Sunday Stealing-Food Meme

January 12, 2019

Welcome to Sunday Stealing. This feature originated and published on WTIT: The Blog. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. (Past hosts include: Our first - Judd Corizan, Mr. L, Kwizgiver and Bud) Cheers to all of us thieves!

 Food meme Stolen fromBook Mama, who stole it fromJenefur.  

Thanks to The Gal Herself for the suggestion!

01. CHEESE or CHOCOLATE? Chocolate.
02. BLUEBERRIES or STRAWBERRIES? Blueberries, although Blackberries are my favorite.
03. COFFEE or TEA? Coffee.
04. CORN MUFFIN or ENGLISH MUFFIN? Corn muffin. I am so sick of whole grain English muffins. 
05. PANCAKES or FRENCH TOAST? Pancakes.
06. YOGURT or CREAM CHEESE? Unless I made yogurt in my Instant Pot, pass, I’ll take the cream cheese. Homemade yogurt mixed with jam or fresh fruit is so much better and much, much less expensive, and less sugar than store bought yogurt.
07. RICE or PASTA? I haven’t had either in so long I don’t know which to pick. I’m 1/2 Italian, so I love pasta, but I also love rice with Chinese, Indian, or Mediterranean food. I can’t choose. I’ve been subbing bean sprouts for pasta and cauliflower rice for rice for so long that I’d probably go crazy and eat a whole pot of whatever I chose.
08. CAKE or PIE? Death by chocolate cake. 
09. GROUND BEEF or GROUND TURKEY? Ground beef. I ate ground turkey for so long that I can’t stand the taste or texture. I still love turkey slices.
10. HOT DOGS or HAMBURGERS? If it’s a Nathan’s hot dog versus my killer peppers and cheese burgers, then I can’t decide.
11. JELLY or MARMALADE? Can I pick jam instead?
12. AMERICAN CHEESE or SWISS CHEESE? American, unless it’s a very mild Swiss cheese.
13. DIET SODA or NO SODA? No soda at all. I drink flavored calorie free sparkling water. Or Spindrift Sparkling Water which has a small amount of real fruit so it has super low calories and very flavorful.
14. LEMONADE or ICED TEA? Unsweetened Iced Tea. 
15. CHERRIES or GRAPES? Cherries.
16. CHOCOLATE QUIK or STRAWBERRY QUIK?  Depends on my mood and what the store has. The other day I wanted a single serve from the dairy case, they only had double chocolate and chocolate. No strawberry. Of course I had the double chocolate. Didn’t really seem like more chocolate, but it was such a treat!
17. WAFFLES or PANCAKES? Waffles cuz of the little squares that hold all that buttery and syrupy goodness. 
18. WHITE BREAD or WHOLE-GRAIN/WHEAT BREAD? Killer Dave’s Whole Grain Thin with seeds is my favorite, but very hard to find around my area.
19. PEAS or CARROTS? Both, together.
20. PUDDING or FRUIT-FLAVORED GELATIN? How is this even a question? Pudding wins every time!
21. COLD CEREAL or HOT CEREAL? Depends on what kind of cold or hot cereal.
22. KETCHUP or MUSTARD? Depends on what I’m putting it on. Burger-ketchup. Pretzel-mustard.
23. MUSTARD or MAYONNAISE? Depends on what I’m putting it on.
24. MAYONNAISE or KETCHUP? On a burger? Both.
25. BLACK OLIVES or GREEN OLIVES? Both.
26. ONION or GARLIC?  Both.
27. PLAIN BARBECUE or BARBECUE WITH SAUCE? With sauce.
28. SCRAMBLED EGGS or FRIED EGGS? Depends. If I’m having toast, fried eggs so I can dip it in the yolks.
29. EGGS or EGG REPLACEMENTS? Eggs.
30. MEAT or VEGETABLES? Both.
31. CHINESE TAKE-OUT or PIZZA? Probably Chinese takeout. We eat pizza too often.
32. SUSHI or DELI SANDWICH? Sushi!!!
33. WHITE CLAM CHOWDER or RED CLAM CHOWDER? Red Clam Chowder.
34. KEY LIME PIE or LEMON MERANGUE PIE? Key Lime Pie.
35. PIE & ICE CREAM or CAKE & ICE CREAM? Cake and ice cream. 
36. WHIPPED CREAM or CAKE FROSTING? Whipped cream frosting.
37. HONEY or MAPLE SYRUP? Depends. In a smoothie, honey. Pancakes, maple syrup.

