I'm happy to have a mental diversion this afternoon, so I'll certainly play!

1. Coffee, tea or soda? Coffee in the morning, Diet Coke in the afternoon.

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area? Semi-urban. On the edge of downtown, but in a heavily wooded enclave of older homes.

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food? A new washing machine.

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper? No. Used to, but didn't take the time to read it.

5. Who called you on the phone last? My neighbor.

6. What is your favorite TV show? Right now, "Outnumbered", a British comedy.

7. What is your favorite TV news source? I don't watch news on the telly.

8. Credit or Debt? Definitely debit.

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags? Plastic bags that see double-duty as cat poop containers when we scoop the litter boxes.

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why? Goodwill or Salvation Army; both are nearby.

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ??? Target, usually.

12. What is your favorite online shopping source? Amazon.com. I can find almost anything I need there, and shipping is fast and free.

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff? Depends on what's going on in my life at any given point in time, but typically it's 1) house, 2) clothes, 3) shoes.

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural? Professional lowlights and highlights, and I'm overdue.

15. Do you keep a journal? I was blogging regularly, but haven't done so in awhile.

16. Do you have a bucket list? Not really. I try to establish a few unique things to do annually though.

17. What is your least favorite chore? Dusting.

18. What book are you reading? The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

1. Coffee, tea or soda?

Hot tea, sweet tea or Coke.

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?

Rural, but 12 minutes from civilization.

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?

A vintage pine hutch for DD2's 23rd birthday this week.

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?

Local paper - Wed, Fri, Sat, Sunday

5. Who called you on the phone last?

DS who lives in Chicago.

6. What is your favorite TV show?

Just one?!

7. What is your favorite TV news source?

None

8. Credit or Debt?

Credit, and I pay balance in full each month.

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags?

BYOB, pretty large floral ones from Pier 1. Someone always asks where I purchased.

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why?

Local that supports a children's youth home.

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ???

Locally owned

12. What is your favorite online shopping source?

etsy - vintage for house, Ralph Lauren - clothes

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff?

House!!!

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?

Professional, every three weeks

15. Do you keep a journal?

No way

16. Do you have a bucket list?

Not written down

17. What is your least favorite chore?

Cleaning the toliets

18. What book are you reading?

The Soul of a House by Chris Madden (non-fiction)
and
I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron

1. Coffee, tea or soda?
Water

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?
Urban

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?
Pot of hyacinth bulbs

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?
Yes, two. I often just read them online, but feel a personal obligation to support this dying industry.

5. Who called you on the phone last?
DS

6. What is your favorite TV show?
The Office. I am in pre-mourning at the loss of Steve Carell.

7. What is your favorite TV news source?
HLN

8. Credit or Debt?
Debit card used as credit

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags?
Plastic. Like Jen, ours do double-duty as kitty litter cleaning bags.

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why?
Goodwill. I like that it provides jobs to those who are challenged.

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ???
Usually the mall, though it's very infrequent.

12. What is your favorite online shopping source?
Overstock and Amazon.

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff?
House stuff

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?
Home dye.

15. Do you keep a journal?
I used to, but it was compromised years ago and I got out of the habit.

16. Do you have a bucket list?
Yes, though not formal. Trips to Hawaii, Africa, and Egypt are on the list.

17. What is your least favorite chore?
Toilet.

18. What book are you reading?
The Art of Racing in the Rain.

1. Coffee, tea or soda?
Water mostly, plus occasional Coke & wine

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?
Suburban area, small city

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?
Lightweight cargo pants for traveling

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?
Yes, gotta do my crossword puzzle!

5. Who called you on the phone last?
My 24 yo DD

6. What is your favorite TV show?
I DVR several - Top Chef, How I Met Your Mother, 30 Rock

7. What is your favorite TV news source?
None are very good, I usually watch CNN in the am
8. Credit or Debt?
Both, depending on circumstances

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags?
I have my own bags, but rarely remember to bring them

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why?
Goodwill, because they have the closest drop off location

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ???
Yes ;)

12. What is your favorite online shopping source?
Amazon

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff?
wherever I can find what I need

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?
Professionally done for the last few years. I used to be a DIYer

15. Do you keep a journal?
Nope

16. Do you have a bucket list?
Not really

17. What is your least favorite chore?
Dusting - it never ends!

18. What book are you reading?
Sarah's Key - for my book club

1. Coffee, tea or soda? I usually have a lite vanilla caramel latte on mornings that I work. Water throughout the day and usually iced tea at night. I don't do coffee and rarely sodas.

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area? Rural - could not live in the city.

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?
Sadly, gas, and we even spent a day antiquing last Friday!

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper? No

5. Who called you on the phone last? Last night - a neighbor down the road and a friend of hubby's

6. What is your favorite TV show? Don't really have one - I watch very little tv

7. What is your favorite TV news source? Usually only watch our local news in the morning (most national news I get via radio or online)

8. Credit or Debt? Mostly debit but use one credit card (with rewards) - never carry a balance

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags? Plastic and recycle or reuse for pup and BYOB also. Just got the cutest one at Petsmart!

