1. What is your favorite shape of pasta?
2. Someone offers to give you $2 million, but says you can only have it if you will give half of it to charity. Which good cause would you donate the $1 million to?
3. Name a hobby that you've tried but eventually gave up for some reason. Why did you give up?
4. Name something clever or practical you have thought of that should be invented, but hasn't yet.
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Fusilli (You're so silly!) I love how its spiral body holds sauce or how plain cooked pasta slithers in spirals on my tongue. Hey-I'm Italian, so I ate a lot of pasta growing up.2. Last year I volunteered at a local farm which provides fresh produce to the CT food bank. There are acres and acres of land and only 6 people to run it! They survive off of shareholders and local volunteers. I love that this is a grassroots effort to end hunger in my state and also that it provides healthy food to the less fortunate instead of canned goods and boxed meals. I would spend the $1million on charities like this across New England (my home) helping to boost programs and farms that feed the poor. Also, I'd probably use my million to open that Non-Profit center I spoke of a couple of weeks ago.
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3. Stamp Art. I used to do it avidly in college with a friend of mine, making cute little embossed cards and letters. It got to be very addicting and expensive and being that I lived in Florida at the time, it was difficult to keep the embossing powder dry in the humidity.
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4. In elementary school I invented (OK, with the help of my Aunt Carol) something called the "Econo Cap". It actually had my last name in front of it which kind of rhymes with Econo. In any case, it was a plug at the bottom of shampoo bottles that you could pull out when you reached the end of the bottle so that you could get every last drop out. To construct it, we used a 1 liter soda bottle and a golf tee to show how it works. I never turned it in though because we filled it with sand instead of liquid and it clogged. Some days when I'm in the shower and I am running out of conditioner, I still wish I had invented it...
21 comments:
1. Pasta: Ravioli
2. Planned Parenthhod
3. Collecting Sports Cards – Grew up
4. The Standing Mens Home Urinal – It removes all splashing and mess. I will post on it one day.
I like linguine.
I would donate 1 million dollars probably to some animal related charity.
I gave up pottery (but am now thinking of going back) because I was making these really cool mermaids but hadn't quite perfected the arms and they kept blowing off in the kiln. I was sick of having amputee mermaids LOL
No great inventions (yet)
rocketstar is yum-a-licious by the way
Paige, you are SO right. ;) I secretly consider Rocketstar a blog perk.
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1.) Sponge bob or Spiderman Mac and cheese pasta shapes. I like how the cheese gets stuck in big globs inside the designs.
2.)Cancer Research center.
3.) I used to do scripophily and play the bass guitar but gave them both up for ominous reasons.
4.) I patented the adjustable baby shoe...still waiting to see how it pans out.
[1] My favorite to eat is fettuccine, but I love the way store bought lasagna noodles look when they come out of the box. Dunno why really, they just seem fun :)
[2] So many great organizations to donate to. These are just some of the ones that would have to get a chunk:
~Muscular Dystrophy Association (Some for research, most for camps)
~Heifer Project International
~Leukemia/Lymphoma Society
~The ONE Campaign
~Mountain Housing Opportunities
[3] I used to collect Stamps and Sports Cards. They got boring to me. I like to do things that involve action or creativity.
[4] I am in the process of creating a new way of displaying crystal figurines like Swarovski makes. That is all I can say because I do not have any patents yet :)
1. Angel Hair
2. I would have to split it between the American Cancer Society (my grandmother died of lung cancer) and the American Diabetes Association (my other Grandmother has it) and I actually might have to split it three ways now that I think about it and include an Arthritus charity.
3. Scrapbooking, but like most people I just don't have the time.
4. I can't think of any invention I've thought of. Not creative that way.
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1. My favorite shaped pasta is ravioli just because I love being able to put anything in them. I like the idea of neat, little packages of deliciousness.
2. We give money each month to the Free Tibet foundation but there are about a million others out there I'd love to support.
3. I'd also say scrapbooking. All of my pictures are online now and I am too lazy to print them off and then dig out all the messy crap you need for scrapbooking. I avoid it because I don't like the cleanup :-)
4. I invented Christmas ornaments that smell like real trees for those people who love the smell of the real thing, but don't like the hassle. You get your fake tree and then buy a set of the ornaments and they are actually air fresheners with different holiday scents like pine, pumpkin pie, apple and cinnamin, cranberries and all that. Hang em on the tree and it makes your whole house smell festive but no one knows that they are air fresheners because they look like ornaments. That's my big invention....lol.
