1. What are you wearing right now?

Dark green tee with light green shorts.

2. What have you eaten so far today?

I drank an Instant Breakfast.

3. What is today's high temperature where you live?

Around 90 but very humid. Feels like 200 out there. :)

4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer?

We served it but I forgot to eat a slice!

5. What animal are you most like and why?

Lion. A mother Lion. Because she's protective of her babies like I am.

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it?

A doctor.

7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child?

Patty McCormick (sp) who was in The Bad Seed.

8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you?

Years ago I was in the ER with one of my children who was in the room alone with the doctor. An old lady came up to me out of the blue and said, "You look like you need a hug", and she proceeded to hug me very tightly. I'll never forget that moment.

9. What word describes you best?

Funny

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?

Yes, now that I'm older. I was too insecure growing up!

1. What are you wearing right now?

Dress, bib apron and sandals.

2. What have you eaten so far today?

Do 2 latte's count?

3. What is today's high temperature where you live?

4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer?

Yes and it was a good one!

5. What animal are you most like and why?

Maybe an elephant because I have a good memory, stable energy and it's hard to walk on me.

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it?

A trust fund baby.

7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child?

Kurt Russell.

8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you?

Gave me a much needed car. They were strangers.

9. What word describes you best?

Sound.

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?

Yes!!!

1. What are you wearing right now?

Brown tweedish style trousers w/ a cuff and a cream short sleeved tutleneck w/ a cream knit flower pin. Black wool and patent leather mary janes.

2. What have you eaten so far today?

Coffee
Bowl of Cinnamon Life cereal
Nectarine
Water
Wawa roast beef sandwich w/ provolone
A side of Wawa mac and cheese is staring me down as I check in patients right now!

3. What is today's high temperature where you live?

They're calling for a high of 90 today

4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer?

Not yet!!!!

5. What animal are you most like and why?

An alley cat. I'm a tough old stand-offish loner that can be tamed and made to purr by just the right person.

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it?

7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child?

Benji

8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you?

DH putting up w/ me day in and day out w/ a smile on his face.

9. What word describes you best?

Persistant

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?

Nah - I'd want to be friends w/ someone who didn't stare off into space and think about decorating.

1. turquoise skirt, white tee with a little white beading, and sandals

2. cereal/yogurt/blueberries & tea for bkft
Pasta with pesto for lunch
grilling salmon for dinner - that is if I'm hungry again after my lunch.

3. Today is PERFECT - low humidity, brilliant blue sky, a few puffy white clouds, temp about 80. I think it will be one of the 10 best days of the year.

4. Oh yes! I love watermelon. My DH doesn't like it and I every time I eat it I say to him "I can't believe you don't like watermelon."

5. A sloth. I'm basically lazy but I don't hang upside down.

6. Successful author

7. Hmmm...I don't remember any one in particular

8. Last summer when my DH was sick, a friend would stop by in the evening after I returned from the hospital with a delicious salad for me. Every night it was a different one, all interesting things and wonderfully fresh.

9. Another hmmmm...what word describes me? Indecisive is the first thing that comes to mind. But maybe not.

10. I would definitely be friends with me

1. What are you wearing right now? golf outfit; lacoste black polo, tiny check
b&White pants, black and white ballet flats.

2. What have you eaten so far today?
cereal, toast, grilled cheese sandwich, half a date square, 2 twizzlers.

3. What is today's high temperature where you live?
65 and windy, nippy for golf

4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer?
year round I eat it, I equate it to drinking water, no calories

5. What animal are you most like and why?
mama bear with a touch of poodle

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it?
interior designer

7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child?
shirley temple

8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you?
DD checks in with me a lot; she is very thoughtful.
DH suggested joining a golf club close to town so I can golf more.

9. What word describes you best?
multifaceted

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?
    Not close friends, I am not super available for deep friendships but
    I am fun to be with in the right settings. I don't require much care.

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it?

Missed this one! If I'd have had the self confidence yrs ago I would be an Interior Designer although right now I'm dreaming and eyeing up an empty corner cafe that beckons to be a coffee/ book shop where I could indulge my creative side.

