I got it from LA, who got it from someone else, and now I see that trinity did it too. I left out a few that don't apply to me at all in the interest of it's already really long.
LAYER ONE: On The Outside
Name = Online I generally refer to myself as Chai, which is what my purple tattoo is.
Birth date = January 12, 1953
Birthplace = Bronx, New York City
Current Location = Northern New Jersey, 10 miles west of Manhattan.
Eye Color = Green
Hair Color = Brown, gray at the temples and around the hairline
Height = 5'2" and a half and going down.
Righty or Lefty = Righty
Zodiac Sign = Capricorn
LAYER TWO: On The Inside
Your heritage = Ashkenazi, which is Eastern European Jewish
Shoes you wore today = mostly barefoot
Your fears = Snakes. Not too keen on bridges and highway ramps.
Your perfect pizza = Plain pizza, maybe with mushrooms, from the local place, nice thin, but not crazy thin, crust. I also like white pizza with shrimp.
Goal you'd like to achieve = Retirement, grandchildren
LAYER THREE: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Your thoughts first waking up = What day is this? Is it a weekend? Or do I have to go to hell today?
Your best physical feature = Used to be my eyes, but they're not exactly even anymore, so not so much. I don't know, do I even have a best physical feature anymore?
Your bedtime = between nine and ten
LAYER FOUR: Your Pick
Pepsi or Coke = Don't drink cola. Ginger ale or root beer.
McDonald's or Burger King = Love them whoppers with cheese.
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea = Snapple decaf ice tea, all freaking day long.
Chocolate or vanilla = I am a vanilla-holic.
Cappuccino or coffee = Coffee is good, but I really like the vanilla latte.
LAYER FIVE: Do You?
Smoke = For over 30 years until this past summer.
Cuss = Indeed I do.
Sing = Only when I'm alone in the house or the car, or to babies too young to talk. I always sang to my children, and to my niece and nephews.
Take a shower everyday = Hmmm ... confession time. I'll skip a day if I'm not going anywhere; I hate to get wet and can only take a shower if I do it as soon as I wake up and don't think about it. Otherwise, I'll put it off and not get around to it. I always feel very guilty somehow about this.
Have a crush(es) = Aw, you know I do.
Think you've been in love = Pretty sure about it, in fact. Yes.
Like(d) high school = Does anyone? It had its good moments, but I was eager to get the hell out of there.
Want to get married = Been married for 26 years and counting.
Believe in yourself = I actually think that I do.
Get motion sickness = Only when I read in the car. Can't do that at all. We took a family trip when I was about nine, and I puked at various scenic locations all over New Hampshire.
Think you're attractive = Except for random moments in my late teens/early twenties, not usually.
Think you're a health freak = Bwhahahahahahaha!
Get along with your parents = I did most of the time.
Like thunderstorms = LOVED them as a kid, especially if I was outside, like on a front porch or in a picnic pavillion or something. Now I just think a tree is going to fall on the house.
Play an instrument = I can only play the iPod.
LAYER SIX: In the past month have you...
Drank alcohol = No.
Smoked = No.
Done a drug = Only prescriptions. That's enough. I'm afraid if I take anything else I'll implode.
Made Out = No.
Gone to the mall = Yes.
Eaten an entire box of Oreos = Over the course of a few days, I think so.
Eaten sushi = Yes, but only vegetable sushi. The fish kind grosses me out.
Been on stage = Not in the last months, but I talked to the freshman class in the high school auditorium in September. I do not perform.
Been dumped = No
Gone skating = Heavens. I tried roller skating once about 16 years ago. Haven't been on ice skates since I was a kid.
Gone skinny dipping = Never in my whole life.
Dyed your hair = Stopped a few years ago. The only good thing ever about my hair is that I'm graying nicely.
Stolen anything = Over the years, ashtrays from hotels, a mug from airplanes and once from a hospital. Not even towels.
LAYER SEVEN: Ever...
Played a game that required removal of clothing = I have not.
Been trashed or extremely intoxicated = Once, freshman year of college, on Boone's Farm Apple Wine! I was literally sick for three days.
Been caught "doing something" = What?
Been called a tease = Me?
Gotten beaten up = Ooh, I don't think so. When I was about 8, I think, a bully picked on me and I actually took him down in one shot with a nasty move I'd seen on TV. (I assumed that when boys fought, they did that sort of thing.) He ran home crying.
Shoplifted = Never that I can recall.
LAYER EIGHT: Getting Older
Age you hope to be married = I was 24.
Numbers and Names of Children = 2 daughters, whom I do not generally name in my diary. R will be 23 in March, K will be 20 in April.
Describe your dream wedding = A good one! I dreamed of a winter wedding, to match my winter birthday. I wanted to wear a candlelight lace gown with long sleeves, and have bridesmaids in burgundy velvet long dresses with empire waists, trimmed with lace to match my dress. I pictured lit candles everywhere. In fact, I was married in July, 100 degrees, 99 % humidity, in a sleeveless dress with a jacket I never put on except for the picture. My matron and maid of honor wore light blue, also sleeveless, because my sister was very pregnant and happened to have a blue dress she could wear.
How do you want to die = In my sleep.
What do you want to be when you grow up = Whatever it was, I think I grew up already somewhere along the line.
What country(ies) would you most like to visit = Ireland and Scotland. (I'm going to England and Wales in February.) I'd love to travel in the Canadian Northwest, as well as the closer parts of Canada, like Quebec. I hear Nova Scotia is beautiful.
LAYER NINE: In a boy/girl
Best eye color? = Green.
Best hair color? = Love red hair! Not so fond of blond hair on men, or in general.
Short or long hair = Not long like shoulder length, although that's really fine too. I guess full is the best way to describe it. Although bald on the right guy looks good.
Height = Best height for men, I guess, anywhere from 5'4" or 5" up to about 5'10". Any taller than that and I feel like a dwarf. Men shorter than I am are not so common, but lack of height was never an issue for me. My husband is 5'10", which is just fine.
Best articles of clothing = Jeans. 100%. Case closed.
Best first date location = I can barely remember that far back. Something about always looking for the perfect cheesecake.
LAYER TEN: In The Numbers...
Number of drugs taken illegally = I smoked a lot of pot for a very short period during my freshman year of college, and then sporadically for a few years after. Haven't touched it for more than 25 years now. Last time I was offered, there was only a kind of pipe I'd never used before, and I couldn't make it work with my somewhat paralyzed lips. I loved it when I was doing it, but I've never missed it at all.
Number of people I could trust with my life = Wow. 2 or 3, I think, plus my children.
Number of CDs that I own = A lot. Maybe 250.
Number of piercings = 1 in my right ear, 2 in my left.
Number of tattoos = Just the purple chai on the inside of my left wrist. When I come up with a good location (as in, one that doesn't move or shift or sag for the duration of my life) I may get another.
Number of times my name has appeared in the newspaper = Maybe ten, probably not that many, probably in connection with Girl Scouts when my girls were small. Once in a headline of the high school paper when I was a kid.
Number of scars on my body = Geez, who counts? Several from childhood that are faded, including the smallpox vaccine circle and chicken pox scar, a whole variety of acne scars that are also pretty faded, one on my scalp from a car accident, which sometimes prompts hair-washers to ask me if I know I've got a scar on my head ("Why, no! Really?") and the one on the back of my neck from the brain tumor surgery.
Number of things in my past that I regret = Anytime I ever hurt or ignored or otherwise did a bad thing to someone I cared about, including those childish indiscretions and moments without tact that still can make me feel bad and even ashamed. How many? I never counted.
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