5000 Question Survey, Part One

Part ONE:

1. Who are you? Sarah

2. What are the 3 most important things everyone should know about you?

1) I am a mom

2) I am generally a happy positive person

3)I have two step daughters, but no one can tell because I treat them like my own.

3. When you aren’t filling out 5,000 question surveys like this one what are you doing?

Taking care of the kids, reading, scrapbooking, on the net.

4. List your classes in school from the ones you like the most to the ones you like the least (or if you are out of school, think of the classes you did like and didn’t like at the time).

Most favorite: Reading (yes, I took a reading class.  It was designed to make you a faster reader.) and Music

Least Favorite: Math, hands down

5. What is your biggest goal for this year?

To finish nursing Alexandria

6. Where do you want to be in 5 years?

Hm, I’m not sure…Alex will be starting school about then, but who knows?

7. What stage of life are you in right now?

Mommyhood, for sure.

8. Are you more child-like or childish?

Hm, this is a hard one… I can be quite childish at times, but I am probably more child-like.

9. What is the last thing you said out loud?

Good bye (to Linda)

10. What song comes closest to how you feel about your life right now?

Goodnight my Angel by Billy Joel

11. Have you ever taken martial arts classes?

I have, Tai Chi (and yes, it IS a martial art, just done very slow)

12. Does your life tend to get better or worse or does it just stay the same?

Loaded question.  I suppose right now it’s worse, but it can only go up from here, right?

13. Does time really heal all wounds?

I think it does…though sometimes therapy helps speed the process along, lol

14. How do you handle a rainy day?

Mmm, I LOVE rainy days.  But I usually stay inside on them.  If I have to go out, I grab a jacket and if I have one, an umbrella and just deal with it.

15. Which is worse…losing your luggage or having to sort out tangled holiday lights?

Losing the luggage

16. How is your relationship with your parents?

Great for the most part.  No complaints.

Will you miss them when they are gone?

Hell yes.

17. Do you tend to be aware of what is going on around you?

Um, no

18. What is the truest thing that you know?

Not to be redundant, but I love my family.

19. What did you want to be when you grew up?

When I was 10, I wanted to own a restaurant.  When I was 15, I wanted to be a writer.  Go figure, yes?

20. Have you ever been given a second chance?

Never needed one, thank you.

21. Are you more of a giver or a taker?

Depends.  Right now, more of a taker, though I TRY to be a giver too.  It is what makes the world go round after all.

22. Do you make your decisions with an open heart/mind?

I try to, yes.

23. What is the most physically painful thing that has ever happened to you?

Has to be childbirth, but totally worth every second.

24. What is the most emotionally painful thing that has ever happened to you?

When my ex husband told me he wanted kids, but not with me.  Oh, and my mother telling me sometimes I was useful, but mostly I was useless.

25. Who have you hugged today?

Sammi and Alex

26. Who has done something today to show they care about you?

Jerry made breakfast for us.

27. Do you have a lot to learn?

Always.  Don’t we all?  I think it’s what we were put on Earth to do.

28. If you could learn how to do three things just by wishing and not by working what would they be?

A Sewing

B A BUNCH of different languages

C How to be a FANTASTIC cook

29. Which do you remember the longest: what other people say, what other people do or how other people make you feel?

How people make me feel.

30. What are the key ingredients to having a good relationship?

Ignore the small stuff.  Give as much as you take.  Never take them for granted.  Say I love you a lot.  Touch them. 

31. What 3 things do you want to do before you die?

A See the world.

B Publish a book

C

32. What three things would you want to die to avoid doing?

A Kill someone

B See my children die

C See my husband die

33. Is there a cause you believe in more than any other cause?

No, not really

34. What does each decade make you think of:

The 19..

20’s: Speakeasys, flappers, tommy guns

30’s: The Great Depression, hunger, joblessness, a great President

40’s: War

50’s: Happy Days

60’s: Hippies, free love, mom and dad getting married, the Peace Corps (mom was in), the Vietnam War (dad was in)

70’s: Me as a child, mom and dad divorcing

80’s: Me as a teenager, GREAT music, big hair, high school

90’s: Married to Gregg, working for Sykes, living with the developmentally disabled people, getting FIRED because of Gregg, not growing up, getting divorced, having fun with my friends, LOTS of movies, going to the Melting Pot with Ellen, going to the comedy club with my friends almost once a month.  Finally growing up.  Moved to Sacramento to go to work for Apple at the end of the decade, met Jerry.

