Sunday Stealing: Likes, Loves & Peeves

Our intrepid host, Bev, says of this week's questions, "This is from "Today is a Fashion Show and the World is My Runway."

1. Five ways to win your heart.

1. Don't lie to me.
2. Leave the drama at home.
3. Be kind to all people.
4. If you make a promise, keep it.
5. Make me a priority.

2. Something you feel strongly about.  My family, my faith and living it out the best that I can in all things.

3. A book you love. I've read three books by Fredrik Backman: Bear Town, A Man Called Ovi, and My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry. They are all so beautifully written and so insightful of human nature that they leave me in awe.

4. Five pet peeves.

1. People who think it's perfectly fine to say any hateful thing they feel if they don't agree with you about something.
2. Being with someone and being ignored in favor of their cell phone.
3. When you take your dirty dishes to the kitchen and pile them in the sink...right beside the dishwasher. That extra foot would kill you?
4. People who walk their dogs around the neighborhood and let them take a dump in anyone's front yard (and don't bag it) or let them pee on my flowers.
5. Drivers who go really, really slow. Until you try to pass them, then they put the pedal to the floor and if you drop back behind them again they immediately slow back down. Seriously. What the heck?

5. What you ate today.  Nothing for breakfast, some of my grandson's popcorn chicken and leftover roasted potatoes for lunch, and a beef enchilada with chips and salsa for dinner.

6. How important do you think education is?  It's complicated. I believe learning should be a life-long endeavor, but as far as higher education, it depends. There are college degrees that produce lucrative careers. If one of those is your calling, by all means go for it. But if you're going for some nebulous liberal arts degree, give it some more thought. The world is full of college graduates who are saddled with crippling student loan debt and can't find employment in their field. Right now experts suggest the better investment is a technical school. I tend to agree...but that doesn't mean you can't keep learning.

7. Five people you find attractive.

1. My husband, of course.
2. Sam Elliot
3. Kyle Chandler
4. Tom Selleck
5. Denzel Washington

8. What you wore today. Denim stretch capris and flow-y hot pink top.

9. Something you always think “what if” about.  What if my husband is struck by catastrophic illness/disease or dies young and I'm left on my own? Those are the really scary thoughts that only come in the darkest of times.

10. Something you’re proud of.  My family.

11. Five items you lust after.

1. A Ford Mustang
2. A big savings account
3. A house with a finished bathroom
4. A housekeeper
5. Storage space

12. Five words/phrases that make you laugh.

Keep moving.

Oh yeah, every parent gets it.

That would be my husband.

McDonald's doesn't fry them in lard any more so,
like, they're healthy, right?

Can I borrow someone's ex?

13. A quote you try to live by.  

Show love, be patient, be kind and good.
Exercise a little self-control of your mouth.

14. Something you like and dislike about yourself.  

• Like: I try to give people the benefit of the doubt and think the best of them...till they remove all doubt.
• Dislike: I am such a procrastinator!

15. A problem that you have had.  Where on earth would I start? There have been so many over the years, but thankfully, they've mostly all worked out one way or another.

Have a wonderful day celebrating the men in your life today! I heard a great quote about them recently...."They are always blessings, it's just that sometimes they are blessings in disguise!" LOL

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