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I haven't done one of these in an age, but Dawn at By Sun and Candlelight posted this, so I was inspired.
1. What's your middle name? Ann 2. What's your favorite magazine? Magnificat 3. What are you wearing right now? Blue short-sleeved turtleneck, brown pleated skirt 4. What color are your bed sheets? Sage 5. Who was your third grade teacher? Sister Mary Patrick 6. What is the weather like right now? Cloudy 7. Do you know how to ski? No 8. What was the last thing you drank? Stew broth. I just put a stew in the crock pot and I was checking the seasoning. 9. Dream vacation? Trans-Atlantic cruise 10. Favorite article of clothing? New denim skirt 11. Do you prefer baking or cooking? Baking 12. Is your hair above or below your shoulders? Below 13. What drink do you order when out? Bourbon and Coke 14. What book are you reading? 15. What did you dream about last night? Nothing 16. What was the last movie you went to? Toy Story 3 17. Any injuries at the moment? No 18. What color is your bathroom? Plain off white 19. What's the state of your laundry right now? Mostly caught up yesterday 20. Do you take vitamins? Yes 21. Where do you love to shop? I don't 22. How often do you buy groceries? Once a week 23. Do you have a pet/pets? No (we rent) 24. If you are married, when is your next anniversary? 15 years tomorrow 25. How do you take your coffee and/or tea? Coffee: black with sugar unless there's real cream Tea: black with sugar 26. Mac or PC? Desktop or Laptop? iMac G5 desktop; old iBook laptop I am a Mac, I've never been a PC 27. Favorite month of the year? November 28. Do you have a hobby? Many 29. What salad dressing do you prefer? Greek 30. Live or fake Christmas tree? Always live, usually cut down by my husband 31. Did you walk or take a bus to school? Bus 32. Do you have any phobias? Flying, anesthesia 33. What's your favorite snack food? Hummus 34. When do you take your shower/bath? Early morning 35. What time did you get up this morning? 7:00 36. What's your favorite animal? Dog 37. Have you ever broken a bone? No 38. Do you wear makeup? Yes if I go out, but not if I'm just staying home 39. Do you speak any foreign languages? Not fluently. Took four years of high school Spanish, one semester of college French and I have taught my sons Latin for the past eight years. 40. Have you ever played a sport? Softball, cheerleader 41. Your last UPS package delivered contained ... Parts for central vacuum systems (for my husband's business) 42. What's on your desktop? Tulips 43. What is your home page? Google Reader 44. Extrovert or introvert? Introvert, but I'm getting better 45. Favorite board game? Clue 46. What class did you like best in high school? In college? High school: Senior English with Mr. Keating College: Accounting, of course 47. What would you do with an extra hour each day? Read 48. Do you have allergies? Hay fever 49. Are your nails painted? No 50. Where are you right now? Our office (which is really the third bedroom)
Now there's a marriage one. Again, I'm not tagging anyone on this, just do it if you want.
For all you married people out there! Tag your married friends that you want to know about!
(Don't forget to tag the person who tagged you!)
1. When was your "engagement" anniversary: May 17, 1994
2. When is your "marriage" anniversary: September 30, 1995
3. How long have you known your spouse: Since May 1990
4. How long did you date/court before you were engaged: 47 days
5. Where did you meet your spouse for the first time: Briandi's
6. What is your spouses full name: Stanley Francis Bernard, Jr.
7. Do you have any children yet: yes
8. How many: Two
9. Do you have any house pets: No
10. Do you own a house or rent: Rent
11. Do you live in the country or town/city: city
12. What is one of your favorite activities together: hitting the wine trail
13. Do you have a favorite vacation spot: New York City
14. How many siblings (including in-laws): 4 borhters; 5 sisters
15. What church do you attend: All Saints Lockport
16. Is this the church you were married in: No
17. What town is your current address: Lockport
18. Do you work or stay at home: Stay home
19. Where did you honeymoon: Finger Lakes
20: Leave a piece of marriage advice: Be yourself.
I was tagged on facebook. I'm doing it, but not tagging anyone else....
Here you go mommies - a different kind of survey for a change - it's all about your first born! Just copy and paste it in a new note for yourself! Tag 10 mommies when you're finished.
Let's see how much you remember!
1. WAS YOUR FIRST PREGNANCY PLANNED? yes and no.... yes we were trying; no, I had a procedure performed that month, and my Gyn said I wouldn't be able to conceive until my next cycle. I never got a next cycle.....
