Bipolar Questions #7

Orange - it has a definite anti-depressant quality, at least for me it does.

Do you have a favourite t-shirt? What does it look like?

A cream T shirt with flowers on

Do you have a favourite dress (or pair of jeans)

no.

all my clothes are pretty ugly (so like me really.)

so what level of education did you complete?. all of school?. some?. colledge?

I completed 13 years if education i got 8 Standard Grades (Scottish equivalent to GCSE's in England), this was when I was 16 years old. I got a further 5 qualifications in 5tg year when I was 17 years old and I got 3 more grades in 6th year when I was 18 years old. I got grades when I was 16 in (English, Computing, Science, Maths, PE, Music, Modern Studies and German). I continued with some of those subjects in my final 2 years and got grades in Maths, English, Music, Modern Studies, German and lastly Singing (this grade was a huge thing for me).

I went to college after school and completed but did graduate I was studying to be a Classroom Assistant as I wanted to be a teacher.

I'm not smart enough for university unfortunately

Question: How do you handle stress? Do you handle it well or not so well or not at all?

I scream and I break things- usually things that I actually want to keep

on a bad day, I have a panic attack

but, I have also been known to go well, it's not my ****ing problem is it. someone else can sort it.

in short.... I could handle it better. but can't

do you like creams/ lotions? (handcream, cream for your face, etc)

no. Allergies, I use baby aveeno only

What level of education did you complete?

just junior school. I left at the end of year 5, I think- or start of year 6. it's a fact that still shocks many people (I don't know why, maybe it's the fact I enjoy trivia. lol)

are your days pretty full?, or do you often find yourself wondering what to do throughout the day

I have a routine albeit not a very busy one.

Do you use one kind of shampoo or do you change brands often?

Occasionally I switch brands, but my usual is Nexxus Therappe, which I buy in huge pump bottles. My conditioner changes more often, but must be good at controlling frizz. My most important product is my post conditioning leave-in anti-frizz curl defining cream. It's great! Moroccanoil brand.

Do you have short or long hair? And the texture?

Long (very long thanks to COVID) very curly hair

How tall are you?

5'6.5" (169 cm)

What is your favorite saying or idiom?

I like " if it ain't broke, don't try to fix it".

have you (or anyone you know) met someone famous?

I met the queen once (I don't remember it much)

favourite food?

Tomatoes, as an individual food item. As far as a dish, too hard to choose.

What is your favorite type of cuisine (i.e. Chinese, American-and region, Indian, Mexican, French, Italian, etc.)?

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Originally Posted by Fuzzybear I met the queen once (I don't remember it much)

You're so lucky! I saw HM and Prince Philip once when they came to California, also Prince Charles at another time. They are all so lovely and gracious.

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Originally Posted by Soupe du jour Tomatoes, as an individual food item. As far as a dish, too hard to choose. What is your favorite type of cuisine (i.e. Chinese, American-and region, Indian, Mexican, French, Italian, etc.)?

Italian. In my hometown there was an Italian restaurant...incredible. It had been in business, back then, for 60 years.



What is your ancestry?

Scottish

Favourite sort of bear?

Black bears are my favourite

What do you know about your neighbours?

Two doors to our right is a middle-aged woman we socialize with a bit. She's very nice. She has two adult children that don't live with her. She has a dog she walks every day. She's of Norwegian ancestry.

Our next door neighbor to our right is a young family from China. There is an adorable 4 year old girl who LOVES to talk. Super gabby, very friendly, and cute! She plays most of the day with another little girl down the street. She likes that girl, but sometimes complains about her to me. Yesterday she said the girl hits her a lot. In response, I told her to to tell her mom so she can talk to the friend's mom about it. Sometimes I speak a little Chinese with her, but she is fluent in English to the degree of most other 4 year olds in the US. She's smart! She likes my husband, too. Her mother speaks good English, but her father and grandfather (who also lives with her) don't. Sometimes I comment, in Chinese, about the weather to the grandfather and he laughs.

As for the neighbors to my left side, they are all graduate students at the university and of Chinese ancestry. One of them is a young woman whose parents bought the house and her car for her. She's sort of a bit spoiled-like. One of them crushed my husband's car door with their car, but won't admit to it. I confess that I had a bit of a tough talk with her the other day finishing with a "Hit and runs are not nice!" Won't change much, I think. Other neighbors are less familiar to me. There happen to be a lot of people from China, originally. One very old man walks on the road a lot. He also does meditation. Yesterday, I saw him stand in the same place for what seemed 30 mins, with his eyes closed. Maybe he reached Nirvana?

What foreign language(s) did you study, even to a small degree?

French and Latin O level, a bit of Italian at University and one term of German after I got married (I wish I'd stuck at that, it was quite fun. I didn't feel like going to the Christmas get together, although the people were nice. I was too ''avoidant'' then grrrr)

Favourite subject at school?

Modern Studies.... studied it all 6 years of High School. It is politics. I learnt a bit about China (1 child policy), a bit about America (Health care), International issues (NATO and UN) and a lot of UK politics (Scottish powers aka Devolved Powers and UK powers aka Reserved Powers)

Learnt about voting and the use of FPTP (First Past The Post system) which the UK use for voting. Very appropriate as that year I was getting to vote for the very 1st time when I was 18 years old. Visited The Scottish Parliament and spent a week working as a Witch Doctor to The First Minister (Amazing job got to travel to Edinburgh every day for this via a train felt so grown up lol)

Learnt so so much and to this day I'm still interested in politics. I really liked learning about the wars in Bosnia, Kosvo, Ireland (a bit) etc. Now a days the kids get taught about 9/11 etc

Question:

Least favourite subject to learn at school?

Chemistry. I wasn't a fan of the sciences back then, but became more interested as I aged. Once I burned myself during an experiment, which didn't help. Oddly, my first major love is a chemist. I lived with him in Berkeley, CA where he was a graduate student in UC Berkeley's PhD chemistry program.

Do you know where your first love lives today? Or anything about their current life?

I never had a first love, so no I don't.

and: oh dear about being burned.

used to be terrified of the bunsen burners. terrified of them
question: if you went back to school today, do you think you'd have done anything diffrently? (payed more attention in some subjects, been better behaved etc) or are you generally happy with how you performed.

I would have paid more attention in some subjects.

Favourite lake?

Lake Champlain

Are you active in the cold weather/snow or do you hole up for the winter?