What is your favorite drink?
My favorite drink would probably be coffee. That’s what I drink the most. I also drink water with a flavor packet mixed in, although I’m trying to cut back on those. I have never been much of a drinker, but I’ve enjoyed a rum and Coke in my day. Coke would be my soda of choice, although since I’ve had gastric bypass surgery, it is limited to an occasional treat. If I’m at a restaurant, I usually order half and half iced tea.
Who are your favorite people to be around?
Friends who are familiar to me. Who I feel comfortable to be around. I am able to be myself and comfortable around them.
Tell us about your favorite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you.
I really like the pair of shoes I’m wearing now. They are a comfortable brown pair of Sketchers that I just slide my feet into. They’ve taken me a long way down my journey towards better health and a better quality of life. As George Gobel quipped once on The Tonight Show, you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes? All the time, George.
Share one of the best gifts you’ve ever received.
-The best gift I ever received was the gift I gave myself. The chance to start over and make a new life for myself. I moved 1,000 miles away from everything and everyone I knew. At the time, I thought I was just moving to get a job. But as I started to fall back into old bad habits, I realized that I didn’t have to accept the way things were and I made the decision to change.
Write about your approach to budgeting.
Budgeting can be intimidating. When I was a struggling substitute teacher, it was a budget written in pen on my pocket notebook. When I got back into working for college housing, I graduated back to a spreadsheet and a simple formula my ex taught me. I make sure that I have enough to cover my needs, wants, and desires. Also, enough to save a little.
Something on your “to-do list” that never gets done.
Reading a book. I’ve been trying to get through Fairy Tale by Stephen King since October. I just need to carve out time every day to read a few pages.
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