1. At work this week, we ended up talking EXTENSIVELY about skin care in the cold. Some folks took vastly different steps to ensure proper skin care in the winter months in Wisconsin, while others simply did the same things. Do you do anything different? 2. I had a dream about winning the lottery. Two questions, do you think dreams have meaning? If you one the lottery, and had to buy one building in Wausau, what building would it be? You can only buy one building. You can see my blog entry about lottery winning in my other blog here. 3. Do you keep a blog here on Citizen Wausau? Do you have a blog elsewhere? 4. With all the talk about money, loss of jobs, and all of that, do you feel that you have less money or your money has less power these days? Are you concerned for your future? 5. In honor of Jim Rosenberg (this is a little old school), would you rather be stuck out in the sea in a row boat or a small sailing skiff? 6. For Christmas this year I was given a fishing pole. My first one. I realized I do not really have any hobbies. Do you have any hobbies? My friend Pat Peckham turns wood and makes gorgeous pens. What do you do? 7. Do you think monkeys are really stronger than people? I mean, have you ever seen a fistfight between a monkey and a person? Or have you ever seen a monkey in the gym? How can we really know? 8. This past weekend I lept from the wagon and drank a significant amount of wine with an old friend. It was shockingly cleansing to be drunk. At one point I lost my hearing, and that seems bad. But, do you think that from time to time, we as people need to do something just to shake the weight off of our souls or our shoulders? How do you do that? And for the record, I liked both Shiraz and Chardonnay.
swearingen
11:54 am on February 28th
1. Two words: coconut oil.
2. For me, dreams have great meaning and provide good insight.
3. I have a blog elsewhere.
4. Less money, which is worth less and not really…at least there is plenty of company.
5. Sailing skiff makes more sense, but I’m going with row boat…this I know how to operate.
6. Hobbies…I don’t think of things I like to do as necessarily being “hobbies”.
7. Monkey fights! “Deep in the Heart” got me hooked on them! Get them a little liquored up on tequila, put some gloves on them, tie their tails together and watch ‘em go. No better entertainment for my ever-shrinking dollar. Hear about the chimp who recently tore a woman’s face off? Ask her if a monkey is strong. Or ask my friend Jerry who left his spider monkey unattended all weekend (friend was supposed to come and let him out of his cage, feed him, etc., but forgot…oops) Rico got out of his cage and created mayhem all weekend. May not have been strong, but he was creative in his swath of destruction…overturned and uprooted every plant in the kitchen sink, turned on the water which overflowed onto the floor, opened every bottle of shampoo, lotion, conditioner, powder, you name it, and poured out and shook liberally throughout the house, then took a dump in the phone receiver. When Jerry came home, Rico was peeking out the kitchen curtains, then hightailed it when he saw Jerry coming down the walk. Jerry found him an hour later, cowering inside a showbox in the closet. “What’d you do, Jerry?” “I spanked my monkey!”
8. Yes, we should shake the weight off frequently, but there are probably healthier ways to do so than through alcohol, especially if one is “on the wagon” (no preach intended). Music, exercise, meditate, eat some good food, burn some sage or sweet grass, call a good friend, sing Kumbaya, hell…go to a monkey fight!
Timothy Pickett
12:27 pm on February 28th
1. Skin care to me is soap and water.
2. IMO, dreams have absolutely no meaning whatsoever. The building I’d like to have would be The Fillmor. I could make that puppy sing in a very short time… and that is not just a pipe dream.
3. No, really don’t have the time and I’m not all that interesting.
4. Status quo for me there buddy. I’m not worried. I work hard for the money I get, the few things I need to purchase aren’t that expensive, and I think we FINALLY have a President that cares about more than the rich getting richer. My future is what I make of it, not what someone else does to influence it.
5. Not a boater. I was on a ship for a couple of months when I was in the military, that was enough for me.
6. Write. Read(a lot). Cook. Play online poker. Wow, now that I see it in front of me, I need some different hobbies! All of them really involve no human contact.
7. Frankly Charlotte, I don’t give a damn.
8. There is nothing wrong with self medication, until you rely on it to soothe those tired nerves. I still go out every once in a while and have a few beers after work to unwind, but going to a bar as a destination just doesn’t have the same attaction it once had. Chardonnay and Shiraz … I’d wager to say that you’d really like a good Leibfraumilch (sic)… may I suggest a Zeller Schwartz Katz?
deepintheheart
9:57 am on March 1st
1) I use the same SPF face lotion all year round. It isn’t so much the cold as the wind in the spring and fall. The sun will always get me.
2)I think dreams reveal what we fear, what we miss, what we desire, and what we do not understand. Last night I dreamt that my business partners daughter went into the local PD and alleged that I stole her Blackberry. She is 9 years old and already an accomplished sneak thief. I was then told by a passerby that I ought “get in there” to figure this out. When I was questioned by a one-eyed female police officer, I indicated that she made me dizzy because she only had one eye. The daughter’s explanation was that she did not want me and her father to “look like idiots.” So, she felt I needed to be locked up. I pointed out to her that even if we are idiots, that is not grounds for false accusations. I ended up driving her home and quizzing her on multiplication tables. She struggled with 9 X 7.
I would not want to buy any building in Wausau. Too bleak of a prospect for me.
3)Nope.
4) I have more money these days than ever before. It is not as valued in terms of purchasing power and really has very little to do with day to day things. It is really no more to me than a few numbers that grow and shrink at regular intervals. It can not massage my neck or wash my car, but it can hire someone to do those things. What was it Johnny Rotten screamed about The Future. . .?
5) Sailing skiff. I am too lazy to row my sunburned carcass anywhere.
6) I have turned a pen or two in my days, but it just seems a bit redundant–making a bigger piece of wood into a smaller piece of wood (that hides a pen inside). Bethlehem Olive Wood looks very nice. My favorite hobby is golfing. In fact, I have adjusted my entire lifestyle around being free to indulge in this fine madness. I am also passionate about cooking–cookbooks, cooking equipment, markets, the names and locations of markets, famers markets, butchers, ranchers, restaraunt supply companies, used restaraunt equipment, grills, smokers, livestock auctions, and purveyors of hickory, pecan and mesquite wood. I can quote the price of ribs and ribeyes at five given locations most days of the week. I also collect refrigerator magnets.
7) Not only are monkeys stronger than people pound for pound, they are crafty and dangerous when given alcohol and firearms. Get to a good monkey fight early, as things can turn very ugly very quickly. Ever look into the eyes of a lemur and wonder what it was thinking? Nothing good, that is for certain.
8) Gotta rattle your own cage every now and again. I think a good fist fight among friends is a good cleanser. A purple ear after a stout ear punch is a great reminder of our human frailty. It also doesn’t hurt to take a good long look at oneself naked in a mirror to be humbled. Don’t go Bob Geldoff on yourself, but reflect on your temple and the state of disrepair. Then start a building fund or organize a dunktank. If this is all too much, have a cocktail or ten.
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