I've been tagged! Now I feel like a member of the group!

I don't know what group but I hope the people I tag feel flattered too.

What is your greatest regret?  I try not to spend a lot of time on regret but I do feel badly that I didn't learn "not to sweat the small stuff" earlier in life -and that most stuff is small stuff. If I won't care about something that bothers me now by tomorrow or even a year from now, it probably isn't worth being bothered about. Unless it is an attacking raccoon. 

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Do you believe in the existence of soul mates or true love? True love, yes. Absolutely. However, true love takes work, you can't coast by and expect it to be easy going. Give more than you take. I am baffled, I admit by the fact every one of my best friends and/or boyfriends have been Cancers or Virgos, even though I don't believe in astrology. I didn't even think to ask one boyfriend's b'day till we'd been dating 6 months! Yes, I'm THAT silly. 

 What do you believe makes a successful life? Okay, here is a trick for figuring this out. Try writing your obituary and consider what it'd say if you died today- or tomorrow. Do you like it? What do you want it to say?

          After doing that, I knew I was on the right path because I define success as having love (I do), a healthy family, my health good friends,  a job I like and time to savor the day, enough money to get by, good books to read, a decent heart scan in spite of high cholesterol and the sense to know I am lucky by having all those things. Oh, yeah - and a friend who is also a good enough writer to give me a decent eulogy. Someday. Maybe not as fine a writer as Charlotte in Charlotte's web but I haven't met any talking spiders lately. Or stupendous pigs. 

Who is the person you despise most and why? I can honestly say there is no one that I despise. There was one person but he called me up out of the blue one day and pleaded for forgiveness. Zap -all bad feelings gone. He said he still loved me too. That helped.  A lot. But I didn't marry him. 

What makes you laugh? I can't say there is one specific thing that makes me laugh. I found Dave Barry's story about the woman who got stuck to the floor while laying down her kitchen tile to be pretty funny but I don't think I can post a link here because of copyright infringement. It involved some strong glue. She tripped and fell, wearing only her undies and got completely stuck. Then her Yorkie tried to save her (you know, those little dogs) and got stuck while licking her face. THen her kids came and fell down laughing...and so on. Google it. 

Are  you a leader or a follower? A leader in disguise. I don't understand lemmings, even though I hear that whole jumping off a cliff thing is a myth. I did win $5.00 once for writing a story about them when I was a kid for Archie comic books (they used to have a section that featured kid's writing). My mom, the meanie, framed the check. Being a clever marketer I rewrote the article for kid's section of the newspaper and won a set of encylopedias which my mother ALMOST refused, thinking she'd have to pay for them. They are outdated but she won't give them away. I'm surprised she didn't try to frame THEM. 

Do you tend to avoid conflict or argue with people? It depends on who you ask. Or whom. 

What is your greatest fear?  Airplanes. I don't know why anyone invented them. Travel may be more dangerous by car (debatable?) but I like seeing the transition from one state to another, the changing countryside going by at a speed that you can see.

  The first time our son went on a plane, he asked us, "What keeps the wings from falling off?" I figure if I can't answer a question like that, I don't belong on the blasted plane. Besides, I don't like that whole bit about birds getting sucked into them and causing them to crash and also that wind sheer stuff. I don't understand those things either. Until I up my learning curve, I'm staying off planes. I'm not rushing the learning curve thing.

 What are your pet peeves? People snapping gum when they talk. I don't know why.  I just don't like the sound or the jaw action while talking. Also, putting my foot in gum that is stuck to a floor or finding  gum under a table is yucky. 

What is the most adventurous thing you've done or would do? Willingly? I went on a roller coaster once. Never again. I kept looking around for that annoying loud screaming person who ws adding to my sense of impending doom -  until I realized it was me. Unwillingly? A helicoper. I won't do either ever again, except at gunpoint or to escape an attacking raccoon (see link above). Don't ask me to skydive either. Or pose while you try to shoot an apple off my head.

      When I was a kid, I took more risks. My sister and I and a cousin would play this game where we'd jump on the bed in a complete darkened room just to see who would fall off first. I miss those days - and probably a whole bunch of my brain cells from falling off the bed and landing head down. Where were the odds of THAT? One in three, I guess.  

There, now go get 'em, fellow taggees! I'm tagging: Danielle, Celisa, Bundy, Nalita, Keith, and Angela B. Yes, I KNOW that is six. You can write to each other and figure out who doesn't want to do this. I'm hedging my betsl