5000 question survey - #1-100

With the 50 Questions To Free Your Mind done, I've decided to start on the 5000 question survey. It's going to take a while to get all these done. I apologize in advance for the enormous walls of text you are about to encounter.

Also, my "little sister" was inspired to start her own 101/1001 list and is working on compiling it now. Love you, sissy! <3

1. Who are you? – Maze, wife and procrastinator

2. What are the 3 most important things everyone should know about you? – I’m happily married, I’m generally called too nice for my own good (to the point of once being un-roastable at a roast) and I love games

3. When you aren't filling out 5,000 question surveys like this one what are you doing? – Spending time surfing the internet, watching TV with my husband, or playing video games.

4. List your classes in school from the ones you like the most to the ones you like the least (or if you are out of school, think of the classes you did like and didn't like at the time). – Favorite classes were my history ones. I always had badass history teachers. In college, my philosophy classes, particularly “Philosophy of Games” and “Philosophy of Political Humor”. Least favorite were my math classes. Math was always just too dull and unimaginative for me.

5. What is your biggest goal for this year? – Get a good chunk of this list done, hit my one year anniversary with my job

6. Where do you want to be in 5 years? – Either planning on being a stay-at-home wife and mom or have a Masters degree and improving myself in my career

7. What stage of life are you in right now? - I’m married, employed, but not ready for kids yet.

8. Are you more child-like or childish? – Child-like

9. What is the last thing you said out loud? – Hurry up! (I’m hungry darnit)

10. What song comes closest to how you feel about your life right now? - Walking on Sunshine.

11. Have you ever taken martial arts classes? - No, but I’ve been curious to. Although we did do a day of martial arts training in my Culture of China class… does that count?

12. Does your life tend to get better or worse or does it just stay the same? - Every day has the potential to be a little brighter.

13. Does time really heal all wounds? - I doubt it can heal a decapitation, but for the most part, yes.

14. How do you handle a rainy day? - Same way I handle a normal day, with a bit more hustle when I have to go outside.

15. Which is worse...losing your luggage or having to sort out tangled holiday lights? – Losing your luggage. At least you HAVE the lights and know where they are.

16. How is your relationship with your parents? – Love ‘em both, our relationships haven’t been better

Will you miss them when they are gone? – Without a doubt

17. Do you tend to be aware of what is going on around you? – Unless people are talking really loudly, not really.

18. What is the truest thing that you know? – I love my husband

19. What did you want to be when you grew up? – A fantasy writer

20. Have you ever been given a second chance? – Yeah, but thinking on it, I wasn’t the one who needed to be given the chance…

21. Are you more of a giver or a taker? - Giver

22. Do you make your decisions with an open heart/mind? – I try to. I’m still a pretty picky eater though.

23. What is the most physically painful thing that has ever happened to you? – A really bad flu when I was a kid.

24. What is the most emotionally painful thing that has ever happened to you? – A certain fight

25. Who have you hugged today? - Hubby

26. Who has done something today to show they care about you? – Hubby (man these are easy)

27. Do you have a lot to learn? – Without a doubt

28. If you could learn how to do three things just by wishing and not by working what would they be?

A – Cook without having to have a cookbook

B – Finish things I start

C – Draw accurately

29. Which do you remember the longest: what other people say, what other people do or how other people make you feel? – How other people make me feel

30. What are the key ingredients to having a good relationship? – Communication, and knowing when to stop talking and listen

31. What 3 things do you want to do before you die?

A – Leave a mark somewhere – have my name in film credits, be published, just leave my name somewhere other than a headstone and obituary

B – See the ruins of Greece and Rome

C – Live to be old

32. What three things would you want to die to avoid doing?

A – Murdering someone

B – Watching my husband suffer

C – Causing a war

33. Is there a cause you believe in more than any other cause? – Nature should be respected

34. What does each decade make you think of:

The 19..

20's: Flappers and prohibition

30's: Great Depression

40's: WWII

50's: The Stereotypical American Family ideal

60's: Vietnam and hippies

70's: Elton John

80's: I was born here, I don’t remember a damn thing about it.

90's: Boy bands

2000 (so far): Economic decline

2010's: Where’s our flying cars?

35. Which decade do you feel the most special connection to and why? – 2000s. It was the first decade I was fully aware of.

36. What is your favorite oldie/classic rock song? – Pretty much anything by Elton John

37. What country do you live in and who is the leader of that country? – USA, President Obama

If you could say any sentence to the current leader of your country what would it be? - We can haz peace plz?

38. What's your favorite TV channel to watch in the middle of the night? – Food network or Adult Swim

39. What Disney villain are you the most like and why? – Um….Probably, and this is pulling at strings here, Madam Mim from The Sword in the Stone. I like magic, and getting sick knocks me on my butt.

40. Have you ever been a girl scout/boy scout? – Tried it, didn’t like it.

41. If you were traveling to another continent would you rather fly or take a boat? - Boat. Boat boat boat.

42. Why is the sky blue during the day and black at night? - Science.

43. What does your name mean? - Maze is a nickname I was given in middle school by my classmates who considered me one of the smarter kids. They said my brain was like a maze. I don’t get it, but it made sense then.

44. Would you rather explore the deeps of the ocean or outer space? - Ocean. More to see.

45. Word association

What is the first word that comes to mind when you see the word:

Air: Breath

Meat: Food

Different: …Different.

Pink: Elephants

Deserve: What you get

White: Elephants

Elvis: The bane of my existence

Magic: <3

Heart: …<3

Clash: of the Titans

Pulp: Fiction

46. If you could meet any person in the world who is dead who would you want it to be? – My husband’s grandmother. His grandfather speaks so fondly of her; I really wish I’d had the chance to meet her.

