Just A Tag Before I Go
by Jenners • 04/05/2012 • Tag Chicken With Trisha • 39 Comments
I’m getting ready to depart for a little trip for spring break. However, I am unable to leave without ensuring that Trisha at eclectic/eccentric (who is playing a game of tag chicken with me) knows that I will not cry uncle and I will answer her latest questions and give her 11 more. SO HA, Trisha! The ball is back in your court!
The 11 Questions that Will Make Jenners Cry Uncle (<—-you wish, Trisha!)
- If you had to devise your own system of torture, what would it be? It would have to involve some sort of babysitting for a group of 7-year-old boys who are unable to decide on what game they want to play and who each feels the other ones are being terribly unfair to them. (Not that I speak from experience or anything.)
- Panty Hose: Damn my legs look awesome or Damn that’s uncomfortable? Damn, anything that masks the uneven tone of my legs and makes them look slightly more awesome is good for me but damn, they sure are uncomfortable.
- Is it better to tell your child there is no monster in the closet or that the monster is a friendly one (or you know, the third option: that it really is there and it really does want to eat you?)? Always always always that there is no monster in the closet (after a thorough inspection and liberal application of MonsterBGone) if you want a chance of getting peace at night. (Never ever go with option 3. That is terribly unwise and downright mean.)
- Are jeggings acceptable in public? Only if you look like the photo below (and I doubt you do. Nothing against “you” personally. Almost no one looks like this.)
If this is what you look like in jeggings, you may wear them in public. (And, by the way, I hate you.)
- What is the most destructive thing you have ever done to a book? I treat books with the love and respect they deserve. That being said, I have dropped crumbs and gotten chocolate on pages and dog-eared more than my fair share.
- What are your thoughts on cliffhanger endings? I’ve given this a lot of thought, and I think…
- Paranoid People: Crazy or Smarter than the rest of us? Smarter than the rest of us. (Except for Mr. Jenners, whose paranoia is just annoying.)
- What would be the most awesome thing about living in the Old West? The boots … and prostitution being a viable career option.
- What’s more annoying: people who apologize all the time or people who never apologize? People who apologize all the time. I hate that. Sorry if I offended you with that opinion.
- What’s the best book for a new mother to read (is asking for real advice cheating?)? I actually wrote a post about this. I’d definitely recommend Anne Lamott’s Operating Instructions, Andrea Buchanan’s Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It, and The Baby Book by Dr. William Sears. Since it seems you are trolling for advice, my best advice is listen to your instincts and ignore what everyone else is telling you to do.
- How long do you think we can keep this up? I could keep this up for 5 or more years. (Even if I ceased all other blog postings, I still do this out of stubbornness.) In fact, I’ve introduced a new category called “Tag Chicken with Trisha” just for these posts.)
11 Questions Designed to Blow Trisha’s Mind and Make HER Cry Uncle
- How do you know my uncle and why are you crying out his name?
- Would you rather have chocolate fingernails or the ability to achieve orgasm whenever you sneeze?
- Would you rather have the flexibility of a gymnast or the stamina of a marathoner?
- Would you rather attempt to swim in lime Jello or liquid cheese?
- If you won a 5-minute buying spree at a bookstore, what section would you head to first?
- Don’t you think the Oscars should go back to only have 5 best picture nominees?
- Can you distinguish between your baby’s different cries or is that just a myth of motherhood like I think it is?
- For what music group/artist would you be willing to camp out all night to get tickets for their concert? (That was a difficult sentence to write using correct grammar and I think I failed.)
- Do you think it is unfair that Angelina Jolie gets her ENTIRE name in “Brangelina”?
- If you wrote a memoir, what would the title be?
- Are you really OK with devoting 1/10th of your blog posts to this game of tag chicken?
Tag … you’re it AGAIN, Trisha! (Unless you want to do the right thing and quit.)
Note to anyone else reading this: I’ll be visiting blogs sporadically (and possibly not at all during our mini-vacation) but I’ll catch up with you when we return. I have prescheduled some posts for you though.
Here I am commenting ten days later! You’re right – it’s nigh impossible to catch up. Hope you’re feeling better by now.
Believe it or not, this stupid cold is still lingering!!! ACK. I am at least able to remain upright and conscious for most of the day, so that is a vast improvement.
So chocolate fingers or organism?
This is hysterical. I love the banter.
Too funny! Hope you have a wonderful mini-vaca!!!
Love to All!!
I’m loving your game of chicken. Can’t wait to see how long it continues.
