I had an idea.
A sort of getting-to-know-you idea.
And then I thought it might make a really awesome Christmas present.
And then I thought maybe I would take it out for a test run.
And because I'm actually LOSING SLEEP over this, I decided I'd just go ahead and blog about it and see if you will play with me. (thanks for indulging me. =D)
Here's my quiz and my answers …..
The Best and the Worst:
10 questions that will help you get to know me better.
1. The age in life you’ve most enjoyed so far: 15 – I was adorable once….
2. The age in life you’ve hated most: 32 – I had just gotten divorced and found myself alone, a single parent with 2 small children and I had no money, no life and no future. =(
3. The best day of the week: Friday – our school and work week is over and the weekend is full of possibilities.
4. The worst day of the week: Wednesday – because I feel like "gosh this week is going by so fast!"
5. Your finest cooking accomplishment: Homemade Pastelitos de Guayaba.
6. Your worst cooking disaster: I tried to make fried chicken once when I was about 19 and it looked really pretty. Who knew chicken took so long to actually COOK??? (can you say,"disaster?") LOL
7. The color that looks best on you: RED.
8. The color that looks worst on you: Yellow – does it look good on anyone??
9. Your favorite movie of all time: The Princess Bride. "Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles…
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10. The worst movie ever made: Legends of the Fall. (Brad Pitt and his butt made for a boring sub-plot to an already tedious film.)
The Project:
I have a dozen other quizzes. I'm giving one to each person in the family and waiting for their answers and compiling them into a book with a section for each person along with photos. I'm doing this for my immediate family – for the 6 of us. But then I thought it might be a cool idea for the rest of my big, fat, Cuban family. So I will be shooting quizzes around this week to the rest of them. The final project being a cool looking 12X12 scrap-photo book from shutterfly.com like the Celebrate Summer 2008 one I made that's up there on the left.
And this morning, the project was on my mind and I wondered if I just put it up on my blog, (no, nobody gets tagged. Just do it if you'd like to play along. Leave your answers in the comment section.) would you indulge me and play along? Thanks!
Inquiring minds want to know…. so… tell me about yourself….
What a fantastic idea! If I had the resources I would totally do that for my family hahaha.1. Best age- um… considering I’m only 15 and I don’t remember the first quarter of my life I’m gonna have to go with…age 15. yay :] Hmm maybe 11, cuz Peter Pan was realy fun.. actually… no, no. 15 :]
2. Worst age- 9. Horrible year. We moved, I left my old friends, we didn’t have a kitchen, mom was sick, on my new street there was no one to play with but smelly boys (I just spent all my time reading instead). Nonetheless I was very unhappy.
3. Best day- Sunday or Thursday. Sunday cuz of church, Thursday cuz of drama. I loooove church and drama hahaha.
4. Worst day- Friday. Friday mornings to be specific. I’m always all stressed out about getting my work turned in on time.
5. Best cooking- my Parmesean Artichoke Dip or these cookie bars (yes, cookie bars) that are extremely yummy but I haven’t made in forever.
6. Worst cooking- I burned cookies. Like, to a crisp. Nobody wanted to eat them. Yuckyyy.
7. Best color- yeesh I dunno…maybe blue, brown?
8. Worst color- yellowwww haha
9. Best movie- I think Hitch. Or Signs. Hitch has a lot of funny stuff in it but Signs has a great message. Pirates of the Carribean was good too. As was Legally Blonde. I also liked the Chronicles of Narnia…
10. Worst movie- CLOVERFIELD. That was some way to waste 2 and half hours of my life! No plot, terrible filming, blood, cussing, crying, dying. Ugh it was just so terrible. And you don’t even find out anything at the end of the movie! >_> hpmh.
Well, that was fun =D Thanks Mrs. Darby!
1. The age in life you’ve most enjoyed so far: I think it was my teen years. Life was about me!!!2. The age in life you’ve hated most: So far it’s been when I turned 40. Only because I realized at that moment that my oldest was 18 and an adult and I felt old.
3. The best day of the week: Thursday’s. I was born on a Thursday and I’ve always enjoyed the feeling of it being Thursday and saying, Ahh…tomorrow if Friday.
4. The worst day of the week: When I was younger, I hated Sundays after 5:00pm. Especially the twilight time of day. I would get an eerie feeling as I walked by the living room window and saw that it was neither day nor night. I certainly didn’t look forward to Mondays. But today, I’m happy to say, I don’t think I have a worst day of the week. Thanks to my TIVO!!! Yay!!!!
5. Your finest cooking accomplishment: My lasagna, according to my husband. Or my Garlic Chicken, according to all my friends.
6. Your worst cooking disaster: I once bought the wrong sauce for my lasagna. The labels looked the same, but the smell and the taste was awful.
7. The color that looks best on you: Corals or peaches. And believe it or not, yellow, but as a mustard. I think it’s because of my blond hair.
8. The color that looks worst on you: I don’t know. I don’t mean to sound conceited, it’s just that I stick to what I’ve been told looks good.
