Meme Fun Brought to You by 10 Random Things About Me

So today is the day I list 10 random things about me, thanks to Helene over at 2SetsOfTwins who tagged me probably a millenium ago. Did I mention she has like a million kids? I lost count, but she's got a lot of them.

I guess I'm supposed to list 10 random things about me, so, where to begin?

Let me think.


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1) Oh, yeah, I have an almost crippling fear of floor fuzzies. Our floors are completely hardwood, so the floor fuzzies just float around at their leisure whenever they somehow magically appear. There are many-a-afternoon in which I stop whatever I'm doing just to hunt down the floor fuzzies. I hate floor fuzzies. Floor fuzzies are one of those things that G-d cursed Eve with after the apple incident.

2)I can put my legs behind my head. Good ol' pilates - it'll make you do crazy things with your limbs.

3) Someday, within the next five years, I will go an african safari with Kaydn Rye. And it won't be one of those safaris where you ride around in jeeps with a cartfull of tourists; no, we will be on horseback through the African wild with our trusty lion-eating sidekick dog and a safari guide. Oh, but we will come back to a nice and cozy motel and a nice fluffy bed in the evenings. Hubby says he is staying here.

4)I graduated from college with a double major in writing/literature and New Testament Greek. At this time I currently have no recollection of any New Testament Greek, but every month I pay the down the $10,000 my vast knowledge of the Greek language ended up costing me.

5) Kaydn Rye was born my senior year of college, and until maybe about the time he was four or five months old, I had no bonding experience with him whatsoever. He was like this screaming, sucking, wiggling, peeing-on-the-wall, little creature living in my spare bedroom. One day a lightbulb flicked on in my head and he went from my little creature to my little boy in a second.

6) One day I will buy a farm where I will raise a fainting goat herd with a few ducks, a couple pigs, and maybe a sheep or two.

What? You've never seen a fainting goat? Well here you go....



I may be a city girl, but even a city girl needs her fainting goat herd.

7) According to my husband, I am a closet tree-hugger. Apparently you can't lobby for the rain forest and be republican at the same time, but I say you can.

8) I am addicted to mascara. I think it is one of man's greatest inventions. And before I leave the house I have to make sure every single lash is perfectly separated and in place.

I know. This is why I don't have more kids, I'd never end up leaving the house. And yes, I have considered seeing a therapist about this compulsion, but I figure of all the compulsions a person could have, this one isn't so bad.

9) I have a fear of the dark that has plagued me since pretty much infancy. I still sleep with a night light and the shades open so there's plenty of light from the streetlights. And I always sleep with all my legs and arms completely under the covers so that there is at least a barrier between me and whatever else might be in the room. On our wedding night, my husband had no idea that I still sleep with a night light, and I think he thought I was joking when I turned the night light on before we went to bed. But believe me, I was not joking.

10) Before I started my investigations business, I was on my way to training camp with the Department of Homeland Security in New Mexico for six months of wonderful fun. The goal was to start with something like the border patrol and eventually work my way all the way to the FBI. But of course, when the time came, I couldn't leave my little munchkin behind, and that was the end of my career with federal government, as disappointed as I'm sure they are. I could have been the next Clarice Starling.

So, those are my ten random and wonderful things, and because I am not much of a tagger, if you are reading this, consider yourself officially tagged. Just come back here, leave a comment and link back to your post.

Oh, and Helene was gracious enough to bestow this as well upon my humble little blog for all the gratitude that I guess pops up here....



I can sometimes be pretty uptight, anal, un-appreciative, self-involved, and very ungrateful, so I'm glad that I am making progress in the areas of personal growth and that that is evident here at Thoughts From a Sometimes Desperate Housewife. I sometimes forget to thank Jesus for all that he's been so busy tending to in my life, but He is the one who makes it all happen around here.

And I am grateful that Helene bestowed this most fabulous award upon my blog, and I am grateful that I probably officially have more blogging friends than I do actual friends. I don't know if that's something to be grateful for, or if that's just really sad. I don't know.

I never know who to bequeath my many awards to. I just never know, so I usually cop-out somehow. Usually I pass the award on to one other person who really embodies the award. That person today is Lee at Moms Without Blogs. She has a great heart and an attitude of gratitude, so the academy has voted, oh wait, this is not a democracy...I have voted, and Lee is our lucky recipient.

I know I really suck at all these blogging obligations, but I try to keep up. I'm all about memes, which I didn't know the definition of until I started blogging, I just have so much stuff always floating around my brain that it sometimes takes me awhile to get around to everything.

Here's to a week full of nothing floating around in my brain.....




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