Currently Listening Helena By My Chemical Romance see related

Susan posted “100 Random Facts” on her Xanga site today and I totally loved reading it.  I have to admit, I kind of saw it as a challenge…I don't know if I could even think of 100 things to say about myself.  Let's see how it goes...

1.      I was born in LaGrange, Illinois. 

2.      My middle name is Elizabeth.  I hate it and I can't wait to get rid of it.  I think it is a lesbian name (sorry to all you Elizabeths out there...it's just a personal opinion). 

3.      I have a weird obsession with Craig Biggio.  He is NOT old.

4.      And I used to have a weird obsession with Joe Perry of Aerosmith.  Thank the Lord that phase has passed.

5.      I refuse to throw away the tennis shoes that I wore to an Aerosmith concert back in 7th grade.  They have “Aerosmith glitter” on the soles and I just can’t part with them.

6.      When I was little and played house, I used to pretend that I was Kirstie Alley.

7.      Easter is one of my favorite holidays.  I like the pretty colors…and the Easter egg hunt.

8.      I was a member of the New Kids on the Block fan club.

9.      I got drunk on Zima and went to a Backstreet Boys concert…my senior year of high school.

10.  I used to wear a lot of animal print.  Why did I think that was hot?

11.  I worked for a commercial printing company for a year, then an accounting firm, and now I am getting certified to teach.

12.  To be honest, I am terrified of teaching.  Terrified.  What if I suck?

13.  I have a girl crush on Kelly Ripa. 

14.  And Rachel McAdams.

15.  And Jennifer Garner.

16.  I watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding every night as I was going to bed for at least 2 months straight after it came out on DVD.

17.  I met my love at Aggie Happy Hour.  We were drunk.  And we made out at the bar.  It can happen that way J

18.  I am totally intrigued by the Vietnam War. 

19.  My favorite book is called "Home Before Morning" by Linda Van Devanter.  It's her personal account of being a nurse in the Vietnam War, and it is fabulous.

20.  I miss Susan and Tasha.  They were my roommates, and they are bad asses

21.  Our "Cupid Took His Shot and Missed" Valentine's party was one of my favorite memories of our apartment.

22.  I sometimes wonder why we thought we looked so cute dancing on the bar at Salty Dog.

23.  Don’t stop now…keep reading…they get more interesting…

24.  I dunked my Aggie ring in 39 seconds.

25.  My favorite word is “mother fucker”

26.  I could ask a million questions about penises and how they work.  I don’t care if you think that is weird. 

27.  I run 5-6 miles everyday.  It is both a blessing and a curse.

28.  I took 14 years of Spanish. 

29.  My parents are divorced, and I couldn’t be luckier.

30.  My momma is my best friend.  I talk to her every single day.

31.  My brother is 14 and is a superstar at EVERYTHING.

32.  When I was little, I used to want to be the person that changed the letters on the signs outside of utotems.  You know, the ones that say “2L cokes: 2 for $1” and “Lotto tickets sold here.”

33.  A “utotem” is a Circle K or Stop n Go.  I know you were wondering.

34.  I got my tongue pierced over spring break one year in Padre. 

35.  I celebrated my 21^st birthday at Club Ivar in Los Angeles…then got in a fight with the cabbie on the way home so he kicked us out and left us stranded on a dark L.A. street.  That was after Susan puked all over his cab.   Haha, fuck you stupid cab driver.

36.  I don’t eat red meat.  Or pork.  Or anything game-related.

37.  I choose to eat at Jason’s Deli every year on my birthday.  I’d much rather go there than a fancy restaurant with weird food.

38.  I miss having salad tong wars with Susan at Jason’s Deli in College Station.

39.  My favorite foods are apples and frozen yogurt.

40.  I’m a chain gum chewer and am in love with Orbit Sweetmint gum.

41.  I love shopping for guys.  Love it.  Especially when they look good in everything like Rob does J

42.  Susan and I went to the Latin Billboard Awards in Miami in 2002.  We went to a restaurant called Tantra where they played porn on video screens while you ate.  We took aphrodisiac shots, salsa danced, and somehow ended up at a strip club.  We had the flavor.   “Good morning ladies.” Ha.

43.  My New Year’s Resolution this year was to start going to church again.  So far, so good!

44.  I bought a pair of daisy-duke/hot-pant shorts ala Jessica Simpson yesterday, and I cannot wait to wear them.

45.  People always think that I am naïve and innocent.  It makes me laugh.  And if you know me, it would make you laugh too.

