Thursday questions

Covering your cranky co-workers in tattoos and foil

1) Christmas is less than two months away. Have you already started shopping for Christmas gifts? 
Normally I start shopping for Christmas months early. Sometimes I go out in January and buy things on after-Christmas clearance for the next Christmas' gifts. But this year... I've done nothing at all yet 

2) Would you be offended if someone carved a pumpkin for Halloween in such a way so that it would resemble your face?
I'd only be offended if it looked all cutesy. If it looked evil or demented, I'd be all for it

3) How do you feel about people who get "fandom" tattoos (i.e. tattoos of musicians, TV shows, movies, etc)? 
 I saw a guy the other day at a restaurant with a big tattoo down one arm of a band that was popular years ago. I can't imagine ever wanting to permanently put something on my body. Just because I absolutely love something now, it doesn't mean I'll even remotely like it in a year. People seem to forget how permanent tattoos really are

4) It seems like Quick Response codes (a.k.a. QR codes), like the one to the right, are everywhere on products and ads these days. Do you ever actually scan them using your phone?
My phone is pretty awesome, but I don't have a code scanner on it. I did scan a QR code last week using my fiance's phone while we were sitting at a restaurant. There was one on a ketchup bottle, and I was curious so I scanned it. All it did was point me to the Heinz website. I don't see the point in that. If I was really that curious about ketchup, I can go to Heinz's website just as easily as I can scan a damn QR code

5) Connecticut lawmaker Rep. Tim Larson has proposed a national law saying that all Halloween trick-or-treating should be done on the last Saturday of October, regardless of what day Halloween falls on. What do you think of his idea? Should trick-or-treating be done on a specific day of the week each year or on the true holiday? 
I think it would be nice in some ways to know that each year, trick-or-treaters would only come by on a specific day of the week, but frankly, Saturday isn't going to work for me anyway. I almost always work Saturday nights, so I wouldn't be home then. I miss the purity of going out as a trick-or-treater on Halloween even if it was a school night

6) The head pastor of my church recently went out of town and forgot to lock his office, and when he returned, everything in his office had been covered in aluminum foil by his coworkers as a prank (that's really his office to the right). Have you ever been the butt of a prank, or pulled a prank on someone else?
 I surprisingly haven't really been the butt of a prank or really pulled one on someone else. I have sat by and watched other people pulling pranks without stopping them. In high school, male classmates would pull pranks on our math/physics teacher all the time. She'd go to grab a soda and come back to find that they had taken all the desks in the room and turned them over or something similar. I'd just watch. I never participated

7) Speaking of coworkers, today (Oct. 27) is "Cranky Co-workers Day." How would you deal with an extremely cranky co-worker who was causing you stress?
I have a tendency to email other co-workers about the annoying people and bitch and moan about them. Somehow writing bitchy emails calms me down

8) The movie "Anonymous," which is coming out soon in U.S. movie theaters, poses the idea that William Shakespeare did not write his own plays and poetry. If you became a professional writer, would you use your own name or create a fake pen name? 
I really like the idea of staying anonymous. I'd use a fake name

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Thursday's Top Ten

Top Ten favorite things to snack on.

1) Cinnamon rolls
2) Rice Krispy treats
3) Cheese cracker/peanut butter sandwiches
4) Three Musketeers
5) Butterscotch pudding
6) Strawberry yogurt
7) Ice cream
8) Cheesecake
9) Chewy chocolate chip cookies
10) Sun Chips

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Thursday 13

I've realized lately just how crazy random I am when it comes to doing statuses on Twitter and Facebook. I seem to speak (or rather type) often without really thinking about what I'm saying first. Here are some of the random things I've said lately

1) Darn you Bed Bath & Beyond for mailing me your monthly ad and making it totally clear how little money I have to spend on your products and for making me realize how likely it is that I'd be too lazy to actually use the products even if I could afford them

2) I know I'm in love when I plan a secret, romantic dinner to celebrate his birthday and dress up so I actually look like a girl for it, even wear pink heeled shoes

3) My official review for Kelly Clarkson's new CD: "She kicks ass"

4) Random advice from Jennifer ... Don't admit to farting in the office unless you're certain everyone really did hear/smell it

5) Best TV quote of the century... "I'm up to my ass in ovaries every day" ~ Private Practice

6) Unpleasant premarital bonding moment... My fiance and I had to fetch two dead mice out from behind my couch using tongs and trash bags. Most disgusting smell EVER. Note to self: Buy new tongs

7) Another unpleasant premarital bonding moment... My fiance and I were on the couch together playing with the dogs when Princess suddenly barfed on his shirt. ... We're 0 for 2 on good nights this week

8) I think I have a fetish for Scrabble.... Yep, I said it

9) Wow. I actually learned something at work today. That doesn't happen often

10) Yes I am listening to some Michael Bolton on Spotify. I'm not ashamed of it

11) Is anyone else creeped out by the Sims 3 Pets commercial with the thing that's a dog's head on a human's body? I feel so creeped out by it

12) Dear Facebook, please quit suggesting past boyfriends as possible friends. Thanks, Jennifer

13) Please, people, do not name your pet "Pocket Rocket" and send in a story about him/her for the paper. It's just asking for trouble