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Sunday Stealing-The Queen’s Meme

The Queen's Meme

Hi! I'm your host Bev Sykes of the blog "Funny the World". . Welcome to Sunday Stealing. This feature originated and published on WTIT: The Blog. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. (Past hosts include: Our first - Judd Corizan, Mr. L, Kwizgiver and Bud)  Cheers to all of us thieves!

Stolen from The Queen's Meme

1. January usually has ample amounts of snowfall in parts of the world. Did you ever make snow cream as a kid?  I grew up in a suburb of Milwaukee, WI. We had lots of snow, lots and lots. I have never even heard of snow cream.

2. January is one of the months with 31 days. What are you going to do with that extra day?  Just an extra day, will be just another day.

3.  What is your favorite magazine?  I really enjoyed “The New Yorker” when I had a subscription. Anyone that knows me would never guess it, but I enjoy it.

4.  If you live to be 99 years old, what would you like your life to be like in that last decade??  I would want to be as pain free and mobile as possible and would want to spend time with my family, my children, and hopefully their children.

5. The great world of Wikipedia tells me that scientists claim 99% of all documented species are extinct. Which remaining species in the 1% category would you really like to see extinct.  

Ex- husbands! That would be Awesome!

God created all creatures and I would never presume to make a decision to make any of them  extinct.  God put them on earth for a reason, and presumably, God removes them from earth for a reason. If God wants to do me a solid and make Ex-husbands become extinct, I’m aight with that! And which species in the 99% category would you like to bring back? I can’t make that decision. (But if God makes ex-husbands extinct, keep them that way.)

6. On January 14, 1986 motorists were required for the first time to wear seat belts?
Do you always buckle up? I nearly always buckle up. Why or why not?   I sometimes don’t buckle driving from a store on the end to Walmart. And sometimes to/from the gas station 2ish blocks away.

7. Why did the cow jump over the moon?  To get to the other side?

9. Have you said anything in the last 24 hours that you regret?  Most likely. Right now actually. Spouse is having back injections this week and we are discussing dinner for that night. Me saying we’d do take-out the day after. She says no, THE day. While it was kind of entertaining going back and forth... I’d like a Mulligan.

10. Have you ever written anything on your blog that you wish you could take back?  A lot! Even though I write under a pseudonym, And use pseudonyms for anyone I mention, somehow my ex-husband found it. He somehow manipulated  the kids to tell him about it. He did not take kindly to having his kids’ mental illness’s all over it. For some reason he didn’t like the pseudonym I chose for his wife and the few choice words I had about her. I had to set the offending blog posts to “draft” to shut him up.

11. Are you the blabber or the blabbee? Tell us your most embarrassing blabbermouth moment.  I don’t think I’m either.

12. How important is a cell phone in your life?  I must have one. I don’t have a landline. It’s my computer in my hand on bad days when I lie down with ice.

13. A "cuisine" is typically influenced by and named after geographical regions and cultures. Pretend your blog is a country. What is the name of your cuisine?  The Equator. 😂
14. You are the Blog Paparazzi! Which blogger's real photograph are you most interested in getting?  I don’t really know anyone who participated in this meme.

15. Are you always on time or just a tad late?  I am usually early. Depends what it is, and how I’m doing. I’ve gotten to my dr appointment an hour ahead, and sometimes exactly at the appointment time.

16. Can you think of a time when you were late for something and it was REALLY a big deal? Nope. You mean other than that dream where I wake up and I’m late for school and it’s finals? Actually, I had a job interview at a government agency and my car got towed and I had to take a cab. I did call ahead. I was only a little late. Didn’t get the job, but it wasn’t the job for me anyway. I call those “Practice Interviews”.

17. If you were on your way to work and had five minutes to get there, would you stop in the road to rescue a crossing turtle?  Not working. Disabled.

18. When you are having a really good day, what usually makes it good?  Everyone getting along.

19.  What is the most annoying Christmas song?  That Mariah Carey song. And the John Lennon one. 🤢 

20. You are Snow White. Which dwarf is your favorite and why?  Happy. Cuz it would be nice to see happy.

Thanks to Bev Sykes for today's stolen questions!  You can join in by visiting HERE.

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New Year’s Eve

Here's an early toast for New Year's Eve for all my readers and blog pallies:

May the new year bring you much health, happiness, positive new experiences and many opportunities for growth...both personally and financially.
Happy New Year!

