How well do we know each other

Here's a bit of email fun from Matt in the States. You can tell Matt and Queenie are REAL busy today... the answers in the example are mine. The numbering is not mine!

Welcome to the new edition of getting to know your friends. Okay here's what you're supposed to do, and try not to be lame and spoil the fun! Just copy (do not forward) this entire e-mail and paste into a new e-mail that you can send. Change all the answers so that they apply to you Then send this to a whole bunch of people you know, INCLUDING the person that sent it to you.

1. What is your occupation? policy analyst

2. What color are your socks right now? Grey wool

3. What are you listening to right now? The sound of the construction workers in my office

4. What was the last thing that you ate? Belfast burger and fries

5. Can you drive a stick shift? yes

6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Cerulean blue

7. Last person you spoke to on the cell phone? Leonard Preyra

8. Do you like the person who sent this to you? Yes, I do, Matt, he's my agony aunt of choice

9. How old are you today? 36 years, seven months and three weeks old

10. Favorite drink? Barolo, coffee, grapefuit juice

11. What is your favorite sport to watch? rugby

12. Have you ever dyed your hair? Have I ever not!

13. Pets? not currently

15. What was the last movie you watched? Lawrence of Arabia last sunday on the history channel

16. Favorite day of the year? Christmas Eve

17. What do you do to vent anger? shout at the nearest person, write on my blog

18. What was your favorite toy as a child? my rocking horse

20. Hugs or kisses? hugs. definitely

21. Cherries or Blueberries? blueberries

22. Do you want your friends/family to email you back? yes

23. Who is most likely to respond? my mother

24. Who is least likely to respond? My brother

25. Living arrangements? Apartment on Chocolate Lake, Halifax

26. When was the last time you cried? Yesterday when I said goodbye to my friend Kevin who is going to live in Vietnam
28. Who is the friend you have had the longest that you are sending this to? Matt - 1990

29. What did you do last night? cooked supper, scavenged with Himself in the posh part of town (garbage night - he's an Aquarian), and got a walnut antique washstand with mirror and a mahogany wine rack, parked in Dingle Cove and looked at the stars for a while due to teenager taking over apartment, went home, braided her hair, read in bed

30. Favorite smells? mown grass, grass, cooking garlic and ginger

31. What inspires you? the opportunity to become competent at something really difficult

32. What are you afraid of? being old and alone

33. Plain, cheese or spicy hamburgers? belfast burgers

34. Favorite dog breed? Jack Russell

35. How many years at your current job? 1.5

36. Favorite day of the week? Saturday

37. How many states have you lived in? Countries - Ireland, Spain, Canada

38. Favorite holiday? Labour Day weekend

39. Ever driven a Motorcycle or heavy machinery? No

40. Do you have a house phone that is NOT cordless? no