Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless

1. If you were to a write a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book, what would it be about?
   all of life is "choose your own adventure," and every book worth a damn is about it
2. What was your best find from a flea market, garage sale, eBay or thrift store?
   a wonderful chair for my basement reading area. The most comfortable seat in the house for $50 (on FB marketplace).
   
3. What do you not have enough money for right now?
   anything but the most absolutely necessary. The next six months or so will be pretty tight.
4. Do you believe that Tears for Fears were right when they said, "Everybody wants to rule the world?"
   yep, in greater or lesser degrees. One's own world, if not the whole banana.
5. What is the design on your beach towel?
   a kind of salacious looking dog, from Ron Jon Surf Shop in Cocoa Beach, Florida
6. What stirs something deep and animalistic inside you?
   alcohol, anger, or attraction
7. Have you ever cross dressed (even as a joke)?
   what a terribly loaded, horrible—and double-standard based—question!
8. Do you own anything with a rainbow on it?
   the only thing I can think of is the unicorn meat can on my shot glass shelf
9. What would be the worst object for a child to take on a long car ride with you?
   anything other than Benadryl. Or, I suppose, anything sticky. (Yes, I have the cold shivers.)
10. What's the best Beatles song in your opinion?
    "Norwegian Wood"
11. What do these color combinations remind you of:
    orange and pink:
    jello
12. pink and green:
    7th grade Fun Nites, and the clothes that the Prep girls would wear
13. green and gold:
    football across the eastern border
14. purple and gold:
    football in the lake district
15. gold and red:
    autumn leaves
16. red and white:
    Switzerland
17. blue and grey:
    bruises
18. What is one selfish thing you tend to do?
    I'm a single person living alone. My entire life is an exercise in selfishness.
19. When do you think technology will catch up with the Jetson's?
    no, I doubt that dogs on treadmills will ever be a thing
20. What made you laugh today?
    a book that I was reading this morning
21. Can you freestyle rap?
    the absurdity of that idea is nearly overwhelming
22. Are you:
    stylish?
    momentarily
23. shiek?
    I really hope that's supposed to be "chic." What a hilarious thought, either way.
24. smart?
    sigh - yes
25. Do you find yourself only buying brand name products?
    "find myself"? There are some products, yes. Others, it really doesn't matter.
26. Would you ever want to buy an article of clothing or an accessory because you saw a celebrity wear it?
    no
27. What song do you feel the sexiest dancing to?
    that's really, really private
28. Who do you know who looks silly when they dance?
    everyone does
29. Sweaty sex or clean sex?
    yep
30. Which is more important to you: being kind or being right?
    "important" is a very, very difficult word
31. Can you do any special dances like swing, tap, or ballroom?
    no
32. Are you scared of monsters?
    only the internal ones
33. Who would you like to remind people of?
    sunshine
34. Do you walk to school or do you bring your lunch?
    what?? that doesn't even make sense.
35. Rate your skills from one to ten (10 = you are the best at it):
    socializing:
    6
36. making friends:
    3
37. working with computers:
    8
38. arts:
    9
39. crafts:
    3
40. dancing:
    2
41. skating:
    1
42. talking other people into things:
    7
43. writing:
    7
44. living life to the fullest each day:
    6
45. cooking:
    7
46. gardening:
    6
47. cleaning up after yourself:
    5
48. playing poker:
    4
49. surviving in the woods:
    2
50. managing your time:
    7
51. attracting the opposite sex (or same sex if you prefer)?
    4
52. Have you ever been to an Indian reservation?
    no
53. What is going to happen tomorrow that you can celebrate, even if it's a little thing?
    New Year's Eve!

[From the 5000-question meme; this is the first third of the twenty-second part. The title quotation is by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]