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Interview Questions from Carrie
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carrieb. I wasn't going to ask her for questions because I remembered answering them from her the last time this meme went around, and she originally had a five-person limit this time. But, she asked anyway. Fun!
1) How is your family taking your decision not to tell anyone the name of the baby?
They're taking it pretty well, but possibly just because it hasn't come up a whole lot yet, and during the first half of the pregnancy, it's been pretty easy to put them off by saying we just don't know yet. (Which is true.) I have told them (very early on) that we're not planning on telling, and there were some grumblings, but no one has said much since. They still do ask me about possible names, but the thing about people asking you what you want to name the baby? They actually just want to tell you what you should name it. My niece suggested Erma last week. I am pretty sure she was kidding, or at least I hope so.
2) When you visit your family is it just one side of the family or are both your parents' families close-knit?
It's really just my mom's family that's close, though we do try to stop in for a short visit with my dad's parents when we go. My mom has two sisters, one of whom has three daughters. Between them, they have six kids. The other sister has one (living) son, who's 20 and (as far as we know) has no children yet. ;) Then there's me, and my niece. So, altogether, there are quite a lot of us, what with spouses and children. My family is messed up and as dysfunctional as they come, but we love each other even if we don't really understand each other. It's complicated. I feel like I complain about them too much, but I really do love them, and enjoy spending time with them. They just wear me out.
My dad's family is.. sad, mainly. He has two brothers. One of the brothers has three children (one of which is six, the other two are adults.) There are some serious tensions going between my dad's family (ie, Mom and me) and one of my dad's brother's kids, but it doesn't exactly involve my dad or my uncle. However, since we never see them anymore, it's sort of a one-sided tension that involves my mother and I bitching to each other more than anything, and not when Dad is around. It's really bizarre, and I have actually been thinking of posting about it recently, but I haven't gotten around to it. We used to be much friendlier, but since my grandmother now has Alzheimer's, the entire family has fallen apart and we sort of orbit independently.
3) If you had a big magic wand and could fix one thing in the world, what would you fix?
I am guessing this isn't a selfish magic wand, and I shouldn't use it for fixing one thing in my own little world. There are just so many things to choose from! Unfairness. I would end unfairness. :) Lots of things count as unfair! Poverty and drugs and childhood diseases and wars! I guess that's cheating, though. Also, it would probably backfire on me. (Is it FAIR that I have XYZ when JoeBob doesn't?) (oooh! Ducky just jabbed me hard enough that we could see it! That's a first!) Oh, to heck with it--this question is making me think about everything that's wrong with the world, so I'll go with the generic and say world peace, as if I am a Miss America contestant. I always wondered if they had any concept of what they were actually wishing for, or if they just thought it sounded good. Luckily, I have the magic wand and don't need to come up with the solution.
4) Did you ever get to go off the metformin? If so, are you feeling good now?
Yep, I stopped taking it at twelve weeks. There was very little change at first, which scared me because my long fear about the stuff was that it had rendered me permanently queasy. After a few weeks, it faded from my system, so gradually that I almost didn't notice the difference. I don't have (much) trouble with nausea anymore--nothing more than I had before, at least. (Low blood sugar used to bring it on before the metformin, and it still does.) I have a cabinet full of salty snacks at work that I'm no longer even slightly interested in eating. Having said that, I wrote this paragraph last night, and today, I was queasy again. But today was a pretty crappy day in other ways, so it could have been related to that.
5) You have 48 hours of unlimited funds and no responsibilities. What do you do? No fair cheating and transferring gobs of money into your bank account. It will disappear after 48 hours!
Okay, it's cheating to transfer gobs of money into a bank account, but do I get to keep the things I buy in that 48 hours? That greatly affects my answer! I can't really think of anything besides disposables (say, expensive food) that would make spending that much fun except for perhaps services. So, if I can't, I'll hire a bunch of people to work for those two days on my house--yard work, fixing up the walls and the floors (if I have to buy the supplies for that, that's fine, as long as the labor is free and everything gets done!) and doing everything that we have planned for "someday". The wonky driveway situation will be fixed..somehow.. etc. While they were working on that, I'd be off to some really expensive place to spend the two days in luxury. The cars, btw, will be fully serviced. I will also hire my dad at an exorbitant fee to come down and oversee the work. I will get a massage.
