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©2016, Sammi Lou Thorne

1. True or False: Falling in love is a serious thing to do? Explain.
True. You don’t just fall in and out of love – it’s a huge emotional commitment.

2. Finish this sentence: I never knew _pain and joy____ like this.

3. Would you rather swim with sharks that you know have recently bitten people or swallow live worms? Why did you make that choice?
I would swallow live worms, I think. Sharks terrify me, and I’m sure they’d be biting me in no time…how many worms would I have to swallow?

4. What is beautiful and most appealing about you?
Hmmm….I think my smile. When I’m truly happy and I smile, I’ve been told it lights up my eyes.

5. What time is it RIGHT NOW? What were you doing before you started to play TMI Tuesday?
Right now it’s 7:08PM. I was having dinner before starting to play TMI Tuesday tonight – ham, cheese, mushroom, and onion omelettes, and bacon on the side.

Bonus: Are you a little bit damaged? How so?
Of course – isn’t everyone? So many factors go into damaging someone…I’d say I’m more damaged emotionally than physically.

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By Tiia Monto (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

1. How is your year going?
Well, considering it’s just 3 days in, I’d say pretty good.

2. Did you go out on NYE or have a New Year’s day celebration?
No, although I would have liked to! I stayed home and watched some movies and ate some snacks, and tried in vain to actually see the new year in…i was close though.

3. Ahh yes, those pesky New Year’s Resolutions. How did you do with your 2016 NY resolutions–did you keep them??
Some of them.

• I did keep up with studying – not as much as I wanted to, but enough to feel like I learned a lot.
• I didn’t really post more on my blog, but I didn’t post less.
• I have kept writing, although I didn’t submit as many stories as I wanted to – but I do intend to be better about that this year.
• I did get in better shape…again, not as much as I wanted to, but definitely an improvement over the previous year.
• And I did up my bench press and squats quite a bit. I haven’t stopped being afraid, either, but I feel like I made progress.

4. Year 2017, are you carrying over any resolutions from 2016? What?
All of them, actually. They were good resolutions, and I want to do better keeping them this year.

5. What new experiences are you planning to have or hoping to have in 2017?
I’ll be traveling out of the country for the first time, and I’m very excited for that.

Bonus: Did you see fireworks on New Year’s eve? (Take that anyway you want :-p )
On TV, yes. And you can take that any way you want 🙂

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Christmas 2016 ©2016, Sammi Lou Thorne

This holiday season I noticed an abundance of articles dedicated to “surviving” the holidays. How have you survived the holiday season? What thing or situation did you feel you needed to survive?
I have survived the season successfully this year. I started all my baking and sewing early (although it wasn’t really early enough for the sewing – and I really thought August would be), and got everything mailed and done by the 23rd. I also had all my gifts wrapped by midday on the 24th, so I didn’t have to spend all night wrapping.  The holidays are always a bit rough – my dad died several years ago right before my birthday and Christmas, and it makes for a bit of a sad time – and I tend to overcompensate by baking.

Bonus: What are your plans for New Year’s Eve? New Year’s Day?
Well, not much. New Year’s Eve will probably be a movie marathon – I haven’t decided on the series yet – and New Year’s Day will be taking down all of the Christmas decorations and storing them for next year.

I hope everyone has had a good holiday season, and here’s to a Happy New Year!

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