A meme from Sundry!
1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before? Started growing another human being in my body
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I don't make resolutions because I never stick to them. it's always disappointing.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? My best friend Samantha, my childhood friend Jamie, and two of my friends at work.
4. Did anyone close to you die? No, thank god.
5. What countries did you visit? Is Park Rapids, MN a country?
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008? Jeez. More money in savings, more patience, enough money to take unlimited yoga at my favorite studio for a year, an organized home.
7. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? July 21st-the day Trevor plummeted to the ground from a 3rd story balcony and broke his body. November 14th-the day the pregnancy test read POSITIVE!
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Becoming a nurse!!
9. What was your biggest failure? Not taking hold of our finances like we had planned. It's so much easier to be lazy.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Injury- Trevor's "balcony incident"
11. What was the best thing you bought? New and fancy yoga mat
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? OBAMA!
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Blago the Governor....California (Prop 8)
14. Where did most of your money go? Our house and "things" (I'm being honest)
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Being pregnant (also really, really, really scared.
16. What song will always remind you of 2008? Ridiculous but....I Kissed A Girl.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? Happier...but also sadder due to my insane and raging hormones of death.
b) thinner or fatter? Fatter...due to the baby. Not MUCH fatter though (yet)
c) richer or poorer? Richer but not by much.
18. What do you wish you’d done more of? Camping with husband and family
19. What do you wish you’d done less of? Spending
20. How did you spend Christmas? Christmas Eve at work and then with Trevor's family for their annual cocktail/dinner party, Christmas Day with my family, the day after with Trevor's family
21. Did you fall in love in 2008? No
22. What was your favorite TV program? The Hills. Please don't hate me.
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? No. I don't hate anyone.
24. What was the best book you read? The Devil In The White City!!!!!!
25. What was your greatest musical discovery? Susan Tedeschi
26. What did you want and get? A baby in my belly, The healing of my husband, A job as a nurse, the health of my family.
27. What did you want and not get? A million dollars, a home on a lake
28. What was your favorite film of this year? Humbolt County
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? Turned 28...and I can't remember. Isn't that terrible??!!
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? A more organized and less cluttered home.
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008? Yoga casual.
32. What kept you sane? Yoga
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Eddie Vedder in all his hotness.
34. What political issue stirred you the most? Gay marriage.
35. Who did you miss? Grace, Jamie, The Gissel Family, friends in general because we are all so damn busy.
36. Who was the best new person you met? Gosh...I haven't really net anyone new that has stayed in my life. I think any of my patients...and their are a few really special ones that grip my heart.
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008. Life is so damn temporary. Painfully and heart achingly temporary. Make the best of this amazing time...try not to focus on the crappy everyday little things. Focus on the miracle of being ALIVE.
38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year. again...drawing a blank...
Happy New Year all!!
Showing posts with label Things about me. Show all posts
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
Things I have been doing.
-Reading the book The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson
-Listening to Liam Finn and Katy Perry Two very different artists...but both make my ears happy.
-Working out with Factor 5 Fitness as my guide with my new YMCA membership through my parents. a la on the cheap.
-Sitting 2nd row center at the Eddie Vedder show from his solo tour last Thursday...sexxxxxxy dude.
-Staying at the Hyatt Regency downtown using priceline.com's name your own price dealy. Super cheap.
-Painting my bedroom walls this color (the can on the bottom right) with this color trim
-Using this tape that sucks ass to assist me in acheiving paint perfection, but instead doubling the amount of work I have to do and making me feel like killing others because I must spend even more time breathing toxic fumes in my small ass bedroom. It is NOT operator error. I am VERY good at painting & taping.
-going to car shows in Madison and McHenry with my family
-working
-sleeping
-giving my husband hugs
-strangling my husband
-hugging him again
-eating the "That's How I Roll" ice cream treat at Cold Stone Creamery.
-Listening to Liam Finn and Katy Perry Two very different artists...but both make my ears happy.
-Working out with Factor 5 Fitness as my guide with my new YMCA membership through my parents. a la on the cheap.
-Sitting 2nd row center at the Eddie Vedder show from his solo tour last Thursday...sexxxxxxy dude.
-Staying at the Hyatt Regency downtown using priceline.com's name your own price dealy. Super cheap.
-Painting my bedroom walls this color (the can on the bottom right) with this color trim
-Using this tape that sucks ass to assist me in acheiving paint perfection, but instead doubling the amount of work I have to do and making me feel like killing others because I must spend even more time breathing toxic fumes in my small ass bedroom. It is NOT operator error. I am VERY good at painting & taping.
-going to car shows in Madison and McHenry with my family
-working
-sleeping
-giving my husband hugs
-strangling my husband
-hugging him again
-eating the "That's How I Roll" ice cream treat at Cold Stone Creamery.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Uncomfortable silence...
"......................................................."
Damn. I knew I should have written down some of my ideas for blog entries.
"......................................................."
Well, I'm back. My computers are working. I am able to email and web surf, and blog read, and update. Joy to the world!
Although, it has been nice being away from a computer for a couple of weeks.
Because I don't have much to blog about at the moment, I'll start with 25 Things About Me (in lieu of 100 Things, because that's just nuts).
1) I went to an amazing hippie college in Arizona that I miss everyday..but the entire time I was there my heart ached for home.
2) I was so excited to have babies...and now...I am just scared. Does that mean I am more ready in a twisted f-ed up way?
