Getting lost when cows plan the roads

Time for Answer Me This!

1. At what temperature do you keep the thermostat set? Summer, winter, day, night? 

Um, we can't. Our heat is included in our rent, so we don't control the thermostat. We spent the winter wearing shorts and tshirts because it was so warm. And this is Massachusetts, we don't really need air conditioning. (I think we've had all of two days in the two YEARS I've lived here that air conditioning would have been necessary.)

2. What is your favorite frozen beverage? 

Mmmm. Strawberry or peach daquiris. (Yes they're froofy girly drinks, now shut up and hand me one.) Or a mudslide. (Lots of chocolate + rum (depends on the recipe, everything I've seen is rum) + whipped cream.) And my husband introduced me to lemon margaritas, which taste like lemonade with a kick, right before I got pregnant. So I won't actually drink any of this stuff. Kendra, I know that you will have some wine while pregnant, but call me super paranoid. I was classified as high-risk within three days of telling my doctor I was pregnant, so...super careful is how I take life. Unless they tell me to stay out of the lazy river, which is goofy.

3. Where do you keep your keys? 

In my purse. If they aren't there, then I can't find them ever. I seriously lost my keys and wallet in college several times because I didn't use a purse on campus or even the same bag every time I left my room. And I'm a scatterbrain, so things get lost super fast.

4. Have you ever really been lost? 

Do I really have to answer this? It's extremely embarrassing.

Fine. So I was in Milwaukee, WI with my dad. He was dropping me off at a college friend's in Chicago to carpool back to school after a meeting with a Catholic men's group. The meeting was several hours long in a church hall, so he gave me directions back to the main road. I intended to just drive ONLY ON THAT ROAD until I came across a McDonald's or Starbucks or somewhere with Internet to chill. So that went fine. Then I had to get back.

In Milwaukee, the streets look like this:

Of course I got lost. I literally drove around for almost an hour before I called my dad. (No smartphone or GPS.) They lived in Milwaukee for four years before I was born, so he should be able to get me back to the main road! I was right, but I have never been allowed to live down the fact that I called my father — who didn't know exactly where I was — to find out how to get back.

Then I moved to Boston as an adult, where the streets look like this:

Because 18th century cows totally knew the most about logical road placement.

That's my actual neighborhood, by the way. The grocery store was a quarter of a mile from my apartment, and somehow on my way home I ended up a mile and a half away from either place and no clue how I got there. I had to call a friend to figure out how to get home. I haven't lived that down yet either.

5. What is the last movie you saw in the theaters?

Inside Out. It was fine, but I was disappointed in the movie. The emotions were all very flat, Riley seemed to have no handle on rational thinking, and the funniest bit was the cat's emotions at the end. It just seemed to be a lackluster effort from Pixar, who seemed to coast on the way they created the inside of the mind instead of making an effort to flesh out characters.

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