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I got a new memory card for my camera, so I can play again. :)

All right, my challenge is to dare Zola, possibly the wildest girl I know, to do something that she would in fact find challenging to do, and take a picture of it.

Zola, I want to see a picture of you in a restaurant, eating food that you got at a different restaurant (example: sitting in a McDonald's eating chicken from a KFC bucket).  You must do this, and do this you must... while wearing gear supporting the team you were taunting in this post... and you have to be either holding or wearing a sign that reads, "Josh Turner is a girlie man."

Go.

Paxton has informed me that it's my turn to pick, and naturally I pick DARE. Do your worst, mwaha.

It doesn't look like we're going to get any response from Talk is Cheap's pick, and since she passed the onus back to me, I'm tagging Zola.  Zola, which is it, Truth or Dare?

I hate to do this, but I will be out of town until next week without online access, so I will have to pass the torch back to Paxton to handle the next Truth or Dare.  Thanks!

I don't know anyone, so I'll choose the next target alphabetically... Aerojb, you're up.  Truth or Dare?

1. What did you want to be when you grew up? 

I wanted to be a teacher.  I used to create "tests" for my younger sister and brother.  I had a chalkboard that I made them do math problems on too.  I would get all excited about getting new school supplies every year.  In fact, I am still obsessed with pens and office supplies...

2. How close did you get to being that thing you wanted to be? 

I went to college and majored in elementary education. I took a few cool classes that showed you how to teach basic math skills in a non-traditional way for students that maybe don't think the same way as most kids, like lattice multiplication, etc.  I took time off from school to deal with family issues.  I had every intention of returning, but things don't always go as planned so I never got a degree.  Now, I'm a senior analyst in the Risk Management area of a bank.  By being in a leadership role, I am able to mentor or coach somewhat and I enjoy facilitating training sessions.  So, I'm not really close to what I wanted to be, but I do love my job.

3. Are there parts of your childhood dream you're still working on/holding out hope for? 

I've given up on being a school teacher... but I love kids and I also wanted to be a mother.  I still want to be a mother and I hope that someday that dream will come true.  The kids in my pictures are my step-nieces and nephew.  My mom has guardianship and she and my stepdad are raising them.  There is long story there, but basically the kids weren't being taken care of and when social services came in, my mom drove cross country to get them.  Having the kids close by makes me want a child even more.

4. Now that you are grown up, what do you want to be when you grow up? 

I don't want to grow up anymore!  : )  I've been too serious and grown up for the majority of my teens and 20s.  Now that I'm going to be 30, its time to be a kid again...

It's my turn in the Truth or Dare Group, and the quite evil Laurie dared me to spend a day in the life of a woman.  Specifically, her dare consisted of the following:

pick a day over the weekend to spoil your wife

Today is as good as any day, since she has one of those really bad Summer colds.  Anyone who says men are whinier than women when they get sick hasn't met my wife when she has a cold, so it was pretty much up to me to take care of her today, anyway.

Any housework she does..you will do

Despite Laurie's implications, Strix and I pretty much share the housework.  We both work full time and we have no kids.  There are a couple chores that I do more or less exclusively, and there are a couple that she tends to do, but for the most part we share it all.  At any rate, since she was sick, I had to do it all anyway.

She doesn't have to do anything but lay around and enjoy it.

I don't know how much she's enjoying hacking, coughing, and struggling to breathe, but okay.

I want you to wear a full face of makeup and your wife's favorite dress or outfit at home while completing her busy schedule.

Yeah, see, that's a problem.  My wife is of Scandanavian descent, and like many Swedes, she can't wear makeup.  It makes her break out, bad.  So, I wore the same makeup she tends to wear, i.e., none.

I asked her what her favorite outfit was for doing housework on the weekend, and she gave me her favorite sweats and t-shirt.  Okay, I know this is weaseling a little, but there was no way I was going to put a full cross-gendered photo of me on the Internet.  If my employees ever found it, it would be printed and sent to every cop and firefighter in the county within a day.  I'm afraid this is as close as you're going to get to seeing me complete this dare.

we need to see several photos of you completing this dare.

Sorry they're blurry, but Strix took them and she knows I look better if the picture is blurry.  I think she put Vaseline on the lens.  Here they are:

Here I am in my wife's sweats, T-shirt, and her crocks.  She's a little shorter than me, so the sweats are high-water.  The T-shirt says "Sisters in Crime" on it.  The crocks are too small for me, so I did the rest of my chores barefoot, or I'd have to send Laurie my podiatrist bill.  If you notice that the vacuum cleaner isn't plugged in, that's because it's broken and we haven't had the money to get it fixed, yet.  That's Paganini in the foreground, wanting to help vacuum.  Really, I'm too ugly to wear women's clothes.

Me doing dishes.  Does this meet the requirements of the dare?  Not really, since I frequently do the dishes.

 Me, getting ready to cook lunch.  Oh, hey, I frequently do that, too.  Notice the double chin.  I should probably skip this lunch, but I won't.

I'm I crying from the onion, or because Laurie saw fit to punish me?  You be the judge.

The end result.  Couscous with dried apricot and raisins.  Very tasty, and apparently good for a woman with a summer cold.

Emptying the litterbox.  We have one of those roll-away litterboxes.  Oh, wait, the only time Strix does this one is if I'm out of town.

Me doing laundry.  Oh, yes, I do this, too.

Okay, here's a chore that Strix usually does.  Sometimes I'll sweep and she mops, but usually she does both.  Since she was sick today and it really needed clean (and because I had been dared to do all the chores anyway), I did both.

Me trying to figure out how the cleaning pad went on the mop, while Baudelaire is trying to decide if it's food.

Hey, I figured it out!  Okay, Strix had to show me.

Ha!  I conquered it!  I mopped the floor with that... mop.

Who takes out the trash?  Whoever can't stand the full trash can anymore.

Oh, one more chore.  The bills.  I pay them.  And no, Laurie, I don't do the bills to control my wife's spending or anything.  I do it because I was the one to get our finances set up in Quicken and online bill pay.

 

Talk is Cheap has picked Truth, which should be easy because I know nothing about her except what's in her profile.  Oddly, that makes it more difficult.  I want to ask her something that won't be so easy that the answer just gets tossed out without difficulty, but I don't know enough about her to know what to ask!

So, I'll settle on a question that's not too difficult, but is multiple parts and will require you to think a little before answering.

There are a lot of children in your photos section, so that led me to think:

1. What did you want to be when you grew up?

2. How close did you get to being that thing you wanted to be?

3. Are there parts of your childhood dream you're still working on/holding out hope for?

4. Now that you are grown up, what do you want to be when you grow up?

If your answers satisfy me, it will be your turn.  Go.