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I was tagged by a couple of people, to list 10 random facts about me, and since I have done this several times, I don't know how random I can get. So I will post random bits about myself today. ;-)
10 random things about me today
1. My deaf cat has us trained, he comes to find us, meows loudly at us, and walks to the couch where he would like us to lift him. He has been severely abused and cannot jump or anything on his own. But he knows how to get what he wants from us. He just did this with me. I got up from the computer chair, picked up his 12lb frame and placed him on the soft couch where he will sleep for the next 5 hours.
2. I am on my second cup of coffee, which has become a little cold, but I will drink it that way rather than getting up to re heat it. I will get up for Mr. Bones, but when it comes to coffee, I will drink it luke warm and cold.
3. My bras are all in the laundry, so I am wearing a bright blue work out bra. It is startlingly blue.
4. My outfit right now is such a winner, My poor husband, I am SO not attractive right now. Haha! Blue work out bra, red and white speckled tank top (the bra sticks out above the top, clashes in color) and navy blue and green striped PJ pants, my tennis shoes.
6. I have a band aid on my left pointer finger, Luna was purring and loving the love, then in a split second decision, she decided she was done. I really need to clip her claws.
7. I am planning on doing much laundry today, and putting it away even! Haha! I clean the laundry, then lay it in baskets and couches. I hate putting that stuff away.
8. I have lost a teeny bit of weight! YAY! Sure the scale remains the same, but my measurements have been shrinking. I have pretty much stopped eating white pasta, I have fully assimilated myself into whole wheat pasta. I started with the whole wheat spaghetti, now I am up to the spirals. I know how much better they are for me. I started today, no vox until I work out! I hope to see you all every day! Haha!
9. Mr. Lavender has been singing a Flight of the Conchords song to me ever since I "modeled" for the photography group. I will post it below. I laugh because he is funny, but If my hormones were in just the right spot, it could have been SO dangerous for him.
10. I have bunches of photos to go through and upload to flickr from Mr. Lavenders Grandparents house. I knew I should have used a tripod and bumped up my ISO because it was really dark. But did I listen to my inner voice? No. So bunches of fabulous gorgeous delicate things got sent to my garbage bin. I got a little disappointed.
Here is the song that husband has been singing to me, the most beautiful girl
Funny!
Then I sing him lines from Business Time, not directly after he sings the song to me of course.
And As you know I don't really tag anyone, but Sherry! This is the perfect way to start a Blog!
You my Friend, Are Tagged!
Now you need to start a blog with 10 random things about you. ;-)
I was tagged again by Karen, I have done this a few times now, I am not sure how many random things I can think of today. So I will write random things about my morning.
1. Woke up to the smell of Lilacs in my house, I have 4 large bunches perfuming my living quarters. It is nice!
2. I have been having lots of sneezing fits, I wonder if it is connected to #1
3. I have not brushed my hair yet, I just pulled it back into a messy bun and threw on a headband.
4. I have gone to the park this morning and watched the baby ducks again. Husband runs in the trails, I watch the ducks. Such a peaceful morning except for...
5. When getting out of the car with my camera around my neck, somehow it fell onto my hip. I have the tripod attachment on the bottom of it, so it has a nice sharp corner now. I screamed "FUCK" very loudly, sorry kids at the baseball diamond. I could not tell my husband what happened, I just needed the pain to cease before explaining it. He thought I somehow slammed my belly in the car door. That hurt too, my belly is not that big! But I am That clumsy. Haha! I lifted my shirt to show him and there was a large purple red blood blister forming. It is still very sensitive. It stings right now.
6. My favorite roses are blooming at the park, they smell SO amazing!
7. It is already in the 70's and it is only 11 am. We are heading over to the farmers market to pick up some tomato and basil plants. Maybe some strawberry too. Starting a little garden.
8. I am wearing a hot pink t-shirt from Threadless.com with a cookie and a carton of milk holding hands, the cookie says "I LOVE YOU" to the milk. Adorable. Some pink, green and white plaid bermuda shorts, and green converse with pink eyelets. I am bright. Haha!
I know I am supposed to tag others, but I am lazy, so tag yourselves people! Haha!
