Facebook Made Me Do It

Saturday, January 31st 2009

I was going to wait until I was tagged 25 times but since I’m close, I figured…what the hell. I live by the seat of my pants, man.

25 Random Things

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.

OR

Wah woh wah wha whaa whaaa wha woh waaah…

25 Random Things About Me

1. I bite my nails when I’m reading a good book. So, if my manicure looks like manure, my literary cravings are being satisfied. You can’t have it all.

2. I used to be terrified of fire and bees. Now it’s driving in snow and ice. I am officially a winter weather shut in. Or I would like to be.

3. My tivo to do list includes LOST, The Office, The Biggest Loser, Psych, Law & Order, Survivor, Big Brother, 30 Rock, American Idol. I also am not ashamed to admit that I recently enjoyed the series Momma’s Boys. What can you do? I’m easy.

4. Instead of saying, “Roll down your window”, I say, “Turn your window down.” While we’re on the subject, is it glove box or glove compartment? Glove box always sounds sexual to me.

5. Condiment bottles on restaurant tables skeeve me out. Think of all the grimy mitts that have been on that ketchup bottle – and now you are going to pick up your food with those same hands that touched it- AND EAT?

6. Some days (like today) I really want to tell my Jazzercise class, “You guys are doing great. Keep going. I HAVE GOT to sit down.”

7. I fell on the ice twice yesterday.

8. Somehow (possibly by the grace of God) in the past couple of years, I have become a decent cook. My husband is thrilled.

9. In August, my husband and I will be married 15 years. WOW. Nobody thought we would make it – not even us, sometimes.

10. The guy I married is smart like Will from Good Will Hunting. Imagine playing scrabble with THAT till death do you part. Sometimes cheating seems fair.

11. In another life, I’d like to be a vegetarian. In this one, I like meat.

12. My cousin and I started up a social media forum for military folks looking to connect with each other. It’s called Now Serving. Check it out.

13. Bringing in the groceries and putting them away is on par with a dental visit. Every four days.

14. Cookies call to me from the kitchen cabinet like mermaids flirting with scurvy ridden sailors from ship crushing rocks.

15. I can’t drive a manual.

16. I can move my ears (and not just with my hands).

17. I am addicted to Twitter, Facebook, Twizzlers, Mexican food and Coke Zero. I am the picture of physical and mental health.

18. I was born in Baltimore and have lived in MD, NY, NV, VA, OK, GA & CA.

19. I have gone to BlogHer for the past two years now. This year, I am on the fence. Are you going?

20. I suck at Rock Band but adore playing it anyway. My daughters don’t like the faces I make when I’m “jammin” but what can I do? I get into it.

21. Red wine is my favorite vice. (Not addicted to it, though – for the record)

22. I don’t think the value of slumber parties fades with time.

23. I only like stale peeps.

24. I voted for Obama.

25. I have friend that needs to find a good home for his two sweet cats. He’s willing to “hand deliver them to a new loving owner either in NJ, DC, or anywhere east of the Mississippi.” Can you help?

Click the Kitty.

I guess I need post this on FB too now…ehhhh.

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  • Hi, I saw your comment on Mitey Mite’s blog and thought I would stop by, I like your blog. Sorry about the loss of your dog.

    Do you mind if I add you to my links?


  • Thank you, you are added!


  • How come the one year I may go the BlogHer no one else is going?


  • What Jodifur said. Darn it.

    I’ve been dreading doing the 25 things too, and I got tagged yet again this morning. meh.


  • A great selection of facts. As I’m the one who sent the tag on FB, you did well!


  • More proof that we are somehow related, besides our stunning good looks and brilliant minds.

    1. ME TOO. Also the skin on the sides of my nails. That is the only time I bite my nails.

    4. I say Glove Box. Which sounds only slightly less sexual than TOOL BOX. (which, by the way, I plan to have tattooed across my lower belly, right below the one that says “abandon all hope ye who enter here”

    5. I smell the ketchup before I use it.

    7. I fell on the ice twice monday too! Once while walking UP the wheelchair ramp, in full view of all the people at the stoplight in front of my house. KLASS.

    16. I CAN WIGGLE MY EARS TOO! Really, this should be a marketable skill.

    17. SAME SAME, with the exception of the coke zero. I don’t drink much soda, but I do treat myself to a real Coke now & then. NOM NOM TWIZZLERS.

    19. IF IF IF I can convince Elisa to take me on as a volunteer (because I can’t afford the conf. fees), I am GOING to BlogHer! I can take Amtrak round trip for CHEAP.

    20. I can’t play the guitar, but I LOVE THE DRUMS & SINGING. ROCK IT!!

    22. Big Girl Slumber Parties are way more fun than the kid ones. Plus also I’m dying to play with your hair.

    xoxoxoxox


  • #19 – Of course I’m going. What am I going to do? Stay home with the kids when everyone is having fun in Chicago? Oh hell no.


  • #14, too true!


  • Whadia think? Should I raise my hand?


  • I too am afraid of driving in ice & snow. I went out yesterday for the first time in a week and slid on the melting slush. Guess I wont be driving again until spring!

    I did this list on FB the other day..it was HARD for me though!


  • I posted mine a couple posts ago — Actually 17, then added a few more on a more previous post — 2 or 3 — Anyway, I also voted for Obama… My church pretty much disowned me I think ;/ I also lived in CA – twice. Enjoyed your list. Have a wonderful week.


  • Yes, I’ll be at BlogHer and you’d better be too!


  • I, too, can wiggle my ears. Also, thanks to you, I will never feel the same about a ketchup bottle on a restaurant table. Never occurred to me. Thanks a LOT!


  • I’m trying to avoid doing this meme.

    I never even thought about the condiment bottles. I’m grossed out thinking about it. EWWW!

    I’m going to BlogHer! It’s in my town! I think you should come because I love you. But I would still love you if you didn’t come.


  • i’m going to blogher! i’m going! get off that fence, dammit!


  • I’m going to lose my Blogher virginity in Chicago. I’d love to meet you!


  • Always awesome to learn more about your quirky cuteness.



  • Talk to me, Goose.