46.  I hated middle school.  Girls are mean.  Especially girls that form shoe groups. 

47.  Triceps are my favorite muscle on a guy.

48.  All I’ve ever wanted out of life is a family…you know, the husband and the 4 kids and the two small dogs that don’t shed or drool or pee in the house.

49.  Is it so wrong that I would rather spend the rest of my life taking care of my family, instead of making lots of money and having a “bad ass career”? 

50.  I went to A&M on my own, not knowing a soul, and I’m glad I did. 

51.  My cousin and I rode in a hot-air balloon over Aspen.  It was cool.  We also went fly-fishing and she pushed me down the cold-ass river.  That was not so cool.

52.  I fall asleep every time I watch a movie…unless the lights are on and I’m standing up.

53.  I have a really small bladder and have to pee constantly.  It is super annoying.

54.  I get really bitchy when I haven’t eaten in a while.  And when I’m PMS-ing.  Just ask Rob.

55.  I’m a saver.  Big purchases freak me out.

56.  I have really long eyelashes.  People always ask me if they are fake.

57.  I brush my teeth at least 6 times a day.

58.  I HATE Mariah Carey.

59.  And Jason Mraz.

60.  I have always secretly wanted to be punk.  I would be…if I wasn’t retardedly preppy.

61.  Keep going….you’re more than half-way done…

62.  Cranberry sauce is my favorite food at Thanksgiving.  The whole-berry kind.

63.  I am really impatient. 

64.  I can eat ketchup on anything.  It’s by far the greatest condiment ever invented.

65.  I actually enjoy ironing.  It’s my favorite chore.

66.  I fully believe in honking your car horn to tell people to get the fuck out of the way.

67.  Being in love is the best feeling in the entire world.

68.  Guilt is the worst.

69.  I absolutely looooove getting massages.  I specifically get my nails done at a certain nail salon because they give a free 5-minute massage when they are finished.  It is fabulous.

70.  I am skeptical of technology and would rather talk to someone on the phone than over stupid instant messenger.

71.  People used to tell me that I look like Sabrina the Teenage Witch.  I do NOT take that as a compliment.

72.  I hate feet.  Don’t ever put yours on me.

73.  Susan, Tasha, and I were bored one night in College Station, so we went to the adult video store and bought “The Last Good-Bi”.  Too bad we didn’t realize that it contained gay porno scenes until we started watching it.  Gross.

74.  I really like baking.  I'd make a really good soccer mom

75.  My friends left me at the Blarney Stone one night and my Anthropology 205 teacher had to take me home…in his station wagon.  That was weird.  Thanks friends.

76.  I love wearing “fuck me” boots.  They make any outfit sexy.

77.  I am saving my tax return this year to buy a big screen TV.  Or new boobs.

78.  I swam with the dolphins in the Bahamas a few years back.  They are really slimy.

79.  I still write checks for everything, and I rarely use credit cards…unless I am shopping online or have run out of money at the bar.

80.  I like fake meat and I’m a huge fan of soy milk.

81.  When I was like 3 years old, I tripped on a table leg at a restaurant and my bottom teeth went through my lower lip.  

82.  I got my first kiss in 7^th grade in the lobby of a movie theatre.  So romantic…

83.  I respond well to diamonds.

84.  Don’t give up now…only a few more left…

85.  I hate Rob’s lice cap.  It has lice.  And it hides his pretty face.

86.  I still wear my retainer sometimes.  (I told you, I’m very particular about my teeth).

87.  Love letters make me smile…the traditional pen-and-paper ones.

88.  I’m going to France and Italy this summer with my love.

89.  The three things I am most looking forward to in Europe: picnicking by the Eiffel Tower, riding a gondola in Venice, and going on a wine tour in the south of France.

90.  I believe in romance and dreams and fairy tales.

91.  I fully believe in the health benefits of taking a multi-vitamin every day.  Do it.  I also recommend folic acid and flaxseed oil, but what do I know…

92.  I get scared easily and I don’t like sleeping by myself.

93.  I don’t trust conventional alarm clocks.  My cell phone wakes me up every morning.

94.  I love holding hands.

95.  Sometimes a soft and sensual kiss is sexier than an aggressive, bite-your-bottom-lip-off, stick-my-tongue-down-your-throat-till-you-gag kiss.

96.  A good pair of jeans is well-worth the $200 you may have to spend on them.  (Plug: True Religion jeans…go buy them.  You will never buy anything else.)

97.  I can do the splits.

98.  If I’m by myself, I either have to watch Nick at Night or the Disney Channel to go to bed.  Otherwise, I can’t fall asleep.

