Simple Questions

From La Vie en Rose, and the monthly series of Real Simple Magazine's interview questions:

1. What makes you laugh?
Hearing Miles get tickled.
Audrey and Parker laughing so hard that they stop making noise.
Neal doing his "feet-in-a-circle trick" on the trampoline.

2. My first kiss was...
The summer of 1997. Yes, I was nineteen when I finally was kissed. It was at my boyfriend, Matt's car as I was saying goodbye to him one night. It wasn't that great. I broke up with him a couple of months later (not because of the kiss, necessarily, but the stars were aligning, and I was about to meet Neal.)

3. What celebrity crushes did you have as a teenager?
Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale, and Ethan Hawke. It was all about Swing Kids and Dead Poets Society.

4. Fill in the blanks: "I cannot leave a ______ store without spending less than $______ ."
"I cannot leave Target without spending less than $20." I think Target is a weak spot for everyone I know. I think I'm pretty good with shopping willpower, though. If I walk around with something in my cart for long enough, I'll usually talk myself out of buying it. Unless it's something cute for Audrey, then I'm pretty weak. And the fact that most places I shop involve carts gives you a pretty good idea of what stores I frequent. :)

5. Name three things you've survived.
a. Evacuating for Hurricane Rita in the summer of 2005, which meant a 16-hour drive (with two kids) to Dallas, which is 4 hours away. We could have driven to Chicago in that amount of time.
b. climbing into the bowels of the Great Pyramid in Egypt
c. childbirth, which for me involved 10 (t-e-n) weeks of bedrest, three c-sections (one emergency and the other two unscheduled), pneumonia, and one colicky baby.

6. The big decision I'm currently wrestling with is . . .
how short to cut my hair. This ponytail's just not doing anything for me.