Survey on mah birthday!
Mar. 2nd, 2012 06:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sailorhathorToday is my 39th birthday! The last year I can consider myself not over the hill. :D I don't have to work, so I'm going shopping and hopefully out to dinner. ^_^ It's also Jon Bon Jovi's birthday. Since I became a huge Bon Jovi fan when I was 11, I have thought it was totally awesome that we share a bday. Of course, he's older than me - he turns 50 today! Wowee! I'm hoping to get some world class relaxing and some writing done today, but we'll see.
Anyway, I saw this survey on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
arguingvitality's journal and thought it would be interesting to do. :) I don't know who wrote the questions.
1. In one sentence, who are you? I don't need a sentence, I just need one word: Different.
2. Why do you matter? Because I've overcome many trials and I'm still kickin'.
3. What is your life motto? o/` Welcome to wherever you are. This is your life, you made it this far. Welcome, you gotta believe, that right here, right now, you're exactly where you're supposed to be. Welcome to wherever you are... o/` ~ "Welcome to Wherever You Are," Bon Jovi
4. What's something you have that everyone wants? A really great DVD collection (most of them homemade copies of stuff, but still, they're mine).
5. What is missing in your life? Blood family.
6. What's been on your mind most lately? Lack of money for everything I need.
7. Happiness is a ________? Balance
8. What stands between you and happiness? Enough money to feel completely stable and secure.
9. What do you need most right now? Didn't I just answer this question?
10. What does the child inside you long for? Pretty dolls
11. What is one thing right now that you are totally sure of? I'm a good writer.
12. What's been bothering you lately? The fact that you keep asking the same questions, only slightly reworded. ;)
13. What are you scared of? Bunch of stuff.
14. What has fear of failure stopped you from doing? Trying to get published.
15. What will you never give up on? My individuality.
16. What do you want to remember forever? My parents.
17. What makes you feel secure? Big warm blankie.
18. Which activities make you lose track of time? The internet. A warm bath. Writing. Good conversations.
19. What's the most difficult decision you've ever made? To give up on having a relationship with my sister in our adult years. She's made it pretty clear she doesn't want one.
20. What's the best decision you've ever made? To continue being me.
21. What are you most grateful for? This job. Loyal friends.
22. What is worth the pain? Dallas
23. In order of importance, how would you rank: happiness, money, love, health, fame? Happiness, love, health, money, fame.
24. What is something you've always wanted, but don't yet have? A fancy doll house.
25. What was the most defining moment in your life during this past year? That I was able to get back on my feet after coming back to Dallas.
26. What's the number one change you need to make in your life in the next twelve months? Get off the phones!
27. What's the number one thing you want to achieve in the next five years? It'd be nice to be published.
28. What is the biggest motivator in your life right now? Survival.
29. What will you never do? Apologize.
30. What's something you said you'd never do, but have since done? Go back to customer service work.
31. What's something new you recently learned about yourself? I have more will to live than previously assumed.
32. What do you sometimes pretend to understand that you really do not? People. Certain ones, anyway.
33. In one sentence, what do you wish for your future self? Loads of money and praise. >:D
34. What worries you most about the future? The economic climate.
35. When you look into the past, what do you miss most? Fun family times.
36. What's something from the past that you don't miss at all? Hmm, what indeed...
37. What recently reminded you of how fast time flies? Days off going too quickly.
38. What is the biggest challenge you face right now? Finishing this goddamn Big Bang.
39. In one word, how would you describe your personality? Curious.
40. What never fails to frustrate you? Customers who call in to get a question answered, but won't shut the hell up long enough for me to answer it.
41. What are you known for by your friends and family? Being weird.
42. What's something most people don't know about you? My middle name was going to be Dena, but my aunt stole it for one of her daughters before I could be born.
43. What's a common misconception people have about you? I hate Martha Stewart and "The X-Files." That wasn't me, that was Karen. I just joked with her about it, which made people think I felt that way too. Martha's not so bad, and I don't hate "The X-Files," I just find it a meh show. Karen didn't even hate the show, she just hated Mulder.
44. What's something a lot of people do that you disagree with? Froth at the mouth with hatred for Obama. I don't think he's done a bad job.
