Q) How old are you?
A) I am 17 years old at the time I am updating this. (June 8, 2001)
Q) When's your birthday?
A) I was born on the twenty-seventh day of April in the year ninteen-hundred and eighty-four, in the year of our Lord.
Q) Can you drive?!
A) Yep. Got my license June 1, 2001.
Q) Why do you breed hamsters?
A) Actually, I don't any more. But when I did I did it because I enjoy it. I learn about inheritance and genetics while doing it. It is educational and
something I enjoy. For more information about my hamsters or breeding hamsters click on the links.
Q) So, is the Hampster Dance your favourite website?
A) No. I liked it ok but it kind of aggrivated me. It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't mislead people into spelling hamster wrong. Hamster does NOT have a 'P'.
Q) Where does GumonyerShoe come from?
A) There was once a casset tape we used to listen to in the car that had a song about how friends should
stick together. It gave examples such as 'Like Peanut butter, We'll stick with one another!" and the one that I got my name from. You see, it all started as a misunderstanding. I for some strange reason thought that it said, "Like Governor Shoe, I'll stick with you!" I guess I thought it was some famous campaign thing. Any way, for weeks I sang the song this way and finally I asked my mom once, "Who is Governor Shoe, and why do I want to stick to someone like him?" We got a laugh out of it and she explained that the line really is: "Like gum on your shoe, I'll stick with you..." When you say gum on your shoe fast it sounds kind of like a name. So I thought it'd be neat to write a story combining the two ideas (Governor Shoe and Gumonyer Shoe) but I never have. Instead I decided to adopt GumonyerShoe as my internet name. Also, I kind of think of myself as sticking to friends like gum on the bottom of their shoe whether they like it or not... ;o) So now you know. =^)
Q) So are you really a Super Hero?
A) *hands on hips* Now where did you hear that? Actually I'm a secretary and webmaster for the Super Hero GumonyerShoe.
Q) So, how many hamsters do you have?
A) At the moment, 4. This is one question I don't mind answering time and time again. I LOVE talking about my hamsters!! You can visit my hamstery page and I'd be very happy for you to see pictures of all of them and from there you can go to their websites and it'll be cool! K?
Q) How do you choose your hamster's names?
A) Well, usually it is with great difficulty. I personally see it as a job not to be taken lightly. Each name is researched greatly and only given when 1) I can't find anything better or 2) It fits perfectly (either what I want the hamster to become or what I think it's like now). In the case of Damsel, she cried out in distress when I put her in her cage after bringing her home from the pet store. So she was a Damsel in Distress. Laddie is/was my 'little boy'. I'm sure you see the connections for them... The others are more complicated. If you want to know the stories behind all of them e-mail me and I'll gladly tell you. =^)
Q) What's your favourite food?
A) I really dislike this question. How am I supposed to pick a favourite out of all the delicious foods
there are? *sigh* In short, I don't think I have a favourite but I do greatly like chicken strips with
white country gravey and slices of texas toast and french fries. Oh, I'd better stop it 'cause I'm getting even more hungery than I already am!!
I also like pizza, cheese burgers, tacos, etc etc. hehe
Q) What do you look like?
A) Tall, long curly uniquely coloured hair (It changes. I'm serious. When I was at the drivers license place we marked my hair colour as brown, then the guy said it was blond, and then in the car on the way home it looked red!! So some people call it red and others call
it brown, others call it blond, and my 2 year old cousin said it was black... (So is still under debate. Usually I get 'red brown', various 'brown's or 'red') blue eyes, pale skin, a few freckles... To see for yourself (and decide for yourself what my hair colour is), go to the pictures page. And then let me know on your verdict of my hair colour!
Q) Why do you have so many hamsters? Are you/why are you obsessed with hamsters?
A) Why do I have so many hamsters? 1) I like them. 2) Being a breeder I need several.
Am I obsessed with them? Perhaps. It depends on who you ask. I don't think I am, any more at least.
Q) Why do you like black so much? And how can you think it a colour?
A) Ahem. Why do I like black so much? Perhaps its my rebellion. I'm really not much of a rebel I
don't think, but my mostly wearing black, and my favouritisim to black just might be my small
rebellion. It could be because so many people do not consider it to be a colour. I really don't know.
As far as I can remember I've always liked the colour black... As time went on we realised this and now many of my clothes
are black. I just like it. I feel very comfortable in it...
