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F.A.B.

F. Film: What movie or tv show are you watching?

A. We have been watching Sheriff Country. We were watching Brilliant Minds, but it seems to have been removed from the schedule. When we can't find anything else to watch, we watch Downton Abbey. 

A. Audio: What are you listening to?

A. I am listening to The Black Wolf, by Louise Penny.

B. Book: What are you reading?

A. I am reading Mary Johnston: Memoirs.

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Random Revelations

1. Is your phone Apple or Android? What about your laptop?

A. I have an iPhone. My laptop is a Dell, though not a very good one.

2. Can you say "thank you" in more than one language?

A. Gracias. 

3. What do you draw when you doodle?

A. I draw lines, doodles, loops, sometimes little people.

4. Which do you enjoy more, Scrabble or bowling?

A. Scrabble. I haven't been bowling in at least 35 years.

5. Can you juggle?

A. I cannot juggle, unless you are talking about multitasking. In that case, I juggle the laundry, a phone call, and a word processing program all at once sometimes.

6. Have you ever worn pajamas in public?

A. I do not recall ever wearing pajamas in public, except at the hospital when I had to walk up and down hallways with my little IV thing attached to me.

7. Was your best subject in school the one you enjoyed the most?

A. My best subject was always English, followed by history, and I enjoyed them both.

8. When you're offered the senior discount before you ask for it, are you offended or grateful?

A. I would love to have every senior discount available, but I am seldom offered them.

9. Do you agree that with age comes wisdom?

A. No, because I know some older folks who obviously never learned a thing.

10. Do you consider Sunday the first day of the week or the last day of the weekend? 

A. This is a good question. It has always puzzled me that Sunday is the first day of the week on the calendar but it's the day everyone goes to church, which is supposed to be the Sabbath. Monday always seemed like it should be the first day of the week to me.

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Have You Ever ...

1) Skipped school?

A. Yes. I used to skip 6th period, which was band class, where I played the flute. My other band, the one where I played guitar in joints on the weekends, the five of us skipped school one day and went together to see The Rose at the theater. We all came out crying, even the guys.

 

2) Lettered in a school sport?

A. I lettered in band, which is not exactly a sport, and I was a member of the National Honor Society.

 

3) Made a prank phone call?

A. Of course, but that was like, 55 years ago.

 

4) Paid for a meal with coins?

A. Maybe when I was young. We still pay with cash at restaurants, so we don't eat at restaurants that don't take cash. I won't let my credit card out of my sight, and the wait staff always want to walk off with them.

5) Laughed until some sort of beverage came out of your nose?

A. I think I have done that, yes, but I can't recall when. Or what beverage, although it was probably either a Dr. Pepper or a Diet Coke.

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Thursday Thunks

1. It's the middle of the night. There isn't another car in sight. You're stuck at a red light that just won't change. How long do wait until you run it?

A. Probably not very long, although with my luck there would be a police car with no lights on it hiding behind a bush somewhere.

2. What's your favorite recipe?

A. Anything I don't have to cook. Otherwise, I suppose it's my grandmother's recipe for what she called Chocolate Lush.

3. When did you last ask yourself, "What the hell was I thinking?"

A. Every day. I ask myself that every day.

4. Have you ever had a mole removed? If yes, where on your body was it?

A. I had a huge mole removed from my chest when I was five years old. I was born with it and it covered most of my chest. It was shaped like a bullet and had white spots in it. I have been told it was precancerous so that is why they removed it. I have a huge scar on my chest in between my breasts where they cut it out. When I was in school, I used to tell my gym teachers I couldn't take gym because I'd had heart surgery and wasn't feeling well. If they argued with me, I would raise my shirt and show them the scar. It was hard to argue with a massive scar in the middle of my chest.

5. What website do you faithfully check (other than email)?

A. I do Wordle, I check Facebook once a day, and I play my Elvenar video game in my browser every day. I read the New York Times and The Roanoke Times online.

