The time, it zoometh

Ack, what happened? I know Labor Day weekend was hot, but I couldn't have fallen asleep for three straight weeks, could I?

Okay, probably yes. If you know me, you know how much I love the sleepin'. Sadly, the Not Blogging has more to do with General Distraction and Job Craziness and less to do with the zzzzs.*

Having said that, I don't have anything in mind to write about, so I'm going to steal a blog meme. Hopefully we'll be back to your regularly scheduled original content by our next post.**

The meme is SCATTERGORIES … and it’s harder than it looks! Here are the rules:
* Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the questions.
* They MUST be real places, names, things … NOTHING made up!
* If you can’t think of anything, skip it.
* You CAN’T use your name for the boy/girl name question.
* If your name happens to start with the same letter as mine, sorry, but you can’t use my answers!***
* You have to add your own question at the end if you borrow this meme for your own blog.****

My name: Elinoire

Famous Singer/Band: Ella Fitzgerald (Luckily for me there's no rule about using the first thing that pops in your head because that was, for who knows what reason, "Eddie Money" followed by "Ethel Merman." Yeeg.)
Four letter word: Edge
Street: Everts. It's boring, sorry. It's two blocks from the house I grew up in.
Color: Ecru
Gifts/Presents: Ermine (the perfect "money is no object" gift for people who don't mind wearing fur) or Emeralds (for the people who do)
Vehicle: Edsel
Things in a Souvenir Shop: Engraved images of the touristical thing with which the shop associates itself
Boy Name: Edgar
Girl Name: Emily
Movie Title: Ever After
Drink: Evian
Occupation: Elevator guy
Celebrity: Elizabeth Taylor
Magazine: Oh lord, I have no idea. Elegant Homes. Egypt Today. Earcare Quarterly. Evangelist Fashion. Elf Enthusiast. (So much for the "If you can’t think of anything, skip it" rule.)
U.S. City: Evanston, IL
Pro Sports Teams: Surely there must be a team called The Eagles out there -- wait, doesn't Philadelphia have an Eagles? Let's just say they do. The Philadelphia Eagles.
Fruit: Eggplant. Except I don't know if it's one of those vegetables that's really a fruit (like the avocado or the tomato, which I know is related to the eggplant... ) so I'll say Elderberry instead. Elderberry!
Reason for Being Late for Work: Elephant sat on front of car
Something You Throw Away: Eggshells
Things You Shout: Evacuate! (Or, if that's too alarming, Eureka!)
Word you like to say for no particular reason: Eglantine

* It seems redundant to pluralize "zzzz" but I went ahead and did it anyway.

** Yeah, I don't know how I became a "we" there. Sometimes it just happens.

*** This isn't my rule; it was the rule of the person I stole the meme from. I don't care if you use my answers, but I will mock you openly for your lack of originality.

**** This IS my rule. I made it up. Go me!

Entry the forty-second: Another 15 things

To make up for my lack of posts during the last week (it's been a doozy of a week), I will post TWO things today. Don't fall over in shock. :-)

Here are the next 15 items in that list of stuff about myself:

16. With the exception of the-future-and-now-current Mr. Elinoire, the best roommates I ever had were ones I didn’t know before we shared a dorm room/apartment/house.
17. I am embarrassed to be as picky an eater as I am.
18. I think if you can hold your breath the entire time you are going through a tunnel, you get to make a wish.
19. I am mildly allergic to tomatoes, eggplant, walnuts, and swiss cheese, which all make my tongue itch.
20. I love swimming in the ocean but since I am extremely phobic about sharks, I don’t do it very often.
21. My favorite thing about ocean waves is when they are so strong that they knock you over and you have no idea which end is up until you float to the top.
22. I hated coconut until I was in college and then all of a sudden I loved it and it tasted the same as it always had.
23. I like to spell things the old fashioned way: cocoanut, cooky.
24. I like English English spellings of words, but I think it’s pretentious to use them if you’re writing in America.
25. I’m a packrat but I’m trying to reform.
26. Progress is slow.
27. I am not a Good Shopper.
28. I like using capital letters to emphasize certain words or phrases even though I know perfectly well that English grammar doesn’t really allow for That Sort Of Thing.
29. I am uncoordinated.
30. I don’t like talking on the phone.