How's that for a narcissistic title?
I've been tagged yet again for the Beautiful Blogger award. And since I'm doing everything imaginable to keep from doing any of the real work that really needs to be done in my office before I leave here FOR FOREVER on Friday, I think now is a good time to complete this post. In case you've forgotten, I'm supposed to list seven interesting things about myself. "Interesting" is always the key word.
1. Dustin and I have taken to calling Dallas "THAT BABY" just like that whenever we talk about her. In e-mails, text messages, etc. we never write her name. Just THAT BABY. I may start doing that here on my blog, as well.
2. When I was little my favorite color was blue. I made a point to tell people that I didn't like pink because pink was for girls. I must have been confused, somehow. Now I like anything and everything that is pink. Pink rules. Blue drools.
3. Another when-I-was-little story.... At my kindergarten graduation (do all schools do a huge graduation party for kindergartners? I don't know if this is normal) we did a huge program with all kinds of different activities like acting out the story of Noah and the Ark and doing some simple math and phonics reading and all that jazz. At the end of the whole shebang, several of us lined up holding signs that said "This is the day we graduate" and different kids had different signs with different punctuation marks (that was a lot of "different-s"!) to make the sentence either a declaration an exclamation or a question. For the question, the kid holding the card that said "This is" had to turn it over so it read "Is this." I held the card that had the period on it...making the sentence a declaration. My name was Patty Period. My family members (mainly my dad) would randomly call me Patty Period every once in a while growing up. It always made me feel special.
4. I am horrible with directions. H.O.R.R.I.B.L.E. You should never, ever, EVER ask me how to get somewhere, because I will definitely tell you wrong. I have lived in the same city since I was four years old, and just today I got lost trying to get back to my office after getting something for lunch. I had to use my GPS or I'd probably be in Arkansas by now. To prove just how bad my sense of direction is...a couple of years ago, a few of my friends and I went up to South Carolina to visit Rachel and have an ornament and cookie party. I drove there with my friend Annie. On the way back home, I had to do a u-turn on the entrance ramp to the interstate because I accidentally got on the ramp to go NORTH. You don't go north to get to Florida from South Carolina. I am a much safer driver now that I have Dallas. Don't worry.
5. I am trying desperately to get my hair back to its natural color. I started highlighting my hair back in high school, and ever since then it's been a battle to keep my roots under control. I had my hair colored professionally a few weeks ago back to what is supposed to be my natural color, and I am determined never to do anything else to the color of my hair ever again....or at least until I start going gray.
6. I prefer a hamburger from McDonald's to one that is made from real hamburger meat and cooked on a real grill like in someone's backyard. I am now preparing myself to hear Oh my gosh that's so weird! like one million times.
7. I used to have to wake up in the morning like two hours before I needed to leave the house so that I could get dressed. It literally used to take me that long. I don't know what my deal was. Now I wake up about an hour and a half before I have to leave and I have time not only to get dressed but also feed and play with Dallas for about 45 minutes. How does that work? I don't know.
I think I've done fairly well in coming up with interesting things that I've never posted about. Now, I tag the first seven people on my blog roll to do this post as well. Actually, you're ALL beautiful bloggers, so I tag you ALL to do this post. And that includes all of you who haven't done a post in several weeks or months. You know who you are.
Number of working days I have left: 2
I've been tagged yet again for the Beautiful Blogger award. And since I'm doing everything imaginable to keep from doing any of the real work that really needs to be done in my office before I leave here FOR FOREVER on Friday, I think now is a good time to complete this post. In case you've forgotten, I'm supposed to list seven interesting things about myself. "Interesting" is always the key word.
1. Dustin and I have taken to calling Dallas "THAT BABY" just like that whenever we talk about her. In e-mails, text messages, etc. we never write her name. Just THAT BABY. I may start doing that here on my blog, as well.
2. When I was little my favorite color was blue. I made a point to tell people that I didn't like pink because pink was for girls. I must have been confused, somehow. Now I like anything and everything that is pink. Pink rules. Blue drools.
