What do you want to know about populistmom? Ask me anything!

[populistmom]

Shameless copycat thread! :7

[JohnKleeb]

1. Would you mind if I copy cated you

I miss hte lounge :(, I should be in here when I am on the board.

[populistmom]

2. Sure

I copied TXlib and Mr Scorpio! :D

[JohnKleeb]

10. cool :)

[Fenris]

4. Exactly. Stay out of the rat's nest!

[Syrinx]

12. not intending a hijack or anything...

But, damn John, when did you become a Kerry man? I missed that.

[TXlib]

3. Hey, babe, come here often?

[populistmom]

6. Too much!

It's what people stuck in the house do in their spare time when their children sleep.

[TXlib]

7. I hear that.

Although I have no excuse, with my family being out of town, and all.

[MrScorpio]

5. Is your sleepwear

Negligee?
Hanes for Her?
Old nightshirt?
En flagrante delecti?
Two piece PJ?
One piece PJ?

[populistmom]

8. My usual nightwear

tank top
comfy shorts
(Otherwise I get too hot)

occasionally something more slinky

[MrScorpio]

14. Ain't no such animal

Getting TOO hot.

The problem is not cooling off fast enough

[populistmom]

18. They can cool off pretty fast here

:(

[Syrinx]

9. you're the pretty one, right?

:)

[populistmom]

11. Some people think so

Some probably don't.
You could ask Jonnyblitz or NightTrain. They saw me last week.

However, someone said to me recently that I "knocked him out", I'm "a bodacious babe", and I'm "beautiful". I suppose that counts for something. Of course, people can say many things they don't necessarily mean at times.

[TXlib]

13. What's your typical hair color?

[populistmom]

16. medium blonde

a little reddish, naturally a darker blonde- sometimes I'm natural, sometimes redder, I change it ever few years when I need a change

[wtmusic]

15. How many kids? Ages?

[populistmom]

17. Okay, you asked

Girl- 12 next month
3 Boys- 8, 5, and 2

Why so many? I don't even know anymore. :crazy:

[TXlib]

19. Any body piercings or tattoos?

Other than pierced ears...

[populistmom]

20. Nope

just ears
Never had a big desire to do the other stuff.

[SOteric]

21. You have the power to go 10 years into the future

but for just 1 day.

Do you go?

If not why not, - and if so, - name 3 things, or 3 people you'd like to see and what you hope to find for them.

[populistmom]

22. I don't think I would

I'd be too scared that there would be something bad in the future that perhaps I shouldn't know. I think too that the journey is a necessary preparation for the destination.

[SOteric]

23. See, - and I'm just the opposite.

The future doesn't frighten me, because it's a wide open book. It is resplendant in possibilities. It's the things that come unburied from the past that haunt me.

[populistmom]

24. I guess what frightens me

is the possibility that someone I loved might not be here in this realm anymore. Likely, in 10 years, hopefully, it wouldn't be a child, but it's likely it could be a friend or parent, probably definitely a grandparent. I just don't want to know that kind of stuff.

Possibilities of what I can do I find intriging, even the idea seeing some gives me a lot of hope. I don't fear what I can control, but knowing there's so much I couldn't perhaps does a little.

[TXlib]

25. But there's a good chance that *knowing* the future

would allow you to rewrite it!

Unless you believe in fate over free will, that is.

[populistmom]

27. Not fate over free will

But knowing how little control we have over some things. Like if my mother's cancer reaccurred or my husband returned to his demons once again. You can't always control disease, and never can you control someone else's actions, or someone's action relating to certain diseases (I learned that the hard way). We like to think we can sometimes, but ultimately, we can't.

[SOteric]

26. I have lost many people in my life

to death. Including the young man who was my lover, many friends, and my much-adored mum.

At some point in grieving the loss of many I came to realise the fugitive, ethereal, fragile nature of life. All of us will go that way eventually.

I would rather know. I would rather have the opportunity to save myself unresolvable regret over the things I failed to say, the petty argument that died on my lips and turned into the last things we will ever had said to one another.

Those are the things from a past that can haunt a person. Petty personal failures which are undoable. The future is a wide-open field.

:shrug:

[populistmom]

28. Perhaps

If I lost someone so intimately close, I might feel similarly. It's hard to know. I'm very sorry though for your losses.

[never cry wolf]

29. Are you working actively on a plan for the future

to solve your problem or just kinda taking things day to day.

I am kinda in between, day to day but trying to formulate a plan in the back of my mind.

[populistmom]

30. Very actively

It will just take awhile. Ultimately, it's like The Matrix, I swallowed that red pill several months ago and saw reality for what it is. It's possible the situation could be better and in a couple of years I decide otherwise, but it doesn't feel like it.

On edit: An explanation if you're not a Matrix person (not that I am really, but I like the analogy)- In the movie, Morpheus asks Neo what pill he wishes to take. The blue pill stands for the dream world that Neo has been living in (let's call it the ignorance is bliss pill). The Red pill stands for the truth which as we know in life is often the harder pill to take! So in taking the red, he finally realizes the truth for what it is and ultimately accepts it working toward a better future for everyone.

[never cry wolf]

31. I know where you are coming from...

I have come to a realization of the reality of my own situation. I am actively thinking of options but not yet acting upon them until thoroughly gelled. With kids, their well being must be of the utmost importance.

Anything is possible but once something has jumped the shark, rarely does it improve.

[citizen snips]

32. I know absolutely nothing.

And I don't know of any questions to ask.:shrug:

[populistmom]

33. That's okay

I possess your favorite female quality (of course I have many others as well), so you can just quietly admire me from afar! :)

[citizen snips]

34. Okay.

I guess I will admire you from afar.