Questions bipolar version #10

Quote:

Originally Posted by BeyondtheRainbow Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Good question; same question.

(What is a good motto to live by?)

Some get stoned, some get strange,
Sooner or later, it all gets real.
Walk on.


-Walk On
Neil Young



Q: Do you still send or receive greeting cards?

Some, yes

Favourite book currently?

Right now the book I'm reading several times is Icebound by Jerri Nielsen. She was the doctor at the South Pole who developed breast cancer right after it became impossible to get a plane in or out of the South Pole and had to do her own biopsies and eventually the military did an air-drop to provide meds and supplies she needed. She was evacuated as soon as possible.

I'm interested because I'm fascinated by Antarctica; the breast cancer bit is secondary.



Same question: Favorite book currently?

In Extremis. It's a fairly extensive biography of war correspondent Marie Colvin done by her friend Lindsey Hilsum. It covers everything from her early life on Long Island through her time in journalism and reporting on wars until her untimely death in Syria in 2012.

Once more: favorite book at the moment?

The only other one I really have right now is my devotional for my Bible study group; Powerful Thinking by Joyce Meyer

Have you ever made a recipe you saw on social media?

A: Nope, but I've been tempted.

Q: When is the last time you took a vacation?

It's been just over five years. I went to Boston and New Haven, CT on a kind of family history investigation. It was a lot of fun and I learned quite a bit!

What is a skill set you wish you had?

I wish I had an ear and eye for languages, especially old dead ones. I’d love to read the oldest bible in Aramaic and Gilgamesh in cuneiform and just for fun old Latin.

Same question, it’s a good one. What skill set do you wish you had?

I wish I could cook meals that were worthy of actually eating

then perhaps I wouldn't spend half my life starving and wasting food.

do you think hospitals smell?. I always never fail to notice the smell connected only with a hospital. it's.... horrible, especially when you get home and it's on you.

I only really smell soap in hospitals. But I worked in nursing homes and home health care for many years and got acclimated to some really horrible smells. So probably I'm not the best to answer this question.

Do you have a favorite scent soap/essential oil/perfume/etc?

Yes. My favorite scent in the world was the way my sister always smelled, which was of Lauren Perfume and Marlboro cigarettes. She never smelled ashy, always a rich floral scent with the slight, fragrant Marlboro scent. And a tiny bit of leather tossed in, since she wore leather of some kind...a leather jacket, leather boots, leather mini skirt, leather bag, leather gloves. She had the scent of a rock star and I loved it. It smelled like talent and music and hard work, movement, lights, fun, a show, a crowd of happy people who would have a memory of something amazing.




Q: Same, pretty much. Name a scent that you love because it gives you a wonderful memory.

pine always reminds me of being out in the woods/hiking/skiing.

what scent do you hate the most?

Burnt coffee. Spent a lot of summers cooped up in a camper with my family when I was young, ugh, burnt coffee. They all drank that vile stuff except me. To this day I don’t drink coffee. Not even the fancy kinds.

Would you rather vacation in Alaska or Hawaii? Why?

Alaska, hands down. If you're far enough in the woods or up the mountain, you have a sunrise or a sunset or just a great view that's all yours. The beaches of Hawaii, to me, is static and crowded. The mountains in Alaska are dynamic and singular.

What is one item that you will pay the name brand price for?

When I lived in the US:

Domino sugar. The store brand was too often hard as a rock and needed to be broken up with an ice pick. Also Kellogg's corn flakes because the taste and texture was better than the no frills options. A couple more, but otherwise, there were a lot of store brand things that were quite good. For example, the Shoprite store brand chocolate hazelnut spread (imported from Italy) was yummier than US-based Nutella (made in New Jersey for US distribution). The Nutella available in Czech Republic is made in Poland or Czech Republic. Other brands available of this product in CZ are made in places like Sweden, nowadays. Not from its original source in Italy.

What is/are your favorite Christmas cookie(s) or cookie in general?

Favorite cookie is oatmeal raisin (I know).

60dF out. Do you wear long sleeves or short sleeves?

Oatmeal raisin cookies are my favorite, too. I generally don't make them for Christmas, though.

short

I never, ever, ever wear long. I don't like the way it feels on my skin

you wake up one morning with no mental health issues and no physical pain. you think it's great, until you see a note that says, this will only last 24 hours. anything you do in these 24 hours, will be wiped from your life tomorrow, and when you wake up, you will be the same person as you were before this day. what do you do with your 24 hours?

Spend the day at the zoo with Papa bear, then go out for a meal and maybe a movie too...

Q A favourite movie?

Gone With the Wind, and Melanie is my favorite character. I love that she loves so hard, and is also gentle and strong.


Q: What feels romantic to you?

Good question. I think maybe papa bear and I have different ''love languages''.. he mostly shows his love by things like cooking, I thought, to begin with, that Charles and Diana were ''romantic'' but how wrong I was. With his cruelty and all.

do you sometimes experience ''rapid cycling'' moods or similar?

I did a lot before I went on clozapine. Now it's rare.

Do you have recycling pick-up at your house?

Yup we do. It’s old school here though, three bins and no glass. They are quite picky.

Do you recycle? If not, why not?

Yeah (and it's not old school here at all), although I'm pretty sure they just throw out everything anyways since some people can't differentiate between recyclable plastics and non-recyclable plastics.

If you were a musician, what genre of music would you play? Would it be different from your favorite genre?

The blues. I dabbled with playing Blues guitar and that type of music reaches into so many different genres to me. Rock, Soul, even some Metal.

What is the most heartfelt gift you have ever received from someone?