Sunday, June 21, 2020

Sunday Five - Simple Questions



1: Name one thing you like about yourself? 
2: Name one thing you like about where you live? 
3: What was your all time favorite trip? 
4: Who was the most famous person you ever met? 
5: What is the farthest you have ever been from home? 

My answers: 
1: Name one thing you like about yourself?  My curiosity 
2: Name one thing you like about where you live? Closeness to history - George Washington had dinner with friends on this hilltop a week before he died. 
3: What was your all time favorite trip? A tough choice, my first visit to Normandy.  
4: Who was the most famous person you ever met? Ronald Reagan in 1976. 
5: What is the farthest you have ever been from home? Greece,  about 5,500 miles from where I was living at the time.  

Please share your answers in the comments. 

22 comments:

  1. 1. Sense of humour
    2. The summers are not TOO hellishly hot
    3. Toss up between England and Italy
    4. No one, really
    5. French Polynesia, I suppose, or maybe South Korea. I suck at geography

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    1. I had to google a couple of travel distances to come up with an answer, you can get close by looking at time zones.

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  2. 1: Name one thing you like about yourself? Depends on the day. Today... my tact (which might be gone tomorrow).
    2: Name one thing you like about where you live? Living right on the Mediterranean Sea
    3: What was your all time favorite trip? First time to Norway
    4: Who was the most famous person you ever met? Simply a statement of fact, many... But I don't really care. None of them were among the most special people I've ever met.
    5: What is the farthest you have ever been from home? I guess Norway, when I lived in California.

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  3. 1: my intelligence

    2: my city is full of history, baby!

    3: my honeymoon with second husband (chicago, new orleans, atlanta by train)

    4: barry manilow in the mid 70s. he was doing a charity gig for a local radio station.

    5: rome, italy

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    1. When you find the right person, the honeymoon never ends.

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  4. 1) my cunning 😊
    2) it's now a blue state
    3) Alaska, both times
    4) Diana Rigg (I literally ran into her in Schubert Alley in NYC)
    5) Crete

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  5. Anonymous6/21/2020

    1. My acceptance that few people are perfect and I make allowances for human frailty.
    2. Where we live is quite suitable for ageing old queens.
    3. Danube River cruise, so expensive and so good.
    4. I've not really met anyone famous but I have seen lots of famous people.
    5. England or Canada. I am not sure which is the furtherest away.
    4.

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  6. 1: Name one thing you like about yourself? I have a very quick wit and I am high-larious.

    2: Name one thing you like about where you live? It's a little slice of blue heaven in a red state and people are smart--they wear masks here--and nice.

    3: What was your all time favorite trip? I took a lone trip from California through New Mexico up through Colorado to Wyoming and then down through Utah into Nevada and back home. By myself; peaceful.

    4: Who was the most famous person you ever met? Diana Ross. She asked me to dance. True story.

    5: What is the farthest you have ever been from home? London from California.

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    1. I hope you said yes to the dance

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  7. 1: Name one thing you like about yourself? I insatiable desire to learn
    2: Name one thing you like about where you live? no nasty long gray winters
    3: What was your all time favorite trip? Trip to germany/austria
    4: Who was the most famous person you ever met? I happened to be at George Washington's funeral one day; he asked me to make less noise.
    5: What is the farthest you have ever been from home? Costa Rica? Austria? which is further?

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  8. 1. My independence
    2. Endless blue skies
    3. Any of my many trips to London
    4. Bill Clinton (6 years ago)
    5. It's a toss up between western Austria and Buenos Aires.

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    1. Love the blue skys of the southwest

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  9. 1. I really don't know. I can think of more negative things.
    2. Cherry trees in the spring and good friends. Otherwise, yuck!
    3. Surprisingly, our cruise to Alaska. So much fun. I got drunkish and sang with the band.
    4. Hardly famous, Miss Black San Diego in high school. BH met Ali (I can't spell his first name) twice. He had a picture of him in his parents' home and his "best friend" at the time stole it.
    5. Hawaii. Balder Half has informed me that Hawaii is farther than the Bahamas.

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    1. I stand corrected on #5, so Bahamas.

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    2. We love your whit, your ability to turn a phrase, your joy at life.

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    3. I have those? Who'd of thunk it! :)

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  10. 1: Name one thing you like about yourself? Insatiable curiosity
    2: Name one thing you like about where you live? The Midwest seems relatively safe, boring but safe.
    3: What was your all time favorite trip? Alaskan cruise or trips to England, or Berlin--too many favorites.
    4: Who was the most famous person you ever met? Prince Philip--really. He was the keynote speaker at an Education Conference for European International Schools in Montreux, Switzerland in 1986. After his speech, he was just wandering around the exhibit hall with a couple of security men, and our group of two or three teachers got to speak to him. No names or handshakes, but pretty thrilling. Astoundingly, there were no security checks on the crowd as we went into the hall to sit and listen to him. After everyone was seated, he entered onto the stage. Wouldn't happen that way now with any high ranking royal.
    5: What is the farthest you have ever been from home? Budapest--on a bus tour from Frankfurt. Fairly close to Frankfurt but not Indiana, my home.

    Thank you so much for these five Sunday questions. Many of them get me reminiscing about things I haven't thought about for years.

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    1. You are welcome, we learn about ourselves and each other.

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