2000 (so far): Best decade yet… Married Jerry, and his 2 kids, then added 3 more, had our own very successful business, quit Apple, became a Stay at Home mom (which I’d dreamed of doing since I was a kid), war, history was made when the first black president was elected

2010’s: So much possibility, can’t wait to see what happens.

35. Which decade do you feel the most special connection to and why? Two decades, this one and the 80s.  I just love the music from the 80s, and those were my “formative years”  I have SO many memories from that time, both bad and good.  And this decade because of all the wonderful things that have happened, and how I feel so good being in my own skin now.

36. What is your favorite oldie/classic rock song?

Africa, by Toto, hands down.  Though I also like “I want to know what love is.”

37. What country do you live in and who is the leader of that country?

U.S.A President Barack Obama

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So far, great job man!

38. What’s your favorite TV channel to watch in the middle of the night?

Food Network, lol

39. What Disney villain are you the most like and why?

The Evil Stepmother?  LOL, just kidding, a little.  Gosh… I don’t know.  I don’t think I have an evil bone in my body!

40. Have you ever been a girl scout/boy scout?

Yep, and a girl scout leader too!

41. If you were traveling to another continent would you rather fly or take a boat?

Oooh… I love both forms of transportation.

42. Why is the sky blue during the day and black at night?

You REALLY want me to answer this?  If memory serves, the sky is blue because when the sun shines, blue is the only color in the spectrum not hidden.  SOMETHING like that.  I can look it up if it’s that important to you.  It’s black at night because of a lack of sunlight creating color.

43. What does your name mean?

Princess, isn’t that nice? I think so.

44. Would you rather explore the deeps of the ocean or outer space?

Again, both.

45. Word association

What is the first word that comes to mind when you see the word:

Air: Breathe

Meat:  Mmmm, meat. 

Different: Same

Pink: baby girl

Deserve: everything

White: Black

Elvis: Presley (YUCK)

Magic: Hat

Heart: Shabree

Clash: colors

Pulp: Fiction

46. If you could meet any person in the world who is dead who would you want it to be?

Socrates

47. What if you could meet anyone who is alive?

Obama

48. Is there a movie that you love so much you could watch it everyday?

Either The Princess Bride, or Star Wars

49. You are going to be stuck alone in an elevator for a week. What do you bring to do?
Read
Write
Sing
Think

50. Have you ever saved someone’s life or had your life saved?

No.

51. Make up a definition for the following silly words…

Fruitgoogle: Looking up the definition of a fruit

Ambytime: Time to go to sleep

Asscactus: A plant

52. What was the last thing you made with your own hands?

Oooh, ooh, a scrapbook page, this morning.

53. What was your favorite toy as a child?

My baby blanket, and my bear, and I still have both, though I only know where the blanket is

54. How many TV’s are in your house?

Too many.  There are 3 hooked up, and one not hooked up (the neighbor gave it to Shabree, and we said NO WAY for her room)

55. What is your favorite thing to do outside?

LOL, go shopping.

56. How do you feel when you see a rainbow?

Happy.  Exited.  I LOVE rainbows.

57. Have you ever dreamt a dream that came true?

Yes, though I couldn’t tell you, because I can’t  remember… but I know I have.

58. Have you ever been to a psychic/tarot reader?

Oh my gosh, yes.  I even used to read Tarot cards myself…pretty good at it too.  My ex husband gave me a very accurate reading when I first met him.  We used to go to psychic fairs quite a bit, lol

59. What is your idea of paradise?

Pretty standard, being in a tropical location with Jerry (and if it were long term, the kids).  I love Hedonism in Jamaica.

60. Do you believe in god and if so what is he/she/it like?

I’m not sure anymore.  I’m still working on this one.

61. Do you believe in Hell?

Nope. 

62. What one thing have you done that most people haven’t?

Been to a nudist resort.

63. What is the kindest thing you have ever done?

Ugh, I don’t like this question… I gave Jane 500 dollars.  Jerry only wanted to give her 300, I told him we should make it 5.  This was after Hurricane Katrina.

64. Are you a patient person?

I TRY to be.

65. What holiday should exist but doesn’t?

You have GOT to be kidding me.  We don’t have enough holidays as it is?  Maybe August needs a holiday, but I can’t think of what to call it.

66. What holiday shouldn’t exist but does?

I don’t know… name one created by the greeting card companies?

