Eclectic Views

    

Hard question, wellelp! I love my living room the most when I want to
relax and listen to good music on the sound system. I love the garden
(which I'm going to count as  a "room") during the summer months for
the wonderful veggies I can grow there.

But I spend the most time in my kitchen, and in the long run I think it's
the room I love the most. I love puttering around, dreaming up recipes
and creating wonderful meals to share with my sweet husband and our
friends.
  

    
I'm late with these questions - 

What did I want to be when I was 12?

A grade school music teacher.

My favorite room in the house?  

I love the kitchen island, especially when friends and family are over
for a meal - - but my all time favorite spot is my deck off of the
living room.  I have some old oak rocking chairs there and it is the
best place to sit in the early morning sun drinking a cup of coffee and
reading the morning paper.  
  

    
Who should hire you to do what, and why?
  

    
Anyone who needs an enthusiastic, effective customer service rep,
because I'm just good at it.
  

    
Someone should hire me to catalog and organize their library, study it
carefully, and then acquire new books that they will like, based on
analysis of their tastes. I would present them with title lists and
synopses, and they would check off what they wanted. I would also do
research as desired.

Nah, not really. Too much like being a servant. It would be fun to
have time to do it for a friend or friends, though.
  

    
Someone should hire me to sell their wine.  My sales records at the
last two tasting rooms have proven that my sales were the highest and
yet I worked the less amount of hours.  However - -

With that said.  I probably would not take the job because I am
working on a project to sell my own wine.  
  

    

You're making wine now, rosebud? That's very cool!
  

    
I have been making wine for awhile, but nothing for sale.  Worked a
couple of crushes.  To be honest, I don't really care for the work and
would much rather sell it.  However, I am working with a couple of
wineries to eventually do custom wines for me.  
  

    
I'm envious, too!

In answer to the question: planning private home gardens.  I've done
this for friends and for fixer-uppers we've rehabbed, and it's always
lots of fun for me.  The last one was a friend's townhouse, because the
HOA was finally tearing off all the ivy that covered the fences and my
friend was in tears over how awful the yard looked.  So, the fences
were stripped and repainted a light beige to match the buildings, and
some delicate vines and slender trees were planted around the edge.  We
put an outdoor dining area outside the living room window, along with
a Japanese fountain to hide some of the traffic noise.  Under the large
trellis outside the dining room, I suggested an outdoor sofa, outdoor
carpet that looks like a Persian rug, and funky chandelier.  All the
flowers in the yard are now white or pale colors so that they show up
at night, and there's white fairy lights in the trees.  Since my friend
only is able to enjoy the yard on the evenings and weekends, the
design fit her to a T.
  

    
cj - that sounds wonderful!  I love the idea of "outdoor living." 
  

    
New question: Would you rather be smarter or sexier?
  

    
I think sexier, just because I almost never get laid.
  

    
I'd really really like them to want me for my brain..for a change. 

(I'm more than just 8 inches of good-time hose, ya know.)
  

    
The most direct path to being sexier would be to get more exercise, and
that's on my to-do list anyway.  (Surgery is *NOT* an option!)

Being smarter might help me actually accomplish some of the many goals 
that I set for myself.

Tough choice.
  

    
Tough choice. There's only one person that has to think I'm sexy, and
she likes me OK now. 

Man, it's tricky. There are all kinds of ways to be sexy but most of
them would require changing my character and personality. I don't know
what the ramifications of that would be.

As matters stand, I could be made much better-looking and completely
neutralize its effects, because I am not in the habit of thinking of
myself as good-looking, and am kind of shy. I have seen good-looking
people who mostly hid it, and plain people who carried themselves as if
they were beautiful and made other people believe it. So it would have
to be a personality thing, too. I'm not sure I am up for a personality
change. Becoming more self-confident, sensual, affectionate, and
romantic would be good in itself, but would it cost me good qualities
that I have now?

Also, if I got too much better-looking, I would look like someone
else. I wouldn't care for it if my wife came home looking like someone
else, even someone very sexy. 

On the other hand, getting smarter would benefit no one but me. My
life would get more detailed, interesting, and complicated, but what
use is that to anyone else?

I suppose I would ask my wife which she would prefer, and take that
into account.
  

    
Smarter, only because of the process of elimination:  I'm so damn
tired of all this media attention on sexy, who's the sexiest, etc.
Besides, a sharp mind is far sexier to me than the perfectly sculpted
biceps of my personal gym instructor, who couldn't last long during
a profound conversation....but then again....hmmm. 
  

    
That's a really tough question.  I want to say "sexier," but then I'd
look stupid, which would kinda cancel out any smart points I have left.