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50 Questions 1. What year was the best year of your life? 2002. 2. One animal or insect that Noah should have left off the ark? Cockroaches. Obviously. 3. Do you make a wish before blowing out your birthday candles? Who doesn't? 4. Do you generally open your bills on the day that you receive them? No. I am terribly disorganized when it comes to bills. 5. How many pillows are on your bed? Eleven. I like to be surrounded. 6. Favorite ice cream flavor? Peanut butter and chocolate from Baskin Robbins, but pretty much any flavor will do in a pinch. 7. What is the most dominant color in your wardrobe? Gotta go with black. 8. Have you ever seen a ghost? Not that I know of.
9. Would you rather go to a carnival or circus? Neither. Carnies, germs, the inevitable nausea, gross. 10. Favorite meal: breakfast, lunch, or dinner? I'm a fan of all three. 11. Your favorite fictional animal? This is a tough one. As a kid, I loved Charlotte the most, probably. Although Old Dan and Little Ann certainly gave her a run for her money. 12. Have you ever flown first class? No. Damn it! I did a search recently just for fun. A normal ticket to my destination was $215. A first class ticket was $1,200. What? That is crazy. 13. Would you go on a reality show? No way. 14. Are you more optimistic or pessimistic about the future? Depends on my moods, which tend to be polar on this issue. 15. Pancakes or waffles? Banana pancakes from the diner or Shelley's parents' chocolate chip pancakes. Note: I think people who put powdered sugar on their pancakes in lieu of syrup need to be taken out in the backyard and shot. 16. If you could own a home anywhere in the world, where would it be? Asheville, North Carolina. 17. Your favorite Soup of the Day? Shrimp and corn. We have been reunited since I swore it off after puking it along with a stomach full of Absolut up in a bathtub, and it feels so good. 18. What site is a must see for all visitors to your city? My favorite coffee shop. 19. Can you recommend a good restaurant in your city? See above. 20. You go to the zoo. What is the one animal that you want to see? Spider monkeys, man. The spider monkeys kill me. 21. Potatoes, rice, or pasta: which is your favorite? No brainer: pasta. Any shape, any size, any sauce, anytime. 22. What is the best movie that you've seen this year? It really hasn't been a big year for movies for me. In January, I really liked Big Fish. And this is kind of embarrassing, but I might have to go with Miracle. Wait, what am I saying? Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind! No question. I loved it. 23. One of your favorite books when you were a child? Look Through My Window, A Ring of Endless Light (and A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door and A Swiftly Tilting Planet and Many Waters) and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and The Outsiders. I think I read The Outsiders a thousand times. The first book that I ever checked out of the library, like, on my own, was B Is for Betsy in second grade. That book changed everything for me. 24. What in your life are you most grateful for? Besides the obvious, like healthy family and friends and a job and a roof over my head and intact limbs and eyes and ears? Looking back at some of my favorite books as a child makes me really grateful that someone slapped a book in my hand to shut me up when I was really young and that I grew up with them, because otherwise I really don't know what in the hell I would do with myself most of my time. 25. You are home alone and use the bathroom; do you close the door? Girl, please. 26. What is your favorite small appliance? TiVo. Sometimes I wish they would make up a TiVo commercial with really great songs like the ones on the Ebay commercials with a chorus line dancing and a heavenly chorus of angels singing. 27. Salty snacks or sweet treats? Growing up, I definitely preferred salty snacks. I liked candy and ice cream from birth, but I was not interested in cake or pie or cheesecake or pastries or anything of that nature. As I get older, I will shove anything sweet into my mouth without a second thought, and if I don't have at least a small piece of chocolate each day, I start to get itchy about it. 28. Are you usually a little early, a little late, or right on time? Ahem. 29. What is the most daring thing that you have ever done? I've done some stupid things, but I don't know that I'd call them daring. I am no daredevil. I seem to become more of a handwringer and worrywart with every passing year. 30. Have you ever met someone famous? Nope. 31. What was one of your favorite games as a child? We were big Super Mario Bros. fans at my house, and we were also obsessed with finishing Contra (we did) and Pitfall 2 (we did not). We played a lot of Othello and Stratego, but my sister was the major game player. I couldn't really be roused to care who'd win a board game. I still can't. I'm kind of ashamed that my sister, mother, and grandmother shared this awesome Scrabble bond but that I, lover of words, would fall asleep and start drooling on the table if attempting to play with them. 32. At what age have you looked your best? Based on compliments received by both friends and strangers, spring and summer of 2003; unfortunately, I was too miserable to remotely realize or enjoy it. 33. One person that never fails to make you laugh? 34. What was the first music that you ever bought? Madonna cassette tape, her first album. I was with Shelley and her dad at a record store near campus that is no longer there. 35. If you could change one thing about your family life when you were a child, what would it be? I wish I would not have written in my seventh grade diary that I wished I had Shelley's parents instead of my own because I had found all of my Christmas presents and they all sucked and I wish I had not been writing dirty stories and then torn them up and my mom had not found them in the garbage and and therefore become concerned that I was a sicko pervert and read my diary and confronted me and read what I'd written about my hating my parents and cried. 36. What is the one thing that you cook that always receives compliments? Brownies. 37. From what news source do you receive the bulk of your news? Websites of local newspaper and TV stations. 38. In the last calendar year, how many people have you told that you love them? A lot. 39. Who received your first kiss? My seventh grade boyfriend. 40. The single most important quality in a mate? Smarter than I am; brushes his teeth at least twice daily. 41. What do you value most in a relationship? Honesty. 42. Do you believe that you have a soulmate? No. 43. Do you consider yourself well organized? Hell no. 44. On average, how many times a day do you look at yourself in the mirror? Whenever I go to the bathroom, I guess, which is approximately 200 times per day, because my bladder is the size of an acorn. 45. Did you ever make a prank phone call? Yes. Those were good times. 46. What one quality do you seek in a friend? Loyalty. Like, that sense that no matter how much you might hate each other or just lose touch at certain points in your life, you'll always be there for each other when you need to be and you'll always have each other's backs if all hell breaks loose in one of your lives. 47. Have you ever killed an animal? No, but my dogs have killed a couple of birds and a duck, and it always me sad and makes me yell for my male neighbors so they can dispose of the corpses. 48. When you were twelve years old, what did you want to be when you grew up? An astronaut (obsession with Space Camp) or a marine biologist (obsession with A Ring of Endless Light). 49. Do you believe in an afterlife? Sometimes. 50. What would you like to accomplish with the remaining years of your life? I'd like to reach a state of health where I have more energy and feel less like a slothy piece of crap and more like a vibrant person. I realize this is tied to diet and exercise, neither of which I've paid any attention to the last few months, and I know that I need to turn that around, mostly because I honestly feel like shit most of the time. I'd like to fall in love and possibly B.A.C.K. (bear a coupla kids). I'd like to be able to cut the pet cord more often and travel and realize they will not perish or go insane if I leave them sometimes. I'd like to spend as much quality time with the people I love as I can so I'll have no regrets. About this time in ...
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