30 Days - Day 4

A Favorite Book

I've been slacking for a couple days.  I was busy at work and tired at night, so I missed a couple days.  I'm sure you're over it.

I don't know if I actually have a favorite book.  There've been a lot of books that I've read that I liked.  A lot.  But I can't say there's one particular book that I would call my favorite.  If you sit me in a quiet room with a Nicholas Sparks book, I'll have it finished before you know it.  But none of them have been like ohmygod, I could read this book a bazillion times and never get bored with it.

For a long time, when asked my favorite book, I would respond with 'Summer Sisters' by Judy Blume.  But to be perfectly honest, I hardly even remember it anymore.  Perhaps I should go back and re-read it and remind myself why I liked it so much.

I just recently pulled all of my books out of a box and put them on display.  And there are SO many that I know I read, but can't remember most of the story.  And then there are a bunch more that I don't know that I ever finished.  And mixed in with all of those, there's a handful of books that I remember reading and I remember the whole thing.  Maybe I should classify those as my favorites...

Wow.  This was a much longer post than I thought it would be.  Gotta love rambling.  Hope you all have a fantastical weekend!

Born This Way vs. Express Yourself

Has anyone noticed that "Born This Way" by Lady Gaga



sounds A LOT like "Express Yourself" by Madonna?

30 Days - Day Three

A Favorite TV Show

OMG...This is even more difficult than the favorite song question!  I literally have a list of about 40 shows that I watch on a weekly basis.  You think I'm exaggerating...I sorta wish I was.  I Love tv more than I can say.  lol  We subscribe to a service where you get x amount of downloads (we're talking gigabytes here) per month.  Most of the shows that I watch are posted on this newsgroup.  The ones that are not, I actually watch on tv.  With commercials, since the newsgroup takes the place of a DVR in our house.

Anyway.  Enough rambling.  I have LOTS of favorite shows.  But this one is damn near at the top.  I love ALL of the characters.  The love that they all have for one another is amazing.  I envy this family and their closeness.  It's going to be one of those shows where I'm SUPER mad when it ends because it's such an amazing program.

Parenthood

30 Days - Day Two

A favorite movie.

Hmmm...Gonna have to go with Grease.  It just Never. Ever. gets old for me.  I HEART John Travolta in all his 24-year-old 1978 hotness.  Oh, Danny Zuko...You're the one that I want.  ;-)

Thirty Days of Blogging - Day One

A Favorite Song

This is actually very difficult for me to answer.  I have MANY favorites.  But if I've gotta choose just one, it's this one.

The first live concert that I saw was Tom Petty (with my parents :-)).  Any time a Petty song comes on, I have a rush of memories that comes over me.  This particular song brings back junior high.  I listened to this song on repeat in 7th grade, so I could learn all of the words.  I don't know what it is about "Mary Jane's Last Dance," but it's always been a favorite.  Maybe it the guitar - I feel like I'm just getting down.  Maybe it's the harmonica - I'm a SUCKER for anything with a sweet harmonica solo.  At any rate, this is the favorite song for today.

And yet, I'm still a slacker...

I promise you people things, and then I don't follow through.  I'll try to be better. 

Melissa is doing this nifty Thirty Day Blog Challenge, and we all know how much I like theiving things like this, so I'm definitely in.  Thirty Days goes something like this:

Day 01 — A favorite song
Day 02 — A favorite movie
Day 03 — A favorite TV show
Day 04 — A favorite book
Day 05 — A favorite quote
Day 06 — A fun fact about me
Day 07 — A favorite photo
Day 08 — Something I crave
Day 09 — Pet peeves
Day 10 — A photo of me taken over ten years ago
Day 11 — A photo of me taken recently
Day 12 — Something I bought recently
Day 13 — Something I want to buy
Day 14 — An old photo
Day 15 — My celebrity crush
Day 16 — A favorite food
Day 17 — A photo of my family
Day 18 — A baby photo
Day 19 — A fun memory
Day 20 — A hobby of mine
Day 21 — A favorite recipe
Day 22 — A favorite joke
Day 23 — A video
Day 24 — A travel story
Day 25 — A favorite photo
Day 26 — A funny (true) story
Day 27 — A child I love
Day 28 — A place I love
Day 29 — A person I love
Day 30 — Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days

B-Wagon

Oh hell.