45. What's a belief you hold with which many people disagree? It is possible to have a successful threesome relationship. Difficult, but possible.
46. What's something that's harder for you than it is for most people? Trusting that people are going to be there when I need them. Especially since most of them who should be there are not.
47. What are the top three qualities you look for in a friend? Kindred spirit. Very little hypocrisy in how they look at life and treat people. Crazy in the good way, not the bad way.
48. If you had a friend who spoke to you in the same way that you sometimes speak to yourself, how long would you allow that person to be your friend? Depends on how I am sometimes speaking to myself.
49. When you think of 'home,' what, specifically, do you think of? The house I grew up in.
50. What's the most valuable thing you own? Childhood pictures.
51. If you had to move 3000 miles away, what would you miss most? Depends on which direction I am going. If it's south, it would probably be that most people don't speak English. If it's east or west, it would probably be that I no longer have a house, since I'm floating out in the ocean. If it's north, it would probably be the use of my hands and feet, since they're frozen.
52. What would make you smile right now? Another birthday wish. ^_^
53. What do you do when nothing else seems to make you happy? Eat something sweet.
54. What do you wish did not exist in your life? Things that have been left unsaid.
55. What should you avoid to improve your life? Negative, angry people.
56. What is something you would hate to go without for a day? Food.
57. What's the biggest lie you once believed was true? That my siblings would do what was best for the family when things got bad.
58. What's something bad that happened to you that made you stronger? See last question.
59. What's something nobody could ever steal from you? Good memories.
60. What's something you disliked when you were younger that you truly enjoy today? Green beans.
61. What are you glad you quit? Putting effort into trying to keep in contact with someone who just doesn't give a shit.
62. What do you need to spend more time doing? Writing.
63. What are you naturally good at? Writing.
64. What have you been counting or keeping track of recently? Stats at work.
65. What has the little voice inside your head been saying lately? "You need to write. You're never going to finish that big bang if you don't write. But yeah, I'm sleepy too. So sleezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..."
66. What's something you should always be careful with? Fire.
67. What should always be taken seriously? Promises.
68. What should never be taken seriously? People who think that masturbation is the murder of potential people.
69. What are three things you can't get enough of? Dean's French Onion Dip. Little Debbie Snack Cakes. Apple Fanta.
70. What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you? Date more.
71. What fascinates you? The unknown. Art. Space exploration. The popularity of "knotting" fics. <---- That's something that fascinates me in a WTF way.
72. What's the difference between being alive and truly living? Doing what you love.
73. What's something you would do every day if you could? Play several different Facebook games. :D
74. At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive? While writing a story, and then daydreaming about that story later.
75. Which is worse, failing or never trying? Never trying. As if anyone is going to answer differently.
76. What makes you feel incomplete? Leaving my head somewhere. Oh, there it is.
77. When did you experience a major turning point in your life? You kind of already asked this.
78. What or who do you wish you lived closer to?just_kaye
79. If you had the opportunity to get a message across to a large group of people, what would your message be? Just because you are financially secure enough not to need help from the government now and then does not mean that everyone has that financial security. It also doesn't mean that you will always be that financially secure and will never need help yourself sometime. Wouldn't you like that help to be there should you ever need it?
80. What's something you know you can count on? There will always be a vapid pretty boy singing forgettable songs to make 12-year-olds squeal.
81. What makes you feel comfortable? Warm, soft clothes.
82. What's something about you that has never changed? My eye color?
83. What will be different about your life in exactly one year? I'll be 40 instead of 39.
84. What mistakes do you make over and over again? Overspending. Woops. It's hard to make ends meet on a lackluster salary.
85. What do you have a hard time saying "no" to? Signing up for new, shiny Big Bangs.
86. Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing? Some of both.
87. What's something that used to scare you, but no longer does? The boy down the street in his scary Halloween mask.
88. What promise to yourself do you still need to fulfill? Getting something published.
89. What do you appreciate most about your current situation? That I have a job.
90. What's something simple that makes you smile? Children playing silly games in front of my apartment building.
91. So far, what has been the primary focus of your life? Staying sane. Damn, too late.
92. How do you know when it's time to move on? When being in that situation makes me miserable more of the time than it makes me feel good.
