Saturday, December 16, 2006

Jesse's latest tag.. I'm It!

Okay, so my blog isn't so boring and I really opened the book wide open with this and the last blog post. But I thought things were dry around here and I really do like these challenges to spin the blog around! Jesse's comments are in red, if I left them! I was supposed to post this early this morning, oops! Enjoy!

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1. Each player of this game starts with honesty, answering these questions.

2. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own, providing their answers.

3. At the end you need to choose 6 people to be tagged, and list their names. Everyone has done this, but if you haven't .. you should, if you know what's good for you.. share it with us!!!

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1. Where were you an hour ago? Here at Jesse’s Blog.
2. Who will be your next kiss? You mean in a dream? Probably my cat or someone I birthed!

3. Is there anything pink within 10 feet of you? Yes, on my feet, too. What was pink, Jesse, huh?

4. When is the last time you went to the Mall? I detest the Mall. I go there to go to Sears when I need Vacuum Bags and we have needed them for two months now, again? So umm, who knows?

5. Are you wearing socks right now? Yes, see number three.

6. When was the last time you went out of town? Too long ago.. it was last Spring to Virginia. I did pack and leave my house to pick up my children a month ago, but I had to come back home and have someone else do it for me. I’m ready.. can I come see you for Christmas? LOL

7. Have you been to the movies in the last 5 days? No, and I don’t think I’ve “been” to the movies in years now.. I watched The Devil Wears Prada last night in my family room, though and The Lake House is in the DVD Player waiting for me to finish watching it a third round interrupted.
8. What was the last thing you had to drink? Tea
9. What are you wearing now? I never thought of this being like spin the bottle and I should have checked all my clothing before starting! LOL I’m wearing my favorite over worn, fading from the damn washer, bedtime tank with the buttons that are real but don’t open, (HA Alex!), men’s too big for me now, thankfully, pajama bottoms, pink socks, and ummm Black panties (had to check haha) .

10. Have you been to a car wash? Yes, who hasn't? Ditto!

11. Last food you ate? Carolina BBQ on Capt Johns Rolls!

12. Where were you last week on Saturday? Asleep, finally!

13. Have you bought any clothing in the last week? No

14 . When was the last time you ran? For exercise, never. Wish I had a clever come back to this.. but I’m fresh out.. I know it hurt, though.

15. What was the last sporting event you watched? An Atlanta Braves Baseball Game! What else? I keep thinking it was Petco stadium in San Diego, though? Would they play there? I’m so confused, cuz I know I wouldn’t just watch the padres! Shhh, I know its my hometown. But really I don’t get the whole, pet area and take your pet to the park crap. Yeah it’s the crap I don’t get. I imagine those pink phoo phoo legally blonde 2 baggies at stations like in the petting zoo! Gross.

16. What is your favorite class? Gotta go with pink, here. 1st class all the way. Okay, before I erase Jesse’s answer before I started writing in blue here, what the hell does that mean Jesse? My favorite class? Am I supposed to be a student? I am a lifetime student.. but I like them all.. I can tell you my least favorite in high school was English Lit and when my school went business prep and had a sub. Class for that, I flew out of that class just in the nick of hell time!

17. Your Dream Vacation? Just one? My first thought is “If I lay here. If I just lay here.. Would you lie with me and just forget the world?” Then I’d have to say some beach, sunsets, tropical punch, hard bodies to watch, great accents.. Then I think of what Kurt, from High School told me the last time I talked to him.. so its Bermuda!

18. The ages of your parents? Dad is 1945 and Mom is 1951, you do the math!

19. Last 3 peoples houses you were in? I suppose this means besides the one I am in now.. Umm.. wow… not saying, won’t admit to, and Gabe, my brother, last January?

20. Who would you like to be with? LOL Jesse said “clean” as a description.. wonder who he meets? LOL Okay, ummm.. again I say “If I lay here.. If I just lay here.. Would you lie with me and just forget the world?” I want to be with an honest, faithful, trusting man who adores me! So umm I won’t be a bitch and say no one exists like that.. cuz I know one right now! And he is Azema!