If I can keep everything purchased, then I will do the above (because--why not?) plus do some major shopping. First, there will be furniture for every room in the house. Two new vehicles plus M's indulgence vehicle (an old car). There may be some spontaneous purchases on a large scale for various friends and family. New clothes, new accessories, etc. I wonder if I could prepay my RE for any future treatments? I guess that might be a little too much like sticking it in a bank account. Hmm. I would buy a lot of stuff, and have a great deal of fun. I will also hire a few people (again, at exorbitant fees) to shop for accessories and oversee various projects within the house.
And btw, would it be cheating to pay off the mortgage? It's not a bank account! ;) And I guess buying stocks, etc, would also be cheating...
Bonus Question just for Mike:
Who would win in a fight if no channeling were allowed: Rand, Mat or Perrin?
Faile. She would come along, break it up and grab the children by their ears and give them a sound talking to. Perrin would probably cry, and forget to boss her around, and then he would be in the doghouse for weeks. Rand would snicker at his friend's women trouble, since usually Perrin is the one who knows about women, until he realized that he has quite the little threesome of his own to contend with, and he's not doing such a great job of that--so then he would sulk away to talk to himself for a while. Mat would feel very smug about it until he realized that he just married a bald woman. So really, Faile is the only winner.
Okay, seriously. Difficult. I was going to say that Rand is kind of a wuss outside the channeling, but I guess he isn't, really. I'm thinking Perrin, because he could summon his wolfy friends and that would (if nothing else) change the odds. I guess Rand could kind of summon a few armies so my logic isn't really solid there, is it? I'm still going to go with Perrin, for no particular reason other than that I like him the best. I think if not for that very solid evidence of likability, it might be Mat, because he always seems to land on his feet. Edited to add: M just reminded me that Perrin was, in his former life, a blacksmith. THAT is why he will kick the ass of the other two--brute strength. Go Perrin!
carrieb. I wasn't going to ask her for questions because I remembered answering them from her the last time this meme went around, and she originally had a five-person limit this time. But, she asked anyway. Fun!1) How is your family taking your decision not to tell anyone the name of the baby?
They're taking it pretty well, but possibly just because it hasn't come up a whole lot yet, and during the first half of the pregnancy, it's been pretty easy to put them off by saying we just don't know yet. (Which is true.) I have told them (very early on) that we're not planning on telling, and there were some grumblings, but no one has said much since. They still do ask me about possible names, but the thing about people asking you what you want to name the baby? They actually just want to tell you what you should name it. My niece suggested Erma last week. I am pretty sure she was kidding, or at least I hope so.
2) When you visit your family is it just one side of the family or are both your parents' families close-knit?
It's really just my mom's family that's close, though we do try to stop in for a short visit with my dad's parents when we go. My mom has two sisters, one of whom has three daughters. Between them, they have six kids. The other sister has one (living) son, who's 20 and (as far as we know) has no children yet. ;) Then there's me, and my niece. So, altogether, there are quite a lot of us, what with spouses and children. My family is messed up and as dysfunctional as they come, but we love each other even if we don't really understand each other. It's complicated. I feel like I complain about them too much, but I really do love them, and enjoy spending time with them. They just wear me out.
My dad's family is.. sad, mainly. He has two brothers. One of the brothers has three children (one of which is six, the other two are adults.) There are some serious tensions going between my dad's family (ie, Mom and me) and one of my dad's brother's kids, but it doesn't exactly involve my dad or my uncle. However, since we never see them anymore, it's sort of a one-sided tension that involves my mother and I bitching to each other more than anything, and not when Dad is around. It's really bizarre, and I have actually been thinking of posting about it recently, but I haven't gotten around to it. We used to be much friendlier, but since my grandmother now has Alzheimer's, the entire family has fallen apart and we sort of orbit independently.
3) If you had a big magic wand and could fix one thing in the world, what would you fix?