Total dreamer me wold have been a bluesy singer!

I really enjoy these!

1. What are you wearing right now?
Jeans, coral colored T, turquoise beads, black birkenstocks, just about ready to get into my jammies.

2. What have you eaten so far today?
Dried fruit & nuts, coffee, left over tortellini, an apple, water, sloppy joe with cheddar cheese, diet pepsi, 3 bites of DH's cantelope for dessert.

3. What is today's high temperature where you live?
Low 70's and puffy white clouds

4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer?
What is this summer of which you speak? In Oregon we're just barely getting summer temps! No watermelon yet, just getting cantalope in and finishing with strawberries.

5. What animal are you most like and why?
Probably like a dog; I can be very loyal, but fierce and snappy if called for.

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it?
I would have loved to have been a hydrogeomorphologist or a geologist. If I could go back to my 20's I'd have studied a lot more science.

7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child?
Natalie Wood. I had a big girl crush on her, and then she was married to Robert Wagner...Mr. Suave.

8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you?
Wow...that's hard. So many kind things have been done for me, for which I am extremely greatful. Most recently was today, a friend gave me a punch embroidery kit for my birthday. I'd mentioned that I used to love doing latch hooking and I was thinking of taking up crewel work or latching again and she found this kit. I LOVE IT! I was so touched I almost cried!

9. What word describes you best?
Tolerant.

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?
    This is funny because I have a great friend who is JUST LIKE ME. I spent a couple days out of town with her and when I got home I told my DH that now I know what it's like to live with me! So, yeah, I would.

1. What are you wearing right now?
Jeans/light blue tee...barefooted!

2. What have you eaten so far today?
1/2 blueberry muffin, chocolate chip cookie, banana, nectarine, taco salad(black beans/meat sauce/Spanish rice/lettuce/tomato/avacado/mexi-cheese/sour cream

3. What is today's high temperature where you live?
rainy/low 80's

4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer?
Yes, twice!

5. What animal are you most like and why?
My Chinese astrological sign is the horse, and I think it fits. I walk fast, throw my head back when I laugh, and have been described as a free spirit.

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it?
A scientist. It would be of interest knowing if humans and other forms of life have a spirit~~I believe they do.

7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child?
Doris Day

8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you?
Most recently, a complete stranger offering to knit a hat for my Grand Daughter-to-be. We 'met' in the yarn department at Hobby Lobby, and she asked me what I was knitting. I said I didn't knit, but wish I did cause I would love to make something for my new GD. She said she knitted little hats 'just for fun' and offered to knit one and I could meet her in the same place the following week. I went back the next week and she had knit the cutest little pink/white checked hat, and wouldn't take a cent, so I bought her more yarn. Just another one of God's angels at work.

9. What word describes you best?
Imaginative!

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?
    Definitely!

1. What are you wearing right now?
It's 10:15 p.m. so wearing black pj capris and a black tee shirt.

2. What have you eaten so far today?
In order of appearance:
2 cups strong coffee
Greek yogurt with fresh blueberries/muesli on top. Starbucks classic iced tea and oatmeal cookie. Hummus with veggies some turkey. Roasted chicken, couscous, and fresh steamed broccoli.

3. What is today's high temperature where you live?
94 today. It's 81 outside right now at almost 10:30 p.m.

4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer?
Yes. Just once so far.

5. What animal are you most like and why?
I'm too tired to think this one through...

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it?
A magazine editor.

7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child?
Kurt Russell. (someone else said this too...how funny!)

8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you?
The list and largesse of kindnesses is staggering. But since we are going camping next week, it makes me think of getting ready to go camping with friends when our children were teens and the night before when my DH started to load our truck, the engine overheated and the truck died. We didn't know what to do. The kids were excited, our camping reservations were paid in advance. So I called our friend Paul and just told him what happened. I told DH that Paul would know what to do. About 15 minutes later, our friend Mark pulled up in his extended cab pick up. Paul had called him and told him to bring us his truck to use for the week, so Mark happily complied. We loaded it up and had our vacation.

9. What word describes you best?
Over-thinker

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?
    Most days, yes.