21. Do you miss anyone? Yes.
22. Last play you saw? I can't remember.

23. What are your plans for today? Sleep!

24 . Who was the last person who commented on your page? (Jesse said me, I’m so proud!) Umm, Markus!

25. Ever go camping? Yes, last Spring was a camping trip! 30 days with no electricity or running water. I have an elevated wonderful air bed that I wish I was on right now, a battery twice the size of my van, and all the accessories rigged for it. Had the charger but never needed it. I love a tent in the rain! I just hate mud while without a washing machine!

26. Were you an honor roll student? We did not have this at my school. I was teased for having super grades. It never got in the way of the guys.. I still attracted flies. My eldest daughter was just inducted to the Honor Society.. plug plug.. LOL

27. What do you want to know about the future? Will I ever be a published author? Me too, Jesse!

28. Are you wearing any perfume or cologne? No, allergies.. ouch! Think about this the next time you go to a meeting where you will be closed in a small space with other people you do not know. Thanks, I appreciate it.

29. Where is your best friend located? Egypt

30. Do you have a tan? No

31. How old do you want to be when you have kids? Do you mean more kids? I don't know, old enough? Ditto Jesse’s answer here. I was 20, 22, 24 when my teens were born!

32. Do you collect anything? Books, Family History, Marcus Giles baseball cards, Bargains to eBay in this lifetime, and sterling silver charms and jewelry, beads?! Now I obsessively scribble. So I collect spiral bound notebooks, journals, and phoo phoo paper even to write grocery lists. I absolutely adore decorative post-it notes! I look for anything PINK, too! I guess this means I have to admit that I collect pens to go with those journals and I'm a bag Ho. I like organized mess. I love canvas bags. I love things with names on them. My name, your name? The names of my children? The name's of my unborn children?? LOL I'm also a fabric junkie. I collect quilt squares, love swaps, and remnants, buttons, etc!

33. Last time you got stopped or pulled over by a cop? 1994, wrongly. Went to court (always go to court a former highway patrolman told me, if your issuing officer can’t make it, you get to go home and are excused from it, odds are in your favor). Mine showed. Brought his kid. I’m so proud. I had all three of mine, as my witnesses had gone out to sea that morning, too. My youngest was 4 months old. I was a good mom and brought presents to occupy them, but they were both pulling at my skirts in a tiff when I was talking to the judge.. ugh! I apologized and explained why they were there. I had good documentation but did not end up needing it and I’m glad I get to share this cuz everyone needs to know this.. I didn’t know, but in California, the cop has to justify why he was where he was to pull you over. He told the court that he was called by the school he was standing near when he got me for going 38 in a 40 but tried to get me for school zone of 25mph! I also didn’t know that I had a right to question him in my own defense. I asked one question. “Sir, if you could please tell us which school called you out that day?” He replied, “I don’t remember exactly the name, this was a couple months ago, it was the elementary school behind where I was parked”. I just quietly said, “thank you”. Then, my famous words in my only courtroom drama worth repeating.. “Your honor, I’d like to present you with documentation that the elementary school that called this officer out that day was closed that day and the day before.” He tried to change his story, but the judge said his time was over. I took my babies home. Never let them win, when they are wrong. That cop pulled car after car over that afternoon. In California, the law says “when children are present”. It was almost 5pm, he pulled me in after he let one go and pulled another in after me! How many of those people didn’t know he was wrong and just paid it and then got jacked to renew or get cancelled by their insurance companies??? I hope his child learned something that day too.
34. Have you ever drank soda from a straw? Yes, from a glass with ice. Never in a can or bottle anymore.

35. How do you like your drinks? On the rocks!!
36. Do you like hot sauce? Yes, but I’m afraid of it now. So I’m a mild wimpy saucer, now. I'm the type that loves you to get nachos at a movie so I can dip jalapeno's in the nacho cheese sauce. I'll empty the jalapeno container and use them as the chips!! YUM

37. Last time you took a shower? Okay, I’m cracking a gut thinking of Jesse’s “clean” comment again! I’m not telling! I am clean all the time!

