ww – crying: something i don’t do – 3.12.08
if you weren’t around last week, you missed an INTERESTING question from Tam, and it had something to do with bodily functions in public… i’m not gonna elaborate, but suffice it to say, she didn’t get an answer for a loooooong time.
traciejane closed things down last week. she left an interesting question: What are the things that make you cry?
this is interesting because traciejane knows me in real life, and she knows that i don’t cry. BUT, i’m finding that i cry more and more these days. and i’m surprised at what does make me cry. i’ve actually gotten all misty-eyed a few times this week. and i’m still trying to get over the shock of it. sunday afternoon i was learning a new worship song. and i couldn’t get through the words without choking up. (note: its VERY difficult to sing with a lump in your throat)… and monday my heart just melted when i got a special gift from my met-on-the-net friend. i mean, seriously, WHO cries over something from someone they haven’t even met? that’s about it. can’t remember the last time i cried before that. it was probably when i had that emotional breakdown when drew was out of town.
ok! starter question: can somebody clear up the St. Patrick’s Day confusion for me? exacty WHEN is it this year?
y’all know the rules: answer the last, leave the next. play nice! 
Hey Mandy,
According to the “US Holidays” calendar that I’m subscribed to in iCal, St. Patty’s is Monday, March 17. As for the crying … I nearly lose it with a few movies … oddly enough, the magical ending of “Polar Express” chokes me up. The two times I’ve watched the Passion of the Christ, there are two spots in there where I nearly lose it completely .. I was dumb enough to watch it on a flight once, and just sobbed back there, everyone was looking at me like I was an idiot!
My question:
Who is your least favorite (even if they’re already voted off) contestant and your FAVORITE contestant on American Idol this season?
Fred
least favorite: kristy lee cook; favorite: brooke white
have you ever voted for someone on american idol?
A: Yes, I have though I can’t remember who now. It was SEVERAL seasons ago.
Q: If you had one day to live, what would you do?
A: one day? i think i’d write letters to my loved ones…
Q: what’s your middle name?
A: allison
Q: if you could leave work today and go anywhere, where would you go?
A: home
Q: if you could leave work for a WEEK, where would you go?
A: Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica (my favorite place on earth!)
Q: Do you think if Obama is our president, having the initials B.O. will be a problem? Why or why not?
A: becky, you just made it a problem! LOL!!!!
Q: back to mine, ahem: if you could leave work for a WEEK, where would you go?
A: Depends on how good a president he is…if he stinks, we can definitely use those initials for some fun!
Q: Do you like your name? Why or why not?
Oops, I was answering Becky’s at the same time you were posting, Mandy. I’ll answer yours…
A. Destin, Fl – I love it there!
Q. Do you like your name? Why or why not?
Mandy, I do believe Becky answered your question. Ahem.
A: I do like my name. Daniel is a strong first name. Allen means handsome. Hutchison gets you a cool nickname like Hutch.
Q: If you saw a dog and a cat both about to get hit by a car, and you can only save one, which do you save?
Hutch: dang… i’m not awake yet! sorry…… still adjusting to DST.
A: my car.
Q: what do you do if its 11:00 in the morning and your mind still isn’t awake?!
a: you cook dinner. That is what we are about to do…because it is really 5:00 here.
q: what are you planning for dinner?
A: grabbing leftover beef stroganoff and stuffing it down before praise team practice.
Q: are you one of those people who like to eat breakfast for dinner? (i’m getting hungry…..)
A: I love breakfast for dinner. Just had it Sunday night.
Q: How many books do you have on your shelves that you have no intention of ever reading, but they make you look smart.
As for the original question, St. Patty’s Day is always on my wife’s birthday. Nice how they did that for me so could always remember.
A: At least 5. Though, this number was much bigger before we sold everything to move out East.
Q: You’re having breakfast at home for dinner. Are you making pancakes, waffles or french toast?
a: Yes…all of the above.
Q: What is your favorite smell?
A: so i got this card in the mail from my “met-on-the-net” friend the other day (mentioned in above post). and i actually held it up and smelled it… just to see if it smelled like her world. it smelled like dirt. but, my favorite smell right now would be the smell of the ocean, when the warm air blows in off the beach and you can smell it for miles…. that would be my favorite.
Q: favorite taste?
Mandy I have seen you cry once but I had to be sneaky though and look up during a prayer:)
A: Hawaian Breeze- Glade.
