On edge today.
Can't focus on work so, instead, I'm going to do the meme that Lin posted last night. Haven't done one of these in ages.
1. How old will you be in 10 months? 42. Which is not the nifty seven-squared number that Lin is going to be, but it is at least a factor of 7.
2. Do you think you'll be married by then? I have no idea. Maybe SharkWrestler will get his act together by then and realize that the idea of marriage is not so scary after all. Maybe I will have found someone else, though I doubt it--given my relationship anxieties, I have to be good friends with/ really trust a guy before I can start dating him, never mind consider marriage. 10 months is about how long it would take to get me to trust someone new.
3. What do you look forward to most in the next 3 months? Wow, not sure. Evaluation being over, for sure, though I'm not sure I'm looking forward to the results. Lemuel going to college? Nephi being ordained to the priesthood? So many things I could say.
4. Who was the last person you called? The friends I had dinner with last night. The ward directory didn't list their apartment number so I had no idea where in the complex they lived.
5. Who was the last person to call you? SharkWrestler, to tell me "Thank you again for the haircut, it looks great."
6. Do you prefer to call or text? Depends. I prefer calling SharkWrestler and a couple of other friends. Everyone else, I generally text. I finally caved and got an unlimited-text plan.
7. Do you have any pets? A tortoise-shell cat named Sabrina.
8. What were you doing at 12am last night? Tying the quilt I'm making for SharkWrestler's mom.
9. Are your parents married/divorced/separated? Amazingly, they're still married to each other.
10. When is the last time you saw your sister? Depends which sister:
Chrissy: the turn of the year
Ruth: last December, when I was in the Bay Area for the AGU conference
Cassie: Good grief. Has it really been over a year? I haven't had a chance to go to Seattle for a while. I need to, to meet her latest foster kids (who have just been cleared for adoption! Yippee!)
Courtney: May 18; we had dinner at Ted's Montana Grill.
11. What happened at 10:00am? It's 9:49 right now, so I'm guessing at 10 am I will be posting this.
12. How many states have you lived in? California, [England], California, [Germany], California, Colorado. So two. And it used to be really fun before I moved out here, when I could tell people that I'd lived in more foreign countries than U.S. states.
13. How many cities/towns have you lived in?
Riverside, Rubidoux, Riverside, Oxford, Riverside, Erlangen, Riverside, Pasadena, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Golden, Lakewood. So 9.
14. Do you prefer shoes, socks, or bare feet? Bare feet. When I get home, the shoes come off. Sometimes I leave my socks on in winter. ZD was a shoes-on-all-the-time kinda person. I notice that SharkWrestler hates shoes almost as much as I do.
15. Are you a social person? I like people. I like being around people. But I also reach a saturation point after which I must go read for an extended period of time.
16. What was the last thing you ate? Breakfast: cottage cheese and banana.
17. What is your favorite ice-cream? Kroger's Private Reserve Maine Blueberry Cheesecake.
18. What is your favorite dessert? Trifle. Fruit crisp (apple or peach, generally, as long as the fruit is fresh and ripe) with vanilla ice cream.
(Using Lin's made-up 19) 19. If you were an animal, which one would you be, right this very minute? A mama bear. I've frequently thought of myself this way over the last few years, and a few months ago my bishop told me that he thought of me the same way (even though I hadn't mentioned this to him at all).
20. What kind of jelly do you like on your PB & J sandwich? Cherry jam. Or maybe blackberry jam.
21. Do you like coffee? Have never drunk it. Don't even like the smell.
22. How many glasses of water a day do you drink on average? 8-ish.
23. What do you drink in the morning? Water or Gatorade, depending on how dehydrated I feel.
24. Would you rather sleep with someone else or alone? With someone else, if I can trust them.
25. What side of the bed do you sleep on? The side facing the door. I get up a lot during the night (lately, for the cat, but in the past it was for the kids).
...with that said, when I lived with ZD, he always liked the side facing the door so I used to have to walk around the bed during the middle of the night.
26. Do you know how to play poker? Yes, but I am very very bad at it.
27. Do you like to cuddle? Yes. I miss it.
28. Have you ever been to Canada? Nope.
29. Do you eat out or at home more often? Home. Too poor to do otherwise.
30. Do you know anyone with the same birthday as you? Sure, several. Had a guy I went to elementary school with (we were usually in the same class) with the same birthday. Now, I also share with my friend RisingStar (her real online pseudonym).