Your idea of torture is spot on! The only thing that could make it more torturous is when one of them eats too much brithday cake/easter candy/halloween treats and pukes on your carpet.
Wait…I missed something with the Oscars. Since when are there more than 5 nominees??
Just the last few years. There can now be up to 10 film nominated for Best Picture!
I once burned a book, but admittedly it was for a specific photo I needed to take, and it was a book that was ripped, chewed, and generally unreadable…
I love this game.
I once ran over a library book with my car. It was a hardcover, and it survived with only a few tire marks on the cover, which came off pretty easily with an eraser. I think I’ve passed the statute of limitations regarding crimes against library books, so I’m not afraid to say this in public (especially since I now work for said library system).
Love this meme, I may have to tag someone myself just so someone will ask me fun questions as well.
Oh, your brilliant wit always makes me smile! Thanks for this. (What the heck are jeggings? Are they like skinny jeans?)
Jeggings are a combination of leggings and jeans so yeah … skinny jeans but even tighter (if you can imagine). The fabric looks like denim but it soft and stretchy (and unforgiving).
You crack me up Jenners
Enjoy your mini break.
lol about the jeggings and about living in the Old West
I’ve seen way too many out and about in jeggings. I bet you’ll see a lot less on people while on spring break vacay though
And I hate them all.
Your answers were hilarious! The cliff hanger just left me….
hehe. And really don’t apologize for apologizing, that is just too much. Sorry I said that
DO I sense a sexual overtone/undercurrent to some of these questions!? Goodness, my sensibilities are affronted. but very funny.
You are so dang funny! I hope you have a long and ongoing battle with Trisha!
These posts are the highlight of my week, and I love them! I can’t wait to see what Trisha comes up with next, and particularly, how she answers the orgasm/fingernails question. Have a great trip this week, and start thinking up your next questions, because I think this is going to go on for some time!
Have a great vacation! Great parting post!
Personally, I feel like the model in those pictures is suffering from a serious case of pancake butt! :O)
Prostitution as a viable career option is one of my Pro-Old-West points as well.
And I got this.
Oh goodie. I anxiously await your responses to some of my more out there questions!
You guys are awesome
I’m just glad that I’m not the one who has to answer those questions or even more so, that I’m not the one who has to come up with questions to ask!
Just a tag before I go…too funny…
…enjoy your break!
I’m not sure even the allure of prostituion $$$ could convince me to give it up more than I absolutely have to, and by more than I absolutely have to, I mean anymore. lol Your cliffhanger answer cracked me up!
I’m another who hopes you keep this up indefinitely – it’s quite entertaining for all the rest of us!
Now remember, my daughter can tell you everything you want to know about being a prostitute in the Old West. Should I could go ahead and start calling you “Velvet Ass Rose”?
It is odd how we keep circling back to this topic! Perhaps it is my destiny to become Velvet Ass Rose.
Love the way this is escalating. And the questions keep getting better–the title of your memoir…that’s a great one! Mine would be Preface to Photo Albums Three and Four, in case you were wondering.
Lol. Thanks for the laughs this morning. I love the questions you left for Trisha. Have a great mini vacation! I need one – we got a spring blizzard and it’s awful. Oh, I once dropped a book in the tub. Yup, I did.
I think you need to create a new blog and keep going with these tags forever – I love them!
I love your cliffhanger ending and your torture method! Do you really think 7-year-old boys are the ultimate method of torture (she says worryingly looking at her 6-year-old boy and hoping things might improve)
In my opinion jeggings are not okay in public for anyone ever!
I actually read an article about a woman who kept having spontaneous orgasms and she claimed it was no fun whatsoever so I think I’ll stick with the chocolate fingernails. As for lime jelly (my favourite) or liquid cheese? Give me jelly everytime as at least I could eat my way out even if swimming was beyond me.
You make me laugh.
Enjoy your mini-break!
How in the world did you get that picture of me? You crack me up. It’s spring break around here so kids have been out in force and agree torture would have to include them somehow.
Quite creative questions you guys come up with! (ugh, hated ending that with a preposition) but your new 2nd question – ick! LOL
I’m loving it as well…so funny!!
Have a wonderful mini break. Thanks for the a.m. laughs.
Glad to see you have your priorities in line here, and gave Trisha things to think about while you are gone. As a reader, I hope it does go on forever because I’m enjoying it! Have a great mini-vacation. If you are even close to where I am mentally, you need it bad.
“I’ve given this a lot of thought, and I think…”
lol..lol