Red

(a dog maybe? I like to just enjoy curling up on the couch and I like to follow my people around looking at them and willing them to do things for me...)

Clearly I overeat compared to the rest of you! omg, I would be too embarassed date write down everyting I ate in one day. I'll have to wait till the morning to answer this survey just so I can say "all I've eaten today is a small bowl of cereal and a banana". ;-)

Don't be concerned flyingflower. If they were telling the truth and that's what they ate every day they'd weigh 95 pounds - provided they didn't exercise.

Anyway, it IS morning, so here I go, vanity in tact.
1. What are you wearing right now?
Ivory silk boxers, ancient Fiorucci tee with girl/cherubs in sunglasses.

2. What have you eaten so far today?
See above. It's still before 8 AM and I've only been up for an hour. By the end of the day I will have eaten enough to not be skinny.

3. What is today's high temperature where you live?
Hopefully we will stay stay below 75 for the third day in a row.

4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer?
Repeatedly. I'm a member of a CSA and we may get some from there this summer, too.

5. What animal are you most like and why?
Springbok in my dreams - I love to get airborne.

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it?
I would have liked to have started a recycling company 35 years ago and have been growing it all this time. Or, Decorator? Private Investigator? Dancing Queen?

7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child?

8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you?
The kindest things yesterday were that 2 old friends included me in their plans.

9. What word describes you best?
Unique - the same word that describes everybody best.

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?
    I'd try. My relationship with myself is hard enough from within my own skin.

1. Jeans, flowy navy blue top, sandals.

2. Oat bran flakes and blueberries

3. It's still early. Should be sunny and around 89.

4. Last night was the first I ate watermelon in years and it was awesome. I ate too much of it as a kid and was meloned out for a long time.

5. A cat. I like cats. :)

6. Makeup artist

7. Doogie Howser and Jonathan Taylor Thomas

8. Kindest? My Grandparents did something really special once. That one thing meant more to me than they'll ever understand.

9. Compassionate

10. Maybe. I only keep a few close friends.

1. What are you wearing right now?

Lands End polo, cotton shorts, flip flops

2. What have you eaten so far today?

Glass of OJ, oatmeal, 2 cups of coffee w/frothed cream

3. What is today's high temperature where you live?

92 and the weather where I live is straight out of Robin Williams' lines in Good Morning Vietnam: "Forecast for today: HOT! Forecast for tomorrow: HOT! Forecast for the weekend: HOT!"

4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer?

No and won't. Don't care for it at all

5. What animal are you most like and why?

Beaver because I keep at something until I get it done

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it?

Psychologist-started out with that as my college major until I came to the statistics part of the event, which promptly sank my plans

7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child?

Mary Tyler Moore, or actually MTM as Mary Richards. I wanted to *be* her character and live in a cool place, on my own, with lots of quirky friends/colleagues and a neat job. Come to think of it, I have the second and third parts and instead of living on my own I even have a family. Guess I've achieved my dream and then some!

8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you?

We were driving down the street in our neighborhood just after Hurricane Andrew and a guy stepped out from his front yard to offer us a full bag of ice. He'd gotten some from the Red Cross station and didn't need it all. Such a lovely gesture in the midst of unbelievable destruction and chaos. I'll never forget that fellow and how lovely it felt to have someone be so nice to strangers

9. What word describes you best?

Persistent (see question 5)

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?

I think so, I tend to get along with people and I like to laugh and make others laugh

Ann

1. What are you wearing right now?
Jean capris and a multicolored top, flip flops
2. What have you eaten so far today?
Nothing
3. What is today's high temperature where you live?
80's
4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer?
Yes
5. What animal are you most like and why?
Coyote, love to eat and I don't sleep at night
6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it?
Neonatal nurse
7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child?
Bobby Sherman
8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you?
Cooked, served and cleaned up. I'm always doing it for everybody
9. What word describes you best?
Sap

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?
    Yes

1. What are you wearing right now?
Garden clothes
2. What have you eaten so far today?
Too much to list...flying flower and I could be friends
I should have posted this at 12:30 am "Oh, I've not eaten today"

3. What is today's high temperature where you live?
nineties

4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer?
No, I don't like it much to buy a whole melon

5. What animal are you most like and why?
Dog..kind, devoted, very smart!, humble, and great at sleeping whenever

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it?
Hmmm, makeup artist would be fun. But I would like to be a
wildly successful illustrator. I am only borderline moderately so.
Interior designer always. Landscape designer too.

