Lots Of Things About Me

1. I love the way a new box of Crayola Crayons smells.
2. I don't like rice crispys bars or marshmellows.
3. I waited until I was 18 years old to have sex for the first time.
4. I HATE tuna fish. I once threw up an entire can of it in Perkins, and haven't eaten it since. I was 6 at the time.
5. I love all 80's music.
6. I once spent 2 weeks trying to find the $0.05 mistake in my checkbook so that it would balance.
7. I love to cook but hate to do the dishes.
8. My husband proposed to me while driving down the road, smoking a cigarette.
9. I love red roses and lilacs.
10. I believe in fate & karma. Things happen for a reason.
11. I only drink ice tea in the summer months. It's summer drink.
12. I love to watch baseball and football. I'd rather watch them on TV, at home on the couch than in person.
13. The first time I ever got drunk was at a neighbor's graduation party. It was the summer before I went in to 8th grade. My dad took me home passed out.
14. I HATE when girls refer to their guy at "Mr. Big". There is only 1 Mr. Big and he was on Sex in the City.
15. I've had my license suspended for too many speeding tickets.
16. I owned my first home at 21.
17. I own chaps and wore them in Sturgis.
18. I have 5 brothers and 1 sister. My youngest brother is 1.5 years younger than my son.
19. I grew up on a farm and don't know how to drive a tractor, but know how to bail hay.
20. I used to clean new construction houses as a job in high school.
21. I have been to Mexico deep sea fishing and caught some Yellow Fin.
22. I moved to California when I was 19 for 4 months.
23. I have moved 10 times in 7 years.
24. I don't eat leftovers but will put them in the fridge anyways, just so I can throw them out later.
25. I used to mark my sox with nail polish so they were easy to match up when clean.
26. I like to drink my Morgan with Diet Coke, but will usually drink Diet Pepsi, if there is no Morgan in it.
27. I once sold all my Cd's and bought all Christian one to replace them.
28. I am a 34B.
29. I used to crash weddings in high school for something to do on weekends, so I could dance.
30. I am the calm one in a crisis.
31. I have met Chi Chi Rodriguez and have his autograph. He's very funny.
32. I love to scrapbook, but hardly ever do.
33. I will drive across country to move a family member and have done it several times. I LOVE A ROAD TRIP!
34. I have never broken a bone and my only stitches were for my C-section.
35. My parents got divorced when I was 8.
36. I love Chinese food.
37. Things I'm good at -- being a mom, organizing, budgeting, scrap booking, doing laundry, cooking and baking, balancing a checkbook.
38. I will drunkenly call you over and over and over again until you shut your phone off in the middle of the night, at which point I will keep calling and leaving you random songs on your voicemail. Because at 3 am I am a REALLY good singer.

Is it time for a new picture...

I have been hesitant to put up pictures of myself or of Blue on this site. I don't really know why. Sites like Dooce.com and Greek Tragedy.com do it all the time. I suppose I have some sick fear of someone finding me, and then killing me based off a picture I put up of KM in his Halloween costume. Seems strange I know. But then I also think of the sites listed about. They are doing fantastically well as far as readers, and from what I can tell they make a decent living with it too. Is this because the people who read their sites feel like the know them, because they have seen their faces? Do they want to come back every day to look at their faces? Do they want to read more because they have seen their faces? The world may never know. But I am thinking it may be time to come out of hiding. So if I can figure out a good way to post some pictures here (and by good, I mean easy), I will do it.

Update: As you can see, I caved. Enjoy!

Day 8, Post 6

So I'm a little behind on this blogging thing for the NaBloPoMo. I'm a rookie and am not used to this rigorous schedule of blogging EVERY DAY. The computer fiasco of 2007 is somewhat behind us. We now have an external hard drive, have all of Blue's baby pictures and are getting a new computer. (Scratch that.... most of his baby pictures... SAD FACE!) The only thing we are still missing is the information on Quickbooks, but hopefully if we re-install the software it will come back. It looks like all the files are there, we just can't get to them until we re-install.

