
(or virgin cocktail if you are sober and stuff)

First of all, I just want to say that I know some of you don’t drink.  You can still tell me what your favorite non alcoholic drink is if you want to.  I am an equal opportunity question asker, don’t ya know?  Moving on…as I mentioned before, I was a Lemon Drop whore for a long long time. Somehow I switched to being all about margaritas earlier this year. However, there is one drink that I ALWAYS come back to, no matter how ghetto it may be. I love the simplicity of Captain Morgan Spiced Rum and a little bit of fruit punch.  Of course, I generally only drink that at *home* so I guess I’m still searching for a new drink that i can guzzle down at a bar.  Hrm, maybe I will go back to Amaretto Sours for awhile?  Or maybe….I might just get an idea from one of your cute asses!

Bad Monkey Needs A Cupcake Kisses,
Me

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