My wonderful neighbor, Cathy, gave me this book for my birthday one year. It's by Carol Lynn Pearson and her daughter. It has questions in that mother and daughter can answer and hopefully be closer. That's assuming you don't have a mother who is an oldest child and a daughter who is a spoiled youngest child. It did help me and Sarah for awhile.
But Bill and I used it for a family home evening once and it was really fun. So use these questions for your husband or neighbor or anybody you'd like to know better. I'm using it for you guys.
So, here's my Friday questions:
What is your favorite all time movie comedy?
If you were required to spend an entire day doing nothing but "having fun" what would that day look like?
At what inappropriate place have you ever dissolved in laughter?
If you could vacation anywhere in the world, where would it be?
What game do you remember playing as a child?
My answers:
Tootsie, hands down. I thought Dustin Hoffman should win the academy award and have never forgiven Ben Kingsley. It would be easy to play Ghandi. I could play Ghandi! If I lost 50 lbs., I could look patient and long suffering.
Today is that day. Bill is gone fishing till tomorrow. I will read and lay around and watch TV and BLOG! I am so far behind, I haven't read Times and Seasons in days. Plus I bought 2--TWO pounds of crab yesterday. Eat your hearts out.
My sisters and I burst into uncontrollable giggles during the trial where the state took us away from our mother and the judge got mad, but we didn't care. My sister, Dessie's laugh should have a vaccination against it, its' so catching.
I would love to go to New Zealand. But assuming money is no object, I want to go to Sedona Arizona for that girl's weekend, with the massage and psychic reading and the limo. I'm going, too.
Me and my sister, Chris, and my best friend, Jennabelle played cowboys. But we would fight because they wanted to be horses and I wanted to be the cowboy riding the horse, it was more fun. There was a type of gallop I particularly enjoyed doing. But I didn't like to pretend to be an animal. So I would get mad and go home and they would go off and be horses in the hills of Tonopah.
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What is your favorite all time movie comedy?
Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail. Followed by Pee Wee's Big Adventure. And the Batman movie with Adam West ("Some days you can't get rid of a bomb!")
If you were required to spend an entire day doing nothing but "having fun" what would that day look like?
Golf in the morning, a nice picnic lunch with fried chicken with the whole family, quiet dinner with Kristen and no kids.
At what inappropriate place have you ever dissolved in laughter?
Family prayer when one of the kids does something stupid or silly. I know I'm supposed to set a good example, but sometimes you just can't help yourself.
If you could vacation anywhere in the world, where would it be?
At home, with no email, no phone, no way of contacting me from the outside.
What game do you remember playing as a child?
We played everything. Life was great as a kid. My kids are really into Parcheesi these days.
On having crab for dinner: When I was 12, my family took a trip to Japan to visit my grandparents, who were serving a mission there. We had dinner at a restaurant that specialized in crab. Every course had crab in it -- kind of like Iron Chef. I think there were 5 or 6 courses. It must have been a spectacular dinner. I don't know -- I was a dumb kid, and wanted a hamburger. I wish I could remember that meal.
I'm with Bryce - my all time favorite comedy is Monty Python and the Holy Grail. We (my kids, grandkids, and others) repeat the funny stuff all the time. Who can not laugh at "I fart in your general direction".
My idea of the best day would be to hike into the mountains with some of my kids and grandkids and have lunch. Then they go off somewhere and leave me alone to read and commune with nature. My dog could stay if he didn't bug me.
The most inappropriate place in which we cracked up would have to be the courtroom when we were placed in foster care - because we just couldn't shut up. The more Dessie laughed and the more Grandma cried, the harder we laughed. Although, I do remember laughing during a funeral. It was an especially sad and tragic death, but we have always been able to see humor in any situation. Some people were really ticked off.
I'd like to vacation somewhere with a beach and mountains close by. I have no idea where this place is, but I love the beach and need mountains for security. It also has to have great food (that is magically lacking in calories).
I remember playing kick the can with my cousins in Gabbs, jump rope after dark in Tonopah, horses with Annegb and Jennabell, and Monopoly for days with my best friend.
