This weekly memeing is kind of addictive...
1. On a scale of 1-10, how superstitious are you, honestly?
Honestly? Probably about a 3, which annoys me greatly, since I really and truly know there's nothing to it. But we're well indoctrinated...and it sneaks in around the corners of my logical thinking.
2. Julius Caesar is quoted as saying, "I came, I saw, I conquered." Which circumstance or experience of yours does this saying best describe?
Probably sewing costumes for various stage productions. I get very focused and, after it's done, wonder how I managed to do it. God's grace, y'all, is the only explanation.
3. If I peeked in on your day like a mischievous little leprechaun, at what time would I most likely find you blogging?
When I should be doing something else. Sleeping, laundry, housecleaning...you name it. I should be doing something else. At the moment, it's sleeping...
4. Re springing forward for Daylight Saving Time, is there anything you've ever been really early or really late for?
Well, I was at least 2 weeks ahead of my due date for three out of four kids...and the other one was 9 days early. With the first one, I was *sure* I'd be 2 weeks overdue...we'd just started painting the nursery, the crib was still in the box, and I had nothing packed. Didn't even get to finish the childbirth classes.
5. What are you most looking forward to concerning Spring?
Opening the windows and turning off the heat! Bye-bye $$$$ utility bill!
6. Shamrocks are the national flower of Ireland and are picked on St. Patrick's Day and worn on the lapel or shoulder. Do you wear green on St. Patty's Day?
Yup. My great-great-grandmother was a Ryan, so that'd make me 1/16 Irish...right?
7. One of Caesar's assassins, Casca, said, "But, for my own part, it was Greek to me," which of course means he didn't understand something. Probably his own lines in the play. Anyway, what is something that is "Greek to you," something incomprehensible or indecipherable?
Classical philosophy.
8. Is March behaving more like a lion or a lamb where you live?
Hm. Right now, March is behaving like a teenager who doesn't get her way and gives everyone in the family the cold shoulder.
9. "An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later." -Winston Churchill. If you had one extra hour per day every day, what would you do with it?
Honestly? Sleep.
10. Legend says that every Leprechaun has a pot of gold hidden deep in the Irish countryside. Aside from real gold or money, what material item would be in your dream pot of gold?
A piece of beautiful artwork...the kind that speaks every time the eye falls on it. Which piece? Now, that would depend on a lot of factors....
11. "The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you." Robert Louis Stevenson. Look around you right now and tell us about something essential or beautiful very near you that you take for granted every day.
Probably the very house I live in. No, it's not fancy, it's not as clean as it should be, and it's not decorated well. But it's proof against the weather, it's only got 6 people living in it, it has indoor plumbing and hot water and lights that come one with the flip of a switch...what percentage of the world's inhabitants have a dwelling as fabulous as this? We are amazingly blessed...
12. Just for a bit o' fun, click here (www.blogthings.com/irishnamegenerator/) and then report your Irish name. Mine is "Zoe O'Sullivan." I love it!
I put in several combinations of first, middle, maiden and last names and got different ones each time...so I put in the first one again and got yet another. Then I lost the paper I wrote them on and did it again and got yet another name. So I don't think the algorithm has as much to do with anything particular to me as it does to what number individual I am to ask it. But the last name I got is also the one I liked the best anyway: Zaira O'Reilly.
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