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Apr. 2nd, 2004 01:09 am
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Happy International Tatting Day to me! Why can't I convince anyone that today was a gift-giving holiday for me? I didn't get so much as a ball of pearle cotton! How sad life is.

I do have one thing to be grateful about today--I am apparently a Grammar God!
You are a GRAMMAR GOD!


If your mission in life is not already to
preserve the English tongue, it should be.
Congratulations and thank you!


How grammatically sound are you?
brought to you by Quizilla.

But really, what good is that, anyway?

I can't seem to get the hang of creating specific and manageable goals for myself. At the beginning of the week, we wrote a huge list of things on the whiteboard that we need to get done. Because I am somewhat anal when it comes to pens and markers, I used three different colors of markers--blue for what he needs to do, red for what I need to do, and black for what either of us or both of us need to accomplish. Well, actually, I used four--the green is for an alternate list of things to possibly do when Blatt is here. M refers to me as Monica when I do stuff like that, but I digress. The red took most of the board on Monday--on Thursday night, it's an even higher percentage. To be fair, I've added more stuff to mine whereas he has not. I tend to have more abstract things on my list.. stuff that's rather harder to accomplish. It's almost depressing by now, especially since I've erased three things and immediately filled their slots with other abstract stuff. "establish world peace" and "cure for male pattern baldness" are not quite on the list, but I wouldn't be surprised if they showed up some day. It sounds just like something I would establish for myself to do. M, on the other hand, has stuff like "buy mando strings"--now that's clear and concise. (He also had "write 100,000 words, but let's not talk about that.)

Poor Blatt. M started off telling him that all he needed to bring from Sweden was mustard. Then he needed to bring mustard and salt licorice for Jenny. Now he needs to bring beer, as he claims he hasn't had a decent beer in two years. He's going to need to bring extra luggage at this rate.

Well, he would if he brought the appropriate amount of fine Swedish beer, of course.

So anyway, I guess it's time for me to go harass M for a while and then go to bed. And accidentally erase the to-do list, of course.. cheating seems to be about the only way of clearing it. But hey, whatever works.

Date: 2004-04-01 10:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lizardek.livejournal.com
You didn't get a gift because you didn't warn us in advance! And where's the sweetness and thoughtfulness of M NOW?!?! He couldn't add "Buy a ball of pearle cotton and wrap it up with a bow" on his to-do list?? :D

Date: 2004-04-01 11:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] same-sky.livejournal.com
Apparently not. You're not going to make me admit that I forgot about it until today myself, are you?

Date: 2004-04-01 11:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lizardek.livejournal.com
muahahahahaha! I think I already did! >:D

Date: 2004-04-01 10:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] courtesy.livejournal.com
Oh oh, I'm a grammar god too!! Phew, I felt a lot of pressure doing that. I would have got/gotten/gotted you something if I'd know it was tatting day ;)

Date: 2004-04-01 11:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] same-sky.livejournal.com
Sure, sure. :) And congratulations on being a grammar god! I thought it was a pretty hard little test.

Seems the Gods were smiling on me.

Date: 2004-04-02 02:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozswede.livejournal.com
I'm a grammar god as well. I would have liked to get a score because it would have been nice to see what ones I got wrong (I can think of one for sure). Living in a non English speaking country seems to only have improved my English!

I love whiteboards and I constantly write things on the To Get list like "a life" which always makes visitors laugh.

Re: Seems the Gods were smiling on me.

Date: 2004-04-02 08:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] same-sky.livejournal.com
I wanted a score as well. I also thought there were a couple that were a little ambiguous or even could be more than one answer. I always think that perhaps I'm not actually a (in this case) grammar god but maybe I'm just really good at taking tests. ;)

Date: 2004-04-04 04:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] courtesy.livejournal.com
It was actually. I wonder if that meant we got it all right or 90% or something....

Date: 2004-04-02 03:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swingtime.livejournal.com
VA!???!?
Inte PÅSKMUST? Ska han inte ha någon Påskmust med sig? Är du säker på att M är frisk?

Date: 2004-04-02 08:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] same-sky.livejournal.com
Hehee. He offered to bring it, but M declined to save him the bother of dragging around beverages. We've found a (somewhat local) source for Julmust, so we have that in the fridge year-round. It's pretty funny because he can actually have it during more of the year here than in Sweden now.. and it's more about being able to have it, I think.

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