7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child?
David Cassidy followed by Shaun.

8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you?
Lately, a friend dropped everything to help me in an emotional crisis involving a drunken relative. She also washes all dishes everytime I have a party.

9. What word describes you best?
Complex

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?
    Maybe, I'm not always available to do things and my circle is small but deep.

LOL Jamies! ;-) I like a lot of the answers I'm reading, pretty clever and some very funny!

1. What are you wearing right now? nightgown & bathrobe

2. What have you eaten so far today? ahem... banana & cereal with goat's milk. :D

3. What is today's high temperature where you live? 73

4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer? no

5. What animal are you most like and why? a cat because I'm a loner

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it? a singer (because I croak like a frog I've always wanted to be able to belt out a tune without lip synching)

7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child? another vote for Bobby Sherman (Julie, Julie, Julie Do You Love Me? ahhh, swoooon!)

8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you? the sacrifices my mother made for us

9. What word describes you best? loyal, sometimes to my own detriment

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you? yep

1. What are you wearing right now?
pink tee with green linen shirt, cream linen pants and flats.work you know. sigh I want my shorts and flipflops..

2. What have you eaten so far today?
Veggie lasagna and caesar salad. don't ask what I ate yesterday!!

3. What is today's high temperature where you live?
hehehe- 79!!!

4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer?
not yet

5. What animal are you most like and why? cat. sometimes solitary sometimes not.

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it? world traveler

7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child? Annie Oakley- yeah. I wore that hat everywhere- the guns and holster too!

8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you? friends figured out a schedule amongst themselves and surprised us with hot meals everyday for a week when I had BC surgery.

9. What word describes you best? smart aleck

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?
    sometimes.

I'm butting in here again to say that I loved Shirley Temple and Annie Oakley. I wore my hair curled in rags and still have my cowboy boots and guns holster. Then there is my Hop-A-Long Cassidy collection. Don't know what happened to my cowboy hat. All I have left of it is a giant photo of me wearing it that hangs on the inside door of a closet. LOL!

Kurt Russell was my young teen celebrity love.

1. What are you wearing right now? Turquoise peasant style top, black slacks, silver sandels, turquoise jewelry, and black rhinestone reading glasses.

2. What have you eaten so far today? Pineapple yogurt, coffee, chicken and apple salad and diet coke, but the day is far from over, this is not typical fare for me, I'm trying to do better.

3. What is today's high temperature where you live? low 90's

4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer? DH brought me a very good yellow-meated one just this week.

5. What animal are you most like and why? A cat I guess, I'm a little bit of a loner, but have a pouncy side too. I've always said that I wanted to be a bear, so I could sleep all winter and spend the rest of my time trying to eat enough to store up winter fat. And no one would cross you about pretty much anything.

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it?
I used to always say I wanted Barbara Walters job, but now I would like to have a thriving antique/junk store/mall.

7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child? Elizabeth Montgomery (Bewitched), then John Denver.

8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you? We had a horrific house fire once and my DH's boss let us live in his lake house (free) for 3 months while our home was being rebuilt.

9. What word describes you best? Other people say, creative, I think, loyal.

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you? Maybe, maybe not I'd most likely think I was eccentric and be a little wary.

Golddust, Shirley Temple was the only celebrity I was aware of as a child (besides Little Lulu). I couldn't bring myself to type that, but now that you have paved the way.... I didn't like to watch adults and was in no hurry to become one -- they seemed to never have any fun. I, too, liked my cowboy outfit, and I'm still trying to move West so I can wear it again. There were 2 cowboy hats trying to come home with me from Target the other day. One had a feather and the other had turquoise and I had to slap my own hands to keep from getting them.

These are so fun! The one day I eat fast food...

