Nothing Exciting to Report

I tried to spend most of today working on the super secret blog project but I kinda got distracted while I was on the desktop. Surprisingly I've gotten more work done on the laptop while I was watching A.I. and DWTS finale. Still not going as fast as I would like it to, but researching is actually taking a little longer than I thought, even with wikipedia on my side .... or maybe BECAUSE wikipedia is on my side. We all know the possibilities of inaccuracies in using that as a reference tool since anyone on teh interwebz can edit any entry.

(side note, the research I'm doing kinda helped with trivia last night when we had the question "Besides the San Francisco 49ers, what are the 3 other teams that are undefeated in the Superbowl?" answer at the end of the post in case you're wondering. hint ... hubby would have killed me if I didn't get this answer correct)

Getting ready to watch a movie "The Haunting of Rebecca Verlaine" which could be good ... but then again it could be really really bad. You never know with the movies that hubby chooses. All I know is it's a horror movie (really, are you surprised?) and it appears to be of the low budget indie variety.

One more small thing...I"m really enjoying having a laptop. damn you Monica, you were right.

P.S. the answer is NY Jets, Baltimore Ravens and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

trivia today

So we qualified for teh trivia semi-finals today, which were held at Bamboozle's in dearborn @ 11am.

After a quick breakfast at Big Boy we went and played. And we qualified at the end to move on to the finals (which is a big deal....last time we qualified for the semis we didn't make it to the finals)

The finals were @ US-12 in Wayne. There were 35 teams there total. They fed us and the game started around 3:30pm.

It was pretty cool all in all. But in the end we failed to answer the final question correctly, combined with the wrong answers all thru the game, and we ended up betting it all at the end and lost.

There's always next time. For my team anyway. If i start working for mytrivialive I can't play in the tournaments anymore. But I can still play each week ^_^

Semi final questions:

1. HISTORY
Her formal names were Matoaka and Amonutet but she was more commonly known by this ... her nickname which meant "little wanton" in Powhatan.

2. MONEY
Before they switched to the Euro, this country used the escado as their currency.

3. SPORTS
This Big 10 team was known as "the Purple" until 1924.

4. CHILDREN'S TV
This children's TV show had a recurring character named "purple Panda" from the Planet Purple.

5. GEOGRAPHY
After Brazil, this is the most populous country in South America

6. CARS
This was the first car to come equipped with a lap belt and 3 point seat belt.

7. BUSINESS
Popeye's Chicken chain was founded in 1972 in this U.S. City.

8. MONEY
What decade did the Lincoln memorial replace the wheat stalks on the back of the U.S. penny?

9. MOVIES
"The Book of Shadows" was the sequel to what surprise 1999 theatrical hit?

HALFTIME QUESTION:
match the chities with their first African American mayor

CITIES:
Chicago
Cleveland
Detroit
Los Angeles

MAYORS:
Coleman Young
William Bradley
Carl Stokes
Harold Washington

10.RELIGION
What ordinal number is the current pope?

11. SPORTS
Name 1 of the 2 states that have an NBA team but no NHL, MLB or NFL team.

12. MUSIC
What R&B singer was backed by the group Public Announcement in the 1990s?

13. CELEBS
The trendy restaurant El Vez in Philadelphia has pictures of what Love Boat regular on their bar stools?

14. GEOMETRY
How many sides does a Rhombus have?

15. MUSIC
What NYC ladmark is on the cover of the Smashing Pumpkin's 2007 album "ZeitGeist"?

16.HISTORY
What century did the Renaissance begin?

17. ROADS
Renamed in 2003 to US ROUTE 491, What was the numerical name of the stretch of road known as "The Devil's Highway"?

18. ANATOMY
How many vertebrae does an average human have?

FINAL QUESTION
TELEVISION
What do these 3 TV characters have in common?

Gossip Girl
Charlie Townsend
Stan Walker

ANSWERS:
(highlight for answers)
1.Pocahontas 2. Portugal 3. Northwestern 4. Mr. Rogers Neighborhood 5. Columbia 6. Volvo 7. New Orleans 8. 1950s 9 The Blair Witch Project HALFTIME: Chicago - Washington Cleveland - Stokes Detroit - Young L.A. - Bradley 10. 16th 11. Utah and Oregon 12. R. Kelly 13. Charo 14. 4 sides 15. Statue of Liberty 16. 14th century 17. Route 666 18. 24 FINAL You never see them on screen.

I was gonna put the finals questions here but I need to get back to crocheting and stuff...I'll post them either later or tomorrow.

