Saturday, February 1, 2014

Saturday 9 - I Gotta Feeling

Happy Saturday AND happy February! Although it's hard to believe that we're one month down in 2014 isn't it?!?!
1) What would make tonight a good, good night? Friday night without anything I HAVE to do. Friday nights are the best day of the whole week.
2) In the song, he sings that he's got money and wants to "spend it up." How much cash is in your wallet right now? I have exactly $1.00 in my wallet. It never has cash in it, the credit card gets a work out though.


3) The lyrics include "mazel tov," which means good luck or congratulations. What other Hebrew/Yiddish phrases do you know? tchatchke, schlep, oy vey, mishegas, chutzpah, and my favorite is altakaka. My home-away-from-home family when I was in college is Jewish and therefore I was the token goy in the family.


4) The colorfully named Black Eyed Peas include Fergie (born Stacey Ferguson) and will.i.am (William Adams) and Taboo (Jaime Gomez). If you could choose a stage name, what would it be? I wouldn't go on stage so no need for a stage name.


5) This song was crazy popular in Canada, debuting at #2 on the charts. Have you ever visited our neighbor to the north? In college, we used to drive just over the border into a little town in Quebec to buy alcohol because the drinking age was 18. A few years back the last stop of an Alaskan cruise I took was Rupert Island which is off the coast of B.C. We were supposed to make the required foreign stop on Vancouver Island, but for whatever reason we didn't and visited this tiny one instead. I've not ever been to any of the big cities in Canada though. 

6) When's the last time you laughed really hard? Today! Most days I have one or more occasions to laugh though - fun and/or funny is important!

7) Who received the last text you sent? My friend/work husband Jason
8) Which sounds like more fun -- skiing or skating? Well, it's NOT skiing! I never learned to ski as a kid so when, as an adult, I was put into a skiing lesson with all sorts of enthusiasm I was sorely disappointed that I HATED every minute it of it. To make a long story short, my day hour of skiing ended with a snowboard instructor crashing into me while I snowplowed down the mountain. I toppled head over teakettle, and when I finally stopped I stood up, took off my skis, and walked down the rest of the way. That was the end of me skiing. I wouldn't pick skating as the most fun thing to do either, but my answer is definitely NOT skiing.
9) Thinking of sports, are you looking forward to The Super Bowl? I'm not really a pro football fan. I don't mind going to football parties, but I do mind the party being on a Sunday. It's too hard to get up and go to the work after a party so I've stopped going. If they made it Super Bowl Saturday I'd totally be there!

20 comments:

  1. I don't keep much cash in my wallet, either---and I like the idea of Super Bowl Saturday!!

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    1. Not that anyone is hurting for revenue with it being on Sunday...but imagine if it were!

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  2. I love your skiing story! That would make me drop the skis, too! And yes, Super Bowl Saturday makes more sense.

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    1. I really wanted to like skiing too! I think the lack of control I felt didn't help either. Skis don't come with breaks!

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  3. Looked up "altakaka". Very good word for "old timer." Thanks for adding to my vocabulary.

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    1. Yes it's a good one. Even better when said with an old-man-Boston accent. I also like curmudgeon, but I don't think that has any Yiddish roots.

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  4. I am so with you on the Super Bowl Saturday. I just don't get why it's on a Sunday. At NIGHT. Dumb. Dumb, I tell you!

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    1. When I lived in New England it was even worse since it didn't start until like 5. At least here on the west coast it's at 2. Regardless, I'm no good Monday morning anyways let alone after a Sunday night party.

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  5. Canada is closer to me than any neighboring state (I'm in the top of Maine) so I go regularly. Quebec City is lovely!

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    1. I enjoy visiting Maine. It's so beautiful. The first traffic circle I ever encountered was on the NH/ME border on the way to Kittery.

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  6. I agree, Friday night is the best night of all. And I would be with you moving the Super Bowl to Saturday, as well! Sunday is hard. People gotta work the next day!

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    1. So many people love Friday night because they can go out. I think teachers love it because we can go home and go to bed and not worry about other people's kids or getting up early the next day to see them.

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  7. Hey- you have an impressive Yiddish vocabulary if you ask me :)

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  8. This one is out of my wheelhouse totally. I cannot even segue into it.

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    1. I cannot even research the topic for I don't know what the core is about.

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    2. Ya know, I've had quite a few topical ideas for blog posts spinning around in my head but haven't had the wherewithal to do anything about them. These questionnaires are not terribly taxing mentally.
      You mean you have nothing to say about skiing, Yiddish words, or the Super Bowl? ;)

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    3. Oh I could write 2000 words on shower curtain hooks. But the other Saturday things have a loose theme and I didn't want to go off on a tangent without at least being polite enough to start from what you wrote but I couldn't see where you connected them so I thought it must be cultural and I wasn't seeing it.
      And lets face it you're even less likely to hear Oy Vey from a quarterback landing a nice tight spiral into the pocket as you are in the Rockies shushing down some double black diamond.

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  9. What? I though Pumpkin was your stage name!
    Happy February :)

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  10. Your ski story sounds hilarious! Do you wish that was on camera? How funny would that have been? I have never been skiing. When I was in college I had to give one of my friends a ride to the ski mountain he worked at. That was the closest I ever got. : )

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