Good morning all! I have been tagged by the beautiful Mona.
TAG RULES
1.) Link to the person that tagged you.
2.) Post the rules on your blog.
3.) List six unspectacular quirks you have.
4.) Tag six bloggers by linking them.
5.) Leave a comment on each persons blog to let them know they've been tagged.
My quirks....
1. Spontaneous singing in public. My kids hate this quirk about me because if a song is in my head then it automatically comes out of my mouth no matter where I am at and you never know what song is going to come out. Sometimes I think the song itself is the most embarrassing part for my kids because I am a mom therefore I am not supposed to know all the cool hip songs, to their way of thinking.
2. Most women have a thing for shoes or purses but not me,no sir, my thing is for automobiles. That is right, anything with four wheels and a steering wheel and I am lovin' it, it doesn't matter if it has a manual or automatic transmission just move over and let me take a drive. The quirk that comes with this is that at night I can see headlights/tail lights and identify the make, model and most of the time the year of the vehicle either coming towards me or going past me. If you ever want to see me really drool then take me to a vintage car show, my hands itch to get behind the wheel and feel the power especially if it is a 68 or 69 Super Sport Chevelle.
3. When I buy a book I can't get rid of it even if I don't really care for it that much. A lot of people I know will take their books and trade them or swap with friends but I can't seem to make myself do that.
4. I can't stand seeing an unmade bed. I do not know where this comes from but at my house if the beds are not occupied then they have to be made neatly.
5. I can't take a shower with the bathroom door closed. When the steam from the shower starts flowing through the room I will get very claustrophobic and freak out if the door isn't open. This sometimes causes a problem when we are on trips or not at home. By freak out I mean that my chest feels like it is being squeezed, I break out all over with sweat, my heart feels like it is going to beat out of my chest, I get lightheaded, and I have been known to cry almost hysterically to keep from fainting.
6. I am a detail person. I pay more attention to those little minute details about things. If someone is explaining how something works to me they need to include those details because if not then I will have question after question after question about it. My middle child, Bethany, shares this quirk with me.
As for tagging other bloggers, I normally wouldn't tag but in this case I would like to know a bit more about each one of these ladies. You will notice that the last one is my daughter, I am curious about her answers as well because sometimes it is things like this that we don't think to talk about so there might be a quirk about her that I haven't caught on to or noticed.
Peach
Shari
Angela
Erica
Bethany
Y'all have a beautiful day and be safe!
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
hello, hello.....
Hey all! It has been almost a week since I last posted so I thought I better go ahead and take the time to post real quick. We are finally getting some rain after a very long dry period and I couldn't be more happy seeing the wet stuff fall because this means that the air will clear some and then our sinus/allergies will clear as well. We are also expecting rain tomorrow and Wednesday..yay!!
This is going to be a very busy week for us starting tonight. Our church is having it's yearly Harvest Revival this week from 7-9 each night (mon-fri). I do not know how tomorrow evening is going to play out but I do know that in order to attend everything that it is on our schedule I need to have three bodies instead of the one. We have Ty's first actual football game from 6:30-8...GO EAGLES!! also at 6:30 we have the first parent meeting of the 2008-09 Girl Scout year, and then of course the revival. I have told Bethany's troop leader that we will probably not be there because there is no way I am missing my sons first football game, the troop leader will just have to email me all the info they go over or call me Wednesday with it.
If any of you have been over to Bethany's (my daughter) blog then you know that she is a crazed fan of the Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer. Bethany and I share a love of books and we often discuss the books we are reading with one another in the evenings if by chance we find ourselves alone in the living room. Since Bethany started reading the Twilight saga she has told me about the books, no spoilers just a basic storyline and I have been very fascinated from the first moment. As I mentioned in a previous post, I bought her the fourth book that hit the shelves on August 2 for her birthday which was August 3. I pre-ordered the book online and when it arrived I couldn't help but read a few paragraphs which then lead me to stop and ask Bethany if I could borrow her set so that I could read them in order. I started the first book and read about two chapters in probably two weeks because I was so busy that I couldn't get a chance to sit and dig in while reading so last Monday I finally picked the book back up, started at the beginning and couldn't let go until I had finished with the fourth book yesterday. Now I too am a huge fan of the Twilight saga and I can't wait until the movie comes out in November so that I can take Bethany and my best friends daughter to see it. I am not getting my hopes up though because the books are always better than the movie but I am excited to see what they do with it.