93. What's something you wish you could do one more time? Go to the fair.
94. When you're 90-years-old, what will matter to you the most? That I'm still alive!
95. What would you regret not fully doing, being, or having in your life? If I died without ever having being published or written my own tv show or movie.
Anyway, I saw this survey on
arguingvitality's journal and thought it would be interesting to do. :) I don't know who wrote the questions.1. In one sentence, who are you? I don't need a sentence, I just need one word: Different.
2. Why do you matter? Because I've overcome many trials and I'm still kickin'.
3. What is your life motto? o/` Welcome to wherever you are. This is your life, you made it this far. Welcome, you gotta believe, that right here, right now, you're exactly where you're supposed to be. Welcome to wherever you are... o/` ~ "Welcome to Wherever You Are," Bon Jovi
4. What's something you have that everyone wants? A really great DVD collection (most of them homemade copies of stuff, but still, they're mine).
5. What is missing in your life? Blood family.
6. What's been on your mind most lately? Lack of money for everything I need.
7. Happiness is a ________? Balance
8. What stands between you and happiness? Enough money to feel completely stable and secure.
9. What do you need most right now? Didn't I just answer this question?
10. What does the child inside you long for? Pretty dolls
11. What is one thing right now that you are totally sure of? I'm a good writer.
12. What's been bothering you lately? The fact that you keep asking the same questions, only slightly reworded. ;)
13. What are you scared of? Bunch of stuff.
14. What has fear of failure stopped you from doing? Trying to get published.
15. What will you never give up on? My individuality.
16. What do you want to remember forever? My parents.
17. What makes you feel secure? Big warm blankie.
18. Which activities make you lose track of time? The internet. A warm bath. Writing. Good conversations.
19. What's the most difficult decision you've ever made? To give up on having a relationship with my sister in our adult years. She's made it pretty clear she doesn't want one.
20. What's the best decision you've ever made? To continue being me.
21. What are you most grateful for? This job. Loyal friends.
22. What is worth the pain? Dallas
23. In order of importance, how would you rank: happiness, money, love, health, fame? Happiness, love, health, money, fame.
24. What is something you've always wanted, but don't yet have? A fancy doll house.
25. What was the most defining moment in your life during this past year? That I was able to get back on my feet after coming back to Dallas.
26. What's the number one change you need to make in your life in the next twelve months? Get off the phones!
27. What's the number one thing you want to achieve in the next five years? It'd be nice to be published.
28. What is the biggest motivator in your life right now? Survival.
29. What will you never do? Apologize.
30. What's something you said you'd never do, but have since done? Go back to customer service work.
31. What's something new you recently learned about yourself? I have more will to live than previously assumed.
32. What do you sometimes pretend to understand that you really do not? People. Certain ones, anyway.
33. In one sentence, what do you wish for your future self? Loads of money and praise. >:D
34. What worries you most about the future? The economic climate.
35. When you look into the past, what do you miss most? Fun family times.
36. What's something from the past that you don't miss at all? Hmm, what indeed...
37. What recently reminded you of how fast time flies? Days off going too quickly.
38. What is the biggest challenge you face right now? Finishing this goddamn Big Bang.
39. In one word, how would you describe your personality? Curious.
40. What never fails to frustrate you? Customers who call in to get a question answered, but won't shut the hell up long enough for me to answer it.
41. What are you known for by your friends and family? Being weird.
42. What's something most people don't know about you? My middle name was going to be Dena, but my aunt stole it for one of her daughters before I could be born.
43. What's a common misconception people have about you? I hate Martha Stewart and "The X-Files." That wasn't me, that was Karen. I just joked with her about it, which made people think I felt that way too. Martha's not so bad, and I don't hate "The X-Files," I just find it a meh show. Karen didn't even hate the show, she just hated Mulder.
44. What's something a lot of people do that you disagree with? Froth at the mouth with hatred for Obama. I don't think he's done a bad job.
45. What's a belief you hold with which many people disagree? It is possible to have a successful threesome relationship. Difficult, but possible.
46. What's something that's harder for you than it is for most people? Trusting that people are going to be there when I need them. Especially since most of them who should be there are not.
