Grown up Meme

A Meme for Grownups
Here’s a meme aimed at grown-ups. If you’re a grownup, and you’re reading this, consider yourself tagged.

1. What bill do you hate paying the most?

Don't most of us dislike all bills?

The one I dread the most every year or 2 years, is paying for car license tags.

Well, it is really the stress of getting the car inspected to clear the path to pay for the tags. :)

Even though that cost is under $20.00 but I am always on edge! Will they find something wrong and I won't have a car to drive! Silly huh?

2. Do you miss being a child?

Hummm rough childhood at times. The only part enjoyable was hiking/ exploring nature , whether along a beach or in an older forest in the mountains. Being only with the wild life and my dog by my side.

Those days I miss.

Now that I can not run and barely walk, I miss those days. What a wonderful time to have that freedom and all that fresh air, in those days. I can almost smell the scents of the evergreens, flowers, sweet smells of the water rushing by in the streams and even the salt in the air by the ocean. Hearing the birds singing, deer talking to each other. Hear that sound? Ah it is a breeze in the branches of the bushes and trees as it goes by.

3. Chore you hate the most?

Dusting every minute of the day! Well, I don't every minute but if you look it is there! They say to use a wet wipe or spray polish to catch all the dust mites and not spread them around or into the air we breathe! A health risk! So yeah dust .... It is not the act but it just doesn't stop!

4. Where was the last place you had a romantic dinner?

By myself or with someone else :) At a camp site around a camp fire.

5. If you could go back and change one thing what would it be?

Gads only one? I have lots i would like to go back and change !!!!!!!!

They say things happen for a reason? It is a path we have to take to become who we are? That there is a time for every thing but we can not know the details or we would , well maybe, stop living ? Do you believe all that? Life is one big adventure and we are here to do something special for others or maybe only for one person? To become better to improve who we are, to prove that man kind is worth keeping?

6. Name of your first grade teacher?

Wow! A fire destroyed all my records/ paper work , old photo albums, I can see her face/hair, her smile, she was the loving one! I had two in the same class!

Good thing, as the other teacher had a mean pinched look right out of a Harry Potter movie! I would not have survived if it was not for the young beautiful teacher with the warm loving smile and gentle mild manner with children. Who made each child feel loved.

7. What do you really want to be doing right now?

Oh I am into this now, you want me to stop? We will see if I keep the flow. Other wise I would be taking a nap ?:) Yeah, that sounds good!

8. What did you want to be when you grew up?

A Wild Life movie producer:) To go out into the wilderness and film what others do not get to see. But nicer then this picture!

9. How many colleges did you attend? Two

10. Why did you choose the shirt that you have on right now?

Black Tee on top of all the other black ones!

One Autumn, I was out working in this yard, where I am living now:) I had on some older black knit pants and a big loose sweater, that was black also.

Suddenly a group of younger teenagers, maybe a few pre-teens appeared from around the back of my Scotch Pine tree! There was a gasp, then I heard.... a witch all dressed in black... has to be a witch. I hear they do that and see the long dark hair. That was when I stood straight up and turned to look at then. Not a word was said as we all stared at each other. They all turned slowly around and quietly left. LOL That was the end of my doing yard work!

11. What are your thoughts on gas prices?

Why do they love to drain peoples pockets to fill theirs. Their dream of power and being richer then another Country! But it always hurts the little guy caught in the middle!

12. First thought when the alarm went off this morning?

What alarm? Oh the bathroom alarm you mean! Thought ....... hurry up and get there pronto! You know this alarm always waits to the last minute!

13. Last thought before going to sleep last night?

I hope I can sleep through the night ..... usually don't! So I go watch an old movie and then dream about that. My son says I need to break some bad habits I am getting with my sleep patterns

14. What famous people would you like to have dinner with?

Right now? These change you know:)

Aung San Suu Kyi

As then I would know that this loving woman was free at last.

15. Have you ever crashed your vehicle?

No, but others have for me! One where my daughter was almost killed, just sitting waiting for a traffic light to change! She was in the middle of the sandwich ..... gads.

16. If you didn’t have to work, would you volunteer?

I have a lot! I guess what I also do now is a bit the same? I am an activist for a few different causes, mainly human rights.

17. Get up early or sleep in?

I get up early as my keet, Leah hates it if I sleep in! She starts nagging and she gets louder the longer you try to ignore her! Even if I have been up all night! You can only take a nap, when she takes hers in the afternoon.