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National Oreo Cookie Day

1. Are you able to pass by a plate of cookies and not take one or are you a bit of a "Cookie Monster?"

A. It depends on the cookie. Chocolate chip? I'm there. Something with coconut in it? You can keep those.

2. Tell us about your favorite cookie. Have your tastes changed since you were a kid?

A. My favorite cookie is chocolate chip. I think it has always been my favorite cookie.

3. Enquiring minds want to know if you are a dunker and, if so, do you dunk in milk, coffee, or tea?

A. I am not a cookie dunker.

4. It is that time of year and they are selling them on every corner and in front of every store!  Do you buy Girl Scout cookies and if you do, which is your favorite?

A. I do not buy Girl Scout cookies. I suppose someone sells them locally, I just don't know where.

5. Raw cookie dough. Yay or Nay?

A. Yay!

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Survey Asks . . . 

1. Did you/will you have coffee or some other form of caffeine today?

A. I do not drink coffee or colas. Unless there is caffeine in chocolate, and I think there is maybe a smidge, I don't get caffeine. 

2. Who did you last have a text conversation with and what was it about? 

A. My last conversation was with an old friend, and she was telling me about a visit from her sister.

3. Are there regular trains in and out of your town/city? 

A. My county has trains that go through it regularly, but no stops.

4. Have you ever been hospitalized due to dehydration?

A. No, but I have been hospitalized for other health issues.

5. Someone texts/IMs you just as you’re about to go to sleep. Do you reply? 

A. Not unless it is an emergency.

6. Do you grind your teeth?

A. I do grind my teeth, yes.

7. When you listen to music with headphones, do you keep the volume low enough to hear surrounding noise, or do you blast it?

A. I try not to listen to music with headphones. I don't like them.

8. Are you wearing nail polish?

A. I do not wear nail polish. I am allergic to it.

9. Do you have an ice maker in your refrigerator door?

A. I have an ice maker in the upper freezer of the refrigerator, but not in the door.

10. Do you have a friend named James?

A. I have a husband by that name.

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Word Association. Share what comes to mind when you hear the word ...

1. Biscuit - Gravy

2. Crayon - Color

3. Warmth - Sun

4. Flip - Flop

5. Slush - Mud

6. Wing - Bird

7. Candle - Wax

8. Cinnamon - Buns

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Things I Love Beginning with S 

1. Smarties candy, because I never grew up.

2. Sweetheart, my one and only for 42 years.

3. Songbirds and their sweet refrain of melody.

4. Stories, the ones I write and the ones I read.

5. Sunlight when it casts a glow over everything.

6. Sunday Stealing, of course! 

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One Word Answers ONLY

1. Where is your cell phone? - Desk

2. Tell us about your hair. - Gray

3. What's your favorite thing? - Sunshine

4. What room are you in? - Office

5. Where did you grow up? - Country

6. What aren't you good at? - Drawing

7.  Your favorite drink? - Water

8. Where do you want to be in 10 years? - Alive

9. Your mood. - Eh

10. Last time you cried. - Funeral

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The Old School Blogging Meme

I am passionate about ...

1) Words

2) Music

3) My husband

4) Nature

5) Thinking

 

I'd like to learn ...

1) Spanish (again)

2) A different musical instrument

3) How to paint

4) How to make a movie

5) What happens to a soul

Things I say a lot ...

1) Interesting

2) You mean like . . .

3) I'm sorry

4) I love you

5) I don't know

Places I'd like to travel to ...