I was tagged a few times with this one, this one you sum your life up in 6 words and add an illustration. Hmmm
I am supposed to tag several people, but lots of you have been tagged already, and some do not like to be tagged. So I will leave it up to you, If this looks like Fun, Do It!
Okay so this is a music challenge, Better summed up by the Lovely Emily Sears. She posted the rules.
I am supposed to post 8 songs that make me remember when..... just songs that bring me back to a certain memory. Make me remember the time.
So I think I will start with:
1. QUEEN- Another one bites the dust 1980
I was in first grade, my Dad was pulling away from the family religion and started having friends outside of our faith. The music he listened to was frowned upon, he was not comfortable in the box that was created around him. A few years later I found myself fighting with this same box. I remember listening to this record with giant headphones on. My dad would have me sing it to his friends, they laughed and thought I was cute. It made me so happy to spend time with my father. This is the song that was playing on the radio of his el camino when he was packing his stuff to leave my mother. I asked my mother what was happening, she was crying on the corner of the bed. She told me that my dad was leaving and I would not have a daddy anymore. When I started crying she told me to run out there and tell my daddy that. I ran, tears streaming down my face telling my daddy that I did not want him to leave, I did not want my daddy to go away, he started crying and unpacked. My mother was satisfied, my father stayed with her another year and a half.
2. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers- Don't come around here no more 1985
My first year in Middle School. We went to dad's house every other weekend. I was addicted to Mtv and this video was in heavy rotation. I loved every gloomy creepy second of it. It spoke to a hidden part of me, a part that my religion told me was bad, a part of me that I would never show my mother, a part of me that wanted to run away like my father did. I was getting picked on a lot by the neighbor kids at school, and at home they Toilet papered my house every friday night. I was tired of being who my mother said I was, her care taker, I wanted to eat a mushroom and find myself somewhere else, another world where I would not have to feel guilty for leaving my mother and sister.
3. Pet Shop Boys- West End Girls 1986
I changed schools due to bullies. I walked about a half mile to the next bus stop that brought me to another school district. I found a group of people who were like me, strange, artistic, wore all black, and had different colors of hair. I found myself with the Wavers. (for those of you who are too young to remember, this was the industry nickname for people who listened to New Wave music, later to be named alternative, then Emo. They are all just names for people who need to categorize everything, keep everything in it's own little box. But in actuality, these are all just the evolution of rock music) I was a teenager now, I was not rebellious. I was very quiet with my mother, hiding much more of me. I am still working on bringing me out. My father would make me mixed tapes with great music on them. He introduced me to New Order, Joy division, depeche mode, pet shop boys, the cure, the smiths, inxs, etc. He would make me mixes of these bands and more. My mother thought this music was demonistic so she would tear up the tapes. I took the binding off of an old bible of mine and hid several tapes in there. Funny Right? This is when I was at a boiling point. I needed out from under her, she was smothering me.
4. Technotronics- Pump up the jam 1990
I have given up on trying to be "cool" a long time ago. My Dad is a Mobile Disc jockey, he would test his stereo equipment, speakers much bigger than I was, and this one would be one that he would test the base with. I moved in with Dad this year. With his young wife who was only 6 years older than me and my baby sister and new baby brother. I became the live in baby sitter / second mother to these two. I can remember not being able to feel myself breath when I was in the pool room (not the swimming kind) when dad would have the music going. He still made me mixed tapes. I felt safer to be who I was, but only a little. My step-mom tried to kill herself this year and I was "mom" for a few weeks while she was away in the hospital. It was a very confusing time for me, I was supposed to still be a part of the religion I was raised in, but did not believe in it at all. I just went to make my family happy. After my grandfather died in 91 I quit going. It was the best decision I made for myself. I started to put myself in order. I still am. I was having problems balance what my mother told me was the "worldly " bad lifestyle and the way my step-mother lived. Exactly what my mother had warned me. I thought all people who were not of my religion were all having sex and doing drugs with everyone they met. My step-mother was. ;-) So I was afraid too date any boys because I thought I would have to have sex with them. I was a little messed up.
On another note, I am still able to do the "running man" dance, the right way too. I was a good dancer back then. Haha!
