I've been tagged!

WHAT WERE YOU DOING 10 YEARS AGO?
Getting married & starting my life as an adult:)

FIVE SNACKS YOU ENJOY
Caramel Apples, Chocolate Strawberries, Cookies, Chex Mix and Assorted Cheese

FIVE SONGS YOU KNOW ALL THE LYRICS TO (and belt out whenever you can... I added this)
Grow Old With Me (wedding song...awwwwe); Puttin on the Ritz (all time fav); Total Eclipse of the Heart (love that Bonnie Tyler); I Would do Anything for Love (I'm a closet meatloaf fan) and anything from the Grease soundtrack because let's face it... I'm all girl.

FIVE THINGS YOU WOULD DO IF YOU WERE A MILLIONAIRE
Add on to the house; Sell the minivan; Set up college funds; Hire a maid and Call the Babysitter!!

FIVE BAD HABITS
Being a drama queen; Cursing when I'm mad; Taking things for granted; Being Passage-Aggressive (in spite of the cursing!); and Being a busybody.

FIVE THINGS YOU LIKE TO DO
Eat Carbs; Engage in Good Conversation; Nap; Cuddle with my kids; and Travel

FIVE THINGS YOU'D NEVER WEAR AGAIN
A miniskirt; A mid-drift; Purple nail polish; Mall bangs; or Bright red lipstick

FIVE FAVORITE TOYS
The kids' carnival gun-shooting game (so much fun); Whack-A-Mole; Hulla-ba-loo; my Cuisinart mixer and food processor.

9 Words Women Use...

(this is a great email forward I see from time to time... worthy of a post I think!)

1.) Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.

2.) Five Minutes: If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.

3.) Nothing: This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing usually end in fine.

4.) Go Ahead: This is a dare, not permission. Don't Do It!

5.) Loud Sigh: This is actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing. (Refer back to #3 for the meaning of nothing.)

6.) That's Okay: This is one of the most dangerous statements a women can make to a man. That's okay means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.

7.) Thanks: A woman is thanking you, do not question, or Faint. Just say you're welcome.

8.) Whatever: Is a a direct correlation to the queen mother of all dirty words. You should consider yourself cussed out upon hearing it.

9.) Don't worry about it, I got it: Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing it herself. This will later result in a man asking "What's wrong?" For the woman's response refer to #3.

Father Logic

I just read a great article here and thought I would share it with you in time for Father's Day. It's written by a stay-at-home-dad who discusses the raw logic involved in being a primary caregiver who hasn't resolved to giving up football, impatience with tedious tasks nor any other testosterone-induced traits in general. (Man did it remind me of my main squeeze!)

Hope you enjoy it ~ and a happy father's day to all.

MySpace Bust...

Sometime last winter, my mom excitedly comes to me with the news that all of my younger cousins are keeping in touch on-line, "you know, kinda like that bloggy thing you do with your other cousins!" So I ask her if it is indeed the "bloggy thing" that they're doing and after calling her sister to confirm, she says "it's something called MySpace..."

Well, with that limited information, I was hardly able to check it out but another month goes by and she tells me it's under my cousin Aaron's band name. So I check it out and indeed, there are all of my younger cousins, being hip and edgy and chatting it up.

I didn't want to be a lurker, but Andy's all freaked out about the privacy factors and company in MySpace (being as it's on the news every other night) so I made an attempt to befriend them using the alias "Frankie Incognito"; thinking that it would be fun to be involved, but at the same time, I could fly below the radar (thus keeping my husband happy and not giving myself up as that old & boring straight-laced cousin of theirs...)

Well, after a while, I found it very boring to be a stranger. I started laying the obvious on thick, such as "wow, I'm from North St. Paul too!" "I had an aunt and uncle in wrestling too!" and of course, the obvious "man, we could be cousins!" While it seemed like the perfect way to reveal myself, I'm sure they're just thinking "who is this person!?"

Having been defeated in my clever attempts to reveal myself, and having a crappy internet connection, I got lazy and gave up. It's been a few months since I've been on the site or checking in on this cousins. But alas, I got a call from mom the other day "check your MySpace thingy!" And there was a message from my cousin Kandis entitled "BUSTED!" Evidently, it was eating at my mom too - so during a conversation with my aunt, she revealed who exactly "Frankie" was.

Ah well, it was fun being young and edgy while it lasted (though now I realize I should have embellished a little more!!)

(Thanks, Lib!)

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