Non-food related question:
- What did you get into trouble for more often than anything else as a youngster?
Food-related question:
- What food above all others would you find absolutely impossible to give up?
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7 comments:
"Youngster"...do people still use that word? Makes me think an oldster wrote the book I took these questions from...
Which reminds me... remember how Grandma McGraw called her couch a "davenport"? I heard that word the other day and was immediately transported back into Grandma and Grandpa's living room... green davenport... those birds on the wall... that black chair that I think ended up at our house eventually... or maybe we just had one like it?
Anyway, back to the question, When I was a YOUNGSTER I was constantly in trouble for having a messy room. Mom couldn't stand it and tried everything she could think of to get me to keep it clean. None of which worked.
At different times, they tried taking away my belongings, taking away privileges, forcing me to stay in my room until it was clean (encouraging my love of reading), and even took away my door a time or two. I would work 'til it was spotless and then a day or two later it would be a disaster again.
I'm writing this at age 36 and now it's my whole house I struggle to keep clean. Some things never change.
Poll # 3
Non-food related question:
• What did you get into trouble for more often than anything else as a youngster?
Not picking up all the leaves, or…
For not believing my daddy when I was a youngster. What’s a “youngster”? Does “35” count? My daddy always said that “there is no such thing as a DUMB question. He assured me that if I worked at Chevron with PhDs, I’d perty much feel intimidated, that I SHOULDN’T, that I was smart girl, and that I should Ask Questions to help me understand.
Well, it turns out that he was right—who knew??—and that people are passionate about sharing their knowledge. As a result, I am grossly over intererested in how gasoline is refined
Food-related question:
• What food above all others would you find absolutely impossible to give up?
Duh, does coffee count? Is coffee a Food or a Drug?
Steak? Salsa? Pasta? Giving up coffee scares me the worst, which leads me to believe it’s a drug, and NOT A food.
I've often wondered if Mom and Dad had some Secret Plan to turn us into Nancy Drew Fiends by FORCING US TO CLEAN OUR ROOMS. But then, I think we were just lazy rotten children who developed Mad Passions For Books in order to Pretend to Clean Our Room. “What are you DOING IN THERE???” “uh, cleaning….”
Whatever their motivation, it worked—unless the house is on fire, Read A Book. The rest can wait.
What did i get in trouble for most often when I was young? Uh, duh, all that stuff that KATE DID AND BLAMED ON ME. Just kidding. What did i get in trouble for most often when I was young.....
Honestly, I didn't get in trouble a lot, and I'm generally not a repeat offender. I SHOULD HAVE been punished for not cleaning my room, but my mom and I were too busy reading books and drinking frappucinos together to really mess with that one.
I have noticed that both my sister and I are consistently being "punished". It is not uncommon in one evening for my father to walk in the room and say, "Court, for punishment, close the blinds" or "Kate, for punishment I need you to take the clothes out of the dryer" etc. Everything revolves around punishment. Punishment for what? NoOne Knows! I think dad says it that way because A)he doesnt like asking for help and B)in a twisted way he is gratefully acknoledging that we rarely need to be punished. :)
I'm taking this opportunity to:
a)answer the food-related question
• What food above all others would you find absolutely impossible to give up?
It would have to be coffee for me too, if that even counts. Though I can't say ABSOLUTELY impossible because I did give it up, for the most part through two pregnancies... choosing instead to consume my caffeine through chocolate... I have also had to cut way back on coffee while nursing. But one day I will return to my hardcore caffeine-addicted tendencies. Mom always laughed when I told her I was giving up coffee while pregnant since they didn't know about all stuff when she was pregnant with us... makes you wonder if all of her coffee consumption while we were in-utero turned us girls into the coffee fanatics we are now. Anyway, other things I would have an extremely difficult time giving up would be pizza, peanut butter and chocolate.
I'm also here to:
b)one-up Darin. She sent me this email yesterday after I put up the new photo banner at the top:
Hey, cool! My dream come true, to be on the internet topless!
Just when you think you're 47 and too old…
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So I thought I'd add a nude photo of myself sneaking my Mom's coffee. And I couldn't really add that one without also adding the one of Amanda doing the same thing a generation later. Yep, bad habits start young in our family.
Oh yes, I remember clearly trying to get you to keep your room clean. And I vividly remember the times when your Dad removed your bedroom door in an effort to shame you into cleaning your room. . .my first question to him when he got home from work was " Why the heck are you punishing ME???? I was the one who had to look at that room everytime I went down the hall to my own room. I could tell a story or two about your "messy" room, but I will refrain...don't make me do that!
ha, my thought EXACTLY... "she posts me naked, then she has to upstage me." You know me too well.
And then "We actually recovered that couch in that fabric On Purpose...what were we thinking?" It was probably a 60s thing, i remember being so excited at the remodel. It was so much classier beige...
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