Ramblings of a Thirty-Something

Way back, many months ago, I asked any and all readers who so chose to submit questions they would like answered on my blog. As everyone knows, not all great ideas are well received, and in response to my query, I received ten questions...all from the same person. I'm not complaining! They've been fun questions, and now that I've taken this road with my blog, I can continue down the road and move on to a new idea. But before I do that, I must answer the final three questions! 8. What are your thoughts on panda bears? I think panda bears are fantastic. They're adorable, and the way they eat bamboo is adorable. I'd just like to hug one, but I feel that might not be the best idea. 9. How can I convince you to travel the world with me so we can improve our foreign accents? By starting the sentence with:  "I just won the lottery! Would you like to travel the world with me so we can improve our foreign accents?" It would be pretty easy to get me to go ...

Right now, I'm multitasking. I'm doing laundry, printing my scripts, balancing my checkbook, and doing my best to come up with a post to make this blog semi-regular over the summer. As I haven't read any more books from my reading list and I haven't done anything exciting in a while and I haven't yet answered all of the questions from my initial response to my "asking for questions" post, I shall answer more questions, just for fun! Question 3:  Worst Disney movie? Hmmm....this one is hard to answer! I love most of the Disney movies I've seen--animated and live action. Even if I wouldn't say I loved one, I probably wouldn't go so far as to hate one. As a mild feminist, I'm sure I should say The Little Mermaid or Sleeping Beauty , but I just can't. They're my childhood and I love them, despite the hidden messages they may or may not send, depending to whom you are speaking. I didn't much care for the live action 101 Dalmatia...

Time for Question #2! It's another fun one, so be prepared for entertainment galore. Question 2:  Which of your friends would survive the Hunger Games? First, I'm going with the friends I have known the longest (i.e., relations, IW friends, and college friends). Not that I don't love all of you, my dear friends, but it would get tedious if I kept adding people to this and never actually choosing anyone. Second, I'm going to cheat. In my head, this would not be an ordinary Hunger Games--it would be under the circumstances in Catching Fire (that is, we formed an alliance). Because all of my friends have different things to offer, and if you put us all together, we would be unstoppable. I think both Audra and Clayton would make it far in any type of Hunger Games. Both my sister and my brother are very fit. My sister is quick and nimble, so she would outrun everybody and climb up in a tree and be all stealthy. My brother would probably throw things at people and wr...

In my last post, I asked for questions from my readers. I didn't have ridiculously high expectations--not because I don't have faith in my readers!!! But I know that if I read somebody's blog and they invited me to ask questions, I would be very hesitant to do so. Nobody wants to be first. Nobody wants to think that the blogger (me) is sitting there, laughing out loud at the questions and judging the asker. I get it. I promise I understand. I only had one intrepid reader who gave me some fodder for my blog posts, which is fine. I actually was not surprised by the fact that this reader gave me so many questions to answer. Of course, to understand why, one must go back to our time at ISU when she was working a late shift at the Info Desk in the student center and I was sitting in our dorm room when a Facebook chat window popped up, begging for some kind of question/answer quiz she could take before she died of boredom. Add to that hours and hours of Sporcle quizzes (hence...

I hope this post title wasn't misleading. I did not have a rare opportunity emerge; you , dear readers, are the ones to whom this opportunity shall be given. ("And the number of the counting shall be three, and three shall be the number of the counting!") (Sorry, I can't help myself.) Anyway, here is your chance. Your one , singular chance to ask me anything. Anything at all. Serious, funny, whatever. And I will answer it. Here's how this will work:  you ask me questions. As questions come in, I will compile a list of said questions. Then I will start a series of posts in which I will answer previously mentioned questions. Some posts might answer two or three questions if they are things like "What is your favorite kind of pizza?" or "Have you ever been to Azerbaijan?" Other questions might require a longer post. I promise that the length of my answer will have nothing to do with the person asking the question. I mean, I suppose...