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why? Habitat for Humanity - I like their stores better and how the items are used. Also, they will pick up large items.

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ??? I hate the mall! I prefer speciality shops - love Steinmart too. Antique shops for home.

12. What is your favorite online shopping source? I still like ebay, find a good bit on etsy and even some department stores, etc. rather than going to one in person.

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff? House, clothes, shoes in that order

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural? I just do a rinse and do it myself. Otherwise I end up with hooker black. (My hair is dark and grabs color)

15. Do you keep a journal? No, just tons of lists LOL

16. Do you have a bucket list? No. I am impulsive vs. planner and that seems like planning to me.

17. What is your least favorite chore? Vacuuming - hubby usally does it (and a better job too!)

18. What book are you reading? Sadly, nothing. I just ordered two books - one is Randy Pausch's "The Last Lecture". Have read/heard parts of it but want to read the whole book.

tina

1. Coffee, tea or soda? All of the above, but trying to curb my Diet Coke habit.

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?
More urban than rural, but not in the city.

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?
On line, ordered a small ottoman. In person, bought some boring stuff (laundry detergent, dog food, etc) at Target.

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?
Yes.

5. Who called you on the phone last?
My son, hoping his after-school obligation was cancelled so he could go to a friend's house. It's snowing like crazy here so a lot of activities are being cancelled. But his was not!

6. What is your favorite TV show?
Modern Family. I am also loving American Idol this season.

7. What is your favorite TV news source?
I don't watch the news on TV.

8. Credit or Debt?
Credit. But we pay it off each month.

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags?
I have my own bags but I often forget them at home. So, usually paper.

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why?
I donate to a Vets' association that picks up donations at the house.

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ???
I prefer specialty boutiques but sometimes in the name of efficiency, I have to hit the mall.

12. What is your favorite online shopping source?
Probably have to say Amazon. But I do love Etsy, too.

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff?
Depends on my mood.

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?
Pro dye job.

15. Do you keep a journal?
No

16. Do you have a bucket list?
No but DH and I often talk about the places we'll visit when we retire.

17. What is your least favorite chore?
Laundry.

18. What book are you reading?
I just finished Kane and Abel based on someone's recommendation here. It wasn't my favorite book, but it was good. Not sure what I'm going to start next! I do have the Nora Ephron book sitting on my nightstand!

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper? Yes

6. What is your favorite TV show? Modern Family/Good Wife/Brothers & Sisters ... also enjoying AI this year

7. What is your favorite TV news source? CNN

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags? Recycle plastic for the litterbox ... same with paper for the indoor recycle bin. Have a couple cloth bags I use if I'm only picking up a few things.

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why? Goodwill, because it's close.

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ??? TJ Maxx/Marshall's

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural? Natural

1. Coffee, tea or soda? coffee am diet coke rest of the day
2. Do you live in an urban or rural area? suburban

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food? crockpot

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper? no. read it online

5. Who called you on the phone last? the vendor I am working with on a project for work

6. What is your favorite TV show? tie between Bones and NCIS

7. What is your favorite TV news source? FoxNews Channel

8. Credit or Debt? debit

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags? plastic

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why? Goodwill- they are cleaner, more organized and charge less than Salvation Army.

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ??? mall or Goodwill, antique shops

12. What is your favorite online shopping source? dont have one

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff? house stuff

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural? professional
15. Do you keep a journal? no

16. Do you have a bucket list? had a list for years before the movie.

17. What is your least favorite chore? laundry

18. What book are you reading? something by Jeffrey Deaver.

1. Coffee, tea or soda?
Latte, please.

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?
Rural, about 8 minutes from downtown.

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?
Le Creuset tea kettle for Max's girlfriend. Ebay score!!

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?
Two. The Grass Valley Union (6 days) and Sac Bee (7 days). I have to support the dying industry too!

5. Who called you on the phone last?

DH, just a couple minutes ago.

6. What is your favorite TV show?

Love Parenthood, Modern Family, The Good Wife, Brothers and Sisters and AI.
(Natal, we could be room mates!)

7. What is your favorite TV news source?
NPR, CNN.

8. Credit or Debt?

Generally Debt, though I heard it's better to use my Debt card as a credit card. I don't usually.

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags?

Usually I bring my own bags but when I forget, it's paper.

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why?

I donate to two. Sammie's Friends (animal rescue) and Cancer Aid. Two local thrift stores.

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ???

I'm a regular at Costco but other than that, it's either locally owned or Macy's.

12. What is your favorite online shopping source?
Ebay and Amazon.

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff?
House.

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?

Home dye for years. I just switched to pro dye and glad I did.

15. Do you keep a journal?
No, sadly.

16. Do you have a bucket list?
No.

17. What is your least favorite chore?
Laundry.

18. What book are you reading?
'Souls of Terror' by Anthony P. Morse. I know the author and am vastly familiar with the new age group, so it's been fun guessing who inspired the different characters.

1. Coffee, tea or soda? Tea

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area? Urban. I'm less than a block away from the center of town.

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food? Amazon gift card for my sister's birthday present, along with Roman numeral birthday cake candles.

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper? No.

