The McMuffin Meme

The McMuffins decided to make a meme out of the old Proust questionnaire (always my favourite last page of Vanity Fair) so I am willing to play along.

Your favourite virtues
Honesty, Integrity, Kindness

Your favourite qualities in a man
Honesty, Integrity, Kindness, Patience, twisted sense of humour, dog walking, dish doing, ability to move large wheelbarrows full of dirt....kidding husband, really, just kidding.

Your favourite qualities in a woman
Mostly the same as above, minus the dirt moving.

Your biggest flaw
The inability to shut my mouth and stop giving advice.

Your favourite occupation
I'm not sure that I have found it yet, but I have a feeling it's right around the corner.

Your chief characteristic
Creativeness, mediator, happiness

Your idea of happiness
Making someone I love happy with something I have said or done for them.

Your idea of misery
When someone I love is ill.

Your favourite colour and flower
Lately it has been Green in all shades.

If not yourself, who would you be
Marie Antoinette

Where would you like to live
On the edge of a loch in Scotland, or a river in Maine.

Your favourite prose authors
Dickens, Bill Bryson, Alan Bennet, Anita Shreve, Alice Hoffman, Jasper Fforde, Annie Proulx, Gregory Maguire, Philip Pullman...

Your favourite poets
Poetry was always lost on me, sadly I have no favourite poets.

Your favourite painters and composers
Jan Brueghel (elder and younger), Rembrandt,  Hieronymous Bosch, Jan Vermeer, Jan van Eyek, Pieter de Hooch, Fransisco de Goya, Dali. Paul Simon Joni Mitchell Lennon and McCartney James Taylor Van Morrison Vivaldi Bach

Your favourite heroes in real life
My parents

Your favourite heroines in real life

Any of the woman in twisted backasswards countries who are still enduring female castration, stoning and murder by family members after rapes and general repression at the hands of men.

Your favorite heroes in fiction

Holden Caulfield in Catcher and the Rye
Pip in Great Expectations
Oliver in Oliver's Twist

Your favourite heroines in fiction
Lyra Belacqua from Philp Pullman's ' His Dark Materials' Trilogy
Eloise
Peggotty in David Copperfield

Your favourite food and drink
Holy sh*t!  I have to choose???

My Gran's homemade coffee ice cream and her angel food cake
Creme Brulee
CHEESE Grommitt
My Dad's veal cacciatore
My Aunt's stuffed calamari
My Mom's lemon squares

Your favourite names
Sarah and Elizabeth

Your pet aversion
Rotten drivers and 'entitled' people who feel that it's ALL ABOUT THEM.

What characters in history do you most dislike
Count Olaf
Uriah Heep
It's easier to short list the fictional versus long list the actual.

What is your present state of mind
Mildly nervous about my upcoming tests and exams and the paper I need to write and my future ability to earn income...but pretty F*in happy other wise. 

For what fault have you most toleration
Ignorance as long as they are willing to listen and learn

Your favourite motto
Holy cow batman

How would you like to die
Quickly, quietly and painlessly in the arms of someone I love.