my scramblings & ramblings
Just to warn you, I was a big loser in high school. Like, major. I never went to parties, never went out, never had a real boyfriend, just the bag boys I used to make out with in the breakroom. And one dairy guy. Although, once my mother started working more during my senior year, I started sneaking my friends over to hang out after school. ANYWAY, click the cut and learn how big of a nerd/loser/whatever I really was.
Lifted from misstsapinay:
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Q. What is your salad dressing of choice?
A. Catalina.
Q. What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
A: McDonald’s.
Q. What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?
A: Morrone’s Italian Villa.
Q. On average, what size tip do you leave at a restaurant?
A. 15–20%.
Q. What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick from?
A. Spaghetti.
Q. What are your pizza toppings of choice?
A. I like pepperoni the best, but I also enjoy meat-loaded pizzas. I enjoy Pizza Slut’s Meat-Lover’s pizza.
Q. What do you like to put on your toast?
A. Jam or strawberry preserves. Butter or margarine if I remember, but I usually don’t.
Q. What is your favorite type of gum?
A. Orbit.
Q. Number of contacts in your cell phone?
A. 125, I think. Not that I even talk to most of those people anymore. I should delete them.
Q. Number of contacts in your email address book?
A: No idea.
Q. What is your wallpaper on your computer?
A. On my work computer, there a photo I took of crab apple blossoms. On my desktop, a fractal, and also a fractal on my laptop.
Q. How many televisions are in your house?
A. Three, believe it or not. One is a 13 inch I’ve had since high school (and is stuffed into a closet), one is a Sponge Bob TV my mom got Aidan for Christmas, and there’s the 25 inch that I use all the time.
BIOLOGY
Q. Are you right-handed or left-handed?
A. Right-handed.
Q. Do you like your smile?
A. I do! 🙂
Q. What’s your best feature?
A. My butt, my eyes, my smile.
Q. Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
A. Teeth.
Q. Which of your five senses do you think is neatest?
A: Touch.
Q. When was the last time you had a cavity?
A. Seven years ago. Coincidentally, that was the last time I went to the dentist. I really should get on that.
Q. What is the heaviest item you lifted last?
A. Aidan.
Q. Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
A. Not that I know of.
BULL[CRAP]OLOGY
Q. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
A. I don’t think so. Maybe. I don’t know.
Q. Is love for real?
A. Yes.
Q. If you could change your first name, what would you change it to?
A. I don’t think I’d change it.
Q. What color do you think looks best on you?
A. Pink.
Q. Have you ever swallowed a non-food item by mistake?
A. Yes.
Q. Have you ever saved someone’s life?
A: I doubt it.
Q. Has someone ever saved yours?
A. Yes.
DAREOLOGY
Q. Would you walk naked for a half mile down a public street for $100,000?
A. Yes.
Q. Would you kiss a member of the same sex for $100?
A. Yes.
Q. Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000?
A. Probably not. I use that finger to type.
Q. Would you never blog again for $50,000?
A. No.
Q. Would you pose naked in a magazine for $250,000?
A. Yes.
Q. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000?
A. No.
Q. Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for $1,000,000?
A. No.
Q. Would you give up watching television for a year for $25,000?
A. Absolutely, I would.
DUMBOLOGY
Q: What is in your left pocket?
A: Nothing.
Q: Is Napoleon Dynamite actually a good movie?
A: I liked it okay.
Q: Do you have hardwood or carpet in your house?
A: Carpet.
Q: Do you sit or stand in the shower?
A: Stand.
Q: Could you live with roommates?
A: Depends on who they are.
Q: How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
A: About five or six.
Q: Last time you had a run-in with the cops?
A: October 2005.
Q: What do you want to be when you grow up?
A: A best-selling author.
LASTOLOGY
Q: Friend you talked to?
A: Star.
Q: Last person you called?
A. Can’t remember.
Q: Person you hugged?
A: Aidan. 🙂
FAVORITOLOGY
Q: Number?
A: 19.
Q: Color?
A: Pink.
Q: Season?
A: Spring.
CURRENTOLOGY
Q: Missing someone?
A: Always.
Q: Mood?
A: “moofy”
Q: Listening to?
A: Celine Dion.
Q: Watching?
A: Nothing.
Q: Worrying about?
A: Money.
RANDOMOLOGY
Q: What can you not wait to do?
A: Start saving money. Sell a book. Move to Chicago. Party in a limo in San Francisco with Rosa on Friday. Take Adam to the Ohio State Fair. Make more money.
Q: What’s the last movie you saw?
A: I watched Charlie’s Angels last night.
