Tag Teamed

Simones' Mamahas tagged me.

10 Favorites:

Favorite Season: Summer
Favorite Sport: Tennis
Favorite Time: 10 p.m.
Favorite Month: June
Favorite Actor: Vin Diesel-YUM!
Favorite Actress: Angelina Jolie
Favorite Ice Cream: New York Strawberry Cheesecake
Favorite Food: cold fried chicken
Favorite Drink: it's a tie: water & coffee
Favorite Place: London, England

9 Currents:

Current Feeling: Content
Current O/S: Windows XP
Current Windows Open: Internet Explorer
Current Drink: coffee
Current Time: 12:43 p.m.
Current Mobile(s) Used: Siemens A55
Current Show on TV: Fox News
Current Thought: I might be able to sneak a nap in before picking up the kids from school.
Current Clothing: Tinkerbell pajama pants/white cotton camisole

8 Firsts:

First Nick: 1st Nick? As in nicotine? 10 yrs old in the corner of the playground at school with a bunch of other girls from my class.
First Kiss: I was 12, had just gotten braces and worried that one of my rubber bands would snap from his toungue digging around.
First Crush: Garrett, a kid I met in 2nd grade while playing baseball. Continued to love his name and decided to name my 1st born after him.
First Computer: some peice of crap I bought off of an ex-boyfriend. Who knows what it was.
First Vehicle I drove: 1990 Nissan Sentra, red
First Job: Pizza maker at a pizza place. I lasted one day and quit for a better job that opened up.
First Movie I watched on Pulse Global’s print: Haven't seen one
First Pet: Pepper, a german shepard
First Shave(men)/hairstyle(women): My one and only perm in the 5th grade. I cried and begged my mom not to make me go to school.

7 Lasts:

Last Chai (Tea) : 7 1/2 years ago in Kansas, City
Last Movie: War of the Worlds
Last Time I Drove: a few hours ago
Last Time Shaved(men)/Beauty parlour visit(women): 3 months ago
Last Web Site Visited: http://www.newsmax.com/
Last Software Installed: I Spy Spooky Mansion
Last Pill I Had: Zoloft, Iron, Multi Vitamin and Calcium Chews

6 Have You Evers:

Have You Ever Broken the Law: Yes
Have You Ever Been Drunk: Yes
Have You Ever Climbed a Tree: yes
Have You Ever Kissed Someone You Didn't Know: yes
Have You Ever Been in the Middle/Close to Gunfire or Bomb Blast: Yes
Have You Ever Broken Anyone’s Heart: I like to think I have, to make up for all the times someone broke mine.

5 Things:

Things You Can Hear Right Now: The bunnies hopping around the living room
Things on Your Computer Table: Checkbook, computer, a pink highlighter
Things on Your Bed: Sheets, quilt and my foot long black vibrator. (JUST KIDDING!!!)
Things You Ate Today: coffee
Things in Mind: nothing really, just vegging on the computer

4 Places You Have Been Today:

Home, MailRoom, School and Store

3 People You Can Tell Anything To:

David, Kerri and Brandi

2 Choices:

Black or White: black
Hot or Cold: hot

1 Thing You Want To Do Before You Die:

To see the pyramids

And individuals I wanna tag-
Special K,VanyT and whoever else would like to do this.

Munchin on the Nibblets

I hope you guys all had a great Thanksgiving!

In spite of a few mishaps, ours was wonderful. Mishap #1 was spending an hour and 1/2 driving aimlessly around the Kaiserslautern area, as we tried to follow D's co-workers vague handwritten roadmap. Stir in a husband who refuses to call for better directions and 2 hungry boys who are relentlessly whining to eat, and that makes for a very caustic solution.

Fortunately, D's co-worker called us after awhile, figuring that we were lost, and being a married woman, she knows how stubborn men are about getting directions. So, with her on the line, we were able to get there-finally!

It turns out we weren't the only ones who had problems, EVERYONE got lost trying to find her house. LOL

The food was FABULOUS!!!! OMG, I totally gorged myself shamelessly. We hung out there for a few hours, eating, drinking and being merry.

After staying long enough to where it wouldn't seem like we were dining and dashing, we headed over to our other friends home and enjoyed coffee, desert and conversation with them.

So, it was a great night, especially since we got to return to a clean house and no dirty dishes to deal with!

The next day I took down all of the Thanksgiving decorations and now I'm slowly putting up the Christmas decorations. The tree won't go up until the 1st, but I've set up our Kris Kringle village, window and balcony lights and a few snowmen decorations.

I LOVE decorating for the holidays, especially Christmas. This year I'm really going crazy because David won't be here next year for it, so I want to make sure this one's especially memorable for all of us. In the words of the darling Bridgett Jones, I want my home to be a Christmas Casbah!

A Bit of Everything

Things worked out with the big D's tire situation. He was able to get one of his friends to spend the lunch hour with him pilfering through the junk yard for a new rim and tire. Luckily, old Chevy Cavaliers are a dime a dozen, so the siliconed beast was prowling the roadways in no time at all.