Q: What is your least favorite smell?
Oops, I will answer Mandy’s question
A: Favorite taste is the taste of comfort food, ice cream or mac and cheese.
Q: What is your least favorite smell?
A: Puke
Q: Do you assist when a loved one is puking…pulling hair back, getting water, wash cloth…or do you have to stay out of the room?
A: i help, even though what i really want to do is run far, far away…
Q: have you ever plugged your nostrils with a tissue when you have a cold, and spent the day like that?
A: um. no. people who do that are SICK.
Q: its snowing here – what’s it doing there?
A: well, it’s dark-thirty… rained earlier; cloudy at the moment. but… it’s 75 degrees! ha.
Q: chicken or beef?
a: chickin lickin
q: email or phone calls?
A. Phone calls. I like being able to hear the person’s voice that I’m communicating with. It also generally clears up any confusion with emotion since with email you really can’t tell.
Q. What is the oldest song you can think of that was on the radio when you were younger (like a song from your generation)?
Q. What is the oldest song you can think of that was on the radio when you were younger (like a song from your generation)?
Buttons and Bowes by Dinah Shore (1948?)
Q: Who was your first teenage celebrity crush?
A: probably Jordan Knight from NKOTB!
Q: do you have a current celeb crush? oh c’mon – be honest!
Jim Caveziel baby!
Q: Do you brush your teeth in the shower or at the sink?
a: at the sink
q: what is the most romantic date you have ever had?
a: In the shower.
q: do you ever pee in the shower?
hmmm…. interesting looking at the previous two entries… most romantic date… in the shower! Nice, though not the intended question for the answer… still great!
I’ll answer Heather’s:
Most Romantic Date: probably the night I proposed to my wife (then girlfriend). Nothing spectacular or outrageous, just the notion of what was coming throughout the whole night. Went to eat at the Beaver House in Statesboro, came back to the Wesley Foundation Building (where I was living in an apartment), lit some candles, sang a song to/with Joanna, and then popped the question… had the ring hidden in my guitar case… it was great
forgot my question: what’s the best “marriage proposal” story you’ve heard?
A: In the shower…ha ha . Just kidding. So my friend asked his girlfriend on a missions trip they were on – on the great wall of China. Amazing.
Q: How many kisses do you get or give a day?
A: not enough
Q: when was your last really good hug? (and who with?)
(and since no one answered it…. yes, i’ve been known to pee in the shower!)
alece! you are a brave soul.
A: hug = drew = yesterday
Q: are you a hugger or not-a-hugger?
A: I am a hugee, I like getting them.
Q: You are in a meeting for work, and you silently fart, it smells bad, and people are complaining, how do you react?
A: That would never happen because girls don’t fart.
Q: Are you more of a leader or a follower?
Q: Are you more of a leader or a follower?
A: I would like to think of myself as a leader, whether anyone is actually following me is another story.
Q: Which hero/heroine do you fantasize being?
Q: Which hero/heroine do you fantasize being?
Lara Croft Tomb Raider! Without the pointy girls though. What is up with those things?
Q: You’re just informed you have to repeat a year of school between K-12. You get to choose the year. Which year would you do over? And why?
Q: You’re just informed you have to repeat a year of school between K-12. You get to choose the year. Which year would you do over? And why?
A: Kindergarten. I would get to just play all day.
Q: What is your favorite game to play?
Q: What is your favorite game to play?
A: the ones with your mind Ed
Q: You have to live as the opposite sex for one day. What’s the first thing you do?
Q: You have to live as the opposite sex for one day. What’s the first thing you do?
A: Cry! Sorry girls I like my manly parts too much. I would not trade the seven years you get to live longer than me if it meant I had to go through child birth.
Q: If you were the opposite sex which person would would want to be? Other than me of course.
A: Simon Cowell, I think he knows who he is, and is honest. I like that.
Q: What do you remember about your first kiss?
Q: What do you remember about your first kiss?
A: His breath smelled like soured milk!!!
Q: What fruit best describes you?
Q: What fruit best describes you?
A: A banana of course. A large one.
Q: What fruit best describes your mood?
Q: What fruit best desribes your mood?
A: Fresh pineapple, sometimes you have to cut me open to get to the core. I dunno, I tried with that one.
Q: Have you ever put toothpaste on a zit to get rid of it? It works! What do you do to get rid of zits, pimple?
