How well do you know me? How well do I know you?

[smeddley]

1. Leave me a comment containing the word 'pumpernickel'.
2. I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your lj with the answers to these questions.
4. Include this explanation and offer to ask others in your own post.
5. Lather, Rinse, Repeat. That's why it's called a meme!

From penchaft

1. One of these two sports has to stop existing as of to-morrow, and it's your choice. Baseball or gridiron (your football)?
Golf. Seriously, I don’t want to give up either, and golf is just… boring. Take away a really crappy sport! That being said… probably football. It overlaps more with college basketball, at least, and there are a lot more baseball games on.

2. Why don't you mention your husband much on your LJ?
I didn’t know that I didn’t. I guess he’s just not involved in most of the things I spend time talking about, since other than reading and crafting and work I don’t really talk about my ‘personal life’ much. I mean, I could tell you that we spent yesterday cleaning out the garage, taking down the tree, and we went out to eat, but really, that’s not all that interesting. And I’m certainly not going to talk about anything too interesting (wink wink nudge nudge) on my LJ. I do mention him from time to time (he’s in one of my most recent entries, mocking my spinning! ~.^). On the up side, I don’t spend entry after entry complaining about him or gushing over him, thereby sparing y’all from that. Besides, after 14 years together… he just seems like an extension of me. I don’t much talk specifically about my left leg, either, but it’s always there helping me out (it’s the right one that gives me trouble!). Hrm, that sounds corny. I don’t know, should I talk about him more?

3. If you could have any accent in the world, which one would it be?
Hmmm, Irish, I think.

4. Are there any games/reality TV shows you'd like to go on (even if you just think it would be really awesome, but really unlikely)?
No, not really. Because in all likelihood I’d just embarrass myself and it’s hard enough dealing with doing that in front of a small audience. Besides, I value my anonymity.

5. Why Kansas?
Long story that ends with coasting, out of gas, to the shoulder. Wait, that sounds to interesting and melodramatic. More like a lively trickle of water that ends in a stagnant pool. My dad was in the military, and we moved around a lot. Come time for me to head off to college and we were living at Fort Leavenworth. KU was the obvious choice (I also had the chance to go to OSU, the Ohio one, and often wonder what life would be like if I had – besides the obvious not meeting my hubby, which would be tragic). Moved to Lawrence, met him, got a job in KCMO, moved there, he went back to school and we needed in-state tuition, and happily moved back to Kansas (if you’d ever lived in Missouri you’d know why). He graduated, got a job, we bought a house, and there you have it. Inertia is now our co-pilot. Though I’d like to move, the hassle of finding new jobs for both of us, not to mention the actual moving, is just far too much.

From toast_is_lovely

1. What do you like about puddles besides the obvious splashy?
Ah, the ‘puddles’ in my description isn’t so much a joyous thing – I’m the goddess of potholes and puddles because I’m a civil engineer, and my specialty is storm water management (puddles) and road reconstruction (potholes).

who or what got you into the craft life?
My mom is a crafter, for as long as I can remember. It just seemed a natural thing to pick up. I think I now have a broader range of crafts, because I’m sort of ADD when it comes to things like that and constantly have to try new things, so I’ve branched out into all sorts of crafts. I’m a quantity over quality sort of crafter.

Will you ever post something really RISQUE or tmi (not that i am encouraging or holding out for this, but just curiosity!)
Not a lot risqué or TMI happens in my life, unless you really want to hear about how my gastrointestinal tract hates me. I’m not quite old enough to blather on about that all the time. And most of it can be handled with judicious consumption of Metamucil, which does make me feel old. But it hasn’t worked properly for as long as I can remember. Hmmm… All of my surgeries were long ago, so I’m not inclined to talk about those. And sex? No, I probably will never talk about that here. Too many people (including my parents) know I have this LJ, and that would just be AWKWARD. Although, I guess if I started adding picture a lot of the ‘stupid ways I injure myself’ posts would be a little TMI.

have you ever tried speaking in nothing but lines from tv or books for a day?
No, though I did write a story where the characters only spoke in song titles. That was fun!

Smeddley, you're turning into a --------. stop it! What's your animal?
My favorite animal is my puppy dog, but I’m not sure I’d want to turn into a dog – just because being a bird or a shark would be so much different. So the animal I’d want to turn into would be one very different from me… but I’m not sure which. I have some fears of both heights and drowning, so I don’t know how that would work out for me. I’ll go with a bird of prey.

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I couldn't think of any clever way of mentioning pumpernickel, I tried making up a haiku, but this was easier. Looks like it's fairly easy... with a bread maker anyway.