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the 366 meme, part eleven: March 11-17
Mar. 17th, 2020 09:43 amMar 11: What’s your first and middle name(s), if you’re comfortable saying? Do you think the meanings of your names matches who you are? Again, while it's easy enough to identify me, I'm not going to make it even easier. (And isn't this really close to the March 5 question?)
Mar 12: What’s your birth order in your family? Do you think it affected who you are as an adult? I'm the oldest. I don't know how much of a factor it's been in my personality versus my inherent temperament.
Mar 13: Are you superstitious about Friday the 13th? Yes -- it's lucky for me.
Mar 14: Do you use rely on one main password for most of your online activity, or do you try to come up with different ones as needed? Different ones, especially for anything financial.
Mar 15: You are walking along a road when you come to a three-way fork in the road. One road leads into the forest, another road leads to the mountains, and the third roads leads to the ocean. Which path do you take? Mountains. I spent my formative years in hilly areas, and one of the drawbacks of my current city is how flat it is, especially in the part where I am. If I were a bazillionaire, I'd buy a house on a hilltop so I could have a good long view.
Mar 16: What all is on your favorite sandwich? Homemade? Turkey, cheese, spinach, mayo, and tomatoes, on a good sourdough or whole wheat bread. Restaurant? I'm extremely partial to the Schlotzsky's Original on the jalapeno cheese bun. I'm also a big fan of a Philly cheese steak sandwich with mushrooms; when I was a kid there was a restaurant we'd sometimes stop at on the way to my grandparents' that served this, and it was delicious.
Mar 17: What is your ethnic make-up and heritage? Is it important to you? Total Anglx here; a Western European mix. The ancestors I've been able to trace across the pond come from the British Isles, southern Germany, northern Switzerland, France (west-central), France by way of England, and Italy by way of England. All of my ancestral lines that I'm aware of were in the United States by 1776, with the exception of my 4xggf John Cruise. John came to the US from Ireland before 1848, when he married my 4xggm in Ohio. During the Civil War, he served in the Union Army and died in the Battle of Chickamauga. We know nothing of John's ancestors, and probably won't ever find out; the death records for two of his kids list John's birthplace as Sally Mount, Ireland, but since those records are from sixty years after John's death and the oldest kid was thirteen when John died, who knows whether the information's correct? As for importance...Obviously being an American of European ancestry has had a huge effect on my life, but as far as being personally meaningful, not really. I don't have any family cultural practices that I can point to as coming from a particular swathe of my ancestry, other than being raised Lutheran (Mom's family going back to the 1700s, and even then only some ancestral lines; plenty of her ancestors were Catholic or Reformed too).
Mar 12: What’s your birth order in your family? Do you think it affected who you are as an adult? I'm the oldest. I don't know how much of a factor it's been in my personality versus my inherent temperament.
Mar 13: Are you superstitious about Friday the 13th? Yes -- it's lucky for me.
Mar 14: Do you use rely on one main password for most of your online activity, or do you try to come up with different ones as needed? Different ones, especially for anything financial.
Mar 15: You are walking along a road when you come to a three-way fork in the road. One road leads into the forest, another road leads to the mountains, and the third roads leads to the ocean. Which path do you take? Mountains. I spent my formative years in hilly areas, and one of the drawbacks of my current city is how flat it is, especially in the part where I am. If I were a bazillionaire, I'd buy a house on a hilltop so I could have a good long view.
Mar 16: What all is on your favorite sandwich? Homemade? Turkey, cheese, spinach, mayo, and tomatoes, on a good sourdough or whole wheat bread. Restaurant? I'm extremely partial to the Schlotzsky's Original on the jalapeno cheese bun. I'm also a big fan of a Philly cheese steak sandwich with mushrooms; when I was a kid there was a restaurant we'd sometimes stop at on the way to my grandparents' that served this, and it was delicious.
Mar 17: What is your ethnic make-up and heritage? Is it important to you? Total Anglx here; a Western European mix. The ancestors I've been able to trace across the pond come from the British Isles, southern Germany, northern Switzerland, France (west-central), France by way of England, and Italy by way of England. All of my ancestral lines that I'm aware of were in the United States by 1776, with the exception of my 4xggf John Cruise. John came to the US from Ireland before 1848, when he married my 4xggm in Ohio. During the Civil War, he served in the Union Army and died in the Battle of Chickamauga. We know nothing of John's ancestors, and probably won't ever find out; the death records for two of his kids list John's birthplace as Sally Mount, Ireland, but since those records are from sixty years after John's death and the oldest kid was thirteen when John died, who knows whether the information's correct? As for importance...Obviously being an American of European ancestry has had a huge effect on my life, but as far as being personally meaningful, not really. I don't have any family cultural practices that I can point to as coming from a particular swathe of my ancestry, other than being raised Lutheran (Mom's family going back to the 1700s, and even then only some ancestral lines; plenty of her ancestors were Catholic or Reformed too).