A Meme thingy

1. Do you like bleu cheese? Good God, no. That blue stuff is MOLD!

2. Have you ever smoked? Yep.

3. Do you own a gun? No. But my Dad did (made the boys a bit nervous).

4. What flavor Kool Aid is your favorite? Grape!

5. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments? No. Except OB/GYN appointments. Yuck.

6. What do you think of hot dogs? I think I would like one right now. Covered in Skyline Chili and smothered with cheese and mustard.

7. Favorite Christmas movie? A Christmas Carol....the one with George C. Scott.

8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? Coke.

9. Can you do push-ups? Do we mean bras or that exercise thing?

10. What’s your favorite piece of jewelry? My wedding ring. Geoff did GOOD.
(one of the many reasons I married him was because he had a "wedding ring" fund, before we even met. He just wanted to be prepared for when he met the love of his life.)

11. Favorite hobby? Toss-up between birding and beading.

12. Do you have A.D.D? What? How can you ask that? I mean.....oh look! A chicken!

13. Do you wear glasses/contacts? No, but I am supposed to.

14. Middle name? Kay

15. Name thoughts at this moment? Isabelle's achievement (see below)

16. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink? Coke, Frappuchinos and milk with Ovaltine

17. Current worry? That the economy is drying up Geoff's assignments.

18. Current hate right now? That House, MD is NOT ON!

19. Favorite place to be? In bed, with 30 minutes until I have to get up

20. How did you bring in the New Year? Curled up on the bed with Geoff and the girls.

21. Where would you like to go? Germany (The Motherland)

22. Name three people who will complete this? I think everyone already did it.

23. Do you own slippers? No....I like barefoot

24 What color shirt are you wearing? Orange RAPTOR sweatshirt...my favorite article of clothing.

25. Do you like sleeping on satin sheets? I have in the past, but flannel is nicer

26. Can you whistle? Yes

27. Favorite Color? Green

28. What songs do you sing in the shower? I don't sing there, but usually the theme song to "Go, Diego, GO!" is running through my mind.

29. Would you be a pirate? Hell yes! But I would be a nice one, kind of a Robin Hood sort of pirate.

30. Favorite Girl’s Name? Isabelle/Lorelei, of course!

31. Favorite boy’s name? Forrest (Geoff's grandfather's name)

32. What’s in your pocket right now? A one-dollar coin

33. Last thing that made you laugh? A certain email chain that involved how everyone is going to pee in the woods in West Virginia. You all know who you are.

34. What vehicle do you drive? Subaru, bay-bee! (Nicknamed "Baroo")

35. Worst injury you’ve ever had? Whiplash during car accident in '93

36. Do you love where you live? Yes, dearly. But I wish we had more land to protect and explore

37. How many TVs do you have in your house? Three.





And referring to Number 15:



Isabelle made the HONOR ROLL.

Laura threw down the gauntlet, By Gawd

1. Over 21? Yes
2. Danced in front of your mirror naked? Does edible underwear count?
3. Ever told a lie? No. (Well, that's a lie)
4. Been arrested? I almost was.
5. Kissed a picture? Yes
6. Fallen asleep at work/school? Yes
7. Held an actual snake? Yes
8. Ever run a red light? Yes...the gals at Cape May can validate that.
9. Ever drink and drive? Yes. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
10. Been suspended from school? Yes
11. Ever been fired from a job? Yeah, but the boss said to call it a "lay-off" so I could get Unemployment. He fired me because he heard that I had graduated from phlebotomy school and knew I was leaving anyway.
12. Totaled a car/motorbike in an accident? No
13. Sang karaoke? No, but I would LOVE to!
14. Done something you told yourself you wouldn’t? Yes
15. Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose? Yes
16. Ever gone “under the knife?” Yes, too many times.
17. Driven cross country? Only when I miss flights out of New Jersey : )
18. Caught a snowflake on your tongue? Yes
19. Kissed in the rain? Yes
20. Sang in the shower? Yes, and I rocked. 21. Sat on a rooftop? Yes
22. Been to a foreign country in which you didn’t speak the language? Scotland's version of English sounds like a foreign language!
23. Thought about your past with regret? Yes
24. Been pushed in the pool with your clothes on? Yes
25. Skinny dipped? Yes (blushing)
26. Shaved your head? Part of it.
27. Blacked out from drinking? No
28. Had a gym membership? Yes
29. Been in a band? School band.
30. Fired a gun? Yes, and it knocked me on my ass.
31. Liked someone with nobody else knowing about it? Yes
32. Played strip poker? Yes.
33. Been to a strip joint? Yes...with my boyfriend. I had the money, he had the need. : )
34. Donated Blood? No
35. Liked someone you shouldn’t? Yes
36. Have a tattoo? Yes.
37. Been to jail? No
38. Have or had any piercings? Yes
39. Made out with a complete stranger? Yes. I was a crazy fool in my youth.
40. Had a one night stand? Yes. Damn, these are getting personal.
41. Caught someone cheating on you? Yes..and threw a table at the cheating bastard.
42. Felt like dying? Yes, during Isabelle's birth
43. Regret any of your ex’s? Yes, all of them.
44. Been to a rodeo? No
45. Been to a NASCAR race? Do I look like an extra from Deliverance????
46. Been in love? Yes...I'm soaking in it right now.
47. Met a celebrity? Yes! Rev. Jesse Jackson, a lot of the Bengal's, Richard Simmons, local TV personalities...
48. Been on TV? Yes
49. Know how to cook? Yes
50. Like motorcycles? Yes
51. Bungee jumped, skydived, based jumped, etc? No
52. Slept outdoors? Yes. But not by choice.
53. Spent the night in a snow cave? Yes. But not by choice.
54. Thought you were going to drown? In the snow cave????
55. Play an instrument? Yes

I've been tagged

I've been tagged by Birdchick. And when Sharon says jump...

