Russ's Blogs

1. Do you sleep with your closet doors open or closed?
Open, but it always stays open - Jazz hides in there when there is thunder.

2. Do you take the shampoos and conditioner bottles from hotel?
What on earth would I do with it?

3. Have you ever 'done it' in a hotel room?
Not as often as I would have liked.

4. Have you ever stolen a street sign before?

Lots of them, but I quit when I turned 18 and would be tried in an adult court

5. Do you like to use post-it notes?
They have no place in my life. 

6. Do you cut out coupons but then never use them?
It happens, but I always cut them out with the sincerest intent.

7. Would you rather be attacked by a big bear or a swarm of  bees?
I'm thinking that I stand a better chance against the bees.

9. Do you always smile for pictures?
If I know it's being taken.

10. What is your biggest pet peeve?
I think I've gotten past all of them.  Except people that are intentionaly rude.  I just don't understand the need for that.

11. Do you sleep with your sheets tucked in or out?
I'm lucky to even have sheets on the bed. (out)

12. Do you ever count your steps when you walk?
actually this happens from time to time when I'm trying to make sense of the world around me.  It never works and I usually get bored enough to stop before I get to my destination.

13. Have you ever peed in the woods?
Yup, but this just reminds me that I haven't been camping enough recently, but it did inspire me to go take a leak in the backyard just now.

14. Do you ever dance even if there's no music playing?
Yes, but only if no one is watching.

15. Do you chew your pens and pencils?
I'll chew the hell out of a pen cap, but I spent too many days in school with ink all over my face to EVER chew on another pen.

16. How many people have you slept with this week?
My game is a little off this week, but man oh man, you should have seen me last week!

17. Do you like popcorn from those big tins?
I get excited about the caramel stuff, but then it tastes like shit.  I guess the answer is no.

18. What is your "Song of the week"?
Round and Round by Flo Rida and Lady Gaga.

19. Is it okay for guys to wear pink?
I bought a pink shirt  once.  Never had the balls to wear it.

20. Do you still watch cartoons?
Does South Park count?  That show still amazes me with it's genius.

21. Whats your favorite scary movie?
The Strangers was pretty good.  I locked my front door for the first time since I moved here.

22. Where would you bury hidden treasure if you had some?
The same place I hide all of my valuables.  Under the big red 'X' in my backyard.

23. What do you drink with dinner?
Depends on the meal.

24. What do you dip a chicken nugget in?
Honey would be my first choice, but no one offers that anymore.  BBQ, ranch, wing sauce in no particular order.

25. What is your favorite food/ cuisine?
Pasta - or mexican.

26. What movies could you watch over and over and still love?
I've seen far too many movies to ever pick just one.  Give me a genre or a year and I'll tell you my favorite.

27. Last person you kissed/kissed you?
I really really try not to kiss and tell - unless she is super hot.

28. Were you ever a boy/girl scout?
I was a boy scout and I ate my first brownie about the same time.

29. Would you ever strip or pose nude in a magazine?
no, but i'm pretty sure there will be no offers in the foreseeable future.

30. When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone on paper?
I had to type one out last week, does that count?  I went to the doctor for the first time in (literally) 6 years and they ripped me off!

31. Can you change the oil on a car?

I can change the oil in a car.  I could change it at a bar.

32. Ever gotten a speeding ticket?
It's been 15 years

33. Ran out of gas?
That's been about 10 years.

34. Favorite kind of sandwich?
Firehouse is pretty good, but all of my favorite sandwiches are back in AZ.

35. Best thing to eat for breakfast?
leftover pizza. or anything from an omelette station

36. What is your usual bedtime?
anytime between 11 and 5.

37. Are you lazy?
I'll do what needs to be done, but I'd rather relax a little.

38. When you were a kid, what did you dress up as for halloween?

I made my own costume when I was in 3rd grade.  I was a jack O lantern - I painted the back upsidedown by accident.

40. How many languages can you speak?
1.6 - I can get by in Spanish

41. Do you have any magazine subscriptions?
about 6 left.  I trimmed the list substantially this year.

42..Which are better, legos or lincoln logs?
Legos.  but not the space ones.

43. Are you stubborn?
I used to be.  These days I jsut hide it better.

44. Who is better...Leno or Letterman?
They are both funny, but I have a personal beef with Mr. Leno.

45. Ever watch soap operas?
Just Destinos.  They made me watch it in Spanish class and I got hooked.

46. Afraid of heights?
The older I get the more neverous they make me.

47. Sing in the car?
Alcohol and solitude both cause this.

48. Dance in the shower?
nope.

49. Dance in the car?
it happens.

50. Ever used a gun?
a few times, but not in 10 years.  Paintball all the time though.

51. Last time you got a portrait taken by a photographer?
Last summer - it was probably the first time since my high school graduation.

52. Do you think musicals are cheesy?
There have been a few good ones.  I actually enjoyed Chicago and I can sit through Grease if it means I'm gonna get laid.

53. Is christmas stressful?
not even a little.

54. Ever eat a pierogie?
I was married to a Jewish woman from NJ - what do you think?

55. Favorite type of fruit pie?
blueberry creamcheese

56. Occupations you wanted to be when you were a kid?
I wanted to drive an 18 wheeler and drive all over the country building forts for kids.  By 4th grade I had wised up and decided I wanted to be a photographer for Playboy.  My teacher found out about my aspirations and threatened me.

57. Do you believe in ghosts?
I'm not sure if you'd call them ghosts, but something.

58. Ever have a Deja-vu feeling?
Didn't I already answer this question?

59. Take a vitamin daily?
nope.

60. Wear slippers?
Once in a while.  My feet started getting cold once I hit 30.

61. Wear a bath robe?
Only when I'm using the hottub and it's below freezing outside.

62. What do you wear to bed?
come find out.

63. First concert?
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band.  The first one that I was allowed to go to without my parents was when Guns 'n Roses opened for Aerosmith.  Fucking amazing.

64. Wal-Mart, Target or K-Mart?
Target lets me feel like I'm not totaly slumming.

65. Nike or Adidas?Dr. Schoal's

66. Cheetos or Fritos?
Crunchy cheetos or Chili and Cheese fritos.  all others suck.

67. Peanuts or Sunflower seeds?
Neither do much for me.

68. Ever hear of, "gorp"?
That's wierd.  I'd never heard of it until last month.  My stepmom had a bag of it.  As far as I can tell it's just Cheerio's with nuts, m&m's and raisins? 

69. Ever take dance lessons?
I was on the clogging team in  6th grade when I lived in GA.

70. Can you curl your tongue?
in three different directions!