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1) If you had to move 100 miles or more to the north, east, west, or south, which would you choose, where would you end up, and what's so great about there?As a New Yorker, the only proper way to answer this question is, why? South and east both land me squarely in the Atlantic Ocean. West places me in the middle-of-nowhere Pennsylvania and ( Read more... )

thefridayfive

I am answering this on behalf of Lindsay (chickenamazing) and Sara (absoludicrous).

1. If you could have a super power, which one would you have?
Lindsay: The ability to speak any language.

2. What would be your supername?
BabelGirl

3. Who would be your arch-nemesis and what would be their superpower?
God, and Ungrammatical Man!

4. Who would be your sidekick and would ( Read more... )

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1. What book or books were special to you in your childhood?
I loved: Berenstain Bears, Jamberry, Richard Scarry, Cam Jansen.
2. What was particularly special or memorable about those books?The Berenstain Bears: I loved that there were so many of them. Jamberry: the illustrations. Richard Scarry: WORDS! Cam Jansen: I loved that she had a ( Read more... )

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1. Do you really make wishes when you blow out the candles on your cake?
   Yes. It's always the same one.
2. Have any of the wishes ever come true, if yes?
   Kinda
3. How do you feel about birthdays? (e.g., love the attention, just another day, don't want anyone to know my real age, etc.)I love my birthday. I love having a day that's all about me. It has ( Read more... )

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1. Are you named after anyone? If so, explain.
My understanding is that I was named after my great grandma Anna. By process of elimination, I must guess that she is on my dad's side somewhere.

2. Do you have your children's names picked out already? If so, is there any significance?I'll probably come up with some variation of Herbert for a boy ( Read more... )

Mary, where do these Friday Five things come from?

1. What’s the most embarrassing thing/job you’ve had to do to earn money? I'm not easily embarrassed, though when I started working at Borders as a lowly Barista, it would embarrass me sometimes when people I knew in high school would come in.

2. What’s the easiest and quickest way you have ( Read more... )