Random Dozen

1. How do you feel about “Gladiator” sandals, also called “Roman” or “Jesus” sandals? A fashion yea or nay?

Nay. Think that there are more comfortable and fashionable sandals out there.

2. What is your favorite pizza?

I love a thin crust Pizza with just about everything on it. Alas I now tend to go for vegetable Pizzas.

3. There are plans in the works to sell roughly 1,000 items from Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas. This means you could buy Picard’s chair for your family room. If not a Star Trek item, what prop, background, set, etc. from what TV or movie would you buy if you could?
[Ex: Hurley’s “I Love my Shih tzu” shirt from LOST, the plantation home “Tara” from Gone With the Wind, or Tracy’s tambourine from the Partridge Family.]

Not sure there really is anything.

4. Name a local food or restaurant that your area is famous for.

Canoe. Known for having the best Sweet & Sour Calamari ever!

5. What is your current favorite snack?

Weight Watcher’s Toffee Ice Cream Bar!

6. Hypothetical: You are required to be a reality show contestant. Which show would you choose based on your probability of success? (You cannot choose “none.”)

A. Dancing with the Stars
B. Biggest Loser
C. Survivor

7. On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being uninhabitable and 10 being cleanliness that meets the standards of OCD, how clean is your vehicle’s interior?

7. It’s clean but there are dackel nose prints on the windows.

8. It doesn’t feel like Spring until…the fruit trees bloom!

9. Something that made you laugh really hard recently is: Watching The Owl Box.

10. Tell me about a goal you’re working toward. Well, not necessarily working toward, but waiting for Anneliese to go into heat, so I can bring her to Germany to breed her.

11. Share a thought-provoking or inspiring quote this week.

“It’s tough to do, but you’ve got to work at living, you know? Most people work at dying, but anybody can die; the easiest thing on this earth is to die. But to live takes guts; it takes energy, vitality, it takes thought. . . . We have so many negative influences out there that are pulling us down. . . . You’ve got to be strong to overcome these adversities . . . that’s why I never stop.”
Jack LaLanne

12. Name one thing that you do as a parent that you absolutely know will make your kids happy. If you’re not a parent, feel free to substitute “friend” or nomenclature that works for you.

Listen. People get rushing around so much, and I think the best gift I give my daughter is that I listen to her. I hope she feels that this is important. I always wished my mother would just listen to me, so I have tried to be a sounding board for my daughter as she has grown up.