1) Ireland

2) Scotland

3) New Zealand

4) England

5) The Grand Canyon

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Here are 10 things that make me happy:

1. A good pair of sneakers.

2. A glass of water.

3. A working mouse on my computer.

4. A guitar.

5. Music.

6. Brushing my teeth.

7. Apple pie.

8. Audiobooks.

9.  Clocks.

10. Completed paperwork.

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3 x 5

Three things I love (Remember, these are things, not people):

1. Books
2. Notebooks
3. Guitars

Three things on my desk:

1. A calculator
2. A tin whistle
3. Scissors

Three things I can't do:

1. Pee in the wind. I am not anatomically set up for that.
2. Scale a cliff.
3. Make people love me.

Three things I'm good at:

1. Writing.
2. Reading.
3. Photography.

Three things I want to accomplish:

1. Write a book (never going to happen, I guess, but things change).
2. Visit the Grand Canyon with my husband, who has never seen it.
3. Finish the bookkeeping so I can turn over the taxes to the accountant.
 
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When I Was Young

1. Tell us about a time when your family got a newfangled invention (your first air conditioner, color TV, VCR, microwave, computer, etc.).

A. I remember when my brother received an Atari for Christmas. This was the first year they were out, and my father found him one by just happening to be at a store when they were being unloaded. The store owner said all of them were claimed, and my father said, "Yes, but I'm standing here with cash," and thus snagged one of the games. Or so the story goes. It played Pong, as I recall.

2. Is there a particular song that sparks a childhood memory?

A. "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious! If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!" I had a little jukebox-like music player that played this song, along with "Do Re Me" from the Sound of Music. It was through careful listening that I eventually learned that the latter song did not say, "Te, a drink with Jane and Fred" but instead said, "Te, a drink with jam and bread."

3. What is something an older family member taught you to do?

A. My mother taught me to knit and crochet, although I am not very good at either one.

4. Back in the day, what name brands would we have found in your family's kitchen?

A. Kraft Mayonnaise, Capt'n Crunch, Kraft American Cheese, Valley Dale weiners, Oscar Meyer bologna.

5. As a child, did you collect anything (rocks, shells, stickers, etc.)?

A. I once had a small collection of quartz rocks, which I hid in the rocks along the creek bank. There was a nice hidey hole in a ledge in the creek in an area where I wasn't supposed to be. I wonder if they are still there, of if they've been flooded out or otherwise sent swirling downstream.

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Questions to Answer when You Need a Break 

1. What would you rather be doing right now?

A. I'm doing exactly what I want to be doing.

2. What is always on your grocery list?

A. Chicken.

3. Have you ever used a fire extinguisher for its intended purpose?

A. I have never used a fire extinguisher for anything.

4. How many times did you text yesterday?

A. A couple. I don't text a lot.

5. Would you prefer a slow-paced, relaxing vacation or one filled with new sights and experiences?

A. We like to go to one place and hang out and learn about the area. Visit the tourist traps and find out which restaurant the locals really like, that sort of thing. We are not travelers who flit from motel to motel, bouncing around without actually seeing where we are.

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F.A.B.

F. Film: What movie or tv show are you watching?

A. We are watching season 2 of Fallout on Amazon. It's dystopian science fiction. We are also rewatching Downton Abbey, The Lord of the Rings movies off and on, and I exercise to JAG.

A. Audio: What are you listening to?

A. My current audiobook is Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

B. Book: What are you reading?

A. I am currently reading Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty. It's the second in a trilogy about genies and magic.

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Stealing Some Fun

1. Describe your favorite cake.

A. I like a white cake with white icing. You'd think I would prefer a chocolate cake, but no.

2. Think of the best party you've ever attended. Were you a host or a guest?

A. The best party I ever attended was hosted by my then-boyfriend and now husband. It was a snow party. He lit a huge bonfire on top of the hill on the farm, and half the neighborhood came. We drank beer and we climbed into upside down car hoods and flew over the deep snow to the bottom. After we all fell over laughing from the ride, my guy loaded us back into the car hood and hauled us back up with a tractor, so we didn't have to walk back, and we all drank a bit and then did the ride all over again. At some point someone else took over tractor duty so my guy could ride the drifts, too. 

 
3. When you choose a greeting card, do you pay more attention to the words or the pictures?

A. I pay attention to the words.

4. What's your favorite holiday?

A. Halloween is my favorite holiday, but I don't celebrate it. I like the idea of a thin veil between worlds, and things that go bump in the night.

