abkinsey

@abkinsey (173)

United States • Age 43

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What is your favorite age?

abkinsey @abkinsey (173) • United States 20 May 09

What is your favorite age? I was not a big fan of the infant phase. Sure, I loved my son and he was adorable but the lack of sleep or personal space was difficult for me to deal with. Now my son is a toddler and I absolutely...

age

babies

children

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What is your favorite memory?

abkinsey @abkinsey (173) • United States 20 May 09

What is your favorite memory? I would have to say that my favorite memory is of the day that I got married and the day that our son was born. Close seconds are the days that I graduated from college and graduate school. It's so...

favorite memory

memory

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What do you do to take care of yourself?

abkinsey @abkinsey (173) • United States 20 May 09

What do you do to take care of yourself? Many of us spend so much time taking care of other people and thinking about their needs that we don't take care of ourselves as much as we should. We have to make conscious decisions to...

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1 person

How much time do you spend online?

abkinsey @abkinsey (173) • United States 20 May 09

How much time do you spend online? I work online and also go online for fun, so I'd estimate that I spend about four hours online for work and two hours online for pleasure, for a total of six hours online each day. That's a...

internet

online

time online

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1 person

Do you keep in touch with childhood friends?

abkinsey @abkinsey (173) • United States 20 May 09

Do you keep in touch with childhood friends? I generally like to keep in good touch with my friends. I met my best girlfriend in the fifth grade and we still talk today. I also keep in touch with several friends from college....

friend

friends

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5 people

What was your first pet?

abkinsey @abkinsey (173) • United States 20 May 09

What was your first pet? My first pet was a cat named Holden. He was a beautiful gray cat with bronze stripes. I have a cute picture of me taking a nap with him on the floor when I was 2 or 3. I had a blanket and he was all...

first pet

pet

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What is your favorite channel and why?

abkinsey @abkinsey (173) • United States 19 May 09

What is your favorite television channel and why? Our favorite t.v. channel around here ends up being MSNBC most times. I know it's not unbiased news, but we just love it so much. The entertainment value is definitely there and...

channel

favorite

television

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1 person

What work task do you dread most?

abkinsey @abkinsey (173) • United States 19 May 09

Do you have a work task that you just can't stand? For me, email is the task I can't stand. I let my email pile up and pile up until I just can't sort it out and end up deleting a lot of it. I don't know why the email is so...

work

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How much water do you drink?

abkinsey @abkinsey (173) • United States 19 May 09

How much water do you drink each day? I aim for 120 ounces per day. I find that I feel much better when I get my water in. Also, all that water helps me to avoid kidney stones.

health

water

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2 people

What do you want out of life?

abkinsey @abkinsey (173) • United States 19 May 09

Do you want happiness, faith, financial success? What is it that you want out of life? For me, the most important thing in life is God and family. I want to experience both of those things to the fullest. Of course, some other...

life

needs

wants

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1 person

How long did it take you to get pregnant?

abkinsey @abkinsey (173) • United States 19 May 09

How long did it take you to get pregnant? My first pregnancy was after almost a year of trying. It was ectopic, unfortunately. But, four months later, I was pregnant with my son who's now 19 months old. It took 11 months after...

infertility

miscarriage

pregnancy

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1 person

What is your child's favorite television show?

abkinsey @abkinsey (173) • United States 19 May 09

What is your child's favorite television show. My son's favorite show is Veggie Tales. He loves watching all the vegetables talk and especially loves all the fun music. Lately, he is enjoying dancing around to the music. It's...

3 responses

What kind of oil do you use?

abkinsey @abkinsey (173) • United States 19 May 09

What kind of oil do you use in your cooking? We use either a very good quality imported organic extra virgin olive oil, or canola oil. If a recipe calls for butter, I try to use organic butter. We avoid margarine at all costs!

cooking

fat

oil

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1 person

Best Clothing Bargains and Deals

abkinsey @abkinsey (173) • United States 19 May 09

Where do you find the best bargains and deals on clothing? I am going to start trying to rebuild my wardrobe over the next several months and I'm trying to decide where to look for good sales and bargains. When I lived in...

bargains

clothing

2 responses

Are you good at returning phone calls?

abkinsey @abkinsey (173) • United States 19 May 09

When someone calls you and you can't get to the phone, are you good at returning their calls? I am horrible at returning calls from my friends. I don't mean to be so awful about it, but I just get caught up in everything going...

phone calls

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4 people

What laundry detergent do you use and why?

abkinsey @abkinsey (173) • United States 19 May 09

What laundry detergent do you use? Why do you use it? How do you like it? We used to use traditional laundry detergents like Tide and Arm and Hammer, but when we started using cloth diapers on our son, we had to change...

laundry

laundry detergent

soap

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6 people

How often do you get your hair done?

abkinsey @abkinsey (173) • United States 19 May 09

How often do you get your hair done? I used to get my hair cut and colored every six weeks. We came up on some financially challenging times, so I haven't had either done in a year. I am about to start going back to getting it...

hair

hair color

hair cut

1 response

What song describes your life?

abkinsey @abkinsey (173) • United States 18 May 09

What song describes your life? For me, "Jesus Loves Me" describes my life. That song is important because my Grandmother used to sing it with me and even sung it to me years ago as she was dying. Later in life, anytime I found...

life

music

song

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What is your ideal labor?

abkinsey @abkinsey (173) • United States 18 May 09

What would your ideal labor and delivery look like? If you've already given birth, would you labor be different from or similar to your past experience(s)? My 19-month-old's labor was quite traumatic, in that the doctors lied...

childbirth

delivery

labor

4 responses

What kind of mother are you?

abkinsey @abkinsey (173) • United States 18 May 09

What kind of mother are you? What is your parenting style like? I am a spiritual mother. I don't really follow any set parenting formulas. I just follow my gut and try to use God's guidance in my parenting decisions. We do like...

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2 people