I Mustache You Some Questions

Posted on January 21, 2016 by dSavannah

So, Mark Ethridge tagged me for the Mustache Survey (or the “Four Answers” survey), which is also going around Facebook, and I decided to play along on this here blog. Here’s my answered survey.

And yeah, I’m sure you were DYING to know my answers. You’re welcome.

 

Four Names People Call Me Other Than My Real Name:

  1. Kitten (hubs calls me that, or Sea Spook)
  2. Dr. Jorge (my students called me that; tho I am not a Doctor, nor do I play one on TV)
  3. Cakes (long story)
  4. Grandma Moses (due to my crocheting; it was a mean thing kids called me long ago)

Four Jobs I’ve Had:

  1. Floral department at Winn-Dixie (grocery store); also deli, where I made all the signs and created all the trays, and produce, where I sorted strawberries *shudders*
  2. selling Cutco knives
  3. selling the Tallahassee Democrat door to door
  4. calling Berry College alumns and asking for money (I won an award for that)

Four Movies I Have Watched More Than Once:

  1. The Princess Bride
  2. Serenity
  3. Good Will Hunting
  4. Dead Poets Society

Four TV Shows That I Watch:

  1. Doctor Who
  2. Psych
  3. The Rockford Files
  4. The Crazy Ones (Robin Williams’ last show)
  5. Bonus: The It Crowd (I’ve seen every episode multiple times, and they ALL make me laugh)
  6. Bonus #2: Saving Grace (I LOVE this story of a very flawed, yet searching for answers, cop, played by Holly Hunter)

Four Books I’d Recommend:

  1. Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
  2. 100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith
  3. someone else’s love story by Joshilyn Jackson
  4. Invisible Ellen by Shari Shattuck
  5. Bonus: A Splintered Dream by Chuck Walsh (I edited this book)
  6. Extra Bonus: The Wolves of Dynamo by Gareth S. Young. It’s not yet out. I got to read an ARC. It’s FANTASTIC.

Four Places I Have Lived:

  1. Fayetteville, NC (place of birth)
  2. Chattanooga, TN (ages 3-9)
  3. St. Thomas, USVI (ages 9-12)
  4. San Juan, Puerto Rico (age 13)

Four Place I’ve Been:

  1. Outer Banks, North Carolina
  2. Moab, Utah
  3. San Francisco, California
  4. Munich, Germany

Four Places I’d Rather Be Right Now:

  1. Greece
  2. The Golden Isles of Georgia
  3. Terra Studios, Fayetteville, AR
  4. Arizona

Four Things I Don’t Eat:

  1. Anything hot
  2. Oysters
  3. Curry or jerked anything
  4. Fast food

Four Of My Favorite Foods:

  1. Chocolate
  2. Cheese
  3. Bar-B-Que
  4. Thai

Four Things I Am Looking Forward To This Year (2016):

  1. Spring and summer
  2. Getting well (I hope! Please, baby Jesus and all the Saints)
  3. Hopefully feeling well enough to create and write
  4. The #AtoZBlogging Challenge in April

Four Things I’m Always Saying:

  1. The “F” word
  2. I feel like s***
  3. It’s in the syllabus!  (Well, I don’t say it now that I’m not teaching)
  4. Quit hollering, cats! and Get off me, dog!

Four Songs I’m Always Listening to:

Note: I added this category. Cuz I can. 🙂

  1. Girl Of Mysterious Sorrow by Marc Cohn
  2.  All I Need Is A Miracle by Mike & The Mechanics
  3. Butterfly by Crazy Town
  4. Fly Me Courageous by Drivin’ N’ Cryin’
  5. Bonus: anything by Griffin House

Four People I’ll tag:

  1. Okay, I’m tagging no one.

About dSavannah

~ #disabled #spoonie fighting numerous, chronic, painful #InvisibleIllnesses ~ also #wife #feminist #ally #advocate #papyrophiliac #DogCatTurtleWrangler
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3 Responses to I Mustache You Some Questions

  1. Elaine LeDoux says:
    January 21, 2016 at 11:35 am

    Thank you for not tagging me…I have too much going on right now. I did however enjoy prying into your answers!

    Reply
  2. Phyllis Thakis says:
    January 21, 2016 at 2:50 pm

    Ooo! I want to play.

    Four Names People Call Me Other Than My Real Name:
    1) Granna – grandhellions & their friends, cousins, etc.
    2) Phyl – PGH sistercousins
    3) Ms. Thakis – students & telemarketers
    4) Ms. Phyllis – telemarketers who are afraid to try to pronounce “Thakis.” [open syllable = long A. SHEESH! It’s not that hard.]