Q: Do you smile often?
A: I don’t know! Do I?
Q: Are you a friendly person?
A: Yes.
Q: Now that the surveys done what are you going to do?
A: Go to a meeting.
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Aidan went straight to bed in his own room tonight! 🙂 He got out of the bath, put on corduroy bibs (don’t ask) and a tee-shirt and a Pull-Up, told me he didn’t want lotion on (which is okay because I’d put some of my Dead Sea Salt scrub on him in the tub), and seemed eager to get into his room. I picked him up and kissed him, turned off the living room light, and he rubbed his eyes. I took him into his room, and asked him if he wanted me to read him Goodnight Moon.
Let me tell you how ADORABLE he is when reading Goodnight Moon! He reads with me, and he knows what comes on what pages, so he’ll say the lines before I get a chance to read them. It’s so cute!
After Goodnight Moon, he was ready for the big light to be turned off and the night light to be turned on. He asked me to tuck him in, and I did, with his myriad of security blankets. I found a small teddy bear for him (he requested a little bear), kissed him goodnight a bunch of times, and wow, it was awesome.
Last night, he’d played and jumped on the bed and really procrastinated. And the agreement is that he can stay up as long as he wants, doing whatever, as long as he stays in his room and stays in his bed. Among the things he did:
1. put stickers into a composition notebook I gave him
2. undressed one of my Vanessa dolls
3. pulled out several picture books (and I assume that he looked at them)
4. played with the bulldozer Ivy gave him
5. kept crying that he was “scared.” i sprayed his room with “monster spray” which seemed to do the trick of eliminating his fear
Tonight, he was pretty much ready for bed, and an hour earlier than he’d been ready last night. I think he is finally realizing the value of having his own room and his own bed. As for me, it’s kind of weird not having his little hand on my cheek. But I have a feeling he MIGHT be in here at 7am, and I’ll get his hand then.
My little boy really is growing up!! 🙂
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WOW I was lazy today. I mean, shamefully lazy. Oh well.
I got Aidan to sleep in his own room last night! I was so excited. This is such a milestone. I knew I’d won when he started going “Mommy, why are you in my room!” And then, he asked me to lie with him “way with me, mommy”, and I said for five minutes only. He counted to five. I got the hint. It was cool. Now, he was up at 6:30, saying “MOMMY IT’S MORNING!” But he climbed into bed with me and fell asleep again almost right away. Unfortunately, I was up, so I lay there, trying to go back to sleep.
I fight sleep like crazy when I am not supposed to be sleeping, like, during work for instance. But as far as trying to sleep during allotted sleep times (such as night), I have the hardest time. I’m just uncomfortable and my mind races and my heart pounds. It’s annoying.
I took lots of mini naps today during the marathon of movies that Aidan watched: The Little Mermaid (1.5 times), Lady and the Tramp (1.5 times) and Powerpuff Girls (he’s on his 2nd run-through right now). Mojo Jo Jo is a bitch.
I also wrote and read in between naps. I managed to clean Aidan’s room and my room a bit, too. I have a LOT of clothes. The frustrating part is that I can’t fit 65% of them anymore, so I’ll be donating a lot. I guess I have to start downsizing like crazy ANYWAY because the thought of moving all this stuff two states over is really overwhelming, but not as overwhelming as trying to think of a place to put it all once I DO move.
The place is a mess now, and there’s no way I’m going to be able to make it very neat—there’s no where near enough room for all the stuff I have, and there’s still stuff at Bauer Street I need to bring (God, a whole room of stuff, HELP). I think I’m going to do what my mom did and get those vaccuum bags that you can suck all the air out and smash stuff, like all my stuffed animals and out-of-season clothes. I have more stuff to donate, too. I’ve GOT to declutter. GOT to.
Last night, I made enough chicken parmesan (it’s YUMMY) to last me until Monday. And celinedion ROCKS like whoa because she hooked me up with some Celine music I’d been missing, and packed them into these neat, pretty CD sleeves, and included an awesome postcard. I ♥ Erin. Muchas.
I have a busy travel week next week. Wednesday evening, I’m going to Indianapolis for a copy editor convention on Thursday. Then I come back Thursday night, pack like crazy, and then leave early, early Friday morning for California for meimeigui‘s wedding!!!! YAY travel. Yay photo ops. YAY for hanging out with awesome people!
Whoa because May has sped by.
Happy Birthday to birdcalling!!!!!!!
…and I guess that’s all for now.
*Yawn*
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Ronni: You’re the best little boy in the world.
Aidan: You’re the best little girl in the world.
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