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1.ONE OF YOUR SCARS, HOW DID YOU GET IT?

My left arm is riddled with scars from falling into a glass storm door when I was nine.  One piece of glass as big as a man’s pinky finger was stuck in my arm, and I remember looking at it and wondering why I couldn’t feel it.  I also remember looking up at my mom in the ER and asking her why SHE was crying since I was the one who was getting stitches.   Now I know. 

2. WHAT IS ON THE WALLS IN YOUR ROOM?

Family pictures.  My grandmother told me once that you should never hang your family pictures in your living room and for some reason that has stuck with me, so I hang them in my bedroom.  (I do have family pictures in frames on table tops in the living room, though.)

3. DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME YOU WERE BORN?

3:10 a.m.  My mom said the hospital served her the best breakfast she’d ever had about 6:00 a.m., but the anesthesia made her throw it up.  I don’t think she’s ever forgiven me for losing her blueberry buckle all over the sheets.

4. WHAT DO YOU WANT MORE THAN ANYTHING RIGHT NOW?

For my dad not to be sick.

5. WHAT DO YOU MISS? 

My boys being babies.

6. WHAT IS YOUR MOST PRIZED POSSESSION?

My wedding ring.  I dropped my ring out of my purse in the driveway and drove over it (unknowingly!).  I thought I’d lost it, so I bought a new set (gorgeous!) but then I found my poor old squished set.  I plan on getting it made into a “right-hand ring” someday (the diamonds are all still there). 

7. HOW TALL ARE YOU?

5′4″

8. DO YOU GET SCARED IN THE DAY?

Sometimes.  LIke when there are tornados. 

9. WHAT’S YOUR WORST FEAR?

Losing my kids.  Outliving my parents. 

10. WHAT KIND OF HAIR COLOR DO YOU LIKE ON THE OPPOSITE SEX?

Dark.  (Don’t tell my blonde husband!)

11. WHAT ABOUT EYE COLOR?

Doesn’t matter, but I find light-eyed African-American men especially attractive.

12. COFFEE OR ENERGY DRINK?

Coffee 

13. FAVORITE PIZZA TOPPING?

Sausage and extra-cheese (with no sauce).

14. IF YOU COULD EAT ANYTHING RIGHT NOW, WHAT WOULD IT BE?

Chocolate chip cookies with walnuts in them.

15. FAVORITE COLOR OF ALL TIME? 

I always say I don’t have a favorite color, but I own a lot of green, and there’s a lot of green in my house. 

16. HAVE YOU EVER EATEN A GOLDFISH?

A real one?  No.  Goldfish crackers?  By the thousands.

17. WHAT WAS THE FIRST MEANINGFUL GIFT YOU EVER RECEIVED?

When I was in the 8th grade, my boyfriend Curtis shoveled snow so that he could buy me a “promise ring.”  It had a little heart-shaped basket thing on it with a diamond chip nestled in it that probably only cost him $25 — which I guess is a lot of money when you’re 13.   I wore it for years, even up into college.  The band broke and one jeweler wouldn’t fix it because it had worn too thin.  I took it to another who soldered it but told me not to wear it anymore, so I put it on a chain around my neck, which I then lost one day while swimming.  I was heartbroken.

18. DO YOU HAVE A CRUSH?

I am OBSESSED with Jason Isaacs.   I don’t see how Sheila’s cousin Kerry works with him every day on Brotherhood.  I think I’d be walking around drooling like an idiot all day.

19. FAVORITE CLOTHING BRAND?

I’m partial to Liz Claiborne, mainly because she sizes big.

20. WHAT KIND OF CAR DO YOU WANT?

I’m not getting rid of the ‘Burb since it’s paid for, but I really really REEEEAALLY want a Volvo station wagon.  Like really.

21. WOULD YOU FALL IN LOVE KNOWING THAT THE PERSON IS LEAVING?

You mean leaving like dying, or leaving like going to a foreign country?  Yes, to both.

22. HAVE YOU BEEN OUT OF THE USA? 

No.

23. YOUR WEAKNESSES?

I’m quite judgy.  And a little lazy.

25. FIRST JOB?

I was a nanny for a 12-year-old boy one summer when I was home from college.  I got fired when he burned down the barn while I was sleeping off a hangover.

26. EVER DONE A PRANK CALL?

Yes.  We used to order stuff COD and send it to our most-hated teachers.

27. DO YOU THINK EVERYONE OUT THERE HAS A SOUL MATE?

I didn’t.

28. WHAT WERE YOU DOING BEFORE YOU FILLED THIS OUT? 

Trying to log into WordPress.  It always kicks me out and then I have to try and remember my password.

29. HAVE YOU EVER HAD SURGERY?

Yes.  A tonsillectomy, a breast reduction, and a c-section.

30. WHAT DO YOU GET COMPLIMENTED ABOUT MOST? 

My sense of humor. 

31. WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY?

Money.

32. HOW MANY KIDS DO YOU WANT?

Two.  Hey!  Got my wish! 

33. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?

My mom couldn’t decide on a first name (my middle name, Christine, was after her favorite aunt) but they wouldn’t let me leave the hospital unnamed.  My grandmother was watching As The World Turns and suggested “Lisa” and my mom said, “OK.”  Thanks for putting so much thought into it, Mom.  You named me after the show slut.

34. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST TURN OFF WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX? 

Know-it-all-ness.  And bad personal hygiene. 

35. WHAT IS ONE THING YOU MISS ABOUT GRADE SCHOOL? 

Grilled cheese.

36. WHAT KIND OF SHAMPOO DO YOU USE?

Right now I’m using Pro Vive “Glossy Volume.”  It does neither.

38. ANY BAD HABITS?

I can’t keep my fingers out of my mouth.  And I’m constantly fidgeting with my hair or clothes.

39. ARE YOU A JEALOUS PERSON?

Sometimes.

40. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?

I think so.  You’re all friends with me, right?  I can’t be too bad.

41. DO YOU AGREE WITH FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS?

Only if your friend is Jason Isaacs.

42. HOW DO YOU RELEASE ANGER?

Blistering sarcasm.

43. WHAT’S YOUR MAIN GOAL IN LIFE?

Raising good men.  There’s a saying that says a good man is God’s hands on earth, and I truly believe that.

44. WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE TOY AS A CHILD?

The LIte-Brite I never got.

45. HOW MANY NUMBERS ARE IN YOUR CELL PHONE? 

20-30. 

46. WERE YOU A FAN OF BARNEY AS A LITTLE KID?

Who wrote this meme?  A 18-year-old? 

47. MASHED POTATOES OR MACARONI AND CHEESE?

Is my mom cooking?  Because her mac-n-cheese will make you slap your neighbor.  But other than that, mashed taters.

48. DO YOU HAVE ALL YOUR FINGERS AND TOES?

Um, YEAH.

49. DO YOU HAVE A COMPUTER IN YOUR ROOM?

No, and neither do my kids.

50. PLANS FOR TONIGHT?

Other than laundry left over from yesterday (yes, I spent my Mother’s Day doing laundry), nothing.

51. WHAT’S THE FASTEST YOU’VE EVER GONE IN A CAR?

85.

52. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO? 

“Blurry” by Puddle of Mudd.

53. LAST THING YOU DRANK?

A cup of black coffee.

54. REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT?

I’m a registered Republican, but I vote for the best person for the job regardless of party.

55. DO YOU HAVE A LOW SELF ESTEEM OR A HIGH SELF ESTEEM?

Shorty got low low low low low.

56. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING?

This one.