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1. What did you purchase as an adult because you could never have it as a child?

Legos. My parents never ponied up for Legos.

2. What was your favorite toy as a child?

Gi Joe . I had his rescue jet and lots of accessories.

3. What was the first video game you played?

I am of the olds. “Pong” on the original Pong player on a black and white Magnavox TV.

4. As a child, what was your favorite breakfast cereal?

Toss up between Cap’n Crunch with Crunch Berries or Lucky Charms – they’re magically delicious.

5. What is your best, most beloved childhood memory?

I took many camping trips to local reservoirs with my cousins and running around unsupervised in the woods.

1. What do you think is the most addictive non-drug?

Coffee / Caffeine. Gots to gots to haves it.

2. What brand has your loyalty?

Nikon. I spent a number of years always with a camera in my hands while working as a newspaper reporter, and my mighty, mighty Nikon was my old reliable. I may go find some black and white film, pull that great camera out of its bag, and grab some arty pics.

3. What is your favorite poverty meal that you will eat, no matter how much money you have?

Ramen. Delicious. Doctored up with some sriracha and soy sauce, some green onions, and a hard-boiled egg, it is delightful and costs nothing.

4. What is the far worst thing that happened to you this year?

My dang car was stolen! Those bastards.

5. What is your favorite Conspiracy Theory?

I am not a huge conspiracy theory believer. But I enjoy reading about the faked moon mission. I don’t believe the moon landing was fake, but the stories make me smile. People can be very stupid sometimes.

1. If you were a girl in the 70s in the U.S., you were expected to take Home Ec. in high school. Did you and what did you take from the class, if anything? If you are a guy, would you have liked to have had the option of taking it?

In 8th grade, they offered Homec for boys, and for one quarter, it was basic cooking, and for another quarter, it was sewing, and we all made down vests from a kit we had to buy. I still have many of those skills taught.

2. How were your school lunches?

Up through 6th grade, the home lunch program was run by my grandmother, and she ran a scratch kitchen. It was pretty good. Homemade rolls, hamburger buns, and homemade donuts. It’s not a bad way to grow up.

3. Did you walk, take a bus, or have someone drive you to school?

Through my junior year of high school, I walked to school (It was a small rural town, and we were “townies). In my junior year, I drove myself, and in my senior year, the new high school was farther away, so I drove myself as well. I also rode my bike to school quite often.

4. Were any classes off-limits to you because of your sex?

Not really. We had co-ed PE, women in FAA raising cows alongside the men. Men’s and women’s sports were competitive, but otherwise, it was all co-ed.

5. Looking back on it now, what was the biggest life lesson you took from high school?

Small-town America can be broad-minded – sometimes, but then again, this was in the late 70s and early 80s, and that town has gone full-on Trump these days and probably not the fun time it was back then during the coal boom.

Friday Friends

1. What do we think happened to Ross?

He is such an insecure and duplicitous person. He became a big MAGA head and was convicted in a real estate swindle.

2. Did Monica end up putting all her weight back on?

Not fat shame, but yes. She is also very insecure. In fact, we probably need to talk about how their parents raised them. After Monica got her hubby and kiddo and the house in the burbs, it was back to the bonbons and deserts all day long.

3. On the “Pivot!” episode – have you ever had that big furniture-moving conundrum that ended up ruining what you were moving?

We had this huge, huge old oak desk that my dad secured from the post office where he worked, and he refinished it, and we moved it into the house, and we didn’t ruin the desk but had to take the doors off the frame and damaged the door jamb trying to get it into the house.

4. Seriously, how much rent would you have to pay for a sweet ass apartment like Monica’s?

I mean seriously. i know it is part of the story that it is a rent-controlled apartment sublet from her grandma but that thin is easily a $6,00 a month rental. On what they make? No way.


5. Do you think Phoebe and Joey were ever kicking it together secretly or hooked up later in life?

“How you doin’?” Yeah, they were definitely doing it. He was a sex machine and Phoebe definitely had her freaky side.