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Alright. Shall we proceed? On my list of 100 things about me, I’m 25 down and only 85 to go. j/k
26. I feel my worst parenting moment is when I lose my self control whilst trying to teach self-control to my oldest. It’s an inherited trait.
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27. I don’t stop my kids from playing stick ball in the house. I love the joyful energy of making supper around flying mini-hockey sticks. And this surprises me- you have no idea. I’m not into sports and hate mayhem in my kitchen when I’m making supper…. But it turns out, this is a happy mayhem. Who knew?
28. I feel my heart stop when someone speaks to me in a loud voice, it just shuts me down like a child, even if they don’t mean to shout. Unless I’m in a social situation and then it feels friendly, then I kind of like it.
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29. A Southern accent sounds friendly, even intimate, to me- despite most people believing it sounds ignorant- because in the South people’s accents get thicker when they are being friendly and relaxed. I wish I could properly relate that to my Canadian peeps.
30. I like bullies because I have no problem giving it back- and it’s kinda fun. The timid, sensitive, overly-polite, easily-offended people scare me. So most Canadians scare me.
31. I am so lucky that the man I married happens to be a great father. You never really know for sure-do you?!
I found a site, Mistupid.com, that compiles stupid things. Here they’ve found stupid people who didn’t notice how their web sites looked on paper before picking a URL. Or maybe they did….
They list more but I’ve picked out my favorites:
* A site called ‘Who Represents’ where you can find the name of the agent that represents a celebrity:
www.whorepresents.com
* Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views:
www.expertsexchange.com
* Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island:
www.penisland.net
* Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at:
www.therapistfinder.com
* The First Cumming Methodist Church in Cumming, Georgia:
www.cummingfirst.com
* Art direction at reasonable prices:
www.speedofart.com
* Want to holiday in Lake Tahoe? Try their brochure website at:
www.gotahoe.com
They’ve also got a funny list of Headlines that you’ve got to check out.
I took myself a relaxing weekend. I even have a picture to prove it.
And this is what the other’s mostly did.
I’ve seen this “100 things” lists in blog-world and I’ve decided to join the bandwagon. I, however, will only dole it out a quarter at a time. So here we go. 100 things about me:
1. I feel such love for the Cajun culture I grew up in- the self-deprecating humor, the pace of life that values community above personal achievement, the easy-going attitude, the honesty whether you want it or not, the easy laughs, the social rituals (festivals, teas and balls), the food….
2. I would be afraid to raise kids there, I think.
3. I read lists from the bottom up and read magazines from back to front.
4. I LOVE roller coasters and water slides. LOVE
5. I remember being very young and lying in my bed at night twirling my hands and fingers in the air above me and crying thanks to God for the miracle of being able to command my limbs with a thought. I’ve never lost the awe.
6. I feel things too much. I do try to control myself but I’m sometimes off- Desi knows about that. On the bright side, I live each moment as present to it as can be. I feel each moment.
7. I feel a memory. I feel music. I feel conversations. I feel a movie. I feel a smell. I feel a sight. I feel my dreams. I feel my prayers.
8. I am fully in the moment big and small. I’m a dreamer in the here and now and can see how it fits in the big picture. I sometimes lack the middle.
9. I love to be casual. Like wearing the same jeans and flip-flops for a week.
10. I love to dress up- it’s like playing a role.
11. Hot and cold weather don’t bother me. Hot will effect me sooner than cold.
12. I like spicy hot food but can’t eat temperature hot food.
13. I love languages and can spot nuances in accents and intonations. In Louisiana, I could tell what town someone was from- which says a lot when a town is only as big a space as a water tower could support back in the day. I can tell where in the world French speakers are from.
14. I’m an extrovert most of the time but require some introvert time to dream and fantasize or madness soon follows.
15. I love to dance. I love to dance.
16. If I could have any physical appearance, I’d be a tall woman with skin the color of dark chocolate. Smooth thick oily ageless dark skin. And almond-shaped eyes that tilted down at the ends so they always appeared kind. And a beautiful mouth and long fingers.
17. I believe that as a child I was the darling of my family.
18. My French grandmother incorporates into the tour of her place the chewed gum I squished to the underside of a chair at one of those 3-hour meals. She even shellacked it to make it last.
19. When I was young, I was known in France as being a crystal-eater. For these meals, I’d hang my wine glass from my rabbit-teeth while watching my adult family stamp round burnt-cork circles on their face while they played a drinking game. The glass would snap in a perfect half-circle bite mark. I did it 3 separate times. My little brother would fall asleep with his face in his plate of food.
20. I am also known for the time I pooped in the bidet at my great-aunt’s house. What? I like to try new things!
21. I love French humor spoken in French to French people. It, however regrettably, does not translate. In English, I love British humor and wish I was half as witty.
22. I love to French kiss. mmmm
23. My parent’s divorce in pre-adolescence was probably the single most tragic event in my life. I was collateral damage in favor of laziness.
24. Because of my parent’s divorce my little brother and little sister and I have a bond that time and distance and circumstance can’t touch. I sometimes wonder if it’s possible to raise an emotionally mature child in this time/culture where our kids are so emotionally sheltered from pain unless there is a death or a divorce or illness or handicap experienced from up close.
25. My two boys are going to be incredible men! Just quality people! I’m trying to do it without resorting to trauma.
I’ll see about another 25 later. I love being a tease.
Was that # 26?!
Anna Nicole’s funeral is fit for a queen, and some wonder why
Wake me up when they know the baby daddy.
I’ve just read a book that I couldn’t recommend more. It has been a long time since I’ve had this much fun reading.
It’s best read while imagining it all played out in a Monty Python movie.
I want to type out an excerpt but it’s so hard to choose.
Like the part when Jesus -called Joshua in the book- gets baptised. Everyone hears God’s voice except Joshua whose head is under water…
And when they are brainstorming about what to write in the Sermon on the Mount- coming up with beatitudes…
Or when Jesus raises Simon Lazarus from his grave and when Josh asks him to come out of the tomb finally a voice said “no”- he’s embarrassed to come out… because he’s all icky.
With Easter on it’s way I’ll try this one:
So Joshua is at the wedding in Canaan and has just found out about John being taken after he’s changed the water into wine.
Just then Joshua stumbled through the gate and crashed into us. We were able to catch ourselves and him before anyone fell. The Messiah was holding the little girl’s pet bunny, hugging it to his cheek with the big back feet swinging free. He was gloriously drunk. “know what?” Josh said. “I love bunnies. They toil not, neither do they bark. Henceforth and from now on, I decree that whenever something bad happens to me, there shall be bunnies around. So it shall be written. Go ahead Biff, write it down,” He waved to me under the bunny, then turned and started back through the gate. “Where’s the friggin’ wine!? I got a dry bunny over here!”
Son #1: Do you think Lovey is as big as Suzy? (Lovey is our current Degu- rodent- and Suzy was our old one, may she rest in peace)
Son #2: Noooo. <giggles> That’s crazy. Suzy’s just a skeleton by now!
