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1. What is more difficult for you - looking into someone’s eyes when you are telling someone how you feel, or looking into someone’s eyes when they are telling you how they feel?
Telling people how I feel because I don’t like feeling vulnerable.

2. Think of the last time you were really angry. Why were you angry?
Hmmm…can’t pinpoint one time. I am trying to embrace something my husband pointed out to me – I am the one in charge of my feelings – when I let others affect how I feel, THEY are in control.

3. You are on a non-stop flight from Honolulu to Chicago. There is a fire in the back of the plane. You have enough time to make ONE phone call. Who would you call?
I would call out to Jesus in prayer and then call my husband on the phone.

4. You are at the doctor's office and you have just been informed that you have approximately one month to live. (a) Do you tell anyone/everyone you are going to die? (b) What do you do with your remaining days? (c) Would you be afraid?
(a) Yes, I would want my family and friends to pray for me – the power of prayer is AWESOME!
(b) I would want to spend as much time with my family as possible.
(c) Yes, to an extent, but I would try to find comfort in knowing I would be with my Father in heaven for eternity!

5. You can have one of the following two things: trust OR love. Which one do you choose?
I would choose trust; you cannot have love without trust.

6. You are walking down the street on your way to work. There is a dog drowning in the canal on the side of the street. Your boss has told you if you are late once more, you will be fired. Do you save the dog?
I would try to save the dog. No job is worth letting a living being die when I have the power to help.

7. You are unfaithful to your spouse/significant other. Do you tell him/her? Why or Why not?
Cheating is not worth jeopardizing the relationship I have with my best friend.

8. Your friend confesses that he/she has feelings for you more then just friendship. He/she is falling in love with you. What do you do/say?
I am already in a relationship with my best friend, but I have had a few friends express their feelings toward me, wanting more than friendship. I was offended that they would disrespect me and my husband like that.

9. Think of the last person who you knew that died. You have the chance to give them 1 hour of life back, but you have to give one year of your life. Do you do it?
Hmmm…that would be a member in my church choir. And yes, I probably would…in hopes he would be lucid enough to remember his wife.

10. Are you the kind of friend that you would want to have as a friend?
I hope so! I talk a big game sometimes, but I am loyal and have a huge heart.

11. Does love = sex?
NO! Lust may = sex.

12. Your boss tells your co-worker that they have to let them go because of work shortage, and they are the newest employee. You have been there much longer. Your co-worker has a family to support and no other means of income. Do you go to your boss and offer to leave the company?
No, I probably wouldn’t. I might want to if he/she was a close friend, but I’ve learned that sometimes you have to be selfish and decide what’s best for you (and your family).

13. When was the last time you told someone HONESTLY how you felt regardless of how difficult it was for you to say?
Hmmm…can’t think of one instance. I try to be as honest with people as I can. You cannot expect anyone to be a mind reader. You must communicate!!!

14. What would be (or what was) harder for you to tell a friend – you love them or that you do not love them back?
I think it would be that I didn’t love them back because they would feel so vulnerable from telling me and then hurt that their love was not reciprocated.

15. What do you think would be the hardest thing for you to give up? Why would it be hard to lose?
My integrity – it’s who I am.

16. Excluding romantic love, when was the last time you told someone you loved them? Who were they to you?
It was probably my mother-in-law the other day on the phone. She is one of my best friends!

17. What is love?
Love is caring more for someone than you care for yourself.

18. Imagine: It is a dark night, you are alone, it is raining outside, and you hear someone walking around outside your window. Who do you wish was there with you?
My brother, Joe? He has military training! LOL

19. Would you give a homeless person CPR if they were dying?
Unfortunately, I do not know CPR – something a parent SHOULD, I know! So, I would call 911.

NO 20??

21. You are holding onto your grandmother’s hand and the hand of a newborn that you do not know as they hang over the edge of a cliff. You have to let one go to save the other. Who do you let fall to their death?
Either choice would haunt me for the rest of my life, but if I had to choose, I would probably let my grandma go. Family is important, but the baby needs a chance to live a full life; my grandma has already been given that gift.

22. Are you old fashioned?
No.

23. When was the last time you were nice to someone and did not expect anything back?
Each day - my unconditional love for my daughter.

24. Which would you choose – true love with a guarantee of a broken heart, or never to have loved at all? Why?
True love with a guarantee of a broken heart because one second with someone you care about is far better than a lifetime without.

25. If you could do anything or wish anything, what would it be?
I would wish that I had instilled confidence and good values in my daughter and that she would always know how much she is loved!


Che spero or più? Che far degg’io?
Gioire!
Sempre libera degg’io follegiare di gioja in gioja,
Vo’che scorra il viver mio pei sentieri del piacer.
A diletti sempre nuovi dee volare il mio pensier.

What else can I hope for? What must I do?
Enjoy myself!
Always free I shall frolic from joy to joy,
I want my life to run on the paths of pleasure.
To always new delights shall my thoughts fly.

{ Verdi, La Traviata – Ah, fors’è lui }