The Queries of the Sunday Past

Here are questions from this week’s Sunday Stealing! Which are a day late. Oh well.

1. What’s your life’s motto?

Life’s too short to not wear what you want. (I just made that up, to be honest.)

2. Where were you living 13 years ago?

Same town, but in an apartment just a few miles away from where we are now! At that point we were already looking into the house idea. My mother wanted to move with my father up to Buffalo from the Southern Tier, and live in a duplex with us on the other side so they’d have a support system. That’s how it played out.

3. Is anyone jealous of you?

There’d better be! I don’t manifest this much weirdness to not have someone out there envying me.

4. Where were you when you heard about the 9/11 terror attacks?

In my car on the way to work. I was at the shitty telesales job at that point. (In fairness, I sucked at that job.) At that point, it wasn’t even clear what kind of plane it was. I was picturing some doofus in a Cessna.

5. Do you consider yourself kind?

I try to be. I fall short at times.

6. Can you change your car’s oil?

Yes. I don’t, though. I like having skills, but I don’t worship at the altar of DIY.

7. What’s the last thing you heard about your first love?

Sheesh, who even is my “first love”? I suppose the one I’d have to consider shared something on Facebook. (Yes, we’re friends. She lives in Florida now. Terrific person, there’s a reason I crushed on her hard. A while back her sister was cleaning out the family house and found my confessional note that I wrote way back in, I dunno, eighth grade? Yikes!)

8. Have you ever been burned by love?

Oh, yes. Luckily, it’s been many years. I still remember 18-year-old me, swearing off the whole damnable business, just thinking, “I’m just gonna have fun for a while and stop looking for love because it’s never gonna show up….” (yes, I was a dramatic weirdo, whaddaya want from me), and then my roommate’s birthday celebration was joined by, among other folks, a cute oboe player I didn’t know very well….

9. What was the last thing you paid for with cash?

Popcorn and asparagus at the Farmers Market the other day.

10. Do you hug your friends?

Not usually, though I’m not unwilling.