Sunday Stealing

Survey Asks ...

1. Did you/will you have coffee or some other form of caffeine today? I will consume between 15 and 20 oz. of Coca Cola today. (If I don't pay attention, I'd chug it all day.)

2. Who did you last have a text conversation with and what was it about? Jen, one of the women I know from the card shop. It's Girl Scout cookie season! Jen was sharing her intel on where the local troops will be selling this weekend.

3. Are there regular trains in and out of your town/city? I live along the tracks. I can hear the commuter trains, the el trains and the freight trains (noisiest of all) around the clock. It's a very comforting white noise. We had a big snowstorm in 2011 that halted the trains and, to borrow a phrase, the silence was deafening ... and downright scary. I was so relieved to hear that familiar rumbling resume.

4. Have you ever been hospitalized due to dehydration? Kinda. In 2022 I spent 8 hours in the ER (but was not admitted) after stabbing abdominal pains. I was diagnosed with kidney stones and was dehydrated as a result of the stones. It was not serious in that my life was not threatened, but oh! I have never been in pain like that before.

Self-portrait of me in the ER that night. When I wasn't scared, I was bored.

5. Someone texts/IMs you just as you’re about to go to sleep. Do you reply? I wouldn't see it because my cellphone is either on the kitchen counter or in my purse, nowhere near my bed.

6. Do you grind your teeth?  Yes.

7. When you listen to music with headphones, do you keep the volume low enough to hear surrounding noise, or do you blast it? I blast it.

8. Are you wearing nail polish? I have a pedi.

9. Do you have an ice maker in your refrigerator door? No.

10. Do you have a friend named James? These certainly are random questions! No, I don't know anyone named James.