From my Cheddar.
1. What are the top three things you like about your job? Top three dislikes?
Likes:
1) I get to travel, travel, travel. I have been all over the world, and it will keep going (as long as I am not made redundant in November, that is).
2) Great phones and phone subscriptions, for free!
3) That I have made it all this way, to where I am today, but working hard, continuing to ask for more responsibility, and a manager that believes in me.
Dislikes:
1) 4 rounds of redundancies in the past two years, with the biggest one to date coming up in 6 weeks.
2) The politics, rumors and back-stabbing are going to give me a nervous breakdown (again).
3) The coffee sucks.
2. What do you wish you could do on your weekends?
Be left alone, mostly. With alcohol. And Colin Firth. And I could write the great American novel while he slaved away in the kitchen making me homemade macaroni and cheese. Which he would feed to me naked, in candlelight. Hey-it's my weekend!
3. What architectural style appeals to you the most and why?
I love architecture from about the 1900's-1930's. The detail to the molding, the light fixtures, and the high ceilings. The house we own was built in 1909, and I am wildly in love with it.
4. If your house was on fire and your family and pets were safe but you could only grab three things, what would they be?
1) my briefcase (as it would contain my wallet, phone, and laptop)
2) my Doggy Blanket - it was sewn by one of my great-grandmothers, who died when I was two. It is pink and very ugly, but it is such a comfort fixture for me. I have had it my whole life and plan to always do so.
3) a yellow plastic puffer fish bathtoy. It is the one perfect inheritance I got from my beloved grandfather, who died four years ago. It's monetary value is absolutely nothing, but it is priceless to me.
5. What was the last premonition you had come true?
That my Dear Mate would indeed be moving his family away. And he is. And sometimes I think I will never be able to forgive him for it, sometimes I think I can never go on, and sometimes think nothing will change between he and I, regardless of the move, that nothing could tear our friendship apart. It is indeed a major cause of angst.
That, and that Monchichi would make a comeback.
6. What is love?
Love is the first person you want to talk to in the morning and the last one you want to talk to before you go to bed, the first person you want to tell when things go wonderfully well or horribly wrong. It is telling them everything. It is trusting them even when it is against everything you ever were. And it is sizzling passion that makes you blind.
And that crap about "Love is never having to say you're sorry?" Totally wrong. Love is having to say you're sorry all the time.
-H.
Posted by Everydaystranger at September 12, 2003 08:45 AM | TrackBack