TAG...you’re it...

TAG...you’re it...
Current mood: bored
Category: Blogging
friday, august 31, 2007


TAG

I could be mad about being tagged, but instead I will be thankful for something to do for a few minutes. Fridays at work are BORING!

The Rules:

1. I have to post these rules before I give you the facts.
2. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules. (If you're a non-blogger, you can email/bulletin them!)
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose people to get tagged and list their names.
5. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they're tagged, and to read your blog.



Now for eight random facts/habits about myself:



1. I'm afraid of the dark. No joke. After all the kiddos are in bed and i'm locking up and shutting down for the night I take the stairs two and three at a time, throwing the odd glance behind me to be sure mama vorhees isn't hovering just outisde my peripheral vision waiting to pounce.

2. i am addicted to my morning coffee. i make at least a pot a day and have started getting serious caffeine deprivation headaches on the odd saturday that i get up and moving too quickly without first downing a mug or two.

3. i am the most fertile person i know (with the exception of rob maybe?). All three of my kids were birth control babies. Multiple Forms of Birth Control. My kids better all grow up to be geniuses and/or Nobel Peace Prize Laureates or something of that nature.

4. i am the most chaotically organized person i know. Sounds fake doesn't it? but it's true. My entire house can be littered in toys, clothes and yesterday's sippy cup lids, but I could tell you where my spare car keys were without batting an eye (the interior zipper pocket or my brown purse. The dark brown drawstring, not the little tan handbag. It's hanging on the left-most hook on the coat tree in the front room). It absolutely flummoxes some people, but I've learned to thrive in the carnage of everyday kid-dom.

5. i turn down foods based on texture, not taste. I can't think of a single food that i dislike the taste of (although I haven't quite the palate of Andrew Zimmern). But gummy bears, lima beans, brussel sprouts, raw marshmallows all make the anti-list. Oddly enough...flan is okay in my book...must be more jello-like than marshmallow-like.

6. i check out the personals ads at www.lrb.co.uk in my spare time. London Review of Books has BY FAR the most entertaining classified personals of anyone, anywhere. Go ahead, check it out...i'll wait

7. i HATE wearing makeup. it takes too much time in the morning and i'd much rather sleep an extra five minutes, or sneak in an extra sun salutation or two than worry about applying foundation and mascara and five kinds of crap in ten different colors.

8. i adore the internet. For a gal who was always just the other side of smart with a bit of a self-conscious streak growing up, I read too much (sacrelig. to say it?) wrote obsessively and literally had to force myself to be social instead of holing up with a book or a sketchpad. the Internet satisfies my general thirst for random bits of knowledge and often allows me to hide behind my computer screen when pouring my heart out in a blog.

I TAG...
Karrie...Beccah...and Elise
(don't let me down guys)
Currently listening:
Costello Music
By The Fratellis

tears and iced tea

tears and iced tea
Category: Life
monday, july 30, 2007


there are very few times in my life i've been so sad that my heart ached

divorce is such an ugly word

i wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy



Currently listening:
Room for Squares
By John Mayer

under the yum yum tree...

yum yum
Current mood: awake
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
friday, july 27, 2007


jack lemmon in tennis shorts = sexy!!!

who knew?

addictive personality

addictive personality
Current mood: nostalgic
Category: Life
wednesday, july 25, 2007


i always assumed that i should stay away from casinos...
knowing what i do about my personality and divining the rest from every gambling addiction commercial on television, i kind of assumed that if i stepped foot one into a casino i'd be lost.
okay. not lost. i did make my way back out...eventually...down but not out.
it was just so sparkly...the mix of pumped-in oxygen and the sharp glint of flourescent lights off the polished chrome of the slot machines. the soft whoosh of a new deck of cards dealt quickly across green felt tables. the white-murmur of floating waitresses and old women talking to their machines mixing with the metallic clink of the slots whirring to life.

a few days away at French Lick Springs Resort & Casino left me almost tan, rested and rejuvinated; and convinced that i was right about myself and gambling. god, i'm so ready to go back...



Currently reading:
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
By Christopher Moore

mortification extraordinaire...

mortification extraordinaire...
Current mood: rejected
Category: Life
wednesday, july 18, 2007


there may be no greater embarrassment on earth than being five deep in line at the grocery and having your card decline over two boxes of diapers, a gallon of milk and a tube of toothpaste with two crying kids in the cart and one sitting on your right foot waiting for the horsey ride that is not coming.

how am i ever going to do this all by myself?
Currently reading:
Coyote Blue
By Christopher Moore

3am feeding

3am feeding
Current mood: exhausted
Category: Blogging
sunday, july 1, 2007


sophie has the hiccups... there will be no sleep anytime soon...why isn't anyone else online at 3am???

tastes of summer

tastes of summer
Current mood: ecstatic
Category: Food and Restaurants
saturday, june 30, 2007


i have rediscovered the pure, unadulterated joy
of ice cream sandwhiches in summer

(i just ate three)
(in my defense...i think they've shrunk those suckers since i was a kid...)

So, in honor of my rediscovery, I've compiled the following list:

Top Ten Flavors of Summer
10. Ice Cream Sandwhiches
9. Red Popsicles (on the wooden stick, not in the plastic sleeve)
8. Anything done on a charcoal grill
7. S'Mores
6. Potato Salad/Cole Slaw (i have trouble differentiating the two in my memory)
5. Ring Pops (from the concession stand at your little brother's tee ball game)
4. Strawberry Shortcake
3. Ball Park Dog (yes, a $5.00 hot dog tastes better than a regular one!)
2. Ice Tea (Sweet Tea)
1. Watermelon

did i forget anything?