Sunday Stealing: The Little Stinker Edition

Thanks to Bev for finding another fun bunch of questions for us to answer.

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Bev says, "I got this list from AA's blog, which no longer exists, unfortunately."

1. What brand & flavor of toothpaste do you use? I use Colgate for sensitive teeth and with enamel restoring properties. It's mint flavored. I had to stop using whitening toothpaste (even the mild, not the super duty stuff) because I finally figured out that the reason my mouth was irritated and I hadn't been able to eat anything even mildly spicy for years was due to the whitening agent. I figured it out when my mom's face started to go numb and one of her doctors discovered that was what was causing it.

2. What is your earliest memory?  Being carried through a parking lot and looking over the shoulder of whomever was carrying me. It was raining and we were under an umbrella. I've always had the feeling it was the day I was brought home from the hospital and my mom says it was indeed raining that day. Who knows?!

3. Hot Dogs or Hamburgers?  Usually I will choose a hamburger as I really like a good burger, but I do like hotdogs...just not as much. Unless the burgers are the frozen variety bought by the box. I don't care for those at all...maybe because that's all my husband's family ever served and they always cooked them within an inch of being charcoal. 

4. If you could bring any one famous person back to life, who would it be?  I'm not a royal watcher, but I think I'd bring Princess Diana back. She deserves to see her sons grown up, her grandchildren, and I think she'd like the way the royals have softened on things. A little too late for her, but they have changed.

5. What is one thing we would always find in your fridge... what one thing would we never find?  You'll always find diet Coke, but you'll never find olives, liver, or egg plant.

6. Did you have to go and look for the answer of #1?  Nope.

7. Why don't watermelons grow on trees?  They're too heavy. What do you think old Isaac Newton would have come up with if a watermelon had fallen out of a tree and bonked him on the head?

8. What is something that you own that you should probably just throw in the trash, but you never will?  All the stuff that came out of my grandmother's cedar chest. What am I going to do with a picture of her high school class from their 50th reunion, the menu from the cruise she took to the Bahamas, a bag of hair from my first haircut (which was my aunt's first professional cut as a stylist), or pictures of the people she went on a bus trip around the western U.S. with (among other things)?

9. I push you into a room and lock the door. I leave you there for 6 hours. The walls are chalkboards and in the middle of the room there is a box of colored chalk. What will be written/drawn on the walls when I let you out?  I have no idea. I'd just let my imagination go where it wanted at the time.

10. When was the last time you changed the oil on your car?  I just had that done last week.

11. In your extended family, who has been married the longest?  If we're not counting the length of marriages for those who have passed on....it's me! No one else even comes close. Not in either one of our families.

12. Name one thing that is so normal to you now that someone who was your age 50 years ago would think was abnormal.  Only one thing?  Off the top of my head I thought of speaking to the remote to change the channel, computers, cell phones, microwave ovens, GPS and backup cameras, digital cameras....

13. Have you ever wanted someone or something so bad that it hurt?  I suppose I did when I was young, but not in a long, long time.

14. What do you dip your french fries in?  Ketchup. Heinz. And only Heinz.

15. What was the last picture that you took?  I took this one today (Saturday) of our new "babies." I wanted a picture before my husband tries to trap and relocate them. They are adorable now...tiny and wobbly like new kittens. I don't even think the stink has come in yet, but they will grow and they are right by the jungle gym we built for the grandkids. Plus, if they are there...Mom must be under the workshop, too.