Ten on Tuesday

1. Of your current hobbies, which would you choose to spend more time, money, and effort on? Why?

Writing. I have always been a left brained person (i.e. anal retentive math major) but this blog has shown me how much I love writing. I would benefit from taking a creative writing lesson. And working more on writing what is in my heart. I do that to some extent in this little bloggity blog, but I have lots of half written posts, floating around in my head. I need to take the time to put them into the written word.

2. List the two other hobbies/habitual activies (not chores) besides the one listed above that you regularly do now and didn’t choose in question one.

-Reading
-Knitting

3. Why are you spending time on the above two hobbies/habitual activies at all if you really wanted to spend your time on the first one you chose? …or to put it another way, what are these two hobbies/habitual activities fullfilling that the first one doesn’t if you don’t want to put all your effort into the first hobby?

They come easy. They come naturally. They are therapeutic in their own way. I love to lose myself in a book. Similarly, I love to lose myself in the repetitiveness of knitting. Plus, the best part of knitting is that I create fun gifts for friends/family.

4. Ready John 3:16 in the bible… In what way does this passage affect you? What are your feelings towards these words, positively or negatively?

It's the basis of my entire faith. It's the best example of love. God gave his ONLY son. For us. I don't spend as much time thinking about that or reflecting on that as I should.

5. M&M’s: nuts, no nuts, or peanut butter?

Hello - peanut butter. Obviously I have a bit of an unhealthy obsession with peanut butter.

6. Putting away the feeling of pride being a bad thing; what secretly/openly are you proud about yourself?

I'm proud of the fact that I am completely independent. I will go anywhere in the world by myself. Some people don't like the thought of going out to dinner by themselves - I'll gladly do it on the other side of the world. And enjoy every minute of it. I'm proud of the fact that I have reached the point where I am completely content on my own. I think I needed to get to this point before I could meet my Mister. Now if he would just hurry the heck up and waltz into my life, that'd be fabulous.

But if he doesn't, I know I can also be very happy on my own.

7. Given one room in the house to do with what you want, not changing the actual size of the room and with all the money you would need, what would you do, and be specific? (this can range from bouncy floor,walls & ceilings; to hard wood floor with wood paneling and purple ceiling with a chair; to nothing)

I would renovate my kitchen - I would completely gut it. It's circa 1985 so needs some TLC. I'd put in new cupboards, replace the counter tops with granate, and get state-of-the-art appliances!

8. What’s the next movie you’re going to see? Not what you’d LIKE to GO see, but the next movie you realistically are going to watch.

Everybody's Fine - it's the next movie in my Netflix queue.

9. Use the keyboard only and make your best smiley/funny/cool face –> like this! 8^)

:~D

10. What makes you cry? What makes you pray? What makes you laugh?

Cry - Sad movies, chopping onions, feeling like I am letting people down, snarky comments from people at work

Pray - Feeling lost, times of uncertainty, seeing ambulances, traffic coming to a very, very sudden stop

Laugh - Team telling stories with my sister, my nephews, How I Met Your Mother, my girlfriends