How can I think it a colour you ask? Well, I look at it this way. We have black clothes, black paint, black animals. Even those who say black is not a colour slip sometimes and if something is what normal human eyes consider black they say it's black. I know a guy (his name shall remain anonymous) who argues very well that black cannot be a colour and yet I read once where he said what colour his hair was and he said, you guessed it, black. So, for normal people, normal circumstances Yes, I consider black a colour. If you're talking scientifically I would have to agree, that because I have been told hundreds of times that black is the absence of light it cannot be a colour. BUT, if you're talking regularly every day stuff OR if you're talking COLOUR and not LIGHT black is a colour in my mind.
Consider these examples:
1) If you combine all the colours of paint in equal amounts, what colour do you get?
2) If there were glasses sitting on a table and your mother told you to bring her the colour less one
which would you bring her:
a) The black one
b) the Clear one
c) the white one?
No need to answer me but I would take either the white or the clear one. And to the paint question I've always noticed either black or a yucky brown...
So concludes my conclusion that black for the normal person is a colour. If you do not consider black a colour, I am terribly sorry, but you're not normal. =^)
Q) What are your favourite music groups and what CDs do you have?
A) Currently my favourites would be: Caedmon's Call,
Eli, Aaron Benward, Scarecrow and Tinmen, LaRue, Audio Adrenalin, Third Day, Watermark and many others. If you *really* want to see a listing of all my CDs you can go to:My CD Page and there's a nearly complete listing.
Q) Why did you call the page AAA?
A) Quite simple actually. It's All About Annaka. See. Simple. =^) Also, when I was little I knew that I had 3 A's in my name so I would 'sign' my name as AAA...
I have also been told it's some hockey thing as well...
Q) What do you want to be when you grow up?
A) A hermit.
Seriously, I don't know at this time. My most recent dream was:
To have my own pet store where I can give people proper information, breed some of the animals myself (hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, rabbits, possibly mice and rats, possibly some fish, others?) and have good healthy animals that are properly separated by gender. And be a good place for people who don't follow my advice on 'Don't put the males with the females!' and get their female animals pregnant with unwanted babies. I'll take 'em in. And this store would be attached or right next to my house so I can homeschool my children at the same time (this dream may have to wait until I have at least one child that is old enough to work on their own... or perhaps I will just have the kid with me in the store... *shrug*) So, I guess i'd have to study buisness... I really am clueless on the whole college thing...
I'm not sure if I still wanna do this or not... Mostly what I want to be I guess is a wife and mother. But generally when this question is asked folks mean a job other than in the home.
The dream directly before this was my own hair place. You know, hair cutting/styling that kind of stuff. And it was pretty much like the pet store thing...
Before that... Well I can't remember anything directly... But at times I've wanted to be a vet, zoo keeper, work at an amusement park, farmer, actress, pro baseball player (NOT any more!!), on and on and on.
Now, aren't you glad you asked? j/k :o)
Q) Have you ever eaten a cardboard tissue box? from alias: Junebug
A) Why of course. Cardboard is so tastey. I highly reccomend it to anyone. ;o) (insert truth here: no, i've never eaten cardboard that I know of... On a similar note though... those communion wafers they give you at TCTC taste an awful lot like some styrophome or cardboard or something.)
Q) Do you have a boyfriend?
A) Sure. I have several friends that are boys.
Q) What are your views on dating?
*sigh* This truely is another FAQ for me... Not really directly to me but folks my age seem to be greatly interested in everyone's opinion on this... Here is my response from the last time I was asked this question.:
"I am not really sure on all this... I'm not in a grey area but oh, I don't know why I'm even answering this...
I think I've decided that I'll probably be one of those 'first kiss at the altar' people. And my parents have decided that courtship is the rout to
go. I'm not clear on all of that but the way I understand it is that you don't date until you are actually possibly thinking of marriage
and then you only date the person you would consider marrying..."
Q) Have you read I Kissed Dating Goodbye? Have you read Boy Meets Girl?
Yes and I really didn't like it that much. I couldn't really get into it. Perhaps because I have never dated so it didn't make a lot of sense to me and I had a hard time getting through it. I did read it all the way but it was over a period of several months.
I haven't read Boy Meets Girl yet but I want to.
Q) What's your view on Secular Music?