I love reading these and it isn't even MY blog. Is that wrong?
1. Spaghetti O's
2. GuysWhoStealWomen'sUnderwearAnonymous
3. I used to be a philatelist. That's the proper term for a stamp collector. I grew tired of it, though.
4. Reusable Toilet Paper
thomas is so funny!
1. I think I like the swirly pasta, too. And the alphabet letters in vegetable soup.
2. I would split it up.
I've watched the MDA telethon as long as I can remember so some would go there.
Some would go to research on Diabetes.
I'm sure there's other big ones but my mind just went blank. Some local things I would help are the animal shelter and Humane Society, food banks, and homeless shelters. Do my kids count as charities? :)
3. Back in the day I used to macramé. I also tried my hand at decoupage once. I used to oil paint although not very well.. ditto piano playing. Those all just drifted away for various reasons.
I still like to crochet but am burned out on it for a while. I used to keep a big garden when I had a house with a yard.
4. A fat-burning pill that is safe and really works.
1. Elbows. Because I have them and so should pasta.
2. Alzheimer's research because it scares me more than any other disease today.
3. Cross stitch because I felt it was silly and why was I even doing it.
4. The thought blinker. Something that would be attached to your head when you were driving that when you thought about turning it would make your car's blinker work properly. Since most people don't know how to use them it would be most effective.
Sorry for my lack of response today guys-I got into a book and just kept reading til I was done....
Brian: I picture them to be like those silly rollerskates that we had when we were little that adjusted. They never worked for me-I hope yours is better...
Hepcat: Yeah-I can't see you being a stamp guy-plus, all of that licking must've gotten old.
Oriolegal: You'd better polish up on your scrapping skillz! You've got a wedding to document soon!
108: Indeed, little packages of deliciousness are wonderful. And also-nothing replaces fresh pine. Sorry.
Paige: No worries! I love seeing what people come up with for answers too...come back as often as you'd like.
Thomas: You're a weirdo
Skittles: I haven't done decoupage since elementary school! I remember it not being very fun. My hands always got so pruney. Ick. Good choice on giving that up!
Greg: Somehow I knew yours would have to do with the car blinker. I don't know why, but I did. And also, thank you for not telling me that you used to cross stitch. I would have robbed me from 2 years of getting to know you. ;)
1.Elbows with butter and parm. cheese!!
2.Cancer research
3.Riding my bike. I got lazy...I think Ill take it up again.
4.If I had an idea like that, I would be rich!! =)
1. Penne, because I'm boring.
2. I'd invest into a college charity fund for 18 years, and give it to financially troubled youth.
3. Sports Cards... I just ran out of time. Still have a box at my parent's house, though.
4. The V.I.P. Lounge of course!
1. Pasta shells are my favorite.
2. I would donate $1m to Muscular Distrophy Association.
3. I used to collect edged weapons - classic swords and daggers - but it's very expensive so I stopped for awhile.
4. I wish I was that clever!
paige and mags,
You are too kind. I wish I was single again ;o)
mags, you have a great readership.
Josh: Liking Penne does NOT make you boring. AT all.
Travis: Mmmm...shells. I could go for some bake stuffed ones now. (No dinner)
Rocketstar: By "great readership" do you mean that they think you are hot and therefore they are great or just that lots of people read. ;)
Thanks everyone for participating. Days like this when I have all of my blog friends in comments really make me smile.
You're the best!
1. Elbow noodles. Boring, but oh so versatile!
2. HRC. The Human Rights Campaign.
3. Scrap-booking. I still make my own greeting cards using my scrap-booking skills, but with owning my own business, having a hobby farm, and blogging -- well, no time left for scrap-booking!
4. A heated steering wheel. Oh sure, there probably is one out there by now, but I've been wanting one of these for 20 years now!!! They make seat-warmers, but HELL-O my butt is warm enough, it's my fingers that are frosty on cold winter days.
OK, so it's Thursday, I'm behind, all right?? :)
1. I like Farfalle. My next virtual pet is going to be named that, in honor of pasta.
2. Breast cancer research
3. Crochet. I have at least two half-finished blankets lying around the house. I pick it back up when it gets cold, but I can't seem to stick with it.
4. Following in Mo's gorgeous footsteps, I'd say a heated floor mat for my car. My feet FREEZE in the winter, because cold air is heavier than warm air, so while my eyes are drying out from the heat, my poor little tootsies are getting frostbite. And that's just not fair. They already get the raw end of the deal when I'm walking, stuck in the snow all the time!
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