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I found these questions earlier, on the blog Between Naps on the Porch. The questions were in "Garden and Gun" magazine. (Never heard of it before now).
1. Favorite Cocktail:
I don’t drink.
2. Favorite Getaway:
Disney World! 
3. If you could meet anyone in the world, who would it be?
Mama didn't raise an idiot, so that would be “Gerry-He’s-So-Sexy-Butler.”
4. Daydream of the moment?
Becoming Mrs. Butler. 
(Cut me some slack. The man is distracting).
But seriously, daydream of the moment: An iced-mocha from McDonald's and a winning lottery ticket in my hand. That way, I'm feeding an addiction and can visit Scotland and Ireland for as long as I wish.
5. Your personality in one word?
Hmm... Contemplative?
6. Are you more garden or gun?
I rescue spiders, so that would be Garden of course. 
Besides, guns frighten me. I have nightmares about them, and even in my own county (here in Texas) a law was passed where it's now legal for people to carry a gun into their own workplace. Eek!
7. If you were road-tripping, what's the one album you'd take with you?
I’m gonna cheat here. I’d take an ipod with my favorite songs from several different artists.
8. What are you reading?
I SHOULD be reading “To Beguile a Beast” by Elizabeth Hoyt.
I’m halfway through but haven’t picked it up for days.
9. What do you want to do when you grow up?
Being a lottery winner sounds okay.
10. What is your greatest extravagance? Guilty Pleasure?
This one is difficult to answer. If I like something, I really don't feel guilty about it. I did watch almost an entire season of The Bachelorette last year, but I didn't find it pleasurable at all.
Not unless you count making fun of it a pleasure.
11. Favorite Southern Food?
Mom’s chicken fried steak with buttery mashed potatoes and gravy.
12. Most treasured possession?
Well, if we’re talking about a gift I’d have to say a picture my niece and nephew gave me for my birthday a long time ago. After I unwrapped it they said, “It reminded us of our Kristin.” Sweet, huh? 
Naturally, being fans of Peter Pan when they were little, we called it the "Nana" picture.
But even more than that one picture from them, I'd have to say all the journals and home videos I made of them.
13. Favorite Southern name?
Beats me, and here I do live in the south.
14. What talent would you most like to have?
This one’s easy. To be able to draw and/or paint. I would love that!
15. What's your current state of mind?
To quote Toodles in the Disney movie, Hook: I’m “Lost, lost, lost.”
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I found these questions on Facebook recently, and then on another site.
I think I’m gonna have to cheat a bit though, because how could I possibly narrow each answer down to just one favorite?
Not possible.
Your favorite character
The Beast (sexy with a capital S)…. Belle (fellow bookworm feeling out of place and different from everyone around her)…. Ariel (because we all need an escape from the confines of our own little world and should be so adventurous)… Jasmine (independent thinker way ahead of her time).
I think I’ll stop there, else I’ll add practically every Disney character ever created.
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Your favorite princess
Belle, although technically she wasn’t a princess until she married that sexy beast.
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Your favorite heroine
I will try narrowing it down to one here, so I’ll just say Belle.
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Your favorite prince
The Beast of course, followed by a tie between Aladdin and Eric.
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Your favorite hero
The Beast again.
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Your favorite animal
NANA from Peter Pan. I love Nana!!! (She also reminds me of a dog we used to have named “Bambi.”) I love her so much that I even have a Nana doll that I found at an antique store a long time ago, and this past Christmas I was given a Nana figurine. It's so hard finding Nana related memorabilia.
I also really like "Bruno” and the little birds from Cinderella.
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Your favorite sidekick
Jiminy Cricket… Jaq and Gus… Scuttle… Zazu . (And I really thought I was going to hate Zazu since I‘m not a fan of the actor that does his voice. But honestly, Zazu had some funny lines: “I‘m so ticked off that I‘m molting!” Lol!)
The Genie from Aladdin was the same thing as Zazu for me. I thought Robin William’s voice would be distracting, but I was so surprised at how perfectly he fit into that role.
And even though she really isn‘t a sidekick, I love “Big Mama” from The Fox and the Hound. The same also goes for Flora, Fauna & Merryweather in Sleeping Beauty.
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Your favorite villain
I think I’ll narrow it down to Scar. He was one EVIL villain, and I have a fascination with lions anyway.
Oops.. I have to add Ursula as well. Actually, I think she’s my favorite. I love her voice and all that sass mixed in with her evil ways. She’s definitely different from other Disney villains.
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Your favorite original character (Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, etc.)
Honestly, I love them all pretty equally but I’ve always been a fan of Donald Duck’s temper.