5. Who called you on the phone last? My sister.

6. What is your favorite TV show? The Big Bang Theory.

7. What is your favorite TV news source? Don't watch TV news.

8. Credit or Debt? Debt.

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags? Bring two of my own bags and get the rest in plastic for litter box duty.

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why? Goodwill, because they have a drop off station in my supermarket's parking lot.

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ??? Mostly the stores on Main Street, because I can walk to them.

12. What is your favorite online shopping source? Amazon.

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff? House stuff.

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural? Professional highlights.

15. Do you keep a journal? No.

16. Do you have a bucket list? No.

17. What is your least favorite chore? Washing the kitchen floor.

18. What book are you reading? The Double Image by Helen McInnes.

1. Coffee, tea or soda?
coffee then water

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?
rural between 2 small towns.

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?
a Pashmina scarf for dd's B-day (21 yesterday!) and I will borrow it....

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?
get the local free at work

5. Who called you on the phone last?
youngest db just called to see if we made it home ok. What a sweetheart!

6. What is your favorite TV show?
the Daily Show and looking forward to next season's Madmen

7. What is your favorite TV news source?
MSNBC in A.M. The Daily show in the P.M. :) Web in between

8. Credit or Debt?
usually write a check or cash for personal purchases

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags?
Plastic and then recycle them

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why?
Wayside Cross Rescue Mission. My parents always used them

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ???
I work in a shopping center, so I support my neighbors!

12. What is your favorite online shopping source?
I don't shop for personal stuff online much. I use highpointmarket.com for work a lot

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff?
    home stuff which is work stuff

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?
home. Not happy about it either

15. Do you keep a journal?
I keep a spiral notebook of phone calls/customer's names/ and any stuff I need to refer back to

16. Do you have a bucket list?
    no

17. What is your least favorite chore?
floors

18. What book are you reading?
Menace Philip Roth

1. Coffee, tea or soda?

Coffee in the morning, hot tea in the evenings in winter and iced tea when it's hot. I like iced coffee then too.
No soda ever. Rots the bones, or so it might be.

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?

Rural. I had to wait for 5 wild turkeys to cross the road this afternoon. Breathtaking!

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?
Bath and Body works stuff this afternoon. Fresh Balsam wallflowers for $2.

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?
We do for my Dad who likes the sports page.

5. Who called you on the phone last?
Our pastor to inquire about a cousin who was recently tragically injured. She was hit by a car while crossing at at a crosswalk.

6. What is your favorite TV show?
Lost. MI-5, which thankfully is still going on. We got a Netflix episode in the mail today!

7. What is your favorite TV news source?
Fashion Police

8. Credit or Debt?
Debit

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags?
Plastic but bring my own to Aldi's. I save the plastic bags and use them for lots of things.

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why?
Goodwill. It's convenient. Dh likes the tax receipts.

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ???
I shop everywhere. Nothing is safe from me.

12. What is your favorite online shopping source?
Amazon, Zappos, Overstock, Pottery Barn, Eddie Bauer, Dillard's....and believe it or not, Site To Store Wal Mart- this is a new thing for me.

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff?
All the above and more. It has to do with question number 2.

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?
Home Dye

15. Do you keep a journal?
No. I would be afraid someone would read it and be bored to death.

16. Do you have a bucket list?
Not officially but there are a few places I would like to vacation eventually. Vienna, Salzburg, Budapest...

17. What is your least favorite chore?
Cleaning the bathroom

18. What book are you reading?
Finding Eichmann

What is your favorite TV show? Lost.
I wish it was still on. ;)

What is your favorite TV news source? Fashion Police
???

Site To Store Wal Mart
I've used that a couple times. Pretty cool!

Am I the only one who doesn't color her hair?

bumble is cracking me up!
7. What is your favorite TV news source?
Fashion Police

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.
Joan Rivers

1. Coffee, tea or soda?
* coffee with breakfast or dessert; tea the rest of the time

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?
* Rural . . . in the mountains at 6000ft above sea level

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?
*a new pair of jeans

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?
*Yes

5. Who called you on the phone last?
* DH, wondering how the weather was up here (snowstorm here): Bad!

6. What is your favorite TV show?
* "Today Show" (all of it) and "Psych"

7. What is your favorite TV news source?
Fox & Friends/ News and the NBC Nightly News (I'm somewhat of a news junkie)

8. Credit or Debt?
* Credit, but we have only one card and pay it off in full every month

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags?
* Bring my own bags

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why?
* a local free store. I like that people who need something, can get it for nothing and save their money for other necessities.

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ???
* I usually shop at a fairly new outdoor mall that has many of my favorite stores.

12. What is your favorite online shopping source?
Coldwater Creek for my clothes; Amazon for books and lots of other things

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff?
* Most often, house stuff

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?
* Professional

15. Do you keep a journal?
* My gardening journal has morphed into somewhat of an everything journal over the years

16. Do you have a bucket list?
* Yes

17. What is your least favorite chore?
* Washing floors, as the entire house has brick floors

18. What book are you reading?
* Hoda Kotb's new biography (good book/ great gal!)

entire house has brick floors

Lynn, your poor legs!

