Two of Your Everyday Essentials
1. Floss
2. Coffee
Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now
1. Skirt
2. Sweater
Two Things You Want in a Relationship
1. Humor
2. a sense of making-it-up-as-we-go
Two Things That Scare You
1. Old age – or rather – being alone in old age
2. s’s
Two Truths
1. I’m a little bit obsessed with my new dust-buster. I vacuum every day. Which is rather excessive because my apartment is teeny. I just like to.
2. I once had 3 dates on the same day.
Two Things that Appeal to You In a Guy/Girl
1. Curiosity
2. Self-awareness (which usually translates into: being able to listen, being able to tell a good story, an all-around good companion)
Two of Your Favorite Hobbies
1. The whole index-card catalog-of-countries thing that I do. It could take over my life, so I really need to be careful with how much time I spend on it. If the CIA ever calls … I’ll be ready with my own database.
2. Reading out loud. I LOVE to read out loud. To myself, obviously. I just enjoy it, and find it so relaxing.
Two Things You Want Really Badly
I’m superstitious so I always feel weird about saying this stuff out loud. Perhaps I shouldn’t even say superstitious – fatalistic might be better. So I’ll keep it benign.
1. Travel through Iran and then go on and travel thru Central Asia
2. Something else that I know what it is but I’m not putting it down here
Two Places You Want to go on Vacation
1. Iran – I think we covered that
2. Tashkent – Samarqand – Bukhara – Kara Kum desert, etc.
Two Things You Want to Do Before You Die
More privacy issues here. Ehm …
1. Novel published
2. Other thing that I won’t share here
Two Things You Are Thinking About Now
1. What an impertinent question
2. Going for a run later today
Two Things in Your Nightstand
1. I can sense what you THINK I will say, what you EXPECT I will say. But no. That is in my underwear drawer, thank you very much. In my nightstand: I store my bag of cheapo tea lights, to break out whenever I have people over
2. My little ancient Book of Common Prayer
Two Stores You Shop At
1. TJ Maxx
2. Marshall’s
Two people I haven’t talked to in a while
1. Jackie
2. Jean
Two favorite places
1. My apartment on a rainy morning with nothing to do the rest of the day
2. On the deck at the Ocean Mist on a summer night with my sisters, my friends, my brother, the waves crashing beneath the deck, the sun going down, the seagulls bobbing on the waves
If you’re obsessed with your dustbuster, wait until you buy yourself one of those cool Dyson vaccuums. You’ll never need another relationship again.
Two of Your Everyday Essentials
1. Coffee
2. Comedy on XM Radio. I have to listen at least once a day.
Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now
1. A t-shirt of my husband’s.
2. Flip-flops
Two Things You Want in a Relationship
1. Humor
2. More humor.
Two Things That Scare You
1. Heights
2. Water (But only water I can’t see the bottom of. Pools are okay, oceans and lakes? Not so much.)
Two Truths
1. I love to do laundry. My dream house has a yooge laundry room with one of those Neptune Drying Centers. And a big table for folding.
2. I’ve had sex in a car in a cemetery.
Two Things that Appeal to You In a Guy/Girl
1. Dark hair.
2. The ability to find the humor in every situation.
Two of Your Favorite Hobbies
1. I like to read true crime books and watch crime shows on TV. I’m fascinated by the “seedier” side of life.
2. Singing along with the radio/CD player in the car.
Two Things You Want Really Badly
1. To go to NYC for karoke. :)
2. For my husband to come home.
Two Places You Want to go on Vacation
1. Ireland
2. Bermuda
Two Things You Want to Do Before You Die
1. Travel
2. Sing torch songs in a smoky bar.
Two Things You Are Thinking About Now
1. If I can get this done before “Numb3rs” comes on.
2. I wish the cat would stop licking my feet.
Two Things in Your Nightstand
1. “The Princes of Ireland” by Edward Rutherfurd.
2. The milk glass light with a built-in ring holder base that I bought at an antique store in Hazel, KY last year.
Two Stores You Shop At
1. Kohl’s
2. Hibbet Sports
Two people I haven’t talked to in a while
1. My mom (but that will be remedied on Sunday)
2. My friend Kathy
Two favorite places
1. My mom and dad’s house — sitting in the kitchen with my brother, doing the crossword puzzle in ink.
2. Sitting around on the shores of Kentucky Lake with all my cousins — firsts, seconds, thirds — and aunts and uncles at our family reunion. I’m very proud of the way we all come every year, no matter what.
I’m totally jealous that you can read outloud. I’ve tried it and I feel like an ignoramous. I don’t have enough focus power, it takes so much energy for me to get my eye to focus that trying to get words from the eye to my brain to my mouth….. just really doesn’t work. Jealous.
“Two Things You Want to Do Before You Die
1. Novel published”
Actually I can´t believe you haven´t got novels published yet…
I love that you get the max for the minimum.