And if you wanna know which ones we answered correctly it was
(highlight for answers)
1 3 6 7 9 missed 2 on the halftime (mixed up chicago and cleveland) 11 12 13 14 17 and got the final question right ^_^

Things I've learned from trivia nights

1. Ronald Reagan is our only divorced president
2. Gichigami means big water
3. The North Sea borders Great Britain on the East
4. Germany doesn't border Italy
5. France does border Germany, but it doesn't border the Netherlands
6. The phrase "What Would Jesus Do" came from an 1896 book entitled "In His Steps"
7. The first Rap act to appear on the cover of a Rolling Stone was Run DMC
8. Out of Elton John, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney and Sting, only Sting hasn't been knighted.
9. "The Sweetest Thing" is both a u2 song and a Cameron Diaz movie
10. The U.S. patent for the automobile was issued Nov, 5th, 1895

in honor of trivia tonight

Like i need something else ...

So NaBloPoMo is doing something where you can try and blog in 30 day blocks any month of the year ... not just in November ... and each month will have a theme. March's theme will be lists and I (like an idiot) have signed up to participate and be on the blogroll. I mean, since I'm blogging everyday anyway why not have a little structure eh?

As far as my life, lately things are going okay. Hubby lost his job on Sunday but we've been "hitting the pavement" pretty thoroughly this past week and he seems confident something is gonna come up. And I had an interview Wednesday with mytrivialive to be a trivia host for their shows. I have an audition Sunday during the show @ Chick's bar @ 6pm. I've hosted karaoke before ... this will be a piece of cake I'm sure. The only bummer is that once I work for them I can't play in tournaments. So we have recruited a newer member, da banshee, to help with tournament play. I'm totally bummed tho. At least I get to play every week with my team tho ... and I can always go and cheer them on wherever they are. If we didn't need the $$ I would have seriously turned the job down because of that. I love trivia that much!

Showed my finished pirate scarf to someone at the bar last night and she inquired as to how much it would be to get me to make a couple. YAY!!! So I need to take nice pics of the finished product tomorrow before I hand them off to Rich.

Watched a movie today that had me BAWLING like a baby. "The Namesake". It's about a family who moves to America from India. I am a sucker for things Indian so I had to see it, and I wasn't disappointed. I highly recommend it. But make sure you have kleenex!

Time to get back to crocheting. I have 2 more scarves to finish by Monday. gifts so I'm not getting paid ... but if they wear them I could get work from it. We'll see ^_^

Brain Dead

I drank a little too much last night in celebration of pulling out a trivia win. We were in 4th place with 47 points and the final question was about Television.

Put these shows in order of how long they were originally on from longest to shortest:

Gilmore Girls
Frasier
Everybody Loves Raymond
Party of Five

We weren't entirely sure, but since we were in 4th place we figured no guts no glory. If we didn't bet anything we wouldn't win anything since chances were all the other teams prolly weren't going to bet. (You have to wager on the last question from 0 - however many points you have) And wouldn't you know, we pulled out the win with 94 points ... 35 points ahead of the 2nd place team (who was in 1st going into the final question) so we won a $30 gift certificate for the bar! woo-hoo!!!

(for the answer highlight below)
1. Frasier
2. Everybody Loves Raymond
3. Gilmore Girls
4. Party of Five


I spent the biggest portion of today scanning and separating pics and listening to pandora.com. I forgot how much I enjoy their player and it introduced me to a new artist today (the song on my profile) I really like him and plan on getting his CD relatively soon.

This is my old school scanner for reference. It takes about 4 minutes for it to scan a full page (which is about 3 - 6 pics depending on how big they are)





While going thru my scanned pics I found an old one of me (from 9th grade I think) that I absolutely loved back then and love even today. It was in the girls locker room at RHS and the girl I'm with, I think her name was Tammy Lockheart. yes I have a mullet but it doesn't look that bed imho.




Also managed to find some of our pics from our honeymoon at the Myrtles. Still gotta separated most of them, but here's a cool pic of their haunted mirror in the downstairs hallway.

If you look about halfway up on the right side you can see what appears to be a face. At least it looks like one to me. Could be the lighting or the angle. who knows. It wasn't a great camera (disposable since my digital broke as soon as we got there)

Also watched the American Idol premiere tonight. Some crazy peoples on there. Seriously think some of them just act all fired up and weird for the possibility of getting screentime. I KNOW the guy in the Princess Leia getup did it for that reason alone.

Kevin just got home, so it's time to pop some corn and watch "i now pronounce you Chuck and Larry" Good times!

Last Day of NaBloPoMo

and I think i only missed one day. yay me! maybe next year I'll actually blog every day of november....and find my voice whilst doing so. who knows.

Heading off the slumberland right now. I've trivia-ed myself to death today. I played so much online jeopardy that I was getting all repeat categories...even the final jeopardy ones. So
tomorrow should go well.

