Another Sunday quiz-thing as I sip my coffee to the sound of a snoring greyhound and cats doing…cat stuff

This one‘s pretty quick and easy!

1) Has anyone ever told you “I love you” but you didn’t say it back?

I don’t think so.

2) Do you consider yourself organized?

Hahahaha! No. I try, but I do not think I’ll ever really get there.

3) Where do you look first when you go clothes shopping?

“How well does this go with overalls?” or, “Which pair of overalls would I most likely pair with this?”

Seriously, that’s how I think, and that’s how I think most people should think when they’re shopping for clothes. Figure out how the item fits into what you already have. And if it doesn’t, think about how if you’re really willing to launch a new fashion concept in your wardrobe. (Hey, if you ARE looking for a new concept to freshen things up, awesome! Have fun!)

4) Do you often reflect on your past in terms of eras or milestones (“it’s been 10 years since X happened”)?

Yes, I do, more and more. I try to not do it as much as I’m tempted to do, because as the years pile up, I notice them piling up faster and faster, and the perspective across those years seems different. It’s wild to think about how specific periods of time feel now versus when I was much younger. Take, randomly, “eleven years”. Eleven years ago, we were new to living in this house, we had just adopted our first dog (Hi, Cane! [waves at the Rainbow Bridge]), and more specifically, we were digging out from the biggest snowstorm we had yet experienced. That feels very, very recent, but it’s eleven years ago.

Now, take another eleven-year period from my youth: Superman: The Movie came out in late 1978. Eleven years later, in late 1989, I was in college and I had met (purely as an acquaintance, she was not even remotely on my radar at that time as someone I might want to invite to a movie or something) a girl who would later become The Girlfriend and later on, The Wife.

Two different eleven-year-periods. One feels compressed. The other, even now, feels like an epic journey through time and space. Time is wild.

5) Were you more recently ill or injured (flu vs. twisted ankle)?

Definitely the former, though I’m not even sure when that would have been. It was almost certainly a minor cold, and it’s been a while since I even had one of those. (Oh, I just got my annual flu shot the other day! Next up is my annual COVID booster–that’s “the jab”, for all you weirdos out there who think Ivermectin is a thing–and at some point very soon I have to think about getting my shingles shots. And by “think about”, I mean, I have to get off my ass and get my shingles shots.)

By the way, one very convenient aspect of getting older is that you don’t even have to do anything for injuries to happen! Your back can throw itself out when you’re just standing there, not trying to lift a damned thing! That’s really quite a timesaver, innit?