Sunday Stealing

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Fun Fifteen

1. You have been awarded the time off from work and an all-expenses paid week anywhere in the United States. The catch is that it must be somewhere you have not been before. Where do you choose to visit?

"Anywhere I haven't been," eh? OK, then: Hawaii it is.

2. Name your guilty pleasures.

Sugar. Candy, cookies, ice cream, cake, you name it; if it's made of sugar, I'm pretty much there.

3. The best kind of milkshake is:

Butterscotch, but I prefer a malt over a shake.

4. What do you value most in other people?

Humor.

5. Be honest. Do you sneak some raw cookie dough when you’re baking cookies?

You might want to check out #2 for a refresher. I don't usually bake cookies--and not just because I don't usually have cookie dough around.

6. Have you ever looked back at your life and realized that something you thought was a bad thing was actually a blessing in disguise?

Yes, so many times. The roughest times are also the times I've done a lot of learning and growing. Freshman year in college, 1000 miles from home and as homesick as it's possible to be having never been away from family more than a couple of nights, was a particularly steep learning curve.

7. What is the most beautiful place you have ever visited?

Diametric opposites for a tie: the Rocky Mountains and the Aegean.

8. Are you more of a thinker or a feeler?

I'm pretty good at disconnecting emotions in a crisis, but I'm more of a feeler usually.

9. Name three things you are thankful for right now.

Air conditioning, inspiring sermons at church, and afternoon naps during NASCAR races. Re the latter, there really isn't a better background noise than the engines of racecars on TV for sleeping.

10. Have you ever participated in a three-legged race?

Oh my! Yes, I think? Has to be forty years ago though. Y'know, they really should put that in the Olympics--what a ticket-seller that would be!

11. When you are at an event that plays the National Anthem, do you place your hand over your heart?

Of course I do: I'm a Midwesterner! I sing, too.

12. Have you ever been on the wrong side of the law?

Uhm, I speed in my car every day. Much worse than that, though, not so much.

13. When was the last time you unintentionally surprised someone else?

I scared the living shit out of someone at work the other day: she leapt up and forward in her chair when I said her name. By the time, she'd pulled herself together and I'd stopped apologizing, I'd forgotten what I needed to ask her.

14. When was the last time you deliberately surprised someone else?

I can't remember. I think we did a party for someone this year sometime, but I can't remember details, not even the 'surprisee.'

15. What was the last really funny movie you watched?

I can't remember. We did catch most of "The War of the Worlds" (Tom Cruise, et al.) last weekend, but I can't think of a comedy we've watched.