62 Questions About Your House meme
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resonantI grabbed this from coreopsis because it's just the thing to do to avoid doing anything useful.
As I read these questions, I see that they're making some pretty specific assumptions about what kind of dwelling place we have. I wonder if anybody on my flist lives someplace that just does not fit these questions? A yurt? A houseboat? Wherever you lay your hat (or hang your head)?
1. What kind of soap is in your bathtub right now?
Oh, ugh, so many kinds of scented bath gels --- probably three different sugary or floral scents for the kidlet and at least that many citrusy, green, or oceany scents for me.
2. Do you have any watermelon in your refrigerator?
Nope.
3. Is there anything moldy in your refrigerator?
Um, probably not? Wednesday is garbage pickup day, so I normally go through everything on Tuesday and get rid of things, so I threw away scary sour cream and liquefied cucumbers already this week. I think we still have a few things lingering around in there that nobody but the spouse will eat (lowfat mayo, soy butter, half a can of artichoke hearts), and some of them may be in sad shape.
What happened to #4?
Funny how we obediently reproduce all the questions.
5. What would you change about your living room?
It's a weird shape, much too wide for its depth; I'd love to trade it in for a slightly smaller living room plus a small den with a door that shut. Also, get rid of the carpet.
6. Are the dishes in your dishwasher clean or dirty?
No dishwasher. No dirty dishes, either, for this brief shining moment.
7. Do you have a can of mushrooms in your pantry?
Nope. I have fresh ones in the fridge, though.
8. White or wheat/brown bread?
Honey wheat right now. I buy bread first by fiber content and then by price!
9. What is on top of your refrigerator?
One tub full of plastic bags that need to be taken to the recycler, and another tub with a figurine that I'm listing on eBay.
10. What color is your sofa?
Most of it is sort of olive green, but the cushion covers got all ripped up, so the cushions now have a patterned cover with shades of olive, celery, and gray-blue on a cream background. It matches the couch pretty well but clashes hideously with the pillows that came with the couch, which are shades of olive, dark green, and red.
11. What color or design is on your shower curtain?
Eh. White. Pinkish rust at the bottom from iron deposits.
12. How many plants are in your home?
Only one. I tend to kill plants through alternating neglect and overwatering.
13. How many candles are in your home?
From right here, I can see three, but I'm sure there are more. I'm indifferent to candles, but the kidlet loves them.
14. Is your bed made right now?
Yep! I'm a daily bedmaker.
15. If you have a coffee pot, what color is it?
Black (because if you get a white one, you have to wash coffee spatters off of it all the time).
16. Electric or standard can opener?
Standard.
17. Comet or Soft Scrub?
Neither. I think I have a can of scrubbing bubbles around here somewhere, but mostly I use like Mr. Clean spray type stuff.
18. Is your closet organized?
Semi. It was quite organized last spring, but now all the shoes I've worn since then are all over the floor.
19. What color is the flashlight that you use the most?
Orange. It's solar! My parents bought it for me, and I can always find it because it has to live in the window.
20. What kinds of things are in your junk drawer?
Batteries, mostly. My ratchet screwdriver. Random screws and stuff. Probably some keys to long-dead cars.
21. Do you drink out of glass or plastic most of the time at home?
Glass. Things seem to taste better.
22. Do you have iced tea made in a pitcher right now?
No. I make two cups fresh every morning to take to work in the summer, but if I have a pitcher around, I will drink it all day long, and I don't need the caffeine or the sugar.
23. If you have a garage, is it cluttered?
Lord yes. In fact, you know what's still in there? The realtor's sign that was on the front lawn when we bought the house in 1993. He never came to pick it up, so we shoved it into the garage and never touched it again.
24. Curtains or blinds?
I hate all window treatments, but I hate curtains a little less than I hate blinds. Most of my windows just have one panel of semi-sheer hanging over them.
25. How many pillows do you sleep with?
One.
26. Do you sleep with any lights on at night?
No, but the street lights come in through the window.
27. How many ceiling fans are in your home?
Four, which is one fewer than we need -- we have one in the dining room and one in each bedroom, but none in the living room. I think any room that has a chair in it should have a ceiling fan.
28. How often do you vacuum?
Let me put it this way. The Bobkitten came to us last Christmas, and he's only heard the vacuum cleaner about six times. We're kind of foul.
30. What color is your toothbrush?
I think the upstairs one is pink and the downstairs one is purple. I buy them in girly colors because otherwise the spouse forgets which one is his and which one is mine.
31. Do you have a welcome mat on your front porch?
No.
32. What is in your oven right now?
Nothing, are you kidding me? It's too hot to bake.
33. Is your microwave clean or dirty?
It doesn't look dirty, but when you use it, it makes the kitchen smell like bacon.
