Better Late Than Never, right?

So, about a month ago, Brianna sent me some interview questions and a little game to play along with?  remember Brianna?  She’s the one that I was going to room with at BlogHer and then didn’t but ended up in the same room with her anyway… yeah, one of those Heather stories…

So without further ado, let me answer these questions and keep the game going…

1. As a teenager, what was your ultimate fantasy?

I lived in a dream world when I was a teenager.  Seriously.  My life was scripted out in my brain much like a movie and all I wanted, really, was for Shawn Stanley to ask me out.  That’s all.  Seriously.  And one day, during Advanced PE (which I took the first time because I didn’t have a choice, but the second time because I had figured out that I was the only girl… and the only girl in a class full of sweaty boys, the jocks of the school?  I am NOT dumb) he grabbed me under the bleachers and kissed me.  For months, I believed that it meant something; I believed that he loved me; I believed that he was my soul mate.

It took me awhile to figure out that it was nothing more than him playing with me, knowing that I liked him, and egging me on.

But that kiss?  Oh yeah.  Definitely on the top 10 list.

2. If human life on earth were about to end and you had to choose two people to re-populate the earth for a fresh start at humanity, who would you choose? (Or if you would like to be the female in this equation, who would be the male?)

Well, if we need to repopulate the earth, we’re going to need looks and brains.  So who do I know with looks AND brains.  Lots of people, of course, but this would require careful consideration, and to be honest, I’m putting myself in God’s shoes right now.  I mean, this is what He did with Adam and Eve.  So I’m wondering now, are looks important.  Were Adam and Eve gorgeous?  Did they have brains?  Sometimes I wonder about Eve because she ate that apple and cursed women for the rest of our lives…with periods and pain during child birth and the like.

But then I stop and think.  I have brains and I make mistakes, too, so maybe Eve was a good woman, just a little like me.

Despite the fact that I might be more like Eve than  I want to admit, I don’t think that I would want to be the female part of this repopulation plan.  Although, since this isn’t really happeneing, and I’m totally off in fantansy world right now, there’s no reason why I can’t re-populate the earth with Donnie.  There would be looks, brains and talent.  And raising these children wouldn’t be hard because he’s got money.  But, as nice as that sounds, I’m thinking that I’d rather join the ranks of those in Heaven and let someone else deal with earth for a little while.

But who?  Who would I want to be a part of this big plan?  Oh that takes some thought.  Real thought.

Hmmm….

I’m going to go with Marilyn vos Savant (who has the highest IQ ever recorded) and Pastor Man.  That way there’s looks (both are nice looking), brains (Pastor Man doesn’t have nearly that high of an IQ, but he’s smart and wise and has alot of experience) and then there’s faith.  I don’t know much about Marilyn, but I know that Pastor Man is a man of God and would carry that on to his children and so there’s my answer.
3. Which type of natural disaster are you most afraid of?

Well, I’ve been through my fair share of hurricanes, tornado’s have touched down near me and I’ve even felt a little earthquake once.  But I’ve not experienced any of them to the capacity that others have.

I think I would have to go with Tsunami though.  I have no other reason for this other than I wanted to write it and I’ve seen pictures of it happen in other places and it looks like it sucks.

No, I lie.  I’m going to say earthquake because I can remember going over the double decker bridge on the way to and from school as a child when I lived in Philadelphia.  I can remember conversations with my dad in which I would instruct him that when we were on the bottom of the bridge that he needed to drive in the outside lane because if an earthquake were to hit, and the bridge would cave in, we would have a better chance of not being crushed if we were in the outside lane.  The last time I was there, and drove over the bridge, I again thought the same thing.

But let’s be completely honest, I don’t want to have to deal with any of them.
4. How much money would it take for you to go to a crowded restaurant at lunchtime, stand on a table and take off all of your clothes?

Um, I don’t think there’s enough money in the world for me to do this.  The actual act of doing it wouldn’t bother me, but the whole legal mess, psychiatric evaluations and reprocussions is what would stop me, and while I joke that jail or the psych ward would be nice because there are no children demanding things from me, I’m really only joking when I say that.

So, calm down, it’s okay.  You don’t have to worry about your lunch out tomorrow being interrrupted.
5. If you could go to the mall and buy a new person to replace someone that is already in your life, who would you replace?

I have to plead the 5th on this one.  Sorry.  I have boundaries in place on this blog o’ mine that prohibit me from going into any sort of detail about this.  But in all honesty?  While the knee jerk reaction is to list a few people in my life that I could deal without, the reality is, God made all of us unique and in His image.  I don’t have to get along with everyone but everyone who crosses my path teaches me something and without these people, whether I like them or not, I would be missing out on blessings from God.
I’ve gotten some pretty big blessings from people who, at one time, I wanted erased from my life permanently.

I’m kinda glad there’s not a store like that at the mall.

To keep it going, paste this at the bottom of your post:

Want to be part of it? Follow these instructions:
1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by emailing you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will get to ask them five questions.

Until nextt time…