He got REALLY lucky though, I guess with that type of impact, it could have been a lot worse, resulting to damage to more than just the tire. Anyhow, I have mentally filed away this bit of bad driving, so that if I find myself in a situation in which I'm having to defend myself for driving badly, I'll be able to pull this little ace out of my sleeve. Heh!

Heard from my Best Friend from High School. She told me about how the janitor of our old school has died. Turns out, some illegal immigrant from Mexico found his way to our town, and while high on Crystal Meth, broke into our janitors house, killed him then set the house on fire. When the cops and fire department got there, they found his useless ass trying to hide out in a neighbors yard. It turns out the janitor didn't even know him either. It was a random crime.

It really pissed me off when I learned of this. I don't know why the government isn't taking a tougher stance on closing the borders. It's scary when you think about it. If these poor Mexican villagers can make their way into the U.S. without having any formal military or survival training, I'm sure it would be a cake walk for a terrorist to just walk on in.

Personally, I think there's no excuses for not having an electric fence going around the Mexican and Canadian border. Plus guard towers every 1/2 mile, survellience cameras, motion sensors, etc... If I ran the show, I'd even throw in a huge trench filled with man eating alligators and blood thirsty pirranahs for good measure.

It just makes me mad how every single administration in charge has ignored the problems of illegal immigrants coming into the States. I have no qualms with those who want to come to the States, integrate themselves into our society and become productive citizens. It's the ones who come over, do absolutely nothing productive with themselves aside from sponging off our tax dollers through the welfare system, that need to go.

On a different note. I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving! I'm really looking forward to it this year because for the 1st time in many years I won't have to cook! YIPPIE!!!! Usually we decline offers to come over for dinner from others, but this year we decided to take up the offer from 2 couples we know. So, in addition to not having to cook, we get to have 2 dinners!!!

Gobble Gobble!

KaBlooey

During the frosty, snowy months, there seem to be 2 types of people. There are those who scrape their entire windshield, plus the mirrors, side windows, tail lights and if there's not a rear defroster, they clear the back window. And then there are those who believe it's not a big priority to have a good field of vision while they're driving. This type can be found bumping into curbs as they struggle to look out the teensy, little peephole they cleared off.

I'm the type who won't drive unless I can see out of all of my windows, while David is a peephole driver. Our different window clearing personalities have been a source of frustration for both of us. It drives him crazy having to wait for me to finish clearing the windows before I'll go anywhere, and it drives me crazy feeling like I'm riding inside of a submarine, as he takes off squinting through the little periscope of a hole that he's made.

For almost a decade I have nagged the crap out of him for not taking the time to clear off his windows. And for almost a decade, he has rolled his eyes at me and ignored my advice.

This morning we faced our first real frost, and with it's arrival, I got to chalk up an extra point in the great window clearing debate.

This morning he cleared away the usual 4 inch strip, and with Metallica on the tape deck and a hot, steaming mug of coffee wedged between his legs, he proceeded to leave the neighborhood. Things were looking up. He had plenty of time to get to work, and he was looking forward to leaving work earlier than he usually does.

But then a traffic circle came along, which threw a wrench into the clockwork of his morning.

As the siliconed car approached the circle, he realized that he was having a hard time seeing anything, and so he misjudged where to enter the circle. This miscalculation caused the front tire to slam into the curb, resulting in it bursting with a loud gun fire like boom, thus rendering the vehicle useless. Slamming into the curb also caused him to lose control of the coffee mug, resulting in a massive spill on him and around him.

Luckily he hadn't gotten too far, and he managed to limp it over to a parking spot. Unfortunately, he happened to limp it just far enough to damage the rim.

After he'd come upstairs to hit me up for a ride into work, I decided not to say anything about it as we drove along, with cleared off windows so there wouldn't be any obstructions in my field of vision.

Chickity Check

Even though Check Cards are making paper checks go the way of the typewriter, I'm still holding out for as long as I can.

I like being able to express myself as an individual through paper checks.

I also like having the power to piss off other people at the store, by taking my time filling out the check.

So, if you get behind me in line, don't get into my personal space, don't try to push whatever I've placed onto the counter out of the way with your crap, or I will make you pay.
Oh yes indeed. I'll make you Miserable, and you won't be able to do a damn thing about it either. "Whatcha gonna do? Move my hand for me, so that I'll write faster? Yeah right!"
But, those who are nice, you will be handsomely rewarded. I will thank you by having most of my check filled out before the cashier has finished ringing everything up. And I'll even fill out the ledger after I've left the register.
Tonight I reordered new checks. I've almost used up all of my Mickey Mouse ones, and here are the new ones I'm looking forward to getting:

Bat Boys

Things have gotten hectic, which is why it's taken me so long to post this.

Here are the kids in the bat costumes I made for them.
But yeah, even though David was stuck in the field during Halloween, I took the kids trick or treating. They made out pretty good with the candy.
Anyhow, David's home now and all is well.