The Proust Questionnaire on the Porch

I love answering an obscure questionnaire.

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
     Sitting down to a meal I have prepared with my daughters, my grandchildren and my dear  
      husband. They are a captive audience.
2. What is your greatest fear?
      An illness in my family.
3. What historical figure do you most identify with?
4. Which living person do you most admire?
      Michelle Obama. Her integrity. she cares, her devotion to her family.
5. What trait do you most deplore in yourself?
     My lack of drive when it comes to finishing a task.
6. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
     Greed, no question.
7. What is your greatest extravagance?
     I will buy the aforementioned grandchildren anything they want. No need involved.
8. What is your favorite journey?
     Pack up my camper and travel across the US to visit my favorite grandkids.
9. On what occasion do you lie?
     I am honest to a fault. I should tell a lie when it hurts someone’s feelings.
10. What do you dislike most about your appearance?
       I am short. If I were taller I would look less like a dumpling.
11. Which living person do you most despise?
       I find our current president despicable.
12. What is your greatest regret?
        I regret not traveling the world when I was younger with more energy.
13. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
       Ivan Nedeau, my husband. Through thick and thin. Always there for me. Our craziness matches.
14. When and where are you happiest?
      Anytime and anyplace I am with my family. Especially my grandchildren.
15. Which talent would you most like to have?
       I wish I were a talented writer.
16. What is your current state of mind?
       Positive.
17. If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?
       I would be motivated to exercise.
18. If you could change one thing about your family what would it be?
       They would not live so many states away from me.
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
       Raising my children to be kind, loving people.
20. If you could choose what to come back as what would it be?
      An artist or a successful writer.
21. What is your most treasured possesion?
       My camera and lenses. The photos I take.
22. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
       Missing my family when months go by without seeing them.
23. Where would you like to live?
       Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. But no one else wants to live here with me.
24. What is your favorite occupation?
       Reading a really good book in a hammock on a sunny day.
25. What is your most marked characteristic?
       Red hair, I smile big.
26. What is the quality you most like in a man?
       Kindness. Happiness. Patience.
27. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
       Happiness. Kindness. Patience.
28. What do you most value in your friends?
       They still care even though they know my crazy.
29. Who are your heroes in real life?
       First responders. Service people.
30. What are your favorite names?
       The names of my ten Grands.
31. How would you like to die?
      My hubby said, “A firing squad!” I don’t think so.
       I want to be very old but lucid. I want to say goodbye to all my special people. Then slip away.
       I want my home to be clean and organized for the first time in my lifetime.