It looks like bad weather moving in, so I’ll post this as quickly as I can. The picture I posted in the last post got me thinking about gas prices and driving in general.

• First to play last week: Shannon of Shannon’s Moments of Introspection. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. When is the last time you actually filled your car’s car tank completely?

2. What’s the most you’ve paid for a gallon of gas so far?

3. Has the high gas prices affected how much you travel at all?

4. Take the quiz: What does the road trip of your life say about you?

5. Which single statement was the most accurate about you?

6. If your best friend called you up and wanted to take a week-long road trip, would you be able to afford it?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

I need to get some housework done. I’ve needed to get housework done all day, but I’ve managed to do anything but, including battling a credit card company’s stupid stubbornness.

But the need to straighten up relates, in part, to this week’s set of questions.

• First to play last week: Diana of Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. How many clocks in your home or office are set ahead of the actual time so that you can stay on schedule?

2. Which space is neater: your office or “work” space or your living room?

3. Which room of your home is in need of the most cleaning?

4. Take the quiz: What does your workspace say about you?

5. If your co-workers saw your home after seeing your office/cubicle/workspace, would they be surprised?

6. How many family members do you have on display for your co-workers to see?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

It was somewhat stormy here in Charleston, although there wasn’t as much rain as the growl of thunder much of the afternoon would have made one expect. When lightning is around, especially if it is as intense as it was yesterday, I try to avoid the computer.

That’s why this week’s list of six questions is a bit late.  Here’s to better weather for tomorrow.

• First to play last week: Shannon of Shannon’s Moments of Introspection. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. What is your biggest distraction in a normal day?

2. On an average day, do you feel like you accomplish more than you should, less than you should, or something in between?

3. If you know that a close friend has a serious problem, do you ever let that worry you to the extent that it distracts you from things you need to do?

4. Take the quiz: How’s Your Attention Span?

5. Do you generally find yourself more distracted in the morning or the afternoon?

6. What works best for you in terms of removing the distraction and getting back to work?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

There is still a lot of shock over the sudden death of NBC newsman Tim Russert. This week’s edition will cover that loss and heart health.

• First to play last week: Connie of c’est 黃康女. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. Do you think Tim Russert was among the greatest or worst political reporters?

2. What television public affairs/political program did you watch most often?

3. If you were running for office, would you think you’d feel any apprehension about being interviewed by a reporter like Russert?

4. Take the quiz: Do you know the facts about heart attacks? Count your correct responses: how many of the seven questions did you answer correctly?

5. When did you last get a check-up from your physician: are you overdue for a check-up?

6. Where do you stand on the popular issue of exercise: do you think you get too much or not enough? Are you any more inspired by Russert’s passing to change this?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

It’s time to think positive…about being negative. Are you cynical? Are you practically Oscar the Grouch? Or are you that happy type that most of the rest of us would like to shove down a storm drain be much more like?

Being negative is this week’s topic!

• First to play last week: Bailey’s Granny of My Life as a Grandma. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. Is the glass half-empty or half-full?

2. Are you more of your own worst critic, or do you tend to be everyone else’s worst critic instead?

3. How do you feel about technological advances: are you generally optimistic that a new system will make life better or worse?

4. Take the quiz: Are you too negative?

5. A friend asks you opinion about something, and you know that being honest might hurt his or her feelings. How honest are you likely to be?

6. You see a panhandler on the street: which tends to be closer to your immediate impression: that he’s a good person who’s down on his luck or a bad person who doesn’t want to work?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

This week’s set of questions is about charity. It’s a topic that some of you might be comfortable with and others may not. This week’s quiz is from a religious-oriented website, and the answers you get might raise your eyebrows.

Sounds like an interesting set coming up, right?

• First to play last week: Adalea of Adalea. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. What was the last organization you gave a monetary donation to?

2. What was the last charitable thing you volunteered to do?

3. Someone you know comes to you in a bad situation and asks to borrow $10. Do you give them the money even if you think they might not give it back?

4. Take the quiz: How Charitable Are You?

5. Do you agree with the quiz’s results?

6. Should the United States do more to help its own citizens before helping people in other countries?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

Last week’s edition of the Sunday Seven had to be one of the all-time easiest questions ever asked.

And just one person played.

You never know. In any case, I haven’t quite let go of the topic completely, so I’ll reuse the appliance in question for this week’s questions.

• First to play last week: Otowi of Otowi. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. What is the oldest thing in your refrigerator door?

2. How often do you keep leftovers that end up going bad before you eat them?

3. How strictly do you follow expiration dates: do you toss things as soon as they go past the date, or have you learned how far something can really go without going bad?

4. Take the quiz: What Do the Contents of Your Refrigerator Say About You?

5. What was the last ingredient in your fridge that you cooked something with?

6. If you had to make a meal out of one single item in your refrigerator right now, which item would you choose?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

How many people do you depend on for something in your life? There’s something in most of us that would seem to make us feel we should be independent. But are we? That’s the topic of this week’s questions.

• First to play last week: Connie of Vox. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. At what age did you move out of your parents’ home (or at what age do you plan to do so)?

2. What, in your book, makes someone truly independent?

3. If you had to live for a full year on a deserted island without any other company at all, do you think you would be able to do it?

