40 Things You Probably Don't Want to Know About Me

1. Do you like blue cheese dressing?
I prefer it crumbled and not saucy.

2. Have you ever smoked cigarettes?
From 1960 to April 1st this year with a few years of quitting tossed into the past.

3. Do you own a gun?
After thoughts of suicide in 1999 and the following treatment, I gave them all to my brother. My defense weapons are a well-used 9-iron next to the front door and a machete near my bed.

4. What's your favorite drink at specialty coffee shop?
Double espresso, black. One sugar.

5. What do you think of hot dogs?
I like Polish hot dogs better.

6. Favorite Christmas movie?
Polar Express.

7. What do you prefer to drink in the morning?
Coffee.

8. Can you do push ups?
Especially if I am on the bottom (LOL)

9. What's your favorite piece of jewelry?
Tag-Heuer wristwatch

10. Favorite hobbies:
My hobby was art but it is now my vocation. I read, golf, think, flirt, observe, create, write, cook and do many other things that don't bring me cash.

11. Do you have ADD?
Yes. It is a button on my calculator. (LOL)

12. What's one trait that you hate about yourself?
Procrastination.

13. Middle name?
Leslie. My dad;s MI, too. His dad's first name and his grandad's Scottish clan name.

14. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment?
Hunger. Baseball game not on TV. Poor Bisbee (I miss my birdy.)

15. 3 things I drink the most.
Coffee. Wine. Metamucil.

16. Current worry right now?
Bills, money, always.

17. Current hate(s) right now?
I don't hate anything or anyone. Hate is a disease of the heart and mind.

18. Favorite place to be?
Right now: London. Yesterday: San Francisco. Tomorrow: Barcelona.

19. How did you ring in the New Year?
Sound asleep until the damn explosions and pots and pans awakened me.

20. Like to Travel?
Live for it!

21. Name three people who will complete this.
The next three to read it who haven't done it.

22. Do you own slippers?
Deer Stags. They wear like iron.

23. What color shirt are you wearing?
Olive green. It says AMSTERDAM, under a design of a certain leaf.

24. Could you ever make it 39 days on the show Survivor?
Why? Of course I could. I know how to make fire from nothing, and I can catch rainwater. But most of the pukes who appear on that show are really morons. I would not want to be categorized as such. I would rather go to winter baseball fantasy camp in Goodyear, AZ and forget about "fame."

25. What songs do you sing in the shower?
Romanza. It frightens my cats. Sometimes I do arias from Turandot and Butterfly.

Favorite girl names?
The name of the one sitting beside or across from me.

27. Favorite boy names?
Satchel, Hobbes or Doobie.

28. What's in your pocket right now?
Nada.

29. Last thing that made you laugh?
A show on Comedy Channel.

30. Worst injury you've ever had?
Wounds. Don't ask.

31. Do you love where you live?
My favorite place was my home in Long Beach, CA. But alas.

32. How many TVs do you have in your house?
One.

33. Who is your loudest friend?
I have no idea.

34. Does anyone have a crush on you?
I think so.

35. What is your favorite candy?
White chocolate fudge.

36. Favorite Sports Team?
Indians. Browns. Arsenal.

37. What were you doing 12 AM last night?
In bed reading a Charles Cumming novel, TYPHOON.

38. What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up today?
Geez! It's already seven a.m.!

39. What is your favorite Holiday?
Christmas past.

40. What are your plans for tomorrow?
Up early. Paint four hours. Shower and run to Kroger. Back to painting and such. Visit mom. Ask Trisha if she wants to go to Outback. Maybe pizza?