34. Is there anything under your bed?
A plastic storage box full of gift-wrapping stuff.
35. Chore you hate doing the most?
Dusting. Ironic, since I have a dust allergy. I'd rather clean toilets and litterboxes than dust.
36. What retro items are in your home?
I have a Dutch-looking tile that belonged to my grandmother. It has a quote from Shakespeare on it, which really isn't much like my grandmother as I remember her: "And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."
37. Do you have a separate room that you use as an office?
Nope.
38. If you have a yard, who mows it?
Used to be 75% me, 25% spouse. Now I guess it's all me.
39. Is there anything on your kitchen floor right now?
Cat food and water dishes. The Bobkitten is the only cat I've ever had that will eat dry cat food that's been spilled on the floor, so it's cleaner than it used to be.
40. How many mirrors are in your home?
Four.
41. Do you have any hidden emergency money around your home?
I wouldn't call it emergency money, but since we went down to one income, I've started saving every five-dollar bill that comes through my hands and putting it in a jar to be guilt-free splurge money.
42. What color are your walls?
Most of them are cream-colored, but the stairway walls are a very light tan, and the dining room walls are sponge-painted tan on lighter tan.
43. Which rooms in your house have wallpaper?
None. I hate wallpaper. When we moved in, the dining room was all countried up within an inch of its life -- it had three different patterns of blue flowers on the wallpaper, and two different blue florals on the curtains.
44. Do you have a peephole in your front door?
There's a strange off-center leaded-glass window.
45. Do you keep any kind of protection weapons in your home?
Nope. Just a cellphone.
46. What does your home smell like right now?
Homemade pesto. And, um, the carpet sort of smells of feet.
47. Favorite candle scent?
Anything citrusy.
48. What kind of pickles (if any) are in your refrigerator right now?
Dill pickle relish. There are probably some kosher dills in there. And sauerkraut ought to count, too.
49. Who are in the pictures you have displayed?
Upstairs there's a multi-frame with my parents, the spouse's parents, the kidlet as a baby, our first cat, some friends at our wedding.
Down here there's a giant hand-colored poster of the spouse's grandfather back when he was a boxer. The kidlet's friend says, "Your great-grandpa is freaking me out."
Also there's a painting of the kidlet at about age four, which my parents had made -- it's pretty but to me it doesn't look much like the kidlet -- and a collage they did when they were about nine of the Boykitten (who was a black cat) on a red background looking uncharacteristically mournful.
50. What color is your favorite religious book?
I changed that from "bible." I don't actually have a favorite Bible, though the kidlet loves theirs with the orange tiger lily on the cover. My favorite religious book is a Book of Common Prayer, which is red.
51. Do you have plenty of cabinet space in your kitchen?
Does anyone? I could fill twice this many cabinets easily.
52. Ever been on your roof?
I've been up to the roof, attempting to clean the gutters, one time when we first bought the house, but I got vertigo and decided it was worth $60 twice a year to pay someone else to do that.
53. Do you own a stereo?
I have an old one that has a turntable, plus a new one that's just a radio receiver and an iPod dock.
54. How many TVs do you have?
Just one.
55. How many house phones?
Two.
56. Do you have a housekeeper?
I wish.
57. What style do you decorate in?
A long time ago I read an interview with an interior designer who said, "If you love three objects, then those three objects will go together." I loved that; that's pretty much my principle of design.
But the house, in addition to being very cluttered, is visually confusing now because the items in it are about equally the kidlet's choice and mine. So I'm looking at the mantel from here, and it has a big scratchy painting of a cityscape in the rain and two small stuffed alpacas (mine) plus four candles, a pile of artificial flowers, and two birdhouses (kidlet's), plus a hand-felted wool basket (gift from my brother) and two cutesy little carousel horses (gift from my in-laws).
58. Do you like solid colors in furniture or prints?
I've never had the opportunity to buy multiple pieces of furniture at once, so a new item always has to go with all the old items that are already there. I think I'd probably prefer solids on large items and prints on small ones.
59. Is there a smoke detector in your home?
One on each floor.
60. In case of fire, what are the items you would grab if you only could make one quick trip?
Yeesh, this question fills me with anxiety -- if there's a fire, I'm getting my kid and my cat out of the house, and the hell with everything else in it.
61. Do you know how to work your electrical box?
It's just a circuit breaker; there's not much know-how required.
62. What temperature in your home is most comfortable to you?
I like it a little chilly, but I also like it cheap, so my thermostat's set to 77 in the summer and 61 in the winter.
edited 2020 to retroactively correct the kidlet's gender pronouns
coreopsis because it's just the thing to do to avoid doing anything useful.As I read these questions, I see that they're making some pretty specific assumptions about what kind of dwelling place we have. I wonder if anybody on my flist lives someplace that just does not fit these questions? A yurt? A houseboat? Wherever you lay your hat (or hang your head)?
