1. Do you care for poetry? Do you have a favorite poem? Care to share some of it? I do actually like poetry. I even write it. I’ve got some of my poems on my website here. But I really love this poem.

2. What does it take to “rock your world?” Make me laugh. A laugh can make me your friend for life, or break our friendship. Another thing is when you make me feel good about myself without me digging for it. Like you compliment me and really make my day, when I didn’t even know I had an effect on you at all.

3. Have you ever done anything that landed you in financial trouble? Has somebody else’s action ever caused you financial ruin? What happened? When I was in college I got credit cards. I saw it as “free money.” Well...I figured I could handle it. I couldn’t. I’ve still got those damn credits card debts going on. It’s my own fault, but it sucks. I am not in ruin, but I have a D credit rating.

4. Take a stroll down memory lane. There is a song, that every time you hear it, you think of this one person. What’s the song, who is the person, and what memories does it conjure up? Oh..I’ve got lots of those. One of the happier ones is when I hear the song “Hang on Loosely” by 38 SPECIAL.

My friend Mike quoted that song to me once in reference to relationships. I have a great amount of love for that man, and his telling me that really became a source of good advice for me at the time. Every time I hear it, I think of him now. Another one is the song “You Oughta Know” - on the album jagged little pill - Alanis Morissette

When I was seventeen years old I met this guy named Steve. We were “in love” (for whatever that’s worth) and we planned to get married on my 18th birthday. Then all of a sudden he vanished. For the first week he was gone I heard nothing about him, and no one had seen him. Then during the second week I started hearing rumblings of “have you met Steve’s her girlfriend.” I was totally crushed. To make a long, and very painful, story short he moved to Colorado with that girl. Her name is Lilly. This is the “Steve song.”
This song had a second meaning though. I was dating this guy named Dustin. Very cool fellow despite his flaws. He never said I love you - he always said Boots instead. Well on Christmas day 1996 this song came on the radio and I was making a sad face. Dustin leaned over and said “Merry Christmas - I love you.” I don’t know if he planned to say it, or if my reaction to this song made him say it - but he said it and it makes the song a bitter sweet memory versus a bitter one.

5. I’ve never cared for football, it was never on in the house growing up and I never developed a “taste” for it. But I’ve always felt like I “should” enjoy it, that I was deficient in some way because I never get excited about things like the Super Bowl (except for the commercials). Are there any occasions when you feel like you are missing out on something that everyone else seems to enjoy? When we are at the bar. I am usually the designated driver and sometimes I feel like I am now having a good as a time as everyone else because I am sober. Granted this isn’t all the time, because I have the ability to have an uber good time sober, but sometimes I feel on the outside.

6. A few of the phrases that get under my skin are “take it to the next level” (which was used when I was told why I was being replaced at Fox by someone who could do that) and “you just don’t get it” (always popular in relationship fights). What phrases “push your buttons” and why? At the moment I cannot think of any. But if, and when I can, I will edit this post and enter them.

7. Do you believe in life after death? What do you believe happens when our time is up?* I don’t think that this is the end. I don’t know what happens, but I am not scared. I don’t want to leave this life yet, but I don’t think it’s just ENDS when I die.