From Hillbillie

[teresafloyd]

1. What bill do you hate paying the most?
Any kind of insurance – what a rip-off!

2. Where was the last place you had a romantic dinner?
On our honeymoon, my spouse and I ran out of money and couldn’t get our debit cards to work, so we spent our last few dollars on a couple of steaks, potatoes, and onions.  We roasted the food on our campfire and ate it by flashlight, sharing the one real knife we’d brought.

3. Last time you puked from drinking?
1986.
Wow, me too.  I think I smoked too much that night.

4. …last time you got drunk and danced at a bar?
1988.  My first anniversary and I danced with a pal who was celebrating her divorce that day.

5. Name of your first grade teacher?
Rita Munn.  We were her last class before she retired and she cried at the end of the year.  Kind of freaked us all out.

6. What do you really want to be doing right now?
Sleeping.

7. What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Alive.  Childhood was kind of not much fun.

8. How many colleges did you attend?
One, with a few courses from another.

9. Why did you choose the shirt that you have on right now?
It was the one on the top of the stack on the floor when I got home from work.

10. Gas Prices?
I want a viable alternative.  Now, please!  At least my boss pays for almost all of the gas I burn.

11. If you could move anywhere and take someone with you?
I can’t imagine living anywhere but here.

12. First thought when the alarm went off this morning?
Some kind of confusion about what that music was.

13. Last thought before going to sleep last night?
I think I’ll read for a bit.  Nah, I’m not kidding anyone.

14. Favorite style of underwear?
Clean.

15. Favorite style of underwear for the opposite sex?
Clean!

16. What errand/chore do you despise?
Anything involving a telephone.

17. If you didn't have to work, would you volunteer?
To be totally honest, probably not.  I hate social structures and all the in-fighting and back-stabbing that seems to go on in volunteer organizations.  I would go out to pick up trash on my own though, stuff like that.

18. Get up early or sleep in?
Get up early in the summer.  Sleep in during the winter.

19. What is your favorite cartoon character?
Old Spiderman.

20. Favorite NON sexual thing to do at night with a girl/guy?
Talk.

21. Have you found real love yet?
I think so.

22. When did you first start feeling old?
Very, very early.  See my answer to #7.

23. Favorite 80's movie?
Due to lack of money, I didn’t see many then, but I like Purple Rain now.

24. Your favorite lunch meat?
Lunch today was a fried egg sandwich.

25. What do you get every time you go into Walmart?
Kind of nauseous/anxious.

26. Beach or lake?
Anything but a chlorinated pool.

27. Do you think marriage is an outdated ritual?
Any ritual that is still performed isn’t outdated.

28. How many people do you stalk on Facebook?
None.

29. Favorite guilty pleasure?
Masturbation, but without too much guilt.

30. Favorite movie you wouldn't want anyone to find out about?
Erm, but if I say, then someone might find out…

31. What's your drink?
Whiskey sour

32. Cowboys or Indians?
Football?  Hockey?  Baseball?  I’m not sure.

33. Cops or Robbers?
Do I have to choose?

34. Who from high school would you like to run into?
I’ve avoided most of them quite successfully so far.

35. What radio station is your car radio tuned to right now?
95.7 FM CKTP  First Nations Alternative Rock

36. Norm or Cliff?
Cliff.

37. The Cosby Show or the Simpsons?
Both, but mostly Simpsons

39. Do you like the person who sits directly across from you at work?
Yup, she and I get along very well.  Much solidarity, fun, and economic success.

40. If you could get away with it, who would you kill?
I’m not saying cause I did get away with it.  Shhh.
41. What famous person(s) would you like to have dinner with?
Leonard Cohen.

42. What famous person would you like to sleep with?
See above.

43. Have you ever had to use a fire extinguisher for its intended purpose?
Yup.  A freezer motor caught fire at a greasy spoon where I used to work.

44. Last book you read for real?
Maximum Ride:  School’s Out Forever.  I’m almost finished and waiting to borrow the next title from the series from my 13 year old.

