Random Dozen

Well, starting the new year off with a caffeine jolt, Linda gives us some challenging questions this week! Wow! If you'd like to play, or even if you wouldn't like to play but don't want to be left out, go to Linda's blog, Second Cup of Coffee, to get the questions and the 'rules'...

1. On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being a cranky-baby-hissy-fitter, how much of a complainer are you? Depends on when...there are cycles, you know. I think on average, I'm about a 5.

2. When someone else is talking, do you listen, or are you thinking about what you're going to say in response? Regrettably, I'm often thinking about my next line. Especially if it's funny...or they're having trouble getting to the point.

3. I just deleted 1062 messages from my email account. Do you have any plans for a clean sweep this month--of anything? Yesterday I put away all the folders that were sitting on top of, and around, the 'to be filed' basket . . . which had overflowed sometime back in August. Today there are already 4 out again. I quit.

And now, here are some brilliant questions from a gal named Angie at Angie's Ad Lib who graciously offered to let me borrow her brain. Please go over and see Angie because it was so nice of her to help me out. Thank you so much, Angie!

4. Tell us about your perfume. Was it a gift? What does it remind you of? Do you have a signature scent? Perfumes make my eyes water and give me a headache . . . so none for me thanks.

5. What is your best organizing tip for the new year? Freecycle. If you get rid of it, you don't have to organize it.

6. What is your favorite comic strip? "Zits". I have teens. One is a boy. "Zits" is my life, only funnier. Although sometimes "Rhymes With Orange" makes me fall out of my chair laughing.

7. Do you sleep with a fluffy or flat pillow? Both. Fluffy so I can prop up while I read. Flat for when I'm ready to sleep so I don't get an achy neck.

8. What color is your kitchen? Why did you choose that color? It's a color called "Bone"... an off-white. Our house is surrounded by trees (see the header) so if I go any darker, the room is too dark. I am thinking of changing it so if anyone has any suggestions, I'm open. Not anything with pink though.

9. What’s the most interesting bumper sticker you’ve seen? The one that the woman at the library very carefully placed on her brand new car in January 2005. It said "John Kerry". Think about it. Everytime I remember it, I start smiling. If you don't get this, e-mail me and I'll explain.

10. Do you prefer an expensive writing tool or whatever is lying around? (Are you a Montblanc or a Papermate?) I'm picky, but not towards the expensive end, just the style. I like a fine point pen. If I had an expensive one someone around here would pick it up and walk off with it anyway.

11. What chore doesn’t feel like a chore – you just enjoy it (at least most of the time)? Cooking.

12. If your parents often repeated themselves, what is something one of them said more than once? Don't believe everything you read. My 21st century version of that for the kids is, "what's your source?" They tell me I sound like a lawyer. Well...yeah. Go figure.

Thanks Lid! By the way, I probably won't visit most of you until Thursday, but I will get there. Wednesday is just CRAZY for me and by the time I'm back home, the router is off. On purpose. Yeah, it applies to even me.