Exceedingly Mundane

CoachJ tagged me with this great 5 question meme, oh about a week or so ago! I’m so sorry I’m behind and that it has taken me this long to get “round tuit” 🙂 Here we go!

1. Are you a morning person or a night owl? How about both and neither? Seriously, I have some of both, but not enough of either one to classify me as one versus the other. Now that I’m not working full-time at a stressful job, I do sit up later than I used to. But, I’m definitely not a “burning the midnight oil” kind of person. My husband is, but I am not. I like and want to get my sleep. But, even after a good night’s sleep, I don’t bound up out of bed in the morning, all happy and awake. It takes me a while to wake up. And I’m a tad grumpy until I really wake up, especially if I haven’t gotten enough sleep. I love to sleep, I really do. 🙂 So, can I be half and half? Half a night owl and half of a morning person?!!!!

2. You have a free, uninterrupted afternoon. What do you do? Oh, an easy one! Read. Curl up with a book and read. Please let this free afternoon occur in the winter, so I can curl up under an afghan or quilt, and light a fire in the fireplace. I have a big comfy chair by my fireplace that I love to read in. Of course, we get about 5 days a year here where I might need to have a fire. Otherwise, it’s just not cold enough 🙂 Oh, and while I’m at it, I’ll make a big mug of hot cocoa and add marshmallows on top!

3. If you could return to a certain stage in your life, what would it be and why? Well, this one is much harder. I’d return and do something that is not physically possible. I’d go back in time and fix all that is wrong with my reproductive system. I’d wind back the clock and let Tim and I get pregnant and have a houseful of kids. Other than that, I don’t think I’d go back and change a thing. It’s taken a long time and at times has been a hard road, but I’ve learned to be happy and content with my life. I’ve learned the hard way that this is a wonderful life, a happy thing, I’m where I’m supposed to be and so grateful to be blessed with all that I have. I often wish for the things I don’t have and that always makes me sad (and I’m ashamed to admit, occasionally bitter). I realize that this is God’s plan for my life, even though I also know that I may never know the answer why. I don’t really wish to go back and change things, but neither do I wish to go back and relive things either. I certainly wouldn’t go back to high school or college and do that over again! I really don’t know how to answer this one, I am afraid I’ve really butchered this question, CoachJ! 🙂

4. What do you think of a woman being President of the USA? I don’t have a problem with a woman being President. I think Condeleeza Rice would probably make a good one. I think any woman that is strong enough to be in politics and “hang with the big boys” is a strong enough woman to make the decisions that need to be made and do the things that need to be done. My issue is not with whether our President is male or female. My issues are always with what the President believes, how he or she acts on those beliefs, and that they stand behind what they say and do. I don’t really ever comment on politics, because it’s a sticky subject. I know what I believe – I believe in our country, and its freedoms, I believe in what our forefathers said “One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”, I believe that our country needs to go back to the values it was founded on – faith and family, loyalty and respect, tolerance and freedom. I hold our President in the highest regard and if the right person runs for that office, male or female, that is who I would vote for. (Oh, and in case you can’t figure it out, I do not believe that to be Hillary Clinton. Or Barak Obama either). Nuff said.

5. What’s your favorite dessert? (Feel free to include a recipe!) I do believe that CoachJ is toying with me, asking me this kind of question. I cannot pick out a favorite dessert. I can easily tell you one I do NOT like – anything with coconut. After that, you’d be hard pressed to find a dessert I didn’t like. Favorites, well, that depends on the day, how hungry I am and what’s available. I never met chocolate anything I didn’t like. Chocolate cake, chocolate pie, chocolate chip cookies. I love cherry anything – cobbler, pie, cherry cheesecake. Put me in an Italian restaurant and you’re sure to see me order Tiramisu. Put me in Chili’s and I guarantee a Molten Lava Cake finds its way to our table. Put me in a cafeteria type restaurant where there’s cherry cobbler and just try to stand in front of me in line. But, a favorite? You’ve got to be kidding me!

Oh, and for a recipe – some of my favorites are on our main site – click here!

I’m afraid that the buck stops here with me and this great idea for a meme. I think the original intention was that I was to answer these, and in turn, come up with 5 new questions of my own and tag a different set of bloggers. I must admit that my creative juices are in the negative zone lately. Thinking up original questions is not something I’m equipped to do right now. But, if someone would like to play along with these questions from CoachJ, I don’t think she would mind! I’d love to see your answers 🙂

Thanks again, CoachJ for tagging me!