45. Do you have a teddy bear?
A plush black squirrel.

46. Strangest place you have ever brushed your teeth?
Probably in the woods.

47. Somewhere in California you've never been and would like to go?
Never been, and not sure I’d like to go.

48. Do you go to church?
Occasionally, but usually not on the expected days.  More likely the third Sunday in January or something instead of Christmas or Easter. I really don’t like crowds.

49. At this point in your life would you rather start a new career or a new relationship?
Career.  Probably in about three years.

50. Just how OLD are you?
43.  Just past the answer to life, the universe and everything!

Comments

the answer to life, the universe and everything

[hillbillie.livejournal.com]

Hehe you make me think how funny it woulda been to give that answer for every question.

Aww..why not come to California? It has its moments! We have these nature-provided foot-massages, for instance..

If the retelling isn't to traumatic, I'd like to hear about your childhood.

...
Leonard Cohen??

I mean cool choice, but..why, exactly?

Re: the answer to life, the universe and everything

[laplor.livejournal.com]

I'll very likely travel around. I'm a lot more likely to visit the 'unpopular' areas of California though. I'm more into trees and rocks and water than cities.

I love going to other places, but I can't imagine living anywhere else. All the bad and scary things we have here seem to be less bad and scary than elsewhere.

My mother tried to abort my older brother but didn't quite succeed. He was mercifully still-born. She seems to have tried again a few years later with me (according to conversations overheard by my older cousins.

When I was almost two, my mother (pregnant with my brother who was born three months later on my birthday) stayed in the truck with me while my Nana went to cut the Christmas tree. Nana had a fatal stroke. Mom carried her out of the woods and took her to the hospital, but she had died by then.

Nana died on 21 Dec without a will, so my mother's 8 brothers and sisters and their spouses descended on the house to evict us by 23 Dec. We had been living there because my parents couldn't afford anywhere else. Mom had to buy them off, but signed an agreement that she would never sell the house without offering it to them first. They also took most of the furnishings. We don't know if that agreement still stands so that house is now empty and decaying cause my brother and I hate it.

Then Mom had a "nervous breakdown." I don't know exactly what happened but she did end up hospitalized involuntarily for a while and I lived with my aunt and her alcoholic husband.

After that, from what I hear, she was very changed. My older cousins say she was a lot of fun and nice to be around. That she was the aunt who played with them, taught them to swim, took them fishing, and so on.

My brother and I knew a sad, hard woman prone to terrifying fits of extreme rage for no apparent reason. By the age of 10 or so, I was completely responsible for cooking dinner, washing all dishes, doing most of the laundry in the wringer washer (which had to be finished and hung out before 9 am), and doing all the dusting and vacuuming.

One memory I have is of playing a game with my brother (Monopoly or something), and she called me to help hang wallpaper. When I got to the room she was in, she slapped me across the face hard enough that I hit my head on the wall and went down. The next day, when she was calmer, I asked he why she hit me. She told me that she didn't, and that I must have imagined it.

I was a little saint during my teen years, all the while plotting my escape. My brother used to say, "What Mom doesn't know about won't kill me." He wasn't really joking because of her rages and the presence of guns in the house.

I was living on my own by the age of 18, although my parents owed me money by then. They'd borrowed $1k from me (from my get away fund earned through babysitting) to buy a car. They paid me back as a wedding gift when I was 23.

To the end of her life, she believed that she had never hit or abused either of us. Once, when a priest had told her something that I wished he hadn't, she asked me if I thought she'd been abusive, and I replied that I mostly remembered being afraid. My brother and I each felt certain that the other was the favourite, and that she hated and despised us.

When the surgeon came to tell me that her brain had ceased to function, and asked for permission to remove her from life support, I cheerily gave my consent.

Re: childhood memories

[hillbillie.livejournal.com]

Jeezus.

no wonder you don't look back on it happily.

Why Leonard?

[laplor.livejournal.com]

For the words and the ideas. Sex (especially for us adults) is all about the brain, and the brain that came up with those lyrics and poems has got to be a good one to be around - and he must have something, his partner Anjani Thomas gorgeous!

An example of the lyrics I love: http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Leonard-Cohen/Democracy.html

Re: Sex ... is all about the brain...that came up with those lyrics and poems

[hillbillie.livejournal.com]

Good point.

Good link, too.
:)