A) well, This question is asked in many different ways. 'Do you listen to Secular Music', 'Is Secular Music OK?' and various other things. Here's a recent answer I gave on this question:
"I don't listen to Secular radio. The only nonchristian CDs I have are 1) Childrens (Rosenshontz and Disney's For Our Children Concert (with lots of what I assume were popular secular artists of the time) and 2) a CD that has nature sounds (Wolf howls, bird chirps, water running, etc). I don't listen to any of those much. (not that that comment had anything to do with this...)
BUT the radio thing.. When at stores and they're playing the radio I do hear that sometimes. And there are commercials for secular radio stations. And I have seen MTV once (ironically enough, at a Christian youth retreat...). And there are songs on movies and TV and if you are just alive you are going to have secular music in your ears unless you close yourself up in your room and don't go anywhere or do anything.
I was prepared to give an easy answer. No I don't listen to secular music. But in writing this I have to change my answer to yes. I do, but usually not by choice.
Now I agree with both sides. Yes, there is some of the time where I even wonder about Christian artists. I won't name names 'cause I don't want to start an arguement (why I'm still writing this then I don't know). And yes, all you hear about mostly is the bad stuff in seccular music. I am sure, very sure that there are probably seccular artists and groups that I'd like very much, but I don't want (nor would I be allowed to most likely) to risk listening to anything that I may regret. Like someone said, they don't want to go wading through everything to see if there is something they'd like.
*thinking* ______(name withheld), I agree, even some Christians don't always sing songs about God and everything. And I agree, some could be in the 'Christian' market 1) 'cause they couldn't make it in the secular market or 2) just for the money they'd make. But for the most part I think that 'Christian' artists what they say they are. "
Ok, what Christian artists do I listen to? Well currently my favourites are: Aaron Benward, Caedmon's Call, Eli, Watermark, LaRue, Audio Adrenalin, Third Day and Scarecrow & Tinmen and many more!
Update: My current favourite song is sung by a secular singer. It's from the Tarzan soundtrack... It's "You'll Be In My Heart." Further Update: More and more I'm open to secular songs... I still doubt I'll buy any secular CDs but I do use Napster (or a program similar) and I will get some secular songs (if you see my music list in those programs though you will notice that in the 100+ songs I have only a handful are not Christian... Any way... Very carefully I chose secular songs to listen to... And as some have said "I'm a big girl and I can take it" (eh, famous last words?). But I am still very cautious at what I listen to.
Q)Why do you use the British spelling of some words?
A) Because I have been trying to get people to ask. *grin* And because I like them that way. =^) I use the British or any other spelling whenever I can remember to but sometimes I slip. And sometimes I just don't wanna bother with it. And it's just more 'me'.
Q) Why do you like your boots so much?
A) I dunno. They're just SO comfortable! I just really like them. And I like the looks of them. If you'd like to see them you can go to my picture of them.
Update: Thosea are actually my old boots... I now have a different pair that look exactly like them. ;o) (if you want to see a picture of my new boots you can here. Why did I get a new pair? Because my old ones were getting cracked and had a big hole on the right side and it was just not good. I did save my old boots though. I mean they had been with me to Mexico and Brasil and all the places between and just all over the place with me. They're in the box from my new boots and stored in my closet.
Q) Why do you wear black all the time?
A) This is kind of answered in the 'how can you think black is a colour' question. But I'll answer it here too. I don't really have a reason on my black. I am very comfortable in black. I am usually very uncomfortable in white and other bright or light colors. In my opinion usually the darker the better. I almost always have at least one visible piece of clothing that's black. And I often dress all in black. Why? Again, I don't really know. that's just the way I am...
Q) Why do you like knives?
A) *laughs* This is a similar answer to the 'Why do you wear black' question. Umm, I don't know. Knives are much better than guns because knives are used for many things while I can only think of one purpos for guns (killing). Knives are so useful. I use mine at least once a week I believe. I carry 2 pocketknives (they have different uses. One has a light on it and I don't like it as much to actually cut things so it's mostly just a light and to look impressive [;o)] and the other's used for cutting things and prying things open and other uses like that). And knives are just cool. My light knife is also a locking blade knife which is really neat. What I'd *really* like is one that flips out... And some day I'd like a sword like my brothers... You can see their swords at: The Sword Page. Very cool. Here are some pictures of my knives...Old Faithful (I've had it since I was probably about 8 or so...) and The Wicked Knife (that's what everyone in my family calls it at least...). Aren't they neat?!
