Today we ripped off a blogger named Tense Teacher of the blog Tense for a Reason. (Yes we know that we’ve ripped her off not so long ago as well. It’s pretty amazing since she stopped posting in 2007. But that’s where we live as a thief). Also, it’s long so we’ll do it in parts. She does not say where she got it from. But, it was probably stolen there as well. So, of course, that will be as far as we go. Tracing back our theft’s thieves might take some time. Take the time to comment on other player’s posts. It’s a great way to make new friends! Link back to us at Sunday Stealing!
Cheers to all of us thieves!
Jack’s Answers
36. Have you watched American Horror Story?
No. Someday, possibly when my daughter is in college or gets a job, I will get around to watching it.
37. Baseball hat or toque?
Baseball hat. I have a pretty large collection of baseball caps, but I rarely wear them. Even though I’m a jeans (or shorts) and T-shirt kind of guy, when I wear headgear I prefer to wear what is known as a newsboy cap, as it versatile and looks good with casual clothing and semi-formal wear (or maybe it’s me).
38. Do you shampoo or soap up first in the shower?
Depends on my mood. No two of my showers are exactly the same.
39. Wet the toothbrush or brush dry with the toothpaste?
I usually wet the toothbrush after applying the toothpaste.
40. Pen or pencil?
I prefer to write in ink, as I find that over time pencil marks fade. I have an appreciation for cheap, disposable Bic-type pens, and try to have a few on hand for taking notes, jotting down writing ideas, or doodling. I tend to keep pencils around for sketching or drawing plans, though if I can’t find any pens I will write with a pencil. Since our move, however, most of our writing implements have been packed, and I have found myself scrambling to find something when I need to take down a phone number or write a quick note.
41. Have you ever gambled at a casino?
Of course. Growing up, my family was fond of taking weekend trips to Tahoe and Reno, and I generally didn’t have much fun until I was of legal age to gamble. I’ve won a few jackpots, though nothing too significant.
42. Have you thrown up on a plane?
No. I’ve had sex on a plane though.
43. Have you thrown up in a car?
Probably, though I don’t remember any specific occurrences. I was always more likely to get queasy, usually because I was reading, and have the feeling pass without incident.
44. Have you thrown up at work?
No.
45. Do you scream on roller coasters?
Yeah. I generally don’t hold my arms up though, which Jill always does. My finely-honed survival instinct dictates that I hold on for dear life the whole time – even though I know there is little chance of being thrown from the ride.
46. How many shoes do you have?
Let’s see: Two pairs of general-purpose tennis shoes, one pair of running shoes, two pairs of Chuck Taylors, two pairs of flip-flops, one pair of bedroom slippers, two pairs of dress shoes in black, one pair of dress shoes in brown, one pair of black steel-toed boots, one pair of brown work boots. Thirteen pairs, twenty-six shoes.
47. Who was your first roommate?
My first roommate was a long-time friend who would eventually be best man at my wedding.
48. What alcoholic beverage did you drink when you got drunk for the first time?
When I was around eleven I shared a couple wine coolers with my cousin while his parents weren’t home. I remember feeling pretty sleepy and falling asleep on his couch. The first honest-to-goodness bender I went on was with beer.
49. What was your first job?
As I was planning on getting my teaching credential, I worked in a preschool, and tutored children in their homes and at schools and libraries, all pretty much simultaneously.
50. What was your first car?
A 1970 Dodge Dart.
51. When did you go to your first funeral?
I remember attending the funeral of a family friend when I was around fourteen. Before age fourteen, my parents didn’t feel the need to drag me to every funeral and memorial service; presumably they left me with a babysitter or something.
52. How old were you when you first moved away from your hometown?
I’ve lived in the same general area most of my life. The first time I moved out of the area, I was twenty-four. I returned home a couple years later.
53. Who was your first grade teacher?
Miss Blake. She was pretty horrible, though to be frank my kindergarten teacher was worse.
54. Where did you go on your first airplane ride?
Disneyland? I’m going to say Disneyland. That sounds about right.
55. When you snuck out of your house for the first time, who was it with?
Honestly, I don’t think I ever snuck out of the house. Generally speaking, my parents gave me a decent-sized lead, without being too permissive. Since I usually exercised good judgment – as far as they knew, anyway – I was allowed to go out when I wanted to. And if there was something I knew they wouldn’t want me doing, like going to a certain party, well, that was the night I told them I was going to a movie with a friend, and then staying over his house.
