50 Things

50 Things

1. Your name spelled backwards.
tarraga werdna dlanod

2. Where were your parents born?
San Fernando, Trinidad and Chatham, Virginia

3. What is the last thing you downloaded onto your computer?
Rare house mixes from the Eighties by DJ Ron Hardy

4. What's your favorite restaurant?
Zen Palate is one

5. Last time you swam in a pool?
Last year, but I wouldn't call it swimming ...

6. Have you ever been in a school play?
No

7. How many kids do you want?
Two or three

8. Type of music you dislike most?
A tie between mediocre house and rap

9. Are you registered to vote?
Yes, of course

10. Do you have cable?
Nope. I don't look at much TV. Except this ...

11. Have you ever ridden on a moped?
No

12. Ever prank call anybody?
J. hit it by saying "No. I've always found it to be too dumb."

13. Ever get a parking ticket?
Yes

14. Would you go bungee jumping or sky diving?
Hmmm, I don't have the need to elevate my body to dangerous heights, 'exhilirated' by the possibility of plummeting to my death.

15. Furthest place you ever traveled.
New Orleans, Louisiana

16. Do you have a garden?
No, but if I don't clean this house soon ...

17. What's your favorite comic strip?
The Boondocks

18. Do you really know all the words to your national anthem?
Yeah. And it really pops with my sarcastic riffs and adlibs.

19. Bath or Shower, morning or night?
Shower in the morning, Bath at night

20. Best movie you've seen in the past month?
The last movie I saw was Signs during my Labor Day Weekend jaunt to Atlanta.

21. Favorite pizza topping?
Pepperoni.

22. Chips or popcorn?
Chips.

23. What color lipstick do you usually wear?
Actually, I love to keep my lips moisturized, but I prefer Blistex Lip Medex. Mmmmm!

24. Have you ever smoked peanut shells?
Um, no ...

25. Have you ever been in a beauty pageant?
Not to my knowledge *bats eyelashes*

26. Orange Juice or apple?
Orange. And I'll take the whole jug, please.

27. Who was the last person you went out to dinner with and where did you dine?
My cousin Alvin, Day-O

28. Favorite type chocolate bar?
Butterfinger

29. When was the last time you voted at the polls?
Last month

30. Last time you ate a homegrown tomato?
I don't know.

31. Have you ever won a trophy?
No, never.

32. Are you a good cook?
No, I'm an excellent cook.

33. Do you know how to pump your own gas?
Um, I don't have a car, but yes, I can pump gas!

34. Ever order an article from an infomercial?
No

35. Sprite or 7-up?
Cherry 7-up

36. Have you ever had to wear a uniform to work?
Yes, but I don't think that's what either AMC or Blockbuster calls them.

37. Last thing you bought at a pharmacy?
Epsom Salt

38. Ever throw up in public?
No

39. Would you prefer being a millionaire or find true love?
Well, I dream of finding true love more ...

40. Do you believe in love at first sight?
Yes - it has happened to me.

41. Ever call a 1-900 number?
Yes

42. Can ex's be friends?
Yes, if they know how to act.

43. Who was the last person you visited in a hospital?
My mother's father's sister. She passed away a couple of days later.

44. Did you have a lot of hair when you were a baby?
Yes, I've always had a glorious head of hair.

45. What message is on your answering machine?
Me, cooing to the sophisticated and mellow sound of Sarah Vaughan singing Key Largo.

46. What's your all time favorite Saturday Night Live Character?
Any special guest appearing in Sprockets because I love Kraftwerk and spandex stretched across, well, you know ...

47. What was the name of your first pet?
Essex and Marlon, los dos hermanos gatos. I miss my boys ...

48. What is in your purse?
If I told you, then I'd have to have you.

49. Favorite thing to do before bedtime?
Push ups ... *grin!*

50. What is one thing you are grateful for today?
I feel good about who I am today.