I was reading the meme on Stephanie’s blog How to Survive Life in the Suburbs (a meme which she got from her blog friend Window Shopping) and it made me realize just how much I adore pithy insights into a person, all tied up in one neat little post.
So I decided to do my own meme, but with the questions I would like to know the answers to, because – you know – it’s all about me(me). Here goes. Questions and Answers:
1. What’s your guilty pleasure? You know what I mean? What do you do that you know is probably not the wisest thing for you but you can’t seem to help yourself?
Hm. Funny you should ask. (chuckle) Coffee is my guilty pleasure. I know it gives me wrinkles and makes me want to eat sweet things and makes me tense and easily angered but I know that no matter how long I give it up (longest has been a month) I will one day be seduced by the aroma or the idea of “meeting a friend for coffee” and I will be led right back down that bitter path.
2. This leads me to the second question: Have you ever been able to overcome a perniciously bad habit? If so, how?
I haven’t written a lot about alcohol recovery on my blog, although I will at one point, but I’m proud of myself for giving it up 15 years ago. I attended a recovery group with our church (I initially went to accompany someone else, and boy did I get a shock when I realized that what people were saying hit home). I think I was able to give it up because I just sort of became a different person where that was no longer part of my life. I wish all destructive behavior were so “easy” to overcome.
3. What’s your first memory?
I must have been only 2 or 3 because we had just moved from our apartment into our new house. I remember standing and looking up at our dining room table (which is now hip-level) and watching my mom walk around the nearly empty room as if speculating how she was going to decorate it.
4. Have you ever had an experience with a ghost?
I don’t know . . . after my brother died I dreamt that I saw him and we talked. It was horrible and scary – so real it felt like he was there. Thank goodness there’s never been anything more concrete than that because I don’t relish the idea of being a mystic.
5. This brings me to my next question. Have you ever had a significant dream? One that came true, or one that meant something to you?
Why yes, yes I did. I dreamt I would marry a French man when I was 18 years old. Funny that.
6. What’s your most embarrassingly funny memory, and if you dare, your most embarrassingly embarrassing memory?
Okay, embarrassingly funny was when I told my friend Kirsten (my colleague selling advertising for the IMF/World Bank newspaper) that I would show her how it was done in approaching Finance Ministers at the annual meeting to sell them country profiles. I proceeded to convince the Minister of the Central Bank of Hungary why the great country of Poland needed a country profile. (I got the wrong guy. Details are fuzzy).
Embarrassingly embarrassing? Oh dear. I once farted when talking to a guy I didn’t know and I tried to keep acting normal but he was looking at me in total disgust, shock and awe. Let me just sink into the ground right now even remembering it all of 20 years ago.
7. Alright moving on to more distinguished topics. Favorite book. Why is it your favorite?
Mine is Charles Dickens’ Pickwick Papers. I read it nearly a year after my brother committed suicide and I just started getting treated for depression. It made me laugh. Oh, it made me laugh so hard I had to stop reading it on the train for fear that people would commit me. But it came at a time when I thought I’d never laugh again so I’ll always remember it as my favorite.
8. Last question, most romantic. At what precise moment did you know your spouse/partner was “the one?”
It was on our first date. We had tea. I thought he was such a “nice guy” until he took me salsa dancing. Oh my gosh, he was really good and the way he just grabbed me firmly around the waist and spun me wherever he wanted me to go . . . my knees go weak just thinking about it.
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Now you – if you’re inspired to answer even one question in the comments please do. I love to hear stories about you! It doesn’t matter if you’ve never commented before.
If you want to do an entire post with my All About Me(me) questions, leave your link below in the comments and I promise to read every one. Here are the questions again:
1. What’s your guilty pleasure? You know what I mean? What do you do that you know is probably not the wisest thing for you but you can’t seem to help yourself?
2. Have you ever been able to overcome a bad habit? If so, how?
3. What’s your first memory?
4. Have you ever had an experience with a ghost?
5. Have you ever had a significant dream? One that came true, or one that meant something to you?
6. What’s your most embarrassingly funny memory, and if you dare, your embarrassingly embarrassing memory?
7. Alright moving on to more distinguished topics. Favorite book. Why is it your favorite?
8. Last question – most romantic. At what precise moment did you know your spouse/partner was “the one?”
Bisous!
pronounced beezoo and means – Kisses!
I have no dignity. It’s very sad.
I love your post! Your openess and honesty always blow me away. I am the polar opposite of you. I would NEVER be accused of the ‘overshare!’ Thank goodness for you. You make twitter a much more interesting place.