Sunday Stealing: The Bearded Questions
11 December 2016
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Sunday Stealing: The Bearded Questions
What is some of your favorite music?
I grew up listening to Top 40 music. That was in the 80s, for the most part. I still listen to Top 40 music, to my Classic Rock-loving husband's chagrin. I still love 80s music and I not-so-secretly listen to his stations in the car, even when I'm driving by myself.
List your three favorite scents.
All citrus. Apples. Yeah, pretty much all fruit.
How do you ground yourself or recharge?
Knitting or, when I need to work out some of the more intense pain, yoga
Any ways you treat or spoil yourself?
When one of my best friends, Shana, introduced me to Young Living Essential Oils earlier this year, I didn't expect much if anything. She was doing her best to help me out of my extensive pain and misery. Little did I know, I would experience tremendous relief from those oils. So now my collection has grown to far more than the ones she gave me. Fortunately, whether it's just a placebo or the real deal, it works for me - and Hubs fully supports my using them. Whew!
Besides your blog, do you have a creative past-time?
I'm pretty artsy-craftsy, and I'm working on a book. But not the book that I told you guys about oh, a year or two ago. A different book that may actually see the light of day. And then we'll see if I write another.
Share something difficult you've been through.
I've had five major abdominal surgeries, including Caesarian deliveries for all four of my children (the middle two kids were twins). The first three came by emergency slice-and-dice operations, all prematurely. Sophia, never wanting to do anything that's been done before, decided to bake a little while longer, but my OB-GYN said her delivery was also urgent because of my high risk for uterine abruption. The surgeon also said no-way to any more babies, so she was the last. I love my children, though, and I'm grateful for the three surviving ones every single day of my life. ♥
What helps you fall asleep?
I'm not a good sleeper, so I pretty much have to exhaust myself before I go to bed or I'll lie awake for hours. Since I developed Fibromyalgia, though, that rarely happens anymore. When I'm in excruciating pain, Hubs massages me with Frankincense essential oil, and that knocks me out like nobody's business.
What is one strength and one weakness of yours?
Strength: I'm pretty humble. I used to be an intellectual snob, but Fibro has cured me of that. Now I think I'm a fecking idiot, because I am much of the time.
Weakness: I have no filter between brain and mouth. None whatsoever. I say things I didn't even think yet!
Have you ever received a letter or written one to someone else?
Of course! One of my favorite letters came from the afore-mentioned Shana, who wrote to me while I was at my grandparents' for the summer back in our high school days. Nothing in particular - except everything - stands out about that letter, it was just funny as hell.
Another letter came in college, from a guy I had a small crush on. He wrote me a long letter after I'd moved away once, and it contained one of the best lines anyone has ever written to me: "You may not be the girl of my dreams, but you're the girl IN my dreams." Uh, you had me at "hello"!
What makes you feel powerful, what breathes life into you?
I think my answer is NSFW! ;)
What's your favorite thing to do at night?
Again, NSFW!
If you could go back to any era, what would it be?
I'd go to the era of poodle skirts and sock hops, drag races and ...oh okay, just put me in Grease, would you? And then bring me back to the present, because no-thank-you to being a 50s housewife. Wait, I am a 21st Century housewife, and I bake cookies and shit. Heh.
Your favorite things to wear at home?
Oh, you didn't know? Lady Gaga gets all her awards show outfits from my closet.
If you could be immortal or have an extremely long life span which would you pick and why?
Oh, I don't think I would want immortality or an extremely long life. Unless this Trump shit is just a bad dream. Then we'll talk.
Tell us about something positive you have done for yourself or someone recently.
Well, technically, this is something Hubs did the other day, but that's okay right? We went down to Key Largo the other night, but on the way out of Miami-Dade County, I first made a pit-stop at the Racetrac on US1. (You know the one, right?) Anyway, Jack was hungry, and I was hungry, so I tried to buy something the two of us could split, being short on cash and with neither of us able to eat much anyway. He didn't want the sammich I selected, so Hubs rolled down his window and shouted at a passing homeless man, "Hey, are you hungry? Do you want this sandwich?" The guy seriously looked hungry; he took the sandwich.
One thing you like about your appearance?
I guess my eyes are all right.
Something that makes you feel better after a hard day?
A hard night! Of sleeping, my friends. Sleeping.
If you have one, name a favorite book & movie.
Movie: it's a tie between Grease and Dirty Dancing
Book: it's a tie between Evergreen by Belva Plain and pretty much anything by Jodi Picoult
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Thanks for stopping by, kids!
Fin.
P.S. Bud: I like beards. On the right guy, I think they're quite sexy. Especially a goatee...