The Rules:
1. Post these rules.
2. Post a photo of yourself and 11 random things.
3. Answer the questions set for you in the original post.
4. Create 11 new questions and tag people to answer them.
5. Go to their blog/twitter and tell them you've tagged them.
2. Post a photo of yourself and 11 random things.
3. Answer the questions set for you in the original post.
4. Create 11 new questions and tag people to answer them.
5. Go to their blog/twitter and tell them you've tagged them.
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1. I really love Star Wars. I'm not an intense nerd about it, I don't claim to know everything but watching the movies and reading anything Star Wars related makes me really happy.
2. I also really love Disney World. It's not something I'll really talk about here, aside from posting about the food I eat while I'm there, but I've been many times, and it's something I might claim to know everything about.
3. I know I mentioned this in my last post, but I'm Dutch Indonesian on my mother's side, and Lebanese on my father's. My Oma is 1 of 11 children, and my Opa was the eldest of 13 so I believe my mom has over 50 cousins. Its strange to imagine being part of such a large family because...
4. I'm an only child
5. I don't like peanut butter. As an adult I've warmed up to peanuts, and especially peanut sauce - but I still can't handle peanut butter.
6. I have to hold my nose when I go underwater, no many how many times I've tried, if I don't hold my nose it gets filled with water. every. single. time.
7. In general, I only listen to NPR while driving - and I drive a lot, my car has 130k on it. Sometimes I listen to music, or the A Song of Ice and Fire audio books but my auxiliary input broke so now my car is an official NPR only zone.
8. I'm named after the song Amanda by our local rock band, Boston
9. I used to do a lot of urban exploring. Massachusetts, and the Northeast in general have a surplus of abandoned institutions. I don't do it at all anymore, and I cringe when I hear or read people talking about it but I still hold on to a few master keys for memories.
10. I've never tried beets, or okra
11. I'm about to make myself Mickey Mouse waffles for breakfast with the leftover batter from when Tre made them for dinner two nights ago.
and onto the questions from Jamie...
1. If money, schooling or time was no obstacle, what career would you choose? I'd be a farmer
2. What is the one thing you look forward to every day? Snuggling with my dogs in bed
3. What is your number one, all-time, favorite blog? Probably http://corgiaddict.com/
4. Biggest online pet peeve? Well, there's a lot. Bad tweets (I'm guilty of this, but only in failed attempts at humor) Sexist humor, which is present IRL but it's seriously amplified by the anonymity of the internet; Fake nice-ness for the sake of sucking up to "cool" bloggers; bullies etc. etc.
5. What is your all-time favorite book? This is some kind of evil test. Obscure? Angsty? Witty? If I say The Bell Jar I'd be a typical alt girl, The Garden of Eden? ohhh I'm just trying to be obscure because it's not one of Hemingway's most famous works. At one point I might've said The Giving Tree until someone told me he wrote it after divorcing his wife to be with a younger woman. So for the sake of an answer, the book I've been carrying around to read when I have time to kill is Basic Buddhism Through Comics
6. Have you ever been in a fight and thrown something made of glass at someone, like they do in the movies? Yeah, I have a tendency to dramatically throw things when I'm really angry. It doesn't happen very often.
7. Do you believe in love at first sight? No
8. What would your ideal Sunday morning consist of? Getting up early enough to make breakfast at home and get to Todd Farm before all the good stuff is gone. The dealers usually set up between 3 and 5 am.
9. Why do you blog? Tre asked me this last weekend, and I'll be honest - I want people to think I'm interesting. I want people to follow along in my life and enjoy reading about the things I do and the things I think. I also want to promote my Etsy store.
10. If you had to choose one color to wear forever, what would you pick? Honestly, probably heather gray or navy blue.
11. What is your all-time favorite band? My knee jerk answer is Saves the Day, but the truth is at this point I don't like most of the music they (he) have made. I do like both Mineral albums though, so I guess my answer is Mineral.
Dave has the same problem swimming! Always holds his nose. Also I could never imagine you being mad or throwing anything. You're too sweet!
ReplyDeleteI just told Tre you couldn't imagine me being mad, and he started laughing.
ReplyDeleteI have a peanut allergy so I can't dabble in it, but I love sunbutter. Pete HATES peanut butter, people think hes weird because of it.
ReplyDeleteYeah I get the same thing - people think I'm weird. I was a really picky child but as an adult I've almost entirely grown out of it, but I still can't hang with peanut butter or sour cream.
DeleteI'm actually part of a big family too, and also an only child. My extended family isn't very close, so I really didn't have that whole family-centered childhood a lot of kids have. I'm kind of glad though... It made me really independent, I think.
ReplyDeleteI used to be into urban exploring too, but don't do it any more. Not cause I don't want to, just don't really have the opportunity. Why does it make you cringe now?
Beets are the Devil, but I urge you to try okra! I never had it before moving to the south, and since I tried them for the first time I've been addicted. I eat them all the time now! I even eat salted, dehydrated ones as "chips."
I seriously did not know that about the Giving Tree. I think it's so fascinating, the hidden histories behind our beloved childhood books.