Chip and Dale are cute, too.
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Your favorite song
I have several from the cartoons, but my favorite Disney movie song is “Candle on the Water” from Pete’s Dragon.
Now, I also love a few of the songs from a lesser known Disney flick….Robin Hood. Those songs would be “Whistle Stop” and “Oo De Lally.”
Ooh, and “Stay Awake” from Mary Poppins. That was just one of the Disney songs I used to sing to my niece when she was a newborn.
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Your favorite love song
I like a few, but I think I’ll have to go with “Something There” and “Kiss the Girl.”
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Your favorite villain song
Off the top of my head, “Be Prepared” from The Lion King.
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Your least favorite song
Whatever the so-called villain sang in Pocahontas.
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Your favorite kiss
Belle and her prince, of course.
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The first movie you saw
I can’t recall my first Disney flick, but I do remember being a kid and loving “A Spaceman in King Arthur’s Court.” (Today, it’s renamed “The Unidentified Flying Oddball” and is finally on dvd).
I also recall enjoying “The Cat from Outer Space” as a kid.
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Your favorite classic
"Cinderella" for a cartoon.
"Summer Magic," "Thomasina," and "Pollyanna" for a movie.
Also MICKEY’S CHRISTMAS CAROL!!!!!!!! Goodness, how I love love LOVE that movie! I even adore the song they play in the beginning.
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Your least favorite classic
Dumbo (too sad in parts), or Pinocchio (although I do love Geppetto and Jiminy Cricket).
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Your favorite Pixar film
Wall-E!!!! OMG, how I love him!!!!
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Your least favorite Pixar film
Of the Pixar films I’ve seen, I guess I’d have to say “Up.” It was just too sad.
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Favorite sequel
I tend to stay away from the sequels, but when my niece was little she had me watch the sequel to The Little Mermaid. As sequels go, it wasn’t too bad.
Return to Neverland was okay, but I didn’t love it.
Out of sheer boredom, I watched some Cinderella sequel on YouTube one night. It also was okay, but forgettable.
Oh, wait! I think Beauty and the Beast’s “Enchanted Christmas” was pretty good. It had it’s flaws, but as sequels go I loved it. I watch it every Christmastime.
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An overrated movie
I can think of a couple, but I guess “The Princess and the Frog.” This movie started out fantastic, and I loved the artwork, but then the songs kept coming and coming and coming. Eventually, I fast forwarded through most of it because I was so annoyed.
I think I have to go with “Alice in Wonderland” here, too. I WANT to love this movie, but it always bores me. I also find it distracting hearing Wendy Darling’s voice on a blonde that falls down rabbit holes.
Oh! And all those stupid new Tinkerbell cartoons. TINKERBELL IS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE A VOICE!!!! Her “voice” is supposed to be the TINKLING OF BELLS… hence her name, TINKER… BELL!
Sorry, but Gaaaah!!!!! Disney was so stupid for wrecking such a classic character. Next thing we know, Tink will probably become some disgraceful tomboy that raps and does beat box.
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An underrated movie
Hmm… maybe Pocahontas? I only own the movie on vhs, which means I never watch it, and while I thought the villain and artwork was weak it really is a nice little movie. Some of those songs on there really stuck with me, too.
I also must include Pete’s Dragon, The Sword in the Stone, Robin Hood, The Jungle Book, Toby Tyler, and That Darn Cat.
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A movie that makes you laugh
I can’t really think of a LOL Disney movie just now, but off the top of my head I guess “A Spaceman in King Arthur’s Court.”
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A movie that makes you cry
Parts of “The Fox and the Hound” and “Dumbo.” Also “Lady and the Tramp.”
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Your favorite scene from your favorite movie
Not my favorite movie, but the Substitutiary Locomotion Battle in “Bedknobs and Broomsticks.”
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Saddest death
Tie between Mufasa and Bambi’s mother.
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Your favorite quote
I’ll stick to quotes from Walt Disney himself:
- “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.”
- “We allow no geniuses around our Studio.”
- “I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.”
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
- “A man should never neglect his family for business.”
- “Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.”
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Your favorite theme park
The Magic Kingdom will always be #1.
My second favorite is Hollywood Studios, which I still call MGM out of habit and because it just feels right.
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Your favorite theme attraction
I have to say that The “Peter Pan” ride is wonderful because it feels so much like the movie… classic, ya know?…. but my absolute favorites would have to be “The Haunted Mansion” and “Pirates of the Caribbean.”
“Star Tours” is awesome as well. I’m curious to see the updated ride once it’s finished, although I’m not exactly thrilled about it being 3D.