3) I have run marathons...and now I can barely run around the block. I need to start running again.
4) I love to make lists. I make lists about everything. Right now I have a summer To-Do that is over 20 items long..and I LOVE IT.
5) I enjoying painting. Like, on the walls in the house. I love the trim taping and being meticulous...I have painted 3 nurseries for friends/family to date and I have painted every room in my house. BY MYSELF.
6) My husband. He's kind of an ass. But I love it...because I'm an ass too.
7) But he's also secretly a mushy-mush...and so am I.
8) I am a nurse and I adore the job. There is nothing else I would rather be doing when I am caring for patients at the hospital. Except for maybe caring for patients at a therapeutic camp of some sort in the mountains.
9) I went to hippie college to be an outdoor educator and use the wilderness in a therapeutic and healing way.
10) I always secretly wanted to go to nursing school and would visit the local community college in AZ to get info on the nursing program every couple of months.
11) I have a 16 year old brother. He is the most awesome person in the world.
12) I grew up riding horse competitively. I was the grunt who would muck the stalls and groom other peoples horses at the horse show and then beat those richy-riches when it came time to compete.
13) I worship Martha Stewart and Real Simple magazines.
14) I hate doing laundry. There is a HUGE pile of clothes on the basement floor waiting to be washed. I just step over it.
15) I am a Real World junkie. I have watched every season since the first one in NYC. Yes, I have applied.
16) Also, I tried out for Fear Factor. I didn't make it. I'm not skinny or dumb enough.
17) I love the state of South Dakota. I love the landscape and the people and the wildlife. I would live there if it didn't take me so far away from my family.
18) This is hard
19) I am a picker. I know this is gross...but I love to pick pimples and gross shit like that. I have to bribe my husband to get him to let me "pick" on him.
20) I inherited this picking fetish from my mother.
21) When my husband proposed I told him to "Shut Up!" and I pushed him...like Elaine on Seinfeld.
22) We were engaged on Sanibel Island, FL...his whole family was there and he asked for my Dad's permission before we left on the trip.
23) I drive an orange Honda Element...that car that looks like a giant toaster or roller skate. Lots of people think they are ugly and stupid...but I love my Element and want to keep it forever. Seriously.
24) I secretly wish I had the talent to scrapbook. I just don't have the patience.
25) My second toes are freakishly longer than my big toes. Like weird alien fingers. I'm not even exaggerating.
Damn. I knew I should have written down some of my ideas for blog entries.
"......................................................."
Well, I'm back. My computers are working. I am able to email and web surf, and blog read, and update. Joy to the world!
Although, it has been nice being away from a computer for a couple of weeks.
Because I don't have much to blog about at the moment, I'll start with 25 Things About Me (in lieu of 100 Things, because that's just nuts).
1) I went to an amazing hippie college in Arizona that I miss everyday..but the entire time I was there my heart ached for home.
2) I was so excited to have babies...and now...I am just scared. Does that mean I am more ready in a twisted f-ed up way?
3) I have run marathons...and now I can barely run around the block. I need to start running again.
4) I love to make lists. I make lists about everything. Right now I have a summer To-Do that is over 20 items long..and I LOVE IT.
5) I enjoying painting. Like, on the walls in the house. I love the trim taping and being meticulous...I have painted 3 nurseries for friends/family to date and I have painted every room in my house. BY MYSELF.
6) My husband. He's kind of an ass. But I love it...because I'm an ass too.
7) But he's also secretly a mushy-mush...and so am I.
8) I am a nurse and I adore the job. There is nothing else I would rather be doing when I am caring for patients at the hospital. Except for maybe caring for patients at a therapeutic camp of some sort in the mountains.
9) I went to hippie college to be an outdoor educator and use the wilderness in a therapeutic and healing way.
10) I always secretly wanted to go to nursing school and would visit the local community college in AZ to get info on the nursing program every couple of months.
11) I have a 16 year old brother. He is the most awesome person in the world.
12) I grew up riding horse competitively. I was the grunt who would muck the stalls and groom other peoples horses at the horse show and then beat those richy-riches when it came time to compete.
13) I worship Martha Stewart and Real Simple magazines.
14) I hate doing laundry. There is a HUGE pile of clothes on the basement floor waiting to be washed. I just step over it.
15) I am a Real World junkie. I have watched every season since the first one in NYC. Yes, I have applied.
16) Also, I tried out for Fear Factor. I didn't make it. I'm not skinny or dumb enough.
17) I love the state of South Dakota. I love the landscape and the people and the wildlife. I would live there if it didn't take me so far away from my family.
18) This is hard
19) I am a picker. I know this is gross...but I love to pick pimples and gross shit like that. I have to bribe my husband to get him to let me "pick" on him.
20) I inherited this picking fetish from my mother.
21) When my husband proposed I told him to "Shut Up!" and I pushed him...like Elaine on Seinfeld.
22) We were engaged on Sanibel Island, FL...his whole family was there and he asked for my Dad's permission before we left on the trip.
23) I drive an orange Honda Element...that car that looks like a giant toaster or roller skate. Lots of people think they are ugly and stupid...but I love my Element and want to keep it forever. Seriously.
24) I secretly wish I had the talent to scrapbook. I just don't have the patience.
25) My second toes are freakishly longer than my big toes. Like weird alien fingers. I'm not even exaggerating.
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