This is a re-post from 2008. Why? Because I lead a really dull life and this is proof positive that wasn't always the case.

I think the most memorable New Year’s Eve was back in the ‘80’s. I was 19 or 20 years old. (The legal drinking age back then was 18.) I had arranged to bar hop with friends by bus. Each of us took a bus to our first stop, which was Wendt’s Bar in Milwaukee. Even though the idea was to bar hop, we stayed there most of the night.

Lei’s, party hats, streamers and horns were aplenty. So much so, that my friends and I wore multiple hats and Lei’s. After ringing in the New Year at Wendt’s, we walked about 2 blocks to another bar. At some point my friend Cindy's mother picked us up and was going to give me a ride home, but there was some arguing going on between Cindy and her Mother. I ended up asking to be dropped off at an intersection about 3 miles from my parent’s house. (Yes, I still lived with my parents.) Taking the bus at that point wasn’t an option because the end of the bus line was less than a mile ahead.

I began walking and stopped at the next bar just to warm up, or so I thought. Apparently wearing 2 Tieras (one forwards, one backwards) a Fez type Happy New Years hat in between them, about 8 lei’s, and more streamers and confetti than I’ve ever seen since, makes you the life of the party. Having never been the life of the party before, I rather enjoyed the attention. Every single patron (and there were still a heck of a lot of people out at the bar at that hour) had to buy me a drink and wish me a Happy New Year. After a very short while I had to switch to plain soda because I could not possibly drink any more alcohol. Around 5:30am I decided I was close to being sober enough to walk the 2 miles home.

So picture this (and I am so glad that I didn’t know anyone at that bar and that no one had a camera.) Picture this, I am walking home (more like stumbling), it’s nearly 6am, the sun has already come up, and I am still wearing the 3 party hats and I still have about 4 Lei’s and streamers and confetti all over me.

I am a freakin'

walking 

New Year’s Eve party!

Somehow I managed to walk down 3 streets in our subdivision without being seen by anyone. I also managed to get in the house and into my room, without my parents seeing me come in. The issue here isn’t underage drinking, I was of drinking age. The issue is not having my parents see me looking like a New Year’s Eve Party threw up all over me. My friends thought it was cool, after all, they had just as many party hats, leis, streamers and confetti as I did. Somehow I don’t think my parents would have been impressed.
As you contemplate your New Year's Eve celebration, please:

Use public transportation (some cities offer very reduced rates certain hours on NYE/Day or
Designate a driver or use Uber or Lyft or 
Have a house party and let your guests sleep over.
Be safe!

I want to see you all back to blogging bright and early New Year's Day.
(Ok, maybe after you sleep a little late and have a couple aspirin.)

What was your most memorable New Year's Eve?

Please post it in my comments section.

(If you don't have one yet, please don't try to imitate my exploits.

The hangover for the next day and a half was excruciating.)

Christmas Day...not the best of days

I was really in pain from Christmas Eve’s failed tamales and gift wrapping. I woke up late, barely able to walk. 

Note to self:  I don’t care how much the kids complain, breakfast is FIRST. ALWAYS. Why? Because gift unwrapping takes much, much longer than you would expect. One person, one gift at a time, everyone needs to see each gift, some photos taken. It’s a big production here. And...you never know when unexpected guests will show up derailing the gift wrapping and delaying breakfast, or any eating until 3pm. No joke! I was very jittery, anxious, bad headache, all because my blood sugar was too low. That is way too long to wait to eat anything for a person who doesn’t have diabetes. It’s 5:30pm as I write this and I’m just now feeling close to what normal is for me, except for the intense back pain. My back is screaming. I’m icing it, but feel like the ice pack is melting from the heat of the pain. Probably doesn’t make sense, but that’s what it feels like. I wish I had one of those ice tubs football players use. I saw it in a movie once, not sure if they still use them.

So who were the unexpected guests? My sister-in-law and my ex bff. It seems they had time to kill between family visits. It would have been nice if they would have called yesterday to let us know, then we could have planned accordingly. Or at least tried to plan accordingly. I thought they were never going to leave.

Usually I make a frittata on Christmas Eve to reheat by the slice, but because of the tamale fiasco that never happened. 

We had breakfast sandwiches which went together surprisingly quickly. The roast beast is in the oven, dinner will be late, but that’s ok since we ate breakfast at 3pm.

Need to plan better for NYE and New Year’s Day.