5. Who is your favorite character on your favorite TV show?

A. I don't have a favorite TV show at the moment. In the past, I have gravitated toward women in strong roles, like Cagney & Lacy, Captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager, Xena: Warrior Princess, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Maybe at the moment my favorite character is Lucy in Fallout on Amazon, but that's a push.
 
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Catherine's Questions

1) What one word describes your personality?

A. Neurotic, according to some people. I prefer "eccentric."

 

2) What's the best way to get on your good side?

A. Be kind, not only to me, but to others.

 

3) What person do you feel most comfortable with?

A. My husband.

4) Do you handle criticism well?

A. Who are you calling defensive and thin-skinned? I have never! I handle criticism perfectly well, thank you very much!

 

5) Are you the type to tell someone, if asked, that their pants DO make them look fat?

A. No, I would never tell someone that. I might say, well, I think they don't fit as well as some others you have, or something like that.

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Stolen from Tom

1) What was the scariest thing in the world to you when you were a kid? Does it still scare you now?

A. This is a difficult question to answer. The scariest thing "in the world" to me as a child was not something like spiders and snakes, but the adults in my life. They do not scare me now.

 

2) Imagine your 12-year-old daughter (or granddaughter) is hosting a sleepover at your home. A sudden storm knocks out cellphone service, wifi and cable. How would you keep these suddenly unplugged pre-teens entertained?

A. A game of Scrabble, or card games. Maybe I would teach them how to play poker. We could also do sing-a-longs because I can't imagine any child of mine (or grandchild of mine) not knowing how to play a little guitar. We could play "truth or dare" or "never have I ever." Whether or not they'd go along with those suggestions would be another story, but maybe they'd enjoy it.

 

3) What piece of movie or TV memorabilia would you love to own?

A. I would love to own the One Ring from the original Lord of the Rings movie (I have a facsimile of it, but I want the one that Frodo carried). Failing that, someone could get me a signed photo from Lindsay Wagner from the Bionic Woman at her Bionic50 page. She's got things up for sale to celebrate because it's been 50 years since the show aired (damn, I am old). I thought about buying myself one of those Facetime-for-an-hour experiences, but I have no idea what I would say to Lindsay Wagner for an hour. "Gee, I liked your show when I was 12, but I rewatched it recently and thought the writing was inane in the third season" probably is not a good conversation starter.

4) You are gifted with the services of a personal assistant for four hours. What would you ask your assistant to do?

A. Clean up my office or do the bookkeeping. There's not enough time for both, and in four hours she'd just make a little headway.

 

5) If literary characters were real, which one would you like to interview, and what would you ask?

A. I recently reread The Scarlett Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, so let's interview Hester Prynne and find out why she went back to live out her sentence instead of staying in England with her daughter.

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Since it's Thanksgiving weekend, we're going to keep this simple. We stole this from a blogger named Idzie, who called this the F.A.B. (film, audio, book) meme.

F.A.B.

F. Film: What movie or tv show are you watching? 

A. I watch JAG when I am walking on the treadmill, and we recently started in on the 12+ hours of The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

A. Audio: What are you listening to?

A. My current audiobook is Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney. 

B. Book: What are you reading?

A. I am finishing up the latest edition of The Atlantic magazine, and then I will start Paper Girl, by Beth Macy.

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Revisiting Steph

1) Has anyone ever told you "I love you" but you didn't say it back?

A. Not that I recall. If it happened, it wasn't a traumatic event.

 

2) Do you consider yourself organized?

A. I do not consider myself organized.

 

3) Where do you look first when you go clothes shopping?

A. I look in the plus sized women's section.

4) Do you often reflect on your past in terms of eras or milestones ("it's been 10 years since X happened")?

A. I don't do it often, but I do it sometimes when those dates roll back around.

 

5) Were you more recently ill or injured (flu vs. twisted ankle)?

A. I was ill back in the summer.

 

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