Two Monday Missions for the price of one:
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1. Last night, I had a nightmare that my car had been stolen. (…) Have you ever had a dream so real, that inside the dream you had to fight to wake yourself up? Do you remember the dream?
Not fight, no. I have had dreams where I’ve realised I was dreaming and decided I might as well wake up, but not ones that have been stressful.
2. I’ve mentioned this before, but I really don’t believe in the concept of a “soul-mate.” Maybe this is because I’ve never really felt like I have met mine. (…) How would you define the concept of a “soul-mate” is? Do you believe in such things? Have you met your soul-mate?
Have I met my soul-mate? To the degree that I think it’s an accurate description, yes, I guess I have. At least I’ve met someone I’m planning to spend the rest of my life with and he seems to think it’s a good idea, too.
3. What does it take to make men happy anyway?
How should I know? I hardly even know what it takes to make me happy.
4. What is your favorite piece of electric hardware, and why?
Right now it’s a fierce fight between my Jukebox Zen (I love being able to carry all my favourite music with me everywhere) and my new breadmaker (mmm, waking up to freshly baked bread…). On the other hand I rather like my computer (yay! e-mail!) and the fridge (yay! cold drinks!) and the cooker (yay! pizza!) too, and wouldn’t be prepared to give any of them up without a fight.
5. Yesterday in our adult Sunday School class, a lady was telling us about a woman with car trouble she had stopped to help. (…) It left me wondering how many people I had just driven by that I could have helped. But at the same time, I felt like she was taking too big of a risk stopping to help a stranger when it was just her and her children. Have you ever stopped to help a stranded motorist? Has anyone ever stopped to help you when you were stranded? Isn’t there some element of risk involved when helping someone with car trouble, or is it better to just “do unto others as you’d have them do unto you?”
There’s a risk, obviously, but then there’s a risk to most things in life and if you are to walk around constantly worrying about them and letting them limit your actions your life is going to be pretty boring.
6. Just for fun, what is the one present you’d like for Christmas, but you know there is no way you will get?
Canon EOS 300D (or any of the other digital Canon SLRs, though in a way I’d prefer the “cheap” one as I might feel slightly too worried about carrying my camera everywhere if it was worth several thousands).
7. What are you thankful for this Christmas?
Martin
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1. So, what did you get for Christmas?
Just what I wanted. Except for the aforementioned Canon EOS 300D.
2. Are you returning any gifts you were given for Christmas?
Nope.
3. For me, the best part of Christmas being over is that there will be no more Fran Drescher “Old Navy” commercials. Ugh, bring back Morgan Fairchild! What is the best part of Christmas being over?
No more stupid newspaper stories about what to get people for Christmas.
4. Used to be, we would always get together with friends and have Margaritas on New Year’s Eve (though time has passed and friends drift apart, so not anymore, sadly). My Grandma always makes sure to eat Black Eyed Peas on N.Y.E. I know of another couple who “do it” on NYE, and time it to reach their “peak” right at 12:00 AM! Do you have any traditions each year for New Year’s Eve?
Champers at midnight and watching the fireworks. That’s about it for traditions.
5. If you could go back into 2003 and change just one thing, or get a “do over,” what would you do?
Hm. Not sure I’d change anything, actually, 2003 has been a pretty good year so far. I might just possibly have done things slightly differently between 11 and 17 July, but as things have worked out pretty well, I think it might be better just to leave them as they are – changing anything would just bring the risk of messing things up, I should think.
6. Is there anything you want to accomplish in 2004 that seems within reach?
Get this f%?#ing project live.
7. Is your online personality very different from what it would be like if I were meeting you in “real life?”
I don’t think so. If it is, it’s not consciously done on my part. There will inevitably be differences between your expectations derived from the way I write and the actual me, I suppose, since what I write obviously only contains the information I consider “important” enough to consign to bits, but they’re unlikely to be major ones.