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‘‘Twas the night before Christmas

Yes, I invoked the “No, no. We're all in this together. This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here. We're gonna press on, and we're gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby...” 

It was not pretty. Tree went up around noon. My spouse had to MacGyver it. It’s about 3 years old, I don’t get why things weren’t assembling properly and I am smart enough not to ask. My back is bad, so I did not join in any reindeer fun. My spouse’s back is bad too. Spouse is supposed to go for injections on Friday, first time, but rescheduled so we can visit her Dad’s on Saturday. I am not at all looking forward to the date she rescheduled the shot(s) for. Myself, and everyone I know who had had them were incapacitated and in pain meds for days.

Again, my Mom’s ornaments could not be found. It seems the attic was rearranged. We haven’t been leaving my son home alone long enough to reek that havoc so it’s my theory that we have poltergeists. Part of his illness makes him “get into everything and not put things back anywhere near where he found them. His dad did this too. It’s maddening. I’m chalking it up to poltergeists, that’s my final word. 

Stopped at Walgreens to get a box of Whitman Chocolates. Left empty handed. Went home to prep the veggie tray. An entire bag of celery and 3 cucumbers are missing. Seriously. I checked my receipt, I paid for them. So my spouse went to pick up my daughter early to shop. It was a scavenger hunt for the celery. They moved it to the refrigerated cases. No Whitman’s. But they did have my Cape Line Sparkling hard seltzer that saved the night later. My spouse stopped at a different Walgreens after picking up my daughter from work. She scored the elusive candy and came home my hero! I haven’t managed to get the kids cookie baking for a couple years, so that Whitman’s Sampler was important! 

Not so rookie tip...if you are going to make tamales for Christmas Eve, even if you cooked the meat ahead...DO NOT use a new recipe for the masa dough. I’ve made them 3 times before, twice with lard, once with canola oil. The lard makes it easier to assemble. The canola oil was pretty easy, but this year’s recipe did not have enough oil so that dough was sticking all over my hands and everywhere except on the corn husks. I had to quit at 4 tamales cuz I was losing my mind. (They were delish!) We decided to freeze the dough and use part of the meat for tacos. Here’s another rookie tip...no matter how many recipes on Pinterest or blogs tell you that it’s super easy to shred your meat in your Kitchenaid Mixer, DON’T! You will have meat flying EVERYWHERE and it won’t even be shredded finely enough. I’ve seen the after videos (cuz they aren’t gonna show the meat flying everywhere and the mess) and the meat is shredded finely, not for realz.

I started gift wrapping earlier in the week, a little each night because it causes so much pain. I still had quite a few left to do Christmas Eve. I didn’t go crazy with gifts, but I did try to replace as much clothing as I could that was destroyed in the flood. I was up until 4am because I had to take a lot of breaks. Christmas Day I really hurt and walk like Quasimodo, only more unsteady.

My spouse has cooking duty Christmas Day, thank goodness! She will be preparing the roast beast and I may prepare a side or 2. I feel remiss because I have not yet made Potato Latkes for Chanukah. The kid’s dad was Jewish, so I have excellent Jewish holiday cooking skills. And I’ve been asked more than once for Latkes. I’ve also been asked to make Kishka. I suppose I could make that and put it in the roast beast to cook if I have the ingredients for Mock Kishka. 

Here’s hoping your holiday has less drama. Merry Christmas to you and your’s!

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Sunday Stealing-Book of Questions

Joining in with Bev and the other "thieves" for Sunday Stealing!

Taken from the Book of Questions

1. If you saw a dog locked in a hot car, what would you do?  Call the police.

2.  Is it easy for you to accept help when you need it?  It depends on what I need help with and who is offering the help.

3. Have you ever been in a fashion show?  No, but both my kids were in a Bloomingdales Back to School Fashion Show when they were 4 and 5, I think. Or around that age. I had to coax my son off the stage because he was loving the attention a bit too much. Lol! I think that’s what may have encouraged my son’s penchant for dressing up. He was never the boy who bristled at wearing a suit. To this day, he looks for opportunities to wear a suit and tie or a vest, shirt, tie, and dress trousers. He’s probably the only soon to be 25 year old that has more than 1 vest. 

4. Would you like to be famous?  No. Being famous would ruin people watching opportunities. I would become one of the people watched and I couldn’t basically remain invisible and able to people watch undetected. And I love me some good people watching!

