Sunday Stealing

Sunday Stealing

1. What was your proudest moment?

A. I should probably say my wedding day, but honestly I think it was when I received my master's degree.

 
2. What is your favorite childhood memory?

A. My grandmother holding me on her lap and singing "Daisy, Daisy" to me.

3. Describe your dream vacation.

A. It would be a year-long around the world vacation, with a guide, a personal assistant, and a massage therapist in a large private jet. (First, there would be a time machine and I'd be about 33 years old.) We would visit every single continent, spend time in Italy, New Zealand, Japan, Ireland, England, South Africa, Brazil, and see the pyramids, Machu Picchu, The Great Wall of China, Paris, St. Petersburg, etc. After that, I'd go up in a SpaceX ship and spend a week on the Space Station. I don't think I could take those confined quarters for any longer than a week.

Well, the question said "dream vacation" and didn't put limits on it.

4. Do you see yourself as an optimist, pessimist, or realist?  Why?

A. A realist with pessimistic leanings. I have learned over the years that the glass is always half empty and somebody else gets to drink the water. All I am able to do is look at it.

5. What is something you wanted to do as a child, but never got to do?

A. I wanted to go on an archeology dig and look for dinosaurs.

6. What board game do you hate the most?

A. I haven't played a board game in years. I don't recall hating any of them.

7. Describe the worst haircut you ever got.

A. That might be the one I had back in early March, or possibly a majority of the cuts I've had in the last 2 1/2 years since my regular stylist retired and I have had a difficult time finding a replacement. I've grown used to looking like a dog chewed up my hair.

8. What’s the worst job you ever had?

A. I took a job at a bank and stayed less than two months. It was the most boring, unthinking, rote work I have ever done in my life, and I sat at my desk and cried every day. It wasn't a bank, it was a credit union. One did not deal with customers, just opened envelopes with checks and made totals in columns. It was a real mess, because my parents banked there, and my father was quite angry with me for not sticking with the job. But I quit and went to college, which was where I wanted to be in the first place. We bank there now. That was almost 40 years ago.

9. What is one thing you want to be remembered for?

A. My writing, I suppose. I tried hard to educate the public on local issues.

10. On a scale of 1-10, what is the highest level of pain you’ve ever experienced?

A. Ten, after gallbladder surgery. The surgeon very unhelpfully left no orders for me to receive pain medication, because he was in a hurry to get to his tennis game, and I writhed in pain with nothing but Tylenol for several hours before someone from his practice finally gave the nursing staff the OK for pain meds. It's a good think his partner came in the next morning to send me home, because I think my husband would have punched him in the nose.

11. What fashion trend do you wish would go away?

A. I don't pay much attention to fashion. People can dress however they want.

12. What’s the weirdest dream you’ve ever had?

A. Most of mine are weird. I can't say that there are any that are weirder than the others.

13. What are 2 weaknesses you have?

A. I'm a bleeding heart and I take people at their word, generally, so I am easily lied to (and thus easily hurt).

14. How would you spend your 100th birthday?

A. I expect to spend it in the cemetery, but if I live that long, maybe someone will remember me and come visit.

15. What food/drinks would you pack in a picnic basket?

A. Sandwiches, Diet Dr. Pepper for my husband, bottles of water, potato chips, cookies, and a piece of cake for each of us.

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