I saw this idea to ask yourself twenty random questions. I liked that idea, so here goes...
1. What is your least favorite household chore? Dusting. It just gets dusty a few minutes after one does the chore, so why bother. Dusting to me usually involves water and a pail. I do it once a year, weather it needs it or not. Or at least when guests come, and not the playgroup kinda guests. The other mothers of youngin's must learn to ignore dust.
2. Where would you go to visit if money was no object? Mediterranean cruise for a year. I don't think I could adequately explore with just a week or two. And one must guarantee I will get safely back to the states. I have this fear of travel outside the continental US.
3. What is the scariest thing that has ever happened to you? I was chosen to speak at a national convention when I was running a fitness center for the elderly. When I received the phone call that I would be speaking, I literally froze on the phone. I could not even write down the pertinent info, so I had to ask her to repeat herself. Then, flying out to L.A., looking at the room in which I was to speak, knowing that there would be over 300 in attendance. Wow, wow, wow. I hyperventilated in the hotel the morning of, and spilled my water on my lap as I was being introduced. If I remember correctly, I did well, but it truthfully is one of those moments one feels like they are outside themselves.
4. What is the way you handle stress? Eating, ignoring, eating, or going into hyper-drive. And did I mention eating?
5. If you could own any car, what would it be? One that is paid for and gets 30 miles per gallon or more. I really do not care what I drive as long as it is not making a huge dent in our pocketbook.
6. Least likely to be voted...? Best singer. I am tone deaf, a fact I discovered in college when I asked a dorm friend to teach me to sing "I will survive" by Gloria Gaynor ( "At first I was amazed...I was petrified...Thinking I could never live without you by my side..." Now try getting that song out of your head). He was in musical theater and said "Sure." Then he heard me sing, and told me to never do that again. I have taken his advice and now know there IS something I am not good at.
7. Make the bed or not make the bed? I tend to throw the quilt over the bed. However it lands, it stays that way. Unless DadOfAllTrades is home. Then he adjusts it perfectly as if he had a ruler in his hip pocket. If he is at work in the morning when I toss, he just adjusts it later upon his arrival home. See how different we are and how we have had to learn to adjust to each other's weaknesses? Ahh, marital bliss.
8. You are in the checkout line. What do you do to pass the time? Depends. If I am with my boys, I usually am removing things from little hands and saying "no, we do not need another chap stick." If I am by my lonesome, then I scan the tabloid covers and wonder why anyone would want to be a celebrity. Then I stare at what the person in front of me is buying; wondering what they are making for dinner. Then I shift weight. Then I zone out and usually forget to give the cashier the store card for discounts until halfway through. It is around this point that I remember that I forgot something like milk or bread.
9. A spare hour in the afternoon. What do you do? Sleep. I love me some naps. No other choice here.
10. If you could dine with any famous person, who would it be? This is one of those questions that makes my heart go pitter patter. I have this irrational fear of authority. I once ran into the local weatherman, the guy on the TV nightly, at my church. I mean, RAN INTO him and almost knocked him down. I spent the next ten seconds staring at him wide eyed and open mouthed like a kid. Couldn't even say "I'm sorry for hurting you." So, if I could have a meal of not being tongue tied, I guess it would have to be Jesus or Steven King or maybe John Travolta. I know, wide range of personalities there, but they all seem so interesting to me.
Stay tuned for questions 11-20.
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