5. What is your most compulsive habit?  Worrying. Currently it’s not like I lack things to worry about either. 

6. What do you most strive for in your life: accomplishment, security, love, power, excitement, knowledge, or something else?  Definitely security. My current situation leaves a lot to be desired as far as security.

7.How close and warm is your family? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Good one! 👏 I am not close to my sister. There is always something that comes up that drives a wedge between us that lasts years. Aunts, uncles, cousins (parents and grandparents passed away a long time ago) never close, but no longer on speaking terms. All of the lack of closeness is the result of NONE of said family attending my gay wedding 4 years ago. A couple years before the wedding, before I even knew there would be a wedding I reached out and contacted my aunts, I was in a “life’s too short, I should make an effort” type mood. It was not worth my time and to this day I kick myself for doing it. When I called one of them to say we would be in town and would like to visit, I was basically told no, that another aunt and uncle were visiting at that time. I had booked a hotel as I always have when going back to my hometown. I was not looking for a place to stay. The conversation was incredibly awkward. We attended a family reunion 2 months before the wedding. We were basically invisible except for one uncle, who I cannot think of who it was, chatted up my fiancé. I did not see him, so I have no idea who it was. He was really friendly and genuinely happy we did decide to attend. There was an extended relative who was incredibly excited to meet my fiancé and was hugging and talking to my fiancé in Italian. Not broken English, full Italian. We only speak English. My sister didn’t attend my wedding because her husband didn’t want to go and would not let her go by herself or to attend and bring a friend. It isn’t the fact that my sister didn’t go, we are used to his manipulations. My sister wanted me to LIE to my own children about the reason why she couldn’t be there. I don’t lie to my children and would never do so to cover for my sister. My in-laws have been wonderful. They knew the circumstances. During my father-in-law’s speech he said “You are one of us now.” And the entire room chanted “One of us! One of us!” It’s from the 1932 movie “Freaks” It was really nice.

8 Does that fact that you have never done a thing before increase or decrease its appeal to you?  It depends on what it is. 

9. If your friends start belittling a common acquaintance, would you defend that person?  Kind of a moot question since I don’t have any friends at the moment. Before I met my spouse I belonged to a social group. When I broke up with the person I was seeing at the time, they took all the friends. Hypothetically speaking, my response would depend on what was being said. If I felt it was awful or completely uncalled for I might say something and leave abruptly. I have more than my fair share of stress and I wouldn’t want to be somewhere that would increase my stress. Not that it’s all about me, I would say something. It’s just I feel like I’m in a fragile place right now and I need to remove myself from situations that increase my stress.

10.  Do you make a special effort to thank someone who does you a favor How do you react when you aren’t thanked for going out of your way for someone?  Yes, I always try to always thank people when they do something nice. Even if it’s a wave at the car that let me change lanes. Yesterday I was at the grocery. Gah! Why do I do that to myself? Saturday grocery shopping is torture! The sale ended today on much of what I was buying and I could not fit it in Thursday or Friday. I have to use an electric cart because I cannot walk around the store due to back, knee, and balance issues. Super crowded, full of rude people. It took 3 carts to get through shopping because the batteries go dead quickly because so many people need them and they don’t get to fully charge. Then EVERY aisle had someone stopped in the middle on their cellphone. I can’t get through. I say “excuse me” in a regular conversational volume and tone. Nothing. Louder. Nothing. Finally I have to yell, even though I don’t want to. When they do move, I yell “Thank you”, cuz I’m polite like that. Take your cart and your damn phone and go move to a corner out of the way. When the carts died and my son went to retrieve a different one I always parked out of the way. It’s called being considerate of others.

11. Since adolescence, in what 3-year period do you feel you experienced the most personal growth and change?  My early 40’s.

12. When you do something ridiculous, how much does it bother you to have other people notice it and laugh at you?  I don’t know that I’ve ever had a stranger laugh at me. If it’s people I know I sometimes just ham it up/join in on the laughter.

13. Do you believe in capital punishment?  In some cases. Why is this a recurring question in these Sunday posts?

14. Do you find it so hard to say “no” that you regularly do favors yo do not want to do?  I wouldn’t say it’s hard, I’d say I do favors when I can. I try to be a good person. I try to follow what my parents always said, “you do for family”. That includes friends and neighbors. I must be the only one left on the planet that does this because no one has ever reciprocated, and no one has helped/done favors for me. I’m disabled, so is my spouse. We have a repair/cleanup situation due to flooding. Not a single soul has offered to help, nor have they helped when I said I would pay them. My neighbor does small engine repair and I need new blades and a clutch cable installed on my snowblower, and I need the riding mower looked at. I’ve spoken with him 3 times asking if he could do the work and said I would of course pay him cash, I don’t expect it to be free. My brother-in-law is a heating and a/c repair guy. We have furnace issues. Crickets. There isn’t a lot I can do because I’m disabled, but I have driven people places/picked them up with no expectation of being reimbursed for gas money. 