99.  Going out on New Year’s Eve is totally overrated.

100.                      I really want to go to the Kentucky Derby and wear a pretty dress and a big hat and drink mint juleps on the lawn.

101.                      I am really thankful for everyone that God has blessed me with in my life.

Ok, so I had 101 random facts about myself!  I hope I didn’t bore you guys too much.  Turns out, talking about yourself isn’t so hard after all J

Currently Listening The Regis Philbin Christmas Album By Regis Philbin Baby, It's cold outside see related

It's been a while...how you doin'?

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season!  I just had the best Christmas/New Year's ever.  Seriously, I have been so freaking extraordinarily happy these past few months, it's starting to make me nervous...I'm just waiting for everything to go to shit.  Just kidding.  But it's unreal how fabulous my life has been lately.  Big smiles

The "8 Days of Christmas" was a total blast.  I've never gotten such thoughtful, loving, from-the-heart gifts before.  And my big gift was a digital camera!  Yessss...I've always wanted one.  It was the perfect gift.  Rob totally spoiled me...we must do that again next year

New Year's Eve kikked ass of course.  A lot of people were there, and it was nice to kiss someone at midnight that I love.  I decided my New Year's resolution this year is to start going to church again.  Hope y'all remembered to say "Rabbit! Rabbit!" and eat your black-eyed peas!

So, here's the really exciting news...Rob and I are going to France and Italy for 3 weeks this summer!!!  Woohoo!!!  I've never been to Europe before, so you can imagine how fucking excited I am.  

Well, I think that's it for now...I start my teacher cert. classes tomorrow.  Yay!  I can't wait to get my own class of kiddos!  Wish me luck...

Happy 2006

Currently Listening No Need to Argue By Cranberries Zombie see related

Susan sent this e-mail survey out sometime last week.  Instead of sending it back over email, I just decided to post it...you know, cuz I'm so damn interesting.  Enjoy.

[A is for age:] 23

[B is for booze of choice:] I’ve been a bad girl.  I cheated on my first love, vanilla vodka.  The red, red wine made me do it.  Shiraz is the best.  And all those antioxidants...does a body good.  The low-carb margaritas at Café Adobe are pretty damn tasty too. 

[C s for career] I really think I was born to dance.  In the meantime though, I’m about to start my teacher certification classes. 

[D is for your dog's name:] No dog for me.  Don’t think I’m ready for my own yet.  I like to play grandma with my parents’ dog though…feed him too many treats, let him sit on the good furniture, get him all riled up then leave when it’s time for bed…

[E is for essential items you use everyday:] Running shoes, Crest Whiting Expressions Cinnamon Rush (yummy), Philosophy Gingerbread Man lip gloss (really yummy), water, Orbit Sweetmint gum, and my check book of course.

[F is for favorite song at the moment:] Carol of the Bells by TranSiberian Orchestra

[G is for favorite games:] I have to agree with Suz, the best games I have ever played were drinking games at Eddie’s…most of the time they included shots of Goldschlagger and some form of dancing atop the kitchen island.

[H is for hometown:] H is for Houston

[I is for instruments you play:] I can barely do a cartwheel.  There is no way I am coordinated enough to play an actual instrument.  Except for the time I played the triangle in my 4^th grade Christmas concert at school.  Ding.

[J is for jam or jelly?:] Neither.  “J” is for Jason’s Deli.

[K is for kids?:] Bring ‘em on…in like 5 years please.

[L is for last kiss?:]  Today.  I need another.  Soon.

[M is for mom's job:] She’s my mom.  That’s a full-time job itself.  She used to be a Special Ed teacher – you know, back in the day, before “Special Ed” meant having ADD.

[N is for name of your crush:] No crushes…just a love

[O is for the last overnight hospital stay:]   May 24, 1982.

[P is for phobias:] Scary movies, natural disasters, and lice cap.

[Q is for quotes you like:] “Smile, be happy, and make a new friend.”  My mom used to say that to me every morning before I left for high school.  As for my favorite overused clichéd quote, it would have to be Robert Browning’s, “The best is yet to be.”

[R is for biggest regret:] Not traveling after I graduated.  I could have rocked Europe.  Guess I’ll have to wait till Summer 2007

[S is for sweets of your choice] Frozen yogurt.  I could eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  And the angel food cake with gooey icing that my mom always makes for my birthday.  Oh yeah, and gum.  I'm a chain gum chewer.

[T is for time you wake up:]  Depends on where I wake up.  Usually by 7:30am or 8am though.  It’s so great to not have to get up at 4:45am anymore.

