Get To Know Me with 16 MORE Questions W/O - Treeseed Trivia
Jul 17 '03 (Updated Sep 08 '03)
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Remember prelude99's Get To Know Me with 16 Questions W/O? Well, he's at it again. John has come up with this new and improved write-off, so dig in and dig up the dirt. Join in the fun and find the questions for cut and paste here: prelude99's new W/O.
You can read my answers to John's first 16 questions if you like at: First 16.
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1. Approx how big (sq feet) is your house/condo/apartment, etc?
Square feet? That would require the dreaded math. Wouldn't it? I live in a mobile home...an old mobile home with a funky lookin' addition...I am genuine trailer trash, my friends, but my gardens look like they should be at Versailles.
2. What is the coolest thing YOU think you own and would like to share with us?
I have a huge library that I have mentioned before in Corpgent's famous 20 Things W/O. There are two books of poetry in my library by a little girl named Hilda Conkling (writing between the ages of 6 and 9). One is called Poems By a Little Girl and was published in 1920, and the other one is called Shoes of the Wind and was published in 1922. The first book contains a preface written by the poet Amy Lowell who was a friend of Hilda's mother. These books have been out of print for years and years but can still be found on used book websites, at a dear cost. I have dozens of rare and out of print books that I think are precious but these two would be the ones I would grab in a house fire. Okay, okay...here's a sample or two:
Water
The world turns softly
Not to spill its lakes and rivers.
The water is held in its arms
And the sky is held in the water.
What is water
That pours silver,
And can hold the sky?
Butterfly
Butterfly,
I like the way you wear your wings.
Show me their colors,
For the light is going.
Spread out their edges of gold,
Before the Sandman puts me to sleep
And evening murmurs by.
I also have a Knickerbocker Toys Raggedy Ann from the 50s in mint condition, and a Raggedy Andy from the 60s in near mint and Johnny Gruelle's original books about Raggedy Ann and Andy.
3. Do you have any undiscovered or hidden talents? If so, what?
I am a very good cook and baker. I write, plan and execute beautiful pagan ritual. I "have a way" with interiors and gardens. I am resourceful. I can be and have been an effective advocate. I don't know that these talents are "hidden" exactly. Some people know about them, but not many.
4. Using no more than 10 nouns, and ONLY nouns, describe yourself. You may explain your choices or not as you see fit.
Oh, no! I suggested this idea for this W/O question...now I actually have to do it.
trees, water, gypsy, bread, mare, campfire, road, mist, moonlight, prairie
5. What was your first car?
I think it was a 1967 Chevy Chevelle, gold in color. It was a good car. It got demolished by a 16 year old kid on a tractor who was busy looking at a pheasant in the tall corn when he should have been busy paying attention to his driving. Back then car seats were designed to basically keep your kid out of your hair, not for actually protecting the baby. My little son flew out of his car seat and cut his head open on the dash board. The farmer who was the tractor boy's father paid me $300 cash for my car and my troubles and I was too ignorant to question it. No lawyers or any of that stuff...
6. Do you have any pets? If so, what?
I have eleven indoor cats named Loki, Flora, Hazel, Lily, Firefly, Holly, Latte, Curry, Daisy, Sage-Puff and Sunny. I have one outdoor cat named Rags. Rags is the only purebred. He is a seal point Himalayan. You can read about them if you are so inclined in my essay How Does Someone End Up with 11 Cats or the afore mentioned Corpgent's 20 Things W/O.
I had a sweet little hairless rat ( also known as a Sphinx rat) by the name of Rapunzel and a very intelligent, affectionate and HUGE European brown rat named Neo, but they both passed away from cancer. Rats are very prone to cancer and they don't live very long so I can't bear to have any more as pets but they make wonderful pets. My rats and my cats were friends, believe it or not.
7. What's your favorite restaurant?
Can't really pick a favorite. There are really no great restaurants around my neighborhood, but they serve some good Indian food at Sai Ram's in Appleton. There's great Chinese food with crystal and white table linens at Bao Ju's in Neenah. There is a wonderful Mexican restaurant called Los Banditos in Green Bay where they have lots of delicious vegetarian alternatives to standard fare. I love the Cheesecake Factory on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, especially their avocado egg rolls, Thai pizza with peanut sauce and of course, the cheesecakes! I love the Bella Luna Italian restaurant in Las Vegas. It's way off the strip but truly elegant and delicious and not to be missed. The service is impeccable. I had a delightful meal that featured scallops at Tarantino's in San Francisco, but they stuck us right next to a really noisy group of people at a time when the restaurant was virtually empty.