9. Your favorite movie of all time: Fiddler on the Roof.
10. The worst movie ever made: For me it’s any horror movie. I hate with a passion to be scared to death while watching someone get killed for fun. Like in the Friday the 13th and the Halloween movies.
This was lot’s of fun!!!! Thanks for thinking of this. I remember when I was a teen and we would make these folders with blank pages in them that had a different question on the top of each page and then numbers going down the pages. A friend would choose the same number in each page and answer the questions from the top of the page. You would get to know alot about your friends this way. That’s what these quizzes remind me of. Now, it’s all electronically done on e-mails. Oh how times have changed. 😉
Well…I love to talk about ME…so here goes!#1-17! I had settled into my 3rd High School and was voted Homecoming Queen!
#2-I would say 40. Not because of the big 4 0, but because it was the year I was diagnosed with M.S. and my Mom died all in the same 2 week period.
#3-Thursday because it is my “Friday” and we usually get to have our granddaughter over night!
#4-Monday-for the same reason other people don’t like Mondays! Beginning of the work week (however Sunday is the beginning of our week, but it seems wrong to say Sunday) 🙂
#5-Mastering Marta’s Arroz Con Pollo (go ahead, link to it)
#6-Turkey, It was my first turkey. I was about 30 (we use to always go to my mom’s for Thanksgiving, etc.) It just would not cook. Finally gave up and it was pink close to the bone…Did I say pink? I mean bloody!
#7-Blue (I’d make it blue, but the comment thing doesn’t let me)
#8-I would say beige (Yellow looks pretty smokin’ on me!)
#9-Fellowship of the Ring-because we waited so long for the movie to be made from the book! (I can’t believe you didn’t say LOTR)
#10-It would have to be Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. We compare every movie to that one. We turned it off before watching it, so maybe it got great! I notice it got 3 Oscar nominations. I just remember it being BAD!
So there you have it! And BTW…great picture! Kisses! and MORE!
1. The age in life you’ve most enjoyed so far: 20 – It was the first time I went to Miami. Or maybe when I was 6 and I was the most popular girl in school.2. The age in life you’ve hated most: hmmm, either 7, when I changed schools and wasn’t popular anymore, or 22, my year of the sapo.
3. The best day of the week: Thursday. It’s the day of the week I was born and there is the promise of the coming weekend.
4. The worst day of the week: Sunday? Because Monday is looming in the background . . . I don’t think there’s really a WORST day.
5. Your finest cooking accomplishment: Arroz con Pollo
6. Your worst cooking disaster: I was boiling an artichoke and then went to take a shower, completely forgetting about it. All the water boiled off and I had destroyed the pot.
7. The color that looks best on you: Red or black or blue or . . . what DOESN’T look good on me? Wait, that’s the next question. 😉
8. The color that looks worst on you: Tan or pale peach . . . I disappear completely.
9. Your favorite movie of all time: I’m with Mami on this one: The Princess Bride. “Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles… ”
10. The worst movie ever made: Malooned. See? It’s so bad you haven’t even heard of it!
1. The age in life you’ve most enjoyed so far: 15 for sure, I was young, thin and had just been kissed for the first time by my first boyfriend, Balulu (no kidding), my handsome Cuban boyfriend. (Swoon….thud)2. The age in life you’ve hated most:44, all I can say is los hijos a veces matan and I have good ones.
3. The best day of the week: Friday, I get a date with sweet husband of 20 years. Mi gordito sabronson.
4. The worst day of the week: Usually Monday because the family has to jump back into the rat race.
5. Your finest cooking accomplishment: Probably my pork shoulder (paleta). I close my eyes and I’m back in MIami waiting for my yucca with mojito to go with it.
6. Your worst cooking disaster: Chicken cordon bleau. They were like hockey pucks.
7. The color that looks best on you: Red, black and purple.
8. The color that looks worst on you: I’m with Marta on this one, yellow. I look jaundiced.
9. Your favorite movie of all time: Persuasion with Amanda Root. A fairly tale for big girls. Now if Captain Wentworth had been Cuban … well, that probably would have so perfect it would have hurt.
10. The worst movie ever made: Hmmm. Probably W. No matter what your political opinions are, it’s disrespectful to the office of President. Glad it tanked.
1. The age in life you’ve most enjoyed so far: 20—I didn’t know about responsibilities. I was living in Puerto Rico loving EVERY minute of it.2. The age in life you’ve hated most: 33- My father died and everything I knew to be good felt like it went with him. I had my daughter prematurely 2 weeks after he died and I couldn’t enjoy her at all. I fully regret that I don’t remember my daughter as an infant.
3. The best day of the week: I’m stealing Martha’s—as a school teacher, Friday can’t be beat.
4. The worst day of the week: Monday…it starts all over again.
5. Your finest cooking accomplishment: Homemade Carrot Cake…it was so good! oh, and my Salmon recipe, it’s how I got my hubby.
6. Your worst cooking disaster: Some “low point” weight watchers lasagna. (should have known)I was told to never make it again.