1. What are you wearing right now?

Tshirt and shorts

2. What have you eaten so far today?

Coffee, yogurt, chick fila sandwich, diet coke, peach, plum

3. What is today's high temperature where you live?

Rainy, 82, humid but very cool for July

4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer?

Multiple times

5. What animal are you most like and why?

Dog - I love unconditionally, am loyal, love to eat and sleep, love to be petted but have a nasty bark at times

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it?

Doctor

7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child?

Donny Osmond

8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you?

Loving me unconditionally and not judging me because of things my oldest son has done.

9. What word describes you best?

Grateful

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?

Yes!

1. What are you wearing right now?

Black t-shirt, greyish brown shorts, black sandals

2. What have you eaten so far today?

breakfast frosted mini wheats - dry
lunch - great sandwich in the city while shopping italian market - beef brisket, sharp provolone, roasted tomatoes, peppers & fried egg. (sounds gross but was awesome!)
bowl of rainbow sherbet for dinner

3. What is today's high temperature where you live?

high 70's - no humidity - ahhhh perfect!

4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer?

yes

5. What animal are you most like and why?

Lion - fiercely protective of family & friends and enjoy a good nap in the sun.

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it?

Successful professional chef.

7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child?

I really don't remember having one. We didn't watch much tv as kids.

8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you?

Too many to name THE kindest. One that really sticks out in my memory - DC&DCH baked and delivered dozens and doezens of Christmas cookies in cheery tins for our family the year DD was born. I didn't have the time as I was up to my ears in medical stuff, but they knew it was an annual ritual I'd practiced from the time I could sit at the kitchen counter. It was just so kind, I get teary thinking about it.

9. What word describes you best?

Brutally honest.

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?

I have great friends, so I guess so. That's if I could get past my very dry and sometimes odd sense of humor.

1. What are you wearing right now?

Green t-shirt, shorts, flip flops

2. What have you eaten so far today?

So far, I've eaten raisin bran with sliced bananas and skim milk, coffee with milk and vanilla syrup, and four french toast sticks. By the end of the day, I'd be able to write a novel on this topic.

3. What is today's high temperature where you live?

Low 80's, I think - very comfortable with no humidity

4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer?

Yes, but I really don't care for it.

5. What animal are you most like and why?

Another cat here - I love to be with (other) people but on my own terms; sometimes I just want to be left alone.

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it?

Geneticist, travel writer, or landscape architect

7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child?

Sally Field (Gidget)

8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you?

When we moved six years ago, a new friend helped me prepare my house for sale by painting and cleaning; she even got down on her hands and knees and scrubbed my kitchen floor.

9. What word describes you best?

Over-thinker

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?

I'm hard to get to know but if I got to know me, I think I'd like me.

1. What are you wearing right now?
Black and white floral nightgown sleeveless and kinda cute.

2. What have you eaten so far today?
A egg and sausage buisket (didn't mean to)

3. What is today's high temperature where you live?
I think it was ninty, not as high as normal

4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer?
A couple of times, I don't like watermelon all that much, too messy.

5. What animal are you most like and why?
Sometimes a french poodle sometimes a Pit bull, self explanatory.

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it?
Hands down, famous interior decorator or movie critic that is paid very well.

7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child?
Liz Taylor

8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you?
I'd rather not say.

9. What word describes you best?
Dramatic

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?
    I would!

1. What are you wearing right now?

Black shorts, white t-shirt, black cardigan and black socks because DH has the AC turned too d@mn cold after working outside in the heat washing wood dust off the house after almost finishing the porch steps our handyman bungled last summer (just caulking, lattice on the sides, and last coat of paint left).

2. What have you eaten so far today?

Nothing. I'm kind of in a not-eating phase again. Not trying to lose weight or go back into anorexic behaviors, just the thought of food varies between indifference (absolutely nothing appeals to me) and utter disgust.

3. What is today's high temperature where you live?

Hot enough so that I won't be able to go outside for more than a few minutes (and will be like that for the next several days)... I can get heatstroke in less than half an hour if the temp hits 90 degrees even with gallons of ice water and shade, and can sunburn in a matter of minutes even with super-high SPF sunscreen. I hate July and August.

