If you could permanently alter one thing about your physical appearance, what would you change?

This should be a very simple question to answer. Who doesn't constantly think of something about the way they look that they wish they could change? The most gorgeous and perfect people on the planet are still insecure about something. The only tricky thing here is choosing one thing. Like most women, there are several things I'd like to change about myself. I have 5 birthmarks. FIVE. I have terribly frizzy hair, I am overweight, I have thick ankles (even when not overweight), I have acne...STILL! However, I've learned to live with too many birthmarks, I know how to fix my hair temporarily, I can lose weight, I never wear shorts so no one ever sees my ankles, and I know how to cover acne with make up. There is one thing that I will never be able to ignore or get rid of though. Stretch marks. I don't have them as bad as some women. Some poor souls have developed stretch marks all over their bodies from pregnancy. I only have some on my stomach, as most common. I hate them though. I absolutely hate them. They almost make me feel as if there is no point in losing weight because I'll never be able to wear a 2 piece swimsuit anyway. I suppose there are surgeries to fix stretch marks, but I'll never do anything like that. Aside from not having the means, I have a fear of unnecessary surgery. I could just knock out acne, horrid paleness AND stretch marks by saying I would change my skin. I like the freckles and I love my tattoos, the rest of it can be totally different.

If you had to assassinate one famous person who is alive right now, who would it be and how would you do it?

This is a crazy question. I'm positive I could not kill anyone short of some bad movie like plot that involved getting revenge on someone who hurt my children. I don't even know where to begin with this question. I'm not politically educated enough to know of any terrible world leader who deserves to die. I choose to stay ignorant about those sorts of things, don't judge me. Of course, the question is "If you HAD to..." If for some reason I was forced to kill someone, I would kill someone who was a murderer indefinitely. It would be someone who was already on death row, confessed to what they did, and was not in the least bit sorry about what they did. I don't have it in me to kill someone slowly or watch them suffer even if they deserved to suffer. And even if I pulled the switch or poked the needle successfully and knew the world was a better place without them, I still don't know if I could live with the thought. Taking someone else's life is heavy. Possibly too heavy for most of us. The last gleaming moment in their eyes would be forever in your memory. Not a day would go by without you thinking about them. It would control your life. Not for me.

If you could change one thing in the world right now, what would you alter?

This is a doozy. 2012 might not have been our last year on earth but the nation as we know it has spiraled downward quite a bit this year. Between natural disasters, fiscal cliffs, and gun wielding psychos America alone has been given plenty to think about. For the world, though, I could just say "World Peace" add a picture of a dove and call it good. That sort of seems like cheating though, doesn't it?

I realize the tremendous amount of irony in this next statement considering that I'm typing this on a small genius box and relaying it across the globe via metal discs in space. However, I would like to change how much we have advanced. I would like for the entire world to be set back a couple hundred years. This world has always had problems and always will, but I firmly believe that the world having access to each other's problems is ruining us as a species. We have advanced too far, too fast. Our demise is getting closer because of it.

Of course, if I woke up tomorrow without a phone, laptop, or TV I would be hating my life. I'm not saying it would be fun and certainly not easy, but if we had to work harder for the things we have we would appreciate them more. People were better balanced back then. And, unfortunately, there is NOTHING that could bring us back to a respectable, honest, good nation like taking away our toys and technological advances.

If you could have any room in the world become your bedroom from now on, which room would you choose?

This seems like a pointless question, but think of how much time you spend in your bedroom. For some people it might only be while they sleep, but for me it's much longer. My bedroom is my sanctuary. I supposed I get it from my mother. My entire life I have watched my mother sit on her bed. I am the exact same way. My mother isn't much for watching TV and she didn't get along with my dad so she confined herself to her room to do crafty artistic things. And now, here I sit...on my bed writing this. Even when I'm not on the computer, I sit in my room to do everything. I can watch my scary movies that no one else likes, I fold laundry, I read, I even sit on my bed when I eat.

