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Rule 2: Answer the 11 questions and make 11 new ones

Rule 3: Tag 11 people 

Rule 4: Tell them you’ve tagged them

1. Do you have close ties with your family?

I think I do. At least with my immediate family. My sister that I moved out with is who I’m closest with, obviously. My younger siblings I also feel close to. For a while, my mother really relied on me and my sister to help her take care of them, so I kind of feel more like a second mom to them than anything else. With my mom, that’s like a story where I don’t understand where the plot is going. Sometimes, I feel like I really understand my mom’s behavior, and other times I can’t believe she’s the person who raised me. My dad is probably the most interesting relationship. I grew up believing my dad could handle anything and that I could trust implicitly in him. However, I have never been able to communicate with him. He and my sister can sit and shoot the breeze, and I’m envious of that. Since we’ve moved out, it seems that all of our conversations revolve around work and what things I need to get done with my car. As for extended family, I never felt a kinship with either side of my parents’ families. We would go and visit them from time to time while growing up but after my mom started taking us to meetings, it’l like they didn’t care enough to really make an effort to see us besides on holidays

2. What is your favorite movie?

I wish that there were an easy answer to this question. I absolutely love Disney movies, and couldn’t single out a particular movie as being my favorite, though high up on the list are Lady and the Tramp, The Sword in the Stone, and The Jungle Book.

I’ll try and compile a short list of movies that are not Disney to give you a better overall view of my taste. White Chicks, Turner and Hooch, Napoleon Dynamite, The Royal Tenenbaums, Pride and Prejudice (Keira Knightely version), Bride and Prejudice, Singing in the Rain, Bend It Like Beckham, Grease, Star Trek and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. That’s a very short list.

2)      If you could have any career what would it be and why?

I actually already have one of the best careers, I’m a pioneer. The only thing that could possibly make it better is if I were a Special Pioneer in a foreign land. If we’re speaking about secular careers though, I would love to be a librarian. I worked as a Library Aide in high school as soon as I got the chance and loved every minute of it. To be surrounded by books for a living would be amazing, and the chance to help instill and inspire the love for reading and literature that librarians eagerly helped me to appreciate would be lovely.

3)      Could purple elephants be trained to tap dance?

I would imagine so, after all, pink hippopotamuses were able to dance ballet. But I’d hate to be the person who had to clean and wax the floors at the dance academy that taught the elephants.

4)      Is Nacho Libre a satire about how the world treats each other like we all wear a mask or just an excuse for Jack Black to run around for 1.5 hours in tights?

I would love to believe that Jack Black wanted there to be a deeper meaning to Nacho Libre, but I think that the movie is glorious exactly as it is, an excuse for Jack Black to run around for 1.5 hours in tights speaking with a bad accent, grow his hair and mustache out a bit, and throw corn and at tortilla chips at people.

5)      If any colour could define you what would it be

Cornflower blue. Have you ever seen a cornflower blue crayon in a box of crayons before? It is pretty much the exact same shade as the blue crayon. Until you use it. And then you realize it’s more blue than the blue crayon. It’s a wonderful surprise. I actually hope I am like the cornflower blue crayon. I hope I don’t stick out in a crowd, not until people get to know me. Then they realize how different I am, different in a good way.

6)      What is your favourite form of travel?

I’ve never been on an airplane before, nor a train. I have ridden in the subway-like metro here in the Los Angeles area, which I suppose is a train, but not the romantic type of train, with the chug-a-chug-a-chug and the clickety-clack of the wheels against the track. My favorite travel isn’t the Metro though, it’s actually driving. My family took a lot of roadtrips when I was younger. When I was 11, we drove across the US from California to Pennsylvania, and then back again. We passed through tons of states, covered a lot of road, all in a minivan, with 6 people and luggage crammed in. I still like driving. Not the day-to-day stuff, but the long roadtrips. Especially when it’s dark and there’s no one in front of you, and no one behind you. I put in a cassette tape (because I don’t have a cd player in my car) and will listen to comedy or a podcast the entire time. Because that’s what my parents did with us, and it was one of the very few things I think my parents actually did with us that we all enjoyed.

But then again, I’ve never actually traveled by myself and may enjoy sitting back in an airplane seat a lot more than the worry that comes with driving and getting lost or running out of gas or leaving something at a rest stop.

7)      Where in the world is Carmen SanDiego?

Hopefully some place that is on a beach, deliciously warm and has a full bar just steps away.

8)      What adult phenomenon confused you the most as a child?

Lingerie. My mom used to have catalogue parties and would sell lingerie for this company I can’t remember the name of anymore. She would have tons of women come by the house and had a clothing rack full of items that I would rather not remember. There would always be a stack of catalogues on the floor somewhere in the house and my sister and I would leaf through them and wonder why anyone would pay so much money to wear something that didn’t look comfortable and didn’t look like it would keep you warm while you were sleeping. Smh, I still wonder that very thing.

9)      If you could have any animal in the world as your pet, what would its political beliefs be?

Well, if you went by the political cartoons for American politics, I guess my pet elephant would be Republican. However, I’m sure that once he saw politics is nothing more than a blame game that achieves nothing, he would be more than happy to accept a neutral political standing.

10)   If you could save any person from death who would it be and why? 

Steve Irwin. I cried when I saw the obituary of his death. At first, I thought it was a terrible joke someone at the newspaper was trying to pull, then I started bawling. I grew up with Steve and he pretty much defined my childhood outside of Disney movies. What really makes me wish I could bring him back is knowing that he has his children still here. Bindi and Bob were so young when he passed. It absolutely breaks my heart every time I think about it. I look forward to seeing him in paradise, where he can actually get to know Jehovah’s creation without penning them in, or antagonizing them just to learn about them. 

My Questions:

Favorite ice cream flavor?

What’s your opinion on socks?

Who or what was your childhood hero?

Are you able to budget yourself?

What is your favorite work and why?

Just taking a moment to be serious. How did you come to know the truth? What caused you to make the truth your own?

What is your preferred browser? Why?

When you first started working, what was the first thing you bought when you got your very first paycheck?

Where would you live ideally?

I’m from Southern California. We tend to think of snow as something fun. It’s like when your friend gets a new puppy. You get to play with it for as long as you want until you’re tired and then go inside and look at it and take pictures with it and of it and then go home and talk about how fun that was. What do you think of snow? Is it something fun and exciting or a burdensome chore?