Sunday Stealing ~ The State of My Pencil Skirt

Judd Corizan is very inquisitive today. He wants to know all sorts of personal things. So I came out of hiding from behind this tree to answer him. Why? I'm feeling mischievous. What else is new?
This is Sunday Stealing's The Layer Meme. It's like a 7-Layer Salad without the dressing. 'Cept I decided to dress for this occasion. Mmmmaybe.
Read on. If you dare.

LAYER 1: Tell us your...

* Name: Mimi Pencil Skirt Queen of The Memes and Curator of The Peace Globes yada yada yada

* Birthday (month, day): Didn't you read my blog yesterday? It was NOT my birthday. My friend Lizza from the Philippines just sent this card. It is hysterical. Thanks, sweetie!Birthplace: Bloggingham Palace USA

* Current location: In front of my laptop. Oh you mean....Bloggingham Palace USA

* Eye color: Very Brown

* Height: Tall enough to reach the peanut butter on the top shelf of the bottom shelf. I am 5' 2" without the ever present heels. Then it depends on my mood..

* Righty or lefty: Right-handed. Left politics

* Zodiac sign: Sagittarius.

LAYER 2: What's...

* Your heritage: Half pencil skirt. Half Cherokee. Blog Royalty (seriously...my great-grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee)

* The shoes you wore today: Moccasins

* Your weakness: Procrastination and kind men with confidence (who don't wear flannel on a first date. Don't ask.)* Your fears: That I won't finish this meme before Sunday is over. * Your perfect pizza: Thin crust pepperoni, onions, black olives, extra cheese

* Goals you’d like to achieve: I'm working on a theory to stop time. Jim Croce put it in a bottle. It's been stuck there since 1972.....

* Your first waking thoughts: I want to go back to sleep. I love my bed.

* Your best physical feature: A doctor once told me my liver was nicely shaped. Does that count? My appendix however, (God rest its soul) was on the wrong side of my body before they took it out. (God rest its sick soul)

* Your most missed memory: If it's missing how am I supposed to remember what it is? I'd have to find it first.

LAYER 3: Do you...

* Smoke: Only when I set the kitchen on fire

* Cuss: Not usually. Lately yes. Sometimes. Then I repent. And live to cuss another day. But no one knows. And no one hears me. It's a secret you see.....
Sing: I'd say yes. I have a classical voice degree. I literally sing for my supper.

* Take a shower everyday: More than once. I like that bubbly bath feeling too...

* Do you think you’ve been in love: Know I have. Look forward to that feeling again....and again...and again....(with one man. Not many...you know what I mean...)

* Did you go to college: Yes, ad nausea

* Liked high school: Not so much

* Want to get/stay married: Newsflash! My latest epiphany! Drum roll please....I never want to get married again. I'm researching the legalities of living together in chateau castles in the town of Bloggingham. I think there's a law against it somewhere. I hope my mother isn't reading this meme.

* Believe in yourself: Yes

* Think you’re attractive: Based on the shape of my gorgeous liver, I'd say yes. Bwaahhhahhha

* Think you’re a health freak: Health and freak do not belong in the same sentence. Guilty of both on so many levels. Ahem.... I walk an hour a day. I do TaeBo. I try to NOT eat my cooking eat right. If that makes me a health freak then so be it.

* Get along with your parent(s): Of course. I'm too old to be grounded. It works out well...

* Like thunderstorms: Adore them

* Play an instrument: Piano (a lot) violin (a little) Percussion (meno mosso)

LAYER 4: In the past month…

* Drank alcohol: A sip of wine
* Smoked: No.

* Done a drug: Does Tylenol count?
* Made out: Only with my pillow
* Gone on a date: If I answer that I'll start having the Flannel Shirt Nightmare again. So I won't answer it. Did I mention I hate flannel?

* Gone to the mall: The mall is my second home

* Eaten an entire box of Oreos: Never

* Eaten sushi: Yes

* Been on stage: Many times

* Been dumped: Seriously. Who, in their right mind, would dump a Queen?

* Gone skating: I fell down a lot. I don't like falling down.

* Gone skinny dipping: That would be a yes. It was cold. But lots of fun.....

* Stolen Anything: OK OK! I confess! An apple when I was 7 from my Aunt's porch. And a few hearts. But I gave 'em back so it doesn't count. The apple I ate.

LAYER 5: Ever…

* Played a game that required removal of clothing: A modified version of Spin The Bottle in the closet with Robert and Scott. I was 12. With quite an imagination.


* Been trashed or extremely intoxicated: Never. And really, what IS the point?

* Been caught “doing something”: Pencil Skirt does not understand this question, Judd. Doing what?

* Been called a tease: On occasion.....I prefer to think of it as "mysteriously imaginative"....How's that working for me? Not so hot.

* Gotten beaten up: Yes. A story for another post. It was sad. And no, it was not a husband or boyfriend or parent. But it was sad. She was jealous of my boyfriend. It was sad. I said that didn't I? It's all coming back to me now. NOW I understand why someone would want to get trashed or intoxicated. I hate that memory! Thanks a LOT, Judd!!

* Shoplifted: Um...that would be a no. But I went shopping once in my teens with a girl who decided to sneak a belt into her purse. I said "Put that Baaaccckk!" (visions of jail in my head). She didn't. I left. I never went shopping with her again.

LAYER 6:

* Age you did get/hope to be married: I was too young. It was too long. It was all wrong. I'm beginning to sound like a Bonnie Raitt song.

* Numbers and names of children: That is none of your business, Mr. Corizan. But if you must know...Uno.
No, that is not his name.

* Describe your dream mate: The mate in my dreams is unbloggable. But a LOT of fun.

* How do you want to die: I just had a non-birthday yesterday. I highly resent this question. Plotting my mortality is not what I want to do today. I do not WANT to die. I hate this question. Jim Croce does too.

* What do you want to be when you grow up: I have to grow up?

* What country would you most like to visit: The Kingdom of Morocco. Click here for one of the most beautiful blogs about it in the world. Maryam, my friend, I am so ready for that vacation.

LAYER 7: Now tell...

* Name a drug you’ve taken illegally: I get it. You are really the Internet NARC Society in disguise, aren't you Judd...... I don't care how many light bulbs you shine in my face I have never taken an illegal drug. Enough!

* Name a person you could trust with my life: My best friend, Barbara.

* Name a favorite CD that you own: I have two. (1)Sarah McLachlan's "Mirrorball".....It is one of my "relationship CDs" Do you all have one of those? and
(2) A special Valentine's set and gift made by an ex-boyfriend just for us. Priceless memories of the Lenny Kravitz kind.

* Number of piercings: Each ear. Once. But man it hurt.

* Number of tattoos: That's a joke, right? I am a tattoo-less woman and plan to stay that way.

* Number of times my name has appeared in the newspaper: Many times. I've written for newspapers and then there's the performing.

* Name a past experience that you regret: Truth. I no longer believe in "no regrets". I have some. (Yet another recent epiphany) I believe in honoring the truth of what is and what was - the good and the bad - otherwise, you can't hope to grow as a human being or learn anything. People who say they don't regret anything I worry about. I believe in building bridges, not burning them. Then you have to decide how you are going to walk across. Sometimes that is a very hard thing to do, but it is a brave thing where relationships are concerned and part of the work that goes along with figuring out who you are and what you want. Sometimes you set boundaries until you're ready to look back with no pain. Sometimes you plow through and look at the pain too. I never regret the experience of loving someone. That is the fire and joy of life.

Matters of The Heart - Jane Seymour and Jim Croce's Time In a Bottle

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