This came from Skye (an online friend) who was tagged with this kind of touchy feely thing.

Tell me 1 piece of information about yourself that I really should never know.

I'm not wearing any underwear right now.

Tell me 2 colors that you would never ever ever wear.

Puke green and puke yellow. I wear every colour so this was a silly question.

Tell me 3 things that you love to eat.

Cheesecake, ice cream and barely cooked steak.

Tell me 4 things that you would never ever serve to a guest at your dinner table.

Crawling caterpillars, cow eyes, plastic furniture or human beings (not living ones anyway).

Tell me 5 things that you keep forgetting to buy from the supermarket.

Nothing I can think of, I usually make a list ahead of time.

Tell me 6 things about the autumn that you love.

• It's cool after summer which is too hot.
• I like the way Autumn is spelled, so many people forget how to spell words with silent letters.
• Leaves, all the colours: green, red, burgundy, yellow, gold, orange and so on.
• Kids go back to school and we have the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) not to mention all the Fall Fairs and Festivals in towns all over Ontario.
• Someone said October is a lucky/ good month for me. I'm not sure why.
• My nephew and my sister both have birthdays in the Fall and it's the time for Halloween!

Tell me 7 things that you value about your family.

This is way too complicated and mushy/ fluffy.

Tell me 8 things that you like to watch on TV.

• Some of the commercials are good. I like watching a guy I knew from school appear on various commercials, he's in one for Rogers now.
• Dust and dust bunnies. I just don't clean around there as often as I should. But they are kind of interesting and don't you almost hate to destroy their little dusty empires?
• I used to watch the Gilmore Girls. I haven't seen it for years now.
• Sometimes I watch Medium or Ghost Whisperer but they are about ghosts and that's a bit touchy with me. I don't enjoy being scared and I do believe in ghosts.
• I watch YTV (the TV station) when my nephew is visiting. Some of those shows are actually good. I don't look for them when he's not here though.
• I watch Canadian Idol when it comes on.
• I have begun watching Deal or No Deal.
• I like watching a lot of science fiction but when you live with someone who really doesn't like it you tend to miss a lot more than you see.

Tell me 9 things that you loved about school.

I barely remember school. I liked walking to and from school, kids miss that these days. I liked most of the classes: history, literature, geography, English. I came to enjoy exams and tests once I realized they were as much fun as those personality tests I am still addicted to online. That's about it. I had some friends but most of the time I was a loner. I dropped out of high school a few times.

Tell me 10 of the little things that you love about life.

• It's always there. No matter what the last hour was like or how busy yesterday was, the next day always comes - as long as you wake up for it.
• There are endless things to learn and explore. It's like living in an encyclopedia.
• It comes in a great range of colours.
• Rain, rocks, nature in general. Storms and weather in general.
• Plants, nothing can be too terrible if you can go outside or look out a window or your kitchen table even and see a plant growing. I'm a closet tree hugger.
• Being able to use my body. Just having fingers, legs, eyes... it's really amazing and we should not forget or take any of it for granted.
• A smile. One smile has a huge amount of power. Not everyone really has this figured out. Some go around in a grump all the time, I feel sorry for them.
• Humour, any kind of humour that is really funny and clever but not the kind that hurts or cuts up other people.
• People, sometimes I think I'd like to have the world to myself but in reality the world would be far different and missing so many things if there weren't other people around. It's not the famous people who count its the everyday people who deliver your newspaper, cook your eggs the way you like and drive the bus who really make the world go around.
• Just being here at all. It's such a miracle that each of us were ever born. Think about all the combinations of people who built up to your creation. If anyone had done something differently you wouldn't have been born. Some other warm body would be living your life, or many no one at all. Give thanks to your ancestors. Not just the sex part (I know a lot of people will think that's all there is to it).

I applied (last night) to write for Suite101 again. I used to write a couple of topics there and copyedit a section of other writers and I headed up the Writers Community section for a short time. I left due to a lot of changes on the site, mainly how they placed the Google ads. They let Google ads take over the content. You had to scroll down just to find the written content under the ads. That wasn't good for their site or the writers, I'm not surprised they changed the layout. They also changed a lot of the look of the sites and pages, even the colours.

Anyway, I applied to write two topics: Webmaster Resources and Resources for Writers.

They pay a little, very little. But, I want to get back to writing weekly again. I wrote a lot more when I had a weekly schedule to stick to. Funny how you tend to get more done when you are really too busy. Then, when you have time you putter around and get very little done.

Although they are totally useless outside of the Neopets.com game/ site I have finally gotten to the million neopoints level. I've been working on getting a million into my bank account on the site for over a year. In April, on April Fool's Day I was only a few hundred away. But they played an April Fools joke and I was a fool and thought the site was going to drastically change their policy. So, I gave away 800,000 points to Zack (my nephew who got me started playing on the site). I really regretted it cause some other kid chose that time to steal everything from Zack. All my points and the expensive items I had given Zack too. That was really annoying. But, nothing could be done about it. But, I have overcome that setback and tonight I finally got my million! It means nothing. But, it's a small goal and kind of nice to have gotten there.

I came to a site called OpenMind from my latest blog space renter, KizzyKim. Open Mind is another politically correct site about being perfect and accepting everything. How nice. Yet, how silly.

Why should we accept everyone and everything? Keep some prejudices, don't become some kind of blank book where you have no memory of things which happened in the past and no reasons for being careful or judgmental. I don't like the happy pill swill sites like Open Mind. They expect us to swallow and regurgitate back out some mindless drivel about how everyone is equal and should have full rights and nothing held against them. That is baloney. You can't go through life wearing blinders. You also shouldn't go through life expecting everyone has taken the same happy pill each morning.

I don't agree with some things which are politically correct in society now. I'm not going to change that, it's based on my experience and how I feel about the world and the people on it. I'm not about to go around burning people or beating them up. But, I'm not going to smile and pretend everything is just fine and okay with me. I have some standards, ideals and opinions of my own.

What about you? If you are truly honest with yourself, do you really agree with all the politically correctness we are told to accept? What do you accept, what do you tolerate and what do you grind your teeth about yet say nothing?

I think the most interesting thing about all of this is that once you give freedoms and acceptance to one group of people (Pagans, gays, gun lovers, little green aliens, etc) you have to take some freedom and acceptance away from another group (think smokers and non-smokers). So, all this open mindedness is really a sham. It doesn't exist, but it does look really nice on paper, newspapers, magazines, TV shows and movies.