BB & DD, had no idea that was an actual show.

1. Coffee, tea or soda?
Coffee or flavored waters.

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?
Small Urban and Larger Urban

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?
A very old bright cut tea pot.

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?
I have always hated news print. If I have a phobia it's that...I hate touching the stuff.

5. Who called you on the phone last?
My husband.

6. What is your favorite TV show?
National Geographic...

Ok really? Almost all of the Real Housewives heh heh

7. What is your favorite TV news source?
I suppose the Real Housewives aren't news? I get most of my news from the net.

8. Credit or Debt?
After 20 years in banking...both are great tools if used wisely.

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags?
I wish I would remember my bags every time. Plastic, which we reuse for diapers and doggie doo.

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why?
Habit for Humanity. It's a great program, a hand up, verses a hand out.

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ???
Boutiques. I hate malls.

12. What is your favorite online shopping source?
Shop Goodwill.com and Zulily

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff?
House stuff mostly

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?
I dye my hair to match my son's so it appears natural :oP

15. Do you keep a journal?
I have started a blog a couple of times and loose track of where so I suppose that's a no.

16. Do you have a bucket list?
No, I try to live in the moment and plan my dreams into that moment as I can.

17. What is your least favorite chore?
Hush Mom! (she's laughing) Laundry.

18. What book are you reading?
The Victorian Bathroom. It's a page turner LOL Obviously I'm a bit focused on home.

1. Coffee, tea or soda?
-Coffee and Diet Pepsi. Water in between.

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?
-Rurban. We're just outside the Urban Growth Boundary.

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?
-Does dog food count? If not, scrapbook paper.

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?
-Not any more, read it online or at work.

5. Who called you on the phone last?
-My doctor

6. What is your favorite TV show?
-Just started watching "How I Met Your Mother". It's great!

7. What is your favorite TV news source?
-Today Show.

8. Credit or Debt?
-Debit, credit for traveling.

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags?
-BYOB. I sometimes just hand carry it out, like why do I need a bag for a loaf of bread?

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why?
-St. Vincent dePaul, because it's nearby. If I can, I prefer to give to the Humane Society or Friends of Felines.

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ???
-Costco is my 2nd home, too. I never go to the mall, unless there is an anchor store I need to go to like Macy's or Nordys.

12. What is your favorite online shopping source?
-Ebay, Amazon or Etsy. Depends on what I'm shopping for.

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff?
-House, then pets. Clothes then shoes.

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?
Natural, but occasional home when the gray starts to get out of hand.

15. Do you keep a journal?
-No. Never could get into that. But now I'm doing scrapbooks so I do some journaling for that. Journal-lite.

16. Do you have a bucket list?
-Sort of, but not written.

17. What is your least favorite chore?
-Grocery shopping. I'll clean toilets if someone would grocery shop for me.

18. What book are you reading?
Eyes of Prey by John Stanford. Good thriller author.

1. Coffee, tea or soda?

Coffee, but in moderation: a cup w/breakfast, one at work. Otherwise I drink water

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?

(Sub)urban? Just outside a city

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?

My weekly Target run: reading glasses, shave cream, and soap

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?

Yes, couldn't get started in the morning without it

5. Who called you on the phone last?

My SIL, we're commiserating about dealing with our MIL lately

6. What is your favorite TV show?

Another Office fan

7. What is your favorite TV news source?

NBC Nightly News

8. Credit or Debt?

Debit for very small expenses, credit for almost everything else- bill paid in full monthly

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags?

Both-the paper bags go inside the plastic, and those are our garbage can liners

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why?

Goodwill if I deliver, Salvation Army for pick up

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ???

The mall but I'm not a shopper. Really don't enjoy shopping too much as a recreational sport :)

12. What is your favorite online shopping source?

Amazon. With Prime Shipping it's like having the super emporium open 24/7

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff?

House

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?

Professional highlights. Money extremely well spent, would never do my own

15. Do you keep a journal?

No

16. Do you have a bucket list?

No and can't stand that a dumb movie inspired a term that seemingly is an instant classic

17. What is your least favorite chore

Cleaning bathrooms, although I do love a spotless loo

18. What book are you reading?

Left Neglected, seems like it will be a good read

1. Coffee, tea or soda? Coffee
2. Do you live in an urban or rural area? urban

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food? fabric

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper? yes

5. Who called you on the phone last? a girlfriend

6. What is your favorite TV show? Glee

7. What is your favorite TV news source? NPR

8. Credit or Debt? Debit

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags? bring my own

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why? Second Mile

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ??? TJ Maxx, Marshalls, etc.

12. What is your favorite online shopping source? Amazon

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff? house stuff

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural? home dye

15. Do you keep a journal? Not anymore, but did for a long time

16. Do you have a bucket list? no

17. What is your least favorite chore? paying bills

18. What book are you reading? Deadly Spin

Natal, I have the last season of Lost recorded and sometimes I listen to episodes while doing housework. It's comforting to see ol' Hurley again. I watched What They Died For the other day.
The Site to Store is great because now I don't have to go to 3 Wal Marts looking for something.

DeeDee, heh heh, glad you chuckled!

