You might have seen this one around. Most recently, I saw it on Tina’s blog. I dont’ know about you but I love reading and filling out these quizzes!
1) What is one of your favorite ways to spend a Saturday?
The best Saturdays are the ones where I laze around in my pajamas until after lunch, Jeff keeps churning out brew after brew of hot tea for us to sip on, and we spend our time curled up on the couch either playing video games or watching funny videos on the internet….and don’t get anything productive done the whole day.
2) List your top three favorite TV shows.
We no longer have cable, but there’s plenty of good stuff on Netflix:
- Dexter
- Breaking Bad
- House (no longer on Netflix, sad!)
3) Would you rather be in pictures or take them?
Definitely take them. I’m really enjoying learning all the ins and outs of photography.
4) Why do you blog?
While I started for other reasons, I continue to blog because I love cooking and I love sharing my recipes and other food related stuffs with others. It also kind of serves as a living diary/scrapbook to preserve the things that are happening in my life right now.
5) Share five websites that you visit regularly…
- Google Reader
- TheDailyWhat
- Foodgawker
- Pinterest (follow me!)
6) If you could have lunch with one person from your Twitter list who would it be?
I don’t really use Twitter so I haven’t racked up much of a list. I’d say any of my blog friends that I haven’t met yet would be nice though.
7) List a few of your favorite snacks.
Lately all I ever want is an Alexia frozen biscuit baked up all golden and hot and covered in honey. Normally though; I snack on hummus with crackers, a perfectly undercooked hard boiled egg with salt, or some sort of nuts or fruit.
8 ) Do you have a pet? If so, what kind?
Two chocolate brown Burmese cats, Lucas and Liam. Liam likes to bite the water as it comes out of the faucet and Lucas is afraid of bananas. They are a little weird.
9) Which three material possessions would you struggle to live without?
My computer, my camera, and because this is Atlanta which has rather crappy means of public transport: my car.
10) What’s your favorite drink?
Alcoholic: I’m really digging brown ales right now, especially Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar. Non: Love me some gingerberry kombucha and Chinese black teas.
11) Do you enjoy cooking?
Oh my yes. I love creating new recipes and nothing makes me happier than for someone to compliment me on my cooking. I do get sick of it sometimes though, but never for long.
12) Do you have children?
Not yet. We have made some tentative plans for when to start down that road, but it still seems too soon the closer we approach it. They are in the cards, but I’m just not sure when.
13) What are your favorite hobbies?
I love reading, cooking, making lists, learning to take beautiful photos, and I’m even starting to really enjoy the gym. I’d like to start doing more creative things too, so I’ve got some plans for art pieces I’m making this year.
14) Would you consider yourself to be shy or outgoing?
This is hard to answer. I am definitely socially anxious but I don’t think shy is the right word for it. I am outgoing in that I don’t tend to let fear keep me from trying something new for too long.
15) If you could change one thing about yourself, what would you change?
I wish that I were more of a go-getter. Jeff is an excellent example of someone who is always motivated and always working actively toward his goals. I have really learned a lot from him about how to stop wasting so much time dreaming and planning and actually take steps to make change, but I still need a lot of work.
16) Who is your favorite actor/actress?
I don’t really pay attention to the careers of actors and actresses very much. I don’t really watch a lot of movies in general.
17) What’s the coolest thing you’ve done this week?
Jeff and I brewed our first batch of beer at home, but that’s more his achievement than mine. I did run my first 5k distance of the year at the gym this week though, working back into it!
18) Do you live near your family or far from them?
Far-ish. Mine are all about an hour or so south of me and Jeff’s are about 2 hours north. So, neither are terribly far but it does make it nearly impossible to see both sides of the family on holidays because we can’t make it to both places in the same day.
19) List three of your talents.
- I have excellent mental mapping skills, even when I get lost I can always figure out how to get unlost.
- I’m very good at eyeballing the correct quantities of ingredients in a recipe.
- I can recite several very long poems from memory.