I got wrapped up in life and forgot to update my blog.  I apologize.  As I will again next time this happens. 

But for now, Melissa has inspired me to come back.  So, let's do the quick recap of what's happened in my life...

November:

• Terrie had a birthday.  We celebrated with friends.  Good times were had.
• Hubby & I did Thanksgiving solo - I made a turkey & fixings and then we went to see a movie.
• My coworker JB informed us that she had been accepted into the LPN program at the local community college and at the beginning of year, she would need to either become part time or leave the company.  Part-time was not available to her, so she helped in the interviewing and hiring process for her replacement.

December

• I received a Christmas card and $200 cash from an 'Anonymous Friend' in the mail.  Over the last few months, I sorta accidentally found out that it was from a coworker.  I sent a thank you card back to the return address (which had no name and was in California), and have let that person remain anonymous.
• I asked for a raise in lieu of the new responsibilities and additional workload that I'd be taking on with JB leaving.  I was denied.  But managers said that they would continue to push Bossman Bob to compensate me for the work I'd be doing.
• Holidays were lovely - had Christmas Day at our house for my mother-in-law & her boyfriend.
• Sang in the Christmas Eve mass with the choir - super long HOT mass, but very nice.
• Joined a...club?  A friend from choir invited me to join a group that she's in that consists of women that live in the area.  They do monthly events, which I've tried to attend at least one of per month.  December was my first time playing Bunco.  LOVED IT!

January

• I turned 29.  Holy hell.  How did that happen??
• JB's replacement was hired and started.  She's older (in her late 40's probably?), but very nice and is getting the hang of things.  I don't see us becoming good friends and going to lunch and getting our makeup done together, but I know we'll be able to work well together.
• JB left for good.  I cried as I walked down to my car that day.  I hate goodbyes.
• I planned a Baby Shower for Terrie with a Gone Fishing theme.  The invitations were handmade and amazing, if I do say so myself.  I had all type of fishy themed things planned, including fish bowl centerpieces with live goldfish on the two main tables.
• My managers continued pushing Bob for my raise and he finally gave in.  Yay!

February

• Terrie's shower was a success!  Everyone enjoyed themselves and I received a ton of compliments on what a nice job I'd done.  If only I could plan parties for a living.  That would really, truly be a dream come true.
• I have a new pet fish.  :-)  One of the two centerpiece fish went home with a guest from the party as a door prize.  The other one was abandoned.  No, really, the other guest who won the second fish had no interest in taking it home.  And I have to admit that I was kinda happy about that.  I wouldn't have minded keeping both of them. 
• You can't have just one fish in a ten-gallon tank, so we got two more.  They all seem to be coexisting happily together.  Freddie, Mortimer & Albert are all different types of goldfish and totally fascinating to me.  I can literally sit in front of the aquarium for over an hour and just watch them swim around.  Ridiculous, I know.

And I think that's about it.  You'll notice there are no updates on Hubby - he's still not working.  And there's still not a chance of a baby in the near future.  One is very dependent on the other, so I just continue to wait....:-P  Life is actually pretty good right now.  I mean, aside from the lack of a job on Hubby's part, things are plugging along.  The new responsibility at work is welcome.  I like having stuff to do for the entire day.  I like being the more experienced one.  I like feeling like a big fish in a small pond.  Always have.

Anyway, that's life for now.  Melissa is doing a fantabulous challenge, which I will be happy to steal and start doing tomorrow.  :-)  I hope that I'm able to get back into the swing of things.  I'm just going to have to figure out how to blog and watch tv at the same time.