shareyourworld – Living, Loving, Laughing….

Well…I’m late getting to this, but it is not for lack of trying. I have been trying to post this blog since TUESDAY. It’s been a work in progress, no more than ten minutes at a time snatched here and there. Because of work, work dinners, work, and MORE work. This is corporate travels busiest time of year. I think it always takes us by surprise. The AA pilots (I’m talking to you!! Yes YOU pilots!) are NOT helping. In fact, it is adding extra people (like me) to work in Emergency services and LOTS of unhappy people trying to get somewhere on AA. Not to mention the rest of the peoples bailing off AA to actually get somewhere. Which makes me wonder how smart these pilots think they are? If no one flies AA, won’t they be out of a J-O-B? But, I digress….

Cee’s Life Photography Blog is kind enough to share her world, and she asks that other share theirs. I don’t know about you. But I think that is a marvelous way to connect with each other.

Here are the four questions and answers for the week (finally!).

1. Where did you live at age five?

At age five (pic below), I lived in Ada, Oklahoma off Howard Street. And apparently, for my birthday, I got a big wheel.

How awesome is that?

A few facts about Ada.

The Innocent Man

2. What five things in life would you like to get paid for but would choose to do even if you have to pay to do them? (submitted by Reinventing the We’ll)

Photographer Angelia Sims — Photo by Lora Phillips

Take photos….

Preferably nature Photography and landscapes.

Visit the beach as much as I can possibly afford to. Oh yes….yes, yes, yes.

Laundry. Someone had to say it. What is the good life without clean undies? If I got PAID to do laundry, can you imagine how rich I’d be? Of course, paying for laundry is a must whether it’s buying a washer and dryer, or visiting the laundromat. Just being reals……

Coffee. I could get paid to have coffee. I could sit in Starbucks all day, or at home, or on the beach.

I can drink coffee here or there.
I can drink coffee anywhere.
But I have to have milk to put in it.

So I guess I’d need a fridge, or a cooler. And of course….I BUY coffee now. I afford this ~~luxury~~ ~~necessity~~ so I don’t kill anyone.

Travel. Plane, train, or boat. I don’t care. I just like to go. And do. And be somewhere. Free travel would be great (and sometimes I get that), but I would pay. No doubt about it.

Watch sunsets. That would be a steady income I could enjoy. But I would pay for it, if I had to….Thankfully the most beautiful things in life are free.

3. Describe yourself in a word that starts with the first letter of your name. (submitted by teedeevee)

Amicable.

4. “What do you have to be so happy about?” (submitted by Caddo Veil)

My Family.

My Faith.

My Heart. My strength. My will.

That my journey is just beginning…

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

– Sir Winston Churchill

I am linking up with Cee’s Life Photography this week for a little Share Your World.

Here are the questions for the week.

Crunchy Peanut Butter or Smooth?

I will take smooth over crunchy any day.

There is something about that creamy dreamy spread that is just scrumptious. I would say lip-smacking, but you know it always seems like the peanut buttery smack gets stuck to the roof of my mouth. Heh.

Is there a job you interviewed for and didn’t get that would have totally changed your life as it is now? Please explain.

In 1990, I made the cut from over 500 qualified personnel to one of about ten people hired from a mass job fair in Houston, Texas as an Eastern Airlines flight attendant. Yeah. Shocked me too. Me, all of eighteen years old, with zero experience. Maybe, I was just young enough to be trained well.

Coffee?

Peanuts?

As much as flying the friendly skies was a dream come true. It did not happen after all. The Eastern Flight attendants went off strike and all the new hires were put on a waiting list – like forever. Then, Eastern went bankrupt. Yay, me.

It’s hard for me to imagine that life. A flight attendant living in New York. Wow.

I became a travel agent instead since all the other airlines only hired 21-year olds, and I had to find something travel related until I came of age.

Guess what I still am?

What’s the most interesting “Ice Breaker” Question you have ever been asked? (This one is selfish, I’m always looking for more questions.)

Ohhhh! I have a good one for this. I am so terrible at really interesting questions. I bought a book.

I thought it might help me stray away from the….Where are you from? How many siblings? Where did you go to school?

Well…..not so much. Come to find out, I love the boring questions, but this is a great book!

Just for fun, I turned to a random page, and this is what I got.

If you could be invisible for a day, what would you do?

Oh yeah, this book is loaded with stuff like that.

If you had the choice between an RV, a sports car, an SUV, or a bicycle, which would you choose and why?

That’s easy. I’ll take an RV, and one that is not too big. I want to be able to get up in the mountains to those really cool parks only smaller type vehicles can get to. Explore with no limits.

But mostly, I want to travel Highway 1, up and down the coast of California. I am kinda sorta (ALOT) in love with the view.