2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME? yes
3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS? shocked and very happy, speechless
4. WAS ABORTION AN OPTION FOR YOU? never ever
5. HOW OLD WERE YOU? 29
6. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT? test at the Gyn office, following up after my earlier procedure
7. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST? husband
8. DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX? no
9. DUE DATE? July 18
10. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS? yes, and severe food aversions
11. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE? nothing, I could barely eat
12. WHO/WHAT IRRITATED YOU THE MOST? the smell of food
13. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CHILD'S SEX? boy
14. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING? no
15. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY? 40
16. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER? yes, two
17. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW? knew both times
18. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY? yes: failed my one-hour glucose test; had slight hypertension; in early labor my contractions were very unorganized; at hospital had very high blood pressure, had to be in bed the whole time with a saline flush, fetal heart monitor in his scalp, fetal bloodwork, I had an oxygen mask and constant blood pressure monitor; the neo-natal transport team was in the delivery room ready to take him to Children's. He ended up being fine......apgar of 9.
19. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH? Millard Suburban
20. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR? 14
21. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL? husband
22. WHO WAS WITH YOU WHEN YOU GIVE BIRTH? husband, doctor, nurse, two neo-natal paramedics (if that's what they're called)
23. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION? natural
24. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN? epidural, which they had delayed because they were debating a c-section. Then the guy was busy... finally I got it with my contractions about 15 seconds apart, and I delivered soon after.
27. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH? 8 lbs. 2 oz.
28. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN ? July 16
30. WHAT DID YOU NAME HIM/HER? Robert Sean
31. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST BORN TODAY? 10
I was tagged by The Byrdman on Facebook.
Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.
- I am terrified to fly. I had a bad flight once in college, going back to school from Winter Break. There were about five passengers on a big commercial plane, and we took off late from Newark in a blinding snowstorm, very early in the morning. Out of my window I saw lights, very close to our plane, as we were ascending. I think we almost hit another plane. Whether we did or not, it terrified me. Then, I flew into Boston for work once. No one warned me that it was perfectly normal for the plane to fly out over the Atlantic and bank so steeply that all you can see out you window is water. I haven't flown since 1993.
- I am a Mac person. I have never in my life owned a PC. I am on my fifth Mac in the last fifteen years.
- Autumn is my favorite season. Cool but not too cold. Apples, pumpkins, colorful leaves, Thanksgiving.
- I am from Queens. We lived in Woodside until I was almost five.
- I have lived more than half of my life in either Erie or Niagara County, counting college.
- I am completely Irish. Period.
- I have started to write at least five novels. I never finish them.
- I am a revert to the Catholic faith. I never formally left it, but I did not practice my faith (or any other one) for about eleven years.
- I love Golden Age detective books. I own have read everything Agatha Christie has ever written, including two autobiographies and a book of poems. I also own all of the Sherlock Holmes books and all of Chesterton's Father Brown books.
- I am an avid planner and a recovering procrastinator.
- I love to cook and bake. I seldom follow a recipe to the letter. My cookbooks are covered with notes in the margins about what I actually did when I made the dish.
- I would love to have a viable business selling used books online. I do that now, but I don't devote enough time to it to make it really profitable.
- I drink two cups of coffee every morning. No more, no less.
- I don't have any nieces or nephews on my side of the family, but on my husband's side I have eighteen nieces and nephews, two nephews-in-law and one grand-nephew.
- We own a huge amount of books. We have books in every room of our house except the bathrooms. Even have bookcases in the hallways. I am supposed to be organizing and cataloging them, but..... (see # 10 above)
- I have read every Jane Austen novel, and seen at least one movie adaptation of each one.
- My grandmothers were named Catherine and Kathryn. My aunt was named Katherine. My husband's grandmother was named Katarzyna. If we ever have a baby girl, she will be named Cathryn.
- I have more blood relations (first cousins once removed and second cousins) in Ireland than in America.
- I have always loved to watch sports. I have been a fan of the Mets since I was eight. My favorite sport to watch on TV is baseball. Close seconds are football and NASCAR.
- I have a devotion to St. Therese of Lisieux. My father grew up in Little Flower parish in Flatbush, Brooklyn. My mother grew up at St. Theresa's in Sunnyside, Queens. I took Therese as my confirmation name.
- Before I was married, if you considered my confirmation name, my initials spelled MATH. I aced the math regents my freshman year in high school, and earned the monicker Ms. MATH from a certain disgruntled classmate who only got a 99.
