1. You're feeling: Tired, where the heck are the coffee filters??
2. To your left: My six year old daughter is playing a game on my I-pod and soliciting a lot of advice. I am squinting at the screen over her shoulder bleary eyed.
3. On your mind: C-o-f-f-e-e
4. Last meal included: Beer and pretzels.
5. You sometimes find it hard to: um, wake up? Get over the fact today is the last day of vacation? Sigh…..
6. The weather: is cool and drizzly and damp and makes me want to go back to bed.
7. Something you have a collection of: Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason novels that were my husbands.
8. A smell that cheers you up: My daughter's cheers of success.
9. A smell that can ruin your mood: Cat or dog pee. Guess who has to clean up the mess?
10. How long since you last shaved?: Yesterday morning.
11. The current state of your hair: Unwashed and uncombed and oily. I think it's a perimenopause thing but, yuck, can I please get over this oily phase?
12. The largest item on your desk/workspace (not computer): LOL, my empty (because what goes in there is in stacks on the corners) bill sorter.
13. Your skill with chopsticks: Excellent, actually. Really.
14. Which section do you head for first in a bookstore?: Sci-fi, because in my favorite store it's in front of the Romance, which I hit up next.
15. Something you're craving: um, C-O-F-F-E-E and caramel.
16. Your general thoughts on the Presidential race: I like that there is still some undecidedness.
17. How many times have you been hospitalized this year: Whew, NONE, thank you very much.
18. Favorite place to go for a quiet moment: My room, curled up on my new cushy-yet-firm mattress.
19. You've always secretly thought you'd be a good: Diplomat, I can be very calming, except, of course, that I hate confrontations!
20. Something that freaks you out a little: Unexplained noises in the attic
21. Something you've eaten too much of lately: MATZOH
22. You have never: Been South of the United States.
23. You never want to: Clean out pig stalls again.

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