1. You're feeling: Tired and a little anxious, don't know why.

2. To your left: A pillow balanced on the sofa arm. Wondering how it's staying there by itself. LOL

3. On your mind: My current novel. Aha!--there's the source of my anxiety!

4. Last meal included: Dry Fiber One cereal, because the milk had gone sour.

5. You sometimes find it hard to: Get up and get going.

6. The weather: Overcast, humid, and just now started raining.

7. Something you have a collection of: Home decorating catalogs. ALWAYS!!!

8. A smell that cheers you up: Anything having to do with the autumn. Cloves, leaves, smoke.

9. A smell that can ruin your mood: Automotive paint or something noxious my husband is spraying in the garage, even though I've begged him NOT TO a million times because the a/c unit drags it into the house. LOL We go round and round.

10. How long since you last shaved?: Yesterday.

11. The current state of your hair: Unbrushed and in a clip, because my husband is out of town (although on his way home, so quick! I must brush the hair and put on a bra!)

12. The largest item on your desk/workspace (not computer): A framed photo of my beautiful husband.

13. Your skill with chopsticks: Non-existant. I lump it in with playing pool and dancing the Two-Step...I can do it when I'm inebriated, but then as soon as I sober up, I forget how.

14. Which section do you head for first in a bookstore?: New releases or Romance.

15. Something you're craving: Anything sweet.

16. Your general thoughts on the Presidential race: It's kind of exciting but I feel extremely undecided.

17. How many times have you been hospitalized this year: None, thank God.

18. Favorite place to go for a quiet moment: The library room in our house. It's dark and lovely and filled with books and paintings I never get tired of.

19. You've always secretly thought you'd be a good: Psychologist.

20. Something that freaks you out a little: The way I'm aging.

21. Something you've eaten too much of lately: Cookies. Blecccch.

22. You have never: Skydived.

23. You never want to: Skydive.