liebster award!

happy thursday!! today i feel very honored to announce that lisa over at making life's lemons has nominated loosefromthezoo for a liebster award!
as i have already been nominated for a liebster award previously, i figured i would modify the process a little to make things shorter and sweeter.  if you've never heard of the liebster awards, head over to lisa's blog or my previous post to learn a bit more about what they mean!
here are my answers to lisa's questions!
If you could go back to any moment in time or time period, what would it be and why? if i were just visiting moments of history dr. who style, i think i'd try to find f. scott and zelda fitzgerald sometime in the 1920's to party hard.
if i had to LIVE sometime in the past i'd absolutely pick the 1970's.  i like being able to fly in an airplane, but i secretly wish the internet had never been invented.  i also rock a pair of bell bottoms pretty well.
If you had to sing karaoke, what song would you pick? if you get enough margaritas in me i can tear freddy mercury to shreds singing somebody to love.  (though let me add: with the exception of this song, as a general rule, i despise the music of queen.  and journey.  and fun.  basically all bands that sound like queen are terrible in my opinion).
If time and money were no matter what would you do? steve and i would visit every single place on the planet, excluding those locations that are likely to kill me from cold weather or political upset.  i would attempt to write novels in between sight seeing and possibly attempt to become a b-list actress if i got really really bored.
What is your favorite piece of clothing?? Pictures?? i have this emerald badgely mischka silk evening gown that i plan to wear to my friend's wedding in a couple of weeks.  it's pretty fierce.
What would be your ideal vacation? either a multi-country eurotrip, or a two month road trip of the continental united states (i may or may not have created an itinerary for the latter).
Do you have any hidden talents? What are they? i'm not sure what constitutes hidden... 
i can draw decently well.  i also have a small host of skills that have made me what i believe to be a decent actress.  i can do a variety of accents reasonably well and i can make myself cry real tears if i need to.
i can also do a hair-raisingly accurate lois griffin impression. and i can move my eyes side to side independently of one another.  but nobody ever wants me to.
 Flats or heels? varies week to week.  it definitely makes you feel like a beast when you can strut in heels, but if i had to pick one for the rest of my life i would go with flats for the comfort factor.
Where/when are you the happiest? hanging out with steve by a body of water. extra bonus happiness points when one or all of the following are included: snacks a puppy good music alcohol
If you had to change your name what would you change it to? maxine kaye
What's your favorite cookie? a cupcake
What item could you not live without? a car.
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six things

happy friday!

earlier this week, emily, one of my very favorite bloggers, who writes sparrow in the treetop, tagged me in a six things about yourself post.  this means you all get to read my answers to six questions emily wrote up!

fortunately, this means i'll finally get a chance here to stop sounding like a broken record (blah blah moving, blah blah weddings, blah blah cats, skulls, and trying to write a novel).

so without further ado, commence my attempts to seem interesting:

1. What makes you cranky?

if i'm cranky, it's almost a guarantee that i am hungry.  i call it "food rage."  other potential sources of general displeasure include:  cold weather, getting a middle seat on an airplane, eating a cinnamon flavored jelly belly when i am expecting it to be cherry, drivers who do not use cruise control, and camping.

2. If you were an animal, what type of animal would it be?

this one

3. What’s your favorite season?

summer (see question 1).

4.“Which would you rather be if you had the choice– divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?”

this is a wicked question.  i suppose it primarily depends on how ugly, stupid, or evil you would be given the choices you passed up.  there is, for example, little value to tremendous goodness if you are too stupid to implement your altruism effectively ("the road to hell is paved with good intentions").

my inner philosophy major is coming out now, but it's hard to reconcile tremendous amounts of evil with tremendous amounts of intelligence.  this isn't to say all intelligent people are good people (not true) but once intelligence crosses a certain threshold (which i suppose is nearly crossing into omniscience) it seems to follow that tremendous amounts of evil would have a rational reason not to exist.  this is fantastical speculation, though, suggesting things like prejudice would get weeded out with a certain amount of intellect.  if you max out intelligence up to omniscient, you'll inevitably be maxing out goodness as well, unless you can find a way to logically make evil more sensible than goodness.

divine beauty is an exceptionally useful commodity (frighteningly so, in fact), but unless you have a certain level of intelligence or goodness to put it toward it's not actually incredibly valuable on its own.  i suppose if you were beautiful and very very stupid it would help you snare a man that could take care of you, but easily fostering dependency doesn't quite seem like a lofty enough reason to make this particular choice.

i suppose i'll select the only one of the three that i have much experience with, which is cleverness (though i don't know what constitutes "dazzling," i do have an iq of 137). however, as a woman, cleverness doesn't get you as far if you are too ugly, or not nice enough.

forget it.  if i had the choice, i would choose to be born a man.  not in a gender-queer way, just a rational one.

5. Are you an early riser or a night owl?

night owl.

6. Savory or Sweet?

savory.  my sweet tooth is made of salt.

now apparently it is my turn to tag and ask questions?  yay!

lisa, court, johanna, and ali

if you ladies have the time, do please answer the following questions on your blogs!  i'd love to pop by and read what you have to say!

1.  what is the greatest compliment you have ever received?

2.  if you could "fix" one thing about the world what would it be?

3.  if your life had a theme song what would it be?

4.  what is/are your vice(s)?

5.  an anonymous, but trustworthy donor drops $10,000 into your lap.  what do you do with it?

6.  if you could have one skill or talent, but you could not profit from it in terms of money or fame, what skill would you pick?

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