Random Dozen (Not Dozing!)

1. It's early morning, about 2:00AM, and you're driving home. You come to a red light and sit there. There is no one in sight for miles around. Do you wait it out or run the light?

Nope. Learned from a friend of mine in college on his mo-ped. He backed up and tried to trip the sensor under the pavement, but his bike was too light. Just as he finally ran the light, a police car crested the hill. What I would do is turn right on red and then turn around and then turn right again.

2. If you had the chance to re-do the last 24 hours, would you change anything?

You're really taxing these brain cells, Lid! I'm supposed to remember the last 24 hours?! This was a good day. I think I'll leave it alone.

3. When you reply to someone's comment on your blog, do you reply in your comments or go to her blog and comment? (Or email her)

I usually answer her via email if she isn't a "No Reply-Comment" blogger. Otherwise I may leave it on her blog. Occasionally I'll answer it on my blog, but that's generally if it's a question I think may cross someone else's mind. I'm grateful enough someone comes to see me once; I'd never presume to think that they'd come back to see what I might reply to them! Although Quilly does and it's lots of fun.

4. Your favorite Disney movie is:

That's a no-brainer: Mary Poppins! It's Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
(Let's see how many weeks I can answer Mary Poppins to one of the questions! This is either the second or third!)

5. Do you recycle?

Yes, although I don't go out of my way to. Our trash company provides a recycling bin so we use it. But I am NOT my mother. I do not rinse out plastic zip bags and reuse them or cut up Kleenex boxes to put things in. And I just can't deal with the idea of carting a pile of reusable bags to the store all the time (and having to figure out what to do with them between shopping trips).

6. Games of strategy or games of chance?

Combination. I'm not into heavy strategy like chess or Risk. But I like having to figure out how to manipulate the chance I'm given (like in Scrabble - the letters I draw are by chance, but it's strategy how I play them. It's even the same with Yahtzee.)

7. Do you have any recurring dreams?

Not since I was a scared little kid.

8. What did you learn from your first real job?

That a college education will be a wonderful thing!

9. Do you buy or borrow most books?

Buy. (Or now I get them from publishers!) We don't have a convenient library so we pretty much just do that in the summer.

10. What fashion trend of the past did you say you'd never wear again but did?

I can't think of any that fall into the "again" category, but there have been plenty that I've said I'd never wear and then eventually did.

11. When do you start Christmas shopping?

Mid-November or sometimes after Thanksgiving. I pretty much just have my man and the kids to buy for; we've stopped all the extended family gifts.

12. Have you ever been so happy that you literally jumped up and down for a few seconds? If so, what was the occasion?

I'm sure I did as a kid. And a few football games in college. But I pretty much try to avoid jumping these days so I don't break a bone!


Fun questions this week. Visit Lid over at 2nd Cup of Coffee to see what others have to say. Better yet, join in the fun!