8. If you could have plastic surgery right now and change anything about yourself, what would you change?
I don't need plastic surgery, I need a magic wand. Nuff said.
9. What is the most you've ever eaten in one sitting?
Well, the family Thanksgiving feast at my house used to have the following menu before I eliminated meat from my diet: Turkey, sage and onion bread stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn in butter sauce, baby peas, home made clover leaf rolls with butter, macaroni and cheese, wild rice pilaf with onions and mushrooms, blackberry Jello salad with crushed pineapple and chopped walnuts, whole berry cranberry sauce, jellied cranberry sauce, apple pie, pumpkin pie with real whipped cream, French Silk pie, chocolate pudding pie, milk, coffee...yeah...I ate some of all of it, followed by a short painful walk to the couch and a long nap. Screw the dishes.
10. What has been your most scary moment in life?
I had two petrifyingly scary times in my life and they were identical in nature and each concerned the disappearance of one of my sons. First my son, Nick, age ten, left on his paper route early one morning and when he was about 30 minutes late coming home, I started to wonder what he was up to. When he was 45 minutes late I went out looking for him. I couldn't find him anywhere. You might think I jumped the gun, but I called the police. I was so scared. He was gone for 3 hours and it turned out he had met up with a friend and they had biked over to the other side of town in order to make some money being the bat boys for an adult softball league. The second time, was with my son Jonathan. He was having a hard time in a new school in 6th grade. We were the newbies in a small close-knit community and he was really getting cruelly hazed every day. One day he just decided he was not going in that school anymore and he played hooky down by the river and had himself a peaceful day, skipping stones and looking under rocks, and catching minnows and frogs. Right around the time he should have been home from school, he fell asleep in some tall grass while looking dreamily up at the clouds. I called school when he was late coming home and they told me then that he had never showed up for school. They had not called me in the morning to report his absence! I was outraged and sick with dread. I literally had the posters up in local stores and a posse beating the woods, and the cops searching by the time he strolled sleepily in at around 9:00 PM. I told my landlord I needed out of my lease the next day, rented a place in Appleton where he had gone to school earlier in his life, hooked up with a temp service till I could get a better job and took my kid out of that school immediately. I should have done it sooner.
11. Do you follow trends?
Nope.
12. If you were told right now that you've won a 70 million dollar lottery, how would you spend the moolah?
Split it down the middle with my friend, Jools, because that is our sworn agreement. Set each of my sons up with homes and cars. Buy a modest and charming place in the country in Vermont, get a couple dogs, and a couple horses. Start an animal rescue facility. Buy another place in Wales. Get a new car for my husband and for me. Get my knees fixed. Travel, travel, travel...Greece, Malta, Britain, France, Egypt, Mexico.
13. Have you ever gone toilet-papering? If so, tell us:
I was in 6th grade and I TP'd the home of the cutest boy in my class, Richard Johnson. It wasn't my idea. I had never even heard of the concept of TP'ing someone's house but I loved the delicious feeling of intrigue so I whole-heartedly went along with it. He had two HUGE, graceful old oak trees in front of his posh Woodland Hills, California house and the TP looked like big cascades of Spanish moss by the time we were done. We never got caught.
14. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be?
See Number 12 above, starting with Provence, France.
15. Where do you see yourself 10 years from now?
Dead, if I don't get health insurance or national health soon. Vote for Kucinich in the Democratic primary and then in the general election and save my life. :)
16. Ever gotten ultimate revenge on someone?
I've sought revenge, and quite creatively, but you can never really get revenge. I've also poured Karo syrup and Mountain Dew in a couple gas tanks in my day. At one time I was a fiery, spiteful person that it was not safe to cross, but I've changed...really...I'm better now. Revenge comes back on you, at least threefold, so what's the point?
A final note:
If you are wondering how 5,000 books, two adult human beings and 11 cats can fit into a trailer, consider the fact that many trailers on the Pine Ridge Lakota Indian reservation in South Dakota house multi-generational families of as many as 17 people without insulation in Badlands winters. The answer to your question? With determination, will, love, and a little magic. No one said it was always fun.
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