Randomness

I found this saved on my computer. From my original answers, I wrote the questions about two years ago. I updated my answers. Please play along. Answer at least five of the questions in the comment section. My answers are in blue. (I went back and looked it up and  I made up these questions in March 2014 as part of a book give away).

Random questions:

 1. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Blue, aqua, teal

 2. Sad or happy movie endings? Happy : )

 3. Favorite Disney princess? Merida? Belle? Maybe Rapunzel, Elsa or Anna. I seem to like them all.

 4. Kids or pets? Both. Pets are pets, not kids. Can't send them to college. But I have friends who have given their pets child status.

 5. Dog or cat person? Was a cat person most of my life but am now a dog person. I love having someone greet me at the gate excited to see me.

 6. Kindle or paperback book? Kindle! Didn't think I'd like a kindle because I don't like reading off of the computer, but you can hold a kindle like a book and have many books available at once. And you can decide you want to read a certain book, buy it from amazon and be reading it in under a minute!

 7. What's in your "to read" pile? 1000 Gifts, If I Run, Just Claire (YA), Ten Steps to Girlfriend Status (YA), Hate List (YA), Coach Wooden: The Seven Principles that Shaped His Life and Will Change Yours, Conflict and Suspense (writing books), Write Your Novel from the Middle (writing book), Characters, Emotions and View Point (WB), Thicker Than Blood, The Survivor um, my list of books to read this summer is over 50 books long and I have at least 100 on my kindle I haven't read!

 8. Favorite Christmas movie? While You Were Sleeping, Scrooge (musical, 1970)

 9. Barefoot or shoes? running shoes, Go Walks

10. Beach getaway or mountain hideaway? beach, but I might like to visit a mountain hideaway some time to see what it's like

11. Like snow? There's a reason I live in FL after 26 years of lake effect snow

12. Favorite flavor of jelly beans? cinnamon

13. Which way do you cut your grilled cheese—diagonal or up and down? Depends on my mood.

14. Dream destination? Mt Fuji or a Caribbean beach, but my next trip in tubing in the Smokey Mountain area. I also hope to take tour up the east coast. I fell in love with NYC!

15. Morning person or night person? Night, I do not ever fall asleep before 11:00 p.m. even though I have to be up at 5:05 a.m. and that feels like the middle of the night.

16. Dream vocation? Author of teen fiction books

17. Best accomplishment? That remains to be seen. I'd say my kids or marrying my prince, but let's wait for the ending J

18. Places you've lived? Elkhart, IN, Winona Lake, IN (college), Jacksonville, FL, South Cerney England, Grand Forks, ND, Okinawa Japan, Ellsworth, SD, Alconbury/huntingdon/Mildenhal England, Valdosta, GA, FL panhandle

19. What kind/color socks are you wearing? Black Nike socks that have L and R for which foot they go on. I even have them on the correct feet.

20. What super power do you want? Speed or flying

21. Biggest fear? Ending up alone and broke.

22. What faction would you chose? (if you've read or seen Divergent) Not sure. I think I might be Divergent. I'd love to say Dauntless, but I'm a whimp.

23. Favorite Disney or comic villain? don't know

24. Catholic, protestant, other or nothing? Protestant—Southern Baptist now

25. Who influenced your life most? For better—my husband

26. If you could meet anyone living who would it be? Leroy Jethro Gibbs—what do you mean he's not real???? Okay, maybe George W. Bush then.

27. If you could meet anyone from the past who would it be (not a Bible character)? don't know

28. Plan it or wing it? Depends on the occasion/outing. Sometimes we just take off without knowing where we're going, but some things need to be planned.

29. Quirky habit? Not a habit, but I can't sleep if I'm in contact with another person or pet.

30. Best talent? No real talents. Just perseverance.

31. Most unusual thing about you? Five of my kids are adopted. But for those of you reading this blog, that's not unusual at all. I've known most of my life that I was going to adopt.

32. Favorite quote or Scripture? Most of our favorite Scriptures are actually taken out of context. 

No, O people, the Lord has told you what is good,
    and this is what he requires of you:
to do what is right, to love mercy,
    and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8

“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me." John 14:6  

33. Favorite author, book or genre? Suspense, mostly Christian like Brandilyn Collins and Terri Blackstock but also Mary  Higgins Clark who writes "clean" suspense.

34. One thing you wished you knew how to do? Speak another language. Write fiction. Dive shipwrecks. Ride a motorcycle.

35. What should be written on your tombstone? She made a difference (that's my goal for life at least)