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Here they are - 31 questions you asked for my 31st birthday. I didn’t get to answer everybody, but everyone that asked something is listed & linked somewhere.
1. Brit Different: What’s your favourite board game?
This is going to peg me as the total dork I am, but it’s Trivial Pursuit. I am a-mazing at trivia, and I was actually on the “team” in high-school.
2. Laski: In the movie of you’re life, who would play you? Goes well with: Roger: What is your favorite movie, since you were born & before you were born?
I have actually thought about this quite often. It would have to be someone short, who could pull off my extreme klutzy well. I’d have to say Anne Hathaway – cause if you saw her eyebrows in Princess Diaries, that’s me. Favorite movies: 1. The English Patient & 2. Gone With the Wind
3. Janet: What wouldn’t I blog about.
I kinda said this a few months back: politics and religion – although I think most of you know where I stand.
4. If Mom Says OK: When did you first realize you LOVED football? How did you become The Fanatic?
Up until I was 12, I actually hated football. I would attend my older brother’s games and play in the sand outside the stadium. I have no clue why, but my 8th grade year something clicked and I just “got” it. From that point on, I was just a nut. Puppy always says he wouldn’t have been able to marry me if I didn’t love it like he did. And, I got his friends’ approval for knowing my pigskin.
5. Wright: Are there things you miss about Houston? Now that I’m living here, what are things I should go do or go see?
Oh, without a doubt – considering I look for jobs daily in order for us to move home. I miss the laid-back atmosphere where nearly everyone smiles and is friendly. I miss the familiarity of the things that scream “home” to me. And, of course, I miss my family, especially my mother, who is my best friend. If you haven’t been to all the museums, I’d suggest the Rothko Chapel. It’s awe-inspiring.
Vocations:
6. Milk Breath & Margaritas: What would your dream job be - like the thing you wish you could do even if you could never be qualified to do it?
Is it possible to have two? The first is an Intellectual Property Lawyer (I don’t have the engineering degree required nowadays) or one who does the legal work on copyright and trademarks. The second would be working in publishing – ideally in the textbook division, or in historical fiction. I was actually asked to interview with a big name publishing house just out of college, but they were located on the 19th floor – and my motion sickness extends to tall buildings that sway, so I couldn’t even go to the interview.
7. Jill Jill Bo Bill: What do you see yourself doing in five years?
Realistically or Ideally? I hope I’ll have two kids, a dopey loving husband, and a house in West Houston. If the kids are all in school, I’ll be in law school.
8. MamaGeek: Tell me what inspires you.
I think more than anything else, that would be Knute. On days I am at my worst and wanting to go join a commune somewhere, all he has to do is smile and tell me he loves me and I melt into a puddle of goo.
The Silly Ones:
9. Audobon Ron: Is it rude for a deaf person to talk (sign) with their mouth full of food?
Have you not ever met anyone Italian? It’s not only polite to sign, it’s pretty much imperative to add emphasis. Besides, who likes looking at half-masticated food?
10. Melissa K: how many licks does it take to get to the middle of a tootsie pop?
I bow down to Mr. Owl: 3
11. Mom to 3 Cubs: Do you remember a birthday cake from when you were a kid? What was special about it? AND Momisodes: What was your best gift?
Oddly, yes. I remember a Garfield one from when I was 4. It was the time when you could get a cake made without having to pay for the “licensed” versions and I just loved how orange the icing was. The gift would be all the ones from when I was 11 and I opened all the presents under the tree that were “from Santa” & I told my mom he gave them to me for my birthday. From that point on - even now - I have never had a Santa gift under the tree.
12. Magneto: Toilet paper, scrunch or fold?
Onesies: scrunch Twosies: fold
Appearance:
13. Chaos Is Us: What is one thing that you do on a daily basis that would throw your whole day off if you couldn’t do it anymore?
Puppy says, “Blog.” I think probably have my morning cuppa. If mama doesn’t have that jolt, she’s liable to turn violent.
14. Poltzie: I’d like to know how you got so skinny? Is it natural or is there hope for me?
Toots, with this junk in the trunk? I ain’t skinny. Sadly, I’m up three dress sizes and 30 pounds heavier than when I got married almost 10 years ago. Chase a toddler around a little; that certainly keeps you somewhat fit. Eat in moderation and don’t eat if you aren’t really hungry. Don’t keep foods around that tempt (see #23)
15. Can’t Hardly Wait: if you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? physical or any other way.
Physically: That’s easy. My PCOS causes me to have loads of unwanted hair. I’ve spent a fortune on electrolysis, but I am fighting a tough battle. If I could change anything, I would ditch the hair.
Character-wise: I am forever holding grudges. It’s a horrible flaw I would love to change about myself. That and biting my toenails so I could actually get a pedicure - which answers Really Are You Serious‘ question about toes: painted, unpainted, indiferent.