20) What is your greatest attribute?
I think my greatest attribute is my ability to stay calm through stressful situations, which I think will help me immensely when I become a parent. Sure, things bother me sometimes and I do have a habit of ranting when I’m frustrated, but I tend to immediately start thinking of ways to fix the problems rather than dwelling on how they make me feel.
That was fun! Comment with your own answer to one of the questions if you feel so inclined. 
Oooh, which poems, which poems? #litnerdexcitement
Loved this quiz! I often find memes/questionnaires that fly around blogs rather, well, dull, but your answers were truly fascinating, so thank you!
I know several Lewis Carroll’s: Jabberwocky, The Walrus and The Carpenter, You are old Father William. I also know The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Design by Robert Frost, and The Second Coming by Yeats. A few shorter ones too. I’ve just always been really good at memorization.
I think I need to ride with you to Lee’s house. I’m terrible with directions! 😉
And so love all these things because love getting to know the blogger more. can’t wait to hang out more in a couple weeks!
Tina @ Best Body Fitness recently posted..Playing Along
I’m similarly socially anxious. On my survey thing, I said I was shy but that’s not really the right word for me either. I’m really bad at small talk basically but when I know a person (even if it’s through blogging and not in real life), I’m relatively outgoing with them.
Lee recently posted..Bribed With Cookies
Yep, smalltalk, I’m terrible at it. Otherwise, I do like meeting people it just doesn’t come easily for me.
I’ve always thought it was cool when people can quote long passages of a book or poetry, I am not very good at those memory-type things. So cool that you have that gift, maybe you can give me some tips on how you do that!
Heather @ Better With Veggies recently posted..Weekend Recap
You know those exercise routines where you do one move and then you do it again but add another, and then you do those two moves and add one more, and you keep adding and adding on to the set before? That’s how I memorize things. Learn the first part and add a bit more, then keep adding and adding until I know all of it. The hard part comes in remembering it long after you’ve learned it, and for that I’ve found that only practice can help with. I recite these poems to myself any time I need to kill time or take my focus off something else, like when I’m getting blood taken or pushing through a difficult workout. I imagine you could use anything you wanted to remember in situations like that and eventually make them second nature.
I’m curious about Reddit. I’ve never used it.
Like everyone else, I’m really impressed with your memory. When we had to memorize poems in school I’d always take the bad grade.
Laura @ Sprint 2 the Table recently posted..Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner: A Tribute
Don’t get started on Reddit if you value your free time. It’s basically just a site for people to post interesting articles or videos or funny pictures, but the users are all very engaged in the Reddit community and so there’s a lot of lingo and inside jokes that you will only get if you read it for a while. Some of it is hilarious and some of it is eye-rolling, but they do band together for a cause very well which is admirable.
My memory is just crazy. I can remember a plane ride that I took at 18 months old that I was never told about, so it had to be a memory. I hope that it will always be that way, the thought of not remembering things correctly terrifies me.
It made me laugh out loud when I saw that Lucas is afraid of bananas! Loved your answers. Very cool talents!! I’m impressed!
Answer to #11….Is there a recipe? Looks fantastic.
Kellie@ Nutritional Therapy Coach recently posted..Many Chronic Issues Are Related to Food
Thanks! This one looks fancy but it was just me playing with a new set of ring molds. Basically just mashed avocado over sushi rice and topped with chopped raw tuna, scallions, and nori shreds. More assembly than cooking really, but I’m still proud of it.
I spy Harry Potter !
I always enjoyed memorizing, as it came easily to me too. That might be one of the reasons I enjoyed theater so much, though of course there was also a lingering dread because lines would occasionally vanish from my memory. The downside to not having to study them exhaustively, I suppose:)
Emma recently posted..the stunning red omelette in carcassonne, france
Oh yes, love me some Harry Potter! My memory definitely helped with remembering lines, as well as memorizing speeches. I still have those total blank-outs though, it’s like I can remember all or nothing!