More stuff you maybe don’t want to know
Piano Mom tagged me with a Six Things meme, so here it is: 1. I have a bad knee. I fell at a rehearsal for The Unsinkable Molly Brown a few years ago and sprained it and it’s never been the same since. When I do too much walking or bending it flares up and gets swollen and hurty. So now I have an excuse not to exercise and I can feel the weather in my bones like an old person. 2. I don’t make my kids do enough chores. I try, we’ve been through all kinds of job charts and incentive programs but they have lots of homework every night plus piano practicing and dance classes so it seems like their time is limited enough. I do make them help some but they probably could do more. Someday their college roommates are going to curse me because they’ll leave dishes in the sink and won’t know how to clean the bathroom. 3. I am intimidated by Mama Bear in the Berenstain Bears books. I know it’s only a story but even so: a clean house, homemade cookies after school, gardening, a no junk food diet, endless patience with Papa Bear…who can compete with that? 4. I collect lanterns. At last count I had 26. Currently I keep them artfully arranged (?) above my kitchen cupboards where grease and dust mix to coat them with a smeary film. I don’t know where else I’d put them though, even if I did have space. 5. I hate dealing with computer issues. I don’t know how it works, I don’t want to know how it works, and when something goes wrong I want to DIE. I hate cleaning out files, I hate updating software, I hate dealing with code…I just want to it work perfectly all the time, is that too much to ask? 6. I have a really good memory. My parents and siblings are constantly amazed by how much of our childhood I remember. I can remember details too, like what someone was wearing or a conversation that happened a long time ago. It’s a little freaky. Either that or I’m just a really good liar and they did not all promise to buy me a Jaguar for my 36th birthday. (Note to family - Yes, you totally did.) I’m supposed to pass this along but I can’t think of anyone I know who has a blog and hasn’t done this one recently. If you want to participate, consider yourself tagged. Oh, and thanks for the comments on the last post! You commenters rock yes you do.
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January 16th, 2008 at 6:02 am
I am SO with you on the computer issues thing. I suddenly feel like a two year old with a massive tantrum coming on. (Kevin loves that about me, HA!)
How awesome that you collect lanterns! What a neat thing to collect. Pictures?
January 17th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
I screwed up my knee in 1996. I hear you on that one.
January 18th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
ok, 6 things.
1) i have a horrible temper and it seems like lately it’s kicking me in the head. and possibly everyone else. grr.
2) i love my 5.5 yo and my 1 yo more than anything in the world (and my husband too, lol)
3)i also have a freakish memory, almost photograhic in nature. it drives my husband nuts.
4) my husband and i both have seizure disorders, and seizures are the number one thing i fear for w my kids (after cancer). my job as a peds nurse totally makes that worse.
5) sometimes i get so burned out at work i just want to quit and throw a tantrum and watch lots of chic flicks while drinking chocolate martinis. i don’t always think that’s unreasonable.
6) i collect chili pepper stuff, my kitchen and dining room are decorated with that. i also collect asian stuff (living room), Boston terrier stuff (dog i have now, she’s STUPID and i’m disappointed, they’re supposed to be insanely intelligent) and i have some sort of weird obsession with kids clothes. my kids could dress rwanda.
hope that makes your day more interesting! love tif