- We don't have cable TV or a video game console. My children don't have hand-held games or cell phones. They are not allowed to watch TV commercials or to be on the computer without me. They read things printed on paper, and play with things they can actually touch.
- Wherever we have lived, we have had homeschoolers as close neighbors, just coincidentially. I think there are a lot more homeschoolers out there than people imagine.
- I have learned that motherhood makes one much less squeamish. I'm not even afraid of spiders anymore.
- I love to do needlecrafts like crocheting and counted cross-stitch, but I seldom find the time. I have a pile of unfinished projects. After my mother-in-law passed away, I found some of her unfinished projects. It made me sad, and I determined to finish all of mine. I haven't stuck with it.
There, 25 things about me. I know I just tagged a bunch of people in another meme this week. I was tagged on this one, so I had to do it! I will try not to tag too many of you twice. If I do, I'm sorry!
*Getting to Know You, 2009 Edition* Completed on Thursday evening, January 22nd 1. What is your occupation right now? Housewife and homeschooling mom.
2. What color are your socks right now? Pink.
3. What are you listening to right now. My husband reading "Farmer Boy" to BamBam and Arch showering after his soccer game.
4. What is the last thing you ate? Viactiv.
5. Can you drive a stick shift? No. And there is a funny story about that....
6. Last person you spoke to on the phone? Husband.
7. Do you like the person who sent this to you? I saw this on Dawn's blog. I've never met her, but I like what I've read. 8. How old are you today? 41
9. What is your favorite sport to watch on TV? Baseball.
10. What is your favorite drink? Coca-Cola.
11. Have you ever dyed your hair? No.
12. Favorite food? Real NYC pizza. There is no substitute.
13. What is the last movie you watched? It's a Wonderful Life.
14. Favorite day of the year? Thanksgiving.
15. How do you vent anger? With sarcasm.
16. What was your favorite toy as a child? My toy dog, Toto. I carried him around in a basket just like Dorothy.
17. What is your favorite season? Autumn.
18. Cherries or Blueberries? Cherries.
19. Do you want your friends to e-mail you back? Of course.
20. Who is the most likely to respond? They are all pretty good about replies.
21. Who is least likely to respond? Mary T., she never checks her email.
22. Living arrangements? We rent a duplex in a cute little city on the Erie Canal.
23. When was the last time you cried? Inauguration Day.
24. What is on the floor of your closet? Craft supplies.
25. Who is the friend you have had the longest that you are sending this to? My sister.
26. What did you do last night? Watched Monk on DVD with my husband.
27. What are you most afraid of? Hell.
28. Plain, cheese, or spicy hamburgers? Cheese.
29. Favorite dog breed? Irish Wolf Hound.
30. Favorite day of the week? Sunday.
31. How many states have you lived in? One. NY, where else?
32. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds.
33. What is your favorite flower? Black-eyed Susans.
34. Favorite Hobby? Reading.
35. Have you ever tried singing Karaoke? Yes.
HT The Simple Woman
FOR TODAY
Outside my Window...a baby squirrel has been eating under our feeder for the past few days. He's not afraid of us at all.
I am thinking...of the thunderstorms which are headed our way later today.
I am thankful for...my family, spring, and the end of the school year approaching.
From the kitchen...Vidalia Onion Soup.
I am creating...an overview of our school year for next year.
I am going...nowhere. Well, tomorrow I am running errands around town, and if it's nice I'll stop at the park for the boys to play.
I am wearing...brown skirt, turquoise 3/4 sleeve top.
I am reading...Home Education
I am hoping...to get the kitchen cleaned and the laundry done.
I am hearing...BamBam playing with Thomas the Tank Engine and asking to watch a video.
Around the house...the windows are open flooding the house with fresh air.
One of my favorite things...Coca-Cola.
A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week...errands around town; farmers market; finish Roman history.
Here is a picture thought I am sharing with you...
The "rocket boys" doing science, launching homemade film-canister rockets with Alka-Seltzer.
HT The Simple Woman
FOR TODAY
Outside my Window...we saw a baby starling, still all fluffy and downy sitting on our porch railing this morning.
I am thinking...of all of the things I need to get done, and how I may manage to do them.
I am thankful for...our home and the fact that we are debt-free and have managed to pay the rent every month.
From the kitchen...the BRAT diet for BamBam, see my previous post.
