Happy south Texas winter!
Jan. 11th, 2024 01:14 am.
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Also note that the last time I went "sledding" was in Austin (a bit further north) and so there were hills and we used metal cafeteria trays and they worked great.
And I completely forgot about football until we got home. It's almost 8:00 (Central time) and Michigan just beat Alabama, we got to see the end of that, and so either Texas or Washington - whose game is just starting - will play them (in Houston!) next Monday. I had one smallish Longhorn sticker (I'm sure most people know vaguely what I mean, but like this) and I did remember to go put that on the new car. That's sort of a superstition, really, too, right? I feel like I would be being a bad Longhorn if I forgot that!
I almost decided to do a meme, but nah, I'll stop here. See y'all next year, Holidailies!
12. Would you ever go out in public wearing pajamas?
If I wore them, maybe, but I don’t.
13. Have you ever had a lemonade stand?.
Not on my own account - I’m really lacking in entrepreneurial spirit, generally. I think my sister may have had one and I helped out a bit.
14. Do you think you look older or younger than your real age?
Since I started going gray, I think I look my age. I used to get people telling me I looked much younger than my age, but this is another one of those things where I don’t think most people are really good judges, either. This may be because people in sort of the 30-50 year old range (i.e., not real young but not yet visibly aging much) are harder to sort out.
15. Where have you lived throughout your life?
I’ve only ever lived in Texas, mostly in the south & southeast Houston suburbs (and in Galveston, which is the same general area, just a little further out). When I was small we lived in West Texas for a couple of years. I was big enough to remember that - I remember prairie dogs, and the cotton field that was behind our house, among other things. And then a decade or so later, I went to UT, and hung around for a few years afterward - so I was in Austin from the late 70s to the mid-80s.Those are the only two times in my life when I've lived away from this general area I'm in now.
16. Do you want any piercings?
I have pierced ears and that’s plenty.
17. What’s your mouse pad look like?
It’s this one, which I bought a few months ago. Disclaimer: the designer, “Ellie Monroe,” is actually my sister (that's not her real name, of course). But I really like this mouse-pad - I like the design, plus it’s really well-made - and I paid for it myself. I didn’t even tell her I bought it until a good while later. (Really, I feel like mouse-pads should be unnecessary, but the surface of my desk doesn’t seem to lend itself to doing without!)
22. Do you still use a radio or just use your phone/computer for music?
My car radio went out in, like, 2014, and I never bothered to get it fixed. I just use the phone. I listen to podcasts more than I actually listen to music, these days.
23. What kind of socks do you prefer to wear?
None. I hate wearing socks. Luckily I live where it’s not often really necessary.
24. Do you have any family heirlooms?
I have quite a bit of my mother’s stuff, and her parents' and some of my grandmother’s on the other side too. I don’t know that there’s anything really tremendously valuable but I have a lot of their stuff, for sure. I’m not sure that the things that they would have said are heirlooms are the ones I value most. I am very partial to my (maternal) grandma’s very brightly-colored flowered china that my uncle brought back from Vietnam for her. Our dining room furniture came from the other grandma. And then I have a large number of my mother’s quilts, and I watched her make most of them, so I know exactly how much work went into them. And boy, family pictures out the wazoo. I have to force myself to part with that stuff gradually.