I shall update on twitter our progress tomorrow. I'm sure we're gonna be $1000 richer by 5PM! (power of positive thinking and all that jazz)

nighty night!

another day in the life

another day in the life
I have to thank Gina for her suggestion of grape juice and iron pills. They are like a miracle cure right now for me. Normally, no matter how much caffeine i do or don't ingest, I'm exhausted most of the day and have to take a nap around 6 or 7PM regardless of what I've done.

But the past couple days I've actually been slightly productive and awake. Yesterday I woke up around 12noon and stayed awake without a nap until 2am (which is a big deal for me...i know i sound lazy but whatever) and today I woke up around 11am. I'm so excited. Maybe I can actually get on a regular sleep schedule and be awake when the rest of the world is.

Plus it's helping me get my xmas gifts done. I have 2 afghans done and 2 more that are about 4/5ths of the way done ... should finish them on Sunday. That will only leave 3 more, but they're easy. Who knows! This year I could be done with my crochet goodness BEFORE december 24th lol. No carpal tunnel for me this year.

So I"m on my way to darts in a few w/ the fizzle. hope I have a decent game. And then tomorrow is all about trivia. So if you see me online and I don't respond right away don't be mad. I'm just mega cramming my brain for Saturday's tournament and the chance to win $1500 in cash and prizes!!!!

My Trivia Live tournament info

I Totally forgot the best part!!!!

After the halftime questions we played a game to determine who would get 3 bonus points and who would get a Miller prize. 1 person from each team went to a table and played:

I was pink.

I totally didn't get the bonus points but I found the green marble and won a Miller Lite Sportscenter T-shirt (which won't fit me ... so it's prolly going to my sister next time I see her)

YAY for HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS!!!!!!

Stupid Hard Questions

So we went to Trivia last night (as usual on a Monday night) and we placed 3rd with 39 points...THIRTY-NINE POINTS!!! And we were still 3rd (out of 4 teams)

Our trivia host (or TJ as they call themselves) Toby wrote the questions for last night. He did a decent job but one question wasn't specific enough imho.

So, the questions last night were:

1. movies - what kind of car was used as the time machine in Back to the Future?

2. schools - which of these is NOT a member of the Ivy League?

Columbia

University of Pennsylvania

Massechusetts Institute of Technology

Harvard

3. geography - What is the tallest mountain NOT in a mountain range?

4. games - How many numbered squares are there on a traditional Bingo card?

5. sports - Who holds the record for most home runs in a World Series?

6. movie quotes - What movie is this quote from:

"They said it was a million dollar wound, but the army must keep that money 'cause I still haven't seen a nickel of that million dollars."

7. music lyrics - What is the name of the song that contains these lyrics?

"did i ask too much

more than alot

you gave me nothing

and that's all I got"

8. history - Who was JFK's Attorney General?

9. business - How much was a McDonald's hamburger when they first opened in 1946?

5 cents

10 cents

15 cents

50 cents

Halftime question:

Match these people with their original names:

Axel Rose Vincent Fournier

Jamie Foxx William Bailey

Jon Stewart Jon Liebowitz

Alice Cooper Eric Morland Bishop

10 was the Miller Beer question .... you get the answer on their website each week for a quick 6 points (they're sponsered by Miller Beer) The answer was Spuds MacKenzie ... I forget the question.

11. movies - What was Michael Douglas's character's name in Wall Street?

12. sports - This Yankee had 1,710 strike-outs in his career.

13. travel - Where will your luggage end up if it has the luggage tag BWI?

14. movies - What do Barbara Streisand, Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams have in common?

15. video games - What year did Pac Man video games hit the US arcades?

1979

1980

1981

16. movies - What show did E.T. watch to learn English?

17. books - When this encyclopedia came out in 1771 it listed California as "a large country of the west indies".

18 - geography - Name 1 of the 2 U.S. states that border the most other states?

Final question:

Television

What are these Seinfeld characters' occupations?

Newman

Poppy

Tim Whatley

Jackie Chiles

answers: (highlight to see them)

1. DeLorean

2. M.I.T.

3. Kilamanjaro

4. 24

5. Reggie Jackson

6. Forrest Gump

7. One by U2

8. Robert Kennedy

9. 15 cents

halftime:

axel Rose - William Bailey

Jamie Foxx - EricMorland Bishop

Jon Stewart - jon Liebowisz

Alice Cooper - Vincent Fournier

10. Spuds MacKenzie

11. Gordon Gekko

12. Mickey Mantle

13. Baltimore/Washinton International Airport

14. They all crossdressed in movies (Yentl, Tootsie, Mrs. Doubtfire)

15. 1980

16. Sesame Street

17. Britanica

18. Missouri or Tennessee (each borders 8 states)

Final Question:

Newman - postman

Poppy - chef/restaurant owner

Tim Whatley - doctor

Jackie Chiles - lawyer