Go over to my NaBloPoMo page and check it out. Leave me a loving message. And what's the most fun of all this for me is that over there I tell you to come back here. It's like one of those blonde jokes, how do you keep a blonde busy all day? Give them a card that says "see other side" on both sides. ha ha ha ha ha

Now that you've heard the dumbest joke of the day... go over and check it out.

Doughnuts

This morning Blue took it upon himself to take the doughnuts out from under the desk at daycare and carry them downstairs under his chubby little arm, open them up and eat them. In his defense, he was not the only kid to do so. He had 2 accomplices. They each carried one package. If you're keeping track, that's 3 kids and 3 packages of doughnuts.





They thought it was SO VERY funny. They were laughing and giggling and carrying on as 2 and 3 year olds do. All of a sudden, Wickty (my day care lady/aunt) heard them and they were saying "doughnuts, doughnuts". This is not normally a word they say a lot. She went to investigate, and sure enough the little shits were knee deep in doughnuts.





I don't know how many they got down before she found them, but I'm going to guess at least 2 apiece. This is also not the first time she has found them huddled together eating things they should not be eating. On his last 2 (and first 2) birthdays -- I brought cupcakes to Wickty's house to share. The first year they only made a mess at the table because they were really to small to eat them carefully. But on his 2nd birthday, they (and I don't remember which they's exactly) managed to get them off the counter, and under Dabid's desk and half eaten before Wickty found them. MESSY! Frosting everywhere, and believe me I got a phone call about it. I told her she should have been watching him more closely.



NoBloMoPo -- Day 7

Posts -- 5

I'll try to catch up with 2 extra posts.

BIRTHDAY Update

It has been a good day....



Free coffee this morning (Thanks Caribou!)

Lots of calls to wish me a "happy to you day"

Lunch with friends (who bought!)

Lots of laughs over a work thing -- it would take a long time to write, but it was really funny!

Leaving work early

Dinner with friends tonight.



I'm glad everything fell into place on a day all about me!

BIRTHDAY!!

Today is my birthday and already I've had quite a few phone calls to wish me a happy one. This morning, Husband brought Blue in to bed with me. Todd was leaving for work and Blue was already up (he doesn't know that he can sleep in with the time change). So I got to have a few wonderful minutes with him snuggled in beside me. He was warm and cuddly and even tickeled my back and sang me Happy Birthay. It was a fantastic way to wake up.

What I'm asking for: Todd to pay my speeding ticket. Strange I know, but if he pays it, I can spend the money on myself instead.

Dinner tonight with friends at home and then on Friday with friends and family out.

Why is it that when you have to work on your birthday it's a crying shame? Shouldn't it be like a national holiday that I was born and that I get to do whatever it is that I want and not have to sit at a desk?!

Maybe next year. Until then, I'm going to try to keep up with the NoBloPoMo --it's not going very well so far, but much better than I had anticipated. I have gotten 3 posts in this month and we are only on the 6th day -- I am WAY ahead of my usual pace.

Dentist = Hell

I have a new dentist. My other dentist kicked me out of his practice for not going for a long time. This seems strange I know. But he has MS and is scaling back and really I hadn't been there in 5 or more years and he is no where near where I live now. So it's not a big deal, but when it comes to change I am usually easy going, but with a dentist it's different.

The dentist was great, but still he's a DENTIST! He was nice, and checked on me a lot, to make sure I was feeling no pain and was comfortable, but still he's a dentist and I don't like going.

My tooth is fine now, hurt for a little while, but other wise doing good. I have to go back for the other half of my crown in a few weeks. YUCK. So not looking forward to that day. I guess I have to suck it up and be an adult, especially since I will have to take Blue rather soon and I can't go passing on my disdain for the dentist to him. I'll let him decide on his own how much he hates it, or likes it.