Three blogs in one day! I am so wordy today!
41. I cannot chew gum for more than a few minutes. It hurts my jaw and I’m convinced all my years as a child chewing away at whale fat or whatever it is has made me have TMJ.
42. As a child, I kept my chewed gum [...]
Archive for June, 2008
27 Jun
100 Facts About Me (#5)
27 Jun
Tooth Fairy, we meet at last!
Emma has FINALLY lost a tooth. She will be 7 this September, so this is very big deal. I had thought that she would lose a bottom tooth first, isn’t this the usual way? But she surprised us by losing her top tooth.
She lost it at summer camp (what we call the day care at [...]
27 Jun
100 Facts About Me (#4)
Here are some more random things that float to the surface in my mind.
31. I failed my driving test twice. Once because the car I was using had a broken tail light that no one knew about. The second was because a truck with a really long bed pulled out in front of me and the lady who was [...]
26 Jun
100 Facts About Me (#3)
Lessee…
21. I am a believer in the courtesy flush.
22. Also a believer in bathroom spray.
23. The first time I saw a pair of Birkenstocks, I thought they were the ugliest shoes ever created by man.
24. It took me several years to get on board with the wearing of the flip-flops.
25. I can’t stand toe socks.
26. [...]
25 Jun
100 Facts About Me (#2)
10 more exciting, thrilling, facts about yours truly.
11. I once wore a pair of hiking boots every single day, rain or shine, for a whole year.
12. My feet have grown a 1/2 size with each of my two kids. So now I wear a size 8. If I had as many children as the Duggers, [...]
24 Jun
100 Facts About Me
(Broken into 10 lists of 10) I stumbled upon another blog with this (but hers had a list of 100) and I loved the idea so much that I decided to steal borrow it. You should try it, too!
1. I am 1/4 Yupik Eskimo.
2. I was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska.
3. I like knitting, [...]
23 Jun
Cell phones + public bathrooms = blog fodder
Ok folks, let’s you and me have a little heart to heart. Now I realize that the possession of a cell phone and the human free will allows conversation to happen just about anywhere, so long as your cell tower allows it. But there is a time and a place. And the Walmart public bathroom [...]
20 Jun
The cleaning of the car
Welp, I’ve come to that time of the year where the collection of junk and litter has begun to take over the car. Where you kind of have to clear a path by your feet to have a level place to rest when you sit.
How did it come to this, you may inquire? It’s called: life [...]
19 Jun
Crop circles and other creepy phenomenon
I was reading an article on Foxnews.com, which is how I’m hip to the nation’s doings. I came across an article on crop circles. I got to wondering what other crop circles are out there, as my only crop circle know-how comes from watching the DVD bonus features on M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs. Yes, I’m [...]
18 Jun
Fan letters and other soul baring experiences
Dear Matthew Broderick,
I am a really big fan of yours. I have seen “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” at least 20 25 times and I have watched it so much that I can say the lines along with the movie. It makes my mom crazy, but I can’t help it. What kind of hobbies do you [...]