1) Your favorite childhood book?

Where the Wild Things Are.

2) The first poster you hung in your room?

I think it was a world map. Boring, I know, but I didn’t go in for posters much.

3) Do you remember the name of the first boy/girl you had a crush on as a kid? And did it ever pan out?

Oh, yeah. Her name was Daniella. I met her again a few years later in a bar. I got just as tongue tied as I was in the seventh grade.

4) The first record (or CD if you’re younger than me) you every bought?

Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy by The Who.

5) Worst gift you ever got?

Sweater vest. I mean, really. Can you see me in a sweater vest?

6) Best gift you ever got?

100 dollar Amazon Gift card.

7) Have you ever re-gifted?

I’m pretty sure I haven’t.

1) Your favorite childhood book? – That’s tough to choose, as I read and loved so many, but probably Irish Red, by Jim Kjelgaard. I read as many of his books as I could find (along with Marguerite Henry’s, Walter Farley, C.W. Anderson, Thornton Burgess…pretty much any animal story writer) and I still have many of them today. When I find ones I don’t have, I try to buy them, but they’ve gone up a lot since I was a kid.

2) The first poster you hung in your room? – I had crushes on a lot of actors and singers, but I was told I could only put up one poster, so I made it a door-sized poster of the charcters from The Hobbit. My brothers drew ‘extra details’ on many of the characters after it’d been up for several years, and then started tearing it because they were tired of it. My brothers suck.

3) Do you remember the name of the first boy/girl you had a crush on as a kid? And did it ever pan out? – Mark White lived behind us, and I thought he was special. He moved away after kindergarden, then came back for 3rd grade, but then moved away again. I saw him at a county-wide track meet in high school, but he was with a bunch of his teammates, so I never spoke to him. Of course, he’d grown into the handsome young man I always though of him as. I’m sure he forgot about me as their car drove away at the end of 3rd grade.

4) The first record (or CD if you’re younger than me) you every bought? – The self-titled album, Bobby Sherman and Here Comes Bobby. Technically, they were bought for me, but I begged and pleaded for weeks and promised to do a ton of chores (although I didn’t get an allowance), so I feel that I paid for them. I played them coonstantly and when a cd compilation was released, I snapped it up, and still love listening to it.

5) Worst gift you ever got? – An electric shaver the Christmas I was 13. I opened it in front of two older boy cousins and my brothers and was teased unmercifully. I ‘accidently’ dropped it down the stairs at my aunt’s house the next morning.

6) Best gift you ever got? – A horseback riding afternoon.

7) Have you ever re-gifted? – Yep. I did it in a mean-spirited fashion to people I didn’t like, and dang if they didn’t turn around and give it back to me a few years later. The feelings were mutual.

1) Your favorite childhood book? All of the Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew
2) The first poster you hung in your room? ELC-you beat me to it, but it was Shaun Cassidy–it came in the Do-Run-Run album!
3) Do you remember the name of the first boy/girl you had a crush on as a kid? And did it ever pan out? Michael DeLuca and thanks for Facebook we keep up-in fact the other night we were just chatting about when I would go to his house, his mom etc
4) The first record (or CD if you’re younger than me) you ever bought? Hard to remember what was first but Shaun Cassidy once again, and Devo ‘Whip it’!
5) Worst gift you ever got? I”m going to have to go with a high school birthday when my boyfriend wanted to take me out to dinner but surprise me–so I said anything except chinese/japanese food…so he took me to Banzai!!
6) Best gift you ever got? Lots….but the one I think of most, especially this time of year, is the snowblower my dad got me as a housewarming gift! It was the last gift he gave me, and I cannot even imagine shoveling my whole driveway!!
7) Have you ever re-gifted? nope

1) Your favorite childhood book? War and Peace. Okay, actually, that was the theme of our summer vacations, when my siblings and I were home alone. Probably…Bears in the Night when I was a wee bairn. I love what the illustrator did with light. And then the Danny Dunn adventures as I got a little older. But I do love Lynn’s pick as well, and I LOVED the Three Investigators. If memory serves, Hitchcock wrote those.

2) The first poster you hung in your room? Either a map of Southeast Asia that I picked up for a dime at a Ben Franklin store, or an awesome shot of a solar car racing through the Australian Outback. The latter, my dad brought home from work. I still have both.

3) Do you remember the name of the first girl you had a crush on as a kid? And did it ever pan out? Tina. She had an awesome voice, that girl. Sort of scratchy, like she had a cold. She was trouble. Probably for the best that my family moved away.

4) The first record (or CD if you’re younger than me) you ever bought? Hm…either….Billy Joel, Huey Lewis or Asia for a cassette. Album: Winter Solstice by Windham Hill. Bought the CD years later. Awesome writing music, that.

5) Worst gift you ever got? Not sure. But I bet it was lemon-yellow.

6) Best gift you ever got? Either my old leather bomber jacket, my Jesse Barnes print of ‘Distant Lights,’ my Bible, or my Pentax K1000 35mm. All of which came from my wife.

7) Have you ever re-gifted? Depends. Does retweeting count?

Elizabeth – no, I didn’t regift the candles, I just gave them to my family.

Winter, duh!

Allison, sounds like we’re the same age. So I get the “old” stuff, LOL. And I LOVED Donny and Marie. I even had the Barbie Dolls of them…with their purple socks, of course!