Catching Up

I guess I can catch up on all these lists I have not previously responded to due to my earlier blog boycott and my more recent whirlwind tour of the deep south for work. Plus SC is dissing me for not doing them.

(A) - Attached or Single - Attached to SC since I was about 15 months old, I believe...
(B) Best friend... SC
(C) Cake or pie... Pie. Peach or Raspberry or Lemon Meringue.
(D) Day of choice... Saturday
(F) Favorite color... Red
(G) Gum or mints... Mints. I have a gum problem. I can't chew it without unconsciously swallowing it.
(H) Hometown... North Huntingdon, PA
(I) Favorite Indulgence... SC
(J) January or July... Januray. Too hot in July
(K) Kids... 4 boys
(L) Life isn't complete without... Hockey
(M) Marriage date... November 25, 1995
(N) Number of brothers and sisters... 1 sister (3 years younger than me.)
(O) Oranges or apples... Oranges
(P) Phobias... feet
(Q) Quotes... "Rules are important. I like rules." (Santa Clause II), "Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe" - Albert Einstein
(R) Reasons to smile... I don't believe I'm familiar with that facial expression...
(S) Season of choice... Spring
(T) Tag... You're it!
(U) Unknown fact about me... I had scarlet fever in 1st grade. There is a theory that that is what happened to all of my potential female offspring...
(V) Valentine's Day or not... Hell no.
(W) Worst habit... Being bothered by stupid things like the fact that there is no 'E' in this list...
(X) X-ray vision or invisibility... Invisibility.
(Y) Your favorite food... Filet Mignon
(Z) Favorite zoo animal... Elephants

Four jobs I've had:
Paper Boy
Dining Hall worker - University of Delaware
Computer programmer - CSC
Network Engineer
Four places I've been on vacation:
San Francisco, California
West - 13 states, 3 1/2 weeks, 7500 miles on the car
Jamaica
Germany
Four of my favorite foods:
Filet Mignon
Pizza
Key Lime pie
Crab cakes
Four movies I can watch over and over:
Serenity
Any Star Trek movie
Band of Brothers
Love Actually
Four places I've lived:
N. Huntingdon, PA
Exton, PA
Lincoln University, PA
Greensburg, Pa.
Four TV shows I love to watch fairly regularly:
Battlestar Galactica
Boston Legal
Lost
Deadliest Catch
Four websites I visit daily:
Special Forces blogs
ESPN
Cisco.com
Penguinslive/Steelerslive
Four places I'd rather be right now:
San Francisco, CA
Bora Bora
Montana
Home


1. What time did you get up this morning? 8:00
2. Diamonds or pearls? pearls
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Star Wars Clone Wars
4. What is your favorite TV show? Battlestar Galactica
5. What do you usually have for breakfast? cereal
6. What is your middle name? Michael
7. What food do you dislike? Most any vegetable other than corn
8. What is your favorite CD at moment? Carrie Underwood - Carnival Ride
9. What kind of car do you drive? Acura TL with 180,000 miles on it.
10. Favorite sandwich? Norwin Band roast beef
11. What characteristics do you despise? Other people. Wait, is that a characteristic?
12. Favorite item of clothing? jeans
13. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? Bora Bora
14. Favorite brand of clothing? Don't care about brands, just fit and price. (ie, I can't feel it and cheap).
15. Where would you retire? Montana
16. What was your most recent memorable birthday? The first one, when I was actually born.
17. Favorite sport to watch? Hockey
18. Furthest place you are sending this? the black hole at the center of our galaxy.
19. Person you expect to send it back first? Nobody since I am way behind...
20. When is your birthday? March 7th.
21. Are you a morning person or a night person? Night
22. What is your shoe size? 13
23. Pets? 2 dogs
24. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share with us? I had a dream the other night that SC went to the hospital with stomach pains and came home with another kid. I'm really really hoping that wasn't some sort of premonition.
25. What did you want to be when you were little? Astronaut. Still do.
26. How are you today? A little bored here in Roanoke, VA.
27. What is your favorite candy? Nestle Crunch
28. What is your favorite flower? Magnolia
29. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? Any day I don't have to go to work.
30. What is your full name? Christopher Michael Gorr
31. What are you listening to right now? Virginia Tech vs. Georgia Tech
32. What was the last thing you ate? Buffalo chicken sandwich at Hooters in High Point, NC.
33. Do you wish on stars? no
34. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? black.
35. How is the weather right now? Beautiful. Mostly sunny and warm
36. The first person you spoke to on the phone today? SC. Like most every other phone call I have, she only called because she couldn't get something to work on the computer.
37. Favorite soft drink? root beer
38. Favorite restaurant? Ruth's Chris
39. Real hair color? brown
40. What was your favorite toy as a child? Starbird spaceship.
41. Summer or winter? Winter. You can always put more clothes on to get warmer, but you can only take so much off to get cooler...
43. Chocolate or Vanilla? real vanilla
44. Coffee or tea? Tea. Coffee stunts your growth, but apparently only in the vertical direction.
45. Do you want your friends to email you back? Friends?
46. When was the last time you cried? Several years ago. I was exceedingly drunk and don't even remember the year now. SC probably remembers.
47. What is under your bed? Given that I am in the Courtyard in Roanoke, VA I'm hoping nothing but I'm not going to check.
48. What did you do last night? Watched Rocky II
49. What are you afraid of? people. people with feet are even worse.
50. Salty or sweet? salty
51. How many keys on your key ring? 5
52. How many years at your current job? 8
53. Favorite day of the week? Saturday
54. How many towns have you lived in? 5
55. Do you make friends easily? no.
56. How many people will you send this to? nobody
57. How many will respond? dunno

LOST!