I'm looking up everyone's books, I've read about half mentioned here.

Lyn,, I sure hope you have a steam mop!

Pesky, I would gladly grocery shop for you, I love grocery shopping!

1. Coffee, tea or soda?
Coffee (decaf in the evening!)

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?
suburbs

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?
potting soil...

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?
Yes: the LA Times

5. Who called you on the phone last? a neighbor

6. What is your favorite TV show?
Friday Night Lights (could the guy that plays Tim Riggins BE any cuter?)

7. What is your favorite TV news source? none

8. Credit or Debt? debit, most of the time

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags? BYOB

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why? Goodwill (close by drop off) and the county rescue mission

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ??? mostly the mall-it's very large

12. What is your favorite online shopping source? JJill

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff? Clothes!

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?
professional, baby

15. Do you keep a journal? nope

16. Do you have a bucket list? nope

17. What is your least favorite chore? do you mean of the ones I remember to do? Emptying the dishwasher.

18. What book are you reading? "Cutting for Stone" and "Wolf Hall"

1. Coffee, tea or soda?

Coffee, no question. Tea with Chinese food. Never pop.

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?

Suburban - outside Chi-town

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?
Toothpaste

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?

Did until we had to cut back when DH lost his job. Now just get Sunday

5. Who called you on the phone last?

FIL's neighbor called to let us know the power was out in their neighborhood so we could check on him.

6. What is your favorite TV show?

Probably The Good Wife for many reasons, but a big one is Eli Gould (Alan Cumming)

7. What is your favorite TV news source?

I split my time between CNN and MSNBC on line.

8. Credit or Debt?

Debt, but controlled - new roof and a used car.

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags?

Plastic and bring my own.

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why?

Generally don't donate to thrift stores.

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ???

I rarely shop in person, except for groceries and my Merle Norman cosmetics, and then Hobby Lobby.

12. What is your favorite online shopping source?

Amazon.com

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff?

House stuff.

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?

Home dye.

15. Do you keep a journal?

Not any more. Did years ago.

16. Do you have a bucket list?

Yes, I suppose, but it is short - move someplace warm, and someday start a business related to home decorating and re-arrangement and floral design

7. What is your least favorite chore?

Tie between dusting and vacuuming.

18. What book are you reading?

Some paperback my mom passed along. Not great, but I read it at work during lunch. May abandon it, tho. Lots of books lined up behind it.

1. Coffee, tea or soda?

coffee! occasionally peppermint tea, or diet root beer.

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?

Suburban

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?

some knives

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?

2---our local and the city's

5. Who called you on the phone last?

my husband

6. What is your favorite TV show?

love to watch glee, american idol, and chopped with my youngest son.

7. What is your favorite TV news source?

don't often watch tv news

8. Credit or Debt?

credit

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags?

Plastic most often-use to line bathroom trashcans, and for kitty litter/dog poop. i get paper occa specifically for newpaper recycling!

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why?

i usually call purple heart

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ???

both

12. What is your favorite online shopping source?

Amazon and territory ahead

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff?

clothes most often---for one of us-usually for a kid!

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?

Home dye most often---most convenient!

15. Do you keep a journal?

Not any more. Did years ago.

16. Do you have a bucket list?

sort of---in my mind

7. What is your least favorite chore?

housecleaning---is that too broad???!

18. What book are you reading?

just finished 'how to be an american housewife'

1. Coffee, tea or soda?
Coffee & tea. I drink them both equally.
2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?
Suburban. Deer & turkey in my backyard. Target a 1/2 mile away.
3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?
A $5 nightstand off craigslist.
4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?
I subscribe to the Sunday paper. They deliver the paper every day, though. Weird, I know.
5. Who called you on the phone last?
DS1's friend's mom. Asking if DS2 and I wanted to go sledding. DS1 had slept over there and they were all going, his friend has a little brother about DS2's age.
6. What is your favorite TV show?
I never miss Grey's Anatomy and the whole family watches Chuck.
7. What is your favorite TV news source?
I read my news on the web and in the paper.
8. Credit or Debt?
not usually
9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags?
Bring my own.
10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why?
Salvation Army, because they're close.
11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ???
It depends on what I'm getting. Kohls & Target for the kids' stuff. Antique shops & Home Goods for home stuff. I don't remember the last time I bought myself anything in person.
12. What is your favorite online shopping source?
Victoria's Secret
13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff?
You all have seen my shoe closet. House stuff is a close second.
14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?
natural
15. Do you keep a journal?
I keep a blog. Does that count?
16. Do you have a bucket list?
I do. Running a marathon, making my own yogurt, and learning to crochet are some of the things on the list.
17. What is your least favorite chore?
Matching up socks. If I ever win the lottery, I'll just donate them after they're worn once. Really hate it that much.
18. What book are you reading?
The newest book in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.

1. Coffee, tea or soda? Tea, tea & more tea. Green in the morning, ginger in the afternoon, Sleepytime at night.

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area? Suburbia.

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food? Not an "item" but does a service count? Yesterday had my trees pruned. $896.00.

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper? Yes, The Virginian Pilot.

