Yea, I’m stealing these bad boys right and left….all in the name of reading all 900 reads in my feed reader, commenting on 1/3 of them and…well sleeping sometime too…
Ok, so I cheated…Jan, Feb, March and April are on my other blog and I’m not going looking for those months…so sorry…
Bad Penguin put this questionnaire up, and since I’m on vacation and being lazy, I figured I’d go ahead and answer the questions rather than thinking up something of my own. It turned out to be a fairly comprehensive review of 2008, including some stuff I had forgotten, like what I did on my birthday. Lucky for me I can look stuff up in this handy-dandy blog.
That above paragraph is verbatim from Bad Penguin because I AM on vacation too and I’m going to do this as a review of 2008…wooot!
1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
Photographed a wedding…..it was a challenge as I directed it and wanted to socialize with folks as well…but I did it…the results can be seen here…
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Don’t make ‘em. I’ve never been one of those goal setting types. I might not weigh 200 pounds if I were but…I don’t thus I don’t break them.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Not a one.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No, not really close
5. What countries did you visit?
See, I’ve already done this one the other day because I remember typing, "Countries?" So, yea, it’s more like states
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
Financial security
7. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
February 29th – I had thumb surgery on a thumb I broke while trying to swat a 3 year old into line (my own by the way) on his pull-up and then tried to do the business paperwork with one hand as it was a 2 week recovery period
September 3rd – my birthday, we spent it at the beach and Boy Genius come through with an awesome cake surprise.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Achievement….I’m living right?
9. What was your biggest failure?
Failure? I still weigh 200 pounds right?
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Yea, see number 7 above….plus I had mono and I had freakin’ strep about 10 times just since July
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Hummm…not a big shopper but……some sandals…..and a purse….
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Humm…certainly not my now 4 year old who is still in the terrible two’s and not potty trained either….ugh…so….my 5 year old who might have spent the first month and a half in trouble for talking but he is now part of his class, sitting with them and everything without getting in trouble.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Did you read the part up there about not potty trained...and now 4 years old?
14. Where did most of your money go?
Medication and doctors
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Our vacation to the beach for my birthday and my son starting kindergarten
16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
Kid Rock All Summer Long or the Sweet Home Alabama song as some call it (like me)
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? about the same, really!
b) thinner or fatter? FATTER
c) richer or poorer? not poorer but definitely not richer
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
traveling traveling traveling
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Did you read where most of my money went? Yea, I wish I had spent less time in doctor’s offices.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
Without my mom this year for the first time in a long time and the only time but maybe one or two years….but with my husband and children…and one cousin..
21. Did you fall in love in 2008?
Eh..with kids like mine, I’m constantly falling in love again because I regularly despise their behavior
22. What was your favorite TV program?
Easy Peasy…..Prison Break and Survivor
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Eh, hate? Nah, but definitely dislike…yea, definitely dislike
24. What was the best book you read?
Ok, let me first tell you that I am not much of a book reader, I prefer my Internet reading but right now, I would say…..The Case Against Homework by Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish, The White Trash Mom’s Handbook by Michelle Lamar and Molly Wendland and right now I am reading The Problem with Women….is Men by Charles Orlando and I enjoyed the first two immensely and I’m enjoying the last one right now..well, not right this second, but you know…
25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Musical discovery? What do I look like? Bach?
26. What did you want and get?
MP3 Player
27. What did you want and not get?
Wii
28. What was your favorite film of this year?
Don’t watch movies or films or whatever you want to call them…
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 40, at the beach, with my 3 favorite men (or 2 boys and a man)
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
losing some weight, losing some weight and our insurance paying for bariatric surgery
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
Fashion? hahahaha I am a t-shirt, shorts, jeans, tennis shoes kind of girl…always have been!
32. What kept you sane?
My husband and my mother
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?r
Easy Peasy again….Wentworth Miller with Shemar Moore running a close second
34. What political issue stirred you the most?
That although I didn’t support Palin…she sure got beat up awful bad.
35. Who did you miss?
My father and have for 20 years now.
36. Who was the best new person you met?
New person? Hummmmmm can’t think of one.
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.
Live life..I turned 40 and I’m going to embrace it as if I were Jessica Simpson, Nicole Ritchie, Ellen DeGeneres but with the class of Brooke Shields.
38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
This does not sum up my year at all, doesn’t really sum up any of my years but it sticks in my mind forcefully……
Kid Rock’s All Summer Long "we were trying different things, we were smoking funny things, makin’ love down by the lake all summer long" or something like that….
Bob Carlisle’s Butterfly Kisses which my cousin walked down the aisle to a few weeks ago instead of the traditional wedding march "
"Walk my down the aisle, Daddy-it’s just about time."
"Does my wedding gown look pretty, Daddy? Daddy, don’t cry!"
And, The Beetles, "I’m a Believer" which is the song my cousin left the wedding aisle to "Then I saw her face
Now I’m a believer."
Here’s to a great 2009 for all of us. Happy New Year!
Ok, so here’s the whole set… but you know me, I must share at least a few of my favorites besides the ones in the previous post….first of all….my children being my children before we ever got on the tram…
smooshed in on the Tram..at
Don’t they look happy….
Here’s where our lives rested…..
Yea, that’s the scenic lift, not the tram, but our lives…yea, still in the hands of these cables…
at the top of the scenic lift…
Yea, talk about being aggravating….ugh…
My 3 favorite men…
as snapped by a total stranger…..
