• leighnannini
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      • In response to: "Who are you?" I'm an adventurist who has sailed around the world in one hundred days, undergone a colonoscopy in Bangkok, sung Christmas carols in the underbelly of Southeast Asia, and climbed the Pyramids in Giza.
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    • I'd love to ask my great-great-grandparents 'What's the secret to longevity?'

      • What's the secret to longevity?
        My paternal great great grandmother lived to be 106; my great grandmother, well into her 90s. (How many people can say they had a great grandmother until they were 17! Pretty cool!) My grandfather, who celebrates his 87th birthday next month, still mows the lawn, runs errands all over Orange County, and gets extremely animated while watching Yankee/Red Sox games.

        I'd ask my great great grandmother, Nonna, as she was often referred to in my house as a child -- what's the secret?


      • answered by leighnannini on 09/01/2009
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    • Pocket Rockers...anyone? anyone?

      • The other day, I asked my fiancé, "did you have pocket rockers in Venezuela?"

        "What the heck is...was a pocket rocker," he asked.

        "Hmm, well, it was like a little radio -- mine was pink -- that you'd carry around with you wherever you went. The tapes were really small and each side played a different song."

        My pocket rocker followed me everywhere I went. There's actually a videotape somewhere in the depths of my grandparent's house of me singing oh so extravagantly to Tiffany's "I Think We're Alone Now." My tongue jutting to the top of my teeth with each TH, my head jerking side to side with each chorus.

        Does anyone else remember these?



      • answered by leighnannini on 08/24/2009
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    • What my shoes say about me

      • I absolutely adore my Chuck Taylor all-stars. For as long as I can remember, I've been a fan, wearing high-tops, low-tops, purple, kelly green, or fire engine red, throughout the years, depending on the mood I'm in when I make the purchase. As a kid, I'd prance around in mis-matched high-tops, complete with sparkly laces, and hum to the Punky Brewster theme song. As a young teen, I wore lemon yellow plaid and black and white checkered. In college, I rocked the hot pink, and as a early-twentysomething, I toned it down a bit with the basic grey (seen here, on my feet in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan). I'm somewhere in the middle now, wearing the classic purple low-tops.

        What do these shoes actually say about me? Hmm, let me tell a story...

        "Awesome shoes," an older woman said to me the other day at Dunkin' Donuts.

        "Oh, yeah," I said. "Converse...I love 'em."

        "Purple shoes -- so fun," she said and stared down, pointing. I resisted the urge to jump up and do one of my little side kicks. "I love the color. Oh, how fun."

        So, I guess my shoes say ... Hey, I'm fun.


      • answered by leighnannini on 05/06/2009
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    • If each day had three more hours...

      • I'd spend my extra three hours each day getting back to basics: reading and writing. As a self-proclaimed book nerd, I absolutely love to do both. I'd blog more, finish my memoir, and pitch a few of those quirky essays sitting on my desktop. I'd also get back to immersing myself in a book each night before going to bed. I have my eye on a few new memoirs, mainly The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin and Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult by Jayanti Tamm, but have yet to actually purchase them.

        Oh, and if I had an extra 50 minutes leftover, I'd head over to the pilates studio and work on the Cadillac -- that thing is awesome!

        Sound like how you'd spend an extra three hours?

      • answered by leighnannini on 04/16/2009
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