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Borrowed from Solosundance


1. What was the 1st recipe or food you learned how to cook?
Let me state first that I hate to cook--luckily have many friends who love to feed me. The first thing I learned to cook was scrambled eggs when I was five or six. I remember mother teaching me.


2. What recipe or food did you cook most recently? We had salmon for dinner tonight--a lovely version that comes in a package prepared with spinach in cheese sauce and a crunchy crust on top.
Yummy.

3. What recipe or food do you cook most often?
Salmon or hamburger.

4. What is your favourite recipe? My signature recipe came from a Soap Opera digest magazine. One of the actresses on General Hospital was promoting it, and it looked so easy, I thought even I could do it. Salmon in dijon sauce. Everyone raves for it!


5. What is the recipe you make that impresses other people the most? Lol--I made it today. Brownies with mint topping. Literally Ghiradelli triple chocolate brownie mix with mini Andes mints melted on top. People always think I slaved for hours.

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01. Did you know your spouse?
No spouse.

02. Did you car pool?
Nope. We took the bus until I was allowed to drive the family car--but you know, I think that was when I was in college.

03. What kind of car did you have?
When allowed, I drove my mother's old Oldsmobile which I had already put a dent in the driver's side door.

04. It's FRIDAY night: Where are you going?
Most likely, either watching Starsky and Hutch or performing in a play. I was in a drama club.

05. What kind of job did you have?
Babysitting half the neighborhood and doing some housecleaning for neighbors.

06. Were you a party animal?
Not one iota.

07. Were you considered a jock?
Completely the opposite.

08. Were you in choir/band?
In junior and senior year, I was in acapella choir. Up until then, I had been in a children's choir from about 14-16 years old.

09. Were you a nerd?
I suppose that might apply although it wasn't a term then. I was voted "Strange agent" in my senior year although not quite sure what it meant. I was in theatre most of the time!

10. Did you get suspended?
Nope.

11. Can you sing the fight/school song?
Weirdly, since I was never a cheerleader nor attended a single football game, yes I can. "All hail the mighty bulldogs, hail the red and the white, fight, fight fight....mighty bulldogs fight for San Rafael. We were kind of required to attend the pep rallies and I did know a couple of the cheerleaders. I mostly liked their cute outfits which where nothing like on Glee. Our cheerleaders wore very short red dresses with puffed sleeves and white pinafores over the top.

12. Where did you eat?
Where ever. I generally brought my lunch and found a bench. Didn't have a dining room, but there was an outdoor lunch counter for (I think, can't recall) hamburgers and such. One funny thing. Our high school was literally across the street from the inlet to the bay and seagulls regularly dive bombed anyone eating to try to grab food.

13. Where was High School?
In the city. I took a bus ride from our subdivision.

14. What was your school mascot?
A bulldog. Although the waterpolo team was called the bullfrogs, which I thought was funny.

15. If you could go back and do it over?
Don't feel the need to! It wasn't horrible, I loved being in theatre, but it's in the past now.

16. Do you still talk to the person you went to prom with?
Sadly, he died in the '80s. He turned out to be gay. We were mostly friends indulging in a bit of cuddling in my senior year. Nothing more than a kiss on the cheek. I only went to the prom because I hadn't been to any other dance. Didn't enjoy myself at all.

17. Are you planning on going to the next reunion?
nope

18. Are you still in contact with people from High School?
Actually I know several. One from my year, and two from my sister's year (two years younger) who are still my friends to this day. About five years ago, I met a now good friend and we discovered she also attended high school the same year as my sister--yet we have yet to find a single person we knew in common back then. All those missed years, cause I really enjoy having her as a friend.

19. Did you skip school?
Never.

20. Do you know where your High School sweetheart is?
As above, the guy I went to the prom with would be the only one who could even be sort of called my sweetheart.

21. What was your favourite subject?
Drama and creative writing. Also liked history and English.

22. Do you still have your High School ring?
Didn't get one.

23. Do you still have your year-books?
I have junior and senior year.

Books meme

Jun. 4th, 2017 03:18 pm
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Grabbed this from exbex. ;-)

1. Hardback or paperback? Whatever I can get my hands on, baby. Admittedly, hardbacks are heavier to carry around.

2. Borrow or buy? Both--libraries draw me in like a fly to honey, and so do bookstores, although I tend to get most books from used book sales, and people giving them to me.

3. Fantasy or sci-fi? Probably Fantasy, but I read both.

4. Love-triangle or love at first sight? Hmm, romance as a main theme is my least favorite, but I'd say I do like the love at first sight when it's in the context of the story and doesn't get in the way of the plot.

5. Wall shelves or bookcases? I have bookcases.

6. Bad plot with good characters or good plot with bad characters? If the book doesn't grab me in a few pages, I'd bail on any story.

7. Harry Potter or Percy Jackson? I’ve read Harry Potter, but did see a Percy Jackson movie.

8. Booklr or bookstagram? I don't know what those are.

9. Contemporaries or fantasy? Probably fantasy, still.

10. English books or books in your native language? English. I probably could limp through a children's book in French but not a novel.

11. Buy in a bookshop or buy online? Both. I love wandering through a bookstore.

12. Amazon or Book Depository? Amazon. don't know Book Depository.

13. Buy because of the cover or because of the description? I'll admit to having bought a book for the cover.

14. Alphabetical shelves or colour coordinated? Uh--shoved in, mostly, any old way, although I do have series and same authors grouped together.

15. different sized books or matching sizes? all different sizes.

16. Wait to marathon a series or read as they’re released? As they’re released.

17. Movie or tv adaptations? Well, I generally prefer the book, although in the case of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, I have to say that since the books really needed editing badly, the movies did trim the fat and stick to the main story line better.

18. Zombies or vampires? Neither. Zombies--ick. I do read Patricia Briggs books which feature werewolves and the odd vampire, but really that's my exception.

19. Reading indoors or outdoors? Indoors.

20. Coffee or tea? Tea, always

21. Bookmarks or random objects to mark your page? Bookmarks--I have a zillion of them.

22. Dog-earing or bookmarks? I do dog-ear paperbacks because the bookmarks always slide right out.

23. Be your favourite character or be their best friend? I never put myself in books (or TV shows)--which is why I write fanfiction. I want to continue their adventures, not my own.

24. Physical or e-book? Real books all the way.

25. Read in bed or on a chair? Chair.

26. Audiobook or ebook? I don't have an ebook reader and have only done a handful of audiobooks, although they are nice for a long car ride.

27. Series or stand-alones? I love series!

28. Reading in the winter or reading in the summer? Every season!
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Got this from exbex--she posted twenty first lines but I'm going to do ten to conserve my strength. Three fandoms--Starsky and Hutch, The Professionals and Inspector Lewis.


“’E’s been hit by a car,” Lizzie said, sounding like she was standing right next to him instead of thousands of miles away.

It was one of those rain slicked, foggy nights were the elements seem intent on burrowing under collars, the edges of boots and up under hats, drenching human kind.

Happiness is a Warm Gun by the Beatles was playing on the stereo when Starsky let himself into Venice Place.

“Who was your first, then?” Bodie asked, walking into the building.

He waited.

James Hathaway had never had a type.

Rain brought strong winds, rare thunder and lightning to Bay City.

Starsky walked out of Metro headquarters, tired beyond belief—it had been a rough forty-eight hours and he was ready to hit the hay.

Listening with one ear to the speaker’s long-winded rhetoric, James Hathaway kept an eye out on the crowd.

In the midst of a case, Hathaway doesn’t sleep.

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