I am sure that all of you heard about the tragic school shooting that happened in Knoxville last week at Central High School. I find it very scary that in the past month Knoxville has been on national news twice, the church shooting and now the school shooting. When these things happen in your backyard it lets you know that yes these things can happen where you are. My prayers go out to all of the families involved in both incidents.
Well, I hear the dryercalling my name buzzing once again. Y'all have a beautiful day and take care!
This is going to be a very busy week for us starting tonight. Our church is having it's yearly Harvest Revival this week from 7-9 each night (mon-fri). I do not know how tomorrow evening is going to play out but I do know that in order to attend everything that it is on our schedule I need to have three bodies instead of the one. We have Ty's first actual football game from 6:30-8...GO EAGLES!! also at 6:30 we have the first parent meeting of the 2008-09 Girl Scout year, and then of course the revival. I have told Bethany's troop leader that we will probably not be there because there is no way I am missing my sons first football game, the troop leader will just have to email me all the info they go over or call me Wednesday with it.
If any of you have been over to Bethany's (my daughter) blog then you know that she is a crazed fan of the Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer. Bethany and I share a love of books and we often discuss the books we are reading with one another in the evenings if by chance we find ourselves alone in the living room. Since Bethany started reading the Twilight saga she has told me about the books, no spoilers just a basic storyline and I have been very fascinated from the first moment. As I mentioned in a previous post, I bought her the fourth book that hit the shelves on August 2 for her birthday which was August 3. I pre-ordered the book online and when it arrived I couldn't help but read a few paragraphs which then lead me to stop and ask Bethany if I could borrow her set so that I could read them in order. I started the first book and read about two chapters in probably two weeks because I was so busy that I couldn't get a chance to sit and dig in while reading so last Monday I finally picked the book back up, started at the beginning and couldn't let go until I had finished with the fourth book yesterday. Now I too am a huge fan of the Twilight saga and I can't wait until the movie comes out in November so that I can take Bethany and my best friends daughter to see it. I am not getting my hopes up though because the books are always better than the movie but I am excited to see what they do with it.
I am sure that all of you heard about the tragic school shooting that happened in Knoxville last week at Central High School. I find it very scary that in the past month Knoxville has been on national news twice, the church shooting and now the school shooting. When these things happen in your backyard it lets you know that yes these things can happen where you are. My prayers go out to all of the families involved in both incidents.
Well, I hear the dryer
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
catchin' up quickly...
Hey all! I wanted to post an update here. I am still breathing even though I haven't been around much lately. On top of being super busy, we are all sick with sinus/allergy problems.....gotta love hayfever time!
I hope all of you are doing well!
I hope all of you are doing well!
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
what do you fear?
Each morning as I am taking the kids to school I listen to my favorite radio station, 107.7 WIVK. It is a country station because you all know how I am about my country music and all but anyway.....I listen to this station in the morning not for the music but for the information. This station is the first to announce important closures, traffic reports, weather reports, urgent news articles or what have you. Not only are the up to the minute on all the important details of life, they also talk of weird and/or odd things that you usually wouldn't hear. Today they were talking about weird things (fears,phobia's,superstitions..etc..) that has stuck with us from childhood. They were talking about fears/phobia's that are most common which are spiders and snakes. There was a woman that had emailed in and told them that if she is watching tv and sees a snake(s) that she can't sleep that night and if she is walking in a park and sees a snake she will never go back to that park from fear of seeing another snake. She said that her husband wanted to take her to a pet store that had snakes so that she can get up close and personal with them to help her fear but she refused, her husband calls her crazy over her fear of snakes however, she calls him crazy because he thinks that if she were around snakes it would take her fear away.
I can relate to this woman because I have a very deep ingrained fear of snakes, as a matter of fact snakes are my worst fear. There are a lot of things in this world that I fear but snakes top the list for me. I have had this fear of snakes for as long as I can remember so there wasn't one incident that put this fear in me. If I go to a pet store, which I often do to pet the puppies, kittens, & birds, I stay away from the snakes because I will have nightmares about them that night. I can watch shows about them like "Venom 9-1-1" and sometimes I do not have nightmares but more often than not I won't sleep well that night. If I am driving down the road or riding in the car with someone and we see a snake slithering across the road I will have my feet on the dash before you can blink and for our remaining time in that vehicle I will keep looking in the floorboard to see if the snake slithering across the road has somehow got stuck around the tire or caught near the motor and is making it's way out via near my feet. Sounds crazy and is funny to some but this it is real to me. I honestly believe that snakes are evil and as Kathy Bates' character in "Waterboy" says about everything, "they are of the devil." Now if I am walking in a park and I see a snake, that doesn't keep me from going back to walk at that particular park but it does make me hesitant when I come upon the area where I previously saw the snake and most times I will not walk near that area until someone else comes along if I am alone.
