Because I’m too busy for a real entry. Play along! Tag yourselves! Memes are good for you!
1. What bill do you hate paying the most?
– All of ‘em? I don’t know. My favorite bill is the grocery bill because it’s the one I have the most control over.
2. Where was the last place you had a romantic dinner?
– Honestly any dinner out without kids is romantic. I don’t care if we’re at the drive through.
3. If you’re married or in a committed relationship, how long has it been?
– 20 years together/16 years married.
4. How many people do you cook for? Or does someone cook for you? Or are you the Carry-Out Queen? Do you sit down for dinner?
– There are four of us. We have take out one to two times a week (or eat out) and it’s rare that we don’t all sit down together.
5. What do you really want to be doing right now?
– Right this minute? Reading. But I’m waiting for a phone call and killing time here.
6. How many colleges did you attend?
– Two. Two years at OSU and three years at PSU.
7. Got any advanced degrees?
– Not yet. Check back in a couple of years.
8. How long have you been in your current job?
– 13 years stay at home parent. 11 years freelancing (more or less)
9. Do you have a “career,” or are you just paying the rent while you do more interesting things in your off time?
– Career.
10. IRA, 401(k), private pension, government pension, private savings, or cross your fingers?
–401(k), savings but mostly crossed fingers.
11. Children? Grandchildren? Nieces & nephews?
– Two kids. One niece (one niece-in-law). One nephew (one nephew-in-law). And then Roscoe is like a nephew in my mind.
13. Name one big mistake you’ve made in the past ten years.
– Can’t think of any. I can think of minor mistakes like not taking our Hyundai for a second opinion and trading it in for a minivan. But even that has been useful (having a van) so it kinda depends on how I’m feeling that day.
14. You will live to be 95. On your deathbed, you will experience a moment of perfect clarity, complete with total recall of your entire life. The current you can ask the 95-year-old you one question. What will it be? Be careful; what you do with your answer has the potential to change the future. And yeah, you can ask who’s going to win the Derby in 2023 if you want to, although personally I think that shows a lack of imagination and ambition.
– I wouldn’t want to know anything. I would rather be surprised.
15. What are your thoughts on gas prices?
– I want them to be low for personal reasons and high for environmental ones. Like I’d like it to be cost prohibitive to operate a Hummer but not my minivan. Because I am hypocritical.
16. First thought when the alarm went off this morning?
– “I wonder if that’s going to wake up Brett?” (it’s his alarm and he seemed to take an awful long time to shut the thing off this morning)
17. Last thought before going to sleep last night?
– Oh! I know how to change the code to make that site do that thing I want it to do! (or something like)
18. Do you miss being a child?
– Nope.
19. What errand/chore do you despise?
– Folding laundry.
20. Get up early or sleep in?
– I’d rather get up early but be well rested.
21. Have you found real love yet?
– But of course!
22. Favourite lunch meat?
– Is this an oxymoron? I guess roasted turkey.
23. Vacation: who goes with you, or do you fly solo?
– We all go.
24. Do you think marriage is an outdated ritual?
– No more than any other ritual.
25. Of all the people you’ve ever met, which one would you most like to face over the dinner table for the rest of your life?
– Brett!!!
26. How old is your current car? How old was the last one when you got rid of it?
– Umm, I think it’s a 2005? 2004? I don’t know. Or maybe that was our Hyundai? Honestly I don’t know these things because I don’t care.
27. Ever use a fire extinguisher for its intended purpose?
– No. And not for any other purpose either.
28. Somewhere in the world you’ve never been and would like to go?
– Oh gosh, a lot of places. Today let’s say Greece.
29. At this point in your life would you rather start a new career or a new relationship?
– Career, which is why I’m willing to go to school but am not looking to leave Brett.
30. How old do you admit to being?
– The age I am.
43. Do you have a go to person?
– Brett again! And my mom.
44. Are you where you want to be in life?
– No, I never am. It’s the curse of the ambitious person.
45. What about you do you think has changed the most?
– I am more accepting.
46. Looking back at high school were they the best years of your life?
– Hell no. Perish the thought!
47. Are there times you still feel like a kid?
– No. But I have always felt like mySELF. I mean, I may never feel like a kid per se but I feel like the same person I was in a lot of ways.
48. Did you ever own troll dolls?
– Of course.
49. How old were you when you first read Flowers in the Attic?
– 13? I was just thinking about some of the books I read at 12 and 13 (Jerzy Kosinski’s Blind Date, for instance, and Red Dragon) that were wildly inappropriate. I can’t imagine Noah reading some of them now.
50. Where were you when Kennedy died?
–I was a Hershey bar. In my father’s back pocket. <– love this!
51. Where were you when the Challenger exploded?
– I was in American History in 11th grade. The teacher turned on the television and then one of the kids said, “That’s what you get when you let a woman on a spaceship.”
52. Do you remember seeing any of the moon shots on television?
– Live? Ummm, no.
53. (For Americans) What’s the first presidential election you remember?
– Actual election? I remember when Jimmy Carter lost. I remember getting sick of the political ads on television.
54. (For Americans) What did you do that was special for the Bicentennial?
– We were living in California, which were kind of the salad days as far as my family went. And I remember all of the fire hydrants were painted like red white and blue people. Then we moved to Chicago in 1977 and there were no funny little fire hydrant people and I knew it had all been a terrible, terrible mistake.
55. Did you have a pager?
– No.
56. Where was the hang out spot when you were a teenager?
– Westland Mall.
57. Were you the type of kid you would want your children to hang out with?
– As a kid, sure. But I would have found me annoying (as an adult) because I was insecure, which made me a little bit of a braggart. I would not like either of my children dating me as a teen because I was miserable and dramatic and prone to temper tantrums and ultimatums.