47. What are the top three qualities you look for in a friend? Kindred spirit. Very little hypocrisy in how they look at life and treat people. Crazy in the good way, not the bad way.
48. If you had a friend who spoke to you in the same way that you sometimes speak to yourself, how long would you allow that person to be your friend? Depends on how I am sometimes speaking to myself.
49. When you think of 'home,' what, specifically, do you think of? The house I grew up in.
50. What's the most valuable thing you own? Childhood pictures.
51. If you had to move 3000 miles away, what would you miss most? Depends on which direction I am going. If it's south, it would probably be that most people don't speak English. If it's east or west, it would probably be that I no longer have a house, since I'm floating out in the ocean. If it's north, it would probably be the use of my hands and feet, since they're frozen.
52. What would make you smile right now? Another birthday wish. ^_^
53. What do you do when nothing else seems to make you happy? Eat something sweet.
54. What do you wish did not exist in your life? Things that have been left unsaid.
55. What should you avoid to improve your life? Negative, angry people.
56. What is something you would hate to go without for a day? Food.
57. What's the biggest lie you once believed was true? That my siblings would do what was best for the family when things got bad.
58. What's something bad that happened to you that made you stronger? See last question.
59. What's something nobody could ever steal from you? Good memories.
60. What's something you disliked when you were younger that you truly enjoy today? Green beans.
61. What are you glad you quit? Putting effort into trying to keep in contact with someone who just doesn't give a shit.
62. What do you need to spend more time doing? Writing.
63. What are you naturally good at? Writing.
64. What have you been counting or keeping track of recently? Stats at work.
65. What has the little voice inside your head been saying lately? "You need to write. You're never going to finish that big bang if you don't write. But yeah, I'm sleepy too. So sleezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..."
66. What's something you should always be careful with? Fire.
67. What should always be taken seriously? Promises.
68. What should never be taken seriously? People who think that masturbation is the murder of potential people.
69. What are three things you can't get enough of? Dean's French Onion Dip. Little Debbie Snack Cakes. Apple Fanta.
70. What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you? Date more.
71. What fascinates you? The unknown. Art. Space exploration. The popularity of "knotting" fics. <---- That's something that fascinates me in a WTF way.
72. What's the difference between being alive and truly living? Doing what you love.
73. What's something you would do every day if you could? Play several different Facebook games. :D
74. At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive? While writing a story, and then daydreaming about that story later.
75. Which is worse, failing or never trying? Never trying. As if anyone is going to answer differently.
76. What makes you feel incomplete? Leaving my head somewhere. Oh, there it is.
77. When did you experience a major turning point in your life? You kind of already asked this.
78. What or who do you wish you lived closer to?
just_kaye79. If you had the opportunity to get a message across to a large group of people, what would your message be? Just because you are financially secure enough not to need help from the government now and then does not mean that everyone has that financial security. It also doesn't mean that you will always be that financially secure and will never need help yourself sometime. Wouldn't you like that help to be there should you ever need it?
80. What's something you know you can count on? There will always be a vapid pretty boy singing forgettable songs to make 12-year-olds squeal.
81. What makes you feel comfortable? Warm, soft clothes.
82. What's something about you that has never changed? My eye color?
83. What will be different about your life in exactly one year? I'll be 40 instead of 39.
84. What mistakes do you make over and over again? Overspending. Woops. It's hard to make ends meet on a lackluster salary.
85. What do you have a hard time saying "no" to? Signing up for new, shiny Big Bangs.
86. Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing? Some of both.
87. What's something that used to scare you, but no longer does? The boy down the street in his scary Halloween mask.
88. What promise to yourself do you still need to fulfill? Getting something published.
89. What do you appreciate most about your current situation? That I have a job.
90. What's something simple that makes you smile? Children playing silly games in front of my apartment building.
91. So far, what has been the primary focus of your life? Staying sane. Damn, too late.
92. How do you know when it's time to move on? When being in that situation makes me miserable more of the time than it makes me feel good.
93. What's something you wish you could do one more time? Go to the fair.
94. When you're 90-years-old, what will matter to you the most? That I'm still alive!
95. What would you regret not fully doing, being, or having in your life? If I died without ever having being published or written my own tv show or movie.
