I got this one in email from Marlene and I thought it would be fun to share some of the answers to help me through NaBloPoMo month!

Here is the original email in case you want to send it out to your friends:

About ME!

Okay, this one is different – this is funny. YOU fill in
the blanks about ME and send it back to ME. But FIRST,
send a blank one out to all your friends, including me,
so we can return the favor to you. Be honest. They’re really
SCARY to get back. It only takes a few minutes, so just
do it! First send (forward) this survey to everyone
you know to see how well he or she knows you.
Second, hit ‘reply’ and fill this survey out
About the person who sent it to you and send it back to them.

Where did we meet?_________

Take a stab at my middle name?______________

Do I smoke?______________________

Color of my eyes?_____________________

Do I have any siblings?__________________

What’s one of my favorite things to do?__________________

What’s my favorite type of music?______________________

Am I shy or outgoing?____________________________

Am I a rebel or do I follow the rules?_______________________

Any special talents?_____________________________

How many children do I have?_________________________

If you and I were stranded on a deserted island, what is one thing that I would
bring?_________________________________

I can’t wait to see the answers!!!

I got answers back from four of my friends and my cousin, which is actually a pretty good amount for one of these things, but I think this one was pretty fun.

And now for your reading enjoyment (or not), I’ll share some of the answers I got back and what my answers to the questions would be. (Read on …)

On my handy dandy Verizon plan with my totally cool phone which I love and wouldn’t trade even for an iPhone (and I’m a Mac addict), I have GPS. We (I) decided to test out the trip navigator today on our way out to Mike’s sister’s house in BFE. Ok, it’s in Tempe, but it feels like BFE to us. The trip navigator gives you directions as you go, on where to turn and which freeway you’re supposed to be on and so forth. And if you’re not lucky enough to have someone with you to hold the phone, it even talks to you.

It worked like a charm on the way over there, told us where to turn and said “you have reached your destination” right as we arrived at their house. It also tells you how many miles you have to go and how long it thinks it will take you to get there. Pretty darn cool.

On the way home, I decided to try it again, since we knew we were going to have to take a bit of a different route home because the freeway was pretty backed up the other direction when we headed out. When we got onto the other freeway, it took it a second or two, but then it said “recalculating directions” and updated the navigator. Not bad.

Then we threw it for a bit of a loop. We had to get off the freeway and make a quick stop at the post office which sent us in the opposite direction from which we needed to go to get home. When it realized we were going the wrong direction (which was pretty quickly) it said “make the next legal u-turn”. We did finally end up back on the freeway and made it happy again.

But the funniest part was when we got to our neighborhood. For whatever reason, our street does not show up on the Verizon GPS map. So, after we passed the street before ours, which was where it thought we were going, and then turned on our street, it told us we were “no longer on a road”. So, it gets a D for not having our street in its memory banks, but it gets an A- for everything else. And I can definitely see how it would be useful for going somewhere you’re unfamiliar with. Unless, of course, the street is not on the map. Then you might have a problem!