[U is for underwear:]  Thongs, of course…who wears actual underwear anymore?  Boy shorts are fun to sleep in too.  (Susan, what is a “french-cut” thong?)

[V is for vegetable you love:] I live on vegetables.  There is no such thing as a bad one.  Mushrooms, carrots, and butternut squash are my favorites– and those are in a particular order. 

[W is for worst habit:] I mumble.  No, you do not have bad hearing.  I just talk funny.

[X is for x-rays you've had:] A chest x-ray.  That’s about it, unless x-rays at the dentist count.

[Y is for yummy food you make:]  My cooking is often compared to the likes of Emeril Lagasse and Wolfgang Puck.  In fact, you can catch me on Iron Chef America next Thursday night.  I will teach you how to microwave frozen broccoli. 

[Z is for zodiac sign:] Gemini.  I am a complex individual.

Currently Listening The Great Divide By Scott Stapp SCOTT STAPP CAN KISS MY ASS see related

Yay!  My pretty pink tree is decorated!  It's everything I wanted in a Christmas tree...and more

I fucking love, love, love the holidays.  There's nothing that excites me more than the challenge of coming up with the best, most unique, most from-the-heart, bad ass gift for everyone.  I don't even mind the chaotic mass of people at the malls.  Or having to park in the absolute furthest parking space.  Or the fact that 2 out of 3 stores I go into are playing the fucking Mariah Carey Christmas CD (this is the one and ONLY time I can tolerate her crack-whore music).

I am reeeally excited though cuz I got Rob this bad ass.......sorry people, can't say what I got him (even though it's killing me and I really want to give it to him now - his present, that is).  But, it is a rockstar of a gift, and I cannot wait for our 9 Days of Christmas to begin

My baby bro was in a play this past weekend.  Actually, it was 2 plays - Ghost Dude and Macbeth.  Of course he was the cutest and funniest and best actor of them all   Like there was any question to that.  Seriously though, Charlie is the coolest kid I have ever met.  I'm so proud of him.  He's involved in everything...and he's so great at it all - sports, school, extracurricular crap.  Everything.  And he's a nice kid. 

I'm taking the TExES test this weekend.  I have to take it for all my teaching stuff, and it is going to be hard as balls.  Algebra, English, Social Studies, and Science...I haven't studied that crap in like 6 years!  I MUST do well though.  I have to pass it, otherwise I can't take it again till February.  And, school districts won't give me the time of day till I get these scores back, so it's super imperative that I pass.  Say a little prayer for me please

Allright, I'm out.  This wasn't the funniest of posts, but nothing all that funny has happened to me lately.  Well, at least that I can write about...

Currently Listening A Night Out With Boy George By Boy George Big Groovy Fucker see related

I GOT A HOT PINK CHRISTMAS TREE!!!

It's a 4-foot tall, metallic hot pink Christmas tree, and it's just about the cutest little tree I've ever seen!  I got some cute ass little ornaments and a mini spotlight to shine on it in all the right places so it shimmers and glistens like all hot pink Christmas trees should.  Bring on the holiday cheer  

So, it's been kind of a busy week.  I had a little mini-surgery-procedure thing last Thursday.  They knocked me out and apparently when I came to, I told the nurse I had a dream about Jessica Simpson and I needed to call her and make sure that she was okay.  Umm, huh?  Anesthesia does weird things to me.  When I had my wisdom teeth out a few years ago, my mom said I had told her in the recovery room that I wanted to ride a carousel and watch "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and that I wanted to throw a tennis ball to our dog Fuzzy (who, by the way, had died of lukemia a few years back).  I know, I'm strange.

I went to McAllen last weekend for my cousin Amanda's baby shower.  She's the oldest of the grandkid crew and is just about the cutest pregnant girl I've ever seen.  I also got to play with Nikki's twins...I can't believe they are already 10 months old!  It was way fun, but all these babies made me realize that, while someday I can't wait to have a half-litter of my own, I am definitely not ready for all the poopy diapers and boogar-y noses and spitup-y stained clothes.  I still have a few years of selfishness in me.  Since Darby and I are the only non-married/non-reproducing members of our family right now, we decided that we should get double the Christmas gifts from everyone since they don't have to buy for our non-existent husbands.  Didn't go over too well with the fam, but I think it's a stellar idea. 

PLUG:  Go see Walk The Line.  It's fabulous.  I busted out my old Johnny Cash CD and Joaquin Phoenix sounds almost identical to him.  Reese Witherspoon on the other hand...that's a different story.  She wasn't so much the June-Carter-Cash-sound-a-like.  But at least she's cute.  I like cute people.