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Here are the rules for Eight Random Facts:

• Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
• People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
• At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
• Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

I think I am pretty much random all the time anyway, but I will try to think of 8 things that you don't know yet. And as Sharon said, what can be said that we don't already say?
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1. Famous people I have met: Anthony Munoz (Bengals), the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Richard Simmons, Boomer Esiason (Bengals), and Ronald McDonald. I met all of them at the airport, when I worked in security. I was hoping I would get to "pat down" Anthony Munoz...he is stacked, packed and fine.

2. Right now, I have a French pedicure. But they are press-on nails...I don't feel like going to a salon. Yes, they make press-on toenails.

3. My Life List as of right now is 147.

4. I wish I had more talent. I love to draw and paint and write, but I have more enthusiasm than skill. Why didn't I pay more attention in art class????

5. When I was younger, I dreamed of being a marine biologist. But when I got into high school, I realized that wasn't going to happen, or any other technical field, because I suck at math.

6. I went to the 1994 and 1999 Woodstocks. One of the Nouveau Hippies. Left the bra at home, put my hair entirely in wraps, got muddy, and felt the love.

7. I lost the Big "V" when I was 16. (Hey, I'm coming up with blanks here, people!)

8. I have been coloring my hair since I was 16. Coincidence? I think not.
Men. Nothin' but trouble.

Okay, now to pick the next 8 victims:

Trixie
Nina
Mary
Laura
Pam
Liza Lee
Tom
Jim (I am forcing him to post something!)

And since all of them read my blog anyway, I don't have to leave them a comment alerting them that they are on the hot seat.

8 Weird and/or Random Things

Liza did this meme thing here, and I thought it would be a nice break to do something like this when nothing has happened.

So, eight random things about me? I think just about everything is random...

1. I don't really have a gag reflex.
When I was young, I had frequent tonsillitis and even though it was rarely Strep, I still had to endure countless throat cultures. So I learned to hold it, and for the most part, it went away. In high school, when such things would come up, I got a LOT of ribbing about it, if you can imagine. High school boys are dirty-minded goats sometimes.

2. I met Geoff on the Internet.
It was 1999, and I was coming off two really bad, damaging relationships that were back-to-back horror. One Saturday night, I was actually NOT going out, which was strange. I was on my computer in my lonely, quiet house, and I came across a Personal Ad website, and I thought, What the Hell. Let's write up something and see what happens. I never expected to get anything from it.
Well, I got 300 emails. ( Must have been the hoochy-coochy picture I put on my profile, all large breasts and long, tan legs...I had clothes on, you potty-brains.)
After a while, I started just deleting them, since quite a few were from married men who "just wanted to be friends". No thanks.
But one email caught my eye. It seemed honest and well-written. Geoff.
We went out a week after, and we have been inseparable ever since.

3. I can't run.
I used to be able to, but all the surgical procedures on my right foot have made it numb on one side, and the Achilles' tendon is weak and all I can manage is a slow lop. I think about it sometimes, when the girls and I are walking in the woods, "How would I be able to pick up the girls and run, if I had to?" Scary.

4. Like Liza, my favorite types of books are science fiction and fantasy. Sir Arthur C. Clarke is one of my favorites. The 2001 series blows my mind. Anne Rice is another one on my list of faves. I have read everything she has written, except for the Jesus book, her last so far. It was such a departure from what she usually does, I lost interest.

5. Some women experience changes in the hair on their heads when they have children, but for me, it was my eyelashes. They used to be long and curved. Now I have to layer on the mascara for them to even be noticeable.

6. My all-time favorite painting is "Girl with a Pearl Earring". Even before the book came out, I was fascinated by it. The gleam on the pearl, echoing the shine of her lips and eyes. There is so much more in that painting than meets the eye, and that's one thing that makes an interesting work. The girl is looking out as if she is reaching for something just beyond the frame.

7. I have been in two very serious car accidents in my life.
The first was when I was 5, during the blizzard of '78. My Mom, brother and I were coming up the hill to our house in a four-wheel drive Dodge Charger and Mom lost control and we ended up about 50 feet down a hill, and a tree saved our lives. Steve and I were okay, just some scratches, but Mom had to go to the hospital because the steering wheel ripped out of the dashboard and tore her knee open (she landed in the back seat, on me!).
The second was in 1993, while riding with someone from my phlebotomy class ( I am a certified phlebotomist, and quite the expert, if I do say so myself), to our internship at a local plasma center. She rear-ended a car on the Norwood Lateral going about 40 mph. that car hit the car in front of them, and that car hit the one in front of them, and so on.
I found out in the next few seconds after the crash, my "friend" had no driver's license and no car insurance. She wanted me to get into the driver's seat and take the rap. Bitch. I told her no, of course. All this while I was bent over with the wind knocked out of me and a bruise forming on my chest.
I spent the next month in a neck brace.

8. Right now, my toes are cold. I am wearing Mudd sandals and the basement is chilly.
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Jeez, that was hard.

Consider yourself tagged. Or not.