50 Questions

The Adult Meme

1. What bill do you hate paying the most?
We switched jobs a few years ago, and I don't pay any bills. I tended to get a little on the obsessive side when I paid them. I hate credit card bills the most.

2. Favorite place to eat a romantic dinner?
N!col!no's. Or in a cabin in Maine. Or Ydra, in Greece.

3. Last time you puked from drinking?
I think it was the spring of my sophomore year in college, so that would be 1984. Two times is all it took for me to figure out this was a bad thing.

4. When is the last time you got drunk and woke up in a strange place?
Unless you count 'waking up' with my face in the toilet, I've never done this.

5. Name of your first grade teacher?
Miss Campbell, and Mrs. Potter (for reading).

6. What do you really want to be doing right now?
Uhm, virtually anywhere but at work. I'd also like everything I need to do there be done, past, over with.

7. What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Briefly, a teacher. A grocery store checker. A geologist. There was a moment of thinking about being a doctor. A dancer.

8. How many schools did you attend up through grade 12?
3 buildings, same school district.

9. Why did you wear the shirt that you have on right now?
It didn't clash with the pants I put on this morning, and it was near the front of the closet. Unfortunately, that's how I pick a lot of my clothes.

10. Gas prices! First thought?
I hate Exxon and Mobil, and all the others, too.

11. If you could move anywhere and take someone with you, where would you go and who would you take?
I'd move to the mountains of Colorado with Beast and Sparky.

12. First thought when the alarm went off this morning?
I woke up at 4:30 when Beast's alarm went off, or when he got up anyway. I only dozed for the next 2 hours until mine went off at 6:20. My first thought when he got up was "I've got SO MUCH work to do!!"

13. Last thought before falling asleep last night?
"I've got so much work to do!!"

14. Favorite style of underwear?
Whatever is clean and on the top of the pile, based on whatever pants I'll be wearing.

15. Favorite style of underwear for the opposite sex?
None. As in wearing...none.

16. What errand/chore do you despise?
Grocery shopping, or even more specifically, Sam's Club shopping.

17. If you didn't have to work, would you?
I'd want to do something productive. Yes.

18. Sex or sleep?
What kind of choice is this?? Realistically, of late (see the answers above), I need sleep.

19. Your favorite cartoon character?
Mighty Mouse. Or Rocky (of Rocky & Bullwinkle).

20. Favorite non-sexual thing to do at night with a girl/boy?
Hysterical laughter. Sleeping is nice too.

21. A secret that you wouldn't mind everyone knowing?
This sort of defeats the purpose of a secret...

22. What was your first car?
My mom let me drive the '71 Corolla when she got a new car while I was in high school.

23. Your best "Your Mamma" joke?
I seem to have outgrown these a couple of decades ago.

24. Your favorite lunch meat?
Braunschweiger.

25. What do you get every time you go into a WAWA?
Presumably it's this WAWA, but since I've never heard of it...

26. Beach or shore?
Two in a row...I don't get it: what's the difference?

27. Do you think marriage is an outdated ritual that was invented by people who died at 20?
No, though I do think that people who honestly think that people used to "die at 20" should be strung up by their 'nads.

28. Who do you stalk?
In person, absolutely no one. Online, does a blogroll count?

29. Favorite guilty pleasure?
Pistachios.

30. Favorite movie you wouldn't want anyone to find out about?
The Sound of Music.

31. What's your drink?
Alcoholic: Vodka tonic (lime if avail)
Non-Alc: Diet Dr. Pepper

32. Cowboys or Indians?
I hate the Cowboys! My husband is from Cleveland.
Take a guess.

33. Cops or robbers?
Do love the show "Cops."

34. Do you cheer for the bad guys?
Define bad. But normally, no. I tend to cheer for whoever I think is the most right (or least wrong), or the smartest. That last criteria tends to eliminate a lot of "bad guys."

35. Norm or Cliff?
A bullet in my forehead.

36. The Cosby Show or the Simpsons?
Cosby

37. Worst relationship mistake that you wish you could take back?
A long list of mindless assumptions about friendships that didn't actually exist.

38. Do you like the person who sits directly across from you at work?
There are walls on two sides of my cube. The third side is open. The fourth side, someone is sitting there maybe 2 hours a day. I like her more than anyone else at work, though.

39. If you could get away with it, who would you kill?
Do you really expect me to post this list? This list is so long right now, I'd need a separate blog.
On the other hand, I wouldn't really ever "get away with it," would I? Me and my guilty conscience and God would always know.

40. What famous person would you like to have dinner with?
In line with the previous question, I think I'd choose to dine, alone, with Dubya.

41. What famous person would you like to sleep with?
Presumably, this is a euphemism? If we're sleeping, I'm not sure it matters. If there are other activities planned, I think I'd choose...uhm...Bjorn Borg. We might as well make the choice as much of a fantasy as the concept.

42. Have you ever had to use a fire extinguisher for its intended purpose?
No, actually.

43. Last book you read for real?
As opposed to reading something for not-real?
I'm working on The Brothers K.

44. Do you have a teddy bear?
I have multiple stuffed animals, but none that sleep with me (except Beast).

45. Strangest place you have ever had sex?
Strange to who?
OK, I came pretty close to sex on the living room floor in my best friend's parents' house with a friend of her younger brother while he was sleeping on the couch next to us.

46. Strangest place you have ever wanted to have sex?
If the floors in most libraries weren't always concrete under the carpet....! ;-)
But seriously, there've probably been many. I can't think of anyplace too weird right now.

47. How many times a day do you text?
Too cheap to text.

48. At this point in your life would you rather start a new career or relationship?
Is "hermit" a career? Or a "relationship"?

49. Do you go to church?
Yup.

50. Pencil or Pen?
Depends. I like mechanical pencils a lot, but I like pens too. I'm kind of a stationery-store freak, actually. The more writing utensils, the merrier.