5. Who called you on the phone last? My dh.

6. What is your favorite TV show? I don't watch TV, except for news. The last "TV show" I watched was "Thirtysomething." I wasn't yet 30 myself. Think that was 1989?

7. What is your favorite TV news source? I'm a news junkie. I watch 'em all.

8. Credit or Debt? Neither. Checks and cash.

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags? Plastic, which I recycle many times over on my own.

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why? A nearby thrift store that funds shelters for the homeless.

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ??? Lowes and Home Depot!

12. What is your favorite online shopping source? Amazon

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff? That's easy-the house always wins!

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural? Au naturelle.

15. Do you keep a journal? No.

16. Do you have a bucket list? No, just take it one day at a time.

17. What is your least favorite chore? Changing kitty litter/getting the trash out. Not because it's stinky, but because it hurts my back to lift!

18. What book are you reading? Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, by Ross King.

1. Coffee, tea or soda?
Tea, never coffee or soda. I love the aroma of coffee but don't care for the taste. Growing up we could only have ginger ale if we were sick so I never developed a taste for soda and I associate it with sickness.

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?
Suburbs

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?
Nine section cubical storage unit, that I put together myself. The unfinished back edge showed a smidgen beyond the wall, so I painted it with black craft paint. I felt like such a gardenwebber: putting it together, figuring out a simple solution to the little problem. I've learned so much here!

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?
Yes

5. Who called you on the phone last?
My oldest sister

6. What is your favorite TV show?
The Simpsons, but I also really like Modern Family, 30 Rock & The Big Bang Theory

7. What is your favorite TV news source?
Never watch the news on tv

8. Credit or Debt?
Mostly debit, then cash, then credit

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags?
Bring my own, I keep them in the car which increases the odds I'll remember to bring them into the store. If I do forget them, I get plastic bags because they have so many other uses.

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why?
Household goods to the people who will pick up or the conveniently located place with the drop off shed. Both agencies provide general social services. Any clothing goes to a religious based organization that provides services for women.

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ???
For clothes, the mall I guess but I rarely walk through the whole mall, I just go to one or 2 stores.
For my infrequent book purchases (I'm a library person), I buy from a local book store that claims to be the oldest continually operating book store in the US.
For gift items & decorative items, specialty stores (including the above book store).

12. What is your favorite online shopping source?
I think the only thing I've ever purchased online was from the Rick Steves Travel site.

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff?
I think I buy equal amounts of house stuff & clothes, but it's not a whole lot of either.

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?
Professionally done. When my current guy retires I think my DH will be shocked how much more I'll have to spend at a new place (based on what my friends & sister pay at other salons).

15. Do you keep a journal?
No

16. Do you have a bucket list?
No

17. What is your least favorite chore?
I guess it's when I have to wash the pots & pans & mess I made cooking dinner on the nights my DH doesn't do it. After cooking & eating, I just want to sit down & relax and not have more work to do.

18. What book are you reading?
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese. I would highly recommend it.
For book club I have to re-read A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell. I remember I liked it very much but I won't remember enough details for discussion unless I re-read it.

1. Coffee, tea or soda?
* Tea

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?
*Urban/suburban-woods behind house

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?
*Uggs moccasins as slippers

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?
*Washington Post and NY Times

5. Who called you on the phone last?
Friend of 47 years
* 6. What is your favorite TV show?
*PBS Mystery!

7. What is your favorite TV news source?
*MSNBC or PBS, although will watch ABC, CBS, and NBC

8. Credit or Debt?
*cash or check

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags?
*bring my own

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why?
*Vietnam Vets-DH served in the USAF during the war.

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ???
*hate to shop. When I have to doesn't matter where.

12. What is your favorite online shopping source?
* Naylor's Creek Nursery-heck, just about any nursery.

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff?
*house-also garden

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?
*natural. Hoping to go gray , but only three gray hairs so far-dad didn't go gray until his late 70s, so that may be my fate.

15. Do you keep a journal?
*not a chance-except the home/school ones I use to communicate with parents of students.

16. Do you have a bucket list?
*no

17. What is your least favorite chore?
*baseboards (see Joan Rivers quote above-teehee)

18. What book are you reading?
*Citizens of London by Lynne Olsen about Americans in England during the Second World War, The Hunger Games (first in a trilogy for young adults that other teachers have said they can't put down-about to start it this weekend), and always have at least one Tolkien book on the bedside table which I read over and over).

1. Coffee, tea or soda? all of the above

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area? urban, smack downtown

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?

IS Clinical face cleanser today

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper? no, I read online

5. Who called you on the phone last? golf buddy

6. What is your favorite TV show? Big Love / Damages

7. What is your favorite TV news source? no favorite
8. Credit or Debt? both

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags? plastic mostly

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why?

I donate to people I know

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ??? both although I prefer small shops

12. What is your favorite online shopping source? zappos

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff? all of them, add purses to the lot

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural? pro dyed

15. Do you keep a journal? no

16. Do you have a bucket list? no

17. What is your least favorite chore? ironing ( I never do it)

18. What book are you reading? I'm starting "Think Twice" by L. Scottoline

Cyn427, I can relate to your comment, "I hate to shop." (Except for at garden centers, that is!)I checked out Naylor's Nursery. They only sell shade plants? That's nice though, they must have awesome hostas, astilbe, etc. Have you seen White Flower Farm's site? I love finding sources that sell unusual plants.

