stolen from Bethany and Marla...since I'm getting back into blogging regularly and all...
:)
1. What is your favorite thing to snack on while you’re blogging? I can't recall snacking and blogging. But today I had a snack of Baby Bel gouda cheese and Kashi crackers!
2. What is one thing you wouldn’t want to live without? I know it is lame to say my iPhone, but you try it...I mean, do able...but I don't WANT to...
3. Beach, Mountains, or Farm? Where would you live if you had a choice? MOUNTAINS!
4. What’s your least favorite chore/household duty? dishes
5. Who do people say you remind them of? Someone allllllllways has a friend like me. Apparently all of THIS isn't one of a kind like I thought. HA.
6. Prefer parties and socializing or staying home with the fam? Well, I enjoy a low key party WITH my fam or friends. But staying in can be far more satisfying than going out. However, an evening out occasionally is awesome.
7. What’s your all time favorite movie? When Harry Met Sally...
8. Do you sleep in your make-up or remove it like a good little girl every night? depends...I'm usually lazy
9. Do you have a hidden talent or a deep desire to learn something that you’ve never had a chance to learn? What is it? I'd love to be fluent in another language. I don't have any talents...hidden or otherwise. But I could learn a language...or perhaps be a better painter....
10. What’s one strange thing you’re really good at? putting my foot in my mouth?
11. What first attracted you to your spouse? I don't have a spouse. Thanks for rubbing it in. :)
12. What is something you love to smell? Clean laundry. Fresh cut grass. A man.
13. Tell something about you that you know irritates people. I talk to much and say HOLLER far too much.
14. When you have extra money, what’s the first thing you think to do with it? Some form of on-line shopping from shoes to clothes to books to whatever.
15. Are you a silent laugher or a loud laugher? What makes you laugh the hardest? My students make me laugh silently, but I'm generally loud. My mood depends on what makes me laugh the hardest...
16. Where is your favorite place to shop? Macy's. But all around everything? Target!
17. What’s one thing you’d do more often if you had more time? stay organized...ha
18. Are you a big spender or frugal?I have to be frugal but I prefer to be a big spender :)
19. Who is your favorite character of all time? Chandler Bing, Elizabeth Bennett or Lily from the Kevin Henkes books
20. Would you want to be famous? eh...maybe 15 minutes...but I'm not seeking it out
-family holiday traditions that have gone by the wayside
I'm not a pessimistic person. However, I feel like the last 5 years in the "real" world is tarnishing my positive outlook on life. I blame my job a lot. I think it has sucked the happiness, or rather my happiness-finding-rosy-colored-glasses-finder-mechanism, out of me. Which. Isn't true. I'd like to publicly blame Satan and my lack of intimacy with JC. Yes, I have a crap-tastic job. The kids I love individually, of course. But I'm not sure I enjoy the process of my job and I KNOW I abhor what education has become. Anyway...all of that aside, I know I really need to intentionally need to choose joy. I don't know why I keep looking to Christ to make my life a piece of cake, a piece of cruuuuumb cake. What He did for me wasn't so, so why am I determined to think my life is to be all sunshine and jelly beans? I need to remember to choose Christ first, make Him my priority, PRAY, and then at least I know I've got the tools needed to tackle the rest of my life. I also know that when I was more active with my blog, I seemed to get a cyber accountability with all the lovely ladies blogs I read. Some say it takes time away, but honestly, it's an uplifting thing for me. However I don't have a husband, kids or house to take up so much of my time. Just 29 8 year olds, a fledgling pet sitting business and the rehabilitation of my relationship with JC. Cake, right? HA! :)
Anyway, here's to real intimacy with Christ. And optimism!
Yeah so much for getting back to blogging regularly. Maybe I need to be like Marla and be more intentional with planning my blogs? Or perhaps commit to putting something up once a week? I like structure, but is it worth it? Who reads this? LOL...who cares...I enjoy doing it. :)
SO...like I said, so much for being regular. Turns out, if you go out 20 days in a row...you eventually start to break down. That would be me last Tuesday. I've been so go, go, go with dinners out, karaoke, concerts (No Doubt/Paramore was AMAZING!), shopping, friends in town, work, etc, etc, etc, that my immune system finally told me to STOP. Just not in a nice way....just in the bronchitis, sinus infection and ear infection way. It's so funny, because during the sermon the Sunday prior to me getting sick, Bill mentioned something about taking rest and I mentally noted, "I should do that soon." HA, boy did I ever rest. 72 hours straight in my house with no company over this past weekend. Talk about STIR CRAZY. God bless Facebook and the rest of the internet, Netflix and SLEEPING to keep me busy. :)
The busy-ness only continues. Tonight is my last night in my own bed for over a week. I'm off to dog sit in Broad Ripple until Sunday, then on Sunday I head to Chicago until Friday of next week. Whew. I'm tired thinking about it. But, I am anxious... :) Should be fun!
OK, this was a short update...but an update nonetheless! Much love blogland...see you on the flipside!