56. Who was your first best friend and are you still friends with them?
My first best friend was a kid I met on the first day of kindergarten. We had a lot in common and spent much of our elementary school years hanging out together, and playing at each other’s houses. Though we remained friends throughout junior high and high school, we didn’t stay quite as close, likely owing to the fact that he was extremely studious and I was far less so. We’re not still in touch; I assume he is a successful engineer or scientist, while I am a stay-at-home sex blogger.
57. Where did you live the first time you moved out of your parents’ house?
I lived in a pretty nice two-bedroom apartment.
58. Who is the first person you call when you have a bad day?
I generally don’t have the kind of bad day that requires an emotional decompression-via-telephone-call. If I need to bitch about something, such as the baby refusing to nap and thereby preventing me from perving to a friend’s webcam, I text Jill.
59. Whose wedding were you in the first time you were a bridesmaid or a groomsmen?
I’ve been a groomsman quite often, but the first wedding in which I participated was my cousin’s when I was around twenty-two.
60. What is the first thing you do in the morning?
Since it is rare for me to wake before the baby does, I generally tend to her first: I get her dressed and feed her breakfast, and if you know how fastidious I am about personal hygiene, you know how much it pains me that I have to do any of these things before I take a shower.
61. What was the first concert you attended?
I took the girl I was dating – the one I cheated on, as detailed here – to a concert in 1991. It was a female R&B singer, and I am actually not surprised that I have no idea who.
62. First tattoo or piercing?
I’ve got neither of either.
63. First celebrity crush?
Possibly Julia Roberts? I had a huge crush on her when I was around fourteen or fifteen, mainly because she had yet to get naked on camera. I can’t imagine that she was my first celebrity crush, but she’s the person I immediately think of when someone says “celebrity crush.”
Jill’s Answers
36. Have you watched American Horror Story?
No. I’d love to have enough time to sit and watch it every week, along with Weeds, Breaking Bad, Dexter, Homeland, White Collar, and every other show that all of my friends say that I need to watch.
37. Baseball hat or toque?
Baseball hat. I don’t usually wear them, but I can pull off a baseball hat a lot better than I can a toque.
38. Do you shampoo or soap up first in the shower?
I always shampoo first. I like to let the creme rinse sit in my hair while I wash the rest of my body.
39. Wet the toothbrush or brush dry with the toothpaste?
I put the toothpaste on the toothbrush and then I wet it. I don’t like the feeling of dry toothpaste in my mouth.
40. Pen or pencil?
Pencil, unless it’s a gel pen or Hi-Liter. I don’t like writing with ball-point pens.
41. Have you ever gambled at a casino?
Hell yeah! I do pretty well, too.
42. Have you thrown up on a plane?
No.
43. Have you thrown up in a car?
Yes. I used to get car-sick a lot when I was little. I also threw up in a car once when I had gallstones, and occasionally when drunk. I might have done it when I was pregnant too.
44. Have you thrown up at work?
When I was pregnant I did. I think I did it once when I had the flu as well. I hope all this throwing up isn’t a turn-off.
45. Do you scream on roller coasters?
Yeah, but out of excitement, never out of fear. I also hold my hands up the whole time.
46. How many shoes do you have?
At least forty, although now that we’re moved into our new place I plan on weeding some out.
47. Who was your first roommate?
My brother was my first roommate. Until I was four years old (and he was five), we had bunk beds in the same room. If this doesn’t count, I will go with a girl in college whose name I’d rather not give. She was from Southern California, and we were great friends.
48. What alcoholic beverage did you drink when you got drunk for the first time?
I’m pretty sure it was beer. We were in high school, so you drank whatever you could get your hands on. But my parents were known for always having lots of alcohol on hand, so it could very well have been hard liquor.
49. What was your first job?
I babysat from the age of ten, for my younger siblings and neighborhood kids. My first payroll job was at a hot dog place at a local mall. But not the one where the girls wear multi-colored short shorts and funky hats and make lemonade with those weird pumps that look like pogo sticks.