7. The color that looks best on you: Fuschia, even though I don’t particularly like the color.
8. The color that looks worst on you: Orange.
9. Your favorite movie of all time: Waiting for Guffman. I absolutely love this movie.
10. The worst movie ever made: Have you seen “You, me and Dupree”? It was not worth the 5 minutes I put into it. Thank goodness I didn’t go to the theatre to see it.
The Best and the Worst:10 questions that will help you get to know me better.
1. The age in life you’ve most enjoyed so far: 24, thats when i met hubby on match.com yes match.com and we started our life together engaged after 3 months and married 7 months after we met :>
2. The age in life you’ve hated most: wow tough one, i would say that i dont know i cant remember hating an age i’ve had, i’ll let u know in a couple more years lol
3. The best day of the week: Friday!! Because its the end of the work week and my madrina would always pick us up from school take us to mcdonalds and i would sleep over my cousins house and party all weekend :> Now its more like i make plans for the weekend for the family its fun to look forward to doing stuff..
4. The worst day of the week: Monday….i am soo lazy on mondays, i vow not to do housework on the weekends to give myself a break then on mondays i’m like , back to reality lol
5. Your finest cooking accomplishment: arroz con pollo my moms favorito
. Your worst cooking disaster: ok i was living in hialeah with my husband and was wanting to make something in the oven so i turned it on to start making it hot then i smelled this weird smell and the alarm went on, i panicked and when i opened the oven saw that we had left some pepsi litters in there and they melted, and a box of pizza that burned, well my hubbys famiy lived next door y se formo tremendo arroz con mango, so yes that was my worst kitchen experience :>
7. The color that looks best on you: brown
8. The color that looks worst on you: lime green
9. Your favorite movie of all time: pretty woman :>
10. The worst movie ever made: these cheesy movies like napolian dynamite man i dont get it i have a good sense of humor but i dont get these movies teeneagers like now a days ok i sound like a grandmother now :>
1. The age in life you’ve most enjoyed so far: High school years, especially 17-18, if you don’t enjoy life then, it’s harder to later! I literally mourned all summer after graduation my high school life.2. The age in life you’ve hated most: 31 was rough, two toddlers and a new mortgage, oh yea, no time for romance. Wow, glad that’s over…
3. The best day of the week: Fridays, no explanation needed.
4. The worst day of the week: Tuesday bc Monday you are just in shock and Wednesday you can see a glimmer of hope to the weekend.
5. Your finest cooking accomplishment: Frijoles Negros. I practiced and practiced like a maniac. When my dear mother told me they tasted just like my abuela’s beans I knew I had arrived.
6. Your worst cooking disaster: I premade a lasagna for a dinner party and then went to reheat it and it tasted like cardboard. Thank God for the garlic rolls!
7. The color that looks best on you: Black. Yes, really.
8. The color that looks worst on you: Yellow or any limey color. I am too white.
9. Your favorite movie of all time: Grease, I swear I have seen it a million times. Then as an older movie-goer When Harry Met Sally.
10. The worst movie ever made: Has anybody seen Wicker Man with Nicolas Cage? It’s awful!!!!!!!
10 questions that will help you get to know me better.1. The age in life you’ve most enjoyed so far: 22 – i made a “pilgrimage” to Miami, and found out that my childhood love, had escaped from Cuba, i hunted him down and we were married 2 year later
2. The age in life you’ve hated most: 27, my mother died in Cuba. I left when i was 18, never thought that i wouldn’t see her again
3. The best day of the week: Friday –
4. The worst day of the week: Wednesday – because I feel like “gosh this week is going by so fast!” (Echoing Marta)
5. Your finest cooking accomplishment: Rump Roast
6. Your worst cooking disaster: too many to mention, -Ody please send me your lasagna and garlic chicken recipes. gracias
7. The color that looks best on you: hmmm i don’t know, blue, ? pastels? blah
8. The color that looks worst on you: beige
9. Your favorite movie of all time: The Defiant ones – I was in love with both Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis
10. The worst movie ever made: Anaconda (with Jennifer Lopez)
Daisy from Philly,Here’s my Garlic Chicken recipes. Let me know how it turned out.
Garlic Chicken
Three large Chicken Breasts cut in halves (serves 6)
or cut in 1 inch cubes for large group over pasta.
1 pint (2 cups) of Heavy Whipping Cream
10 to 14 cloves of garlic (crushed)
3 chicken bouillon cubes, brand – **“Maggie” (**very important)
Parmesan Cheese
In a 9 x 13 pan, lay out the six pieces of Chicken, or chicken cubes.
Pour the Heavy Whipping Cream into the pan and over the chicken.
Add the crushed garlic over the chicken and on the cream.
Crumble the Maggie Chicken cubes all over the chicken and the cream.
Shake Parmesan cheese over the chicken and the cream.
Bake for 1 hour at 400 degrees.
Serve with white rice if you are Cuban, or any pasta of your choice. 😉 Don’t forget to pass out the mints after dinner. LOL!!!!
Thank you Ody, Thank you Martica,Love
daisy