Showing posts with label questions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label questions. Show all posts

Saturday, February 28, 2015

I Mustache You Some Questions

I was tagged by Lauren @ Love is not a triangle
As the title suggests, I'll be answering some questions today. Not sure who started the meme, but way, way back in December/January, Lauren tagged me. I just never got around to it! 

Four names people call me other than my real name:

I don't actually have nicknames. The name Summer is really hard to shorten or twist around.

1) Summer-girl - this is from my mother. She's the main one I associate this with, but my dad's secretary who I have known forever also calls me this. And semi-recently so has Marlene!

2) Summo - it's pronounced sum (like the amount of money) + oh. My best friend since diapers has called me this since, maybe, middle school. People confused it with "sumo" like a wrestler. Not fun.

3) Spring, winter, fall, etc. - people think they're original, but really they just look dumb. I don't really mind, I know they're trying to be funny. It's just lame that they think they are. 



4) Chunky monkey - this was when I was a baby by my dad. I was told about this one, but I couldn't think of anything else. I was called McDonald's once because my last name is McDaniel, also people would try to rhyme my name. Summer bummer was okay, but Summer dumber was unacceptable.

Four jobs I've had:

1) Clerical assistant - my first summer job and when I realized that money doesn't equal happiness.

2) Media specialist - this was during the summer between high school and college, and I was also in charge of cleaning the bathroom. Meaning, I had to clean the urinal aka the portal to hell. 

3) Customer service associate - also during the summer between high school and college. I loved this job. Mainly, I loved it because of my managers. They were awesome.

4) Er, does volunteering and odd jobs count? I did a lot during middle school through high school.

Four movies I would/have watched more than once:

1) While You Were Sleeping - always and forever. "Caesar Romero was tall."

2) You've Got Mail - ditto. "I love daisies."

3) Ever After - this Cinderella retelling has the best ending. "Yes! I should go down in history as the man who could open a door!" 

4) All Disney movies, all Marvel movies, and Anne of Green Gables - and so many others. Movies are great. "Please go away, Marilla. I'm in the depths of despair."

Only picking four was the hardest thing ever.


Four books I'd recommend: 

1) Gallagher Girls by Ally Carter  

2) The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

3) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

4) The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer 

Just kidding, this was one of the hardest things ever. I want to list SO MANY OTHERS. This pained me so I'll keep moving.


Four places I have lived:

1) North Fort Myers, Florida

2) Tampa, Florida

3) TBD

4) TBD 

Four places I have been: 

1) Niagara Falls, NY and Canada

2) Managua, Nicaragua - this was for a missions trip this past August. Those kids were everything.

3) National landmarks like Yellowstone Park and Mount Rushmore

4) Washington - the state and D.C. 

My family went on a huge American road trip when I was about five, which I somewhat remember, and we went through a lot states. I've been to other states as well to see family and everything. Still waiting to go to Europe. 


Four places I'd rather be right now:


1) Rome and Florence - I needed to list these two together because they're both in Italy, but hours apart. I'd do anything to go here. 

2) Swiss Alps. - I've never been skiing, I've never even seen SNOW. So if I'm going to do it. why not go all out and do so here? 

3) Visiting blogger friends and family. 

4) Getting a massage - I'm stealing Lauren's answer on this. Yes, please. 

Four things I don't eat:

1) Chicken and dumplings - the only food that I refuse to eat. Yes, I'm southern. 

2) Soda - I know you don't eat this, you drink it, but I'm not a picky eater. I stopped drinking soda in middle school, I think, and never looked back. Now I hate the taste and fizz. 

3) Olives


4) Anything super spicy. I like enchiladas and everything, but I can't stand it when something is really spicy and I can't calm it down. It also doesn't jive with my esophagus problems.

Like I said, I'm not a picky eater. 


Four of my favorite foods:


1) Macaroni and cheese

2) Banana pudding - birthday dessert every year by my mom

3) Anything made by my mother 

4) Ice cream - I like so many kinds, I am an ice cream fiend. My loyal standby would be cookie dough though.

Four TV shows that I watch:

1) Blacklist 

2) Castle

3) The 100 

4) Amazing Race 

Again, how can I just pick FOUR? Non-college people don't understand that after reading so much for school, when you want to decompress, sometimes it's easier to just mindlessly watch TV instead. So I've picked up a couple show addictions along the way. (Really, if you need suggestions, come ask)



Four things I am looking forward to this year (2015):

1) I figured out my housing arrangement for the fall and I'm really excited. 

2) 2015 releases - I expect my heart will break a few times, but oh will there be rejoicing too.

