Getting to know you...

[brokeplex]

1. What is your occupation right now?  Retired Petroleum Land Manager
2. What color are your socks right now?  White with holes
3. What are you listening to right now?  FM 99.5 "The Wolf "- DFW's leading C&W station
4. What was the last thing you ate?  homemade hummos on Pita bread from a local bakery
5. Can you drive a stick shift?  yes
6. Last person you spoke to on the phone? Dusty
7. How old are you today?  over 50, and I feel much older after this year
8. What is your favorite sport to watch on TV?  Rangers baseball
9. What is your favorite drink?  diet pepsi
10. Have you ever dyed your hair?  naw, the gray is only lately turning my temple and Dusty likes it, so it stays and grows
11. Favorite  food?  tabouli salad, falafel and bakhlava with mint tea 
12. Favorite day of the year? San Jacinto Day
13. How do you vent anger?  well, I don't get angy much any more, I just shake my head and move on
14. What was your favorite toy as a child?  the model oil tanker ship that my dad gave me, I pretended it was a space ship and terrorized my sister with it. 
15. What is your favorite season?  late fall or ealy spring
16. Cherries or Blueberries?  blue berries and boysenberries
17. Living arrangements?  most of the time I live with Dusty in my house, and we have two cats, his little boy visits us every few months or so
18. When was the last time you cried?  I got very exhausted while in Michigan this summer, and I cried tears of exhaustion and frustration.
19. What is on the floor of your closet?  mostly boxes in the closets
20. What did you do last night?  Dusty and I made margaritas and nachos and we watched some of the Babylon 5 series on dvd
21. What are you most afraid of? not much, maybe not leaving a world to Dusty and his boy that gives them the opportunities they deserve
22. Plain, cheese, or spicy hamburgers? too much cholesterol, only turkey burgers or falafel and no cheese at all
23. Favorite dog breed?  not a dog person
24. Favorite day of the week?  after retirement they are pretty much all the same, except I can spend more time with Dusty on weekends
25. How many states have you lived in? 1- TX
26. Diamonds or pearls?  neither, I like emeralds
27. What is your favorite flower ?  asters and chrysanthemums
28. What is your favorite movie? after BM, Double Indemnity
29. Where would you live if it were all up to you and money was no object? I like where I am, and I try to spend time in Montana every year
30. Red state or blue state?  about as red an area as you can find in the largest red state in the union
31. Coke or Pepsi?  Diet Pepsi
32. Dogs or cats? long haired Siamese cats
33. Comedies or dramas?  both, and sci-fi
34. Your favorite place in the world?  maybe the mountains west of Missoula MT, or PK Lake west of Fort Worth

[Lynne]

12. Favorite day of the year? San Jacinto Day

I went off to Wiki and educated myself:

San Jacinto Day is the celebration of the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836. It was the final battle of the Texas Revolution where Texas won its independence from Mexico.

It is an official holiday according to the State of Texas. An annual festival, which includes a reenactment, is held on the site of the battle. The Sabine Volunteers, a reenactment group from East Texas, participate in the San Jacinto Reenactment annually. This group is named for an actual militia group during the Texas Revolution. The reenactment group consists of four members and has appeared on the History Channel.

20. What did you do last night?  Dusty and I made margaritas and nachos and we watched some of the Babylon 5 series on dvd...
...32. Dogs or cats? long haired Siamese cats

And some common ground...love Babylon 5 and my two kitties are Siamese mix, but they have short hair.

[brokeplex]

I went off to Wiki and educated myself:

San Jacinto Day is the celebration of the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836. It was the final battle of the Texas Revolution where Texas won its independence from Mexico.

It is an official holiday according to the State of Texas. An annual festival, which includes a reenactment, is held on the site of the battle. The Sabine Volunteers, a reenactment group from East Texas, participate in the San Jacinto Reenactment annually. This group is named for an actual militia group during the Texas Revolution. The reenactment group consists of four members and has appeared on the History Channel.

And some common ground...love Babylon 5 and my two kitties are Siamese mix, but they have short hair.

dee-lighted to see you have an interest in Texas History. The battle was is regarded by military historians as a textbook surprise attack maneuver allowing an army that was significantly smaller to overwhelm a much larger and better supplied force. The success at the battle made Texas an independent nation (1836-1845), several European powers and the US shortly thereafter recognized the Republic of Texas and set up embassies, and it thrust Sam Houston into national prominence.

Bab 5 is one of my passions, I have attended several Bab conventions in the years since the mid 1990's and I hope for a Bab 5 feature length film one day.

Siamese cats area just wonderful, so loving and expressive. My two are quite a pair, an older dominant female and a fiesty younger male.