Due to prodding from my exceptionally rude wife, it appears that a couple of movies walked out the door with certain invited guests ths afternoon. It's not nice to mess with people's OCD tendencies. It would have been a good idea to take Rain Man too and watch the scene where Tom Cruise is running the bathwater in the motel and Dustin Hoffman goes ape-shit so you won't be completely shocked when you see the same sort of reaction in the near future...

Wendi's Pictures

We were sitting here tonight watching the women's vault finals on TV and were amazed to see that one of the competitors and medalists appeared to have been photo-shopped by Wendi in real life. This chick's head is at least two-times too big for her body. I believe NBC is creating imaginary athletes by stitching video/pictures of various male/female body parts together and trying to pass them off as actual people. Maybe this is how they hope to keep more than 10 viewers a night now that swimming is done. I think there should be formal investigation. This could be even bigger than the fact that the chinese are trying to pass off 5-year-old girls as 16 in gymnastics

My '5' or so....

Given all the discussion on the subject Friday night and the added peer pressure from BS's post, I guess I'll have to post my '5'. However, 5 seems to be a rather arbitrary number and a bit stifling. So I have granted myself permission for '4' plus a pool of possible candidates for place number 5 depending on my mood a any given time. ;-). In accordance with my OCD tendencies, they are in order...

Moody

Enough said.

Wendi's Question

1. Do you like blue cheese? no.
2. Have you ever smoked heroin? No. I'm not an expert, but I don't believe you smoke heroin.
3. Do you own a gun? Nope. We have state champ and her Jahng Bong for protection.
4. What flavor do you add to your drink at sonic? never been to a sonic
5. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments? I don't go to the doctor.
6. What do you think of hot dogs? Grilled good, boiled bad.
7. Favorite Christmas movie? Love, Actually
8. What do you prefer to ????? I think this question is missing......
10. What's your favorite piece of jewelry? Any ankle bracelet worn by SC
11. Favorite hobby? Going on vacation
12. Do you have A.D.D.? No. Wait, what was the question?
13. What's one trait you hate about yourself? I married someone who can never seem to sit and relax...
14. Middle name? Michael
15. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment: I have to get up in 6 hours, I can't wait to drive to Cleveland and Columbus tomorrow, So that's how they make snowshoes!
16. Name 3 things you bought yesterday...Nothing. SC does all the buying.
17. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink? iced tea, root beer, water
18. Current worry? My inability to think of something to answer this question.
19. Current hate right now? HGTV
20. Favorite place to be? Zion National Park
21. How did you bring in the New Year? I don't recall.
22. Where would you like to go? Bora Bora
23. Name three people who will complete this? SC, SB, Me ;-)
24. Do you own slippers? Nope.
26. What year would you go back in time to? 1944
27. Can you whistle? yes
28. Favorite color? red
29. Would you be a pirate? Arrrrrrgh!
30. What songs do you sing in the shower? I don't take showers.
31. Favorite girl's name? Anastasia or Rhiannon
32. Favorite boy's name? 'Geno'
33. What's in your pocket right now? Lint.
34. Last thing that made you laugh? The Colbert Report
36. Worst injury you've ever had? Bit through my tongue.
37. Do you love where you live? No-PA sucks
38. How many TVs do you have in your house? 5
39. Who is your loudest friend? I have no friends. I just mooch off of SC's.
40. How many dogs do you have? Two - a Beagle, Molly, and a Samoyed, Tundra
41. Does someone have a crush on you? I'm pretty sure I do... ;-)
42. What is your favorite book(s) Lots of them.
43. What is your favorite candy? Not a big candy person
44. Favorite Sports Team? Penguins.
45. Your favorite meal? Filet Mignon
46. What were you doing 12 AM last night? Filling out this questionnaire
47. What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up? Wow, it's quiet downstairs considering there are 7 boys down there!
48. Do you have any odd habits? Everything I do is completely normal and not remotely odd...

Juicy

This word was an easy one. Although Geno has an ever-increasing vocabulary, the word he says the 2nd-most frequently after 'mommy' is JUICY. From the second he gets up in the morning until after he is in bed at night, he is on a constant mission to get more 'juicy'. He also has a tendency to lose the cups of juicy that he does get so some days he goes through 10 or more cups. I took this picture of him cuddling his precious juicy in the car on the way to Alex's Alaska picnic in Mt. Lebanon. It got rather windy and rainy at the picnic, but it was still nice and the kids had fun. The best part was watching one of the other kid's fathers fall flat on his back and slide down a steep grass-covered hill right after it rained. This happened about 5 minutes after I convinced Aidan to use the sidewalk instead since the grass looked wet and slippery. At the time, I think he thought I was ruining his potential fun of running down the steep hill, but that other guy was nice enough to demonstrate to him how sage my wisdom really was.