1. What kind of soap is in your bathtub right now?
Oh, ugh, so many kinds of scented bath gels --- probably three different sugary or floral scents for the kidlet and at least that many citrusy, green, or oceany scents for me.
2. Do you have any watermelon in your refrigerator?
Nope.
3. Is there anything moldy in your refrigerator?
Um, probably not? Wednesday is garbage pickup day, so I normally go through everything on Tuesday and get rid of things, so I threw away scary sour cream and liquefied cucumbers already this week. I think we still have a few things lingering around in there that nobody but the spouse will eat (lowfat mayo, soy butter, half a can of artichoke hearts), and some of them may be in sad shape.
What happened to #4?
Funny how we obediently reproduce all the questions.
5. What would you change about your living room?
It's a weird shape, much too wide for its depth; I'd love to trade it in for a slightly smaller living room plus a small den with a door that shut. Also, get rid of the carpet.
6. Are the dishes in your dishwasher clean or dirty?
No dishwasher. No dirty dishes, either, for this brief shining moment.
7. Do you have a can of mushrooms in your pantry?
Nope. I have fresh ones in the fridge, though.
8. White or wheat/brown bread?
Honey wheat right now. I buy bread first by fiber content and then by price!
9. What is on top of your refrigerator?
One tub full of plastic bags that need to be taken to the recycler, and another tub with a figurine that I'm listing on eBay.
10. What color is your sofa?
Most of it is sort of olive green, but the cushion covers got all ripped up, so the cushions now have a patterned cover with shades of olive, celery, and gray-blue on a cream background. It matches the couch pretty well but clashes hideously with the pillows that came with the couch, which are shades of olive, dark green, and red.
11. What color or design is on your shower curtain?
Eh. White. Pinkish rust at the bottom from iron deposits.
12. How many plants are in your home?
Only one. I tend to kill plants through alternating neglect and overwatering.
13. How many candles are in your home?
From right here, I can see three, but I'm sure there are more. I'm indifferent to candles, but the kidlet loves them.
14. Is your bed made right now?
Yep! I'm a daily bedmaker.
15. If you have a coffee pot, what color is it?
Black (because if you get a white one, you have to wash coffee spatters off of it all the time).
16. Electric or standard can opener?
Standard.
17. Comet or Soft Scrub?
Neither. I think I have a can of scrubbing bubbles around here somewhere, but mostly I use like Mr. Clean spray type stuff.
18. Is your closet organized?
Semi. It was quite organized last spring, but now all the shoes I've worn since then are all over the floor.
19. What color is the flashlight that you use the most?
Orange. It's solar! My parents bought it for me, and I can always find it because it has to live in the window.
20. What kinds of things are in your junk drawer?
Batteries, mostly. My ratchet screwdriver. Random screws and stuff. Probably some keys to long-dead cars.
21. Do you drink out of glass or plastic most of the time at home?
Glass. Things seem to taste better.
22. Do you have iced tea made in a pitcher right now?
No. I make two cups fresh every morning to take to work in the summer, but if I have a pitcher around, I will drink it all day long, and I don't need the caffeine or the sugar.
23. If you have a garage, is it cluttered?
Lord yes. In fact, you know what's still in there? The realtor's sign that was on the front lawn when we bought the house in 1993. He never came to pick it up, so we shoved it into the garage and never touched it again.
24. Curtains or blinds?
I hate all window treatments, but I hate curtains a little less than I hate blinds. Most of my windows just have one panel of semi-sheer hanging over them.
25. How many pillows do you sleep with?
One.
26. Do you sleep with any lights on at night?
No, but the street lights come in through the window.
27. How many ceiling fans are in your home?
Four, which is one fewer than we need -- we have one in the dining room and one in each bedroom, but none in the living room. I think any room that has a chair in it should have a ceiling fan.
28. How often do you vacuum?
Let me put it this way. The Bobkitten came to us last Christmas, and he's only heard the vacuum cleaner about six times. We're kind of foul.
30. What color is your toothbrush?
I think the upstairs one is pink and the downstairs one is purple. I buy them in girly colors because otherwise the spouse forgets which one is his and which one is mine.
31. Do you have a welcome mat on your front porch?
No.
32. What is in your oven right now?
Nothing, are you kidding me? It's too hot to bake.
33. Is your microwave clean or dirty?
It doesn't look dirty, but when you use it, it makes the kitchen smell like bacon.
34. Is there anything under your bed?
A plastic storage box full of gift-wrapping stuff.
35. Chore you hate doing the most?
Dusting. Ironic, since I have a dust allergy. I'd rather clean toilets and litterboxes than dust.
