Okay, layer meme...

[purplerabbit]

Layer.one
Name: Dawn Marie J. Atkins
Birthdate: Feb. 13, 1962
Birthplace: Great Lakes, Illinois
Current location: San Leandro, CA
Eyes: Blue
Hair: What hair? When it grows out it will probably be brown with gray again.
Height: 5' 4"
Righty or Lefty: Righty
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Layer.two
Your heritage: Second generation feminist. Grandparents from Tenn, I was raised in Oklahoma.
Your weakness: Hyperactivity without the health to back it up.
Your shoes you wore today: Black leather high top shoes.
Your fears: being too sick to live my life, loosing my sense of self.
Your perfect pizza: Cheese, mushroom, onion, pepperoni, and cream sauce.
Goal you'd like to achieve: Get well, finish my novel, finish my dissertation.

Layer.three
Your thoughts first waking up: Owch. Snap crackle pop.
Your best physical feature: My eyes.
Your bedtime: When I get too tired to work any more.
Your most missed memory: I miss holding my son every day he is not with me.

Layer.four
Pepsi or Coke: Root Beer
McDonald's or Burger King: No.
Single or group dates: Yes.
Adidas or Nike: Black.
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Earl Grey, hot with Hazelnut Creamer
Chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate
Cappuccino or coffee: No thanks.

Layer.five
Smoke: No, allergic.
Cuss: Hell yes.
Sing: Only in trance or to my baby.
Take showers daily: Baths almost every day.
Have a crush: A few.
Think you've been in love: I love a lot.
Want to go college: Have a MA in Anthropology, would like to finish my dissertation and then teach College again.
Want to get married: Already have two husbands.
Believe in yourself: Yes, just not my luck.
Get motion sickness: Even looking at other people doing things that make me sick!
Think you're attractive: Usually.
Think you're a health freak: No, but I would like to be healthier.
Get along with your parents: My mom is living with me and on most days I like her a lot. I miss Dad, he died in 1975.
Like thunderstorms: Only if I am warm and dry inside.

Layer.six - in the past months
Gone to the mall: Yes
Eaten an entire box of Oreos: No.
Eaten sushi: No.
Been on stage: Trance dancing in ritual.
Gone skating: No.
Made homemade cookies: Yes, lots of homemade butter cookies with the kids at the holidays.
Gone skinny dipping: Hot tubs only.
Dyed your hair: No, but I cut it all off and am thinking of dying what's left.
Stolen anything: No.

Layer.seven - ever.
Been trashed or extremely intoxicated: Yes, but not in a long time.
Been called a tease: Oh yes.
Got beaten up: Yes.

Layer.nine - In a guy/girl...
Best eye color: Sparkling.
Best hair color: All kinds...
Short or long hair: Yes. Tend to like long hair on men, short with women.
Height: Doesn't actually matter, most folks are taller than me.

Layer.ten
Number of drugs taken illegally: One, rarely.
Number of people I could trust with my life: Seven
Number of CDs that I own: As a family we have a couple hundred, plus lots and lots of mp3 files.
Number of piercings: Each ear twice, only two active.
Number of tattoos: Not yet, want one.
Number of times my name's been in the news: Lots and lots, starting young. In Santa Cruz it was nearly weekly. Even with most of it not online, websearching my name is very fun. Old stuff keeps getting archived.
Number of scars on my body: Dozens, at least. The oldest is on my face and nearly invisible. The newest are large surgical scars from my broken leg last year.
Number of things in my past that I regret.: One of my favorite quotes is when an old lover/friend told me that "It's not the things we've done that we regret the most, it's the things we didn't do." I have mine.

Comments

[tangyapple.livejournal.com]

Uhh, you may want to add an "i" to your middle name there, unless you don't mind people thinking you were named after a horse. ;)

I like your comment on regret.

Maybe I'll fill this one out soon. I rarely see these questionnaire memes. :)