18. What is your favorite cartoon character?

Ohhhh Ho, Ho ....... of late ..... Garfield once in awhile

19. Favorite thing to do at night?

Watch movies:) Then dream about them

20. When did you first start feeling old?

When looking at the dates and knowing my auto insurance company will no longer insure older drivers! What to do!!!!!!! Yikes!

21. Favorite lunch meat?

Turkey

22. What do you get every time you go into Wal-Mart?

Something sweet, different each time. It might be juice, yogurt, fruit, candy or a pastry turn over but something sweet. It could have been ....... a plastic bag!

23. Do you think marriage is an outdated ritual?

No, not really even if it doesn't work out.

I hate it when they marry on the rebound. When they can't get the one they really want and then you find out you were second best!

Good grief, you mean all those years you could have been living with someone who loved you?

24. A favorite movie you wouldn’t want anyone to find out about?

Shhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

25. What’s your favorite drink?

Good clean sweet water!

26. Whom from high school would you like to run in to?

Lester Goodman I wonder if his personality changed over the years? His family moved away!

27. What radio station is your car radio tuned to right now?

NPR or what ever my son had on the last time he used my car:)

28. Sopranos or Desperate Housewives?

Oh dear ...... neither!

29. Worst relationship mistake that you wish you could take back?

Hurting someone who really loved me, by my traveling on .

30. Do you like the person who sits directly across from you at work?

Forced Retirement from an accident. So does not apply.

31. Have you ever had to use a fire extinguisher for its intended purposes?

Funny, even with them around I used other means to put the fires out:)

32. Last book you finished reading? Not done yet!

33. Do you have a teddy bear?

Tiny one:) Blondie ....Then the white tiger Grrrrrr and a puppy called Max.

34. Strangest place you have ever brushed your teeth?

Down stream from some peeing cows! Hey I knew after the fact! Why did they want flushing toilets any way?

35. Do you go to church?

No! Use too ...... A long story on that but in part at Redwood Forest

36. How old are you?

What !!!!! Did you not know!!!!!! That you never ask a woman that question!

37. Have you ever been arrested?

Sort of.... for camping too long at a free public fishing camp! Oppps did not see any sign! No really, did not see a sign!

Crazy!!!! The reason they took us for the night was, I had a bad case of poison oak on my leg and they took me to the hospital to have it treated, then roomed us at the jail for the night, finger prints and all???????

They put me in a cell with a woman that had all her worldly belongings with her! There she was ironing the policemens clothes in her cell. Heating a large can of chickory coffee on top of the turned upside down iron. LOL No really! I can not even remember the name of the dot on the map this little town was called! The next day they led us to their County line and said don't return, they did not want outsiders visiting.

No ....... it was not a dream of some old badly made Movie I watched!

38. Have you ever attended a public protest against a major corporation or a government?

No, Just online protests about human rights of all but mainly for women and children.

39. Do you feel that your type of employment traps you or liberates you?

Working for myself? Liberates !

40. Is voting a duty, a privilege, a right, or an option?

Is a privilege, a right to speak. In so many Countries one does not have a right to speak. They are thrown in prison!

41. Have you ever sat on a jury?

No. Strange I was not asked to until right as I had the accident and could not!

42. Have you ever seen someone die?

Oh yes, .......was there for their last catching breath. Even saw one beaten to death .......

43. Are you making any preparations for old age or for retirement?

I was then things changed, an accident happened. Needed the money to live now!

44. Do you have children? Or, if not, do you wish to?

Yes, two ! I am very happy to see how they have grown into adults. My last one has just left the nest.

Wow and I am too old to enjoy that freedom? lol My job is now done, I did the best I could for a green horn not knowing what the heck I was doing?

45. Have you ever served in your country’s armed forces? No

46. How is your relationship with your parents different from what it was when you were a child?

Lost my mom at 3 so who know how that story would have turned out.

With my dad? I don't think that ever changed much.

He held all the info in his mind but then he lost it all, as he started going backwards in time and he had never wrote any of it down. I did miss that to be able to ask about history and for names or places of the past. Yes, he always lived in the past any way not the present ......... interesting.

47. Have you ever had a substantial conversation with a homeless person?

Yes, I personally have known homeless people and still know them. Why do you ask ,what do you want to know? There is a Survival Guide to Homelessness

48. If life is “a journey”, then where are you going?

Were we to know that part? To the end:)

Ahhh home again where I came from.

Maybe with some space travel thrown in?