67. What’s the best joke you ever heard?

Jesus and the Devil are having a contest on who has the best computer skills.  They’re making databases, they’re attaching peripherals, they’re programming programs, they’re doing word processing.  All of a sudden, the electricity goes out.  When it comes back on, the Devil screams “I lost it all!  No!” while Jesus calmly gets back on the computer.  God declares Jesus the winner, and the Devil asks why.  God replies “Jesus Saves.”

68. Where is the most fun place you have EVER been? 

Hedo, hands down.  Though of course, I’m a HUGE fan of Disney anything.

69. Is your hair natural or dyed?

Natrual for the time being.

70. Do you have any deep dark secrets or are you pretty much up front?

Pretty much up front.  I do have ONE deep dark secret.

71. What is under your bed right now?

Boxes, baby bottles, kid stuff.

72. If you were in the Land of Oz would you want to live there or go home?

Go home, I think.

73. If you drive do you frequently speed?

No way, no how.

74. What is the world’s best song to dance to?

Abracadabra by the Steve Miller Band (it’s a sexy song, so think strip tease for the hubby, lol)

75. What song was on the last time you danced with someone?

LOL, you’ll love this.  Was watching The Bucket List last night, and I forget the song, but I was dancing with Alex to it, and of COURSE Sammi had to be in on that action, so I was dancing with one child on each hip.  SO cute.

76. Do you prefer Disney or Warner Brothers?

Disney, but I honestly love both.

77. What is the first animal you would run to see if you went to the zoo?

The monkeys are alwasys fun.  But I believe Bec would drag me to the White Tigers, or even just the regular ones.  She loves Tigers.

78. Would you consider yourself to be romantic?

Definitely

79. If the earth stopped rotating would we all fly off?

No.  Well… we might, if gravity stopped, which it might very well do.

80. What is the one thing that you love to do so much that you would make sacrifices to be able to do it?

I suppose scrapbooking…but I also love to read quite a bit.

81. If you (and everyone) had to lose one right or freedom, but you could pick which one everyone had to lose, what would you pick?

I’ll have to think about this one… it’s tough.

82. If you had to choose would you live on the equator or at the North Pole? 

The equator, I think.

83. Would you rather give up listening to music or watching television?

Watching tv

84. What do you think makes someone a hero?

I think a hero thinks about other people before themselves. 

85. What cartoon would you like to be a character in?

Tiny Toons, lol.

86. Name one thing that turns your stomach:

The smell of corn nuts.  Ugh.

87. What was the last thing you paid for?

Food.

88. Are you a coupon clipper?

I ought to be, and if we got the paper, I probably would… problem with coupons is that the store brand is almost always cheaper even WITH a coupon.  They’re close to useless the way I shop.

89. Get anything good in the mail recently?

I got a bunch of scrapbooks the other day for the Make A wish project I participate in.

90. Which would you rather take as a gym class…dancing, sailing, karate, or bowling?

Well, I took bowling in high school.  Dancing could be fun, but I’d probably take Karate.

91. In Star Trek people ‘beam’ back and forth between different places. What this means is they stand in a little tube and their molecules are deconstructed and sent to another tube somewhere else where they are reassembled. Only problem is when the molecules are deconstructed the person is dead. When they are put back together it is only a clone that has all the dead person’s memories. So…

Is the person who gets beamed the same person on both ends?

Yes, of course they are.  Haven’t you ever WATCHED Star Trek?

92. What insects are you afraid of?

E Gads… mosquitos, don’t care for spiders much either.

93. If you could print any phrase on a T-shirt, what would it say?

Thoughts are Things

94. What’s the most eccentric thing you have ever worn?

I can’t remember.  Probably something I had as a kid.  I was fairly eccentric back then, lol.

95. If you could pick one food that you could eat all you wanted but it would have no effect on how much you weigh, what food would it be?

White chip macadamia nut cookies, for SURE.

96. What are your parents interested in?

Mom writes.  Dad buys junk at auctions, lol

97. Have you ever caught an insect and kept it as a pet?

Nope

Have you ever caught and tamed a wild animal?

Nope

98. What is more helpful to you, wishes or plans?

Plans

99. When do you feel your life energy the strongest?

At night, usually, and early in the morning, if I can manage to make it up that early.

100. You are spending the night alone in the woods and may bring only 3 items with you. What do you bring?

Heavy duty sleeping bag
A backpack with food
Water