Curious as a Cat

Curious as a Cat

from our hostess!

Hi! I'm your host Bev Sykes of the blog "Funny the World". . Welcome to Sunday Stealing. This feature originated and published on WTIT: The Blog. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. (Past hosts include: Our first - Judd Corizan, Mr. L, Kwizgiver and Bud) Cheers to all of us thieves!

Curious as a Cat

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1. I wish I had enough money to _travel anytime and for as long as I wanted_______.

2. If you had to enter a competition for the "Most Uselessly Unique Talent," what would your talent be?

Swatting and killing flies...  I got very good at it in Germany.. The windows had no screens  and we had them wide open  in summer heat..  I could  swat them right out of the air!!

3. When it might hurt their feelings, how do you feel about telling your friends the truth?I have had several occasions to do this  in my work place and  in the church,,,  it is never easy,  but I do believe, that the truth is important and I would want people to tell me the truth even when it hurt.

4. Peanut or plain?

Peanut M and M's for sure! 😊

5. Is there someone you would like to take your place in life for one day? Who and why? 

Not sure, I love my life of retirement,  but back when I was teaching I would have  loved it if Hubs could trade me for a day..  He never understood why I was so  exhausted!

6. Who was your favorite teacher and why?

Miss  Karnes, in seventh grade..  English! So inventive, fun, and   just a wonderful person... I will never forget  one morning  at the beginning of class  she was strangely not in the room  when we started filtering in.. Suddenly two boys  got into an argument and  ended up in a tangle in the floor..  Miss Karnes  came in and jumped on the class, saying, reporters,  where are your note books?  Why aren't you recording the news..  good reporters do not let anything newsworthy get by them... We had been studying Newspapers and  writing  news articles.  I should have known because those two  lived in my neighborhood and were best friends!

7. What do you think is the ugliest thing or event on Earth?

I  detest  those women marches where they dress up in  horrid attire and   act  hateful all in the name of women's rights  to kill their babies. For people who are so liberal in their thinking  and desire social change.. they do not give a fig for  the environment..  They always leave a terrible mess of trash and  stuff in their wake for others to pick and clean up..

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8. What is your least favorite of your personality traits or quirks

• Due to  several events in my young life  where I was victimized by strangers.. it seemed over and over again..

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  I have an irrational fear. I know, I have God and without Him I would be a basket case. It is just that  I seem to be programmed to fear  the dark,  being alone at night, and going out say to church alone at night...  I  will persevere through it, and not let it defeat me,  but it is always there.
  

  • • 9. I wish I could see ________ because _________.

I do not usually wish stuff that  just  isn't possible
I guess I am too pragmatic!

10. Tell us your favorite children's story.

I loved the story of Rapunzel and  never wanted my mother to cute my hair!

11. Explain how to play your favorite game.

I was an only child  and  never really played games much...I played dolls  , loved paper dolls, and I loved to draw and color.. then I was an avid reader. 

12. What do you keep in the trunk of your car?

We do not have a trunk..  Because it is in plain view at the back of our SUV, we bought a utility tub that matches the interior to keep  car fix it tools. We, also, keep an umbrella in the car.

13. Tell us about your favorite way to get lost in a simple activity — running, chopping vegetables, folding laundry, whatever. What’s it like when you’re in "the zone"?

Yesterday I was in the zone cleaning  because I first of all turned on the tv in the master bedroom to the music stations and listened to  music to clean by..  By singing along, dancing, or  just taking my mind off what I was doing, I got a ton of work done!!!

14. What’s your dream tourist destination — either a place you’ve been and loved, or a place you’d love to visit? What about it speaks to you?

Three years ago when we toured Ireland  I always knew my ancestors hailed from Ireland  and I  so wished Id known from where in the country..  But as the bus tootled along the  narrow lane in Donegal and I was so fascinated by the  amazing views I had an overwhelming sense of coming home.. We were driving along beside the Finn River...   it looked just like this

I always knew that there was something about the austerity and secludedness about  Ireland that really moved me!

15. What parts of nature do you like best?

Scenes just like above,, mountains and water,  and the  wild flowers and  small  timid wild creatures that grow there, (mammals)

16. What kind of program do you enjoy most on TV--detective shows, comedies, game shows--and why?

I love romance  Hallmark.

17. Do you know any professional athletes?

no

18. What will the next must-have technological innovation be? Jetpacks? Hoverboards? Wind-powered calculators?

I'm too old to even wonder such things.

19. Have you ever been the victim of a crime?

1. Too funny..  I  just listed all the  ways I was  victimized  above in my fear answer and somehow lost them...  I suppose I'm meant to relate them again..

2. 1.  At age 15 I was walking 2 blocks from home to MYF one late afternoon near dark,  when out of the shadows 2 older teens I 'd never seen  before jumped out at me  pushed me back and forth into the other taunting me  ..  God gave me the  fighting spirit to push back and knock one down and run  while they just laughed.

2.  When I was  17  my bf (Hubs)  and I had gone to a Pep rally in town   with kids from all the high schools.. it was right  soon after the MLK Assassination and we left  a bit early to  beat the crowd  to  get out of the parking lot,,  when a gang of  boys  came at us  They'd been drinking and were riled up against  everyone..  They pushed Hubs down and were circling me  making threats... and laughing.. then the doors opened   and  many teens were spilling out... the gang   ran off toward the facility..  we were scrambling around trying to find Hub's glasses  when we  heard gunshots  ..They had fired into the crowd and killed some!

3.  When I was in college  and came home during breaks  we  all of a sudden discovered we had a peeking tom.. He continued his mischief for over 3 years... We knew he'd been there because in winter there were footsteps in the snow up  to every window and in other seasons he would leave things  up to the   window where he could climb up to peer in..  We had shades,  but  apparently you could see through  somehow... I  hate to look out the window now for  fear of seeing someone there!

4.  When I returned home from Germany before Hubs  got out of military  I had an apartment  and had started my teaching assignment. One afternoon I returned home to find the apartment door ajar.  Alone,  I  didn't  know what to do. I  went on in and discovered  furniture knocked over and our valuable things gone.  Of course, I called the police...  nothing was ever recovered. 

 And there was  another   case where we had to  testify against a child predator  who had a habit of seeing young girls photos in the paper and then  finding out  where they lived and calling them  saying all kinds of  horrible things..unfortunately, our daughter had a lovely photo of herself in the paper  when in middle school. He usually called in the morning  before we left  home so I took many of those calls and had to keep him on the line  in order for the police to track him...   They found he had  done this to over 200 girls in our area. He is still in prison!

20. What if you woke up tomorrow with the ability to understand animals. What do you think you’d hear from them?
Protect my habitat!

21.What is something that makes you melancholy?
The state of our nation...  mainly  our lame  and corrupted Congress and  Judges.