Wednesday’s Random Dozen

Linda at 2nd cup of coffee created and hosts the Random Dozen meme every Wednesday. You can answer the questions on your blog and link up to Linda’s plus find more participants there.

1. Is there a word which you initially mispronounced? Were the circumstances in which you made the faux pas embarrassing?

As a child reading Little Women, I thought “picturesque” was pronounced something like “picture-skew.” Thankfully I don’t think I ever said it out loud. I think I heard the correct pronunciation some years later and then looked it up to see how it was spelled, and lo and behold, it was this word.

2. How do you feel about the use of texting shortcuts and trends? (ex: “I’ve got ur notes. Get them 2 u 2morow.”)

I think they are annoying and make communication look juvenile outside of texting. I am not the fastest texter in the world, so just occasionally I have put 2 for “to” or U for “you” when I’ve been in a hurry, but I don’t really even like to do it then.

3. Tell me about your high school senior picture. Please feel free to post.

I have mentioned it before, but we had to go to a photo studio to have them made rather than a photographer coming to school, and I felt a little stiff and wish I had gone with my mom or a friend. I think that would have made me much more relaxed and made for a more natural smile..

5. Share a high school or college homecoming memory.

We didn’t have homecoming at either.

6. Linda at Mocha with Linda wants to know: “Do you prefer sunrises or sunsets?”

I don’t prefer one over the other. They both can be beautiful.

7. Lea at Cici’s Corner asks, “What is something you have not done that you desire to do?”

Write a book.

8. Carol at Wanderings of an Elusive Mind ponders, “If you could come back [in another life] as an animal, which would it be?”

I don’t believe in reincarnation and am not really fond of animals, but just for imagination’s sake…it would have to be in a place not too hot or cold, not in a jungle or desert. A house cat, maybe. I’m not a big cat lover, but they kind of wander around and do their own thing and people don’t expect much out of them.

9. Joyce from The Other Side of the Pond is curious: “Where were you 10 years ago?” Please feel free to elaborate more than just your physical location.

Let’s see…My husband and I were 43, my kids were 16, 13, and 7 (sniff, sniff), and we lived in western SC. We survived Y2K. But otherwise I don’t remember anything in particular about that year.

10. When you are proven to be correct in any contentious discussion, do you gloat?

I try not to, and I don’t think I do outwardly unless it is in a teasing way, but sometimes inwardly it is a temptation. (Can we please have no more of these secret sin questions?!)

11. What is your favorite food which includes the ingredient “caramel?”

Turtle candy or Snickers bars, but I don’t eat them any more because I have a hard time chewing nuts. I used to love caramel but can only stand it occasionally now — it just seems too sweet to me.

12. From my 17 year-old daughter to you: “If you could be part of any fictional family, which family would you choose and why?”

That’s a hard one because I like my own family and time period. As much fun as it might sound to be part of the March family in Little Women or the Ingalls family in Little House on the Prairie, I like my air conditioning modern conveniences! But thinking just of families, I think it would be the Marches. I love the variety of imaginative ways they entertained themselves, especially their family newspaper and plays.

Happy Wednesday!

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