And, since it wasn’t all fun and games…here is the irritable, un-napped, aggravating, screaming, squalling one….. why? I don’t know…but, here you go..the proof…
And, the happy one…..
With all that…..the final shot is what my boys chose to do in the snow….as if it were sand…..ugh….wet and muddy boys….
Yea, just a random photo of the mountains…when you aren’t accustom to mountains, this gets your attention and fast…
Yesterday…no wait, let me back up… I am a big sissy when it comes to pain. And, when I pack for a vacation, I never ever ever ever pack a razor that’s loaded. That means, I always put a cover on the darn thing or I just throw that one away and take a new on fresh in the pack. But, this trip, this trip I was in a hurry. As if anyone was going to need to shave in the freakin 20 degree weather. But, anyway, I packed a loaded razor.
With that loaded razor, I also packed my make-up. Yea, you see where this is going don’t you? I was digging my make-up which, why did I bring make-up, who wears make-up when it is 20 degree’s, but hey, I wanted at least one photo of me where I looked like a blimp with make-up as opposed to…well whatever the opposite that might be…
Anyway, I was digging in the overnight bag and pulling out make-up. I’m not a big made-up girl, I mean, I’m a big girl, a really big girl, but not when it comes to my make-up. Anyway, how am I getting off track so easily.
Anyway, I pulled out the base, check, the powder, check, the brush, check, the blush, check, the eye liner….eye liner…..where’s that eye liner……I can’t find the eye liner…….
Ok, put the other stuff down, insert hand into overnight bag, dig for eye liner and WHAM! Just like I have envisioned it would be, I cut the frickin’ daylights out of my index finger on my right hand.
Ok, no problem, where’s the…….crap, I didn’t bring band aids because…who needs band aids in 20 degree weather….?
I wrap my finger, finish with the eye liner AFTER Boy Genius dug it and the razor out of the bag WITHOUT chopping off his finger…….we leave, finger is still bleeding like mad, what am I? A stuck pig?
We go in the office at the condo, lady only has these itty bitty band aids that might have been ok for my 4 year old’s pinky toe but not for my big girl finger.
So, we wrap 3 or 4 around here and head on our way. We stop for an 18 dollar box of band aids (no really, they didn’t cost 18 bucks but with the cost of everything else around here, it wouldn’t have surprised me). I put on one of these monster band aids (yea, my husband knows I’m a big girl) and that was the end of it.
Then, a few minutes ago, Boy Genius says to me, "Did you change your band aid today?"
What? Change the band aid? My finger hurts and the less I mess with it, the better it feels, no I’m not changing the band aid. "Yea, you have to change the band aid" he says. Ok, fine get me another one of those monster 18 dollar band aids.
When he returns, I pull off the other monster 18 dollar band aid and show him my finger. This is where he yells, "you filet it…gross, ugh ugh ugh, I’m gonna throw up, ugh, ugh, I didn’t want to see it, ugh ugh, gross, gross, you filet it"
And, I was laughing my arse off. I suggested that, "I figured if you were bringing the fresh band aid you wanted to see the damage". To which he replied, "Yea and the next time I have a hemorrhoid I’ll show it to you!"
Whoa! Hemorrhoids and razor cut fingers are so not the same thing.
So, here I am, cooped up in a 1 bedroom condo with 2 wilder than wild children. One would think….after all the days activities, they would be exhausted because…yea mom is whooped.
We got up early…because remember I was going to the Pancake Pantry or bust this morning. And, we did. We got their early and waited maybe five minutes for a seat. Here’s a little look at what my family looks like before, during and after breakfast…
Does he look sleepy? Hahahaha!
Now, our plates of food…let’s start with the sugar addict in the family…..Mini-Me had M & M Pancakes…
Yes, M & M’s and powdered sugar with…..
Yes, peanut butter syrup…I am not kidding you at all……
Then, the one eating reasonably….Ditto Boy had plain waffle, egg and bacon of which he ate maybe 1/4…..
Here we have the next sweet eater in the family…..I had pancakes rolled around banana’s with pineapple sauce and one banana on top for good measure…
And, momma ain’t momma because she leaves much food on her plate…here ya go……here’s all I left…
Yea, not much…
Boy Genius had pecan waffles which ….
which came with this….
Ok, make that walnuts maybe..I dunno, pecans, walnuts, all the same to me….
Here’s what the place looked like when we came out…
and this would be the rest of the line…
Yea, so now you know why we went early…..
ok, so other than this, we rode the tram up the mountain, then we rode the scenic lift even further up and then back down…then we did the thing that is kind of like bobsledding except it involves no snow and wheels…….that wasn’t too bad except the walk back up the hill afterwards….
The major fun came afterwards when……….we sneaked the boys in the gate at the bottom of the ski area and let them play in the homemade snow which…was more like icy slush. But, let me tell you something, Ditto Boy may be pretty big for his age, but Mini Me is freakin’ relentless. He was slinging snow at Ditto Boy and when Ditto Boy would fall, he would just throw it harder and faster…..just look…
are those dimples gorgeous or what?
the kid has no mercy, he just keeps pummeling Ditto Boy even after his is down..
No Mercy, I’m telling you, no mercy!
The kid is relentless….
So, that’s that! And, tomorrow (Thursday, the 1st) we head home…
Hello,
I just arrived home after a long vacation for the holiday. Yes, I did receive the travel tray (Family Travel Gear). All I can say is where were they when my kids were little??? They are so great. I am sure that my grandson will love it.
Thanks
Veronica
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