Showing posts with label Memes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memes. Show all posts

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Double Dipping

I know this is lazy, but I'm posting it anyhow. The pyramid tag of the new year. I've already tagged my TWENTY-FIVE people over on facebook, but if you feel left out you can post 25 things about yourself and tag TWENTY-flippin'-FIVE friends of your own. (Did I mention that I think 25 is a pretty unworkable number of people to tag?) Anyway with no further ado, I give you:

25 Random Things about ME

1. I love to read, write and talk.

2. I love to listen so long as I don't have to wait too long before I get to read, write or talk.

3. I am a poor wait-er. I don't start reading series until they are finished. Harry Potter about killed me.

4. I love teaching.

5. I've got six kids. They are some of the smartest, cutest people I know.
 
6. I've got a brother in the Army and a sister in the Navy.
 
7. I wish that Alice from the Brady Bunch or someone very much like her lived with my family.

8. I love poetry.

9. I detest Huckleberry Finn. I own three or four copies of Cliff Notes for Huck because I've never been able to find the previous copy when I have been forced once again to read the greatest American novel.

10. I love Jane Austen. It cracks me up that Mark Twain detested her works. 

11. I love to bake, but hate to cook.

12. When I go to thrift stores, I tend to rearrange their books into more logical order. Atonement doesn't really belong in the religion section. Neither does Paradise.

13. I don't do 13.

14. My bookshelves are a crazy mess.

15. My favorite meal is steak, corn on the cob, tomato soup and baked potatoes. I haven't eaten it in about ten years.

16. Milk is my favorite liquid. Skim. The fattier versions don't get cold enough and feel kind of slimy to me. 

17. Seventeen is my favorite number.

18. I joined the Mormon Church/Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints when I was fifteen years old.

19. My family was really miffed about number 18.

20. I can't swim well, but I love water. I wish I could be in a pool all summer long.

21. I blog at www.supermisc.blogspot.com . (But you know that. Did I promise revelations? No I promised double dipping.)
 
22. I met my husband when I was twenty-two, even though we lived within two miles of each other for the majority of our childhoods.

23. I still don't know my twelve times tables perfectly. And I always have to think about 7x8, 8x6, and 6x7. (I can figure them out, though. Yay me!)

24. I married my husband when I was twenty-four. We just celebrated our seventeenth anniversary.

25. I homeschool my kids. All of them some of the time. Some of them most of the time. They are crazy smart and keep me from succumbing to senility.

Friday, June 13, 2008

It's all about MEME

Tracy M's inspiring me again.
If you like memes consider yourself tagged,
if you hate them feel free to blame Tracy.


Answer these questions.

What were you doing ten years ago?
  • 1998, I was living in Auburn, CA with my husband and three children, moaning about gas prices hitting $ 1.50 a gallon, wondering if I'd ever be able to buy a van and a house. I was new homeschooling mom, with E in Kindergarten.

What are five things on your To-Do list today?

  • Buy new tires for the van.
  • Shower
  • Go to the library
  • Shakespeare in the Park
  • Clean the kitchen


What are your favorite snacks?

  • Ice Cream, any, but good vanilla with rolled oats on top is my favorite
  • Cookies
  • Cookie dough

Places you have lived?
  • Dayton, Ohio
  • Davis, California
  • Provo, Utah
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • Sacramento, California
  • Auburn, California


Five things you would do if you were a billionaire?

  • No debt for me and my family plus a house and a car for each of us. (Is that like wishing for more wishes?)
  • I would buy and renovate every house in my neighborhood.
  • I would buy every vacant lot in town and landscape it.
  • I would get a pedicure every week.
  • I would hire Alice to come live with La family to keep me company and to do the hard work. (And I'd pay her a fortune.)


Five people you want to know more about?

(If it was six I'd choose my kids.)

  • My aunt E
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Fanny Alger
  • My husband
  • My father's twin
What are your favorite scents?
  • Cinnamon
  • Vanilla
  • The Ocean
  • Right Before a Rainstorm
  • Good Compost

What are your favorite games?
  • Othello
  • Quiet as a Mouse
  • Free Association
  • What would you do if you were a billionaire?
  • Broom Hockey

Now go do a Youyou (and let me see).