theneis

Question by the lovely and talented and adorable as a precious monkey kingzgurl

Questions for your meme. Some of these are completely random and have nothing to do with anything.
1. When you were younger, what was the most UNUSUAL thing you wanted to be when you "grew up"?
2. What is the longest game of Monopoly you've ever played?
3. How many languages can you speak competently?
4. On average, how many cups of water do you drink a day?
5. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?

My answers:

1) When I was younger I (in all absolute seriousness) wanted to be a Jedi and/or to go live with the Autobots and have Optimus Prime adopt me.  That was my goal.  Sadly (or not) I'm pretty sure that's still what I want. 

2) The longest game of Monopoly I played (Star Wars Monopoly, surprise, surprise) was one I played with my brother and it lasted about 5 hours.  Towards the end I was begging him to take all my property and win because I was so bored, but he was relentless that he wanted to win "for real".  I started cheating just so that I could lose and be set free from the shackles of Monopoly oppression.

3) Competently, just the two: English and Spanish.  I have a sorta half-assed understanding of Italian and am teaching myself Mandarin (using a CD course I got on e-bay called "Teach Yourself Mandarin").  

4) I drink a ridiculous amount of water in a day, usually tap water.  Oh yes, people, TAP water.  It has to be crazy cold water though.  I'd say I drink anywhere between 8-12 glasses a day.

5) "If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?"   Hmmm.  Well, if I suddenly develop the ability to live in fictional places, I would live wherever Optimus Prime happened to be because I love him and I'd love to hang out with him.  I'd also live on Serenity, because that's where I'd probably be happiest, and my husband lives there.  If that doesn't happen, I'd probably want to live in Ireland.  It's beautiful, I love the culture and it's so incredibly GREEN.  Or, most likely, I'd stay in Miami, just 'cause it's home.

     My friend Paula did some overtime today.  I hardly ever get to see her so it was nice to have her there and as an added bonus, she sat next to me for 8 hours!  It was a good day.  

     It was fairly busy so we didn't have a lot of time to talk, but she managed to tell me about going to lunch earlier at this little diner down the road that was pretty good.  Who did she go with?  She went with our friend and...crazy hit & run lady.  I looked at her like she was crazy, I'm sure, and asked, "You didn't let her DRIVE did you?"     "No girl, he (our friend) drove.  He said he wasn't going to get in a car with her ever again."     "Wise choice," I said, "Do you know if she ever told that guy anything about the car?"    She rolls her eyes  "Girl, she got that done the other afternoon.  It cost her $90 at some place there and you can still kinda see the dents and the scratches."     

So, no, not only did she NOT tell the truth, but she had work done on her car so she could lie about it.  *groans* 

I LOVE Dean.
 

Christ, it feels like I've lived three days in one.  This feels like one of the longest days ever.  The migraine I've been fighting is in full force, not helped by the incredibly angsty and sad movie I just watched and other stuff I've been dealing with and now I'm just an emotional wreck.  I really need to stop crying before the stress nosebleeding starts.  I wish I could go to sleep.  *deep breath*  Stupid movie.  Very sad, very Romeo and Juliet, very tragic.  I knew it would be a sad one but I didn't know it would affect me this bad (it probably wouldn't if I hadn't already been emotionally vulnerable to begin with today), which is why even though I got it in January from NETFLIX, it's been sitting on my nightstand since then.

That's the movie below and some plot synopses from IMDB.com.  It's great, but if you're sentimental and weepy (*points to self*) you may be doing some crying somewhere along the way.

After more than four hundred years of war between the Shinobi warriors of the Manjidani Koga and Tsubagakure Iga clans, the Lord Hattori Hanzou decrees that they must live in peace. Both clans live hidden in the woods and mountain without confrontation and without training ninjas in the shadow art of Shinobi. In 1614, the Lord of the Lords is convinced that the clans are dangerous threats for keeping peace in his lands, and his advisor plots a Machiavellian plan to destroy their best warriors in a contest. Meanwhile, the young Iga Oboro and Koga Gennesuke fall in love for each other. When Oboro's grandmother and leader of Iga clan Ogen and Gennesuke's father and leader of the Koga clan Danjo kill each other, Oboro and Gannesuke must lead their warriors in the ultimate battle of the Shinobi clans. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Shinobi centers on the drama resulting from the war between two ninja clans in the early part of the Tokugawa era. In the film, Nakama Yukie portrays Oboro, the granddaughter of Ogen (Lily), the respected Iga clan matriarch, while Odagiri Jo plays Gennosuke, the son of Danjo Koga (Minoru Terada), the powerful Koga clan leader. While living deep within the mountains, the two ninja clans have honed their skills to superhuman levels. Unfortunately, the clans do not get along and are forbidden by imperial decree from sharing their techniques with each other. Viewing the two ninja clans as a threat to his scheme for total domination, the nefarious Nankobo Tenkai (Ishibashi Renji) plots to intensify the rivalry between the two clans. Nakobo creates a contest in which the clans are forced to choose five of their best warriors to participate. The battle, however, isn't just a friendly contest - it's a duel to the death! Written by ninja 

I'll be okay.  But sometimes I really wish I had a button or a switch I could turn off so I wouldn't get so fucking emotionally vested in every little thing I do.  It's very exhausting sometimes.