write today's post without the letter P.

hmm. what to talk about. i think this is fairly easy. maybe another letter would have made this a tad harder. consider the letter r, or t. those are much more common than that certain letter that i can't mention. i mean on wheel of fortune, they give the contestants r, s, t, l, n, e for the bonus round. they obviously have a much more common usage. and with that i am done for today. (i have seriously read this five times to make sure i didn't use that letter)

what is something you should change about your life that you have no intention of changing? maybe along the lines of a resolution you have no intentio

that would probably be eating better and exercising. it's something that's really hard for me to keep up with, esp. since i don't have my treadmill anymore. i'd love to have one again -- damn that fire. maybe i'll be able to afford one one day.

your most embarrassing moment

i have had many embarrassing moments over the years. i can't really chose one as the most, but i'll tell you one of them which i am willing to tell. here it goes...

ever since i was little i've had sinus issues. i was always blowing my nose and carried kleenex with me just in case. before photo day in second grade, my mom and grandma prepared me. they said, sit up straight, bring your pigtails to the front, brush your hair and the big one blow you nose before the picture. well i forgot the last one. in my second grade photo, in my mickey & minnie mouse t-shirt, i have a booger and it's in the yearbook for all eternity!

tell us about the last dream you remember having

so i did have a dream last night. it was very strange. i was in a car with my friend steffany who was driving (i haven't seen her in a couple of years), i think that Becca (not 'becca) was there too. oh and my really good friend from high school, jenny (who i haven't seen since about high school). anyway were driving out in the country and came up to an outdoor flea market (kind of like the one i went to a the covered bridge festival). we walked up to this shed type thing. which looked like a large sheet of corrugated metal bent into a half moon shape. i know why i thought of this type of building b/c i drive past one everyday, but yesterday my mom asked "what do they keep in that thing?".

anyway we go into this barn and it's set up with a couple tables and candles. so it was a eatery of some type. well actually it was polish. the lady that ran it was a gypsy. there wasn't any food, but she told us that if we all thought about eating food, the people from poland would suddenly come and make us food to eat. (the whole polish thing came from a fact that i had heard on tv that morning about chicago having the highest polish population, only second to warsaw.)

that's about all that i remember b/c it started to turn into another dream that i didn't get too far into. i have a vivid memory of a gas smell (like nipsco). when i woke up i even checked for it. and my friend jenny was right there, totally in my face. i haven't seen her in ages. we used to email all of the time and then we lost touch about sophomore year of college. i search her out sometimes, but she has a really common last name and i can't find her.

if you go through your facebook list, how many peple would you delete if you weren't worried about their feelings?

here's my makeup.

i would probably delete more than half. most of my "friends" on there are people that i knew in high school. some of which weren't really my friends to begin with. we were just classmates. i accepted b/c i didn't want to be seen as a bitch. i think that a lot of people in high school saw me that way b/c i was so quiet. they didn't understand why i didn't talk to them, so they assumed i was a snob or something. i was really terrified to talk to people and horrified of being made fun of even more than i was. shyness isn't a good thing in high school, i guess. i do have a lot of great high school friends on there that i wouldn't delete. they know who they are. and of course the people that are currently in my life i would definitely keep!

disconnected

The internet mysteriously went down. i can't remember todays topic. hopefully i can make up for it tomorrow. this phone blogging thing is really annoying. :o}

free day

santiago the neurotic owl

Christmas cards: enjoy sending them or just a chore? enjoy receiving them or do they go right in the trash?

i'm not really into sending christmas cards. i used to do it and my mom actually did it one year too. it's just not a family tradition of ours. i think that maybe my grandma sent them out.

i really do enjoy receiving them. i always display them on our piano for everyone to see.

i am such a hypocrite.

what is your favorite comfort food?

this is easy. a grilled cheese sandwich with tomato soup and chocolate milk. it was a lunch staple for me growing up. my gram made the best grilled cheese. oh and it needs to be cut in half, sometimes in quarters for fun!

free day

today is a free day for our monthly blogging. i've actually decided to keep going for another month. it's a good thing for me. i need to push myself a little more and stop being so lazy. it also gets me away from the tv -- another good thing!

in other news i got my PC at work. so now i have developed a PC brain with all of those quick keys. i keep getting confused at home now b/c i have a MAC *hear the angels sing*. so yea i have a PC brain and a MAC brain now. for a while, at work, i actually had a PC living in my MAC and i could use both simultaneously. yea that was REALLY confusing. in the end, MACs rule!