Another fear I have is of heights. When I was pregnant with our oldest child, Chesney, the farther along in the pregnancy I got the more I dreamed of a glass staircase going up into nothing with no hand rails and nothing below it and that is where my fear of heights came from. Before I became pregnant heights didn't bother me at all but the older I become the worse it gets for me. I love Tennessee Volunteers football and I always wanted to go see a game at Neyland Stadium, better known as "The Big House", so finally Mr. B took me and the next year he took me one more time, I have not been back and don't see myself going back because when I get in that stadium my equilibrium goes berserk and I am left unbalanced and disoriented. Mr. B likes to sit up higher in the stadium but each time I have been if I stand up I start falling sideways but I think I am standing straight, also when it is time to go or if we are taking a bathroom break I have to close my eyes and hold on to Mr. B while walking down the stairs because those really throw me off, we probably looked like a couple of loons walking down those steps when we went because here I am with a death grip on Mr. B with my eyes closed and he is telling me to step now, step now, go to the right for this group of people coming up and so on.
Everybody always laughs about it but I am a double checker. When we leave I double check curling irons, straighteners, lamps, tv, computers, windows, dryer, dishwasher..etc... to make sure that nothing is left on, open, or running, I do a repeat before bed. Another fear for me and this one sounds somewhat silly but I fear uncleanliness. To explain my fear of uncleanliness here is are some examples. 1..I am busy cleaning house all morning and wait until I complete what I am doing to shower but before I get to shower someone calls with an emergency and I have to leave. Not only do I have to leave but on my way to or from where I was going I end up in an accident and have to be taken to the hospital, they wouldn't have to worry about injuries from the wreck killing me because I would die of shame at not having took a shower. 2...I am busy or tired and don't get the hardwood swept or the kitchen mopped or the dishes in the dishwasher immediately so that I can take rest a moment then while I am resting someone stops by unannounced. Mr. B tells me I worry too much and that as a child I shouldn't have taken the saying "never leave home without clean undergarments on" so literal.
So now you know what some of my fears are, what are some of your fears?
I can relate to this woman because I have a very deep ingrained fear of snakes, as a matter of fact snakes are my worst fear. There are a lot of things in this world that I fear but snakes top the list for me. I have had this fear of snakes for as long as I can remember so there wasn't one incident that put this fear in me. If I go to a pet store, which I often do to pet the puppies, kittens, & birds, I stay away from the snakes because I will have nightmares about them that night. I can watch shows about them like "Venom 9-1-1" and sometimes I do not have nightmares but more often than not I won't sleep well that night. If I am driving down the road or riding in the car with someone and we see a snake slithering across the road I will have my feet on the dash before you can blink and for our remaining time in that vehicle I will keep looking in the floorboard to see if the snake slithering across the road has somehow got stuck around the tire or caught near the motor and is making it's way out via near my feet. Sounds crazy and is funny to some but this it is real to me. I honestly believe that snakes are evil and as Kathy Bates' character in "Waterboy" says about everything, "they are of the devil." Now if I am walking in a park and I see a snake, that doesn't keep me from going back to walk at that particular park but it does make me hesitant when I come upon the area where I previously saw the snake and most times I will not walk near that area until someone else comes along if I am alone.
Another fear I have is of heights. When I was pregnant with our oldest child, Chesney, the farther along in the pregnancy I got the more I dreamed of a glass staircase going up into nothing with no hand rails and nothing below it and that is where my fear of heights came from. Before I became pregnant heights didn't bother me at all but the older I become the worse it gets for me. I love Tennessee Volunteers football and I always wanted to go see a game at Neyland Stadium, better known as "The Big House", so finally Mr. B took me and the next year he took me one more time, I have not been back and don't see myself going back because when I get in that stadium my equilibrium goes berserk and I am left unbalanced and disoriented. Mr. B likes to sit up higher in the stadium but each time I have been if I stand up I start falling sideways but I think I am standing straight, also when it is time to go or if we are taking a bathroom break I have to close my eyes and hold on to Mr. B while walking down the stairs because those really throw me off, we probably looked like a couple of loons walking down those steps when we went because here I am with a death grip on Mr. B with my eyes closed and he is telling me to step now, step now, go to the right for this group of people coming up and so on.
