Day 12- Wanderlust

What is your biggest ambition in life?

I have mention a few times that I love to travel, and that I want to visit as many countries as possible. This is my biggest ambition as well as one of my interests. Some people want to change the world, some people want to save a life; I want to see the world. There is a reason I call my blog "Wanderlust": it's my favorite word, and one of my strongest emotions. As I've mentioned before though, I don't want to just go on vacations, I want to stay for extended periods of time. A few months at least (that's as long as you can stay without a visa). I don't know if I'll ever be able to afford to do this, but I certainly hope I can.

In the Dominican Republic

Japan!

Scotland

Day 11- That's what sisters are for...

How long was your longest inter-personal relationship?  Was it friendship, family, romantic, or something else?

I'd say anyone's longest relationship of any sort is with their family. Some people may not be super close to their family members, but for me that is not the case. I am very close with my elder sister (who I've mentioned a few times). She has been my friend for approximately 18 years, since before the age of two I probably wasn't much of a conversationalist. We became closest though after she came home from college and we ended up having to share a room, and bed, for about two months. My grandma had moved in with us after spring break of my freshman year in high school, and since we hadn't yet sold our house (we decided later just to add-on to it), she got my room. Also at the time we had our Japanese exchange student (whom we love dearly!), and she was in my sister's room. So, we ended up sharing the guest bedroom and the queen sized bed in it.

My poor sister.

I am a VERY restless sleeper. I'm surprised she didn't end up with bruises from the amount of kicking she endured. We both survived, though. Amazingly. We are still close even though she's married and has a son now. I do my best to help her endure the job of being a mommy.... by showing up at her house, eating her food, and watching her movies. :) That's what sisters are for, right?

Day 10

What musical medium did you grow up with; vinyl records, CD’s, or MP3′s?

I'm a 90's baby, which means I grew up when people still used tapes, made the big switch to CDs, and saw the growth of MP3s. I have owned, and used, all three mediums. My favorite, by far, is MP3's. My iTunes music collection is expansive. If I had hard copies of all that music, I would suffocate under the weight of all the CDs. I am the proud owner of an iPhone, so I can cart my favorites with me easily. No heavy boombox on my shoulders!

Those of you who actually read my blog, feel free to share your answer to the above question also! Or any of my posts for that matter. :)

Day 9 (or: three minutes away from Day 10)

Detail the greatest prank you have ever pulled off successfully.

To be honest, I've never really been a prankster. I haven't tried a lot, and anything I did do was just something silly or just plain stupid. The only prank I think I can say was truly successful, is one that a lot of people do. If you have, or had, a kitchen sink with a spray hose, you've pulled this prank. Yes, the one where you tape the spray hose with clear tape so that whoever turns the sink faucet on gets soaked. The reason I feel this prank was so successful, was that it not only got the person it was aimed at (my mom), but my sister and I as well (the pranksters). Note: When you try to pull off this prank, don't forget the kitchen sink is rigged!!! Go to the bathroom to wash your hands.

Karma. Sometimes it'll get you before you even do what you had planned.

Day 8

Describe a moment in your life you laughed so hard you cried, had a drink come out your nose, or peed in your pants.

Oh gosh, I have had drinks come out of my nose so often from laughing, it's actually a fairly normal occurrence. That, and spitting my drink all over. I think the one story that still stands out to me as one of the funniest things I have ever witnessed, though, is my mothers attempt to mow the lawn.

My dad was out of town (or at work, I can't remember), so my mom thought it would be nice to surprise him when he got home by having the lawn all mowed. So she got out the little red push mower we had at the time, and after starting it with great difficulty, she put it in gear... ON THE FASTEST SETTING POSSIBLE. She was running behind the mower, barely holding on to the handle. My sister and I were laughing so hard we couldn't even get a breath to tell her the blade wasn't down, and she was not mowing the lawn at all. It got worse when she started going around a tree...and around... and around... Finally she realized that her mowing wasn't doing any good at all.

I can't remember if she finished the lawn or not, but to this day my sister and I still laugh about this incident, and it's still just as funny.

Day 7

Can a book really be judged by its cover?  Explain in as much detail as possible why or why not.

Absolutely not. I have attempted to read many a book that had an interesting cover, but they were so boring that I couldn't get into them. Some of my favorite books, i.e. anything by Jane Austen, have rather plain covers. A cover doesn't really show the true content of the book (like all the Twilight books, what do the covers ever have to do with anything in the story?). They try to make book covers exciting so that they catch your eye as you peruse the bookshelves at your favorite bookstore or library. Authors can't always rely on word of mouth or past success to get people to read their books. It is much more important, in my opinion, to read the little description instead of just staring at the cover. Even with the description, you're not always going to get what you thought you would. That's part of the appeal of reading things for yourself. :)

Day 6

Describe an odd or unusual writing habit or ritual you or someone you know has.

I love writing, I really do. I will often start writing stories that I think could be amazing, and after about ten pages I stop. I come back to it later and read what I've written, decide it's not original enough, tear it our of whatever notebook it happened to be in,  and throw it away. If I happened to have typed it, well... I guess we'll get to that. Until recently I had never typed my stories. I currently have one sitting in creative purgatory that I started writing after a particularly vivid dream that I thought was so awesome it needed to be built upon. It is currently only 3 pages long. I may return to it, I may leave it in purgatory forever, or it may get deleted. It's a fantasy story about a teenage girl who gets chosen by a powerful wizard outlaw to be trained as a member of an elite team of warriors. Yeah. I have those kinds of dreams.

Should I write that story? Feel free to share your opinions!