Sunday Stealing is still on vacation, so here’s an old one.
A – Ambition: To actually be able to retire. That’s not looking likely. And lemme tellya, if Trumpty-Dumpty and Apartheid Clyde try to do anything to Social Security and Medicare, I will join whatever class-action suit needs to be rendered against them.
B – Birthday: October 21
C – Computer: PC, always. Currently a Dell that is 5 years old. I really should buy a new one before any tariffs kick in. Maybe after Christmas but before the coronation.
D – Dream: I love the one I have of Marko Saaresto (front man of Poets of the Fall) in which we’re standing in a famous D.C. bookstore called Kramer’s and he asks me to help him pick out a book for a child relative back in Finland. I pull out my tablet and type in a line from one of his songs–“I’m secretly grateful you’re sharing this moment with me” from “No End, No Beginning”–and he says “thank you” and we pick out a book and then have lunch and people-watch. Now pardon me if I cry for a second because I was supposed to be at this concert and one in Manchester with my friend Tracy while on vacation in England for a week, but my heart attack said otherwise.
E – Exercise: Cardiokickboxing, interval training, interval treadmill, and The Firm because I’m old school like that.
F – Favorite Food: Today it’s grapes. Tomorrow it might be something else.
G – Garden: Would love to have one. Wouldn’t love to work on it.
H – Hobby: Coloring. And I still have not finished that stupid snowflake!
I – Idol: Joaquin Phoenix. His compassion for animals humbles me.
J – Job: Health writer. Oh, excuse me, I write for clinicians so they’re calling people like me medical journalists now.
K – Kids: Too gamey.
L – Location: Virginia
M – Military: Should only be deployed as a last resort.
N – Name or Nickname: T-bird
O – Optimist or Pessimist: Cynical optimist. Yes, there is such a thing. Ever hear of “plan for the worst but hope for the best?”
P – Pets: I miss mine.
Q – Quote: I hate writing. I love having written. — Dorothy Parker
R – Reads: Mystery, horror, historical.
S – School: Gee Dubya, Class of ’88.
T – Travel: Yes, please.
U – Unfulfilled ambition: One day I will get some fiction published. Or poetry. Or something other than journalism.
V – Vacation spot: I used to love ski resorts. No idea now. I haven’t had a real vacation where I go somewhere far away for at least week in years. Many years. Might have been my honeymoon in 2001. I can’t remember. See: crying, above.
W – Wardrobe: Mostly athletic wear for hiking and the gym.
X – X-tra facts about me: White people say my eyes are brown. People of color say my eyes are hazel. People of color are correct.
Y – Years online: 25
Z – Zodiac sign: Libra sun, Aquarius moon, Sagittarius rising.
Well, that was fun!
A few entries ago, I wrote of my mother’s mistaken belief that Emperor Penguins were six feet tall. Speaking of huge penguins…
I wonder if Pesto will ski, like today’s ornament, one of my new ones from this year.
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