I obviously won't be completing this task in one sitting. Actually, I can't imagine answering more than 50 at a time, so this is going to take a super long time. But I have certain reasons for wanting to include this item on my Day Zero list.
I'm not a person that likes to talk about myself to others. When I'm having a conversation with someone, I'm that person that always tries to keep the topic on the other person. It makes people feel important and special, and I love to make people feel good. However, it does feel good to talk about myself sometimes. And if this is my blog, I guess this is the place to do it. So I'm going to answer an absolute crapton of questions all about myself and my life, and it'll make me feel like I have an outlet.
1. Who are you?
Kirsten!
2. What are the 3 most important things everyone should know about you?
I am painfully empathetic, am delighted by animals, and love to learn.
2. What are the 3 most important things everyone should know about you?
I am painfully empathetic, am delighted by animals, and love to learn.
3. When you aren't filling out 5,000 question surveys like this one what are you doing?
I work full-time at a very nice seafood restaurant. I am a full-time graduate student in clinical health psychology. And when the combination of those things doesn’t vacuum up all of my time, I putz around on a handful of websites, and spend time with my amazing husband.
4. List your classes in school from the ones you like the most to the ones you like the least (or if you are out of school, think of the classes you did like and didn't like at the time).
Haha. I’m taking two classes right now, so this is too binary. I’ll go with undergrad to make it a little more varied. In college, I fell in love with human neuropsychology. It shaped my career choices. I loathed organic chemistry, with all of my being.
5. What is your biggest goal for this year?
Hmm. I don’t think I have any huge goals for the coming year… I’d like to completely organize and get on top of our financial situation.
6. Where do you want to be in 5 years?
In a house with a Corgi and my cats, and 1-2 kids.
6. Where do you want to be in 5 years?
In a house with a Corgi and my cats, and 1-2 kids.
7. What stage of life are you in right now?
I just got married 2 months ago. I guess that puts me in the newlywed stage. I’m what I consider to be a young adult, though some may consider me a full-fledged adult. There are a few steps I need to take before I consider myself a real adult.
8. Are you more child-like or childish?
I guess more child-like. I’m pretty mature, but I do find joy in some kid-oriented things.
9. What is the last thing you said out loud?
“I’ll come snuggle you in a bit.”
10. What song comes closest to how you feel about your life right now?
“Here Comes the Sun”
11. Have you ever taken martial arts classes?
I took Hapkido when I was 13 or 14. I didn’t retain anything, really, but it was enjoyable.
12. Does your life tend to get better or worse or does it just stay the same?
It definitely gets better.
13. Does time really heal all wounds?
If you deal with pain in a healthy way, it does.
14. How do you handle a rainy day?
Open the windows (the ones that aren’t facing the wind) and listen to the rain while I read a book. That sounds heavenly.
15. Which is worse...losing your luggage or having to sort out tangled holiday lights?
Agh. Both are infuriating, but definitely losing luggage.
16. How is your relationship with your parents?
It’s pretty phenomenal. I have great parents.
Will you miss them when they are gone?
So much.
Will you miss them when they are gone?
So much.
17. Do you tend to be aware of what is going on around you?
For the most part. I sometimes get caught up in my own world, especially when I’m reading.
18. What is the truest thing that you know?
Truth is relative; not absolute.
19. What did you want to be when you grew up?
A vet, like every other kid, until I realized the reality of that job. I wanted to be a doctor from 7th grade until my second year of college, when I discovered my “true calling” in neuropsych.
20. Have you ever been given a second chance?
Oh yes.
21. Are you more of a giver or a taker?
With most people I’m much more of a giver. With people I trust and love, I allow myself to be a taker a little more (yes, this sounds backwards, but it’s how I am).
22. Do you make your decisions with an open heart/mind?
I try.
23. What is the most physically painful thing that has ever happened to you?
I’ve been lucky in my life to have not experienced a lot of physical pain. My worst pain was probably when I cracked my skull in 5th grade.
24. What is the most emotionally painful thing that has ever happened to you?
I actually don’t want to talk much about it, because it makes me cry, but it was hearing my mom’s voice when my dad told her my grandma died.
25. Who have you hugged today?
My husband.
26. Who has done something today to show they care about you?
Matt made coffee for me this morning and dinner for me this evening, and my mom left me a sweet comment on my facebook.
27. Do you have a lot to learn?
I will for the rest of my life.
28. If you could learn how to do three things just by wishing and not by working what would they be?
A: Speak an Asiatic language
B: Take care of my car
C: Make a quilt
29. Which do you remember the longest: what other people say, what other people do or how other people make you feel?
Definitely how they make me feel—that’s psychological fact.
30. What are the key ingredients to having a good relationship?
Mutual respect, mutual appreciation, and compromise.
31. What 3 things do you want to do before you die?
A: Visit every continent
B: Raise children
C: Make a valid contribution to the field of neuropsychology
32. What three things would you want to die to avoid doing?
A: Hurting anyone
B: Killing an animal
C: This one sounds vain, but it’s not, it’s just health-related: Become overweight
33. Is there a cause you believe in more than any other cause?
No. I believe in advocacy of so many groups of people, and animals.
34. What does each decade make you think of:
The 19..
20's: Flappers
30's: Jazz
40's: War
50's: Grease, basically
60's: The Beatles
70's: Druggie-hippies
80's: Bad music
90's: Flannel, and awesomeness
2000: Tech-growth
2010's: Nothing new
35. Which decade do you feel the most special connection to and why?
I have a kinship with the 60s.
36. What is your favorite oldie/classic rock song?
Let It Be
37. What country do you live in and who is the leader of that country?
USA, and our president is Obama.
If you could say any sentence to the current leader of your country what would it be?
Thank you for what you’re trying to do.
38. What's your favorite TV channel to watch in the middle of the night?
Meh. I don’t watch much TV in the middle of the night.
39. What Disney villain are you the most like and why?
Wow, I don’t even have the slightest clue.
40. Have you ever been a girl scout/boy scout?
I think I was in the Brownies for like 4 weeks. I clearly didn’t enjoy myself.
41. If you were traveling to another continent would you rather fly or take a boat?
If time wasn’t an element, I would love to take a boat, as long as it were a HUGE boat. It would be awesome to take a cruise liner to Europe.
42. Why is the sky blue during the day and black at night?
Science.
43. What does your name mean?
It’s German, and means Christian.
44. Would you rather explore the deeps of the ocean or outer space?
OH MY GOD, NEITHER. I am completely terrified of both.
45. Word association
What is the first word that comes to mind when you see the word:
Air: Wind
Meat: Butcher
Different: Strokes
Pink: Cancer (hmm, guess that campaign is effective on me)
Deserve: Earn
White: Teeth
Elvis: Hound dog
Magic: Hat
Heart: Beat
Clash: Music
Pulp: Orange
46. If you could meet any person in the world who is dead who would you want it to be?
George Harrison
47. What if you could meet anyone who is alive?
Jason Segel.
48. Is there a movie that you love so much you could watch it everyday?
The Big Lebowski, I could probably watch everyday for a while. But I wouldn’t want to kill it for myself.
49. You are going to be stuck alone in an elevator for a week. What do you bring to do?
Lots of books and music.
50. Have you ever saved someone's life or had your life saved?
I don’t think I’ve saved anyone’s life. My dad saved mine when I was 2; I almost drowned.
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