Bethany, aka Ice Cream Mama explains this week's Fun Monday challenge ~
As host of Inside the Actor's Studio, James Lipton interviews some of today’s most popular personalities. The show has three parts. The first part consists of a one on one interview in front of a live audience (so much better than a dead one). The final part is a Q & A with audience members asking the questions.
The second part is my favorite and is also
nextTHIS week’s Fun Monday challenge.
James Lipton presents the audience with ten questions. Bethany asked FM bloggers to answer these same questions for this week's challenge.
What profession, other than your own, would you like to attempt?
OPI Color namer, chef in my own restaurant, sommelier, Sea World dolphin trainer, Paula Deen's or Rachel Ray's sidekick, journalist, sex therapist and/or marriage counselor, physical therapist, social worker, Disney imagineer…hehe, I'm not kidding on ANY of these :).
What is your favorite word?
Right off the bat, an unanswerable question :/. I love the word "love" because it encompasses SO many meanings, I love them all ;). I guess a close second would be "forgive" and any derivative of that.
What is your least favorite word?
Good~bye (much easier than my "favorite" word)
What turns you on (creatively, spiritually or emotionally)?
I guess I'm reading this as what kinds of things inspire you…as a sensual, passionate person (get your minds out of the gutter), many things "get me going"… music (since I just finished this confounded thing, of course that's on my mind!), the beauty, magnificence, enormity and sometimes subtlety of creation (ocean, waterfalls, lightning bugs, a bird in flight, a flower…), "epiphanous moments" in my faith, h e a r i n g and understanding Scripture in a way I never have before….and (your minds may wander to the gutter) my husband.
What turns you off?
Arrogance, superficiality, bad breath, excuses (a victim mentality), mean-spiritedness :(.
What is your favorite curse word?
Ummmm….crap or $#!+, depending on how bad the traffic is O:)
What sound or noise do you love?
A heavy rain or violent thunderstorm and the waves crashing on the beach!!!!
What sound or noise do you hate?
Whining children (mine or others) and when a car in my vicinity is playing their music SO LOUDLY I can FEEL IT! >:(
What profession would you not like to attempt?
Butcher (bloody raw meat–YUCK!), poultry processor (salmonella and see previous), pilot (that hating to fly thing), telemarketing (phone phobia), CPA (I'm WAAAYYYY to a.d.d. to professionally play with numbers), professional bungee jumper or hang glider.
If Heaven exists, What would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
Well done…. :)
HEY GUYS!! I'M THE HOST FOR NEXT WEEK'S FUN MONDAY!!! HOPE Y'ALL WILL JOIN IN WHAT WILL BE A VERY FUN FUN MONDAY! I'll tell ya tomorrow what the theme will be and new friends are invited to join us, too!
Enjoyed it! Looking forward to you hosting next week!
Hey there, my trashy friend. Loved reading about you today, but I could have guessed most of those answers. I’m in for next Fun Monday.
P.S. Here is a blog you will enjoy:
http://www.familygregg.blogspot.com
Great answers. Count me in for next week (hmm, maybe I should wait to see what the challenge is?)
Oh, I might just have to play next week. Do remind us!
Here we go again, Robin – Twilight Zone time. You and I were REALLY truly separated at birth. That would make you 34 years old – good news!
CRAP is my *%$# word of choice, too! I get really embarrassed when I slip in front of my mom – she said I should try saying it backwards when I get mad. That would be “PARC!!!!” Doesn’t have the same feel, does it?
As far as the butchering profession – Amen, sista. A self-described germ-o-phobe, I hardly EVER buy raw chicken. It completely freaks me out to prepare it, especially with young uns in the house. It drives Doug crazy.
On to the telemarketing. I was 16, couldn’t get a job ANYWHERE. I finally got desperate and took a job at a telemarketing company. I had to call people in West Virginia trying to raise money for the “West Virginia Fraternal Order of Police.” This one man that I called said “Where are you calling me from? You don’t sound like you’re from W.Va!” I hung up on him, walked out the door, and never went back – SERIOUSLY!
Okay. I’ll shut up now. This was supposed to be about YOU, right?
Thanks for reminding me which jobs I would definitely NOT want.
I knew your responses would be very entertaining; I’m with you on the waves- that was one of my answers!! can’t wait to see our task for next week, see you tomorrow.
sex therapist… ha ha ha ha.
and ditto on loud cars. Our town passed a Noise Ordinance and said if you can hear the :radio: more than 10 feet from an auto, then its a TICKET. I don’t know if they are enforcing it.
Great answers, enjoyable read, as ALWAYS
Dear robin. I’m in for fun monday next week. OK now biz is outta the way, let me say I loved your list! I have to agree with the noise of the rain. I think I will have to copy off you for that one. I love the chef in the restaurant thing, but sex therapist? Now I’m imagining you as Barbara Streisand on ‘Meet the Fockers’! heehee
A marriage counselor? You’re braver than I am. Sex therapist, maybe.
I never thought about it, but “goodbye” is a lousy word.
Sabrina, Hope you can get to what you need to for the “challenge”…yours might be in storage :(.
Swampy, I thought about you when I wrote the challenge…I’m afraid you could have a post that could leave us in tears…the funny kind, but also the poignant…
Thanks for the bloglink; I’ll check it out after I visit some FMers :).
Lisa, Oooo, I like the adventuresome type who say “yes” before they even know what “it” is!! 🙂 Guess that goes for all y’all who said “I’m in” before I posted the “in” ;).
Carol, you know me…I’ll remind ya (and I DO hope you’ll Fun Monday again–btw, I just verbed “fun monday”, totally my prerogative. Also my preogative to verb “verb”.
Susan, your mom sounds cute–“parc”? Too funny (but I’m gonna try to start using THAT instead, lol)(I’ll letcha know how it works out for me). So…you wish you were a sex therapist, too? 😉
Beccy, you’re welcome.
Chris, if you come back tomorrow, you’ll see I got a head start today :). Glad you saw me as entertaining…I just saw me as “me”.
Pamela, FINALLY! I was waiting for SOMEONE to “bite” on the S.T. thing….and, might I say, I’m happy it was you ;). Re: the noise ordinance thing, wanna know how often I channel Barney Fife and think “Citizen’s arreeest, citizen’s arreeest!”. Wait a second, that’s channeling Gomer, isn’t it?
Dear LMM, Glad you took care of bidness first…and Barbra’s version might not be too far off of how I’d be, lol. As long as her pipes came with the job…!
Hi Kurt…nice to meet cha. Off to see “who” you are :).
This is very spooky! My answers and yours are very similar! Ooooooohhh!!
I also chose Sea World Trainer as one of the profession I would love to try! I said the sound of the ocean as a sound I love, but I also love thunderstorms, especially when they are rolling in and the thunder claps are kind of spaced out.
I too can’t stand the whining…make it stop.
Does that make me a “very nice woman”, Erik?
Rachel, I like spaced out thunder claps, close together thunder claps, any kind :).
Amy, if only I knew how :/…I do always tell mine I can’t hear ’em when they speak in whine…doesn’t seem to stop them from trying the NEXT time (good luck!)
As usual, you dazzled us with your Fun Monday post. You are right love and forgive are great words. I also like your response about subtlety of nature and epiphanous moments in understanding Scripture.
Re: sex therapist and the other professions you mentioned – the similarities ended THERE! The dolphin training sounded good in theory, but it would require me get into water in which sea creatures INHABIT. I limit my swimming to water only PEOPLE are allowed in.
But I’ll come and watch you 😉
Ooo… I LOVE a good thunderstorm! Great answers!