Soup
On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being highest, how career-minded are you? Two, at the most. I have no career ambition. I have life ambition.

Salad
What type of window coverings do you have in your home? Blinds, curtains, shutters, etc.? A couple of rooms have curtains, but most of them just have blinds.

Main Course
Name something that instantly cheers you up. Blackberries, You’ve Got Mail, cream cheese, pedicures, naps, Diet Dr. Pepper, my puppy, Kevin.

Dessert
How many times do you hit the snooze button on a typical morning? Usually two.

Soup
What television show are you willing to stay up late to watch? There are a few…but I don’t know if you mean shows that come on late, or just ones that I would stay up late to watch if they did. Nothing that is on late appeals to me anymore. Now, as far as what I would stay awake for: LOST, The Office, Deadliest Catch, Man vs. Wild.

Salad
Name one person, place, or thing you think of as brilliant. Here.

Main Course
Would you be willing to work 4 10-hour days instead of 5 8-hour days in order to save gas? Absolutely. But I just got hired at a place about 2 miles from my house (instead of the 25ish that I’m driving each way now) so it’s not much of a worry anymore.

Dessert
If you were a superhero, what would you call yourself? I’ve talked about this before — The Bleach Queen. You’d be able to quench your thirst with the pure, clean water flowing from my sparkling white toilet.

Soup
Would you ever go skydiving? Possibly. If you gave me equine tranquilizers beforehand.

Salad
Name a sequel that you think is better than the original movie. Anne of Avonlea (or Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel, depending on your location), but I will say that I am probably biased because it’s the first movie I can remember seeing at around age 2. My mom was a fan. And of course at that point I hadn’t read the books, so I didn’t know about the changes.

Main Course
Share your most wonderful birthday celebration. Every birthday since I started college has been great. Why? We celebrate for a week. It’s called Liz-a-palooza and it’s fantastic. A couple of years ago we celebrated at Chili’s and had our own version of the “Dundies” — which I think we called the “Lizzies” (don’t remember. I happened to have a very bad cold/cough at the time and was on a lot of drugs and had no voice. But it was my birthday!). Everyone got a customized trophy with an award picked especially for them.

Dessert
If you dare, post a picture of yourself making a silly face.

Appetizer
What was your favorite cartoon when you were a child? I really liked Chip and Dale’s Rescue Rangers, Tale Spin, Duck Tales…all those Disney afternoon ones. They came on our local Fox station, but I’m pretty sure it was marketed as a Disney afternoon thing. And at some point during the afternoon Double Dare would come on. Slimy. I loved it. On Sunday mornings we would get up at the crack of dawn to watch The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. “Pooh Bear, Winnie the Pooh Bear”…I’d watch that if it were on today. There is something very soothing about Pooh, kinda like Mister Rogers.

Soup
Pretend you are about to get a new pet. Which animal would you pick, and what would you name it? How about I tell you about the pet I just got 2 months ago, because she is exactly what I would pick. She is a Scoodle. Three-quarters Scottish Terrier and one-quarter Poodle. This makes for a very quick, cunning animal. She can read minds. Her name is Clarabel Dolores, because once again I felt the need to save a future daughter some ridicule. It’ll be bad enough when I spit on my thumb and wipe grape jelly from her face.

Salad
On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being highest, how much do you enjoy getting all dressed up for a special occasion? Assuming that I start getting ready in time, and I’m not hopping out of the shower 20 minutes before I’m supposed to leave (like usual), then TEN because I love putting on makeup. LOVE LOVE LOVE it. Like wearing pretty dresses, but not the awful underthings. Gah. I need to take a picture of the thing I wore under my dress for Heather’s rehearsal dinner. Medieval torture doesn’t hold a candle to this.

Main Course
What kind of music do you listen to while you drive? Things that I can turn up really loud and get kinda lost in. When I’m driving home, I have some specific music I like to listen to, because going home is something very, very special to me. The rest of the time I usually listen to some mix CD that I’ve made. This morning I made a new one with a variety of sounds: David Cook, Leona Lewis, Celine Dion, Allison Crowe, Little Texas, and Janet Jackson. Told ya. I’m eclectic.

Dessert
When was the last time you bought a clock? And in which room did you put it? I just recently bought an alarm clock. And then I bought another because I couldn’t trust the first one. You need to be able to trust your alarm clocks. It’s in my room, on my nightstand.

