1. What is your occupation? Mailing Services Coordinator
2. What color are your socks right now? the ever risque and popular nude
3. What are you listening to right now? NPR: Fresh Air with Terry Gross, she’s interviewing Martha Weinman Lear
4. What was the last thing that you ate? fat free vanilla yogurt
5. Can you drive a stick shift? Do it every day
6. What color would you be, if you were a color? a blushy pink
7. Last person you spoke to on the phone? a store owner in Cedar Rapids
8. Do you like the person who sent this to you? D’uh
9. How old are you today? 33
10. Favorite drink? water or Bailey’s Irish Cream
11. What is your favorite sport to watch? baseball or NASCAR
12. Have you ever dyed your hair? Yes, but these days I pay a professional
13. Pets? 1 cat
14. Least Favorite food? turnips
15. Last movie you watched? Gone Baby Gone
16. Favorite day of the year? Dec 16th
17. What do you do to vent anger? misdirect it
18. What was your favorite toy as a child? the alligator mom and dad made for us (legos come a close second)
19. What is your favorite, fall or spring? fall
20. Cherry or blueberry? blueberry
21. Do you want your friends to e-mail you back? why wouldn’t I?
22. Who is most likely to respond? your guess is as good as mine
23. Who is least likely to respond? your guess is as good as mine
24. What are your current living arrangements? me and the cat in a basement apartment
25. When was the last time you cried? uhm, I teared up last week watching Torchwood, but no tears spilled
26. Who is the friend you’ve had the longest that you are sending this to? probably Chris, maybe Andy or Tom
27. Favorite smell? wool-mohair yarn
28. Plain, cheese or spicy hamburgers? cheese
29. Favorite car? the Delorean from Back to the Future or the flying car
30. Favorite cat breed? Bingley!
31. Number of keys on your key ring? 5 on the key chain I regularly carry – 20+ on the spare set in the car
32. How many years at your current job? 1 year 6 months
33. Favorite day of the week? Sunday
34. How many states have you lived in? 4
35. What is your favorite hobby? knitting! rubber stamping/card making
36. Last book you read: Emma

I was tagged by Sara Miller. So here goes:

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Both, because it really depends on the gift.

2. Real or fake tree? I don’t put up a tree in my apartment, it’s just too small a space, but my mom puts up a fake one at their house every year.

3. When do you put up the tree? see answer to #3

4. When do you take the tree down? see answer to #3

5. Do you like eggnog? I’ve never tried it. I really should though.

6. Favorite gift received as a child? Nothing really stands out in my mind, does that make me ungrateful?

7. Do you have a nativity scene? Nope.

8. Hardest person to buy for? Chris. Anything he wants, he’s already bought. It’s hard to beat him to the check out line. So I’m making his present, which will be late because I’m behind in my knitting.

9. Easiest person to buy for? Andrea. Andrea never abuses my generous nature, but she always lets me know what she wants, and I love that about her! That goes for her birthday and anniversary too. Such ease and grace. I’m glad we’re close enough to be that comfortable.

10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? The infamous “Easter Bunny” pink sweat suit. My grandmother never forgave me for mocking it and worse taking it back to trade for a lovely green dress.

11. Mail or e-mail Christmas cards? Snail mail, it’s always so much nicer to open something other than bills..

12. Favorite Christmas movie? Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas & Rich Little’s A Christmas Carol

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? For family, as soon as we draw names. For friends, I tend to buy stuff over the course of the year and save them.

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yeppers.

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Armenian rolls. Yum yum yum!!!

16. Clear lights or colored on the tree? Clear.

17. Favorite Christmas song? new favorite this year: Miriam by Pierce Pettis covered by Jason Gray

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Home.

19. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer? I think so.

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Boba Fett. I dare ya, ask me about the sci-fi Christmas tree.

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? We open presents in our stockings on Christmas eve and the presents under the tree on Christmas morning.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? Finding a dress for holiday parties and concerts. Not only do I have to fight Christmas shoppers, but the fashion industry too, as I’ve yet to find the perfect dress or even a tolerable one. I am very put out.

23. What I love most about Christmas? The amazing choral music that always surprises me with its intense adoration of the Trinity. I’m really looking forward to the Cuesta Master Chorale’s performance this Saturday.

I tag Stephanie, Heather, Micah, and Travis.

Edited to add Netflix: Jeeves and Wooster: Season 3: Disc 1 & Dexter: Season 1: Disc 4

I just realized that Flo has never seen my kitchen. For if she had seen it, she would have known better than to tag me…I must invite the Oakses for dinner before they pull up stakes in SLO.

Back to the topic, I’ll be a good sport and play along.

Here is a list of 8 random things about my kitchen:

I don’t have a proper kitchen. I have one counter and the basic appliances: oven, stove, fridge and microwave.

1. I just won my first ever kitchen battle with ants. We have had an uneasy ceasefire for 2 years now, but the temptation of cantaloupe rind was apparently too great, and the ants broke the truce. I was swift in my retribution and have crushed their incursion. We have returned to our established geographical boundaries.
2. I always keep a jar of dried basil in my spice rack. Just in case I can’t get fresh at Farmer’s Market.
3. I can never use a gallon of milk before it’s expiration date, but I keep buying it because a half gallon goes too quickly. Why don’t they sell three-quarters of a gallon?
4. The wine tubes in the wine rack and around the room do not contain wine. They are full of yarn.
5. My kitchen is also my living room.
6. My living room is also my craft room.
7. My craft room is also my entry foyer.

And now you know so I tag: Heather, Stephanie, Travis, and Rebecca.

Current Netflix: Sweet Land & Heroes: Season 1: Disc 7