5. The Cure- Friday I am in Love 1992 or Matthew Sweet - I have been waiting (or any Matthew sweet song from Girlfriend)
They both remind me of Art class. This is where I met my long time best friend Heart Shaped Sky. We sat near each other and we would have a battle over the radio station. The other classmates wanted the country station (Garth Brooks was a HIT) We would bring in our tapes sometimes. She is an amazing artist and influenced my whole life. She brought so much of me out to play. I guess I should add Tori Amos- Happy Phantom this album was on constant rotation in her little red zoomie car. We would drive to the park at night and dance in the grass under the stars. This is where i felt most free, damp grass under my feet and bright stars above and a friend who loved me in between. XO. My family was never about love, it was more about need. So she would tell me about love in such a different way than I have ever heard of. I started believing in real true love. I started to believe that I could find a romantic man who would love me and who I would love as well. I learned I did not have to settle for whoever will have me, which seemed to be the pattern of my family. Take whoever will take you.
6. James- Laid- 1994
I met Aaron in 1994, well actually in 1993, but we kissed in 1994. We have been kissing ever since. I can't remember the song on this album that we used to listen to a lot, but we were (and still are) very much in love. When I hear any James song this time comes to mind. My life took such an upturn. I have felt more happiness since I have been with my husband than I ever have in my whole life. For the first time I feel security, love, and comfort. I think That is all I am going to say about that here.
7. Depeche Mode- Somebody -1997
and John Lennon - Love
July 19 we got married. I walked down the aisle to my aunt singing "Love" and our first dance as a married couple was to "Somebody" We went to my grandparents house and they taught us how to do the Fox Trot so we could look graceful for our first dance. My grandparents had a dance floor in their house, they used to teach dance on cruise ships. My Grandmother would dance with Aaron and I with Grandpa. We looked nice on our wedding, he only stepped on my dress once, I did more than that. It was a great day.
8. Rilo Kiley - A better son/ daughter 2002
The first few lines of this song are eerily similar to the last conversation I had with my mother. She would call me every few months telling me of whatever disease she was dying of this month, trying to use old guilt trip games to make me spend time with her. The truth is that I had not spent any time with her after she let her husband throw me around one morning. That is when I moved in with Dad. She just stood there naked watching her husband drag me down the hallway, saying nothing. Later she told me she wanted to shield me from an argument between her and step father. She told me that she did not want to fight in front of me and my sister. It was bad for us to hear this. That never stopped her before. Truth is that she was willing to sacrifice her children to have a man. Because that is what is most important to her. I finally told her I was done. I wanted her to leave me alone. She is so manipulative and needy. I have never regretted this decision. I have become so much happier without her weighing me down. She still sends me cards every once in a while begging for me to call her. She still thinks I moved in with dad because he had a TV, not because she was a selfish mother and I could not stand to be with her anymore. My family does not understand why I cut her off, even my dad.
I don't care anymore about what other people need me to be. I am just me now, and if that is not enough, then screw them. Haha! I know this list was meant to be fun and light, but music is what got me through these hard times. I used it as a release. Listening to the posies and REM with tears in my eyes.
If you feel like taking this post on, consider yourself tagged! Yes, that totally means you, even if we don't talk, you are tagged!
I got tagged by Tamzen, I don't know if I can come up with anything new to say. HMM...
Here are the rules:
1. Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.
2. People who are tagged, write a blog post about their own 8 random things, and post these rules.
3. At the end of your post you need to tag 8 people and include their names.
4.
Don’t forget to leave them a comment on their blog and tell them
they’ve been tagged, and to come back and read your blog for the whole
story
Random Things:
1. I just learned to cook, I am 35 years old and never learned how, until about a year or so ago. I have become a housewife and learned by getting a subscription to Martha Stewart's FOOD magazine. The recipes are written in such a way that it basically holds my hand during the whole process. It tells me how thick to cut things, it tells me how long to simmer/saute/cook everything. Example: dice onion and cook on med-high until onion is translucent (about 4 minutes) Now I have branched out to other recipes not from her. Zucchini parmigiana is cooking right now.
