Wanna Play A Game? in Bowties Are Cool!

This is going to be a fairly long entry (and colourful, because damnit, I'm HAPPY & in a VERY good mood tonight!!!), so be prepared. You don't really have to read all the questions now, they'll be posted at the beginning of every entry, just so ya know for the next 30 entries! :) Oh and as always, all links open in a new window!

I've decided to create a 30 Question Challenge. A list of 30 questions to answer, either on a daily basis or at the beginning of each entry (I'll be doing the latter as I don't write every day, other than during NoJoMo). Feel more than free to steal and do this challenge! Here is a list of the challenge questions:

1. What's the meanest thing you've ever done/said to someone?
2. If you could have an hour long conversation with anyone, living or dead, who would you choose and what would you hope to gain from that conversation?
3. Do you have post-death plans made (funeral, burial/cremation, etc)? What's the plan?
4. What's the story behind one or two of your scars?
5. What's the best advice you've ever received?
6. What's the first thing you think of when you wake up for the day?
7. Do you follow a routine in the shower? If yes, what's your routine?
8. What is your definition of love?
9. Explain, to the best of your capabilities, an inside joke you share with a friend(s).
10. What do you believe happens to us after we die?
11. What are your ideal sleeping conditions?
12. Describe your parents' relationship.
13. Do you believe in luck? Why or why not?
14. What do you think about the death penalty?
15. What do you think about abortion?
16. What do you think about gay marriage/rights?
17. Describe a quirk or two that you have.
18. If you had a "1 Free Revenge" card, meaning you could get revenge on one person in ANY way, shape or form and NOT be punished for it, who would would you use your card on and how would you exact your revenge?
19. Are there any lyrics from a song or a quote from a movie that has special meaning to you? If yes, what is the lyric/quote and why is it special to you?
20. If you had an unlimited budget, how would you change your living space?
21. Tell us 3 random facts about yourself.
22. Has something life changing happened to you in the last year? If yes, what was it? If no, what do you wish would happen and how you hope/think it would change your life.
23. If you could go anywhere in the world, money is no object, everything is included, where would you go and why? What would you do while there?
24. If you died but had 24hrs. to spend on earth as a spirit (ghost, whatever), what would you do and how would you make someone aware of your presence? How/why would they know it's you?
25. You've won a contest and the prize is your dream date. You can choose anyone you want, who do you choose (and why)? You can do anything you want, cost is no factor, what would you do?
26. What is your opinion on suicide?
27. Who was your last phone call from and what did you talk about?
28. If you could eat only one thing for the next 5 years, what would you choose?
29. Did you have an imaginary friend when you were younger? If yes, describe him/her/it and your relationship.
30. List 5 things in your house that have sentimental value and why they have value to you.

Dammit, those are all such great questions (I know, I'm totally tooting my own horn here), I almost want to answer them ALL right here and now, lol. But no, I will do one every entry, maybe two at a time here and there. Like I said, feel more than free to steal the questions and either do it as a challenge like myself or you can do it as one (albeit short) survey!

Well, let's start with question #1, shall we?

1. What's the meanest thing you've ever done/said to someone?

Well, I would have to say that one of the first things that pops into my head is in grade 8. One of the "popular" bitches, Vickie, saw me and my then girlfriend, Jessica, kissing and told the whole school I was a lesbian. She's also the one who started the rumour that I was pregnant (yes, a pregnant lesbian). She and her little group of stuck up cunt friends made my life a living hell on a daily basis. I was so severely bullied that I actually wanted to kill myself at one point. I wrote a suicide note one day while I was in science class. I was reading it over as I walked from science class to math class and Vickie the Cunt snatched it from my hands and read it out loud in the crowded hallway. And when I say "out loud", I mean people at the very far opposite end of the hallway could hear the stupid bitch reading words that were not meant for anyone but my mother to read. One of the teachers overheard Vickie reading the note and took it from her, then she went and showed the note to the principal and I was hospitalized that very day for 4 or 5 days. Anyway, after I returned to school, I was bullied even more, it was on a daily basis that Vickie and her Stuck Up Cunts clique would tell me I should do everyone a favour and off myself. One day, in the cafeteria, she came up to the table I was eating at and made some bitchy comment (I don't even remember what the comment was). Knowing that Vickie was a foster child, having been taken from her drug addicted and neglectful mother after she was left in a playpen in an apartment, ALONE, for 2 days, I said what I thought was most hurtful. "At least MY mother loves me. At least I have a mother and family that WANTS me. At least I'm not sent packing from foster home to foster home because nobody cares to adopt you - I can't blame them, I wouldn't want to be known as YOUR mother either!" And then I calmly resumed eating my lunch before heading outside to hang out with Jessica (who was with me when the whole thing went down). I had actually brought Vickie to tears and of course, she ran back to her little posse and told them what I'd said to her. A few of them came up to me to confront me about it, I just said "Whatever, I don't fucking care, I hope it hurt her. Bitch deserved it for the hell she's put me through." and I think it REALLY bothered them that they couldn't intimidate me and that I didn't fight back, I just let it slide, shrugged and walked away calmly. That is definitely one of the meanest things I've said to someone. I kind of feel bad, though not really because she really put me through HELL that whole school year, I mean she and her Pussy Posse tortured and tormented me on a daily basis. I NEVER got a break (unless I wasn't at school, which the last few months of school was pretty often since I would just say "Fuck it" and not even bother going to school - my mom or Oma would drive me there, but I'd just dick off, usually with Jessica). The only way it kiiind of bothers me is when I think of someone saying it to Tristan or Nathan, THAT bothers me more than anything and I hope to cow that nobody ever says anything like that to my boys.

