Who Are You?

JUST WHO ARE YOU ANYWAY?

Sometimes it is fun to think about yourself differently. With this series of questions, a blogger on Open Salon challenged all of us to learn more about ourselves. As we shared with each other, we understood more about each writer. Since I would like to introduce myself to you, I am sharing this. You might even enjoy doing this little exercise too. Enjoy!

Sheila’s 33

1. Your main trait: Creative intellectual mind.

2. The quality you like best in a man: Intelligence.

3. The quality you like best in a woman: Intelligence.

4. Your main flaw:  Over thinking.

5. Last time you cried: When I left my daughter at school in another state.

6. Ideal job:  Creative director.

7. Scent of a place:  My grandmother's kitchen.

8. Beloved movie:  Love Actually, in the past The Sound of Music.

9. Book on the nightstand:   Books are everywhere here, currently a Clive Cussler piece but that is this moment.

10. First and best kiss:   On a school bus going to a speech tournament in High School as a freshman. Too many best kisses, but one that stands out, at Wharton, by a small pond, extremely romantic for a girl of 19.

11. You couldn’t do without:  Seriously, my husband and my gym shoes.

12. How you would like to die:  Peacefully is good, quick is good, unknowingly is good.

13. Song you sing in the shower:  Yeah, don't do that anymore, but something strong and blues like would have been a pick.

14. Your deadly sin: Yeah, I don't really fuss about health issues, and probably that is bad. I have never liked people obsessed with it and damn I refuse to be that person.

15. Your not-so-deadly sin: I like to think too much.

16. Your motto:   I work for a genderless, equity filled society where no one looks at you first as your sex, but instead sees your intelligence and ideas.

17. Ideal first date:  Well, dinner and movie, not necessarily in that order. Coffee dates are good too.

18. Favorite present: Ha, jewelry, preferably something honking big. Shiny diamonds are best.

19. In the train:  I have some great European train memories as a young person. Great train memories going to work in Chicago and not so great ones on the way to Amsterdam last year...

20. Something you’d change in your body:  I work everyday to be at peace with what I cannot change.

21. Your addiction:   Thinking too much about things that sometimes do not even matter. 

22. Now on your left:   French doors to the garden.

 23. Now on your right:   Black and white photograph of a horse statue from Ruidoso New Mexico, Museum of the Horse.

24. Now in front of you:  Black and white photo of Hollywood Boulevard for the 28th Academy Awards in 1956.

25. Now behind you:  A pair of black and white photos from WWII aerial reconnaissance missions in South America by my father.

26. Names for your children: S. Gerhardt, H. Berhardt, K. Maria

27. 3 things in your purse: Lipstick, phone, wallet.

28. 3 places that fascinate you:  Museums anywhere, haunted places and mountains.

29. 3 people you’d like to meet: Whoopi Goldberg, Cary Grant, Abe Lincoln.

30. 3 traits you hate in people: The litany of their illnesses, their selfishness, their ignorance.

31. Values inherited from your parents:  Being welcoming, hard working and having a spiritual reference.

32. In your past life your were:   I am inclined to think I was someone persecuted in WWII in Europe, probably a Jewish person in Germany. That said, I once told my mother I thought I was a 18th century French courtesan.

33. In your future life you’ll be: Still working out the issues I find in this one....

If you happen by and read this, why not try it yourself? You might be surprised what you might learn. This was done a while back, but if done today, the answers might be nearly the same.

Copyright 2012 by Sheila Luecht