Mortaine’s Blog

Well, of *course* I joined orkut! Duh.

Anyway, I don’t have a photo uploaded yet (cause I need to d/l my Profile photo before I can upload it). And I CANNOT figure out how to add someone who’s already on it to my friends network….? It’s not in the FAQ.

It’s also incredibly slow.

I came back last night after weigh-in and got some work done; printing the manuals. I think I’ve mentioned in the past that printing the manuals is very time-intensive and dominates the printer. For that reason, I usually do them after 7, when no one is around so no one can complain. I got out of here a 8:00, leaving two finished manuals on my desk.

This morning, I wrapped up the paperwork to release four documents, including those manuals. I feel so accomplished right now. This past month, I’ve felt like I’ve been unable to get anything done before 10:30, and now I’ve released 4 docs, and it’s just now 10:30. Very nice. It helps that, leaving 15 minutes late as I did this morning meant that I only had a 45 minute commute. I left at 8:20 and got in at…. 9:06 (some will remember that’s the time I got in when I left at 8 earlier this week). Sigh.

And that’s the thing. People always say to get up earlier, because it’s more productive time. Maybe so, but I feel like I’m spending that productive time sitting in my car cursing at the trucks that think the left lane is where they should be (it’s not; there are signs everywhere– trucks use right lane), or at the morons who decide to do some Darwinism experiments and only succeed in pissing off everyone around them. My fury justifies my Road Rage.

Um, anyway. I’ve decided I need a new watch– something elegant and feminine. So I decided to take my “Domestically Disabled” icon and go over to eWatchFactory.com. I like the results, and think I’ll order one this weekend when I can use the higher-res image on it.

Ganked from

1. At the local grocer, you see an elderly woman shoplift bacon. Do you tell the grocer?

Yes, but honestly, I would probably wait until after the elderly woman had left.

2. Your name sounds foreign and is difficult to pronounce. Your clients and superiors are always stumbling over it. Do you change it?

No.

3. You need one number to win the jackpot at BINGO. The stranger beside you also needs one number and its been called. Do you tell her?

Of course I tell her! Unless I’m too absorbed in my own maybe-I’m-gonna-win moment.

4. You’re cramming for a critical exam. Classmates are circulating a stolen advance copy of the test. Do you take one?

Never.

5. Your spouse has become nervous wreck since he/she began day trading on the Internet. But he/she made $10K in a month. Do you make him/her stop?

Oh, hell. Yes, or slow down, unless it was making him really happy.

6. The house of your dreams finally goes up for sale. You take a tour of the home with it’s soon to be former occupant, an elderly woman who’s moving into a retirement home. When she quotes you the asking price, it is far below what you know the house is really worth. Do you accept her asking price or offer her more?

Take the asking price. Probably get into a bidding war and end up paying fair price anyway.

7. You are on a safari with your bestest friend in the whole world and your mom/dad. While walking through the jungle, you all take a tumble over a hole in the ground. Your companions fall in while you fall just past it. In the hole is a nest of vipers that bite your companions. You are carrying the anti-venom but after the fall discover that all but one vial has been smashed. After pulling them both to freedom, who do you give the anti-venom to?

This is an absurd question. Even if I tried to give it to her, my mom would give the anti-venom to Holly anyway.

8. You dream that friends die in a plane crash. The next day they announce a trip to Greece. Do you mention your dream?

Yes, absolutely, but only because my “prophetic” dreams have always been same-day dreams.

9. Some friends are visiting you. You notice that one of your very valuable collectibles is missing. Do you search the coats and purses?

No. I loudly announce that “Item X” is missing, and can everyone stop for a few minutes to help me search for it?

10. You’ve just paid for groceries and the cashier is giving you your change. You notice that she’s giving you far too much change. Do you ask her if she made a mistake?

Yes. I’ve done that, actually. Several times.

11. You work at a bank and one evening discover that due to a clerical error, you could safely steal 1 million dollars from the bank and never get caught. Would you do it? What if you would never get caught but another coworker would be blamed?

No, of course not.

12. In order to win 1 million dollars, you are told to walk stark naked down a city sidewalk for one block. No one would harm you and you could hop into a waiting limousine at the other end. Would you do it?

Sure. It’s not even illegal in my county.

13. You are told that if you leave the country, taking only one other person with you, you will both be well taken cared of but you could never return. Would you do it?

I agree with : Depends where I have to move to. On the whole, though, if it’s a country that’s comparable in comfort and liberties, then sure, why not?

14. If by cutting off your pinky you could stop all wars, now and future, would you? What about your thumb?

Absolutely. Either. A digit is an incredibly small price to pay for permanent world peace. Plus, could you imagine the pickup line? “Hey, baby– wanna see the pinky I sacrificed for world peace?”

15. Would you rather have a simple and predictable life, dying among friends and family, or a dramatic life with major ups and downs, dying alone in an empty apartment?

I think I’d like to have a meaningful life. I don’t really care how I die.

16. If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt anyone you chose, would you?

Yes. I have a choice in mind.

17. Would you accept twenty years of extraordinary happiness and fulfillment if it meant you would die at the end of the period?

No. We live a long time in my family. I’m likely to have 60 more years or more of fulfillment, even if extraordinary happiness wanes.

18. You have the chance to meet someone with whom you can have the most satisfying love imaginable, the stuff of dreams. Sadly, you know that in six months the person will die. Knowing the pain that would follow, would you still want to meet the person and fall in love?

Yes. Loss is part of love, part of life. But I’m already having the most satisfying love, and he’s fine and healthy, thanks.

19. Would you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a tolerable yet unexciting private life, or have an extremely happy private life and only a tolerable and uninspiring professional life?

Happy private life…. but I would like to have a meaningful life, as I said before.

20. If a new medicine were developed that would cure cancer but cause a fatal reaction in 1 percent of those who took it, would you want it to be released to the public?

Yes.

21. You’re invited to a cocktail party that turns into an in-the-buff pool party. Friends and strangers are present. Do you skinny-dip, too?

Sure.

22. If you knew that by killing one person, all world hunger would instantly end, would you? What if the person was a horrible murderer? What if the person was an innocent child?

I would ask the one person if they were willing to make that sacrifice. It’s one thing to sacrifice yourself for your morality. It’s another thing entirely to sacrifice someone else.

23. If, for the next year, you could have the free services of a maid, a chauffeur, a gardner, a masseuse, or a chef, who would you pick and why?

Uh, all of the above? How about a gardner? Most of those other things, we do by ourselves pretty well, but I have a brown thumb.

24. If you could pick the sex of your child, would you?

I’m never having children, so that’s a moot point.

If I in some bizarro-world had to have a baby, I don’t know if I would choose the sex or not. If I did, though, I would want a girl.

25. To win 1 million dollars, you and your partner could not have sex with each other for a month, would you? What about 10 million for 3 months? 100 million for 6 months?

Yeah, sure. [Please note: my husband's answer is COMPLETELY different from mine on this one.....]