31. Do you speak any other language? German, hesitantly. I still understand pretty well.
32. Have you ever been in an ambulance? Nope.
33. Do you prefer an ocean or a pool? Ocean. Especially if a boat is involved.
34. Do you prefer a window seat or an aisle seat? Window, definitely. I like to see where I'm going.
35. Do you know how to drive a stick shift? I learned on one and prefer it! Shadowfax has a manual transmission.
36. What is your favorite thing to spend money on? Home improvement stuff.
37. Do you wear any jewelery 24/7? Not any more.
38. What is your favorite TV show? What's TV?
39. Do you miss any of your exes? Does SharkWrestler count as an ex? We aren't officially dating, but we still talk a lot. I miss cuddling him though.
Don't miss anyone else.
40. Who is the funniest person you know? Hard to say. WaltzKing can be pretty hilarious. But SharkWrestler makes me laugh in a way that goes all the way down to the depths of my soul.
41. Do you sleep with stuffed animals? No. The stuffed animals I still have (Wolfy and Teddy) are sitting on a shelf across from my bed.
42. What is the main ring tone on your phone? "Harp." Just in case you care, my kids are "SciFi", my parents/siblings are "Strum," SharkWrestler is "PianoRiff", and ZD is "Crickets." (He used to be the dog barking, but I thought that was a bit mean...)
43. Do you still have clothes from when you were little? *sigh* I used to. Never had a girl, though, and then ZD made me get rid of them. I'd wanted to save them for a grand-daughter.
44. What is the color of your bedroom walls? Boring beige.
45. Do you shut off the water when you brush your teeth? Of course.
46. Do you sleep with your closet doors opened or closed? Usually open.
47. Would you rather be attacked by a big bear or a swarm of killing bees? Bear please.
48. Do you flirt a lot? I used to. Mostly unintentionally. Alas, that sort of got squashed out of me by a super-jealous ZD, who thought I was out to sleep with every man I laid eyes on.
49. Is there someone you're thinking about right now? Yup. Just got another email of questions from Dr. Dan, and I'm wishing I could cry on SharkWrestler's shoulder. Alas, he works on the far side of the metro area.
50. Are you a relationship type of person? Oh yeah.
1. How old will you be in 10 months? 42. Which is not the nifty seven-squared number that Lin is going to be, but it is at least a factor of 7.
2. Do you think you'll be married by then? I have no idea. Maybe SharkWrestler will get his act together by then and realize that the idea of marriage is not so scary after all. Maybe I will have found someone else, though I doubt it--given my relationship anxieties, I have to be good friends with/ really trust a guy before I can start dating him, never mind consider marriage. 10 months is about how long it would take to get me to trust someone new.
3. What do you look forward to most in the next 3 months? Wow, not sure. Evaluation being over, for sure, though I'm not sure I'm looking forward to the results. Lemuel going to college? Nephi being ordained to the priesthood? So many things I could say.
4. Who was the last person you called? The friends I had dinner with last night. The ward directory didn't list their apartment number so I had no idea where in the complex they lived.
5. Who was the last person to call you? SharkWrestler, to tell me "Thank you again for the haircut, it looks great."
6. Do you prefer to call or text? Depends. I prefer calling SharkWrestler and a couple of other friends. Everyone else, I generally text. I finally caved and got an unlimited-text plan.
7. Do you have any pets? A tortoise-shell cat named Sabrina.
8. What were you doing at 12am last night? Tying the quilt I'm making for SharkWrestler's mom.
9. Are your parents married/divorced/separated? Amazingly, they're still married to each other.
10. When is the last time you saw your sister? Depends which sister:
Chrissy: the turn of the year
Ruth: last December, when I was in the Bay Area for the AGU conference
Cassie: Good grief. Has it really been over a year? I haven't had a chance to go to Seattle for a while. I need to, to meet her latest foster kids (who have just been cleared for adoption! Yippee!)
Courtney: May 18; we had dinner at Ted's Montana Grill.
11. What happened at 10:00am? It's 9:49 right now, so I'm guessing at 10 am I will be posting this.
12. How many states have you lived in? California, [England], California, [Germany], California, Colorado. So two. And it used to be really fun before I moved out here, when I could tell people that I'd lived in more foreign countries than U.S. states.
