Alphabetical Tag...

There are a few different versions of these making the rounds of blogland - some with the same questions and some different. Soooo, I combined two I saw the most and played that way. It's an open tag so just play along if you like.

A is for age: 64 chronologically, about 40 otherwise
A - Available or single: single, no... available? - we'll talk! ;)

B is for beer: can't stand the stuff - all it does is give me a headache and make me have to pee
B - Best friend: they're all the best - Ruthie and the Claudias - the best!

C is for career: not anymore but back in the day - administrative asst/office mgr in the satellite communications field
C - Cake or pie: cake, thank you - preferably lemon w/coconut icing

D is for my dog's name: don't have a dog, I'm really a cat people and have two; in the past, though, we've had a Snoball, a Shelly, a Togo, a Mickey, and a Rusty of the canine beasties (not all at the same time!)
D - Drink of choice: coffee, with 1/2 & 1/2 and sugar

E is for essential items used everyday: my puffers (aka inhalers)

F is for favorite color: almost any shade of blue, but I've grown rather fond of red recently

G is for game: Sorry or Uno with my grands, Scrabble or Trivial Pursuit with the big guys
G - Gummy bears or worms: I'd eat a bear before I'd eat a worm!

H is for hometown: Washington, DC

I is for instruments I play: I play a mean keyboard... of the computer variety ;)
I - Indulgence: a small bowl of Cheetos with my bedtime reading

J is for favorite juice: pineapple
J - January or February: February, it's closer to Spring

K is for who's butt I'd like to kick: any of the monsters who hurt our babies
K - Kids & names: yes, one bio and five step, Jim, Ginny, Richard, Beth, David, and Susan

L is for last place I ate: in my family room - oh, you mean restaurant? Probably Macaroni Grill
L - Life is incomplete without? books and cats

M is for marriage: yes, okay - what about it??
M - Marriage date: 1986

N is for my name: Marianne
N - Number of siblings: 2 sisters, one brother

O is for overnight hospital stays: yes, a few
O - Oranges or apples: oranges

P is for people I was with today: Lew
P - Phobias or fears: hmmmm, nothing incapacitating but I have a naggy anxiety of driving over water - probably cuz I don't think I could save myself anymore

Q is for quote: oh, I have so many favorites, this is just one:

"You're living the life you chose.
If you don't like it... choose something different."
Jim Fay

R is for biggest regret: hmmm, probably that I didn't quit smoking about 30 years earlier
R - Reasons to smile: six wonderful children, seven darling grandkiddies, 2 kittycats, and one goofy husband!

S is for sport: can't name just one - football and tennis
S - Season: Spring, and the brand new, fresh life that comes with it

T is for travelled to: this could take awhile - so I'll just go with 22 states, Canada, Barbados, and St. Maarten
T - Tag 3 or 4 people: I'm gonna make it an open tag - anyone who wants to play can, but you don't have to iffen you don't want to

U is for current underwear: that definitely falls under the "need to know" category and y'all just don't need to know - suffice it to say that yes, I do do underwear.
U - Unknown fact about me: well duh-huh! if I told, then it wouldn't be unknown, would it? Okay, okay, my online buds probably don't know that I have about a 3-1/2 x 1/4", 25-stitch scar on the inside of my left arm from sticking it through a door window when I was a kid - you can still count the stitch marks.

V is for vegetable I adore: potatoes, any kind of potatoes
V - Vegetable you don't like: kale or collards or mustard greens - blech!

W is for wish: I wish I lived closer to my grandkids
W - Worst habit: procrastination

X is for x-rays I have had: teeth, boobs, feet, arm, chest, bones, back - just about everything

Y is for youthful ambition not fulfilled: I always wanted to have my own private beach
Y - Your fave food: crab legs slathered in melted butter

Z is for zodiac: Leo

There you go - y'all were just waiting with bated breath to know more about me, huh? ;)