My answer is too long to fit in a single post, LJ tells me. But since this is about getting to know each other better, I opted to break it into two sections rather than cut stuff out.
1. Your Middle Name: Lee 2. Age: 41 3. Single or Taken: Married to my personal Prince Charming for 19 years. 4. Favourite Movie: Define “favourite”. Most watched for reasons I can’t explain: “Sneakers.” Best swash-buckling adventure: “The Mummy” (Brendan Fraiser). Favorite holiday film: “Scrooged!” starring Bill Murray. Most “makes my heart go squishy”: “Casablanca” - which I no longer consider a guilty pleasure, after having lived long enough to realize that no, Ilsa’s speech to Rick asking him to make the decision for both of them is NOT anti-feminist. One has to go through a long tough patch to understand where she’s coming from. 5. Favourite Song or Album: Warren Zevon’s _Genius_ and Aretha Franklin’s _Drinking Again_ 6. Favourite Band/Artist: Aretha Franklin 7. Dirty or Clean: Things are usually dirty but I prefer them clean, except for the obvious situation where the opposite is preferable. 8. Tattoos and/or Piercings: temporary and henna tattoos in the summer, pierced ears all year long. 9. Do we know each other outside of LJ? I travel to see you more often than I travel to see most of my relatives. 10. What's your philosophy on life? Work hard. Play hard. Laugh often. 11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty? That’s not the right question. At the half-way mark, analyze and make appropriate decisions. Do you want a refill, or should it be tossed out for a better vintage? 12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest? Hell, yes. Too many people use “truth” as an excuse to be mean for no productive purpose. As Kurt Vonnegut once said, “Don’t truth me, and I won’t truth you.” 13. What is your favourite memory of us? Recent: sitting on the screened-in porch at the cabin, watching the creek flow by and working on our novels. More distant: standing in your kitchen hall, talking to Karen on the phone, hearing the ghost knock, and watching you grin at me as I got amused that I was getting spooked. 14. What is your favourite guilty pleasure? Spending a whole day divided between walking in the zoo, napping, and reading a good book…and then eating chocolate chip cookies for supper. 15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you: Define odd/interesting! I’m adopted. I’m left-handed. I was a high school foreign exchange student to Portugal. I half-way believe I was a black blues-singer in a previous life. I have physical attributes that would have gotten me burned as a witch during the Inquisition. 16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarky) - what are they? 1) To have a vacation home/writers retreat in the heart of the French Quarter in New Orleans. 2) To get rid of at least one, if not all four, chronic medical conditions I wrestle with. 3) To have a part-time personal assistant and a part-time housekeeper. 17. Can we get together and make a cake? Yes. But wouldn’t it be more fun to get together and make a full 7-course meal? 18. Which country is your spiritual home? Ankh-Morpork 19. What is your big weakness? I don’t want to disappoint anyone, not even my enemies or adversaries. 20. Do you think I'm a good person? You are an angel. A fierce, seldom-compromising Archangel. 21. What was your best/favourite subject at school? Newspaper production and research methods. 22. Describe your accent: Iowa Midwestern with a slight slur normally, Southern Delta when I’m really relaxed or reading fiction aloud, British when I’m angry or been hanging out at the Red Lion Pub too much. 23. If you could change anything about me, would you? You, your family, and your wonderful rambling house would be located much closer to Chicago.
24. What do you wear to sleep? Three-piece cotton pajama sets that I also lounge and work in, which is why I like having a camisole and a jacket, so I can have a sleeves-or-not option. 25. Trousers or skirts? I love skirts. Wearing them makes me feel sexy and classy in that Hollywood 1940’s kind of way, no matter what style of skirt I have on. They’re much cooler and comfortable than pants or jeans in summer, and I have no qualms about sitting cross-legged on the ground in a broom skirt. In the last few years, with the additional weight, I looked quite silly in a broom skirt, and my thighs had gotten just thick enough that they chafed together when I walked, and I flat out refuse to wear panty hose on a hot summer day…might as well wear pants. But I’m losing weight and I predict this will be the year of the return of the skirt/s. 26. Cigarettes or alcohol? Champagne, small-batch bourbon, Weiss beer, rum cake, Crepes Suzette… I prefer to consume rather than inhale my indulgences. 27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? We’d linger over coffee and conversation for two or three hours, write for an hour, talk about writing for an hour, take a walk down to the creek at your family’s cabin, then teleport back to your house to cook dinner together, tease Becky and Brian while we ate, then drink red wine and watch a full moon rise as we giggled and got tipsy in your hot tub. 28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you? I’d be delighted.
