Finish my sentence...

Laurie08

a writer.

When I was little I wished my name was.....(I wasn't the only one right?)

ruthbru

Beth (from Little Women)

Now if I had to change my first name to enter the witness protection program, I would change it to....

Laurie08

Laine.

What I would have named a little girl if I had one.  Half my Moms name half mine.  My grandfather had dementia and started writing my name and finished with my mothers- I loved it. (Laurie/Elaine....La....ine.:)

The worst date I ever had was....

hymil

When I was fourteen his dad had went out and left him some steak for lunch but he didnt know how to cook it so he asked me over. I burnt it and he never spoke to me again. But i guess maybe he learnt to cook for himself

Best activity on the beach?

WellWater

building sand castles.  A group of us went to Gulf Shores, AL 6 years ago, rented a house on the beach and constructed a magnificent (well sort of magnificent) sand castle over the course of the week....what fun!

The last time I shot someone with a water pistol was..........

Laurie08

today....my son.

The  last time I remember lying about my age was....

Cyborg

when nosey people asked me how old I was.

On days like this, I find that ------

Laurie08

I had too much sun, I am tired and I don't want to go to bed:D

The one sport I used to hate to watch but now really like is....

ruthbru

track and field. Long before I met him, my DH had gone to college on a track & cross country scholarship; so when DS came along, DH coached his elementary track team & then DS was in track all through high school. I went to lots of meets, got to know the events & now really enjoy it and always encourage kids to join because there is an event for everyone and you are mostly competing against yourself (to improve on your own record...if you did better than before, then you have 'won').

long answer!

If I can't sleep in the middle of the night, I ......

Laurie08

just lay there.

When I was younger my favorite color was......now it's.....

Anonymous

bright lemon yellow. Now it's teal.

The brightest item of clothing I currenty own is...

hymil

a lightweight cagoule with sections in bright lemon yellow. purple, shocking pink, teal and slime green. I think I woudl rather get soaked through than actually wear it!



If you were a tree, what variety would you be?

badger

I'd be a Giant Sequoia because they are so long-lived.  :-)

It really irks me when ...

hymil

...i want to write about something annoying like beurocracy and I cannot for my life figure how to spell it. Bureaucracy. Buerocracy. Byoor.... and even the stupid spell-checker pretends not to understand what i'm trying to say...

Flour, eggs, butter sugar; my best result is/was... 

badger

toll house choc chip cookies, one of the few recipes I know by heart.

A favorite phrase of mine is "cream together butter and sugar" because you know something wonderful is coming!

A favorite phrase of mine is ...

Laurie08

one of my favorite phases is  "keep it simple stupid."  Words to live by if you ask me.  If you keep things simple you are bound to end up with better results and be happier.  My Mom always said it and I couldn't agree more, when I get carried away (like my husbands 40th b day) I kept repeating to myself that phrase!

A sure sign something is going to go wrong is.....

ruthbru

when my 'to do' list gets to be several pages long!!!

My favorite family picture is......

Laurie08

one where my brother and I are little 3 and 4 years old my brother is sitting on my dad and I am sitting on my mom.  I am being goofy and my mom is giving me a look like I am nuts, but she likes it.  My brother is grinning from ear to ear like he just did something and my Dad is just posing for the picture like he has no idea.  It sums up the four of us perfectly.

My favorite family tradition  is.....

ruthbru

What a neat picture, Laurie, I can see it in my mind.

As far as family traditions; this isn't really one, I suppose, but this is what came into my mind.

My aunt had a great refrigerator cookie dough recipe (grated orange peels in the dough), when I was little, she, my mom, my cousins & my siblings and I would all make Christmas cookies together, spending tons of time cutting them out (snitching handfuls of dough to eat raw), and decorating them. When she was a gramma, my mom did the same with all her grandchildren. I got the recipe and bought about 25 different shaped cutters (a tooth for the dentist, animals, boats, ghosts, bears etc. etc.) and we would make cookies for all the different holidays and 'just because'. Sometimes, when my son is home, we still make them, and he is going to be a senior in college!

If I were a woman living on the frontier......

WellWater

Ruth...what a lovely tradition...anything that involves the whole family is great. 

I'd dream of going to the big city!  Actually I had a great experience on the "frontier" vista about 15 years ago.  A friend and I did a 4-day trip on the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon.  It was one of the best trips I ever took.  They re-created the experience of being on the prairie for days - we were attacked by Indians, had the cavalry ride into our camp to recruit women to come to live at the fort and other assorted events that the pioneers would have dealt with.  I highly recommend this trip to anyone, especially those who want to take the children somewhere different.

Of the 7 wonders of the world, I've seen...............

ruthbru

What a neat trip, wellwater! There is a wagon train that goes out of here for a week every summer, crossing the praire. They are very authentic; women must wear the long dresses, men the frontier garb. No electronics, sleep under the stars (or wagon in case of rain), eat over the campfire. Bring your own horse or walk. I looked into it years ago; it was very expensive but I wish I would have done it anyway when DS was young.

What I remember about being in junior high is.....

ruthbru

Gee, I was so thrilled with wellwater's answer that I forgot to put down my own. Are either the Grand Canyon or Niagara Falls on this list?

What I remember about being in junior high is.....

WellWater

that I hated it because I was so uncomfortable in my skin.  I grew up with the popular girls, all petite and pretty...by JH, I became gangly...glasses, crooked teeth, skinny as a rail, big feet...ugh.  I wanted to hang with the nerdier girls but my close "in" friends wouldn't let me..I had to try to keep up with them.  I was so happy to get into high school and away from them.  Did anyone have a great teen experience?

As a teen, my biggest interest was in..............

Sandy105

finding a way to make the years go quickly so I would be 21 ASAP!

Now that I am older,......

Laurie08

ruth- great family tradition!  My Mom hated to bake so we never did cookies.  This year I did Christmas cookies with my boys.  They had fun with it but wow it's a lot of work!  I now understand why my Mom skipped it.  But I will keep doing it as long as my boys like to do it.

wellwater- I actually did like jr high.  I struggled to break free of the popular click in high school too.  I didn't like how you could only be friends with certain people etc so I stopped hanging out with them.  But in jr high I guess I didn't care yet...I was with the popular crowd, a cheerleader etc. I switched to prep school in the middle of my sophomore year and traded in my pom poms for hockey skates and loved that there were no clicks at the school it was soooo different, you could just be yourself. You could be a dork, a nerd, popular, a jock and a hippy all at the same time.  Best thing that ever happened for me.

Now that I am older I realize I don't know everything.

If there was one thing I could change about myself it would be...

mellysu1022

my feet. I inherited the worst feet on the planet!

If I was lucky enough to have an artistic talent, I would like to be a (an)...

Laurie08

musician.  I wish I could play guitar.

The one talent I do have is...

badger

gardening, I do have a green thumb.

If I could grow them where I live, I'd love to have garden-fresh...

Laurie08

avocados!!

My funniest child hood memory is...

elmcity69

from our family's annual Christmas party. We always had a pinata and inevitably, the bigger kids would trample the smaller ones (us) in the rush for candy. It doesn't sound funny, but trust me: 15 kids scrabbling in the snow for MaryJanes and Peanutchews is pretty hilarious.

my favorite Halloween costume I ever donned was.....