3. Another when-I-was-little story.... At my kindergarten graduation (do all schools do a huge graduation party for kindergartners? I don't know if this is normal) we did a huge program with all kinds of different activities like acting out the story of Noah and the Ark and doing some simple math and phonics reading and all that jazz. At the end of the whole shebang, several of us lined up holding signs that said "This is the day we graduate" and different kids had different signs with different punctuation marks (that was a lot of "different-s"!) to make the sentence either a declaration an exclamation or a question. For the question, the kid holding the card that said "This is" had to turn it over so it read "Is this." I held the card that had the period on it...making the sentence a declaration. My name was Patty Period. My family members (mainly my dad) would randomly call me Patty Period every once in a while growing up. It always made me feel special.
4. I am horrible with directions. H.O.R.R.I.B.L.E. You should never, ever, EVER ask me how to get somewhere, because I will definitely tell you wrong. I have lived in the same city since I was four years old, and just today I got lost trying to get back to my office after getting something for lunch. I had to use my GPS or I'd probably be in Arkansas by now. To prove just how bad my sense of direction is...a couple of years ago, a few of my friends and I went up to South Carolina to visit Rachel and have an ornament and cookie party. I drove there with my friend Annie. On the way back home, I had to do a u-turn on the entrance ramp to the interstate because I accidentally got on the ramp to go NORTH. You don't go north to get to Florida from South Carolina. I am a much safer driver now that I have Dallas. Don't worry.
5. I am trying desperately to get my hair back to its natural color. I started highlighting my hair back in high school, and ever since then it's been a battle to keep my roots under control. I had my hair colored professionally a few weeks ago back to what is supposed to be my natural color, and I am determined never to do anything else to the color of my hair ever again....or at least until I start going gray.
6. I prefer a hamburger from McDonald's to one that is made from real hamburger meat and cooked on a real grill like in someone's backyard. I am now preparing myself to hear Oh my gosh that's so weird! like one million times.
7. I used to have to wake up in the morning like two hours before I needed to leave the house so that I could get dressed. It literally used to take me that long. I don't know what my deal was. Now I wake up about an hour and a half before I have to leave and I have time not only to get dressed but also feed and play with Dallas for about 45 minutes. How does that work? I don't know.
I think I've done fairly well in coming up with interesting things that I've never posted about. Now, I tag the first seven people on my blog roll to do this post as well. Actually, you're ALL beautiful bloggers, so I tag you ALL to do this post. And that includes all of you who haven't done a post in several weeks or months. You know who you are.
Number of working days I have left: 2
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8 responses from the peanut gallery:
This cracked me up, and oh my gosh, I can't believe you say that about McDonalds hamburgers!!!! ;) They're not even real beef. It's okay, I'll still read your blog. :P
And I'm so with you on #5, I'm currently doing that myself. For some reason since I was 16 all of my hairdressers have made me blonde. I'm really quite auburn, so FINALLY I have found one who matched my natural color almost perfectly. You can hardly see my roots that are growing in. It's amazing.
So is having kids and what it does to your time schedule (if there is such a thing...) - Good stuff!
John and I used to call Sarah Beth and Daniel just "he" and "she." It doesn't work as well now since we have two "she's."
My kindergarten did not have a graduation. Maybe they just weren't doing it yet.
I will admit it, since you started it. I prefer fast food hamburgers to real ones, too. Please don't tell anybody!
It used to take me much longer to get ready, too. It's amazing how quickly you can get ready once you have little ones to get ready and feed, too.
McDonald's burgers are the worst. Ew!
So you're telling me that you'd rather have a McDonald's burger over a Five Guys burger? If so, you're on crack!
Did I say I like McDonald's better than Five Guys? I don't remember writing that.
I said GRILLED IN SOMEONE'S BACKYARD.
Booger.
You said you prefer a McDonald's to one that is made from real hamburger meat, Angela. You then use an example of a place where someone may cook a hamburger. It would have been different if you said, "I prefer burgers cooked at McDonalds than one's cooked in a backyard on a nasty grill." That would be different. You should probably go edit your post so no one thinks you weigh 450 lbs because you only eat McDonalds.
Hmmm. I'm not on your blog roll so I don't have to do this!
I prefer McDonalds to most homemade burgers too. It's all good.
It's amazing how things change after the babe's arrived! I used to move in slow motion while I was getting ready for work. Nowadays I do it in 30 minutes or less, so I can have more time with Lilli!
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