I have to share with you, because it's fucking AWESOME. I don't know if the source of the letter is true (supposedly a letter a man sent to Dr. Laura Schlesinger - however you spell her last name - but the content of the letter is what I'm going for here because I think it sends a great message about the people who use the Bible to defend a homophobic agenda. I mean, really, if you're going to use the Bible to stake a claim that homosexuality is an abomination and/or sin, then you should follow the other letters of the Biblical law. You really can't "pick and choose". Here are 10 examples (from the letter) from the Bible that are ignored (because you know, homosexuality is the worst):

1. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighbouring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?

10.My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev.19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? Lev.24:10-16.Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair, like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14) Interesting read, eh? I sure thought so.

Didn't do too much today. I had the intent to clean the house, it's right on the border of starting to bug me because it's a bit of a mess and I am SOOOO SCARED that we'll end up neglecting this place like we did the other place. Of course, I know (logically) that's not going to happen, neither Geno nor I will let it get that bad, EVER. But still, that fear and little voice is still in the back of my mind, saying shit like "You saw two dust bunnies today! The house is going to fall apart and we'll be living in squalor like we did before! OMG!!!!!". I know that I'm being completely irrational, but I just...I imagine it's kind of similar to what a hoarder goes through after finally cleaning their house. It's probably ALWAYS on their minds that if you let a few magazines pile up, the whole house is going to go to shit. Of course, we weren't even close to being hoarders, but regardless, it was bad. Very, very bad. And I don't EVER want to get even CLOSE to how bad it was. Even a 5th of as bad would still be pretty bad, no joke dudes. So anyway, tonight we're vegging, I've been in bed all day because I pulled a muscle in my upper back/right shoulder where it meets the neck/lower neck on the right side and it fucking HURTS. Even just sitting for 20 minutes in front of the computer kills me, so I pretty much have to do everything lying down, which also gets a little uncomfortable after awhile. Geno said he'll give me a back/neck massage later tonight, when we lie down in bed. The bed is still in the living room (boxspring and mattress, we don't have a bed frame or anything, it's just the boxspring on the floor with the mattress on top - hopefully we can get a new bed in the near future...we're definitely getting the pull out sofa, I can't WAIT to get that! fidgets impatiently

Nothing special going on for the next little while. Cleaning house tomorrow (there's 6 things on my "Wednesday's To Do List" - sweep floors, spot clean floors [we need to buy more Swiffer wet pads on payday] with Lysol wipes, vacuum both bedrooms, clean inside microwave, wipe down all baseboards with Lysol wipes [have I ever mentioned how much I LOVE Lysol wipes? Seriously, 4 containers of 80 wipes {each} only lasts about a MONTH around here!] and check the walls for "spray/urine marking" - one or both of the cats have been spraying the one corner in the bedroom, as well as the blinds in that same bedroom, so we have to check daily so we can keep it clean and odour free...). And I really want to do a bit of reorganizing the living room. Primarily, I want to do the ledges (there are 2 ledges that run along the entire length of 2 of the walls in the living room), take a few things off of the one that don't really "fit/go" with the classy theme of the living room. Once I can send my little sister some money for the microSD card she promised to send to me, I'll be able to post the pics I have on our cell phone. I have a bunch of the cats (naturally, lol) and I still have pics of the old place so I can post those, then I can post pics of our new, current place so you can all see how much we moved up when we moved into this place, lol. I think that's about it for what absolutely NEEDS to be done. Oh, Thursday, we're getting some groceries, that'll be nice to get since we're running dangerously low on rood reserves. It'll be great once we get a little extra cash to pay off our debts and buy some other shit we need...

Speaking of which, we've been waiting (not so patiently) for the $money$ from the CTB reassessment to come through, we're hoping we get it in the next few days so we can get some groceries and pay off the majority of our debts. Then, with the $money$ we get from the income tax reassessment, we'll be buying the new pull-out sofabed (getting it in red because I think it'll go the best with the classic theme of our living room), neutering Darwin, paying a friend to help us bring Yoda to the SPCA (as much as I hate to do it, we can't keep up with the way it's going now with having to keep them completely separated or else we run the risk of one of 'em getting severely injured because they can't not violently fight with each other), paying off the remainder of our debt (at that point, we'll just have Shari left to pay, we'll be paying her 1/2 from the CTB $$ and the other half from the income tax $$). Of course, this is all shit I'm hoping for, we can't really put anything in stone until we actually KNOW how much we're getting. I'll probably call them tomorrow sometime to ask if they have an idea of the amount I should be getting. Geno thinks we'll be getting approximately $1400 from the CTB and then the income tax will be about $2000. I guess we'll find out in the next few weeks, eh?

Well, it's closing in on 11:30pm and this entry is already super long, no sense in adding anything to it and boring you even more than you already are. Hope everyone has a great Hump Day! Sweet (or wet, reader's choice, LOL) dreams to each and every one of you! Much love!

Sarah. XOXOX