38. Who do you have a crush on? Ain't gonna' tell. Me neither.

39. What is your mood? Fun and wildly tired.

40. Are you someones best friend? Yes

41. Are you rich? I loved Jesse’s answer as its all I can really offer, too. I have three wonderful children, a great honest heritage that built my integrity 150+ years ago, and I still know my name! To me, that’s very rich! Rich isn’t ever measured in dollars in my book!

Friday, December 15, 2006

50 Things about Me ~ Full of Me Friday?? LOL

50 Things About Me!

If you opened this, FILL IT OUT! Learn 50 things about your friends, and let them learn 50 things about you! I opened this in Jesse's blog and well, as much as I avoided this when I found it in other blogs, by the skin of my teeth, I was caught.. so here it is.. I referred to full of me because I can't give one answer to a lot of them.. so I'm quite full of myself in this blog!

1. Height? 5' 4"



2. Have you ever smoked heroin? No



3. Do you own a gun? No, couldn’t move the body! My grandpa always said “if they fall out of the house, drag their asses back inside!” Did Grandpa say ass? LOL



5. Do you get nervous before "meeting the parents?" Only if I’m with my children. Children will find a way to embarrass you. I promise you this. This is extremely bad when meeting the parents is a meal, too. I’m rather likable; too, til mom finds out how old I am and that I have three children!



6. What do you think of hot dogs? Two words: Hebrew National ~ Kosher! No crap! All Beef. Capt Johns Rolls a super plus.. toasted, too!



7. What's your favorite Christmas song? Hmmm, must we go here? There is this great CD of RM’s that sing a rendition of Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer, and one guy brings his young daughter, who sounds about four years old, and these are her responses: (used to laugh and call him names) “Like Loser”, (reindeer games)“Like Chutes and Ladders, Duck, Duck Goose, and Parcheesi!!”, (Santa came to say)“My Precious!”,(you’ll go down in history) “Like a light bulb” that my kids love so much and I love hearing them sing it over and over and it never gets boring! Especially their “MY Precious!”




8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? Tea or Juice



9. Can you do push ups? No



10. Is your bathroom clean? Yes!



11. What's your favorite piece of jewelry? *remind self to ask Jesse about focus stone.. * I love all my jewelry. I don’t own a lot, but what I have is dear to me. I have a paper ring made for me by a high school boyfriend. It resembles the school class ring I could never afford to have. I still have it! I only don’t have my first set of wedding rings because they were stolen! I’ve already blogged my claddaugh ring. I have this great silver ring that fell off my finger two weeks ago (lost ten more pounds).. it looks like someone stretched the sterling and dropped it and it shape is <3 like I have used online.. Sideways heart.. its so kewl. I have a sterling scroll pattern thumb ring that is the only piece of jewelry on my hands at the moment. I never thought myself to ever wear a ring on my thumb. That is so “my mom”. Anyway, I bought this ring on my way to the doctor’s one afternoon, on the fly, on sale at some clothing store, and it was too big. The receptionist said “put it on your thumb!” I told her I just couldn’t do that. I went back to exchange it for a smaller size and found my thumb ring!!!! I just love it. Thanks Leanna. Okay so then I have this pair of jade and sterling ear rings I Found at Target while on that camping trip, last Spring, that I needed for St. Patricks Day. I found this gorgeous matching butterfly/silver pendant on QVC! I’m almost done.. I have this magnetic necklace that I think really does help my neck pain sometimes, and I have these awesome self-made and gift given hand beaded anklets and bracelets.. I’ll blog them sometimes in the future. Hell, this is full of me Friday now! (this is a whole blog in itself if I don't shut up here!)



12. Do you like painkillers? Weed is an analgesic? I didn’t know that! Never been High. Live on pain killers.. the legal kind!



14. Do you have A.D.D? No



16. Middle Name? Janeen



17. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment? I'm so tired, I wanna talk to Jesse later tonight when he gets back to work about his story, and umm.. well.. Where is Amr?