2. I have this insane phobia of car accidents. I almost hold my breath until husband gets home in the evening. I do not like traveling far from home. I like home. One time husbands phone was on vibrate and he did not know I called him about 12 times in a 45 minute period, he was SO late coming home, he had an appointment I had forgot about. I was in tears. see Insane phobia. ;-)
3. I was raised a Jehovah's Witness. I had 2 guns pointed at me when I was a child while going door to door, and some guy took his garden hose and soaked us when we were coming up his front walk. I never liked being a JW. We went to the Kingdom Hall (church) 2 hours on Sunday, 1 hour on Thursday nights, and an hour at someone else's home. These gatherings at someone else's home were to be our meeting place should the government decide to outlaw our religion. I still could not quote a scripture if you asked me. I felt guilty about all the "demonic" and "Pagan" things I liked, like Valentines day, art, the Cure, and cursing. (I still curse like a sailor sometimes just because I can)
4. I have been with my husband for over 14 years and married for almost 11 of those years. He is my bestest friend, you know the kind with benefits. Haha! We have so much in common, we were both raised in fringe religious groups, he is one of four children, one boy three girls (me too) My mom and his dad battle with mental illness but neither will admit this so they never get treated for them. We like the same movies, music (for the most part), and both have a huge place in our hearts for our animals. We have 3 cats and a turtle.
5. I barely graduated high school. I had no motivation to do any of the work for class and took many naps. But I can still give you a run for your money at Trivial pursuit. When I was in Junior high they thought I was "special" and kept giving me IQ tests and could not understand how I kept testing well above average. So they called in my parents, my mother did not care to come in, she did not think education was important, my Dad was too busy, so my Step-mother came in. She was 19 years old at the time with electric blue spiked hair. They spoke to her about my weight (SO Skinny, they thought I had an eating disorder) and my grades. They tested me two more times before giving up on me. I think they needed to test themselves, I mean my punk rock teenage step-mother came in and my parents did not. Maybe my home life had a little to do with my bad grades, Nah...
6. My favorite ice cream is peppermint.
7. I still feel like a child sometimes. When I take a walk I can feel the veils of adulthood fall off of me and see the world with youthful eyes. I point my camera at everything. I love the way I see the world now. It is so much more bright than it used to be. When I was working I was a whisper away from having a nervous breakdown. I would sit awake at night, eyes wide open, plotting how I would make it through the next day. I managed to do it, but knew I was about to fall. Thank Goodness for Mr. Lavender, he got a great job that allowed me to quit working completely. Then bought me a nice camera. Between Mr. Lavender and that Camera, they saved my life. Now I can see things all new again.
8. This blog is my world. I do not tell many people about this place. It is kind of my private place. My family does not know. Just you lovely people! Thank You All for all the support and understanding, and friendship. I am glad you are all my friends.
I tag Whoever wants to do this! If you are reading this you are TAGGED!!!
I got Tagged by Stevie so here we go!
Here are the rules
1. Grab your nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Tag 5 different people.
My book: the Columbia dictionary of quotations
1. The thing about Catholicism, the name as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect.
2.This is "what should be."
3. Now if you're taught to live up to a "what should be" that never existed-- only an occult superstition, no proof of this "should be"--then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, Like That!
-Lenny Bruce
I tag: M---I, Lucy, Farfaraway, FG nikon, Waterbaby
Thanks Stacy, now I have to think about some weird things about me..........they are plentiful, which do I share though.
1. I can touch my tongue to the tip of my nose. When I was a kid, this skill helped cut out the middle man.
2. When I play Poker with the guys, I get really girly and play kind of ditsy. Since November I have made almost $600 in winnings.
3. I like to scrapbook
4. I am 34 years old and do not have a drivers license, I do not know how to drive.
5. I am a TV junkie, I watch a lot of television. Crappy television, but when it comes to movies I am a total snob.
6. I have a huge collection of childrens books, vintage valentines, and vintage clothes
7. I do not like parties where people are getting drunk, or loud dancing parties. I enjoy a group of friends playing board games.
8. I am the daughter of a mobile Disc Jockey and a hypochondriac Medical Records Technician.
9. I cannot touch my toes, in fact I can only get mid calf.
10. My main growth spurt was in between my tenth grade and eleventh grade years in school. In that summer I grew 5 inches. It hurt Really bad.
Once you read this you gotta post your own blog with 10 weird, cool or funny facts about yourself. Then tag 10 people to do the same. And don't forget to leave them a comment.
Heartshapedsky, Lorri, Mamma Bear, Jax, DeAnne, Wislander, Nicole Carina, Sarah, Deborah, Bee whisperer