The ideal bedroom for someone like me....I love very eccentric, old, dark, borderline creepy things. I am obsessed with movies so I can only rely on a movie reference for the answer to this question. When I was a teenager I had a bedroom very similar to the older sister's in 10 Things I Hate About you. It was covered in posters, magazine ads, photos, Christmas lights, and stickers. Really too much to take in during one visit.  When I was in college, my room didn't change much. It was a little more streamlined into photos of friends, still Christmas lights, and a couple art posters (Starry Night always the staple). At this moment as a nearly 30 year old woman with a family, my bedroom consists of a large eccentric bed with a ridiculous headboard which I love because the wood is almost black and although it's not, it looks very old. My walls are now covered in my own art, photos of my husband and children and only 2 band posters: The Beatles and Bob Marley. It still seams very immature for a woman my age now that I look at it. I don't really have the money to go out and buy matching, boring items to make my room look ravishing though.

I suppose if I had the house to go with it, I would choose a bedroom out of some Victorian horror film. What first comes to mind is Bram Stoker's Dracula. The bedrooms in that movie were fantastic. Suppose I didn't have movies to go off of though. If I had to describe my perfect bedroom from top to bottom it would be this: Dark, battered wood floors, a wall of nothing but books, the same bed I have now only with gorgeous midnight blue bedding, a dark blue drape covering the ceiling and lights producing a false starry sky, closets to hide the clothes (no dressers), wooden carvings and scrolls on the walls with very dark patina, all of my favorite pictures of my children framed in old frames and edited to look ancient themselves. It would look like a bedroom that someone loved very much and then walked away from and left for time to destroy. I would still need my TV and collection of horror movies, but they would be hidden so as not to ruin the illusion.

If you could, in retrospect, change one thing about your childhood, what would it be?

 We were pretty poor when I was a kid, but I wouldn't say that it actually effected my quality of life in any way. I may have minded at the time, but I know now that my parents did what they could for me. My parents didn't get along. They had a lot of fights. My dad had a notoriously short fuse (as do I) and my mom was constantly depressed. I grew up thinking my mom didn't want much to do with me because she spent so much time alone in her room. She wasn't happy and she wanted out. One night my dad exploded. My mom had had enough so we left. I don't remember anything about their problems. I don't recall him ever hurting anyone. I knew they fought, but I don't remember details. I must have blocked them out. I was 7 years old when my parents divorced. My dad started out coming to get me every weekend, after all my dad and I had an awesome relationship. I was a daddy's girl really. Each year, though, my dad would move a little further west and my mom and I would move a little further east. Visitations grew further apart. Now we live a few hours away from each other so I only see him on holidays which bothers me because I wish my kids could know him better. My dad has improved tremendously. So has my mom. They are so much better as friends than they ever were as a couple. So, I suppose regretting their getting divorced doesn't make sense because it improved everything. I just wish there wasn't a need for their divorce. I can't imagine how different my life would be. Things have worked out fine though. And it doesn't make much sense to regret things when your life turns out fine.

If you could dine alone with anyone from any period in history, which person would it be?

This is a good question. I like historic people better than people in the present. Everyone is more interesting after they die. I suppose most people would choose Shakespeare, Da Vinci, Jesus maybe. It's very hard to choose. Especially since all of history is written by man; the only dishonest creature on the planet. Human beings love drama, adventure, exaggerating. How can anyone be sure of what's really happened in history? If we can believe history is accurate, I would say I'd like to have a conversation with a woman who was different for her time. Perhaps Queen Elizabeth or Mae West. Probably Mae West. :)

If you could alter one physical characteristic of your mate, what would change?

 Ok, now it's getting difficult. My husband is a pretty good looking guy all around. He's got the cutest smile and long eye lashes over green eyes. He's just cute. :) . I guess if I had to change something it might be his feet. I hate feet anyway unless they're baby feet. My husband has really rough looking hands and feet because he is a very hard worker. I love his rough hands though. They feel like sand paper but soft hands on a man is like the biggest turn off ever, aside from back hair. My husbands feet though are crazy. They look like hobbit feet without all the hair. They're size 13 which is ridiculous. But you know what they say about guys with big feet. They wear big socks. Feet gross me out cause some people's smell bad and some people have toe nail fungus and all that junk. Ugh, I'm getting grossed out just talking about it. But as long as he sits around the house in his socks I can admire the rest of him.