Also, I noticed you watch PBS Mystery! I used to watch that religiously years ago! Didn't know it was still around. Will look for it on my local PBS station.

Golddust, hope you don't mind brief comments interjected between GTKY profiles!

Stinky, I love the interjected comments. Besides, I don't feel like I own the thread.

1. Coffee, tea or soda?
Yes

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?
Urban

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?
Eye makeup remover

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?
Yes

5. Who called you on the phone last?
DH

6. What is your favorite TV show?
Glee

7. What is your favorite TV news source?
None

8. Credit or Debt?
Debit

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags?
Bring my own

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why?
Goodwill, drive through drop off

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ?
I prefer locally-owned, but also like Nordstrom.

12. What is your favorite online shopping source?
Zappos, Amazon

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff?
Shoes, books

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?
Natural right now

15. Do you keep a journal?
Yes, and it has helped me so much.

16. Do you have a bucket list?
No

17. What is your least favorite chore?
Floors

18. What book are you reading?
I just finished The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok, a true account of growing up with a paranoid schizophrenic mother.

Thanks for your reply, Golddust. That helps me to GTKY...I don't like to make assumptions!

1. Coffee, tea or soda?

Coffee

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?

Rural

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?

Med Refills

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?

Did, but the lady quit and no one's taken her job.

5. Who called you on the phone last?

BIL

6. What is your favorite TV show?

Grey's Anatomy

7. What is your favorite TV news source?

There aren't any good one's, IMO.

8. Credit or Debt?

I don't understand. lol

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags?

Plastic

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why?

Salvation Army

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ???

Specialty shops

12. What is your favorite online shopping source?

Amazon

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff?

House stuff

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?

Professional

15. Do you keep a journal?

No way.

16. Do you have a bucket list?

No

17. What is your least favorite chore?

Cleaning the tub

18. What book are you reading?

I'm getting ready to start "She's Come Undone."

Diet Green Tea/Urban/Train ticket/Wall Street Journal/Significant Other/No favorite/No favorite/Credit used as Debit/Canvas bags--they charge here if you use their bags/Thrift for AIDS because they take your stuff without turning their noses up at it/Specialty Stores/Any online shopping source/House/Natural/No Journal/No, just regrets/Taking out garbage/PreCalculus textbook, Dreamcatcher by Stephen King (both free at train station) and Washington Square by Henry James.

Enjoying GTKY, OK, I'll play, even though I'm a marketingresearchaphobe...

1. Coffee, tea or soda?
Coffee only with Bailey's, Sweet Tea, please mam and Dr Pepper, the one in the 8oz bottle made with Imperial Pure Cane Sugar instead of icky corn syrup, phffthhtthhhh!

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?
Suburban, planned, golf course community owned by the city, complete with "experimental outdoor mall", LOL! I really like it though.

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?
A new everyday plastic pitcher and Pinelogs (they're all I can use due to DH's allergies).

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?
No, gave that up a few years ago. Hated to do it since I'm a print designer, but it was a matter of economics, not principles.

5. Who called you on the phone last?
My sweet friend, Marti.

6. What is your favorite TV show?
Hell's Kitchen

7. What is your favorite TV news source?
Fox, local or FNC.

8. Credit or Debt?
Debit for the most part.

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags?
Own bags (one of my stores now sports a reminder painted on the corner of parking spaces to remind you of your bags, LOL!)

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why? Goodwill if I deliver.
SA if I want them to pick up.

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ???
Specialty boutiques, rarely the mall.

12. What is your favorite online shopping source?
Amazon

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff?
Duh, house stuff, LOL! I finally gave in somewhat this winter and bought a few clothes/shoes/"foundations"...

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?
Professional dye'n chisel ;-)

15. Do you keep a journal?
Have one, don't keep, should have been a NY resolution, ha!

16. Do you have a bucket list?
I joke about it from time to time, but do I really have a running tally? Nope.

17. What is your least favorite chore?
Toilets, I just won't do 'em, 'nuf said!

18. What book are you reading?
Just finished Rainwater by Sandra Brown (smarmy love story, but interesting because I love depression era novels), just started Witch & Wizard by James Patterson, my first JP novel, jury's still out.

1. Coffee, tea or soda? None of these.
2. Do you live in an urban or rural area? Deep country.

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food? I don't buy much stuff, so it was probably a book, though I'm getting ready to put my seed and gardening orders in this weekend.

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper? Wall Street Journal.

5. Who called you on the phone last? Can't remember as I get only half a dozen (or fewer) calls per year - our landline phone ringer is permanently off, and I never turn on my cell except to make a call.

6. What is your favorite TV show? Nova.

7. What is your favorite TV news source? PBS News Hour.

8. Credit or Debt? Credit only.

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags? All of the above, plus cardboard boxes at my food coop.

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why? Don't donate, but I buy things at Goodwill.

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ??? Does Home Depot count?