4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer?

No good watermelons here yet (it'll probably be early to mid-August before they start showing up), and the spongy flavorless pink things they sell at the supermarket give me the trots (TMI!).

5. What animal are you most like and why?

Possibly a bear. A bit slow, likes its den, tends to be quite grumpy if disturbed.

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it?

I won't grow up! LOL (Actually, being a sex educator for the disabled - and most definitely not just spinal cord injury patients - would be great fun.)

7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child?

Can't remember. Honest. Wasn't into any kind of celebrity stuff until I started junior high and discovered New Wave/New Romantic music, and then I was mad for about 37 different people!

8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you?

A total stranger in a jewelry shop gave me a heavy gold and garnet (antique mine-cut garnets) pentacle ring she had had made about a decade before. She said she simply knew it was time to pass it on to someone else and that I was to be its new owner. I wear it when I'm "priestess-ing". Someday I'll know when it's time for it to leave me and go on to someone else, and it'll tell me when I meet that person.

9. What word describes you best?

Unpredictable.

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?

Likely not. I know I'm rather hard to handle, between being physically and mentally ill (have to cancel plans at last minute, limit my activities, leave visits/events early, etc., and can never tell when I'm going to swing from one point in the bipolar spectrum to another, or what will kick it off) and not one of those "inspirational" and "courageous" *barf* types who make the "temporarily able-bodied" *snicker* feel less uncomfortable.

Full disclosure to Flyingflower & everyone else:
The day I answered the survey I was just back from a big lunch and thought (ha!) that I would be still too full for dinner.
To amend my previous answer:
I also had grilled salmon, grilled asparagus, panzanella salad, lentil salad, a gin & tonic (it was perfect summer evening, just crying out for a G&T) and 6 cowboy cookies (Chocolate chip-like cookie with oatmeal, but I made myself 6 without the chocolate chunks that I used in the rest of them).

1. What are you wearing right now?
T-shirt from the Book Mill in Montague, MA (one of my favorite places!) and really grungy old sweatpants... sounds like an exciting Sat. night, doesn't it?

2. What have you eaten so far today?
Coffee; granola and blueberries; yogurt; 3 crackers with peanut butter; lots of water; (and here comes the downhill slide) a big frosty margarita and chips & salsa while out shopping w/ a friend; and later, take-out Pad Thai and spring rolls.

3. What is today's high temperature where you live?
I think it was close to 90.

4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer?
Yes

5. What animal are you most like and why?
Maybe a cat for some of the reasons already mentioned.

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it?
Jewelry designer.

7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child?
Probably Donny Osmond.

8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you?
My husband puts up with me. I can be a real PITA and he never even flinches!

9. What word describes you best?
This was sort of a 'game' at a dinner party once w/ close friends, and someone used "candid" to describe me, so I guess I'll go with that. I'm a no-BS type of gal. "Thoughtful" would be another, which is not to say I'm super thoughtful in that I'm always doing nice things for everyone, but that I think about stuff, sometimes too much. I'm an overthinker. A candid overthinker.

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?
    Yes! I'm a FUN candid overthinker!

1- I am wearing a brown T with cream thin stripes, gray old navy shorts that used to be pajama bottoms but the knees got holes so I made them into shorts for summer. It is nighttime so I don't care that the color does not match. In the day I had brown shorts on and flipflops. Oh, no hair. You asked what I was wearing!

2- I ate spoonsize shredded wheat with milk, blueberries, mango gatorade, McD double cheeseburger/fries/orange drink (running errands with kids so we ate in car), glass of V8, Zatarans dirty rice with corn. Will have cottage cheese with canned peaches and some more blueberries for dessert.
Oh, found two gummy bears left in a bag on the counter so I did consume them, couldn't let the kids get them.

3- Upper 80s, low 90s. It seemed hotter, even with my wig off my head was really hot inside the house.

4- Finally had watermellon this weekend, it was not super sweet but good enough. I could actually taste it so I think I will buy me some for after my next chemo. Should be good then.

5- So many cats here, hmmm. I am pretty hyper, could be an australian shephard or maybe one of those poodle dogs that jumps all around. But are still really cute that people want to play with.