18. Name the last 3 things you have bought: (What are Magnums?) DVD Rentals at Blockbuster, Taco Bell, and Carolina BBQ from Bessingers (see 360 for details)



19. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink: Tea, Juice Blends, IBC



20. Current worry? Making a memorable Christmas for my Children with no way yet.



23. Current hate? Drama and Spam! I'm also very discontent that my eldest daughter isn't speaking to me, did not wish to come down for Thanksgiving, told me so, I told her I loved her and not to wait too long to regret this, she said "Ok, I love you too". Then today I find she's disconnected me from her Myspace! I think its because I tried to tell her about some boy connected to her that I was worried about and she then informed me she had recently gone out with him. His Myspace worried me. Her father was upset when he thought she had a photo of herself on it, as he misunderstood how I snagged those photos sent/uploaded by her friend.. but she does have a new photo up and mom is out.. so dad needs to know now. I don't want to be the bad guy but I'll do it for my children.



24. Favorite place to be? Duh! Asleep at normal times!



25. Least favorite place to be? A wake/funeral viewing



26. Where would you like to go? Egypt



27. Do you own slippers? No, I wear "house socks" that are thick like slippers!



28. What shirt are you wearing? My favorite tank I sleep in, with the buttons that don't open!




29. Do you burn or tan? Well, I burn. I also live on a “avoid prolonged periods of sunlight” medication and I forget.



30. Favorite color(s)? Okay this is like my jewelry.

PINK! Pink! Light Pink! I heart Pink! Like my Blog Pink! Pink Hearts.. Pink Ribbons, Pink Bows, Pink Ribbon Roses.. PINK!

If I’m wearing it outside: Red or Beige. I love to wear white when I’m at home, on high thread count white sheets too.. I’m only spoiled with Down and expensive bedding.. its all about sleep I don’t get, right?



31. Would you be a pirate? No



33. What songs do you sing in the shower? Can’t think now that I’m singing “sing a song”. I love to sing. Its one of my favorite things to do. Lately I’d have to say its ta da again “If I lay here… If I just lay here.. Would you lie with me and just forget the world?” I just rented season one of Grey’s Anatomy and 1 and 2 of 5 of Season 2! I’d really like to see/beg/borrow anyone’s seasons of Gilmore Girls!!!! I’d like to start at the beginning and watch them all with my daughter.. but ouch at that sticker shock! I can’t find any downloads.. I even bought a subscription to find them.. no luck. Need to figure out that too.. where is that site?

34. What did you fear was going to get you at night as a child? Everything. If I wasn’t safe at Grandma’s house, my life was very unpredictable and it scared me to go to sleep and not know what might happen before dawn. I had moved in the middle of the night after trading “new friends” received as gifts with a friend, for the night, when i was eight.. Mine was a bear, her’s was a monkey. I still have that Monkey. I will always feel bad for never returning it. Wonder if my brother remembers its name? I can’t remember.



35. What's in your pockets right now? Air?



36. What was the last thing to make u laugh? These quizzes, tags!



38. Worst injury you've ever had? Yes, I agree.. my broken heart is the worst. AS for physical injuries.. well, I turned my foot over the last Saturday of my junior year, in the opening softball game! My whole Senior summer was spent elevated and crutched. It sucked. I took my finals with a wheelchair I thought Kurt would kill me in, even broke the splint on my leg. We had our first date that night too. I got him a pass from classes to come get me and take me to my next class fr finals. He ended up having a gf then.. but he called to have me take him to pick out his classes by the end of summer and he didn’t have that gf for a couple months by then.. it was bittersweet for a few months.. when I could walk again. I’ll blog our first date sometime soon.

I reinjured this same foot in the same place, about 1998, I think. I stepped off of a patio onto a stepping stone. I had done this a thousand and two times before. I planted that stepping stone! My left foot wobbled and twisted out from under me, the right foot did the same and there I was laying over a bush, in the grass, feeling like I'd been axed at both knees. I could feel nothing below my knees.

