It’s Friday – so it’s time for BYOC – Bring Your Own Crazy! We answer 5 questions to get to know each other better and to give our blogging brains a break! Copy to your own blog and enjoy! Thanks, Drazil!

1. Do you have any siblings? What is your relationship with them? Good, bad, ugly?

I have four older siblings that are at least a decade older than me. Two brothers and two sisters. I am closer in age to my sisters’s children than I am to my sisters.

My relationship with all of my siblings is good. The biggest thing is that because of the age difference, I don’t know two of them as well as I would like to. They moved away when I was still pretty young.

We all live apart from each other (3 different states), but we do talk. The one I talk to the least was my favorite when I was younger — my brother Chuckie. He’s the oldest, and he joined the Army when I was little. He would come home on leave and bring me cool presents, or we’d go on fun trips to visit him on the base. But neither Chuckie nor I like to talk on the phone, so we don’t talk a lot. But my sister Dee lives near Chuckie and sees him pretty frequently, and Dee calls and talks to me frequently too, so we hear how the other one is doing. Dee and Chuckie live in Arizona, and I am in Michigan, so it has been a couple of years since I’ve seen them.

I am horrible at calling people. My brother Keith lives a couple of hours away, and we get together a couple of times a year. My sister Kari lives six hours away or so, and we’ve started a new tradition of camping together. It’s great.
2. Let’s talk pizza. Do you prefer homemade or restaurant? What toppings are your fave?

I love my mother-in-law’s homemade pizza. It’s yummy. I’ve never tried making it at home. There is also a local place that I really like their pizza (A & L’s in Lake City).

My favorite toppings are ham, mushroom and pepperoni. I also like pineapple, but I don’t get that often.

I don’t eat the dough of pizza since my weight-loss surgery. It is still something my family eats frequently. I usually eat something else or will eat just the toppings off one piece. Before surgery, I loved pizza.

3. When is the last time you cried – in sadness and in joy?

I don’t know. I made my daughter cry the other day.

I’d say the last time I cried was in joy or over some sentimental movie. I’m not sure when.

I don’t know the last time I cried in sadness.

4. Do you own a gun – one that is specifically yours? Do you know how to use it?

I don’t own a gun that is specifically mine, but we have several. I do know how to shoot a gun. I used to actually be pretty good at shooting blackpowder guns. I would even measure my own black powder, pour it down the barrel and then push the lead bullet down into the barrel too. I would participate in shooting competitions with the black powder gun when I was a teenager.

I hunt, but I don’t do it often. We have four teenagers that like to hunt, so there isn’t always a gun available for me to hunt too. Often, I just tag along with my camera.
5. Repeat question. Summarize your week!

The best part of my week was going to an ultrasound with my daughter and finding out that my first grandbaby is a girl. My daughter is 20 weeks pregnant, and her baby girl will be Faythe Marie.

Other than that, my week has been pretty boring for the most part. My husband is out of town, so I’ve been working and driving children around. Three nights this week found me sitting next to a softball field watching my kids play. Two of those nights included being rained on and freezing. It ended up being late nights, so I don’t feel like I’ve done a lot at home this week.