6- In high school I planned to go to Monterey Institute for Foreign Language and be an interpreter. Got married instead. Always wanted to be an elementary teacher. Everyone says I should be a therapist.

7- I remember my sisters listening to that Bobby Sherman song, I can hear it now. But I adored Andy Gibb. Had a poster in my room above my bed, kissed him goodnight. Loved, loved, loved (and still do) Carol King and James Taylor. Was into Parker Stevenson when Hardy Boys was on.

8- Hm. When I was about 8 I visited my mom's friend with her. She had one of those puzzle jewelry boxes. A house that opened by sliding pieces around. She saw me admire it and just gave it to me. I still have it.

When I left my first husband, I was just 19 and only married 15 mo, I had to tell my mom. It was hard because she hated him. All she said was, "Do you need anything?"

Recently, when picking up my meds at the pharmacy, the young clerk looked at me and said she loved my hair. I wanted to cry because I have no hair, she was admiring my wig. Little did she know how kind her comment was.

9- Talkative. But when I am quiet everyone wants me to talk and they ask me if something is wrong. I am often times told I am the "glue" at work. I keep it going. I can be a little stubborn and don't like change too much but eventually come around. I like things to flow. My dh says I am cheap but has learned it is actually called being thrifty. He is finally learing to spend more wisely and repurpose things just as I am learing that there are times when you need to spend a lot to get the quality you need.

10- Probably. I like loyal, non flaky people so I probably would like myself.

1. What are you wearing right now?
Navy suit and coral shell

2. What have you eaten so far today?
   sausage kolace

3. What is today's high temperature where you live?
95 degrees - 80% humidity...feels like 100+ degrees

4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer?
every week...I'll be glad to get my refrigerator back :^)

5. What animal are you most like and why?
The old gray mare........she ain't what she useta' be.

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it?
architect/designer

7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child?
Dr. Kildare

8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you?
My kids are all grown up and still come to visit me regularly!

9. What word describes you best?
loyal

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?
    probably, I like laid back/easy going people.

This has been so interesting! I've just read every one of these posts. It *IS* good to know you all a little better :~)

1. What are you wearing right now?
~ just got back meeting my best friend in town for lunch. Black & white print capris, black sleeveless top, black sandals.

2. What have you eaten so far today?
~ Breakfast: black coffee, 1 TJ's tofu Mintz's Blintz, yogurt, tofu sausage patty (and I'm not even close to being a vegetarian!); Lunch: slice of very yummy summer vegetable and turkey quiche; fresh fruit salad; mango iced tea

3. What is today's high temperature where you live?
~ 83-degrees with approximsately 9% humidity (we're up at 6,000ft above sea level here). This is a welcome change from this past Sunday when we were on Lake Huron in Michigan and it was 95-degrees with about 95% humidity!

4. Have you eaten Watermelon yet this Summer?
~ Yes, I love it! Had it a lot on our vacation. I even freeze chunks of it to make watermelon slushes.

5. What animal are you most like and why?
~ A porpoise or dolphin, because I love swimming and anything that has to do with water: scuba diving, water skiing, snorkeling. Sad, eh, for someone now living in the mountains of New Mexico? And, like a dolphin, I'm usually friendly and outgoing . . . but sharks of all kinds need to watch out ;^D

6. Now that you're grown up, what career would you like to have, even if you don't have the brains or money for it?
~ a successful HGTV designer, like Candice Olsen

7. Who was your favorite celebrity as a child?
~ Roy Rogers. . . and how cool is this? This scrawny tomboy from the suburbs of Michigan actually ended up moving out West and marrying my own (semi-)cowboy!

8. What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you?
~ a couple, who were like my second parents (my parents best friends who couldn't have kids of their own) left me and my siblings a sizable inheritance, with me as the executor of it, to fund an annual, week-long family reunion every summer (that we just got back from).

9. What word describes you best?
~ Creative

10. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?
    ~ Yes, because I'm a lot like my best friend, who's very creative, kind, loyal, positive, and has a great, irreverent sense of humor and I really enjoy her company.
    Lynn