3) BEA - I'm even afraid to put this on here just yet.

4) The end of the semester - I picture myself army crawling out of a black pit

Four things I'm always saying:

1)  "One more chapter..."

2) "Hey now!" - my family likes to tease me or twist my words

3) "Oh my gosh" 

4) "I hate you" - I'm not hateful or evil, no worries. Everyone feels this when their phone messes up, their wifi crashes, they realize their professors dumped all kinds of assignments on them at once (I never say it to them, only to the computer screen), etc.  

Four People I tag:

1) Lili @ Lili's Reflections

2) Emily @ Forever Literary


4) Emma @ Awkwordly Emma

And if they do it, go read their answers! Or answer these questions yourself, even if I didn't tag you.

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award


I was tagged by Lili from Lili's Reflections. Not only did I love reading her questions and answers, but it was a fun blog post to do!

Guidlines: 
  • Thank the blogger who nominated you and link back to their website.
  • Post the award's logo on your blog.
  • Answer the ten questions you have been asked.
  • Nominate 10 other bloggers and ask them 10 other questions. 

Questions:

When and why did you start blogging? 
I started in October of 2012 after my sister pressured me to. A whole community who loved books as much as I do? Sign me up.

What is your favorite genre and why? 
This is awful. How do you pick? I guess I'd have to say fantasy. I honestly love many genres for different reasons. Contemporary comes close because it was my first love and dystopian is third because it introduced me to a whole new world of books. But I guess I'd have to pick fantasy because I have read so many great (and diverse) books in this genre that I think happy thoughts.

Recommend a book you love that you think deserves more hype. 
I'll always say Gallagher Girls, but I LOVED Rites of Passage by Joy N. Hensley and didn't see a lot of feedback. Maybe I missed something, but I think it deserved a lot more hype.

Aside from reading, what are your favorite hobbies?
Of course I get asked this when I feel completely lost in a list of have-tos. I guess working out, but that's a love/hate relationship. Basketball, maybe. Does watching TV count? oh my gosh I sound boring

Top 3 books you have ever read?
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill, and Out of Sight, Out of Time by Ally Carter (although The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes comes close)

Who are your favorite authors and why? 
Ally Carter, hands down, because she wrote two amazing series, which was a stepping stone for me in YA. Meg Cabot, Janette Rallison, and Jen Calonita, because their contemporaries make me happy. Marissa Meyer, because she's a genius. And so many more.

What is the best book you have read so far this month?
Well, I haven't read this much this month, but even so, The Start of Me and You by Emery Lord.

What book is responsible for the reader you are today?
I could take this question so many ways. If it's for the "more mature than juvenile" reading, then The Hawk and the Jewel by Lori Wick. If it's to show that my sister actually has good tastes (which is very important to how I am now), then it's Seven Daughters and Seven Sons by Barbara Cohen and Bahija Lovejoy. But if it's for the diverse-loving reader (who doesn't snub non-contemporary books) I am today then it's all to The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

I over-answered this question, but I didn't think it fair to ignore such important books.

Do you collect anything other than books?
You could probably count notebooks/notepads. I love notebooks and never want to throw them away. I'm such a pro-notepad kind of girl too (yellow legal pads make me happy to write on).

Tell us a weird fact about yourself that we probably didn't know.
I'm super picky in my personal music. I don't mind listening to the radio (I actually enjoy it) or to others' music. But when I'm listening to my headphones, I can only stand certain music. Usually it has to make me feel something, I can daydream to it. I love OneRepublic and all, but oldies are my jam.

My nominees: 
1. Jen at Starry-Eyed Revue
2. Lisa at Lost in Lit
3. Danielle at Love at First Page
4. Kel at Booked til Tuesday
5. Emily at Forever Literary
6. Emma at Awkwordly Emma
7. Jessica at Just Another Teen Reading
8. Marley at Flyleaf Review
9. Lauren at Love is not a triangle
10. YOU! 

Questions for YOU: 

1. What YA book to movie adaption is your favorite?
2. Do you listen to music while you read and if so, who's your go-to artist?
3. What's the best book you read this year?
4. What's your favorite and least favorite genre to read?
5. What did you rate the last book you read and why? (DNFs count)
6. Do you like reading outside or inside better?
7. Who's your favorite OTP? (one true pairing/fictional couple)
8. Gifs or no gifs in reviews?
9. Do you read more ebooks or physical copies?
10. What's one book you wish everyone would read?

What would you answer to the questions I was asked and to the questions I'm asking you? Tell me below or make your own blog post!