Sharon challenged me to a meme: 6 things I have not written about before, that you don't know about me......
1) Until today I hated my dental hygienist. She creeped me out by asking about my husband every time I had my teeth cleaned. Not normal questions, but things like shoe and shirt size, favorite food, sports team......weird. Today she tried really hard to do her job while I wore a fussy Blueberry in my Moby wrap and Lil'Bug danced around trying to help her clean my teeth. She was patient and wonderful and we all walked out happy. Not. One. Meltdown. Awesome.
2) I stopped wearing make up about 6 months ago because of pregnancy. I didn't want to absorb the cosmetics into my skin and harm the baby. Silly? Maybe. I figured I go back to caking it on after she was born BUT my skin has never felt so good. I actually don't get the old sinking feeling when I look in a mirror in the morning. I don't need foundation "for sunscreen" anymore either. Maybe I am not meeting the standard for beauty, but I feel great and not slimy. I expected to look in the mirror for the first time post delivery and see a splotched, bloated, frazzled version of myself but I was pleasantly surprised. It was surreal.
3) I once hugged Tori Amos. However I clawed my way through a crowd to do it and that kind of ruins the memory for me.
4) I once talked the ear off of the former Governor of Iowa at a luncheon. He listened and asked questions about my thesis for close to two hours. I had no idea who he was. I thought "Governor Ray" was a nickname or something. Seriously. Later he sent a lovely note to my boss at the museum with a list of additional resources he thought would be useful to me in research. So he was actually interested! Still, I had no idea who he was until my boss told me. For those outside of Iowa- Governor Ray was in office for 14 years and has a giraffe named after him at our zoo.
5) Cooking with lard grosses me out. I do cook with bacon grease. I know it is the same thing, but scooping out lard is yucky. I feel the same way about making gravy. Yucky. But I'll eat gravy.
6) I love science fiction books from the 1940's and 50's. Theodore Sturgeon is my favorite. He wrote the short story that E.T. was based on.
I tag my current blogroll, lazy I know, but I have laundry to attend to!
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Wednesday Smiles and Dental Thing Plus Meme
Mother, wife, sister, friend. This is our second year on the farm, a dream we've had since we were first married. We unschool, AP parent, and grow our own food (or try to).
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Flogging Molly is Good Cleaning Music
I've listened to Flogging Molly for years, passively, but enjoyed every bit. A friend once said it was good music to clean to; my preferred clean the house quick and furiously music was anything by the Beastie Boys but now that is not kid appropriate, not really.
Question for you all....what music, if any do you clean to? Do you use different music for daily mundane chores than you do for the fast and furious this-must-be-done-quickly-OMG-AGH! cleaning?
Question for you all....what music, if any do you clean to? Do you use different music for daily mundane chores than you do for the fast and furious this-must-be-done-quickly-OMG-AGH! cleaning?
Mother, wife, sister, friend. This is our second year on the farm, a dream we've had since we were first married. We unschool, AP parent, and grow our own food (or try to).
Mucking Mucky Muck
How can our house be so messy when we left it 2 days ago clean and tidy? Oh yeah, storm clean up chaos.
I am stuck in the muck, tired, sour bellied, and just worn out. How can I clean? So I am standing bewildered in my kitchen unable to figure out where to start while both my girls are very, very, busy. Sigh.
Anyone know how to get play dough "birthday cake" (ie florescent orange and brown play dough mixed with too much water) out of red velvet upholstery?
I am stuck in the muck, tired, sour bellied, and just worn out. How can I clean? So I am standing bewildered in my kitchen unable to figure out where to start while both my girls are very, very, busy. Sigh.
Anyone know how to get play dough "birthday cake" (ie florescent orange and brown play dough mixed with too much water) out of red velvet upholstery?
Mother, wife, sister, friend. This is our second year on the farm, a dream we've had since we were first married. We unschool, AP parent, and grow our own food (or try to).
Power to the People
That's us, yo.
We have our power back on.
Will blog later when I am finished mucking out the fridge. Then I have to figure out what we need to buy for the week. Oh, and make my house smell less like spoiled food.
I'm keeping good humor. At least we had no structural or familial damage (ie, we worked together and only hung up the phone on each other twice...LOL!).
We have our power back on.
Will blog later when I am finished mucking out the fridge. Then I have to figure out what we need to buy for the week. Oh, and make my house smell less like spoiled food.
I'm keeping good humor. At least we had no structural or familial damage (ie, we worked together and only hung up the phone on each other twice...LOL!).
Mother, wife, sister, friend. This is our second year on the farm, a dream we've had since we were first married. We unschool, AP parent, and grow our own food (or try to).
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