I was dropping off the children with their father to meet a friend for a movie as my boyfriend was working late that night. The children made a towel road for me to crawl back into the apartment when I could finally move. I could not support my left foot in the air at all to crawl. I knew something major had happened.. I'll blog this as its that big of a story.. needless to say, I had no medical insurance and my boyfriend was working for an ortho surgeon that night (on his home theatre) and he asked him what the cheapest route to go would be and the guy gave him his pager number. A week later, I couldn't get up the steps into this man's home, so he checked me out in his front yard, on those steps. He ordered x-rays at "doc in the box" (his words) and read them in his front yard. Left foot torn ligaments with bone chips/fragments.. broken foot! Right ankle sprained. Now who the hell walks and hurts both feet? You need at least one good one. I turned 30 in a wheelchair and cried through dinner because I was in so much pain. Should have had him write me a script.. learning lesson eight thousand and five?




40. How many TVs do you have in your house? Four? Matthew had to leave his in Virginia for now.. We have that many cell phones too, and no land line! Someone is always reachable.. in the house, out back, or plain not here!



41. Who is your loudest friend? Well Jesse says he’s his loudest so he must be mine, too, but I have not heard him.. hint hint.. I have free long distance dammit.



42. Who is your most silent friend? Ahmed Asker

43. Does someone have a crush on you? Yes



44. Do you wish on shooting stars? Yes, all the time.



45. What is your favorite book? Well.. Orel Hershiser’s Between the Lines and Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in heaven! I have several "started" right now, so this may get added too soon.



46. What is your favorite candy? I firmly have this "adult candy bar vs child candy bar" law in my home. Adult candy includes: Lindt Lindor Truffles, Almond Roca (appropriately in a pink bag! but not as good as my homemade toffee), Ghirardelli Chocolate Squares with Caramel, etc. Everyone knows not to eat MY Candy, which is referred above as "adult". Its really just an unspoken rule! Adult chocolate is a perfect piece of sin!

Everyday candy includes: Payday, Spree or Jolly Ranchers when I’m reading. Even Starburst came out with a California flavor pack a few years ago that was so perfect. See that Cali girl in me will never die!!

Skor is preferred over Heath, if Ben & Jerry could get the memo! Red Vines !! In the West you find Red Vines in the movie theatres, in the South and east, where I am now, its icky other licorice! I love the mixed bag of mini's for a tiny chocolate treat. My favorite lately has been snickers.

I also adore salt water taffey that has no salt water in it whatsoever and never has! Anyone remember taffey pulls when you were growing up?

But I like the cookie candy bars.. Twix and Kit Kat and I misss terribly PB MAXX from the 80's, anyone remember that fantastic candy bar? Or Marathon? The braided caramel dipped in chocolate? Or Flicks? They were like large sized choclate drops that we bought at the drive-in movie in a tube shaped box! What about Abba Zabba? Was that a West Coast thing? It was peanut butter filled white taffey! Anyone remember these?

My grandmother used to love this one particular candy bar called U-NO. It was silken type chocolate dipped in chocolate. I thought it had disappeared but I found it near the Grand Canyon, in January 2000, and I bought a few bars to eat and one to put in Grandma's shadow box!




47. What song do you want played at your wedding? Jesse’s getting married again and so am I. I have no idea what song though.. depends on who I marry. Depends on if we dance and if we have a first dance.. ya know?



48. What song do you want played at your funeral? “In My Life” by the Beatles, but I’m very fond of Chantal Kreviazuk’s rendition from the Theme Song to the television show I miss, Providence.



49. What were you doing 12 AM last night? Walking in Blogland and chatting.



50. What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up? “Another day gone..”

OHHH all these changes and new features.. yippie joy yahoo can really blow some more crap at us to check out and never get out of beta?? I'm not sure I want to tag anything. Do you? I want to be able to mark individual blogs adult content.. like the one that necessitated them all go automaticaly. What's the use of any of "check this boxes" if they don't work?3