23 Questions With...Laura
 In your words explain a little about yourself, who are you? I am a flatlander who moved to the mountains and has not looked back since. I am married and I am a mom. I love books and pizza. I have brown hair and strong shoulders. My legs are 36 inches long, and I have dark brown eyes. That's what people see when they look at me, or it's what people "know" about me. A friend of mine once said, "It's much easier to list 5 things that you hate about yourself than it is to list 5 things you like about yourself." I think, unfortunately, that most people would find that he is right. However, here are five things I like about myself. 1) I am a witty, intelligent woman and I'm proud of that. 2) I am 26 years old, weigh 123 pounds, am starting to get gray hairs that I refuse to dye and wrinkles I refuse to cover with makeup, and I don't see why I should be embarrassed by any of that. 3) I am a generous, helpful person, and it makes me feel good to make people happy. 4) I have a loud, obnoxious laugh, and I like it. I laugh with my whole body. 5) I have a great deal of determination and stubbornness running through me. It makes me strong. Lets begin the 20 Questions with… 1, Do you have any regrets? No. Regrets are a waste of time. I can't go back and change things, and even if I could I would refuse. My actions and decisions, however "good" or "bad" have made me the person I am today. I like myself; to have regrets is just another way of saying you don't like yourself. 2 ,What is your first memory? My older brother pushing me around outside of my parents' house in his yellow Tonka dump truck. I must have been 3 or so. 3,What is the stupidest thing you will ever admit to doing? Surfing. 4, What is your favorite guilty pleasure? Chocolate pudding. 5, What would your porn star name be? I wouldn't have one because I wouldn't set women back hundreds of years by selling my body to hairy, sweaty guys who will only obsess about it. There is far more to ME than that. 6, What is the hardest drug you have ever done? I have never done drugs. I will never do drugs. My body and mind don't need that nonsense to be stimulated or find beauty in the world. We have become a society of pansies; life gets tough so drown it out with drugs. I am saddened by people who will never know how strong they really are inside because they take the easy way out when life gets them down. 7, Are there any nude pictures of you in this world? possibly a baby photo...see two answers above. 8, Do you prefer lights on or off during sex? Off. 9, What is the wildest thing that you have ever done? I broke a homeless guy's jaw when he tried to mug me, and then tied him up with my belt so he couldn't escape while I called the cops. 10, What do you wear in bed? Tank top and boxers. 11, How many items of jewelry do you wear on a daily bases? One. 12, Have you ever gone skinny dipping? Yes. 13, When you close your eyes and relax, where do you go? The weeping willow tree behind my parents' house, that lies part way over the river. I can hide under the branches and no one can find me. 14, You can tell a lot about a person by the tittles of books on their bookshelves. What books do you have on your shelves? Margaret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Marcel Proust, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Arthur Miller, Paulo Coelho, Augusten Burroughs, Mitch Albom, Truman Capote, Douglas Adams, etc. I devour books. I'll read anything I can get my hands on. 15, What music has changed your life, or what do you listen to? My favorite has to be Bright Eyes. If you haven't heard them, find some. Conor Oberst's lyrics will change your life or at least make you think about it. Lots of questions about religion and politics get called into question. Check out "When the President Talks to God." It's brilliant. Here's the first stanza, just to get you going: When the president talks to God Are the conversations brief or long? Does he ask to rape our women's rights And send poor farm kids off to die? Does God suggest an oil hike When the president talks to God? 16, If you could be in any profession, other than the one that you are in, what would it be? I would do something to help young women find their way; to help them realize that they must live up to their own expectations before anyone else's and that it's okay to set standards for yourself. 17, Tell me something about yourself that most do not know? I used to box. My uncle taught me how to box when I was 9 and I kept it up until my junior year in college. I still have my boxing gloves. 18, How old were you when you lost your virginity? 21. I waited until my husband and I got married, out of respect for myself. I'm an oddity in this "Babies having Babies" age. 19, What have you not done that you must do before you die? Write a book that will inspire people. 20, Name someone that you admire and why? I admire my mother. She has always believed in me, therefore I now believe in myself. She is the kind of mom that I try to be for my daughter. 21, When were you were invincible? As a child. I grew up in the country and always did the stuff that is now "too dangerous" for kids these days. I always had scabbed knees and elbows from jumping out of trees, or crashing on my bike (without a helmet), and the layers of dirt that were always under my fingernails would make mothers today fall over in a dead faint. It was wonderful. 22, When did you relies that you were not? When I was a sophomore in high school and met a guy who destroyed my life for the next 4 years. It ended when I realized that although I'm not invincible, I and I alone control my life, which is very nearly the same thing. 23, The ancient Greeks believed that it was not what you accomplished in life, it was how you lived your live. When you die how would you like to be remembered? I would just like to be remembered. I have no control over how I am held in other people's opinions, so it's a silly thing to worry about. |