13. How many cities/towns have you lived in?
Riverside, Rubidoux, Riverside, Oxford, Riverside, Erlangen, Riverside, Pasadena, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Golden, Lakewood. So 9.
14. Do you prefer shoes, socks, or bare feet? Bare feet. When I get home, the shoes come off. Sometimes I leave my socks on in winter. ZD was a shoes-on-all-the-time kinda person. I notice that SharkWrestler hates shoes almost as much as I do.
15. Are you a social person? I like people. I like being around people. But I also reach a saturation point after which I must go read for an extended period of time.
16. What was the last thing you ate? Breakfast: cottage cheese and banana.
17. What is your favorite ice-cream? Kroger's Private Reserve Maine Blueberry Cheesecake.
18. What is your favorite dessert? Trifle. Fruit crisp (apple or peach, generally, as long as the fruit is fresh and ripe) with vanilla ice cream.
(Using Lin's made-up 19) 19. If you were an animal, which one would you be, right this very minute? A mama bear. I've frequently thought of myself this way over the last few years, and a few months ago my bishop told me that he thought of me the same way (even though I hadn't mentioned this to him at all).
20. What kind of jelly do you like on your PB & J sandwich? Cherry jam. Or maybe blackberry jam.
21. Do you like coffee? Have never drunk it. Don't even like the smell.
22. How many glasses of water a day do you drink on average? 8-ish.
23. What do you drink in the morning? Water or Gatorade, depending on how dehydrated I feel.
24. Would you rather sleep with someone else or alone? With someone else, if I can trust them.
25. What side of the bed do you sleep on? The side facing the door. I get up a lot during the night (lately, for the cat, but in the past it was for the kids).
...with that said, when I lived with ZD, he always liked the side facing the door so I used to have to walk around the bed during the middle of the night.
26. Do you know how to play poker? Yes, but I am very very bad at it.
27. Do you like to cuddle? Yes. I miss it.
28. Have you ever been to Canada? Nope.
29. Do you eat out or at home more often? Home. Too poor to do otherwise.
30. Do you know anyone with the same birthday as you? Sure, several. Had a guy I went to elementary school with (we were usually in the same class) with the same birthday. Now, I also share with my friend RisingStar (her real online pseudonym).
31. Do you speak any other language? German, hesitantly. I still understand pretty well.
32. Have you ever been in an ambulance? Nope.
33. Do you prefer an ocean or a pool? Ocean. Especially if a boat is involved.
34. Do you prefer a window seat or an aisle seat? Window, definitely. I like to see where I'm going.
35. Do you know how to drive a stick shift? I learned on one and prefer it! Shadowfax has a manual transmission.
36. What is your favorite thing to spend money on? Home improvement stuff.
37. Do you wear any jewelery 24/7? Not any more.
38. What is your favorite TV show? What's TV?
39. Do you miss any of your exes? Does SharkWrestler count as an ex? We aren't officially dating, but we still talk a lot. I miss cuddling him though.
Don't miss anyone else.
40. Who is the funniest person you know? Hard to say. WaltzKing can be pretty hilarious. But SharkWrestler makes me laugh in a way that goes all the way down to the depths of my soul.
41. Do you sleep with stuffed animals? No. The stuffed animals I still have (Wolfy and Teddy) are sitting on a shelf across from my bed.
42. What is the main ring tone on your phone? "Harp." Just in case you care, my kids are "SciFi", my parents/siblings are "Strum," SharkWrestler is "PianoRiff", and ZD is "Crickets." (He used to be the dog barking, but I thought that was a bit mean...)
43. Do you still have clothes from when you were little? *sigh* I used to. Never had a girl, though, and then ZD made me get rid of them. I'd wanted to save them for a grand-daughter.
44. What is the color of your bedroom walls? Boring beige.
45. Do you shut off the water when you brush your teeth? Of course.
46. Do you sleep with your closet doors opened or closed? Usually open.
47. Would you rather be attacked by a big bear or a swarm of killing bees? Bear please.
48. Do you flirt a lot? I used to. Mostly unintentionally. Alas, that sort of got squashed out of me by a super-jealous ZD, who thought I was out to sleep with every man I laid eyes on.
49. Is there someone you're thinking about right now? Yup. Just got another email of questions from Dr. Dan, and I'm wishing I could cry on SharkWrestler's shoulder. Alas, he works on the far side of the metro area.
50. Are you a relationship type of person? Oh yeah.