Sunday Stealing: Not Quite 5000 Questions

Hello! I'm back from the cruise. It was wonderful and pictures and descriptions will be coming in the next couple of days. Pictures of (and the accompanying gushing over) our new granddaughter will also be coming. Little Leah Rose entered the world on Monday, July 29, at 7:59 A.M. We finally got to meet her yesterday and she is just perfect!

We also returned to the weight of reality and the world with all its problems. My heart is heavy this morning and my thoughts and prayers go out to all the victims, survivors, families, first responders, and communities dealing with the rash of mass shootings over the past few days...and that includes the families of the shooters. They, too, are hurting and have suffered a loss.

And now to answer, not quite, 5000 questions for Sunday Stealing. I had this done last night and posted, but I wanted to mention the shootings this morning and my laptop worked its "magic" and deleted the whole thing. Grrrr.

Let's try this again.

A few questions from "The 5000 questions survey"

1. Have you read anything by C.S. Lewis?  Yes, I've read several of his works. They've all been required reading for either college or seminary. I have never chosen to read his writings of my own free will. I find them to be rather odd and the oddest one of all might be The Great Divorce.

2. What is your favorite movie with Jack Nicholson?  I'm not really a big fan of Jack and I've never watched some of his biggest hits like The Shining or Terms of Endearment, but I liked Bucket List, Anger Management, and The Witches of Eastwick well enough.

3. What rhymes with 'orange'?  I totally cheated on this, but...

4. Have you ever swallowed an object by accident?  I think maybe a bug or a filling from a tooth is as far as that goes.

5. Is your eyesight 20/20?  Ha! Not even with my glasses. It's close with the glasses, but not 20/20. My hindsight, on the other hand, is darn near perfect!

6. Have you ever had insomnia?  I don't think so...at least not what I think of as insomnia. Most of my life I've had the ability to sleep long and deep, but I seem to be losing that. For the last 6 months or so I go to sleep easily, but I wake up several times a night and often can't get back to sleep or else I only sleep about 5 hours and have to get up because I ache too much to lie there.

7. Does it bother you when people touch you?  In general, no, but I'm not crazy about it when someone can't seem to talk to me without clamping onto my arm and being 3-inches from my face. And to be honest, there are a very few people out there whose touch sets my skin to crawling.

8. Is it better to get too much or too little sleep?  Neither is ideal. Both leave me feeling groggy and grumpy.

9. What gets your adrenaline pumping?  Lots of things. A good fright, something exciting, anger, a good looking fellow, anyone messing with my family, injustice, snakes, sharks...

10. Do you ever talk about yourself in the third person?  Why would Stacy do that? She would sound ridiculous.

11. What's your favorite radio station?  WHJB They are a little local station. What kind of music do they play?  Mostly 70's and 80's music. Saturday mornings they older stuff than that. Sunday mornings they play jazz. I think they still do a polka party sometime on Saturdays, too.

12. Do you believe there is anyplace still undiscovered in all the world?  I don't know about completely undiscovered, but there are plenty of places that have barely been explored or haven't been explored at all so we don't know much, if anything, about them. The deepest regions of the oceans, for example.

13. Ever caught a fish?  Sure, lots of times. I like to fish, but haven't gone in years. We don't get a chance to go often enough to justify the cost of licenses.

14. Were you ever in the first row of a concert?  I've been "in the pit" up against the stage at a few concerts (Donnie Iris, Third Day, Bleach, and others) but the only time I had seats in the first row (with no pit in front of me) was when I bought VIP tickets for a Toby Keith concert. They weren't supposed to be front row, but the venue sells season tickets every year for the entire series of country concerts and those people are supposed to be guaranteed their same seats at every concert. They got very upset that the plan was to bump them for the VIP ticket holders. I don't blame them. They pay a lot for those tickets. 

Anyway, the way the venue and the Toby Keith tour got around it was to set up several rows of folding chairs in front of those seats. So, my seats were in the center of the front row. I could have reached out and touched Toby...if the nice security guard standing there wouldn't have tackled me.

15. Do you have any autographs?  Toby Keith, Nora Roberts (signed book), Dale Evans (signed book), Cathy Rigby (70's gold medal gymnast), David Eisenhower, Sen. John Heinz, lots of 70's era Steelers who are now in the football hall of fame...and probably a few more that I can't think of right now.