    Four Jobs I’ve Had:
    1) Director, Clark Atlanta University Academic Support Center
    2) Instructional Designer: Interactive Laser Discs (precursors to DVDs)
    3) Staff Writer (Reporter) Anniston Star, Anniston, Alagoddamnbama
    4) Teacher
    – a- High School Special Ed.: Learning Disabilities Specialist, Center of Prescriptive Education for Learning and Behavior (C.O.P.E. L.A.B.) [I created that title & acronym – aren’t you proud? 🙂 ]
    – b – High School English, Speech; Reading Specialist; Learning Disabilities Specialist: Anniston High School, Anniston, Alagoddamnbama
    – c – High School: English, English with Emphasis on Reading; Drop-Out Prevention English Lab: Westinghouse High School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    – d – Junior High Reading Specialist: Bradford, Pennsylvania
    – e – G.E.D. Review Instructor: Spoon River College, Canton, Illinois
    5) BONUS
    – a – Urban Corp Camp Worker, Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (This is where I experienced my first mugging/assault & battery/attempted rape.)
    – b – Accounts Receivable Clerk, Sears & Roebuck, ‘Sliberty, PGH, Pennsylvania
    – c – World Book Encyclopedia Salesperson, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    Four Movies I Have Watched More Than Once:
    1) Beetlejuice
    2) Bodyguard
    3) Wizard of Oz
    4) The Princess Bride
    The above were movies I watched multiple times because grandmunchkins. Below are the adulties:
    1) Mists of Avalon
    also a great book
    – https://www.goodreads.com/search utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=Mists+of+Avalon
    2) Pride & Prejudice, also Sense & Sensibility
    also great books
    – https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=Jane+Austen
    3) Avatar
    4) Star Wars: Episode 4: A New Hope
    5) BONUS: Arsenic & Old Lace (with Cary Grant)

    Four Books I’d Recommend
    1) Anything by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, e.g. Peace in Every Step; The Five Mindfulness Trainings
    – https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/9074.Th_ch_Nh_t_H_nh
    2) Anything by Ursula Le Guin, e.g. Left Hand of Darkness; Earthsea Trilogy; Word for World is Forest
    – https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=Ursula+Le+Guin3) Anything by Pat Conroy, e.g. The Great Santini; Lords of Discipline; The Prince of Tides
    -http://www.patconroy.com/the-death-of-santini.php
    4) Twelve Steps to a More Compassionate Life, by Karen Armstrong
    – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8867135-twelve-steps-to-a-compassionate-life?from_search=true&search_version=service
    5) BONUS: Child of a Rainless Year, by Jane Lindskold, also her Firekeeper Saga, starting with Through Wolf’s Eyes
    – http://janelindskold.com/wp/

    Four Places I Have Lived as an Adult:
    1) Atlanta, Georgia: Where I live now, have lived for the past 33-1/2 years, & where I escaped to from Anniston, Alagoddamnbama
    2) Anniston, Alagoddamnbama – truly the four longest years of my life. Alagoddamnbama is not just another state, it’s a whole ‘nother state of mind. I moved around a lot & pretty much fit in everywhere, but not there (which I view as a good thing)
    3) Limestone, New York, population 300, between Allegheny National Forest (Pennsylvania) & Allegany State Park (New York); also, 90 miles south of Buffalo & just north of Bradford, Pennsylvania
    4) Lewiston, Illinois, population 4500, between the soybean fields & the cornfields, sort of halfway between Peoria & Springfield
    Four+ Places I Lived as a Child:
    1) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1st, 2nd, & 3rd grades, summer between 6th & 7th, end of 8th, all of high school (McKeesport HS) & undergrad (Allegheny Community College & Chatham College), & beginning of graduate school (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania).
    2) Carlsbad, New Mexico – Hometown, years 0 – 6
    3), 4), . . . 7) Lubbock, Texas; Roswell, New Mexico; Ventura, California; Long Beach, California; Albuquerque, New Mexico, Missoula, Montana; Seattle, Washington

    Four Places I’ve Been:
    1) Vienna, Austria + the Austrian Alps
    2) Frankfort & Salzburg, Germany + the German Alps
    3) Quebec, Canada
    4) Juarez, Mexico

    Four Places I’d Rather Be Right Now:
    1) The Mountain, Highlands, North Carolina
    2) Hawaii
    3) Crete, Greece
    4) Costa Rica
    5) BONUS: Visiting family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Oakland Park, Florida; & St. Louis, Missouri

    Four Things I Don’t Eat:
    1) Beef
    2) Pork
    3) Poultry
    4) Mayonnaise or anything else with vinegar (it harshes my sweet buzz)

    Four Of My Favorite Foods:
    1) The Phour Phood Groups of Phyllis: Pasta, Pizza, Potatoes, & Pastry
    2) Italian
    3) Greek
    4) Thai
    5) BONUS Dessert: Ice Cream

    Four Things I Am Looking Forward To This Year (2016):
    1) SPRING!
    2) Getting out of debt
    3) Time with grandurchins & GREAT-Grand Bryson
    4) More time in nature
    5) BONUS: Out-of-State Family & Friend Trips & In-State Get-Togethers (hint-hint, Ms. dSavannah)

    Four Things I’m Always Saying
    1) “Tone and attitude! Tone and attitude!”
    2) “I’m going broke saving money.”
    3) “It’s better to have it & not need it than to need it & not have it. But, if you need it & can’t find it, it’s just like not having it.”
    4) “Where’s my ________ (keys, glasses, phone, water, . . . )?”
    5) BONUS: “Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.”

    Four Songs/Genre I’m Always Listening to:
    1) Women’s Music, e.g.Lisa Theil
    – http://www.sacreddream.com/youtube/
    2) Classic Rock, e.g.
    John Lennon
    -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRhq-yO1KN8 ;
    Queen
    – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ
    3) Blues, e.g.
    Barbara Blue
    – http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/barbarablue3 ;
    Nina Simone
    – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T3FXFnoTzE
    4) Native American, e.g. Joanne Shenandoah
    – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OPDRUKt0dQ

    Four People I’ll tag:

    Okay, I’m tagging no one

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