A: yes, but i don’t think it really worked for me. and i don’t have any idea how to get rid of them… they keep coming back and i’m nearly THIRTY years old. oh the trauma!!!!
Q: have you ever bought anything off of the home shopping network?
Q: have you ever bought anything off of the home shopping network?
I have never watch the Home Shopping Network. I have bought books, CD’s and DVD’s on the Internet, but anything else like clothes or equipment I have to see in person to make sure it is what I need.
Q: When was your last food fight.
Q: When was your last food fight.
Last week when I had Mexican. I was fighting with that stuff all night!
New Q: What is the strangest thing you have ever eaten?
A: rabbit… alligator… RATTLESNAKE! yes, i’m from the SOUTH people….
Q: what’s the weirdest thing YOU’VE ever eaten?
Q: what’s the weirdest thing YOU’VE ever eaten?
A: I have eaten sea urchins in Japan, they serve anything that is found in the ocean, but the weirdest is probably fried insect grub. Not a terrible flavor, but the texture was hard to get past.
Q: What food do you dislike the most?
Q: What food do you dislike the most?
Anything good for me
New Q: Based on Ed eating in Japan, where is the coolest place you’ve ever eaten?
Along the lines of Japan, it was cool to eat in a local outdoor food mall in Singapore, though our hosts were kind enough to choose safer dishes for us. The cooles place I have eaten at recently was Mrs. Wilkes in Savannah, Georgia.
Question: What is one of the scariest things you have done?
I went caving for the first time and climbed into spaces that were tight. I fealt quite a lot of fear, and yet it was so exhilarating that I did it and was so proud!
Q: What do you like to do on a day off?
Holly’s Q: What do you like to do on a day off?
Answer: Nothing… Read a novel… play basketball… but nothing tiring. How often does this happen, though, not very often.
New Question: Since it’s getting pretty late at night and there are some night owls among us, what do you do when you can’t sleep?
A: Xbox 360. Or read the homework I should be reading anyway.
Q: How well do you play video games?
Q: How well do you play video games?
A: What’s a video game?
I have tried to play some video games at my nieces houses, but never got very far. I suspect you need may to be under 60 to enjoy video games. 
Q: If your significant other had a choice, and could be honest about it, do you think they would prefer a meal you prepared or eat out at a restaurant?
Q: If your significant other had a choice, and could be honest about it, do you think they would prefer a meal you prepared or eat out at a restaurant?
A: Eat out. Not that I’m a bad cook. We eat in almost every night of the week. We sit together as a family. Love it! BUT – nothing is better to my man than Porters Prime Rib!!! And they have a Parmesan Crusted Halibut that melts me!
Q: Do feet gross you out?
Q: Do feet gross you out?
My son’s – ABSOLUTELY…Yours – Not so much
Q: What is wore for hygiene.
1)You don’t brush teeth
2)You don’t shower
Worse…
Hey! Fancy meeting you two here!
Answer: If with other people it’s worse not to shower, if by myself I hate the whole skin on the teeth thing.
Q:How long do people keep this game up? Not that I will know the answer because I am tearing myself away from the computer and going to bed.
Q:How long do people keep this game up? Not that I will know the answer because I am tearing myself away from the computer and going to bed.
A: When Mandy says it’s closed.
Q: Shower or bath?
Shower! I hate sitting in water with my own filth…
New Q: Why is it that we all have to stop when Mandy says…except Kristiapplesauce and Tam?
New Q: Why is it that we all have to stop when Mandy says…except Kristiapplesauce and Tam?
Because you’re not me or Kristiapplesauce. Helllooooo??!!!!
Q: If you and Mandy could hang out for a day, what would you want to do?
Q: If you and Mandy could hang out for a day, what would you want to do?
Play with Drew. No offense Mandy, I am sure you and am could have fun at Tiffany’s or something
New Q: I am going to bed now…how does that make you feel?
That should read…”you and Tam”
Sorry
New Q: I am going to bed now…how does that make you feel?
relieved
Q: Why do things get darker when they get wet, even though water is clear?
LOL!!!!
is THAT what you’ve got, Tam????? i’m guessing somebody wet their pants over there or something.
and inWorship: if i could hang out with myself for a day i’d wanna play with drew, too.
“mandy says it’s closed”
— COMMENTS CLOSED —
Just wanted to see what it was like to break Mandy’s rules…
inWorship: i’m not even gonna tell you how looooooong my cursor lingered over the delete button. it’d bring you to blog tears.
hee-hee