Anglophilia:
16. RandomMommy: Why the obsession with all things Anglo? Is there a background story?
The short of it: my dad loved Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk, and all the old Errol Flynn movies. I was quickly indoctrinated & then fell for Prince William. The more history I studied, the more I loved how England emerged, and by the time I got to college, I focused exclusively on anything I could take that was British or Medieval.
17. Joyce-Anne: If you could meet someone living or deceased who would it be? Why?
I had to think on this the longest, but I think it’d be the real person who inspired the King Arthur legends, because his is a story that has remained popular for upwards of 1500 years. It is widely believed he was Welsh – not British.
18. Mumof4: Would you like to ever live in another country? And if it’s my side of the pond, England, Scotland, Ireland or Wales?
I would love to live on your side of the pond, and I tell Puppy I want a summer house “over there” when we retire. I have to pick one place? Yikes. Scotland, near Edinburgh.
19. Glow Stars: What things from the UK that you can’t readily get hold of down your neck of the woods do you really really wish you could lay your hands on.
Cadbury’s! All the yummy chocolates. I’m proud that I am able to drink my PG Tips (answers Tiaras & Tantrums tea question) every morning, my HP Sauce (Houses of Parliament – it’s a condiment) on my steaks, and my Crunchies (candy bar) when I need a sugar fix.
20. Long Ayelander: Do you think you’ll ever make it over to the UK?
If it’s possible to be comatose from the point I arrive in the airport to the point I land at Heathrow (answers Taking What is Left’s airplane question), I’d be there tomorrow and playing at Harrod’s within half an hour of landing.
21. BusyMomof4: What is your favorite Starbucks drink?
I think you know I don’t like coffee. I do adore my Iced Chai Tea Lattes, though.
22. Playgroupie: If you could choose a name for yourself, what would it be? What names did you pretend to be when you were a kid?
When I was a kid it was either Jessica or Amanda. As I got older, and even now, I think I am much more of an “Elizabeth” than a “Holly.”
23. JerseyGirl: What food can you not have in your house because if you do you eat it until it’s all gone?
Prior to pregnancy? I would’ve said nothing. From the second Knute attached? Cupcakes with buttercream frosting. They are the reason I gained 80 pounds and why I’ll never lose all of it.
24. Marmite & Tea: what was the thing that surprised you most when you became a Mum?
I was floored when I realized my time was no longer my own. My whole life revolved around naps and going to bed at 7pm. It was very eye-opening.
25. Seeking Sanity: What is the best compliment you ever received?
Like I said, my mother was an amazing mom (still is) and she’s my best friend. The first time she told me I was a wonderful mother is still the best compliment I’ve ever gotten.
The naughty ones that might get me in trouble:
26. Tranny: How was The First Time for you? BWAHAHAHA! partnered with Kaytabug’s What would my stripper name be.
Hmm. I remember thinking, “All that time waiting - for that!” And, that’s all you’re getting. A name: Duchess Desiree
27. Mom24/7: Do you and puppy do anything special to make sure you ’stay connected’? What’s your favorite ‘date’?
Yikes. I dunno. After nearly 14 years of being together, it’s more basic than it was originally. We love to watch old sitcoms together. Our favorite ‘date’ is the snuggling we do first thing in the morning after the alarm goes off. He just holds me for the length of a snooze, and it keeps the “us” grounded and in the forefront.
28. Allison: Do you have a “list”? (People you would have sex with besides your husband if ever given the opportunity.) Who’s on it?
I actually posted about this a few weeks after starting. It’s changed a bit, but obviously, Christian is still king – that man + that accent = knickers dropped and all vows off. From the original list, Edward Norton is still there & so is Brad Pitt (the one from A River Runs Through It)
29. Screed In Time: You are going to be stranded on an island for three years; what five books would you bring?
1. Pride & Prejudice – my favorite 2. Gone With the Wind – my other favorite 3. the bible – I would finally have time to read it all the way through 4. The Count of Monte Cristo – likewise..I keep saying I’ll read it and never get around to it. 5. Outlander
30. SuburbSanity: You have to go on a week’s trip with your FIL. Where do you go?
This ties in with the above nicely, right? I’d add a book on how to exorcise in with the others. Oh, boy. I think we’d go to Vatican City. For every time I committed a mortal sin by not honoring my father (4th commandment), there’d be a priest right there to hear my confession.
So sweet!
31. Lou: How does it feel to be so very well loved by so many people you have never met?
I’m very honored you asked/said that. I don’t know that I’m so well-loved, but with me, what you see is what you get. I’m brutally honest, I have the ability to laugh at myself, and I try to be the kind of friend I would want to have in a friend: loyal, generous, and sympathetic. And, you guys inspire and amaze me on a daily basis. I love y’all, just as much as y’all love me.
"A woman is like a teabag - you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." - Eleanor Roosevelt