5 on Friday

1. If you were given one million dollars, on the condition that you had to give half of it away, how would you go about giving away half a million dollars?

This is a great question, I would probably do some research and find a really deserving family to help out. I read the blogs and there are so many sick children out there that have cancer or other life ending disease. I would help their parents to free them from worry about bills, so they can spend precious time with their child.  Now with my half I would pay off my house, pay off my kids houses, and arrange for a family trip to Australia for them all. 

2. Do you write letters or send cards to anyone via the postal system regularly, only for special occasions such as birthdays, or not at all?

You know I used to write my aunt.  Would write her at least once a week. But since she is gone I only send cards for special occasions. 

3.  What is the most treasured memento you have kept?

It is a purple candle shaped like a Hippo.  It was my only gift one Christmas and it was from my boys. It sits proudly in my china cabinet with my other mementos. I am a sentimental person and I save everything.  I have the outfits my boys wore home from the hospital, ( and they are framed and displayed) a piece of my dads airplane, and I save cards, invitations and announcements.. but don’t consider myself a pack rat or hoarder. 

4.  If one of your friends phones you at 4am because they are depressed and upset, but you have an important job interview in the morning. What do you do?

Well right off the bat I will tell you that I am not the person you want to wake up in the middle of the night.  If you do manage it I would probably listen and offer sympathy to you.  But I am not usually very nice when awakened in the middle of the night.

5.  What is the phrase or quote that sums up who you are as a person?

No idea.

Precious

I finally figured out a way to get myself out of having to tell a small fib..you know the kind that you feel bad about...such as, "Do you like my hair?" and it looks like crap, or "Here's a picture of my baby girl,  Poopsie" who is far from cute. From now on, my answer will always be something like, "Ain't it precious?" or "She's so precious?" I'm not much up on the southern slang but I figure if I can add just a slight twang to it, it will sound believable. So, today, I vow that when someone asks if I tasted their new fangled concoction that tasted like hay, I will say, "I sure did and it sure was precious!" Even one better, when I really want to make it sound believable, I'm going to add the word "SO" to it. For example, "Didn't you notice? I got a boob job?" My answer, "That's SO precious!".  When it comes down to hurting someone's feelings, always head towards the "Ain't it precious?" statement but when it comes to eating manure like vegetables, be honest! Hell naw, I'm not eating brussel sprouts! I'd rather eat toe jam fresh from the bottom of a boy's locker room!!!

Stuff I think about

1. Bees, in their small little life times, only produce 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey. Talk about being "productive". I am so glad that they have something else they are famous for such as the "birds and the bees".

2. When Mama said there'd be days like this, she wasn't kidding.

3. I will never learn to spell the word, h'or deurvs. (See!?!?!)

4. I still love children's books that end with, "And they lived happily ever after..."

5. The most annoying sound in the world is someone popping their gum. The sad thing is that they don't hear themselves.

6. Spring rain is an oxymoron, right????

7. Geese mate for life. Saturday, I saw a lone goose walking around by his little lonesome and I actually felt tears well up in my eyes at the thought of him being alone.

8. I get so grossed out when guys spit. Do they just have an extra enormous amount of spit that they have to get rid of at the very moment. Why can't they just swallow it?

9. I need to have a meeting with the ant/tour director that booked my kitchen counter top as their get away resort. They are enjoying their saunas by the stove, getting their swim on in the sink and drying off by the refrigerator

10. I am a germophobe so when someone sneezes or coughs in the area that I'm in, I try to hold my breath until I think the germs have dissipated. Then I break out the hand sanitizer after I touch anything they may or may not have touched.

Writers block

I have been sitting here thinking about what am I going to write. Several times this evening I have started an entry and then deleted it. My mind has gone wandering off and I don't know where. I looked at the words I had written and asked my self what is this? I then hit the  x. . You hit the x there and it asks you if you want to save the changes made to the document. I don't  know where I am going with this. I am not sure where I am going with anything.

I was reading in a few blogs this morning and in one blog they had an assignment to post what you would put in a time capsule for your great whatever child to open in 100 years. I started thinking, what can I put in there that would show my life. I didn't  like  myself most of my life. Would I want that to be known to them? Should I sugarcoat everything and pretend that everything is okay and life was grand? I have a lot more thinking about that.

I was reading another blog that is private and in it the author was talking about how someone read their blog didn't like it  and threw it up in their face. It caused me to think. Do I not write about certain things because I am afraid that someone I know will read it? Or do I not write because I am afraid that others will read it and judge me? It is my blog and my thoughts, why do I restrain myself? Then I thought, I have always restrained myself. I hold myself back. I do not like pain and this is pain.

I am hitting save now and going outside. Maybe I will leave this in my blog, I don't know.

I miss

Sitting here tonight thinking about things I miss, so here goes

I miss:

my grandkids.

autumn weather and the leaves falling down.

driving with the car windows down.

going to work (really I do)

my kids being young, where did the years go?

my dad, NOW I think of questions I should have asked.

being skinny.

Eating Sunday breakfast out.

What do you miss?

5 on Friday

1. How do you react to people begging at intersections?

I am a sucker, I always give them money. I logically know they will probably use it for drugs or alcohol but I always think what if they really are hungry.

2. How do you react to people stranded in cars along the road?

Normally I pass them by although I have stopped before and offered a ride and or the use of my phone.

3. How do you react to telemarketers?

I understand they are just trying to make a living, but I am on the NO CALL list and since I pay my phone bill it is for MY convenience. I am firm but polite I tell them to remove my number from the list and hang up.

4. How do you react to anonymous comments in your blog?

I get very few comments and have only had a handful of anon and some in foreign language which I just ignore.

5. How do you react to online quizzes?

Well sometimes I take a quiz but mostly I just pass over them.