Soup
What color was the last piece of food you ate? Umm…brownish.

Salad
On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being highest, how much do you enjoy being alone? 9. I am a solitary person. Being alone helps me to re-energize.

Main Course
Fill in the blank: I will _________ vote for ___________ in _______. I will probably vote for myself in 2020. It’s the year I’m eligible

Dessert
Describe your sleeping habits. My sleep cycles are very short. I want to say maybe 5 hours. My body doesn’t get tired until VERY late. Lately I have been getting to bed earlier in the evening since I get for work at 5 am.

Soup
Using 20 or less words, describe your first driving experience. Drove trailer loaded with hay into ditch. Turned trailer over. Distracted by cell phone my brother would not answer.

Salad
What material is your favorite item of clothing made out of? The old “frog pants” (RIP). And they were just some super super soft cotton blend.

Main Course
Who is a great singer or musician who, if they were to come to your town for a concert, you would spend the night outside waiting for tickets to see? I don’t think I would do that for anyone. Maybe John Mayer or Michael Buble, but I don’t even know about that. Now, the two of them together? Oh yeah. And maybe Westlife. Yeah, probably so.

Dessert
What is the most frequent letter of the alphabet in your whole name (first, middle, maiden, last, etc.)? Elizabeth Michelle Johnson = E (I think. I am bad at counting.)

Appetizer
What is your favorite vacation spot in the United States? A lot of people are going to think this is sad, but I love Branson, MO. I just do. I like being around older folks, things going at a slower pace, and Silver Dollar City. People let you in during the heavy traffic and are just all around nicer than what you’ll find most places. For beauty, I really like the Rockies and the countryside of Virginia.

Soup
If someone else (friend, co-worker, family) brings up a religious or political topic, how likely are you to join the conversation, on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 = not likely, 10=very likely). If there is going to be a disagreement, 2. If I know pretty much where the person stands and it’s not too far from where I am, 10. I’ll talk politics (with my limited knowledge) all day with someone who isn’t going to turn it into a shouting match, e.g. Rosie O’Donnell.

Salad
What song do you listen to when you feel very sad? I’m not sad very often anymore. However, when I was in high school and bummed out about a boy or some kinda junk like that, I’d listen to Nina Gordon sing “The End of the World” over and over. How’s that for depressing? Let me think, I did have some sad times in college…okay, I just checked my last.fm charts for the spring of 2005 (aka, the semester that Liz could have flunked out of school – but didn’t – because she was always bawling over the last stupid thing some jerkface said or did. We’re talking, wearing a bathrobe, sad music on, sitting on my bed with a box of Kleenex. It was NOT pretty.) and it’s pretty telling. Let’s just go ahead and make a soundtrack for the most depressing point in my life (albeit a very dumb reason to be depressed. Scumbag.).

Break Me – Jewel
Main Title from The Notebook
This Years Love – David Gray
Tear In Your Hand – Tori Amos
I’ll Be Seeing You – Billie Holiday
Somewhere Only We Know – Keane
Mark’s Song – eastmountainsouth
Mr. Lonely – Bobby Vinton
The Hard Way – Keith Urban
If I Could Turn Back Time – Cher
Rain – Patty Griffin
Lost In Love – Air Supply
Stupid – Sarah McLachlan

Main Course
Someone you really admire is coming over for a home-cooked dinner. What do you serve him/her? Hmm. I can’t think of anything that I am super impressive at cooking (Kevin and my friends like it, that’s good enough for me), but to give them a little taste of something that I enjoy, I’d make my mom’s Chicken Cheese Spaghetti. Oh, I love it.

Dessert
If the only form of transportation left in the world is by animal (horse, mule, camel, etc), where would you live? I move back down to Pernell, OK and live the way my great-grandparents did. Get myself a little house, plant a garden, grow flowers, and get a few cats for the barn.

Soup
Fill in the blank: My favorite _________ is __________ but I like _________ too. My favorite pie is blackberry, but I like cherry, too.

Salad
What type of wood do you have for your home’s furnishings? Poor college student.

Main Course
Who do you talk to most often on the phone? My mom and my granny.

Dessert
What level of responsibility do you have in your job? I am currently unemployed.