Friday Five: Beverages

1. What is your favorite drink of all time? Does it hold a special memory to you or is it just because it tastes good?

A&W root beer. I like the incredibly over-sweet nature of it, and also the memories of root beer floats at the A&W restaurant with my family (my parents).

2.Tea or coffee or hot cocoa?

Tea. I like the taste of hot cocoa better, but tea is better for me, and doesn't require pills (good hot cocoa with milk in it anywhere does).

3.Best summer time drink?

Ice water. Over-sweet lemonade isn't bad, but just plain ice water is probably better.

4.Worst soda brand ever?

That I've tried, I think RC Cola. Squirt is running real close.

5.Water: flavored, bottled, carbonated, or regular old tap?

Plain. By preference, tap, filtered and refrigerated. But tap or bottled, chilled or not, is fine.

Writer's Block: Orlando lives again!

If you could become one person--alive,dead or fictional--for one month, who would it be, and why?

At first I am tempted to borrow the answer from a couple of my friends: do I get to keep their income and/or the income from any of their assets I sell during that month? Scott and I are fine, but extra money for security and to help our families would be lovely.

But no, in the end, I'd have to pick either Mom or Dad - near the end of their lives - and I'm not sure which. And spend a month writing down all the family stories I've forgotten or never heard, all the anecdotes and moments lost to the mists of time that deserved to be preserved.