Our tree, my 'dowry', and why I'm not a farmer

1. Time magazine has selected The Ebola Fighters as their person of the year for 2014. Do you agree, and if so who would you say is a close second? If you disagree with their choice, who do you think should have been chosen? 
I would say that's a noble choice, but "The Ebola Fighters" sounds to much like a grunge band name for my liking. Also, I really would hate the job of choosing the person of the year. Adolf Hitler was named TIME's Man of the Year in 1938, Stalin in 1939 and 1942, and Nixon in 1971 and 1972 . Even non-people, like The Protester in 2011 or The Computer in 1982. Can you imagine the family dinner discussions held, belligerent uncle Joe asking how we could make The Computer the 'Machine of the Year' in 1982, when computers made no sense to the general public at the time.

2. This question comes to you courtesy of Susan who blogs over at Stew Mama Says. She knows we have a wedding happening any minute now, and she asks, 'What's your favorite-something old? something new? something borrowed? something blue in your home?  Be sure you hop over and say hi to Susan today!
Something old would be my 'hope' chest, which Tom loves to call my dowry chest. Needless to say, he got a real kick out of my explanation of why it was called a hope chest. Something new in our home might be the amazing pillows we found at Kmart. I don't think we have any borrowed items in our house. "Something blue' would be George. Have you met George yet?

3. Fudge-yay or nay? Your favorite flavor? Do you make it yourself? With nuts or without?  
I have to say nay (GASP!) I love baked goods way too much, but am more of a cookie person. Fudge is so dense. So, nay.

4. December 17th is Wright Brothers Day, commemorating the first successful flights made by Orville and Wilbur Wright in 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.  How old were you when you made your first flight? Do you like to fly? Have you ever been to Kitty Hawk or other parts of the North Carolina Outer Banks? 
My first flight was when I was 13, with my sister, to Arizona. It kicked off the Most Dysfunctional Vacation. Ever. Click on that link if you want to feel better about your recent botched getaway.

5. Do the people in your family tend to follow a particular career path, and if so what's the path?
Definitely not. And again, I wrote all about why I could never follow in their footsteps and be a farmer.

6. What is one thing you absolutely, positively must accomplish today?
Waking up for my 6am work-from-home shift, which I always accomplish, but will forever feel like the biggest accomplishment ever. I love early mornings, but they hate me.

7. This Christmas I hope___________________________________.
That I get my Christmas 'cliff-notes' post up and running. I had done an Easter "cliff-notes" post, explaining what happened during Holy Week, how Christ came in on a donkey hearing praises on Palm Sunday and was crucified 5 days later on Black Friday. I've been sick/busy/exhausted and distracted lately, so this upcoming post has been coming along slowly.

8. Insert your own random thought here.
Tom, his mother, father and sister all had the stomach bug last week/weekend. I was only one unaffected, and since I am the person who always feels under the weather, I'm lead to believe that I somehow have found one sickness I am immune to. That has to be it, right? I wish my immunity was something more interesting, rather than just keeping me from catching the stomach bug.

So tell me...
Have you been through the flu or winter bug yet?
Do you know what a 'hope chest' is?
Between farming and my hope chest, does this post make me sound like I'm straight from the prairie or what?

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