47. What if you could meet anyone who is alive? - George Takei

48. Is there a movie that you love so much you could watch it everyday? - A Gabriel Iglesias comedy DVD.

49. You are going to be stuck alone in an elevator for a week. What do you bring to do? – A stack of Terry Pratchett books

50. Have you ever saved someone's life or had your life saved? – Not directly that I’m aware of.

51. Make up a definition for the following silly words...

Fruitgoogle: One who looks up fruit online

Ambytime: The ability to be two times at once

Asscactus: A very unfortunate medical condition

52. What was the last thing you made with your own hands? – A memorial for past family members to display at the wedding

53. What was your favorite toy as a child? – I loooved boards games. And then computer games when we got our first computer.

54. How many TV’s are in your house? – Three, two in use, one that’s been meaning to go to a friend

55. What is your favorite thing to do outside? – Watch animals

56. How do you feel when you see a rainbow? – Like a child again

57. Have you ever dreamt a dream that came true? – I think so

58. Have you ever been to a psychic/tarot reader? – No, horoscope reader, yes.

59. What is your idea of paradise? - A lifetime of happiness

60. Do you believe in god and if so what is he/she/it like? - No

61. Do you believe in Hell? - Nope

62. What one thing have you done that most people haven't? - Married my first boyfriend

63. What is the kindest thing you have ever done? – Babysat 2 insane kids for 8 hours – unpaid. Yay, required community service in middle school.

64. Are you a patient person? – Yes, most of the time

65. What holiday should exist but doesn't? – A non-commercialized popular one

66. What holiday shouldn't exist but does? – St. Patrick’s day. Might have had a good basis at one time, but now? I mean, really, a holiday that basically celebrates inebriety?

67. What's the best joke you ever heard? – Gabriel Iglesias’s…well, pretty much anything by Gabriel Iglesias.

68. Where is the most fun place you have EVER been? – Islands of Adventure

69. Is your hair natural or dyed? – All natural

70. Do you have any deep dark secrets or are you pretty much up front? – None from my husband, some from everyone else.

71. What is under your bed right now? – An old board game of my husband’s, a cane-sword, and our heating pad

72. If you were in the Land of Oz would you want to live there or go home? – Go home. There’s people I love here.

73. If you drive do you frequently speed? – Speed limit, no higher or lower

74. What is the world's best song to dance to? – There is, undoubtedly, one song. Everyone knows it, everyone dances to it. It is impossible not to. You can’t resist it. When you hear the music, you must do…the Chicken Dance. Maybe the YMCA, too. Oh, what, you wanted REAL dancing?

75. What song was on the last time you danced with someone? At my wedding with my husband.

76. Do you prefer Disney or Warner Brothers? – Disney owns Pixar. Therefore, Disney.

77. What is the first animal you would run to see if you went to the zoo? – Paaanda. Panda panda panda.

78. Would you consider yourself to be romantic? – I try to be

79. If the earth stopped rotating would we all fly off? – I don’t think so. While rotation is one way of achieving gravity, so is mass.

80. What is the one thing that you love to do so much that you would make sacrifices to be able to do it? – Be with my husband

81. If you (and everyone) had to lose one right or freedom, but you could pick which one everyone had to lose, what would you pick? – Um…probably freedom of the press, if I had to pick one.

82. If you had to choose would you live on the equator or at the North Pole? – Equator. I’m Floridian. Bring on the heat.

83. Would you rather give up listening to music or watching television? – Oh geez…this one’s tough. I’m going to say….I could live without television. Music, especially on long road trips is what keeps me sane. I couldn’t give that up.

84. What do you think makes someone a hero? – The willingness to risk and sacrifice for others with no hidden agenda

85. What cartoon would you like to be a character in? – Probably Futurama.

86. Name one thing that turns your stomach: - Discovered yesterday: Squeez-Bacon. Oh god.

87. What was the last thing you paid for? - Lunch

88. Are you a coupon clipper? - Nope

89. Get anything good in the mail recently? – Wedding gifts

90. Which would you rather take as a gym class...dancing, sailing, karate, or bowling? - Dancing

91. In Star Trek people 'beam' back and forth between different places. What this means is they stand in a little tube and their molecules are deconstructed and sent to another tube somewhere else where they are reassembled. Only problem is when the molecules are deconstructed the person is dead. When they are put back together it is only a clone that has all the dead person's memories. So...

Is the person who gets beamed the same person on both ends? – Effectively, yes. Our memories and physical attributes make us who we are. If all of them are the same, then the person is effectively the same.

92. What insects are you afraid of? – Stinging ones. I dislike biting ones. All other ones are allowed to crawl around on me at will.

93. If you could print any phrase on a T-shirt, what would it say? – Live Long and Prosper with the proper hand symbol

94. What's the most eccentric thing you have ever worn? – Probably something when I was a kid. I’m pretty straight-laced as far as clothes go

95. If you could pick one food that you could eat all you wanted but it would have no effect on how much you weigh, what food would it be? - Chocolate

96. What are your parents interested in? – Dad – Oriental culture, opera, jazz, philosophy; Mom – mountains, Elton John and other 70s performers, working in an educational setting

97. Have you ever caught an insect and kept it as a pet? – Yep, a rolypoly

Have you ever caught and tamed a wild animal? – If stray cats count as wild, yes.

98. What is more helpful to you, wishes or plans? – Plans. Wishes are great, but they don’t get anything accomplished.

99. When do you feel your life energy the strongest? – When I’m with my husband

100. You are spending the night alone in the woods and may bring only 3 items with you. What do you bring? – Sleeping bag, lighter, and a sturdy weapon.