48 Questions, A Good One to Start the New Year Off

Meri over at Our Diabetic Life answered 48 Questions.  I thought I would try it too, I need something to kick off a new year of blogging.  As far as Kortnie's D-Life, right now everything is ho hum, blah, blah, blah.  Oh don't get me wrong, Diabetes has been kicking my ass and pissing me off since before Christmas, but it always does that and I don't feel like dwelling on it or whining about it, and that crap Diabetes is pulling is nothing new or perplexing (well it is perplexing, but not in a new kind of way!), so I needed something to get me going, and a fun 48 getting to know you questionnaire thingy seemed the way to go.  Here we go!

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?

I was named after some songs, Amanda by good ole' Waylon Jennings, and Mandy by Barry Manilow.

2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?

I don't know. Recently I'm sure.  I cry a lot, because I have leaky eyes, just random stuff will make me cry, actually I think I cried a little on Saturday, because Anastasia (my oldest) made the first basket at her basketball game.   I  am sure that I cried Sunday during church, and I'm sure I cried some other time this week too, its just what I do.

3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?

Ehh, it's okay.

4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?

I like this peppered turkey, it isn't crusted in pepper, but has ribbons of pepper going all thru it, I get it at the deli at Walmart.  I think it might be made by Sara Lee

5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS?

I have 3 of them.  Two girls and a boy.  I do daycare out of my home, so I have more kids that I think are mine, I teach Nursery at my church, little guys 18months-3 years old, I think they are mine too.  I am PTO President for 3 years now, at the K-3 school in my town, I think all of those kids are mine too. 

 

6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?

I think so.

7. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT?

Never!

8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?

Yep.

9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP?

Yes!  Actually I think I would, but most likely I would chicken out at the last minute. 

10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL?

I like Oatmeal Squares, and Special K with chunks of chocolate and dried strawberries, I got it at the store last week on sale, it said limited edition on the box.  I also love Cream of Wheat

11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?

No,but then when I go to put them back on I untie them.  I kinda hate wearing shoes, always have, but the older I get, I find that wearing shoes, actually makes my back and feet feel better, so....whatever!

 

12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG?

I guess so.  But that leaky eye thing I have is kind of wimpy, isn't it?

 13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM?

All of them, I love ice cream it is my weakness.  Cookies and Cream, Mocha Almond Fudge, Pistachio, Coffee Chocolate Chip, Mint Chip, Peanut Butter, Pecans and Pralines, Sweet Cream, Brownie Nut Fudge, those are some.  Now I want ice cream. 

14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?

Their smile and their eyes.

15. RED OR PINK?

Ummm, neither or both?  This is a hard one.  I have red hair, so red?  Well, my hair is strawberry blond, so that is more pink, so pink?  The color red as in clothing or lipstick, looks terrible on me while pink looks good on me-so I'm told, so pink?  I don't really like to wear pink though, mauve or purplely pink is okay.   Red roses are nice, but I like the pink geraniums I grow too.   Our rabbit has red eyes and they are kind of freaky, pink eye sucks too.  I drive a Red SUV Truck and I like that, its fun having a red car, no one wants a pink car.  I'm on the fence with this one.

16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF?

My thighs and booty, or my leaky eyes.

17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST?

No one really, I have my guy and my kids around me, they are all I need.  Sure, I miss my family both mine and my husbands family members who don't live close, but we are lucky enough to see them often or have seen them recently, so I am not missing them much, not right now at least.  I miss working at the airport in Phoenix and I miss the people there.  Yeah, that is my final answer.

18. WHAT IS THE TECHNIQUE THAT YOU NEED TO WORK ON THE MOST?

Since this is my D-Mom blog, I'd say that I need to work on Combo Bolusing and Temp Basals the most.  As a whole, I would say I need to work on....nothing, I am perfect the way I am!  Seriously though, I can't really think of anything else.

19. WHAT COLOR SHOES ARE YOU WEARING?

I have on these black deck shoes, they have tiny little pink, gray, and white hearts all over them.  I bought them for $1 a couple years ago at a rummage sale.  They have tons of holes in them, in the toes, the sides, and the heel even. I don't really wear lots of pink like I said before, and I don't have anything else jewelry or clothing that has hearts on it, but I love these shoes because they slip on and are comfy and worn in, I just got back from picking my oldest up at basketball practice, I sat right down to finish this post up and didn't even kick off my shoes beforehand.  I am kicking them off right now though.

20. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE?

An orange and a couple of pistachios.

21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?

My 3 kids and 1 daycare kid talking and watching Sponge Bob on Netflix (I HATE Sponge Bob!), now they are changing it to playing the Wii Fit.

22. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?

Cerulean.  Its like an ocean skyish blue color.  There used to be a Crayola crayon with that name and it was my favorite.

23. FAVORITE SMELLS?

Clean babies, garlic, bread baking, vanilla, oranges, the ocean, and finally-this one is kind of weird-pepsi.  Brian drinks pepsi all day long, and when he comes home from work and gives me a kiss, he always has pepsi breath, when I smell pepsi it makes me think of him.

24. HOW IMPORTANT ARE YOUR POLITICAL VIEWS TO YOU?

They are important to me, but I don't think my views are important to everyone else, so I usually keep them to myself.  I am tired of seeing every ones political views and arguments all over facebook and everywhere else.  If you don't have something nice to say then don't say anything at all.  How many peoples views or votes are changed by something posted on facebook.  Politics and Facebook and Politics and Trying to Argue with me when I state what I think are my pet peeves.  Can you tell?

25. MOUNTAIN HIDEAWAY OR BEACH HOUSE?

Beach house, I crave the ocean.  A mountain hideaway would be nice too, but it has to have a lake or stream close by.

26. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH?

Whatever my kids are playing.  My oldest is sporty, she does it all, I think my favorite to watch her do is swimming.  I like football too, but we don't have TV so I don't get to watch it, but going to a High School game is fun.  I like the Olympics, but again, no TV and no matter how I searched I could not find live Olympics on the Internet this summer :(

27. HAIR COLOR?

Red, or Strawberry Blond, remember we covered this already.

28. EYE COLOR?

Hazel, more brown than green.

29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?

Yes, I'm pretty blind, even when I wear my glasses I can't really see. 

30. FAVORITE FOOD?

Hamburgers.  I like lots of food but hamburgers I could eat forever if I had to.

31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?

Happy Endings.

32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?

I watched Red the other night with my husband.  We got it as a Netflix DVD in the mail.  It was funny.  We watch a lot of movies, before that we watched  Trouble With the Curve, it was good, but kind of slow, I got that one at the Redbox.  We've also watched Princess Diaries 1 and 2, Transformers 3, and Magic Mike in the past week.  The last movie I saw at the theatre was 007 Skyfall.

33. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?

My Color Run shirt that I got when I did the Albuquerque Color Run last August.

34. SUMMER OR WINTER?

Spring and Fall.  Oooh, I'm such a rebel!

35. FAVORITE DESSERT?

Ice cream, or better yet a milkshake to go with my hamburger.

36. STRENGTH TRAINING OR CARDIO?

Cardio.  I was never much of an excerciser, but I am finding I like Zumba and running.

37. COMPUTER OR TELEVISION?

No TV for us, I like the computer, but I also like Netflix, of TV shows on the computer!

38. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW?

None, which is sad because I like reading, I need to go to the library and get me a book.

39. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?

I don't have a mouse or a mouse pad.  I have a laptop.

 

40. FAVORITE SOUND?

The kids laughing genuinely not that fake obnoxious laughing. 

41. FAVORITE GENRE OF MUSIC?

I like almost all of it. 

42. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME?

My dad was in the military so wherever we were was home.   I've lived in AZ for the last 17 years though and the farthest I've been from here would be Hawaii.  (When I was a kid I went to Japan for a layover on our way to Guam where we lived for 2 years, so maybe one of those would be considered far from our home of the US) 

43. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT?

Not really, except that I'm perfect!   Don't you remember from earlier?  Silly questions.

44. WHERE WERE YOU BORN?

Edmonds, Washington.  A suburb of Seattle.

45. WHERE ARE YOU LIVING NOW?

Snowflake, Arizona.  Ironic name for a town in Arizona isn't it?  It isn't even named for snow or snowflakes, its named for the first settlers here, the Snow and the Flake families, but it does snow here.

46. WHAT COLOR IS YOUR HOUSE?

White or gray or cream colored with a darker gray or black trim.  I suspect it was Gray with Dark Gray trim originally.

47. WHAT COLOR IS YOUR CAR?

Red!

48. DO YOU LIKE ANSWERING 48 QUESTIONS?

I do, it was fun, I like reading answers to 48 questions better, hope some more people do these.