Exceedingly Mundane

Sleep:

1. Are you more of a morning person or a night person? Explain: I’m a night owl. I’m a terrible grouch in the mornings; always have been.

2. Name the two longest times you have gone without sleep: Hmmm, I value sleep so it’s hard to come up with any! I know when I went on my senior trip in high school (cruise to the Bahamas), I didn’t sleep hardly at all, and when we flew home, I think I slept for 16 or 18 hours the first night. Also, my junior year of college, I took 21 hours of classes and that semester’s finals week nearly did me in.

3. Do you “function” with little sleep or do you require a “full night” of sleep? No, I absolutely positively must have a good night’s sleep. Or else I’m a total grouch and can’t think straight. I get a headache if I don’t get enough sleep! 🙂

4. What two things can cause you to lose sleep? Explain: Worrying about anything or stressing about anything. Also, not really “losing sleep”, but if I mess up and have a cappuccino at 8:30 PM at Cups (like I did last year), then I will still be awake at 3 AM.

5. Do you or someone you know suffer from any sleep disorders? Explain: I think Fred has sleep apnea. Also, I know Suzie has been to a sleep clinic and I think she may have a form of sleep apnea also. Suzie? Bueller? Anyone?

This was in an email I got…. so true! I work very hard at making this a beautiful reality. 🙂

Surround yourself with what you love, Whether it’s family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

Well, today’s is not so much something that just makes me jump up and down for joy. More of like, I’m so happy and thankful to have this today.

Tylenol.

Today, I’m happy to have Tylenol to help with my headache. I woke up with a horrible headache and it’s tolerable if I’m taking tylenol. So, thank goodness we have a big bottle in the house 🙂

This week’s questions are all about you! Nothing personal; just for fun…

1. On what day of the week were you born? Sunday. You know, Sunday’s child is full of grace. Blah blah blah. That’s me 😀
2. Do you look forward to birthdays? Now that I have Tim, I do. I never really did before I met him. 😐
3. How do you usually celebrate your birthday? With Tim, nothing special usually, but last year he took me to the mountains. Which was fantabulous
4. Do you like surprises? Not usually
5. Has anyone ever thrown you a surprise party? No
6. How many family and friends’ birthdays can you remember right off the top of your head? Very few. Me and that horrible memory problem
7. Do you send cards to your family and friends on their birthday? Yes, mostly family
8. What kind of cake do you like? Um, well, let’s see… gotta think about that one. Not. DUH! Chocolate!
9. What kind of ice cream goes best with it? French Vanilla
10. When is your birthday? (You don’t have to share the year with us if you answer this question.) October 18

A day late and a dollar short, but I’m doing my word associations anyway 😆

I say … and you think … ?

Idiot:: Stupid
Rocket:: Science
Liability:: Asset
Harmless:: won’t hurt a fly
Stringy:: greasy
Gwyneth:: Paltrow
Use it or lose it:: huh?
Theater:: Broadway
Sonic:: YUM!
Pucker:: up

Just saw this, in someone’s signature and it made me laugh 🙂

“I used to skinny dip….now I chunky dunk.”

I have at least two things that I’m really happy about today:

1. I got to go get a bunch of gift cards for everyone, for participating in the Hambones one year celebrations at the main website. It was so much fun for me to do all of that, and getting other people little happies always brings a big smile to my face.

2. I went back to Hobby Lobby again today, because they were having a big scrapbook sale and many many items were 50% off. I got a bunch of paper and some stickers, so that made me really happy! Maybe later tonight or tomorrow I’ll take a picture of all my loot and post it. Something only a scrapper would understand, but it makes me really happy to have new paper and stickers and things to fondle and play with!!

I’ve been busier than a bee all day today, running around. I had a lot of personal errands to run, and also wanted to go out and get most of the gift cards that family and friends won on our Hambones Anniversary celebrations that finished up this morning. I think all together, I made 11 or 12 stops today! Whew! I still have a couple more to go, and then get them all mailed or arranged to get to people. I hope everyone really enjoyed playing in all the little silly games we had on the main website as part of the one year festivities.

Today I’m happy because it’s peaceful, quiet and we’re staying home and spending the whole day together!

I have at least two things I’m happy about today 🙂

1. Tim helped me with some stuff this morning I had been wanting to do for a while – move our heavy bedroom furniture around so I could vacuum up under and behind them, and also dust parts I can’t normally reach. We have a terrible problem with dust in this house, for whatever reason, and it stops me up and makes me have beaucoup sinus problems. So, we got that done, that makes me happy!

2. We’re going to go see a movie later this afternoon (using Tim’s free Blingo movie ticket he won), then to eat up in Madison. We’re going to go have dessert at the new Cold Stone Creamery that opened. YEAH! I’ve been wanting to go so badly all summer and they finally opened last week. I hope it’s as good as it looks!

Forgot to mention that Tim and his buddies at work have disbanded their weight loss group. He told me tonight.

We’ll still try to follow the same healthy-eating plan that we’re doing, and hopefully still keep up with our walks and exercise. He’s been in this group several years, but I think it was time to stop or at least break for a while. I think/hope that between the two of us, we can put together enough discipline not to go hog wild now that he is not weighing in (with money involved!) on a weekly basis. We’ll see! Wish us luck! 😀

Not everyone would think that what I did today was fun, but to me it was very very very fun!

I went out to our new Hobby Lobby and spent a while there browsing their scrapbook section. I did glance in the seasonal stuff up front – they already have all of their fall and Christmas stuff out, or at least a lot of it. Granted, I didn’t check out the rest of the store, but I will on another trip. Today was all about buying scrapbook stuff!

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Feast Fifty-Nine
Friday, August 12, 2005

Appetizer
Did you sleep good last night? Yes!

Soup
What is your current computer desktop image? A rocky beachfront with a beautiful small lighthouse.

Salad
When was the last time you planted something, what was it and where did it go? A few days ago I planted a new yellow purslane in a terra cotta pot and put it on my deck. It is blooming today! 🙂

Main Course
What’s your favorite condiment? Easy. Mayonnaise

Dessert
Share a quote that you like, for whatever reason. I have lots that I love, they are all on the Random Quotes section on the homepage of Hambones.

From:

The final countdown…

5. Did you follow NASA’s latest space mission? Yes, very closely. From the first delayed launch, to the actual launch, to footage of the tiles going off and the piece of foam, to the spacewalk where they pulled out the filler fabric under the tiles. I did miss the landing as I was still asleep. Am reading today about the new probe that was launched to explore Mars. Watched and read much about the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity and we saw a great presentation on them last summer at the Johnson Space Center. If you can’t tell, I LOVE this stuff!

4. If you could launch a politician into space, and perhaps they wouldn’t make it back, who would it be? Not everyone will agree, but I’d send former President Clinton to Uranus or Pluto, never to return. JMHO

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Yippppeeeeeee! I just called the phone number for the new Hobby Lobby opening out on Lakeland. I had seen in the paper that they were opening Monday, but sometimes they actually open before the grand opening or the ribbon cutting or whatever. I found the phone number on their website and called and the lady said they opened at 9 AM today. YEAH! I know where I’m going this afternoon!