Discover Prompt word for today is “list.”  I don’t like lists much.  They waste my time.  Most lists are made to refer to later or to do soon.  Refer-to-later are no good since I can’t find them because of my unfulfilled to-do-soon lists which I can’t do yet because it is not “soon” yet.

However, I do like answering lists of questions about me.  So I rounded some up.  Here goes.

1. What is your most embarrassing moment? The one your friends and family like to remind you of!   This is easy.  Hands down, my family laugh and tell a story of my naivety when I came from the country to the city.  I got a good job in the Vocational Rehabilitation Dept. of Oklahoma.  My first day at work I raised my hand to ask permission to go to the bathroom!  I should never have told that  – and here I am doing it again!  I don’t think I was surely that dumb but old habits from the classroom were hard to break!

2. If you could change one thing from the past, what would it be? Or do you prefer to live with no regrets? I have been overweight most of my life with a lot of wasted energy and frustrations with dieting/giving up syndrome.  I just keep hoping female bodies in Heaven will look like those from the Renaissance Art period!

3. What is the funniest joke you’ve heard in a while?  Three retired gentlemen lived in an elegant senior community in Florida.  One said he was very thankful to be living in such high style.  He had worked hard and achieved much in his business, but a fire had burned it all down.  The insurance, however, was good so he took the settlement and retired.  The second said that he had had a similar experience but it was broken water pipes that had destroyed his home by flooding everything in his absence.  Good insurance, however, so he took his settlement and retired to Florida.  The third gentleman expressed sympathy and said, “My story is very much like yours, except it was a tornado that wiped me out.”  The other two joined in chorus, “A tornado.  How in the world do you start a tornado!”

4. What is one of your first memories from your childhood?  I have felt like I can remember my daddy holding me in his arms while walking up some steps into a church.  It was special to me because I remember the little bonnet I had on.  (I asked my mother about it and she felt like it was a real happening.  She even identified the church.)

5. How would you like to be remembered? This is really a great opening for a gag line like I want to be remembered as being the oldest rich woman who ever lived.  But truthfully, I hope to be remembered as a woman of joy, integrity, wisdom, and  love who leaves a legacy to my descendants that proves the “abundant” life promised by Jesus in John 10:10 consists of much more than money, fame, and technical gadgetry.

6. What is the best piece of advice you have ever received? My husband is from England; therefore, I was concerned about dating him.  What if he wanted to go back there?  Would he take to my country ways?  What about his accent?  That sort of thing  My mother set my mind at rest about that situation.  We dated.  We married.  We have shared over sixty-five years (here in the good USA, I might add.)

7. What makes you literally laugh out loud? (and I mean full on belly laughs!) Puns, I love puns.  “Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off.  He’s all right now!”  or “Eating clocks is a bother.  It is so time consuming!”  Don’t urge me for more.  I don’t know when to stop.

8. Finish this sentence: “I wish.  I wish I had been as smart at thirty as I think I am now. Oh, edit that.  I wish I were as smart now as I think I am now! 😀

There, Folks, that’s my list.

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Discover prompt:  List