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50 Questions
Sunday September 09, 2001

Here are my answers to the questions. Pass the list on to your friends with your own answers. Who knows what interesting things you could discover about someone you think you really know.

1. What’s one thing you wish you could do but can’t?
Fly above the clouds and mountains or swim to the oceans depths and see just what sunken ships and odd fish are down there. Swimming almost feels like flying.

2. What is your ideal marriage location?
A spring wedding in the forest, a summer wedding in a huge garden with tents for shade, an autumn wedding on the edge of a tall cliff on the ocean with lots of wind, or in winter right downtown with all the Christmas lights, carols and decorations. My wedding was a couple of weeks before Christmas and a few days before my birthday.

3. Which musical instrument do you wish you could play?
The harp or the piano.

4. Favorite fabric?
Cotton and cotton blends.

5. Something you love and hate?
I’m not that flexible with love and hate.

6. What kind of bedding do you use?
Cotton with a good thread count. I had some of those new jersey sheets but they were ruined by my husband’s toenails. I still sleep with the top sheet wrapped around me if its chilly.

7. What kind of soap do you use?
Anti bacteria, seems to keep me zit free (more or less) and not aggravate my sensitive skin or allergies.

8. Do you tell your friends about your sex life?
To a degree.

9. What’s the one language you want to learn?
Computer programming.

10. How do you eat an apple?
After washing it, sometimes in fruit salad.

11. What do you order at a bar?
Regular coffee most of the time. I used to like Long Island Iced Teas. I still like an Irish coffee or a margarita. I’ve also been known to like cherry brandy and vanilla schnapps.

12. Have you ever pierced your body parts?
Ears, twice. Long since closed over.

13. Do you have tattoos?
None.

14. Would you ever admit to having done plastic surgery of any kind if confronted?
I’d probably admit it. But I can’t see myself spending my money on it.

15. What’s one of the “funnest” things you’ve ever done?
Traveling to BC by myself on a shoestring budget.

16. What’s one trait you hate in a person? Belittling other people to make themselves feel bigger.

17. What kind of watch(es) do you wear?
I can’t wear a watch. They always lose time when I wear them but work great for the people I have given them away to.

18. Most frivolous purchase?
Probably my new computer though I really wanted it I could have done just fine with the old one for another year or three.

19. Do you consider yourself materialistic?
No. I seldom buy new clothes and such. My sister is disgusted with how little I care about fashion.

20. What do you cook the best?
Homemade bread, cheesecake or cabbage rolls and lasagna. Not all at the same time.

21. Favorite writing instrument? My computer. My penmanship is awful since I stopped writing longhand.

22. Do you prefer to stand out or blend in?
Some of each.

23. Do you have anything monogrammed?
Nothing.

24. Would you ever go out dressed like the opposite sex?
Sure.

25. What’s one car you will never buy?
One of those low to the ground gas guzzling sports cars. I’d like something you can take anywhere.

26. Have you ever done drugs?
No.

27. What kind of books do you like to read?
Historical fiction (not romance), non-fiction about computers, writing or whatever else catches my interest and mystery novels.

28. If you won the lottery, what would you do first?
Buy lots of land so I can build a small house and garden for myself and have the rest made into a wildlife park.

29. Burial or cremation?
Not cremation but I really haven’t thought much about it. I’ll be dead at the time.

30. How many online journals do you read regularly?
I’d like to read more journals and ezines regularly. I spot check several, I guess 20 to 30 of them.

31. What’s one thing you’re a sore loser at?
I don’t mind to lose now and then but I don’t like losing too many times in a row and I especially get angry when someone tries to make me feel bad about it.

32. If you don’t like a person, how do you show it?
Completely ignore them. If they have made me angry I try to leave before I say anything.

33. How many drinks before you’re tipsy?
One or two, but I don’t drink more than a few times a year.

34. Do you have problems changing clothes in front of friends?
Not really.

35. Do you cry in front of friends?
I have done a couple of times.

36. What kind of first impression do you think you give to people?
Depends on my mood. Sometimes I’m quiet and sometimes I’m outgoing. People have always told me what a nice girl I am.

37. What’s one thing you like to do alone?
Most things. I’m not good at asking for help.

38. What’s the worst thing you ever said to someone?
I really don’t remember but I know it was pretty awful. I was surprised when I said it.

39. Are you a giver or a taker?
Some of each but I have to work to give less.

40. What have you stolen before?
I found money and didn’t give it back. I badly needed it at the time and no one seemed to miss it. Its one of the little mysteries in my life.

41. When’s the right time to go to the bathroom in front of your significant other?
Not something I can see myself doing.

42. Favorite communication method?
Email, you can reach so many more people and its fast and cheap.

43. What is one thing you don’t leave home without?
My purse with an inhaler, notepaper, pens, and whatever book I’m reading.

44. What’s the most painful experience you’ve ever had?
Really believing I was in love for the first time and then finding out it was all a lie, a joke he was playing on me.

45. What are your favourite hobbies or things to collect?
I like to sew, garden when I have the space, browse the Internet when I have the time, create ASCII art and I collect postcards and old Canadian coins.

46. Where would you travel to if you had unlimited money to spend?
I’d sample each continent and spend extra time in Russia, Australia and Britan.

47. Whats your favourite feature?
I like my eyes.

48. Would you kill someone for money?
I might, it would depend on circumstances.

49. Whats your favourite smell?
Vanilla or lemon, not together.

50. Whats your favourite sound?
Kids laughing.