15.  What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?  That would depend on the circumstances and who was involved. Some people can joke about even the worst situations, kind of as a coping mechanism. Other people are delicate snowflakes who you can’t joke with at all. Know your audience. Lol!

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Sunday Stealing-Pinterest

Sunday Stealing

December 8, 2019

Hi! I'm your host Bev Sykes of the blog "Funny the World". . Welcome to Sunday Stealing. This feature originated and published on WTIT: The Blog. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. (Past hosts include: Our first - Judd Corizan, Mr. L, Kwizgiver and Bud) Cheers to all of us thieves!

 

Stolen from Pinterest


 

 

1. What don’t you share?
My toothbrush.

2. A reason to celebrate?
Any day ending in “y”.

3. Describe where you are now.
I am in the master bedroom watching “Younger” on Hulu.

4. A dream that seems impossible.
World peace.

5. Something you hope for.
A cure for cancer and all diseases.

6. A tradition that makes you feel at home.
Any holiday tradition. Sometimes we change things up and add a new tradition. It’s just the 4 of us, so sometimes it’s nice to do things a little different.

7. The people who make your life better.
My spouse, my kids, and our couple friends (One couple) we have.

8. Someone you’d like to meet.

I used to think that I wanted to meet Rosie O’Donnell, but then I met her at a book signing and decided, not so much. She seemed more interested in fawning over babies, chatting with young people...kids, and was dismissive of adults.  I don’t think I’d want to meet her again under any circumstances, unless she was giving me a truckload of money and helping my story get published...(errr, and written. Lol!) I have met Melissa Ferrick many times. Always very friendly, a hugger, always spends time chatting up fans individually. I can’t think of anyone else I’d want to meet. People I’ve thought I wanted to meet, Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey (who I did meet at a taping of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” when Paul Riser was plugging his book. All audience members were videotaped shaking hands and basically saying hi to Oprah. Some people tried to chat for a bit, but everyone was ushered through quickly. I heard Oprah did this to insure that no one could say she had long conversations and made promises to audience members/non-celebrity guests. Technically my ex and I were non-celebrity guests. Show producers contacted us and wanted us in the audience to bring up funny relationship stories. We were picked up by a limo and taken to the set, got to have a continental breakfast while being given instructions by the producer assigned to us. We also got a limo ride home. We actually did get set up by a microphone stand to talk, but got bumped by the elderly couple married for like 60 years. I was actually happy. I was 8 months pregnant and really did not want to be on tv.) I’m just not impressed by celebrities and don’t care to meet any politicians. I don’t think there are any other  singers I’d want to meet.

9. A silly thing you’d really like.
I don’t know. I’ve got every kitchen small appliance and gadget known to woman. Got it! A She Shed. I would have it set up in such a way that I could hang out there and try to be as comfortable as I could be. Comfy chair, maybe an upholstered chaise lounge, and additional sitting space for my family to join me.

10. A book from your childhood.
When I was young my Mom ordered all the Dr Seuss books and I read them. In high school we had to read “Lord of the Flies” and “The Grapes of Wrath”. I got the Cliff Notes. The books didn’t interest me and I just wanted to get through the essays and tests. I did actually read the Cliff Notes...boring!

11. Something you’re still not sure about.
Will my kids (both twenty-somethings with the same mental illness) ever have some semblance of a normal life? Will they at least be happy? My daughter is dating the same thirty-something guy she dated for a year with about a year break. He has intellectual disabilities, seems nice, very polite. I would just like to see her meet other people, but I don’t know how that would go. She seems very controlling. 

12. The best dessert to share with friends.
Creme brûlée.

13. A story that captures your imagination.
“The Neverending Story”, the first one and “Neverending Story II”. The movies. I didn’t care for the movies that came after II.

14. Memories beside a fireplace.

Not a fireplace, a campfire. Camping with my spouse, or my spouse and the kids. Cooking our meals over the fire and after dinner sitting around the campfire just chillin’.

15. How do you spend a rainy day?
The same as any other day. In pain. Probably more pain because of the rain. Staying home.

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