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Sunday, October 09, 2005
ten secrets
Here's a meme I lifted from Jenn.
TEN NOT-SO DARK SECRETS ABOUT ME
ten not-so-dark secrets
1) You know how when you're driving down the highway and you forget to dim your lights for an oncoming car, the driver of said oncoming car will blink his lights at you to remind you? When that happens, I dim my lights, say "whoops, I'm sorry", and wave. They can neither see nor hear me, and every time I swear I'm not going to do that again, but every time, I do. It's like a reflex.
2) I am really easily amused. For example, I think it's really funny when I lift up the cash door on the ATM before it spits the money out, and the cash shoots across the little mini-counter and into my waiting hand. This is just one small example.
3) We have eaten Burger King food so many times that every time I clean out the kids' toybox (once or twice a year), I throw away a grocery sack full of kids' meal toys. (Rationalization: Burger King is the only quick, cheap food available in our town. If we need to pick up something on the way somewhere, or if for whatever reason I'm not cooking, Burger King is pretty much it. All you whole-foods people can call child-protective services now.)
4) I almost always use a mix to make brownies or gravy. Brownies because it's cheaper that way, and gravy because it makes way better gravy than scratch.
5) I make my bed maybe one day a week. For a while I did it regularly, but I got out of the habit.
6) I'm supposed to be on "computer restriction" right now. If the kids see me riffling the pages of my book as I read, I get a day of computer restriction (it's a deal we struck to make it a little less onerous for them to break some of their own bad habits.). I was caught fair and square earlier today. Yet here I sit. I think they've forgotten.
7) The only romantic dreams I have had in years about anyone other than my husband (don't you HATE when you have those; it feels so -- squicky) have been about Mr. Rochester (from Jane Eyre).
8) I have athlete's foot.
9) When I was fifteen and only had a learner's permit, I took my parents' car to town while they were gone so that my fourteen-year-old friend could buy cigarettes for my seventeen-year-old brother.
10) Since I tend to babble on in here so much about anything and everything, it's hard to come up with anything else that might be considered a "secret" that's not actually too private to share here. :)
Comments
I totally do #1. I also say "Thank you" outloud if someone pulls over to let me by. They cant hear me. I know they cant hear me, but I do it anyway. =)
Gravy (or in our house it is called "special meat sauce") is easier with a mix. If we call it gravy, the kids dont like it. If we call it special meat sauce, then the kids love it! LOLOL
At least you do make your bed once a week. I am SOOOOOOO bad at that
Posted by: debi at October 10, 2005 03:31 PM
You are so good at stuff like this.
Since you don't have haloscan--I'm leaving this in lieu of a trackback.
Posted by: Kristen at October 11, 2005 01:09 PM
Oh we are partners in the easily amused department, aren't we? Easily and RANDOMLY amused. All this time I thought you made brownies FROM SCRATCH! I do too, it is so much easier. LOL "special meat sauce," Debi. Finally, what is the deal with bed making? Is it to air out the linen or something? I never do it unless I am in an especially anal cleaning mood, which is rare.
Posted by: jenn at October 11, 2005 08:45 PM
Making the bed is just such an easy way to clean a large portion of my bedroom. (Probably a third of the square footage of our dinky room is taken up by our double bed.) Also it makes a great surface for stacking folded laundry, until bedtime when the laundry goes on top of the dresser. :-P
I CAN make brownies from scratch, and I occasionally do, but a box of brownie mix costs less than the box of bittersweet baking chocolate it takes to make a batch. Although it only takes half a box of unsweetened chocolate, I recently discovered.
Posted by: Rachel at October 11, 2005 08:59 PM
Oh, yeah...I'm not concerned with the actual cost of making brownies - I have all the ingredients...But it is SO MUCH EASIER to make them from a box, considering it is late at night in a sleepy fit of munchies that I decide I want brownies and make them in thirty minutes time to eat while watching a movie. I made banana bread from scratch a few weeks ago...OH MY it was good...I really need to do that sort of thing more often. When I said I assumed you always made brownies from scratch that was because I just well...I guess I made an ASS out of U and I ;) lol, sorry...always loved that phrase.
Posted by: jenn at October 12, 2005 01:41 AM
