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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
ABC meme
T's home with really terrible back pain -- flat on his back since Sunday afternoon, chiropractor yesterday, doctor today, CT scan tomorrow. Poor guy. I needed a little light relief so here's the ABC meme that's been going around.
Accent: I don't have one. (Does anyone actually think they have an accent?) Unless you count talking too fast to be understood as an accent.
Bible Book that I like: Romans. Difficult to get my head around at times, but wow, is there some impressive, amazing, pivotal, important, life-changing stuff in there.
Chore that I don't care for: Whatever one my kids choose to undo the quickest that day. Frequently this is laundry. Nothing sends me over my yell threshold faster than finding floor-dirty clothes, still folded, all over my kids' floors or in the hamper.
Dog or Cat: I like cats better, as far as owning one. Less maintenance, less noise. I don't dislike dogs, but we are certainly not in a place right now where I'd feel comfortable having one. However, if that darn cat keeps peeing on all my possessions I may rethink this. I spent four or so hours on Sunday afternoon (yes, happy Mother's Day to you too!) completely gutting the bottom of my closet and using Mr. Clean and Febreze on the hardwood even though I know that's a big no-no. I figure cat pee is a worse no-no, though. And I'm still trying to catch up with all the stinky laundry. Of course if I'd kept my closet floor clean in the FIRST place... ahem.
Essential Electronics: This dratted computer. My camera (although the last couple days I have been totally uninspired in that department).
Favorite Cologne: I like to wear Pleasures perfume when I get all dressed up. I like T to wear Aspen or Preferred Stock if he must wear anything to mask that wonderful man-scent. ;) He absolutely cannot wear Old Spice; Old Spice means my dad, so understandably T wearing it puts a damper on the whole Eros thing. :)
Gold or Silver: I have a gold wedding ring, and don't wear other jewelry. Gold really goes far better with my complexion than silver does.
Handbag I Carry most often: I only ever have one at a time. These days that's a fake leather backpack one.
Insomnia: No, sleeping is something I'm really good at. Too good sometimes. Only very rarely if I have Nameless Dread or WAY too much diet Coke do I have difficulty dropping off at night.
Job Title: Homeschooling homemaker with a (very small) side of transcriptionist.
Kids: LT is my son who just turned ten. C is my six-and-a-half-year-old clone daughter. Between the two of them we had a daughter, Natalie, who died at nine weeks of age. She'd be eight now.
Most Admirable Trait: Couldn't say. Ask my husband. :)
Naughtiest childhood behavior: Hmm. I was a dreadful tattletale. I was a bit of a goody-two-shoes. I was very, very untidy.
Overnight hospital stays: Tonsillectomy at age 9, one scary episode at 33 weeks with first child, three caesarian births and one hysterectomy.
Phobias: Just centipedes. But that's totally rational. So I don't have any. :)
Quote: I've got a frivolous one in my head right now. "Don't go looking for comfort in a bag of cookies. Cookies don't care. They just make you fat."
Religion: is man trying to reach God. Whereas Christianity is God reaching down to man.
Siblings: One older brother.
Time I wake up: Usually eight-ish.
Unusual Talent or skill: I don't know. Ask my husband.
Vegetable I refuse to eat: Lima beans. Unless someone else makes them for me and then I smile politely and get it over with as quickly as possible. :)
Worst habit: Laziness. Which is really more of an anti-habit.
X-rays: I've had dental x-rays but other than that I don't remember having had any since I broke my shoulder when I was three or four.
Yummy stuff I cook: Well, if I didn't think it was yummy, I wouldn't cook it. Except beans, which I make because I'm the only one in the family who doesn't like them, and they're cheap.
Zoo animal I like most: Monkeys.
Comments
That was a fun meme!
Posted by: debi at May 16, 2006 04:11 PM
I think people know when they have an accent when they are around someone else who doesn't sound like they do :)
I laughed out loud about the Old Spice and your dad thing :)
I have a fake leather backpack purse too! We can be the Bobsy Twins. (Who WERE the Bobsy Twins anyways?)
Loved your quote :)
Are you saying Christianity isn't an organized religion?
I hate lima beans too :)
LOL on laziness being an anti-habit. You are so clever :)
Your stuff looks so yummy, I wish I could come up there and have you cook for me!
Posted by: jenn at May 16, 2006 05:44 PM
Wow... has it really been 8 years already... Yeah, I was in high school when I read the news, so I guess it must have been. How quickly time flies.
Whatever happened to 'L'? ;)
Posted by: Maria at May 17, 2006 03:32 AM
My grandfather, who died the summer after my freshman year of college, wore Old Spice. My FIL wears it too, so when I get a whiff of it from it it's like an extra bonus, double the family memories.
(I have wonderful in-laws; I suppose it would suck to have someone I didn't like wearing the same scent.)
Posted by: dichroic at May 17, 2006 08:07 AM
hi rachel. i found your link from jennie's and discovered your 30-day self-portrait bit. WOW. i spent awhile at each one (which i'm sure is weird for you since i am, after all, a stranger), and was so engaged in your photos. That's such an impressive project. It makes me wish I were a photographer - oh, but even better, it makes me want to go out and buy a camera and unleash my creativity :)
thanks for those wonderful photos. i hope you've hung them in a gallery somewhere.
Posted by: mary at May 17, 2006 03:53 PM
How did the cat scan go?
Posted by: debi at May 18, 2006 04:27 PM
Is that 8 a.m. or p.m.?
Posted by: Muley at May 26, 2006 12:28 PM