Everybody always laughs about it but I am a double checker. When we leave I double check curling irons, straighteners, lamps, tv, computers, windows, dryer, dishwasher..etc... to make sure that nothing is left on, open, or running, I do a repeat before bed. Another fear for me and this one sounds somewhat silly but I fear uncleanliness. To explain my fear of uncleanliness here is are some examples. 1..I am busy cleaning house all morning and wait until I complete what I am doing to shower but before I get to shower someone calls with an emergency and I have to leave. Not only do I have to leave but on my way to or from where I was going I end up in an accident and have to be taken to the hospital, they wouldn't have to worry about injuries from the wreck killing me because I would die of shame at not having took a shower. 2...I am busy or tired and don't get the hardwood swept or the kitchen mopped or the dishes in the dishwasher immediately so that I can take rest a moment then while I am resting someone stops by unannounced. Mr. B tells me I worry too much and that as a child I shouldn't have taken the saying "never leave home without clean undergarments on" so literal.
So now you know what some of my fears are, what are some of your fears?
Friday, August 08, 2008
we made it...yay!!!!
It has been such a hectic week here. First of all the kids went back to school a week ago today. Saturday we went to watch our friends son play in a scrimmage game of football. Once Ty saw the game he wanted to sign up ,so he did. He is on the Peewee team because his birthday falls after September 1 however, Mr. B and I think that is a good thing because he has never been in pads until Monday evening at practice, he really impressed me since all he had ever played was front/backyard football. His team practices on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 6-8PM, when the regular games start they will be on Tuesdays and sometimes on Mondays. Their Jamboree game will take place tomorrow so we are excited to see what comes of that. For now Ty is starting on the B team which is second string (most of you probably know this but I didn't) but yesterday at practice he really got the coaches attention so he may be moved up to A team before the season is over.
Sunday was Bethany's 13th birthday and all she has talked about for months is the new book in the Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer, Breaking Dawn. This book was released on August 2nd but I had pre-ordered it online so that we could get her copy without waiting in the long lines at the bookstore. The book came on Monday and when I opened it I couldn't keep myself from reading an excerpt from it so now I am going to have to read the entire series to answer my questions from the first two or three paragraphs in the first chapter of the new book, Bethany wouldn't answer any of my questions about the situation being explained in those paragraphs. I have been telling her that I wanted to read them so now I am definitely going to make good on that one.
I don't think I have mentioned it in any of my previous posts but Mr. B and I have been losing weight since the last week in April and we are doing very well with it. Yesterday morning I climbed on the scales to see if I had lost any more weight and I was surprised to find that I have lost 31 lbs. This really excites me because I haven't really worked that hard to lose the weight and we haven't denied ourselves any food that we wanted. At the end of this year I will post before and after pics of myself.
I hear the dryer buzzing so I guess that means that I need to sign off and get busy again. Y'all have a wonderful weekend!
Sunday was Bethany's 13th birthday and all she has talked about for months is the new book in the Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer, Breaking Dawn. This book was released on August 2nd but I had pre-ordered it online so that we could get her copy without waiting in the long lines at the bookstore. The book came on Monday and when I opened it I couldn't keep myself from reading an excerpt from it so now I am going to have to read the entire series to answer my questions from the first two or three paragraphs in the first chapter of the new book, Bethany wouldn't answer any of my questions about the situation being explained in those paragraphs. I have been telling her that I wanted to read them so now I am definitely going to make good on that one.
I don't think I have mentioned it in any of my previous posts but Mr. B and I have been losing weight since the last week in April and we are doing very well with it. Yesterday morning I climbed on the scales to see if I had lost any more weight and I was surprised to find that I have lost 31 lbs. This really excites me because I haven't really worked that hard to lose the weight and we haven't denied ourselves any food that we wanted. At the end of this year I will post before and after pics of myself.
I hear the dryer buzzing so I guess that means that I need to sign off and get busy again. Y'all have a wonderful weekend!
Monday, August 04, 2008
special wishes.....
Yesterday was a special day around our house, Bethany turned 13. She has finally made it to her teenage years. At church I teach the Teens Sunday School class and for months Bethany has complained about being in the Juniors class and having no other girls in there because the other girl(s) moved up over a year ago so now she is an official student in the Teens Class with all of her friends and her big sister....Congratulations Bethany! Bethany, like me, is a book lover and she has been crazy over the Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer so I made her a little something special for the celebration on here. Her cake will look like this as well.
I am proud of you, I love you, and it is a true blessing to be your mom.
Happy 13th Birthday!!
Love,
Mom
I am proud of you, I love you, and it is a true blessing to be your mom.
Happy 13th Birthday!!
Love,
Mom
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