the 2021 daily meme, week 4
Jan. 28th, 2021 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
castiron22. What do you like about your neighborhood? It's a place where I feel safe taking walks at 11pm.
23. Who are the five people you spend the most time with? Right now? My three household members, my socially distant knitting bud, and the phlebotomist at the blood center.
24. How do you feel about getting old? I'm not crazy about the increasing aches and twinges; it's nothing like someone with chronic pain suffers, but it's noticeably worse than ten years ago. I'm feeling like all the skills I spent my youth developing are becoming irrelevant, and while I can retool, I don't have the brainspace or energy that I used to, so that's frustrating. I'm very happy that I'm no longer the target of random catcalls. (Popular culture says that I'm supposed to be worried about losing my attractiveness to men, but while I'm straight, I've never been interested in being attractive to men-in-general. And if I'm losing any hope of attracting a specific man I'm interested in, oh well, it's not like I was having that much luck twenty years ago either.)
25. What’s the best method of transportation where you live? Define best. The method that will get me where I'm going fastest is my own car. The most relaxed method, when there's not a pandemic, might be a bus, or might still be my own car, or might be a taxi or rideshare depending on location, distance, and traffic.
26. What’s your favorite breakfast food? The huevas mexicanas at a local Tex-Mex place. But for everyday, yogurt with some oatmeal is my current preference.
27. With what are you happy to be done doing? I would say changing diapers/rearing small children, but since I haven't officially hit menopause (and have a spouse nearing the age where incontinence or dementia may show up), that's asking for a bolt from Murphy.
28. If you could change a decision you made in your past, what would it be and how would it change your life? Marrying my ex. We worked really well as long-distance friends, but not as spouses. As for how it would've changed my life? I have no clue. Obviously I wouldn't have had Oldest, but I don't know whether I'd have married someone else and had a different kid. I might have done better in my career. Or I might not have. I probably wouldn't own a house now, unless I'd decided to buy one on my own before the prices started skyrocketing. I'm not sure when I'd have gotten a car, and without a car I wouldn't have gone to the UU church and without going there I'd never have known about the folk dancing class (and without the divorce as incentive I might not have tried it), so I wouldn't have met Spouse.
Or if I wanted to play it safe and change a smaller decision, when I was in college a couple of us who worked for the CS department considered taking one of the Sun computers out of the lab to have a picture taken with it for the yearbook. We chickened out, but that's one of the few things I still deeply regret not doing.
23. Who are the five people you spend the most time with? Right now? My three household members, my socially distant knitting bud, and the phlebotomist at the blood center.
24. How do you feel about getting old? I'm not crazy about the increasing aches and twinges; it's nothing like someone with chronic pain suffers, but it's noticeably worse than ten years ago. I'm feeling like all the skills I spent my youth developing are becoming irrelevant, and while I can retool, I don't have the brainspace or energy that I used to, so that's frustrating. I'm very happy that I'm no longer the target of random catcalls. (Popular culture says that I'm supposed to be worried about losing my attractiveness to men, but while I'm straight, I've never been interested in being attractive to men-in-general. And if I'm losing any hope of attracting a specific man I'm interested in, oh well, it's not like I was having that much luck twenty years ago either.)
25. What’s the best method of transportation where you live? Define best. The method that will get me where I'm going fastest is my own car. The most relaxed method, when there's not a pandemic, might be a bus, or might still be my own car, or might be a taxi or rideshare depending on location, distance, and traffic.
26. What’s your favorite breakfast food? The huevas mexicanas at a local Tex-Mex place. But for everyday, yogurt with some oatmeal is my current preference.
27. With what are you happy to be done doing? I would say changing diapers/rearing small children, but since I haven't officially hit menopause (and have a spouse nearing the age where incontinence or dementia may show up), that's asking for a bolt from Murphy.
28. If you could change a decision you made in your past, what would it be and how would it change your life? Marrying my ex. We worked really well as long-distance friends, but not as spouses. As for how it would've changed my life? I have no clue. Obviously I wouldn't have had Oldest, but I don't know whether I'd have married someone else and had a different kid. I might have done better in my career. Or I might not have. I probably wouldn't own a house now, unless I'd decided to buy one on my own before the prices started skyrocketing. I'm not sure when I'd have gotten a car, and without a car I wouldn't have gone to the UU church and without going there I'd never have known about the folk dancing class (and without the divorce as incentive I might not have tried it), so I wouldn't have met Spouse.
Or if I wanted to play it safe and change a smaller decision, when I was in college a couple of us who worked for the CS department considered taking one of the Sun computers out of the lab to have a picture taken with it for the yearbook. We chickened out, but that's one of the few things I still deeply regret not doing.