36. What retro items are in your home?
I have a Dutch-looking tile that belonged to my grandmother. It has a quote from Shakespeare on it, which really isn't much like my grandmother as I remember her: "And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."
37. Do you have a separate room that you use as an office?
Nope.
38. If you have a yard, who mows it?
Used to be 75% me, 25% spouse. Now I guess it's all me.
39. Is there anything on your kitchen floor right now?
Cat food and water dishes. The Bobkitten is the only cat I've ever had that will eat dry cat food that's been spilled on the floor, so it's cleaner than it used to be.
40. How many mirrors are in your home?
Four.
41. Do you have any hidden emergency money around your home?
I wouldn't call it emergency money, but since we went down to one income, I've started saving every five-dollar bill that comes through my hands and putting it in a jar to be guilt-free splurge money.
42. What color are your walls?
Most of them are cream-colored, but the stairway walls are a very light tan, and the dining room walls are sponge-painted tan on lighter tan.
43. Which rooms in your house have wallpaper?
None. I hate wallpaper. When we moved in, the dining room was all countried up within an inch of its life -- it had three different patterns of blue flowers on the wallpaper, and two different blue florals on the curtains.
44. Do you have a peephole in your front door?
There's a strange off-center leaded-glass window.
45. Do you keep any kind of protection weapons in your home?
Nope. Just a cellphone.
46. What does your home smell like right now?
Homemade pesto. And, um, the carpet sort of smells of feet.
47. Favorite candle scent?
Anything citrusy.
48. What kind of pickles (if any) are in your refrigerator right now?
Dill pickle relish. There are probably some kosher dills in there. And sauerkraut ought to count, too.
49. Who are in the pictures you have displayed?
Upstairs there's a multi-frame with my parents, the spouse's parents, the kidlet as a baby, our first cat, some friends at our wedding.
Down here there's a giant hand-colored poster of the spouse's grandfather back when he was a boxer. The kidlet's friend says, "Your great-grandpa is freaking me out."
Also there's a painting of the kidlet at about age four, which my parents had made -- it's pretty but to me it doesn't look much like the kidlet -- and a collage they did when they were about nine of the Boykitten (who was a black cat) on a red background looking uncharacteristically mournful.
50. What color is your favorite religious book?
I changed that from "bible." I don't actually have a favorite Bible, though the kidlet loves theirs with the orange tiger lily on the cover. My favorite religious book is a Book of Common Prayer, which is red.
51. Do you have plenty of cabinet space in your kitchen?
Does anyone? I could fill twice this many cabinets easily.
52. Ever been on your roof?
I've been up to the roof, attempting to clean the gutters, one time when we first bought the house, but I got vertigo and decided it was worth $60 twice a year to pay someone else to do that.
53. Do you own a stereo?
I have an old one that has a turntable, plus a new one that's just a radio receiver and an iPod dock.
54. How many TVs do you have?
Just one.
55. How many house phones?
Two.
56. Do you have a housekeeper?
I wish.
57. What style do you decorate in?
A long time ago I read an interview with an interior designer who said, "If you love three objects, then those three objects will go together." I loved that; that's pretty much my principle of design.
But the house, in addition to being very cluttered, is visually confusing now because the items in it are about equally the kidlet's choice and mine. So I'm looking at the mantel from here, and it has a big scratchy painting of a cityscape in the rain and two small stuffed alpacas (mine) plus four candles, a pile of artificial flowers, and two birdhouses (kidlet's), plus a hand-felted wool basket (gift from my brother) and two cutesy little carousel horses (gift from my in-laws).
58. Do you like solid colors in furniture or prints?
I've never had the opportunity to buy multiple pieces of furniture at once, so a new item always has to go with all the old items that are already there. I think I'd probably prefer solids on large items and prints on small ones.
59. Is there a smoke detector in your home?
One on each floor.
60. In case of fire, what are the items you would grab if you only could make one quick trip?
Yeesh, this question fills me with anxiety -- if there's a fire, I'm getting my kid and my cat out of the house, and the hell with everything else in it.
61. Do you know how to work your electrical box?
It's just a circuit breaker; there's not much know-how required.
62. What temperature in your home is most comfortable to you?
I like it a little chilly, but I also like it cheap, so my thermostat's set to 77 in the summer and 61 in the winter.
edited 2020 to retroactively correct the kidlet's gender pronouns
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Date: 9/7/12 02:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/7/12 03:56 am (UTC)No. I make two cups fresh every morning to take to work in the summer, but if I have a pitcher around, I will drink it all day long, and I don't need the caffeine or the sugar.
I can't have caffeine anymore so I've started making iced chamomile tea. It's really good, though of course it doesn't help the sugar intake situation. Nor the drinking-all-day-long situation. I try not to drink the whole pitcher in one day. :P
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Date: 9/7/12 04:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/8/12 06:04 am (UTC)