Wow, it's been such a busy, fast-paced week, I almost forgot about Five Question Friday! Our travel passports came in on Monday, and I promptly booked us on a tour to Amsterdam, Holland. We leave tonight (technically, tomorrow morning). I'll be sure to tell you all about it when I get back, but now it's time for the May 7th edition of Five Question Friday.
1. What is your worst
memory of your siblings?
My step-siblings and I weren't raised together (and there's a decent gap between our ages), so there are no bad memories.
2. What was YOUR
naughtiest childhood memory? (Must be something YOU did, no pawning it
off on someone else!)
There were so many to choose from it was hard to pick one, but I finally managed.
When I was about 8 or 9, I was getting ready to take a bath and I decided to shave my legs. I didn't know how much pressure to use when holding the razor, and ended up cutting the front of my leg from just above my ankle to a little below the knee. I'm pretty sure if records were kept for 'Most Flesh Removed With Only One Swipe Of A Razor', I'd be the record holder.
When I saw the blood begin to pool up to the surface, my natural reaction was to lower my leg into the water to make the blood disappear. But sticking my leg in the water only made the cut sting and, of course, the blood wasn't going to stop for a few minutes. I started yelling and crying and when Dad came in the bathroom to see what was going on, I told him Mom's razor fell into the bathtub and cut my leg. He started fussing at her real good about being so careless but after I was all dried off and cleaned up, they took a good look at my legs and discovered that one of them was completely hair-free. Yeah, they didn't believe the razor fell in the water and shaved one leg before cutting the other. I wonder why?? :)
More than 30
years later, I still have a place on my leg that's lighter in color than
the rest. And it still makes me wince to think about that cut that day.
*shudders*
3. Where do you
like to go to relax?
I don't like the ocean that much; something about getting sand in my car, my hair and my butt crack just irritates me to no end. The beach is not so fun that I want to carry it with me for the next several days (in the car), or spend half an hour rinsing it off my scalp or out of...never mind. But lying on a
float in the pool and soaking up some rays relaxes me like little else can, especially when it's quiet and I can hear the birds singing and talking to whomever cares to listen. It's here that my problems become smaller and God becomes bigger. Here is where I slow my roll long enough to catch my breath and enjoy the beauty of creation. And this is where I get the most clarity regarding life and faith, as well as the refreshment I need to feel charged up enough to get back to reality.
4. What was the
last thing you won?
I don't know if it was the last thing I won, but I won the squadron chili cook-off when we lived in Georgia the first time. I got a certificate and Moose got a day off work.
5. If you could be
on a game show, which would you choose?
Debt. Does anybody remember that show? I don't think it was on long but I liked it because if you made it to the final round, you could pick any TV show or movie you wanted to be asked a question about. And since the amount of your debt was the amount you'd win, I knew I'd be debt free by the end of the show. I always said I'd pick the TV show Friends because, to borrow a phrase from Forrest Gump, I know everything there is to know about Friends. I've seen all the episodes at least once and watch the reruns when they're on. Well, I used to, anyway. I don't watch any regular TV here in Germany; any TV I watch is off the internet. Thank God for Hulu. Friends was the show I could count on to make me laugh and forget everything around me for 30 minutes at a time. Well, except for the season Rachel was pregnant. That season was flat out stupid. My favorite episode? When they had the 'game show' to see whether the guys knew the girls better or vice versa, and the girls bet (and subsequently lost) their apartment.
If you have a blog, would you consider jumping in and joining us for 5QF? The links are below. If you don't have a blog, will you post your answers to the questions in the comment section? I'd love to read your story. :)
I'm off to be sure I've got the camera in my backpack. Can't go see all those beautiful flowers without a camera to capture some of their beauty for my scrapbook, right?
Peace out.
Eva
