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Thursday Think 'n' Share 2.5
It's Thursday, and that means three questions taken from The Ungame in an effort to let you get to know me and me get to know you, a chance for each of us to think and share. To find out more about this, click here. The short of it is that you can read my answers and you're encouraged to leave your own in the comment box. Feel free to use the questions on your own blog, though I'd appreciate a reference. Let's get to it!
Complete this statement: "Something that embarasses me is..."
is looking foolish in front of other people. But, that said, there are a lot of things that might embarass others that don't faze me. Ask Lauren: I embarass her all the time, but I'll shamelessly act goofy in public all the time. With enough self-confidence, I don't think many things will embarass a person.
Complete the statement: "If our family inherited a million dollars, I would like for us to..."
I'm reminded here of a joke in which one farmer asks another what he'd do if he won the lottery and he responds "Well, I reckon I'd keep farming until the money ran out." This may be a sad joke at the expense of the conventional farmer, but it fits for us. We don't plan on running at a perpetual loss, but we could use some money to start up our homestead: we'd buy land, build our home, and get some equipment.
And then I'd put away the rest in a stable investment and live off the interest to the extent that we could.
With what age group do you feel least comfortable? Why?
Growing up, I think I felt most comfortable with adults, because I was around them so much. I didn't have siblings near my age, we didn't have neighbor kids that I regularly hung out with, so I pretty much only saw kids within a few years of me in age at church, school when I was old enough, and big family gatherings. My mother was 40 when I was born, my father 50, and he, at least, was the youngest in his family, so I spent a lot of time not just with adults but with older adults, even the elderly. Until recently, I probably would have said that I feel least comfortable with small children, because I haven't been around them much. I taught high school because I couldn't imagine willingly spending time with children any younger than that--even 9th graders always seemed more immature than I'd like. But being around the 30-year-old twins I watch once a week, I've developed a pretty good comfort level with children too.