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mickeym and her family are having a hard time lately.1. Are you named after someone?
Middle name after my dad. Mom's alternate for first was "Velvet." Um.
2. Last time you cried?
Teared up over dog rescue story this morning.
3. Do you like your handwriting?
Quite a lot, before arthritis made a hash of it
4. What is your favorite lunch meat?
Boar's Head Oven Gold roast turkey
5. Do you have kids?
Two adults, one surviving
6. Do you use sarcasm?
Who, me?
7. Do you still have your tonsils?
Yes
8. Would you bungee jump?
Can we just shoot me instead?
9. What is your favorite kind of cereal?
Coarse-cut oatmeal
10. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
No shoes with laces
11. Do you think you're strong?
Not as much, either physically or emotionally, as I used to be
12. What is your favorite ice cream?
Breyer's Natural Vanilla
13. What is the first thing you notice about someone?
Body language, voice, hands, eyes—butt, if standing
14. Football or Baseball?
Ice dancing
15. What is the least favorite thing you like about yourself?
Body image demons
16. What color pants are you wearing?
charcoal grey
17. Last thing you ate?
banana
18. What are you listening to right now?
fireplace dvd crackling away
19. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
blue-green
20. Favorite smell?
cut grass
21. Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone?
friend/former neighbor/landscape advisor
22. Favorite sport to watch on a TV?
Ice dancing, figures, gymnastics
23. Hair color?
mouse brown going grey
24. Eye color?
grey
25. Favorite food to eat?
First response is chocolate, but Actual Food is OH's vegebarleybeef soup
26. Scary movies or happy?
And see, here's the thing. Not really a fan of scary, and *happy!* movies make me barf. I like character movies, relationship movies, a little intellectually complicated/open ended/implied resolution, and also, nature documentaries with no music or narration.
27. Last movie you watched?
Wonder Woman. Haven't been to the actual theater in a while
28. What color shirt are you wearing?
heather grey
29. Favorite holiday?
Halloween
30. Wine or beer?
single malt/Jameson's/Guinness/Drambuie. Though cabernet is nice, too.
jimbobjoe and the circle/flist.1. Do you make your bed everyday? No duvet or bedspread—my bed is "dressed," sheet turned down at the top in a "cuff" over the blanket, pillows standing against the headboard. I've perfected the wrist motion to flip the covers across the bed in one stroke, then straighten the turndown, make sure the edge of the blanket covers the sheet and is a uniform distance from the floor from head to foot, plump and stand the pillows, smooth out any wrinkles. Four minutes, tops. And...no matter what goes wrong the rest of the day, I've successfully accomplished one fricken thing.
2. What's your favorite number? I've always preferred evens, don't know why. Today it's probably 12.
3. Dream Job? You know Jane Goodall, with chimpanzees? I wanted to study a species like that.
4. If you could, would you go back to school? I have done, several times. Usually a class to do with writing or comprehensive reading and analysis.
5. Can you parallel park? If I have an open-ended space, and no audience, and lots of time. Otherwise, it's embarrassing and impossible.
6. A job you had which people would be shocked to know you had? I sold encyclopedias door to door.
7. Do you think aliens are real? It's sort of arrogant to assume not, but I think they've quarrantined this particular petri dish so as not to allow the infection to spread.
8. Can you drive a stick shift? I prefer a stick shift, and on the floor, none of this steering column nonsense. I miss my wee Nissan. We were nimble and fearless and utterly competent together. She was like riding a cutting horse compared to anything else I've ever driven. Utterly responsive, gutty as hell. City driving and a bum knee dictated a parting of the ways, though. I'll always miss her.
9. Guilty Pleasure? At this point in my life I feel I've earned on account any pleasure that may come my way.
10. Tattoos? Not a goal.
11. Favorite color? camouflage: browns, greys, greens, blues.
12. Things people do that drive you crazy? Allowing their children to shriek in public. Talking at the theater. Callous or indifferent disregard of others and their right to share public space.
13. Phobia? In recent years, small confined spaces. Flying stinging insects (I'm allergic, so).
14. Favorite childhood game? Pretending my bike was a horse. Poking grass under its front fender to "feed" it.
15. Do you talk to yourself? I talk to myself like an insecure child, or one that's misbehaving, or under-motivated. Parenting my inner moppet.
16. Do you like doing puzzles? Not fond of jigsaws, but give me knots and I'm like the vampire that has to count sugar or salt grains. My mom used to tie knots in a foot of string and give it to me to keep me quiet and occupied. I also used to be the champ at school in getting knots out of other girls' fine necklace chains.
18. Tea or Coffee? Either, depending on mood and the state of digestion. Morning coffee, unless my stomach's upset, then tea. Tea in the afternoons, rather than coffee.
19. First thing you remember you wanted to be when you grew up? I wanted to ride horses.
20. If you were told you can only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be? Cheese? Cheese is good, and there are lots of varieties.
21. List your major scars: bikini line hysterectomy scar, bagel related accident scar on my left wristbone—the skin healed but you can feel the depression where the detached muscle never reattached to the bone. Two surgical scars, one on left forearm, one on right hip, blemish removal with margins.
22. List continents you've NOT visited: Let's go the other way. I've been to Europe and North America—the rest still awaits me!
23. What dead person (non-relative) would you most like to ask something? Top of my head, I think Ben Franklin would be cool to talk with.
24. What one thing would you change about your physical self? Never to have had psoriasis: no systemic damage, no activity restriction, no embarrassment and having to hide, or having to work with, affected skin, no arthritis, no compromised immune response, no prohibitive diet, being able to wear pretty shoes and nylon stockings. Curing it would be good, but never having had it would be wish-worthy.
25. Have you ever seen a current or former president in person? No.
milly_gal, who got it from sasha_dragon and zara_zee,
timeasmymeasure
