QUESTIONS TO PONDER

I can hear the cicadas from inside the house and the noise is deafening. Luke, the Wonder Dog, finds them to be a most delightful meal as much as I do a steak. I try to stop him from eating them, but he can get them faster than a speeding bullet.

Grandkids have started back to school. I am sure all of the mothers out there are cheering because it is now in session.

I haven't felt good now for several days. Could it be the medicine I take at bedtime? It is supposed to relax my muscles so I won't jump around like a Mexican jumping bean, while I sleep. It has left me with a dry mouth and a very bitter taste.  Even my adult beverage didn't taste very good tonight. 

So here's the deal.............I happen to love a book called the "IF Book, Questions for the Soul" and also the Proust Questionnaire.  I want to ask a few questions and feel free to post them or if too personal, then at least think about them.  I'llgo easy at first.  Here goes:

1. How would you like to die?  In my own bed, asleep, with a faint hint of chocolate on my breath. 

 2. What is your favorite virtue?  forgiveness. 

 3. What is your favorite quality in friends? HUMOR and loyalty                     

4. What is your favorite color?  sunflower yellow, peridot green, garnet red, ocean blue. It's just too hard to chose one color, when I love them all.    

5.What is your chief characteristic?   Physically it is my hair and if it is my personality it would have to be  curiosity       

6. Who are your hero's in real life?   First responders at 9/11.  Elisabeth Kubler Ross, Fred Goldman, United States of America soldiers and Nelson Mandela.........to name a few.      

7. If not yourself, who would you be?  I would have loved to have been Cleopatra or perhaps a journalist

8. Name the people you would love to share dinner with.  females would be:  Bette Davis, Dorothy Parker, Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Kubler Ross, Bette Midler, Sandra Day O'Connor and THE QUEEN!       AS for the males, it would be: George Clooney (SIGH) Norman Schwartzkoff, Mohammad Ali, Colin Powell, Anderson Cooper, Elton John, Dominick Dunne and last but not least John Kennedy.  That should make for a pretty interesting dinner party and YES, I know some of these people are dead, but it's MY party and I'll choose if I want to!

9. What is your present state of mind? It could be better. I worry a tremendous amount about my adult children, who are going through a bad time right now.  I also am consumed with the well-being of my grandchildren.  I know there is nothing I can do, but I still worry a great deal. I also get really pissed (oh dear, I cussed) with people who worry about stupid stuff. I am sure it isn't stupid to them, but it seems stupid to me.  Like, "Does this dress make my butt look big?"  or "I can't do a thing with my hair."  or  "This other person interrupted me at work"  Give me a break, would ya?                           

10. What would you like your tombstone to read:  TO BE CONTINUED.................

Ok, now go on and think about your list and post it.  More questions to come at a later date.  I'll leave you with this little "ditty"  As a member of a certain organization we have many little  slogans.  When I say that I have ANTS.........It means Another Negative Thought.  If I say I have FEAR, it means False Evidence, Appearing Real.  I have a wonderful doctor who told me that she always thought FEAR meant, Fu*K Everything And RUN........................... Sounds good to me!