I want to add another comment that is not part of the questions. Being Annegb's sister, best friend, and sometimes worst enemy has made living this crazy life more bearable. As you read what she writes you get a glimpse of the person she is. I have seen her strength, courage, humor, and intelligence for my entire life. There is no one I admire more. When I grow up I want to be just like her. Just for the record -I've always thought it extremely unfair that she got the intelligence and great legs.
What is your favorite all time movie comedy? Better Off Dead with John Cusak. Though I dearly love the Python crew, when Lane says "Gee, Ricky, I'm really sorry your mom blew up" it kills me every time.
If you were required to spend an entire day doing nothing but "having fun" what would that day look like? I think it would involve reading pre-teen fantasy fiction, wearing a new shirt, and writing something really clever.
At what inappropriate place have you ever dissolved in laughter? Family prayer was the worst place for me. The missionaries were eating dinner at our house and the junior companion called us the "Townsheds" instead of the "Townsends." My sister takes the cake though, she got the giggles during the prayer in the Temple.
If you could vacation anywhere in the world, where would it be? Somewhere with a beach, with warm water, and waves I could boogie board in. More specifically La Jolla shores, near Scripps pier. Maybe Italy for the neat touristy stuff, but only if I could speak Italian.
What game do you remember playing as a child? I remember playing monopoly. However, I don't think we understood what the object of the game was, and we never finished it. My sister always said, "I have more money than you, I won," when she got tired of playing.
If you go to Sedona you have to check out the Vortex spots too. It's also way fun to drive around and try to get into gated communities and look at the really fancy houses.
Movie--I really like Some Like It Hot--an oldy but a goody. Or maybe the original Parent Trap. Get me and my mom and my sister and we're quoting lines and laughing like maniacs.
Laughter-sacrament meeting with my sister, prayers in which older child prays for younger child to learn reverence, or in a session when a client has said something that wasn't meant to be funny (this reallly is inappropriate and mortifying!)
Vacation--I very much want to go back to India, or go to China. Or maybe Turkey/Greece.
Game--My dad grew up in east Texas in the country, and they played a game called Hot Belt. One person hides the belt, then comes back to base and tells everyone else to go look. Whoever finds the belt can spank the other lookers til they get back to base. We would play this regularly at my house, only inside, and you couldn't hit hard. Now my girls love to play hot belt. The fun part is finding an incredible hiding place. Then when a finder finds it, you have to be nonchalant, and wait til everyone else is nearby so you can get a chance to hit them when you reveal the belt, brandishing it with a wild yell. I need to make it very clear no one gets hurt. We usually use a bathrobe belt, and you have to hit below the waist. Annegb do you think I'm a complete nut? :)
What is your favorite all time movie comedy?
What about Bob?. Oooh, or perhaps So I Married an Axe Murderer. I love the things the Scottish dad says to his large-headed offspring.
If you were required to spend an entire day doing nothing but "having fun" what would that day look like?
I would wake up to a perfectly clean house with the laundry caught up and every dish clean and put away and an endless supply of chocolate milk in the fridge. I'd spend the day reading and talking to DH and going on walks. In the evening, we'd go to a movie. And the baby wouldn't cry all day.
At what inappropriate place have you ever dissolved in laughter?
When trying to console my hysterically crying brother. He pours his poor, broken, eighteen-year-old heart out to me, and I laugh. Bad, bad sister.
If you could vacation anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Barcelona--walk the ramblas, eat tortilla de patata, window shop.
What game do you remember playing as a child?
We'd play Dog (wherein we pretended to be dogs), Orphanage (wherein we pretended to be orphans, not unlike those in Annie), Cars (wherein our bikes were cars and we were all adults. The mailboxes were gas stations and drive-thrus at fast-food places), and Apartment Building (wherein each room was a different apartment and the coat closet was the elevator.).
It is true I had good legs, but having Princess Buttgold ruined them. Long story.
My sister--not the one here, but my baby sister, called me last year and told me she'd tried to commit suicide, but failed.
I said, "how did you try?"
And she said, "I put a grocery bag over my head."
I laughed long and hard. I don't think she took it all that well either.
Sarah, Princess Buttgold, called me a few months ago about her toilet flooding. She was absolutely hysterical. I kept it together enough to tell her how to turn the water off, but then I lost it.
I laugh pretty much inappropriately every day. Don't tell me any sad stories, I will plum the humor right out of it.
So will Tim's grandma.
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