whaaa happened?

okay, i'm sitting here watching the Giants game, and it has turned ugly. time to fulfill Andrea's request:

5 Nicknames you've had (or have):
- dewey
- JYa
- cheddah
- "that crazy Giants fan"
- "that crazy Sharks fan"
**okay, the last 2 aren't nicknames, but i've been referred to them often enough that they
should count

5 Sweet Treats You Like to Eat
- ice cream
- coooooookies
- chocolate-filled treats
- chocolate-based treats
- candy corn (still working through my stockpile from Susan and Andrea!) :-D

5 Things People Would Be Surprised You Have
- more than one skirt (let alone one!)
- a shower chair and walker (yes, i know, it's sad)
- all of my old audio tapes (music, home-style "books on tape" of my dad reading stories to me)
- a mountain bike
- titanium elsewhere in my body besides my ankle

5 Fabulous Celebrations
- my parent's 45th wedding anniversary
- any day i've spent with my dad since 2003
- being at the game with my buddy Rick when the Giants won the NL pennant in 2002.
- Nicole and Joe's wedding
- Patrick Marleau's game 4 hat trick last week

5 Things You'd Like to Have:
- a house to call my own
- a fenced yard in said house so dogs can roam happily during the day
- hockey skills
- my straight hair back (don't know exactly when, but around 1990 my hair forgot that it was of
Japanese origin and decided to become decidedly NOT straight)
- my immune system pre-3rd grade (i.e. a good one)

5 Cool Presents You've Received:
- my tri-core hockey stick from Justin
- from Rick - a ticket to join him for game 4 of the World Series in 2002
- autographed Will Clark bat
- Flopsy (a stuffed rabbit i got from my parents when i was in 3rd grade - he's gone everywhere
with me, including Japan!)
- Wombatman, from Andrea and Liz

5 Things You've Collected:
- baseball cards. obsessively at times.
- ticket stubs
- stamps from various shrines and attractions in Japan (not like postage stamps, but these
places actually had stamps and stamp-pads so you could keep a record of where you visited)
- programs from Giants games, SharkStats (yeah, from Sharks games)
- newspaper articles about the Hiroshima Carp and SF Giants (this obsession started in 1986
and mostly stopped in 1993)

5 Books you've read in the past 5 years (amended to include 5 highly recommended books):
- the time traveler's wife
- "the no. 1 ladies' detective agency" series
- a fine balance
- the curious incident of the dog in the night time
- the kite runner

5 slang terms you use regularly:
- dude
- wassup/sup
- yo
- whatever
- hoser

A multiple of 5 (5, 10, 15 etc) people that you'd like to tap for this: (may have also been tapped by Andrea, but haven't posted yet!)
- liz
- jennie
- vivo
- susan
- heather (who muses)