Update: I now have a big knife (opens to be a total length [including handle] of 7 inches I think). I don't carry 'The Wicked Knife' any more. But I do carry 'Old Faithful' and a small blue swiss army knife as well as my big knife.
Q) Why do you want to dye your hair with kool-aid?
A) For a couple reasons. 1) Just to say that I've done it. 2) To help the debate of color definition. If my hair's blue no one can debate that it's any other color. 3) Because doesn't it sound like fun?!
Q) But, don't you like your hair color?
A) Yes, very much so! I love my hair. But don't you ever want to change something just for fun? Just to see what people's reactions are? If you've never had that sensation you're probably lucky because then you don't have to go through a bunch of stuff to make it work. (so far I've used 5 packets of kool-aid trying to dye my hair (2 grape, 2 Tropical Punch & 1 BlueMoonBerry).
Q) So...does it work? (Dying hair with kool-aid I mean)
A) Sorta. I've not perfected the method for my hair yet. All I've gotten is (with purple & blue pretty much nothing [blue made a greenish tint I think on my hair (no one else seemed to notice) but it was gone pretty qickly]) red highlight kind of things and mostly it's affected the ends of my hair. It can work very well. I've just not figured out the best/most effective way to do it yet. I still have plenty of kool-aid packets and plenty of ideas in my head. *g*
Q) Are you a Goth/freak? 
A) Eh, I'll leave that up to you to decide. It's really in the eye of the beholder any way I think.
Q) How tall are you?
A) Now where did that come from way down here? I don't know. This question will probably move up higher later, but for now it'll be here... Oh, the answer... I am 5 feet and 9 inches aproximately. When wearing my boots I am like 5'11" though.
Q) How much do you weigh?
A) Do you think I'd really tell you even if I knew? *G* I honestly don't know. In most people's opinion, too much, I'd say.
Update. I know now (hadda go to the doctor the other day) and I'm not tellin'.
Q) What languages do you speak?
A) Well... I speak English (duh), and I can do Sign Language pretty well. I speak some Spanish. Everything else is just fragments. Like I know a little Portuguese, some German (less than Portuguese at this point I believe), and others that I can't think of at the moment. The only ones I claim are English, Sign Langauge and Spanish (though hesitantly I accept Spanish...).
Q) How do people describe you?
A) Well, a friend of mine started this interesting collection by calling me a 'paradox'. Then another friend of mine called me an Oddity. A third friend called me a Freak. The 2nd friend said I was a fruit. But the ones I usually tell people are: paradox, oddity and freak. ;o) Oh, and a Screenager.
Q) Are you a Christian?
A) Well lets just say that 
Q) How can I contact you?
A) Well, there's the ever popular e-mail gumonyer_shoe@hotmail.com, and I use several instant messenger programs (such as ICQ, AIM, MSN, and Yahoo.) My nickname on all of them is the same... guess what it is? Yeah...GumonyerShoe. Jus' lemme know who you are and where you got my screen name from if you contact me on one of those, K? I also have voicemail... If you wanna voicemail me...my voicemail number is: 1-877-266-5929 (1-877-cool-way) ext. 042784 If you choose to voicemail me, please give me at least some indication on who you are...thanks. ;o) If you don't wanna just leave a message for me and actually wanna talk to me, first e-mail me and ask for how you can phone me for free (at least it's supposed to be...). I can give you the info from there...
Or... you can use this handy feed back form:
Q) So, where do you hang out at and what do you like to do?
A) Well, lets see... I hang out at Matt's Forum, David's Forum, Sonlight Teens Forum, Annaka's Amigos forum, f.y.s.h. forum,
, and Bolt, Umm... etc. What do I like to do? I like to read, write stories, play on the computer, talk to people on the computer, listen to music, etc.
Q) How many times has this page been viewed?
A) Ok, so this isn't really a FAQ, I just wanted to see how creatively I could put a counter on here. Why? I don't know. I just felt like it. I know how many views this page has gotten even with out a counter. How? Magic I say. No, just kidding. But I do have my ways. *grin* Any way, if you really want to know it's been viewed 
times.
Q) How can I submit a question to this FAQ?
A) You mean there's more that you'd want to know? *winks* Well the only thing I can tell you is to click de button:
Thanks for visiting!
