Tuesday, March 28, 2006

A little about penelope

This is one of those email things... I thought I'd play along. And you, mendacious?

FOUR JOBS I HAVE HAD IN MY LIFE:
1. Customer Service Bitch, for Castle Branch and (obligatory gag) Verizon Wireless
2. Chick who organizes/restocks shelves in craft store
3. Ice Cream Scooper Extraordinaire
4. (Sadly) McDonald's cashier. And can I just say I wasn't very good at it, either. I was That Girl. I couldn't even handle drive-thru.

FOUR MOVIES I WOULD WATCH OVER AND OVER:
1. The Breakfast Club
2. About a Boy, if only for the scene where Marcus and his mom play "Killing Me Softly" on the piano and sing along with their eyes closed. SO. Damn. Funny.
3. You've Got Mail (And I have, it's true.)
4. (Currently) She's the Man

FOUR PLACES I HAVE LIVED:
1. Vestal, NY
2. Raleigh, NC
3. Chicago, IL
4. Wilmington, NC

FOUR TV SHOWS I LOVE TO WATCH:
1. Survivor
2. Scrubs
3. The Office
4. Grey's Anatomy... Oh, hell. I cannot stop there.*
5. ANTM
6. The Surreal Life
7. Blow Out
8. Project Runway
9. Gilmore Girls!!!
10. Martha Stewart, so I can make fun of her in my mind, but also pick up tips. Even though she's the devil.
11. Desperate Housewives
12. Degrassi (Yes!!)
13. The OC (although lately I'm not a fan)
14. Ditto, The Apprentice
15. LOST
16. One Tree Hill, even though I HATE it, and everything it stands for
17. Monk, occasionally
18. Deal or No Deal, even though the following make my skin crawl: a) Howie Mandel, b) Howie Mandel's gleaming chrome dome, c) the suitcase-toting Fem-bot Army, d) the suitcase-toting Fem-bot Army's over-practiced repertoire of facial expressions, which seem to be limited to "My suitcase has $5, eeee, I'm so thrilled, really I am!!!!" and "Ohhhh, my suitcase has $2 million, I'm so so sorry and saaaaaad." And I really don't enjoy watching the show, it's just sort of addictive, and sometimes nothing else is on, and we're there, and it's there... I don't know.
19. Ditto, American Idol
20. Crap, I almost forgot about The Amazing Race
21. Sometimes, Dr. Phil, except lately, it's all a bunch of freaks on there
22. Can't forget about My Name is Earl
23. Related
24. Beautiful People... This list is going downhill very quickly, not to mention revealing just how serious and scary my TV-watching habit has become. Okay, one more:
25. Wheel of Fortune
26. And Jeopardy
27. And Top Chef!!

*In my defense, I do have DVR and fully believe in Efficient Television Viewing. That is, with the power of DVR, I can not only keep track of and record all of my favorite shows, but watch them at any time, when nothing else good is on, and let's face it, this happens a lot. Also, I can fast-forward through commercials. And, I am crocheting a blanket, which I often work on simultaneously while watching TV. And, I do have a baby to feed, and if I don't feel like reading, and there are shows available on the list... We get our money's worth, dammit, it's all I'm saying.

FOUR PLACES I HAVE BEEN ON VACATION:
1. Ocean City, NJ, probably every year when I was growing up. And don't make fun. It has THE world's best boardwalk, and that is no lie.
2. London, sort of--do school trips count? I think I just like saying I went to London, because it's probably the coolest place I've ever, ever been, and will probably ever go for a long while. But maybe that's nostalgia talking.
3. Disney World, woohoo!
4. LA, to visit mendacious

FOUR WEB SITES I VISIT DAILY:
1. Yahoo! mail
2. All the blogs listed under Subversive Talent (see sidebar)--okay, that's five, but whatever.
3. Cafepress.com to see if I sold anything else, or to add a new design.
4. My bank, since I'm the (albeit sometimes absentminded) Family Banker

FOUR OF MY FAVORITE FOODS:
1. Pasta, pasta, pasta
2. PIZZA
3. Chocolate, including but not limited to: M&M's, Milky Way, 3 Musketeers, chocolate chips, ice cream, any dark chocolate, and... I could go on all day.
4. I just realized how cliched this list is for a girl, so I'm going to go ahead and add something random, but also true: mashed potatoes.

FOUR PLACES I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT NOW
1. Please refer to "FOUR PLACES I HAVE BEEN ON VACATION" list, above.
2. Machu Picchu, my stock answer for Places I'd Like to One Day See
3. Paris, but only if I magically learn to speak French on the flight over. They really do not respond well to non-French-speaking folk.
4. The Grand Canyon... or Chi-Town... or a beach in Spain... or Ireland.... or Taco Bell, just because I'm hungry... But "here" is good, too.

10 comments:

mendacious said...

i found the opposite to be true about the vacation experience- the londoners were wankers and the parisians perfectly pleasant.

mendacious said...

taco bell. that sounds good

penelope said...

damn, the parisians were outright HOODLUMS when i went. and bitches. lots of them were bitches. but it was also...well, paris. dreamy sigh.

mendacious said...

you've got to give it another shot-and next time don't look so white- and maybe don't wear that "proud to be american" t-shirt with your arian features and what not- it just baits them needlessly.

penelope said...

maybe it was Dr. Seuss-style red-white-and-blue hat.

penelope said...

i meant to say, maybe it was MY dr. seuss-style red-white-and-blue hat. there we go.

mendacious said...

um, or the fact that you kept asking for ice in everything and then you know, those obnoxious tips you left... and the clueless look you gave when people expected you to understand them or your hatred of versailles.

Anonymous said...

Every time I see the S&TC eps in Paris, I think, "I never want to go to that smokey, sassy place where they don't even like Carrie Bradshaw." I mean, if they don't like a gal in Manolos, what chance to I have in my Hechts-Brand-Nine-West knock offs??

Anonymous said...

the word verification just made me type "hfhhkhhh"...what does that mean?

penelope said...

Holy crap. I have not been doing good with the word verifications lately, and that one would have rocked my world.

Do people say "rock my world" anymore? Hmmm.

I did hate Versailles, it's true. I think French people might just hate anyone who's not French and surly just like them. And it's not our fault Europeans are weird and don't use ice in their cokes.

If I ever go back, I won't have a chance in my $10, pseudo-hippie-chick skirts from (where else?)Target. Tacky Americans and zeir deescount shopping!