I am creating...a preschool storytime for our homeschool coop next fall.
I am going...to a curriculum fair tomorrow night, Lord willing.
I am wearing...black skirt, blue 3/4 sleeve top.
I am reading...Victor Kugler: the Man Who Hid Anne Frank
I am hoping...a smooth finish to the school year. We only have Religion, Latin and History to go!
I am hearing...Arch and BamBam horsing around in the living room. "Now, I'm in this fort and you're in that fort, and..."
Around the house...the hostas we planted last year are coming up. They are my favorite perennial. My grandmother had them in Brooklyn when I was a little girl. I have always planted them when I could.
One of my favorite things...strawberries and cream for dessert.
A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week...schedule showings for my landlord (I am his property manager); go to the curriculum fair; finish up Religion with Arch; go to the produce market in the next county; go to the library.
Here is a picture thought I am sharing with you...
The "rocket boys" doing science, launching homemade film-canister rockets with Alka-Seltzer.
If you know me, you know I love LibraryThing. Well, there is a new meme. You take the top 106 books tagged "unread" and comment on if you've ever read them, never read them, etc. So, here goes:
- The ultimate hitchhiker's guide by Douglas Adams (43) never read, no interest
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (236) never read, no interest
- The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini (19) never read, no interest
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (211) maybe someday
- Life of Pi : a novel by Yann Martel (17) never read, no interest
- Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (152) TBR pile
- Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (176) maybe someday
- One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (183) maybe someday
- Vanity fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (115) maybe someday
- The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (155) maybe someday
- Ulysses by James Joyce (135) maybe someday
- War and peace by Leo Tolstoy (132) maybe someday
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (132) maybe someday
- The brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (136) maybe someday
- Catch-22 a novel by Joseph Heller (158) never read, no interest
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (162) read
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (110) never read, no interest
- Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle I) by Neal Stephenson (92) never read, no interest
- A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens (124) maybe someday
- The satanic verses by Salman Rushdie (88) never read, no interest
- Middlemarch by George Eliot (96) TBR pile
- Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books by Azar Nafisi (96) never read, no interest
- The name of the rose by Umberto Eco (120) never read, no interest
- The Kor'an by Anonymous (11) never read, no interest
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville (119) maybe someday
- The Odyssey by Homer (136) maybe someday
- The Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (108) TBR pile
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (114) maybe someday
- The hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (75) maybe someday
- The historian : a novel by Elizabeth Kostova (108) never read, no interest
- Foucault's pendulum by Umberto Eco (101) never read, no interest
- Atlas shrugged by Ayn Rand (102) never read, no interest
- The history of Tom Jones, a foundling by Henry Fielding (67) never read, no interest
- The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (87) TBR pile
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (95) maybe someday
- The sound and the fury by William Faulkner (94) never read, no interest
- The Iliad by Homer (117) maybe someday
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (97) never read, no interest
- Emma by Jane Austen (117) read it, loved it! My favorite Austen book
- Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (64) maybe someday
- Sons and lovers by D.H. Lawrence (69) never read, no interest
- Gulliver's travels by Jonathan Swift (88) maybe someday
- The house of the seven gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (62) maybe someday
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies by Jared Diamond (104) never read, no interest
- Dracula by Bram Stoker (100) read
- Lady Chatterley's lover by D.H. Lawrence (73) never read, no interest
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers (97) never read, no interest
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (83) maybe someday
- The once and future king by T. H. White (81) never read, no interest
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (82) maybe someday
- To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (83) never read, no interest
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (88) read
- Oryx and Crake : a novel by Margaret Atwood (78) never read, no interest
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (106) maybe someday
- Labyrinth by Kate Mosse (56) never read, no interest
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (83) maybe someday
- Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond (76) never read, no interest
- The corrections by Jonathan Franzen (84) never read, no interest
- Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (58) maybe someday
- Underworld by Don DeLillo (64) never read, no interest
- Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (63) maybe someday
- The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck (99) read
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (124) read
- The Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake (47) never read, no interest
- The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (66) maybe someday
- Jude the obscure by Thomas Hardy (65) never read, no interest
- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (62) never read, no interest
- Tender is the night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (66) never read, no interest
- A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce (89) read
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (59) maybe someday
- The divine comedy by Dante Alighieri (63) TBR pile
- The inferno by Dante Alighieri (84) same as above
- Gravity's rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (66) never read, no interest
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (83) never read, no interest
- Swann's way by Marcel Proust (59) never read, no interest
- The poisonwood Bible : a novel by Barbara Kingsolver (91) never read, no interest
- The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay : a novel by Michael Chabon (83) never read, no interest
- Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen (96) read
- The portrait of a lady by Henry James (62) never read, no interest
- Silas Marner by George Eliot (57) read
- The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (89) read
- The man in the iron mask by Alexandre Dumas (43) never read, no interest
- The god of small things by Arundhati Roy (80)never read, no interest
- The book thief by Markus Zusak (67) never read, no interest
- The confusion by Neal Stephenson (61) never read, no interest
- One flew over the cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey (82) never read, no interest
- Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (97) read
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens (63) TBR pile
- The system of the world by Neal Stephenson (55) never read, no interest
- The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and… by Brian Greene (60) never read, no interest
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (78) never read, no interest
- The known world by Edward P. Jones (53) never read, no interest
- The time traveler's wife by Audrey Niffenegger (105) never read, no interest
- The mill on the Floss by George Eliot (54) maybe someday
- The English patient by Michael Ondaatje (64) never read, no interest
- Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (47) never read, no interest
- Dubliners by James Joyce (78) never read, no interest
- Les misérables by Victor Hugo (73) never read, no interest
- The bonesetter's daughter by Amy Tan (56) never read, no interest
- Infinite jest : a novel by David Foster Wallace (54) never read, no interest
- Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (53) never read, no interest
- Beloved : a novel by Toni Morrison (77) never read, no interest
- Persuasion by Jane Austen (82) read
- A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess (83) never read, no interest
- The personal history of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (69) maybe someday
- Tropic of cancer by Henry Miller (54) never read, no interest
By now, you all know how much I love good memes. So, here goes:
1.First Saint you "met"?
St. Therese of Lisieux
2. Favorite Saint(s)?
Too many to list them all: The Blessed Mother, St. Anne, St. Therese, St. Bernard, St. Dermot, St. Jerome, St. Robert of Salzberg, St. William the Great, St. Patrick, St. John the Baptist.
3. Patron saint for the year?
Oops, I don't have one. Let's say... St. Francis, who seems to be a favorite of my boys.
4. Favorite book by a saint?
Story of a Soul by St. Therese
5. Saint book you are reading now?
A Treasured Love Story by Ven. Fulton Sheen (about St. Therese)
6. Favorite movie of a saint?
A Man for All Seasons
7. Favorite Autobiography/Biography of a saint?
Story of a Soul by St. Therese
8. Favorite novel/book of a saint?
Walled in Light (about St. Collette)
9. Saint (besides your favorites) you'd want to meet?
St. Thomas More, St. Cecilia, Bl. Teresa of Calcutta (I came close there)
10. Saint you look to for help?
St. Joseph and St. Anthony and St. Jude and St. Gerard
11.Favorite saint quote?
“Good folk find this indeed, that when they be at the divine service in the church, the more devoutly that they see such godly ceremonies observed, and the more solemnity that they see therein, the more devotion feel they themselves therewith in their own souls.”
-- St. Thomas More
12. Favorite Holy Card?
Too, too many to list them all. I do have the St. Gerard holy card my mother had when she was praying to have children. We both suffered from various forms of infertility, so it's gotten a lot of mileage. Luckily it is laminated!
13. Favorite story of a saint?
Good King Wenceslaus by Mary Reed Newland
14. If you could go anywhere on a pilgrimage to a saint's homeland, where would it be?
Ireland
15. Any Blesseds or Venerables that you would like to become canonized?
Bl. Teresa of Calcutta
Ven. John Paul II
Ven. Loius Martin
Ven. Zelie Martin
Ven. Nelson Baker
Ven. John Henry Cardinal Newman
Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha
Ven. Fulton Sheen
If you HAD to choose one or the other would you choose...
1. Thai or Mexican
Mexican
2. Bubble bath or back massage
Bubble bath
3. Boots or sandals
Sandals
4. The 90% "pro-life" good chance or the 100% pro-life long shot?
The 100% long-shot. If we ALL chose him, he wouldn't BE a long-shot.
