This past week’s blog challenge prompt was to write a Frequently Asked Questions post. Alright. Here’s 5.

What’s your favorite color?

Purple. But not every purple. I like blue purples, not red purples. Don’t tell me “purple is purple.” It most assuredly is not.

Blue purples:

Red purples:

I will take a periwinkle over a magenta any day.

Met any famous people?

I usually answer this one with Lou Diamond Phillips.

Back when he was promoting the La Bamba movie, he had a band and they came to Hays, Kansas for a show. They stayed down the street in a cheap motel and one day they apparently got a hankering for ice cream. So the band walked down to Dairy Queen where I was the shift supervisor. The rest of the staff were kids who immediately freaked out and ran to the back of the building hyperventilating. I walked out and got the man his medium vanilla cone and life went on.

But I have met a couple other people I think were pretty cool. Our hometown had an author who wrote a book:

Got to meet her in her sister’s living room when my mom was the 4H reading leader, and we have an autographed copy of the book.

I also got to meet the artist Woody Crumbo when he spoke in Hays, and we have 2 signed prints from him. He was very nice.

Then there’s the blasted member of Kingdom Come that wouldn’t leave me alone when they played at Fort Hays–sorry, buddy, I don’t even remember which one you were and I didn’t want to. Stop asking strangers to go to your hotel room and have some self-respect.

Do you listen to anything other than 80s hair bands?

Why yes, I actually do. 80s hair bands are always my go-to, but that’s not all I listen to. My kids actually listen to some very good artists, so I don’t mind letting them handle the road trip music selection. But if I am left to my own devices, I actually like some 50s and 60s bubblegum pop. I will always prefer Elvis over the Beatles. I know KISS started in the 70s, but other than a few songs here and there, I am not really a fan of 70s music. Regular 80s pop is pretty good, but I do love my glam metal.

Men knew their way around eyeliner and hairspray back then, too. https://xsrock.com/seriously-how-many-people-thought-at-least-some-of-the-band-members-in-poison-were-female-at-first/

Do you still draw?

Only when one of my kids or someone asks me to do something for a project they are working on. Last week I drew a buzzard on a board for my aunt. My eyes and hands are jacked up from arthritis, so I don’t do a lot of detail work in any form. I can, but I don’t sit for hours sketching anymore. But good news–my kids inherited my artistic ability, so the legacy lives on.

You must love to drive–you are always on the go.

I hate driving. My plan as a teen/young adult was to get a job in a small town and settle down where I could just walk everywhere I needed to go. That didn’t happen. I like my autonomy and being able to just go where I need to go, and my kids have many places they have needed to go over the years, and my husband gets lost since his stroke years ago. It is really nice to have kids who are able to drive now, but when they aren’t around, I drive by default. I am an absolute jinx when it comes to vehicles–if it can break, it will. Not a fan.