But narrowing it down… “The Haunted Mansion,” hands down. I definitely ride that attraction the most while at Disney World; 8 or 10 times usually.
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Your favorite theme park show
I don’t really care for the shows, but the "Villain’s Mix and Mingle” from MNSSHP is okay.
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Well, that's it Mousketeers. See ya real soon!
No, not THAT kind of time travel!!! 
(I should be so lucky to find myself in the 16th century surrounded by Grimm & Co. donning their kilts and, with their deep Scottish accents, rolling those R's next to my ear).
What I'm really speaking of is perusing some of the older posts on the KMM forum the other day. I came across one of my favorite threads, courtesy of Liberty/Anny.
Here was her question....
If you could go into KMM's Highlander/Fever world or be written into that world who would you want to be? Not someone already existing in the story but someone new.
Would you be you, something similar to the real you but more (or better) or completely recreate yourself?
And here was my contribution...
(Umm... If you know nothing of the HL series, you're about to become really confused).
What would you look like?
Like someone else answered, I would look like me, only with redder hair. I'd keep my blue eye color, too. I might want to be a tad shorter though. Oh! I’d also want my hair to be wavy and not plastered to my head like some dead animal. (If you live in the hot/humid South, you know what I’m talking about it). So, I want Julia Robert’s hair in my story.
What's your personality?
Same as it is now, although if I found myself in the past at some point that would likely change me a bit. I've always felt out of place in this time, but what if I hated it when I went to Drustan and Dageus's time? Thank Heavens for those stones!
Any quirks? bad habits? talents?
Oh dear. Can't even begin to ponder on this. I'm sure my quirks and bad habits will be plentiful, but my man will learn to accept them. Lol!
Talents?
Umm... no supernatural powers or anything like that. I think I’d make a bumbling sorcerer. I'd likely turn my hunky, heroic Highlander into a Highland cow wearing Dorothy’s red slippers or something. So I think I'd stick to photography. I think I'd be good at caring for my man, too - without being his slave of course.
What about your name?
I'd keep my first name but would definitely change my last.
Would you be human, fae, or somewhere in between?
Human.
Give a short bio of you (or your character).
Lonely Texan visits Scotland. Runs into Gerry “I’m a bad boy with a good heart” Butler, whom falls deeply in love with me. After I slip and fall inside a cave and on top of a sleeping Highlander named Drustan, Gerry lands on top of both of us.
And nearly kills us in the process, as he’s still all bulked up from his training in 300.
Throughout the story poor, poor Kristin has to decide between not two, but three men. (This is before Chloe, so Dageus is quite the bad boy pretending to be his brother for a time, only in the process he falls in love with me). To my glee, they all look at me and say to themselves – “Mine.”
Eventually Dageus, Drustan and Gerry brawl over who has rightful claim over me. And I'm not talking about some sissy boy, amusing, pansy-ish fight like Colin Firth and Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones's Diary. I'm talking swords and druid magic here.
But... after many moons of watching their fighting, I decide I don’t want to end up with The Three Stooges after all.
Fighting is sooo barbaric, I tell myself at seeing their beautiful faces bloodied and bruised when I would have gladly married them all. (Hey, this IS fiction). So I take my chances with the stones. I return to Texas and settle on buying a dog or cat. They’re much easier to clean up after and don’t talk back.
But after a few weeks I realize that dogs pee on the new carpet and cats shed and cough up hairballs. I also miss hearing that Scottish lilt everytime I hear a simple "Woof" or "Meow." So I decide to have faith that the one Highlander meant for me will find a way to come back to me.
Here, the story will transform into one of those “Choose Your Own Adventure” books that I used to read as a kid. Some choices will end tragically, while others will end happily ever after.
If you haven't yet read Karen's Highlander series, please read the synopsis of each book. I even have them on my old website.
Though to be honest, I think a couple of the backcovers make the series sound nothing like the treasures that they are. Trust me, I am VERY picky about romance novels, and these are FANTASTIC stories that aren't at all hokey and with one-dimensional characters. This series will ruin real men for you forever, that's for sure. Lol! The hero and heroine's relationships are well thought out. (In A LOT of books I read, it's the "love at first sight" ordeal which isn't convincing to me at all. IMHO, Karen and Diana's main characters are leagues ahead of other novels out there).
My favorite highlanders are definitely Drustan, Dageus and Grimm. (Although they ALL really are wonderful).
PS:
It would help to read the series in order (I didn't and did okay), but Kiss and Dark MUST BE READ IN THE CORRECT ORDER!!
And speaking of time travel....
I found this a while back. Lol!
