October 28, 2007

• Now, for the Answers…
  
  First of all, here’s Little Miss yesterday on her 8th birthday!
  
  

  
  

  
  
  Unlike TheTheologiansCafe, who got 200 questions, I got a much smaller number. Still, it will make for a long enough entry for sure! I’ll do a brief answer for the skimmers and a more detailed answer underneath for those who want to know.
  
  What motivated you to start your Xanga?
  Lord Jabez
   
  Lord and Lady Jabez had moved back to Xenia from State College a few years ago. Lord Jabez had a Xanga blog, and I wanted to make a comment. So, I set up my account.  Why did I keep at it?  Need you ask, you fellow bloggers? It’s great fun.  Plus, I’ve “met” all you wonderful people and have been able to keep in touch with my dear, far-flung friends (and the ones closer to home).
  
  What do you think you will miss most about the US when you are in England for 6 months?
  Er…Jax Cheese Twists and my small appliances?
  
  Truly, I’m not sure what I’ll miss the most except familiar foods in the grocery store and handy electrical appliances and my baking stone. Of course, I’ll miss my church and my friends and my library, but knowing I am coming home again will make the loss less.  I bet I will also miss my minivan very much after a while as we will have no car over there.
  
  What are you most “dying to do” while in England?
  Not have to drive everywhere.
  
  Seriously though, I am so much looking forward to loosing all the responsibilities. This will be the sixth time we’ve temporarily moved from home. (The other times were over the summer for about two months to San Antonio three times, La Jolla, CA, once, and Norman, OK, once. Oh, a college professor and his summer jobs…) It’s so wonderful to have minimal housework and a clean slate of activities every day.
  
  In terms of things to do in England, I want to take the kids to the British Museum and Kensington Gardens and various and sundry other places.  Yes, I sound very dull.
  
  What, if anything, do you miss about Xenia?
  Sara Arnovitz and the other hiking trail near Cedarville with the waterfalls.
  
  I missed those places so, so much when we left!  I also missed AWANA a great deal and all my dear friends.
  
  Did you do the quilting on the wall in picture of Wit and guitar?
  I did the double wedding ring one (the circle one).
  
  I am a so-so quilter with several half-finished quilts. I have three finished ones hanging in my dining room. The triangle one I won at a library raffle. The other one in the picture was made by my great aunt.
  
  Any plans to visit Cambridge? The Moors? Stonehenge since you’ll be so close?
  We’ll be living in Cambridge. I’d love to go to the Bronte Museum and to Stonehenge, even though I’ve been told it’s really not much once you are there.
  
  The kids are all keen to go to Ireland, so we’ll see about nipping over there for a brief jaunt.
  
  How can I get four hours of free housecleaning a week?
  Hee hee. I wish I could get this benefit regularly as well!
  
  What is your Bible translation of preference?
  I’m a New American Standard girl.
  
  Our church uses the NASB, so I use it as well. It does a good job. I listen to the NIV on CD, which accounts for a large percentage of my Bible time, though.
  
  What is one thing you would like to do before you die?
  Er…um…live a long, full life?  Write a book? Have several dozen grandchildren? 
  
  If you had to change your hair color, what would you choose?
  Of all the questions that were asked, this is the one I pondered the longest. (Mostly because I missed seeing FaithCD’s question at first)
  
  I actually have dark brown hair. All my life, I wanted to have hair the color of caramel.  Now I do.  I am happy. So, I have already changed my color.  But, if I had to change it to go into a witness protection program or something, I suppose I’d have to pick dark brown just because it would seem unobtrusive.
  
  

  What’s your most favorite item of clothing?
  Oooh, good one.  I love my ratty, green barn coat dearly. 
  

  In the summer, my three-quarter length sleeve black cardigan and my black flowered dress. In the winter, turtleneck sweaters. I’m also prodigiously fond of the red silky polka dot pajamas I’m currently wearing (not to be confused with the solid red silky jammies of the previous post).
  

  Worst book you’ve ever read?
  I stopped reading The Golden Compass because it was so anti-Christian. (Not planning to see the movie!). But, as for books I actually finished, Lady Chatterly’s Lover has to be it. I detested that creepy book. Please, spare me the details.
  

  ?: Agatha Christie or Dorothy L. Sayers?
  I have read one Agatha Christie book, Murder on the Orient Express, and zero Sayers books.  So, I have to say Stephenie Meyers or Julia Quinn.

  I liked Murder… well enough, but I’m not much of a murder mystery fan in general.
  

  I am guessing you will only be there for a short period of time (?) but
  what is the one thing you want to bring back with you from this stay
  there?
  A souvenir sort of thing? Hmm…lots of pictures? Happy children?  An appreciation for another culture? Crumpets?
  
  Hmmm…how do you think the young-uns are going to like it?
  I suppose they’ll like it well enough while they are there. I anticipate the usual amount of grousing and complaining, but they should enjoy it. They WILL enjoy it.
  
  What is your favorite trait in each one of your kids?
  Excellent question. I wish I had been pondering it for several days.
  
  Hunter–His easygoing nature
  Wit–His practical intelligence and, well, wit.
  LibbyK–Her helpful heart
  Gockle–His sensitivity to others
  LittleMiss–Her bossiness will turn out well someday…(too much like her mom!)
  
  What’s TGD a doctor of?
  He’s a Math Doctor.
  
  TGD got his Ph.D. in math from Penn State. He studies combinatorics and discrete math and things like that. He is also a math professor at Penn State and runs the undergraduate math office.

  Is that a snake on the neck of Wit’s new guitar? 
  Yes. But, it doesn’t look that scary or creepy.
  
  Does the rental in
  England have Internet connection (is it linked somehow to the cable you
  mentioned)?
  That I do not know, but if not, we will certainly have to hook it up.
  
  How do you find the time to ‘Xanga’?
  We all find time for that which we love the most.  (grin)
  What is y
  our favorite Jane Austen book after P&P and why?
  Northanger Abbey
  
  How could anyone resist the charms of a book which contains Catherine Moorland, the character whom I am most like on every Austen quiz, Henry Tillney, the Austen hero whom I would most enjoy hanging out with in real life, and a biting social commentary via Miss Jane.  Excellent!
  
  How do you stay thin when you love chocolate chip cookies & seem to make them often?
  Truth be told, I’m not really thin. (I do wear a size 12.) I just give the IMPRESSION of being thin, and for that, I credit good genetics and finally finding clothing styles that suit my rather odd figure.
  
  Also, other than the junk, I don’t really eat many calories a day. One day, I went sugar free, and I barely had 1200 calories!  I also subscribe to the philosophy touted in French Women Don’t Get Fat, which is that one can eat whatever one wants in any quantity. But, the next day (or week), one eats lightly to counteract it.
  
  There. Now you know. Don’t you feel like taking a trivia quiz or something? (Yes, I love trivia quizzes!)
  
  
  

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