1. Your Middle Name: Lee
2. Age: 41
3. Single or Taken: Married to my personal Prince Charming for 19 years.
4. Favourite Movie: Define “favourite”. Most watched for reasons I can’t explain: “Sneakers.” Best swash-buckling adventure: “The Mummy” (Brendan Fraiser). Favorite holiday film: “Scrooged!” starring Bill Murray. Most “makes my heart go squishy”: “Casablanca” - which I no longer consider a guilty pleasure, after having lived long enough to realize that no, Ilsa’s speech to Rick asking him to make the decision for both of them is NOT anti-feminist. One has to go through a long tough patch to understand where she’s coming from.
5. Favourite Song or Album: Warren Zevon’s _Genius_ and Aretha Franklin’s _Drinking Again_
6. Favourite Band/Artist: Aretha Franklin
7. Dirty or Clean: Things are usually dirty but I prefer them clean, except for the obvious situation where the opposite is preferable.
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings: temporary and henna tattoos in the summer, pierced ears all year long.
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ? I travel to see you more often than I travel to see most of my relatives.
10. What's your philosophy on life? Work hard. Play hard. Laugh often.
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty? That’s not the right question. At the half-way mark, analyze and make appropriate decisions. Do you want a refill, or should it be tossed out for a better vintage?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest? Hell, yes. Too many people use “truth” as an excuse to be mean for no productive purpose. As Kurt Vonnegut once said, “Don’t truth me, and I won’t truth you.”
13. What is your favourite memory of us? Recent: sitting on the screened-in porch at the cabin, watching the creek flow by and working on our novels. More distant: standing in your kitchen hall, talking to Karen on the phone, hearing the ghost knock, and watching you grin at me as I got amused that I was getting spooked.
14. What is your favourite guilty pleasure? Spending a whole day divided between walking in the zoo, napping, and reading a good book…and then eating chocolate chip cookies for supper.
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you: Define odd/interesting! I’m adopted. I’m left-handed. I was a high school foreign exchange student to Portugal. I half-way believe I was a black blues-singer in a previous life. I have physical attributes that would have gotten me burned as a witch during the Inquisition.
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarky) - what are they?
1) To have a vacation home/writers retreat in the heart of the French Quarter in New Orleans.
2) To get rid of at least one, if not all four, chronic medical conditions I wrestle with.
3) To have a part-time personal assistant and a part-time housekeeper.
17. Can we get together and make a cake? Yes. But wouldn’t it be more fun to get together and make a full 7-course meal?
18. Which country is your spiritual home? Ankh-Morpork
19. What is your big weakness? I don’t want to disappoint anyone, not even my enemies or adversaries.
20. Do you think I'm a good person? You are an angel. A fierce, seldom-compromising Archangel.
21. What was your best/favourite subject at school? Newspaper production and research methods.
22. Describe your accent: Iowa Midwestern with a slight slur normally, Southern Delta when I’m really relaxed or reading fiction aloud, British when I’m angry or been hanging out at the Red Lion Pub too much.
23. If you could change anything about me, would you? You, your family, and your wonderful rambling house would be located much closer to Chicago.
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25. Trousers or skirts? I love skirts. Wearing them makes me feel sexy and classy in that Hollywood 1940’s kind of way, no matter what style of skirt I have on. They’re much cooler and comfortable than pants or jeans in summer, and I have no qualms about sitting cross-legged on the ground in a broom skirt. In the last few years, with the additional weight, I looked quite silly in a broom skirt, and my thighs had gotten just thick enough that they chafed together when I walked, and I flat out refuse to wear panty hose on a hot summer day…might as well wear pants. But I’m losing weight and I predict this will be the year of the return of the skirt/s.
26. Cigarettes or alcohol? Champagne, small-batch bourbon, Weiss beer, rum cake, Crepes Suzette… I prefer to consume rather than inhale my indulgences.
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? We’d linger over coffee and conversation for two or three hours, write for an hour, talk about writing for an hour, take a walk down to the creek at your family’s cabin, then teleport back to your house to cook dinner together, tease Becky and Brian while we ate, then drink red wine and watch a full moon rise as we giggled and got tipsy in your hot tub.
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you? I’d be delighted.
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