about me

Nina and Erina have both tagged me in this little game of "about me"...

We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
*Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
*People who are tagged write their own blog post about their eight things and include these rules.
*At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged and they should read your blog.

Here goes:

1. I love nature.
I love it. I love where I live and the fact that every day I see deer and their fawn in our fields. I love that there are hawks and eagles and osprey overhead, crabs and jellyfish in the brackish water, and muskrats in the pond. Toads hop all over. Foxes prance about. I get to enjoy it all.

2. I re-joined a gym.
I rejoined yesterday. I was feeling the need and with my new, improved, shorter commute, I decided that I can reallocate that hour and commit to working out again. I am already loving the return on the elliptical and looking forward to yoga again soon.

3. Classroom underway.
I am getting there. I am one of the few obsessed and nervous teachers that has been traipsing through the empty halls at school to make sure that things are ready at the beginning of the year. My bulletin boards are in process, my desks arranged, closets sorted, cupboards organized.

4. I am obsessed with To do lists.
I love them. I love making them, checking off completed items, updating them with a highlighter, finishing them and then moving on to a new list.

5. Stores give me the creeps.
I have a childlike fear of going to stores with other people and being left behind. Maybe its leftover from the days of Punky Brewster, but whenever I am in a store, I feel incredible anxiety if I lose sight of who I am with.

6. My blood is tasty.
Or so say the bugs. I get eaten all summer long.

7. I am listening to new music.
I have been working with rhapsody to develop some new playlists to listen to while sewing or cleaning or cooking. So far, I have a new folk-ish one and a reggae dancehall playlist, too. Imagine me, scooting about the apartment, to a deep bass beat.

8. I know the secret to rainy day fun.
Todd and I discovered it today. It involves big buckets of soapy bubbles, hoses, cars, washing the cars, and being drenched overhead by big drops of rain. It involves spraying each other and not caring because you are already soaked.

Okay, my turn.
I am tagging Todd again, although he may be a spoil-sport.
I am tagging Becky and Tracy because they need some new posts.
I am tagging Nicole and Blondie.
Its not 8, but it'll do.

5 things about me meme

thanks, nicole... for my first time tag.
i'd love to play along, so here are 5 things about me.

one: i love to sleep. i can sleep just about anywhere, anytime. naps can be the most favorite time of day. i love to go to bed early. i love to try to sleep late. if i have one fear for having children, it is that i will lose my precious time to sleep, sleep, sleep.

two: i have a love/hate relationship with my car. her name is jeannie and i love my time to and from work when i get to sip my coffee and listen to npr or books on tape. simultaneously, i have been mad at her ever since i crashed her last year in the snow. she's just never been the same. never will be. i know its my fault, but i can't help but take it out on her. yes, i have an established relationship with a vehicle. i am sure that someday i will be very sad to see her go. she'll have to fall apart first.

three: i get sick easily and often. i am always around germs, germs, germs, and no matter how much i wash my hands, i am constantly cuddling with little germy creatures that need all the love that i can give. i just can't resist hugs and cuddles, even when their noses are drippy and especially when they are sicky-sick and their parents have sent them to school anyway. you would think sleep would help toughen up that immune system, but...

four: i am not a fan of modern medicine yet i have been prescribed five new medicines in the last five months. i have been given three prescriptions to handle only my adult acne. :-) i have also been prescribed one medicinal lotion to rid myself of a weird bumpy thing on the backs of my arms, and a new birth control that will hopefully alleviate the acne with out having to take months worth of antibiotics. this was all after an hour long conversation with my gynecologist who i was secretly hoping would become friends with todd and i. he's married and about our age and doesn't have kids yet. however, he had just looked at my privates and i wasn't sure it would be professional to ask him if he and his wife would be our friends.

five: today is my birthday. i am 29. that makes me think back and reflect on the fact that a. i have a terrible memory and b. what i do remember is either bizarre enough that i question its validity or very mundane. my earliest memories include: singing "he's go the whole world in his hands" at preschool and getting a floppy record, eating liver off a blue plastic plate, and my kindergarten teacher terrifying us of balloons because of some poor, small child who choked and died. ah, those were the day.

I am not sure i'll get any response, but i am tagging blondie and todd.