Category Archives: 10 on Tuesday
10 on Tuesday: What is the Best Part of Summer?
Today’s 10 on Tuesday questions come courtesy of Roots and Rings.
1. Who is your favorite talk show host?
No contest: Jon Stewart all the way.
2. How do you style your hair on a daily basis?
It depends on the time of year. I generally blow it out/flatiron it in the winter, and let it be its messy, curly, natural self in the summer, when humidity makes straightening an exercise in futility. I mix in a liberal amount of “throw it up into a ponytail” year-round.
3. If you were stuck in your bedroom for a week, what would you need in order to not go crazy?
My iPhone, so long as there’s Internet and I get to keep it charged the whole time. It’s got practically everything I need: books (via the Kindle app, music, a few favorite tv show episodes, a movie (currently “Slap Shot”), games, and Facebook/Twitter/the phone to keep me connected outside my room.
4. What are the best non-reality shows on television?
“Mad Men,” “Downton Abbey,” and “Game of Thrones” are my top three, but I also really like “Castle,” “Criminal Minds,” “Once Upon a Time,” and “Big Bang Theory,” among others.
5. Do you mow your own lawn and clean your own house?
No, and not really. The landlord is in charge of mowing, and I have a cleaning service that comes every two weeks, though I do any cleaning that’s required in between.
6. As an adult, what is the best part of summer?
This is a toughie. The long days? Getting to sit on the porch and read? Visiting friends on holiday weekends? Backyard barbecues? Cold beer on a hot day? Playing hooky to go to a ballgame? I can’t pick just one thing.
7. If you could ask one celebrity one question, who and what would you ask?
I’ve been thinking about this all day, and I’ve got no idea whatsoever, either about who or what I would ask.
8. Post a picture.
I played a wild and crazy game of ball hockey with my nephew G this afternoon. Auntie Sarah prevailed, 10 to 8! (Wow. This didn’t look so blurry on my phone. Sorry.)
9. How many books do you read a year?
Not enough – probably only 10-12. I used to read a lot more. Maybe I need to stop watching some of the tv shows in question 4.
10. Which national chain makes the best delivery pizza?
I never order chain pizza because there’s a little place by my apartment that delivers so fast that I can’t quit them, even though the pizza is mediocre at best.
Share your answers in the comments if you wish!
10 on Tuesday: Items Pinned to My Bulletin Board
Believe it or not, I didn't take this photo for this post - I already had it! (I used it for a presentation I did on Pinterest a month or so ago.)
I am going to assume for the purposes of today’s 10 on Tuesday prompt that Carole had physical bulletin boards in mind, not Pinterest boards, since it’s easy enough to hop on over there and see what I’ve pinned. I’m not going to click through to her site until I’m done writing, though, just in case I’m wrong.
I don’t have a bulletin board exactly, but I do have plush cube walls with an array of crap pinned to them, which I think qualifies them for this post. Here’s just some of what’s up there:
1. A couple of Dilbert cartoons. This one is my all-time favorite. My current career, in three panels.
2. Two Caps posters. One is a plain “Let’s go Caps!” cheer card from the playoffs last year (or maybe the year before) and the other is a freebie Winter Classic one.
3. A wallet-size photo of my nephews D & G. It’s a studio portrait from a couple of years ago and they’re both so stiff that they look like wooden dolls. I really need a better/more recent one.
4. The office phone list. This gets updated monthly, yet my copy is from June 2011. Might be time to print a new one…
5. A post-it note with a frowny-face and “I’m sorry” on it from my colleague Jason. We were talking about this recently, and neither of us remember what he was sorry for.
6. Notes and folders. One side of the cube has clips that hold my current project stuff. It could probably do with some cleaning – I am not actually sure that “current” would describe everything that’s still hanging there. Everything is more recent than my phone list, though.
7. A small plastic baby. Last year, I got the baby – and therefore all the luck – in the King Cake we got for Mardi Gras. I didn’t want to risk the luck by throwing it away, so I saved it on my swag wall.
8. Two strings of multicolored Christmas lights. I hung them two years ago at the holidays and never took them down. I turn them on occasionally on gray days when I need a pick-me-up.
9. A framed picture of Farin, Alison, Lynn, and me in front of the Treasury in Petra. It’s kind of a dark photo, but it reminds me of our trip to Jordan, which was possibly the best vacation I’ll ever take.
10. The organizational and divisional “OGSP” documents. I can’t remember what OGSP stands for, but these are the one-page planning documents that rule all.
What about you? Share your cube walls – or bulletin boards – in the comments.