5. A cruise ship or a mountain cabin
Cruise ship
6. Rome or Paris
Rome
7. Ordinary or Extraordinary
Extraordinary
8. Rosary or Stations
Rosary
9. Surf or hang glide
Surf
10. Regal Cinemas or Netflix
Netflix
11. Sweet or salty
Sweet
12. Pen or pencil
Pen
13. How-to book or fantasy novel
How-to-book
14. Crossword or sudoku
Crossword
15. Lose a leg or lose your sight
Leg
16. North or South
North
17. A power outage at home or a dead car battery at Costco
Power outage
18. Classic rock or country
Classic rock
19. Wool or linen
Linen
20. Lots of good friends or a few great friends
A few great friends
21. Soup or salad
Soup
22. Merlot or Chardonnay
Chardonnay
23. Picasso or Da Vinci
Da Vinci
24. Charades or trivial pursuit
Trivial Pursuit
25. Evangelical Protestantism or Orthodox Judaism
Orthodox Judiasm
26. Stone age or dark age
Dark age
27. Steven Spielberg or Ken Burns
Burns
28. Thermopylae or Alamo
Alamo
29. Big Foot or Loch Ness Monster
Loch Ness Monster
30. Babies or teenagers
Babies
31. Paper or Plastic?
Paper
From What Privileges Do You Have?, based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. If you participate in this blog game, they ask that you PLEASE acknowledge their copyright.)
Bold the true statements.
1. Father went to college
2. Father finished college (Associates Degree)
3. Mother went to college
4. Mother finished college
5. Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor (not as a child, though)
6. Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers.
7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home.
8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home.
9. Were read children's books by a parent
10. Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18.
11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18
12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively.
13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18
14. Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs
15. Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs
16. Went to a private high school
17. Went to summer camp
18. Had a private tutor before you turned 18. No, but I was a private math tutor while still in high school.
19. Family vacations involved staying at hotels
20. Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18
21. Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them
22. There was original art in your house when you were a child
23. You and your family lived in a single-family house
24. Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home
25. You had your own room as a child.
26. You had a phone in your room before you turned 18
27. Participated in a SAT/ACT prep course
28. Had your own TV in your room in high school
29. Owned a mutual fund or IRA in high school or college
30. Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16
31. Went on a cruise with your family
32. Went on more than one cruise with your family
33. Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up
34. You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family
HT Elizabeth.
1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE ? The Blessed Mother, and her mother, Saint Anne.
2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? At Mass on January 1.
3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? So - so.
4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? Corned beef.
5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS? Yes!
6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Yes!
7. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? Yes!
8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? Yes.
9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? No.
10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Grape nuts.
11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? No, not usually.
12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? Yes.
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? Strawberry (homemade in June).
14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? Face.
15. RED OR PINK? Pink.
16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF? I can procrastinate.
17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST Uncle Bill.
18. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? None! (See, I only wear skirts, and I don't wear shoes in the house.)
19. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE? Fresh-baked French bread with (real) butter, and Gingerbread Spice tea.
20. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? BamBam babbling on while he plays with his trucks at the table next to me.
21. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? Blue.
22. FAVORITE SMELLS? Pine.
23. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? DoorMan.
24. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH? Baseball.
25. HAIR COLOR? Brown.
26. EYE COLOR? Hazel.
27. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? No.
28. FAVORITE FOOD? One? New York pizza. The actual real stuff, from New York.
29. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? Happy endings, like Jane Austen's trademark "weddings all around."
30. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? Persuasion on Masterpiece last Sunday.
31. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? Green turtleneck with a purple sweater.
32. SUMMER OR WINTER? Winter.
33. HUGS OR KISSES? Hugs.
34. FAVORITE DESSERT? New York cheesecake (are you sensing a New York thing?)
35. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? We and Our Children by Mary Reed Newland.
36. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? Laptops don't have mousepads.
37. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON T.V. LAST NIGHT? I haven't watched broadcast TV since Sunday night (see #30, above).
38. FAVORITE SOUNDS? The Ave Maria (Schubert's) beautifully sung.
39. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? Back in my rocker days, yes! Not anymore.
40. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? London.
41. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? Yes!
42. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? Woodside, Queens, New York (aha!)
A list of the saints I regularly invoke (HT Robert).
- Blessed Mother (especially under the titles of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Our Lady of Czestochowa)
- St. Anne
- St. Therese
- St. Bernard
- St. Stanislaus
- St. Francis
- St. Peter
- St. Robert of Salzburg
- St. John
- St. Patrick
- St. William the Great
- St. Jerome
- St. Rose of Lima
- St. Pio of Pietrelcina
- St. Dermot
- St. Michael the Archangel
- St. Gabriel the Archangel
- St. Christopher
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from inter-library loan.
