Tell Me 2 Things - Part Deux Showing 1,851-1,900 of 2,570

[Pamela]

Right now, Quebec and a revisit to Hawaii

Tell me two things on your 'bucket' list.

[Tess]

Pay off the loans for my children's college
Relax maybe event retire some day

TM2 books you do not recommend

[Judy]

Wild Animus by Rich Shapero (trust me)
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

TM2 of your desert island books

[Anne]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

TM2 things you love about summer.

[Tess]

Being warm
Being at the lake

TM2 things on your bucket list

[Anne]

Own and take good care of a horse or two.
Become an accomplished multi-media artist.

TM2T you love to do outdoors.

[Tess]

Yoga
Sit on my front porch and read

TM2 Father's activities you have planned

[Dawn]

Didn't go out this Father's Day so I'll say two past Father's Day activities: Italian restaurant dinner, drive-in movie double-feature.

TM2 of your favorite historical periods and why.

[Anne]

the 1960's - the civil rights! the feminism! the MUSIC!
WWII - the evil and the heroism - some of my favorite books and BBC dramas are set in this time period.

TM2 television shows you loved as a little kid.

[Dawn]

(Great answers! My favorites besides those are the Elizabethan era [1558–1603 aka Shakespeare's era] and the 1950s, both primarily for aesthetic and artistic reasons).

Frasier and Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

TM2 books you loved as a little kid.

[Judy]

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
The Chosen Baby

TM2 books you have shared or plan to share with your own children,

[Dawn]

I plan on sharing several but these two series always come to mind first: Harry Potter (I'll read the first one to them like my mom did with me and my siblings) and The Chronicles of Narnia.

TM2 books you hated in high school.

[Tess]

An y math book
The Sound and the Fury


TM2 summer fun activities you have planned

[Pamela]

Some home repairs to the house
Spend a day at a spa

TM2 two things you enjoy now that you didn't as a child.

[Dawn]

Goat cheese and brussels sprouts.

TM2 things you believed in as a child that you don't anymore.

[Anne]

There are little tiny people inside the radio that play music for us.
The people in the television can see me.

TM2T you like about the book you're currently reading.

[Dawn]

(Adorable answers Anne! I believed in borrowers, like in The Borrowers, and faeries.)

It's basically a well-written soap opera and we all need that from time to time, plus the writer takes great care weaving accurate historical details into fictional events.

TM2 of your favorite non-realist books (fantasy, sci-fi, magical realism, supernatural horror, etc).

[Furrawn]

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
The Liveship trilogy by Robin Hobb

TM2 of your favorite childhood books
that you still love to read.

[Furrawn]

*favorite childhood BOOKS

[Tess]

Good Night Moon
The Best Loved Doll

TM2 of your favorite things about July 4

[Furrawn]

1) Family/friends
2) Yummy food:)

TM2 things you like about
midnight.

[Diane]

my kids are asleep
the house is quiet

Tell me two things that inspire you

[Anne]

quiet, early mornings
happy, energetic music

TM2T you do to stay healthy

[Tess]

Yoga
Eating healthy foods

TM2 things you are looking forward to

[Furrawn]

Going to Toronto and my 49th bday in September.

TM2 things you like about rain/thunderstorms.

[Dawn]

That earthy rain smell (petrichor) and the bruise-colored sky.

Tell me your two favorite book genres.

[Diane]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE that smell - I didn't know it had a name! Thanks for educating me.

post apocalyptic
historical fiction

Tell me two things that attract you to a person (not necessarily sexually)

[Dawn]

(You're welcome Diane!)

Intelligence and empathy.

TM2 cities you'd love to vacation in (if money was no object).

[Tess]

Florence Italy
Quebec, Canada

TM2 items you saved because of the memories

[Dawn]

All the cards/letters my father sent me while he was in minimum-security prison (white collar crime) and all the playbills for the community theatre plays I was in during high school.

TM2 hobbies you had as a teenager.

[Tess]

Reading
Getting in trouble

TM2 things you do when you are bored...

[Diane]

Read
Nap

Tell me two things that drive you crazy when strangers do them

[Dawn]

1) Sexually harass me.
2) Behave rudely/get irate with service employees (servers/baristas/customer service/etc).

TM2 of your favorite movie series/franchises.

[Anne]

Star Trek
Bourne

TM2T you have won.

[Dawn]

$60 the one time I played the lottery and a 60% tuition academic scholarship.

Tell me your two favorite magazines.

[Tess]

Vanity Fair
Food Network

TM2 things you love about your mate

[Anne]

he never holds a grudge
he loves our cat

TM2 marks on your body that have a story behind them

[Diane]

The scars on my forehead from my car accident at 17 when my husband proposed to me
My c-section scar after 20 years of infertility

Tell me two chores that you do not mind (or like) doing

[Dawn]

Laundry and sweeping.

TM2 of your favorite things to do when you were a teenager.

[Diane]

Hang out with friends no matter where
Swimming in the reservoir

Tell me two things from the past, that you would handle differently if you could

[Pamela]

Tough question! I guess one of the things would be my hair trigger in response to someone who really needed gentler handling.

The other would likely be how we moved into this house without time to do some work on it. Like the off-white carpet with small children. We're playing catch up now 15 years later ...

Tell me two things that you remember from your childhood that are special.

[Dawn]

1) Making and sharing the first thing I ever wrote - a comic book for my dad's birthday, starring me and him successfully surviving on a desert island after a plane crash.
2) My very first memory of my second oldest brother. We were picking him up at the airport; he was home from the Gulf War (yes I'm 29 aka a crone). I broke away from my family and sprinted at him when I caught sight of him leaving his terminal and leapt into his arms; he spun me around and held me tight, tears in his eyes, and said, "Hey little sis," which is the first thing he always says to me, even now.

TM2 of your favorite birthday memories.

[Anne]

My favorite ice cream when I was a kid was peppermint, which wasn't always available in the stores, so on my 10th birthday (this was 50 years ago) my mom spent what seemed like hours mixing crushed peppermint bits into vanilla ice cream!
Back when I was married, my husband got me a cat (a beautiful Tonkinese kitten)--and he had no great affinity for cats.

TM2 Life Lessons you have learned.

[Dawn]

1) Being in love doesn't save your long-term relationship - you can be madly in love and still implode, and after you implode, that love may still be there, and may always be.
2) Working hard and thinking positively isn't just an empty cliche - it works.

TM2 foods you hate.

[Melissa]

TM2 foods you hate.

Onions & hot dogs

TM2 favorite weekend activities.

[Dawn]

Writing and shopping.

TM2 of your favorite paintings.

[Diane]

Only two - so hard to pick...

The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
Pink and Blue Music by Georgia O'Keefe

Tell me two of your favorite art styles

[Dawn]

Hard choice! I'll go with Pre-Raphaelite and photorealist.

TM2 things you're looking forward to this month.

[Anne]

- Going on a road trip to Minnesota with my mom and sister.
- The end of the month, when I can give notice on my tiny studio.

TM2 magazines you like to browse.

[Dawn]

Vogue and The New Yorker.

TM2 of your favorite smells.