The View From Kalamazoo

O! My sinuses! Make it stop!

As seen at Playing School, Irreverently and a wolf angel is not a good angel (among other locales)

LAYER ONE:

Name: juniperus intrepidus, praedicator veridicus!

Birth date: July 3

Birthplace: Jackson, MI

Current Location: Kalamazoo, MI (sad, huh?)

Eye Color: green

Hair Color: dark blonde

Height: 5’5

Righty or Lefty: righty
Zodiac Sign: Cancer

LAYER TWO:

Your heritage: UK&Western/Eastern European mutt

The shoes you wore today: black leather..loafers, I guess they’d be…

Your weakness: chocolate/toffee, coffee

Your fears: failure, esp. failure that impacts people I love

Your perfect pizza: tomato sauce, lots o cheese, mushrooms, black olives, ground beef

Goal youÂ’d like to achieve: some sort of success. try me.

LAYER THREE:

Your most overused phrase on IM: riiiiight…

Your first waking thoughts: now which kid is in my bed?

Your best physical feature: erp. uh…smile?
(Brian will comment on this – he complains I never smile…)

Your most missed memory: If I remember it I can’t be missing it, wot?

LAYER FOUR:

Pepsi or Coke: neither

McDonaldÂ’s or Burger King: McD – my life is made easier by the presence of Playland

Group/Single Dates: single

Adidas or Nike: neither

Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: neither

Chocolate or Vanilla: chocolate, depending

Cappuccino or coffee: cappuccino, if I can get it

LAYER FIVE:

Smoke: no

Cuss: yes, g*dd@mn!t

Sing: when necessary

Take a shower everyday: usually.

Do you think youÂ’ve been in love: yes

Want to go to college: yes, but so many don’t want meee. I’m not bitterrrr…

Liked high school: erg. no. better than a stick in the eye – but not much.

Want to get married: again? I’d have to ditch Bri first!

Believe in yourself: occasionally

Get motion sickness: yes. sucks.

Think youÂ’re attractive: not particularly

Think youÂ’re a health freak: no

Get along with your parent(s): yes, depending on your definition of ‘get along’

Like thunderstorms: yes

Play an instrument: no, and there would be those who argue I didn’t when I did, either.

LAYER SIX: In the past month

Drank alcohol: yes

Smoked: no

Done a drug: no.

Made Out: no, not precisely.

Gone on a date: no, unless you count our child-free work-week lunches out. I guess that should be a yes, then…

Gone to the mall?: yes, but it was the portrait studio, so it wasn’t so very painful.

Eaten an entire box of Oreos?: no, not entire – I have children. and a Brian. No hope of that even if I wanted to!

Eaten sushi: no

Been on stage: no

Been dumped: no
Gone skating: no

Made homemade cookies: no. apple spice cupcakes, yes – cookies, no.

Dyed your hair: no.

Stolen Anything: I swiped a Mounds snack size bar from my son’s Halloween bag last night – does that count? (he wouldn’t have liked the coconut, anyway!)

LAYER SEVEN: Ever

Played a game that required removal of clothing: no, I don’t think so.

If so, was it mixed company:

Been trashed or extremely intoxicated: only once or twice – I really dislike being that drunk.

Been caught “doing something”: no.

Been called a tease: no.
(not to my face)

Gotten beaten up: no.

Shoplifted: When I was 4 or 5 I pilfered a peach from the produce section of the grocery and sat under the stand eating it. I put the pit in my pocket – so my Mom found out later that evening.

Changed who you were to fit in: Tried so, sort of, ever so briefly in high school. Gave up in pretty short order.

Successfully? no.

LAYER EIGHT:

Age you hope to be married: Already married.

Numbers and Names of Children: 2. Emma and Colin.

Describe your Dream Wedding: no.

How do you want to die: in any way that does not hurt. no awareness of the end would also be a bonus.

Where you want to go to college: U. Kentucky, but they have no monee for meee. Notre Dame and St. Louis U. were nice, but I am ->this<- close to being SO done with all of this wracking and garbage...
What do you want to be when you grow up: Grow up. Riiiight.

What country would you most like to visit: Anywhere in the UK, I guess…but there are a lot of really, really close seconds on the continent.

LAYER NINE:

Number of drugs taken illegally: 1

Number of people I could trust with my life: 5 or 6? Max? I don’t know that I ever have that sort of grand expectation of those close to me…or ponder it, at least.

Number of CDs that I own: no idea. Bri keeps everything jumbled together, mostly.

Number of piercings: 2

Number of tattoos: 0. That would involve main and require money, therefore…

Number of times my name has appeared in the newspaper?: No idea – a fair number, since I wrote the University paper for a spell. (actually, for pocket change – a spell would have been worth a lot more than they paid. heh.)

Number of scars on my body: hm. Dunno – more than 5, less than 10? 5 form the surgeries I’ve had, and there’s probably more here and there.

Number of things in my past that I regret: too many.