12. What is your favorite online shopping source? Don't shop online.

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff? Only when necessity drives me to it.

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural? Have never colored my hair.

15. Do you keep a journal? No.

16. Do you have a bucket list? No.

17. What is your least favorite chore? Taking one of the animals to the vet.

18. What book are you reading? Inside the mind of a shopper; the science of retailing by Sorenson.

1. Coffee, tea or soda?
Coffee but I've been drinking a lot of Chai green tea lately.

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?
Just barely inside the city limits of a small town in a neighborhood. I think that means suburban.

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?
A kettlebell dvd

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?
online edition of the Dallas Morning News

5. Who called you on the phone last?
My sister. She calls about three times a day.

6. What is your favorite TV show?
Top Chef, Biggest Loser, Mad Men, Boardwalk Empire, 30 Rock

7. What is your favorite TV news source?
None

8. Credit or Debt?
AMEX because it's linked to a HY savings account. Then debit then credit.

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags?
My own bags. Whole Foods are my favorite because they are nice and big and square.

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why?
Goodwill because it's convenient.

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ???
I guess the mall but very very infrequently.

12. What is your favorite online shopping source?
Amazon, Sundance, Garnite Hill, Anthropologie, Williams-Sonoma

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff?
Toss up between house and clothes.

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?
Balayage hair color every six weeks.

15. Do you keep a journal?
Heck no!

16. Do you have a bucket list?
Nope. It would be too long.

17. What is your least favorite chore?
Changing sheets & cleaning up dog puke.

18. What book are you reading?
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy (my favorite)

Well, one on-topic. Your question about hair must have affected me. I went for highlights today. Now I remember why I had gone back to natural. Wonder how long before this grows out! HA.

Stinky, my yard has too many trees to be anything but part shade at best! I love to look through White Flower Farms catalogue, but find other places to have better plants. Mostly I buy local except for hostas. Saw you are in VA-me, too. I am outside DC. Are you any where near? If so, send me an email. We can go to Behnke's or Merrifield Nursery together come Spring!

Mystery is not on regularly any more. I miss it. They did run a couple months worth of new ones last year and I hope they come back with more soon.

Well, one on-topic. Your question about hair must have affected me. I went for highlights today. Now I remember why I had gone back to natural. Wonder how long before this grows out! HA.

Stinky, my yard has too many trees to be anything but part shade at best! I love to look through White Flower Farms catalogue, but find other places to have better plants. Mostly I buy local except for hostas. Saw you are in VA-me, too. I am outside DC. Are you any where near? If so, send me an email. We can go to Behnke's or Merrifield Nursery together come Spring!

Mystery is not on regularly any more. I miss it. They did run a couple months worth of new ones last year and I hope they come back with more soon.

1. Coffee, tea or soda? coffee
2. Do you live in an urban or rural area? rural

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food? Pierre Deux christmas stocking on sale for $14.40

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper? No

5. Who called you on the phone last? Husband

6. What is your favorite TV show? Royal Pains

7. What is your favorite TV news source? I browse the major networks - no fav

8. Credit or Debt? debit

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags? plastic

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why? St. Vincent de Paul; bin at church

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ??? mall

12. What is your favorite online shopping source? Don't have a fave

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff? Nothing in particular

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural? Professional

15. Do you keep a journal? No

16. Do you have a bucket list? No

17. What is your least favorite chore? Cleaning bathroom

18. What book are you reading?
Winter Garden

Cyn427, I wish I lived in your neck of the woods! There's so much there. I live in Southeastern VA, in VA Beach. Otherwise, I'd love to browse the garden centers with you! Bet those in your area are fabulous!

Maybe you just need to get used to your hair? You have such a pretty hair color. It has a lot of auburn in it, doesn't it? Give it a few days (& a few shampoos) & see if it doesn't grow on you. No pun intended!

1. Coffee, tea or soda?
Tea or pero

2. Do you live in an urban or rural area?
It's suburban out the front door....open woods for miles out the back door.

3. What was the last item you purchased other than food?
A Telephony modem.

4. Do you subscribe to a daily newspaper?
No

5. Who called you on the phone last?
Dh

6. What is your favorite TV show?
Survivor & Amazing Race.

7. What is your favorite TV news source?
World news.

8. Credit or Debt?
credit, love those bonus points!

9. Paper, plastic or do you bring your own bags?
Bring my own

10. What Thrift store do you usually donate to and why?
ARC I stop in there once a week. It's in the same strip mall as the grocery store.

11. When you shop in person, do you usually frequent the mall, specialty boutiques or ???
Home Depot or a fabric store! :0)

12. What is your favorite online shopping source?
Ebay, Overstock or Amazon

13. Clothes, shoes or house stuff?
I buy running shoes, hiking boots and decorating stuff.

14. Hair. Home dye, professional dye or natural?
Home dye

15. Do you keep a journal?
Only when I was required to in college, in a Psych 101 class.

16. Do you have a bucket list?
Yes. Most are places I could drive to and photograph IF DH would take the time off to go with me. Camping spots.

7. What is your least favorite chore?
Mowing the lawn

18. What book are you reading?
Twice Bitten