50. What was your first car?
A white 1980 Toyota Corolla. It was a stick shift. Even though it was mine, I had to share it with my brother until he went away to college.
51. When did you go to your first funeral?
I was probably four or five, at the oldest. The first one I remember was about age four. It was my great-uncle.
52. How old were you when you first moved away from your hometown?
I moved away from my hometown for the first time at age seventeen, when I started college.
53. Who was your first grade teacher?
Mrs. Murasco. Spelling is approximate. She was also my favorite teacher. She used to let us clean the floor after school, and she’d give us pretzel sticks. If we got ten pretzel sticks, we could trade them for a hard candy. Or maybe a Hershey’s Kiss or a Tootsie Roll or something. You know, maybe it was a reading group where this happened. I’m not sure what we got for picking up trash off the floor in Mrs. Murasco’s class. Maybe it was punishment for something.
54. Where did you go on your first airplane ride?
I think we went to Oregon to visit my aunt and uncle.
55. When you snuck out of your house for the first time, who was it with?
I probably snuck out to go to a party with my girlfriends. That was the best thing about having a ground-floor bedroom: The window opened silently and I could climb right out.
56. Who was your first best friend and are you still friends with them?
My first best friend is the person we have referred to on this blog as P. We have known each other since the first grade, and although I don’t consider her my best friend we are still pretty close and see each other often.
57. Where did you live the first time you moved out of your parents’ house?
I lived in Zapotec Residence Hall at San Diego State University.
58. Who is the first person you call when you have a bad day?
I normally call Jack. Sometimes if I can’t call, I text him, and he texts me back. Before long we’re exchanging really filthy texts describing in great detail what we’d like to do to each other. That always brightens my day!
59. Whose wedding were you in the first time you were a bridesmaid or a groomsmen?
My best friend.
60. What is the first thing you do in the morning?
I’d like to say that I take a shower first, but realitically the first thing I do is probably go to the bathroom.
61. What was the first concert you attended? I believe it was Sha Na Na at the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, California.
62. First tattoo or piercing?
For my seventh birthday, my grandmother took me to J.C. Penney’s to get my ears pierced. I remember they had a woman there who was or used to be a nurse, and she used to do the piercing. When I turned nineteen, my grandma took me to get my clit hood pierced.*
63. First celebrity crush?
Michael J. Fox or Kirk Cameron. Actually Scott Baio might have been the first, although he didn’t have the longevity of the other two.
*This last part may be creative license on the part of the editor, i.e. Jack
Dodge Dart lol I remember those and yes Newsboy caps rock, I’m planning on getting one to mix up with my fedoras.
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I actually got a letter back from Scott Baio when I wrote him a fan letter when I was a kid!
I’m glad to see that we are not the only horror fans that didn’t get a chance to see American Horror Story. Jack – you change up your shower routine every day? I didn’t think people did that. You also sound like you and Jill have the same views on coasters as me and Mia. I will occasionally put the hands up, but holding on seems so much safer. I’ve never actually flown to Disneyland. I bet that is nice.
Jill – You sound like you were a little rebel as a kid. 40 pairs of shoes? Yowza! Sha Na Na? Wait, how much older ARE you than Jack!?!?! I kid, I kid!
By the way, my word verification is pletonia which sounds like a fun place to visit.
Jack:
38 – Really?! You don’t have a routine? i find that if i stray from my routine, I forget things…
45 – I always hold my hands up. On Space Mountain though, although I know it’s stupid, I only hold them halfway up because I’m afraid they’ll hit something in the dark.
46 – I didn’t think to include my slippers!
55 – Same here, I went to lots of “movies.”
Jill:
36 – We LOVE Dexter and Homeland! You NEED to watch them! 😉
38 – Me too!
49 – Yes! I was a baby sitter before I was the hot dog girl; why didn’t I think of that?!
50 _ My first car was a stick too. I LOVE that I know how to drive one and Vincent doesn’t!
Jack, your creative editorial license almost gave me a heart attack. 🙂
I love newsboy caps. And fedoras. And pretty much any hat. I love wearing them and luckily I can pull off looking decent in most hats. 🙂
I hold up my hands on rollercoasters, too. They’re so much fun.
Dirty texts always brighten my day, too. 😉
Enjoyed reading both of your answers! Hope y’all are having a great Sunday!