4. Take the quiz: How Independent Are You?

5. When you have a major decision to make, on average, how many people do you talk to before making up your mind?

6. On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being most important, how important would you rate the approval of those closest to you?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

Would you like to have a question asked in a future edition of the Saturday Six or Sunday Seven?  There’s a new way to submit them.  Just click the “Contact” button along the red bar at the top of the blog.  It will take you to a form where you can drop me a quick message that doesn’t automatically publish as a comment anywhere.

So if you have a good question for a future edition of the Saturday Six or Sunday Seven, that’s a new and easy way to send it along.

It’s lunchtime and I haven’t had breakfast, yet. But that’s okay…I’ll make up for it at lunch. One of my favorite restaurants is offering shrimp and grits today, so I’ll go have a helping, then ponder going to the gym, which I desperately need to do.

If the shrimp and grits thing seems disgusting, I’ll confess that it did to me as well. Despite being a native of South Carolina, I didn’t try shrimp and grits until I moved to Charleston. It’s good stuff. You owe it to yourself to try it. At least once. Forget dangerous crap like bungee jumping: put shrimp and grits on your bucket list instead and your nerves will thank you.

In any case, on to the questions!

• First to play last week: Connie of Vox. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. How many days a week, on average, do you eat breakfast?

2. If you eat a breakfast that involves actual cooking, what are most likely to prepare for yourself?

3. If you eat a breakfast that requires no cooking, what are yu most likely to choose for yourself?

4. Take the quiz: What Kind of Cereal Are You?

5. When you eat pancakes, how many do you typically place in a stack?

6. How do you like your pancakes: with butter/margarine or without, and what flavor of syrup?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

It has been a somewhat productive Saturday in that I actually got out of the house for a little while. I’ve also been working on a new post about the presidential race that keeps getting bigger and bigger because of updated developments. It’s very frustrating, so I thought I’d cut a little stress with another set of six questions!

• First to play last week: Vulpix of I Sing to Life…. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. From your earliest memories, how many different career choices did you seriously consider?

2. Is the career you actually wound up in among those early possibilities?

3. What’s more important to you: being successful in your professional life or your personal life?

4. Take the quiz: What’s your priority?

5. Are you more likely to let your personal life get in the way of your career, or to let your career get in the way of your personal life?

6. If you were to make a list of things you will look forward to doing on Monday morning, would going to work be at the top of the list, the middle, the bottom, or not on the list at all?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

Set a spell…kick your shoes off…and let’s talk about your feet. That’s the theme in this week’s edition!

• First to play last week: Connie of This is Connie. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. How many pairs of shoes do you own right now? Over the course of a single week, how many of them are you likely to wear total?

2. At what store do you buy the majority of your shoes?

3. How much did you pay for the most expensive pair of shoes you own? How much was the cheapest?

4. Take the quiz: What do your feet say about you?

5. What’s your preference: dress, casual, sneaker, flip flop or sandal?

6. Have you ever had or considered getting a pedicure?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t. I hope that you’re in a “nutty” mood if you’re going to play this week’s set of six1

• First to play last week: Cat of Sweet Memes. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. You’re ordering a hot fudge sundae. Do you order it with nuts or without?

2. You’re buying a jar of peanut butter: which brand do you buy most often? Creamy or crunchy?

3. What was the last kind of nut you remember eating?

4. Take the quiz: What nut are you?

5. This one will do a lot to indicate where you’re from: when you hear someone refer to “boiled peanuts,” are you intrigued or grossed out?

6. What is your favorite synonym for the other kind of nut, as in “a lunatic?”

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

I hope you’re having a great weekend so far. In case you’re looking for something to do, here’s a list of six questions to temporarily entertain you.

• First to play last week: Cassie of This, That & The Other Thing. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. In terms of motivation, what gets you out of bed in the morning?

2. If you could sleep without having to get up at your normal time, how much later than that would you sleep on your own?

3. How often do you take a nap? If your office made napping a legitimate option, would you take advantage of it?

4. Take the quiz: Are you lazy?

5. Other than your bed, where in your home are you most likely to take a comfortable nap?

6. When was the last time you took a workday off so that you could lie around the house doing absolutely nothing for the whole day? Would you be likely to schedule such a day in the next three months?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

I hope you’re having a great weekend so far. In case you’re looking for something to do, here’s a list of six questions to temporarily entertain you.

• First to play last week: Jude of My Way. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. A friend invites you attend his church, but from what he says about it, you get the impression that it is something resembling the most bizarre of cults. Are you more likely to attend to be polite, or to make up an excuse to get out of it?

2. You receive a neighbor’s bank statement by mistake, and you realize that the envelope wasn’t sealed before it was mailed. Are you more likely to open the envelope and take a peek before walking it next door, or just seal it up without looking?

3. You’re dining alone when you hear a couple talking about plans for their next sexual encounter. Are you more likely to ask them to lower their voices, or to listen?

4. Take the quiz: Are You Disturbingly Profound or Profoundly Disturbing?

5. What is the most profound piece of advice you ever received?

6. Did the person who gave you that advice strike you as being particularly profound, or did the advice seem a bit out of the ordinary coming from that person?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.