I am guessing this isn't a selfish magic wand, and I shouldn't use it for fixing one thing in my own little world. There are just so many things to choose from! Unfairness. I would end unfairness. :) Lots of things count as unfair! Poverty and drugs and childhood diseases and wars! I guess that's cheating, though. Also, it would probably backfire on me. (Is it FAIR that I have XYZ when JoeBob doesn't?) (oooh! Ducky just jabbed me hard enough that we could see it! That's a first!) Oh, to heck with it--this question is making me think about everything that's wrong with the world, so I'll go with the generic and say world peace, as if I am a Miss America contestant. I always wondered if they had any concept of what they were actually wishing for, or if they just thought it sounded good. Luckily, I have the magic wand and don't need to come up with the solution.
4) Did you ever get to go off the metformin? If so, are you feeling good now?
Yep, I stopped taking it at twelve weeks. There was very little change at first, which scared me because my long fear about the stuff was that it had rendered me permanently queasy. After a few weeks, it faded from my system, so gradually that I almost didn't notice the difference. I don't have (much) trouble with nausea anymore--nothing more than I had before, at least. (Low blood sugar used to bring it on before the metformin, and it still does.) I have a cabinet full of salty snacks at work that I'm no longer even slightly interested in eating. Having said that, I wrote this paragraph last night, and today, I was queasy again. But today was a pretty crappy day in other ways, so it could have been related to that.
5) You have 48 hours of unlimited funds and no responsibilities. What do you do? No fair cheating and transferring gobs of money into your bank account. It will disappear after 48 hours!
Okay, it's cheating to transfer gobs of money into a bank account, but do I get to keep the things I buy in that 48 hours? That greatly affects my answer! I can't really think of anything besides disposables (say, expensive food) that would make spending that much fun except for perhaps services. So, if I can't, I'll hire a bunch of people to work for those two days on my house--yard work, fixing up the walls and the floors (if I have to buy the supplies for that, that's fine, as long as the labor is free and everything gets done!) and doing everything that we have planned for "someday". The wonky driveway situation will be fixed..somehow.. etc. While they were working on that, I'd be off to some really expensive place to spend the two days in luxury. The cars, btw, will be fully serviced. I will also hire my dad at an exorbitant fee to come down and oversee the work. I will get a massage.
If I can keep everything purchased, then I will do the above (because--why not?) plus do some major shopping. First, there will be furniture for every room in the house. Two new vehicles plus M's indulgence vehicle (an old car). There may be some spontaneous purchases on a large scale for various friends and family. New clothes, new accessories, etc. I wonder if I could prepay my RE for any future treatments? I guess that might be a little too much like sticking it in a bank account. Hmm. I would buy a lot of stuff, and have a great deal of fun. I will also hire a few people (again, at exorbitant fees) to shop for accessories and oversee various projects within the house.
And btw, would it be cheating to pay off the mortgage? It's not a bank account! ;) And I guess buying stocks, etc, would also be cheating...
Bonus Question just for Mike:
Who would win in a fight if no channeling were allowed: Rand, Mat or Perrin?
Faile. She would come along, break it up and grab the children by their ears and give them a sound talking to. Perrin would probably cry, and forget to boss her around, and then he would be in the doghouse for weeks. Rand would snicker at his friend's women trouble, since usually Perrin is the one who knows about women, until he realized that he has quite the little threesome of his own to contend with, and he's not doing such a great job of that--so then he would sulk away to talk to himself for a while. Mat would feel very smug about it until he realized that he just married a bald woman. So really, Faile is the only winner.
Okay, seriously. Difficult. I was going to say that Rand is kind of a wuss outside the channeling, but I guess he isn't, really. I'm thinking Perrin, because he could summon his wolfy friends and that would (if nothing else) change the odds. I guess Rand could kind of summon a few armies so my logic isn't really solid there, is it? I'm still going to go with Perrin, for no particular reason other than that I like him the best. I think if not for that very solid evidence of likability, it might be Mat, because he always seems to land on his feet. Edited to add: M just reminded me that Perrin was, in his former life, a blacksmith. THAT is why he will kick the ass of the other two--brute strength. Go Perrin!