Creeeeepy! Something that creeps you out

those little albino frogs that people keep in their fishtanks.
they are so gross. i've had many nightmares about them. i have a fishtank and in my dream there's one in there swimming around. i try to get it out but i can't b/c they're suddenly multiplying and hopping out of the tank at me. now i an discriminating b/c their albino, i don't like the other ones either. it's just the white ones are the worst!

ps. i was going to post a picture of one from google, but i couldn't.i was grossed out too much. eeek!

pss. i did find a photo of buddy the frog that was actually very smart. he'd climb up the side of our house at night and sit on the patio light and eat all of the bugs that were drawn to it. a very smart frog. i was not afraid of him so much, he never tried to jump at me once.

Reading material at the moment

i am not currently reading anything, which is sad b/c i do enjoy reading. it's just been so busy at work and i've been getting home late and just want to go to bed right away (blahblahblah excuses i know). i was reading the sookie stackhouse series, but i got part way through the fifth book and just stopped. i think that i was forcing myself to read the books and i was taking them on too fast. they weren't like ready the harry potter series to me (which i devoured). after seeing the list that marlana posted on her blog i am considering maybe changing gears and reading some of those books. we'll see. i'll get back on track soon.

Earliest/best memories

probably my best memories are just walking around the kitchen and my grandma sitting in a chair and just grabbing me and giving me a huge hug. it's something that i think of often and miss dearly.

i really don't know what my earliest memory is. things that i can think of right now weren't so early. this won had to be really early b/c i wasn't in full day school yet.
i remember going to bowling league with my grandma at the old bowling alley on broadway which was ditka's and is now OTB. we would go there, go to KMart for grilled cheese sandwiches and then go to the horse farm on the way home and i'd get to ride a pony. i would insist that gram could drop the lead b/c i had read how to ride a horse, but she wouldn't let me ride it by myself.

one time at bowling the electricity went out just when i was going to the vending machine to get a nestle crunch bar. i got really scared b/c i thought it was the gremlins coming to get us. we had to wait awhile for my gram to get her ball back and i was really scared the entire time.

If I could visit anywhere in the world ...

when i was younger i probably would have said Australia, but now i would have to say anywhere, since i haven't really been anywhere. i would love to see the beauty of our country. i've never seen a mountain, a desert or the ocean!

my dream would be to travel and see all of the great works of art throughout history. art that we studied in college. that would be so amazing. it would be an art adventure. i would like to see stonehenge, david, the sistine chapel, the mona lisa, etc.

wizarding world

You just discovered the world of Harry Potter is real. You've received your letter and you are going to Hogwarts (it got lost for awhile ... ignore the age difference). what are you most excited about?

great topic. ;-)
i would be really excited to explore hogwarts. there are so many different passages and mysteries held within the castle and i think i could used to those house elves taking care of everything for you. i would also be really excited to learn some real magic. i know that the confundus charm may come in handy!

Childhood songs that get stuck in your head

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!


answer: this is the song that never ends...

Explain a process, step by step

1. read the topic for the day
2. think "reall? you've got to be kidding me?"
3. wonder if the person who chose this topic will actually post on it (sorry to whomever, but i really did think that last night when i read the topic for today)
4. open up blogger
5. click on new post
6. write this mumble
7. find a random photo to go with it
8. hit publish post
9. check to see if the couple people who are still participating posted
10. finish getting ready for work.

If I could come back as an animal, I would be a ...

this was pretty easy. i would want to be a bird.
it's the best of both worlds. total freedom and the ability to sing beautifully.

if someone asked me this question when i was seven, i would have said a horse. i wanted to grow-up to be a horse. haha. my friend beth wanted to be a bear, so i wasn't THAT crazy!

They should make a law against ...

this was kind of tough for me. things that are my pet peeves came to mind, like littering, not using a directional, stupid people, etc. but there are already laws against stuff like that or at least rules or fines. i really got nothing. sorry. maybe the weather's getting to me!

Superheroes: is the cape necessary to fly?

no. and it has been confirmed in many movies.

what really defines a superhero anyway? does it have to be wonder woman or superman? could it just be the guy down that street that help someone out in need. i like those super heroes better!