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1. What do you add to your coffee? Home: Sugar and French vanilla creamer. Starbucks: Iced quad venti caramel syrup latte.
2. What are you reading now? Island of the Sequined Love Nun
3. Do you own a gun? I totally support gun ownership and always thought I would own a gun. However I do not own one currently.
4. Are you registered to vote? Yes!
5. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments? It totally depends on what I am going to the doctor for.
6. What do you think of hot dogs? “I think they are tasty tubes of meat.” I concur with what Susie said!
7. Favorite Christmas Song? Drummer boy and most of the songs that are played on the bells.
8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? Water.
9. Can you do push ups? Don’t upset me and you won’t find out.
10. What was the name of your first boyfriend/girlfriend? Lois.
11. What’s your favorite piece of jewelry? My wedding ring and my grandmothers jewelry.
12. Favorite hobby? Right now it is playing World of Warcraft, but I love taking pictures and reading as well.
13. Do you work with people who idolize you? Everybody idolizes me! My three year old loves or hates me depending on if we have chocolate milk and my four month old thinks that the sun rises and sets in my bra.
14. Do you have ADD? I have never thought long enough to ask.
15. What’s one trait that you hate about yourself? Thinking…thinking…thinking…I really like me.
16. What’s your Middle name? Kristina after some ancestor, I really should find out about her sometime.
17. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment.
Would I feel better if I just cut my knees off?
Venice don’t touch that!
Why is she crying?
18. Name 3 things you bought yesterday. Hooked on French, Lots of food, and a latte.
19. Name 3 beverages you regularly drink. Water, Water, coffee.
20. Current worry right now? Getting a good car.
21. What side do you dress to? That makes no sense.
22. Favorite place to be? In my husbands arms.
23. How did you bring in the New Year? With friends and burning list of crappy things that happened last year.
24. Where would you like to go? To sleep, and France.
25. Name three people who will complete this. I am surprised I did.
26. Whose answers do you want to read the most? Mine.
27. What color shirt are you wearing? Black.
28. Do you like sleeping on satin sheets? I do but my husband refuses.
29. Can you whistle? No.
30. Favorite colors(s)? Black, purple, and silver.
31. Could you be a pirate? Who says I am not?
32. What songs do you sing in the shower? I don’t sing!
33. Favorite girls name? Venice, Vienna, Kristina.
34. Favorite boy’s name? Zurich, William, Bryan (because that’s my husband).
35. What’s in your pocket right now? Your wallet.
36. Last thing that made you laugh? My husband.
37. Best bed sheets as a child? I can’t remember that far back.
38. Worst injury you’ve ever had? Almost died in a roll over! Shattered rib cage, torn liver, massive road rash.
39. Do you love where you live? I love who I live with…
40. How many TVs do you have in your house? Two, one for watching and one for gaming.
41. Who is your loudest friend? Susie!
42. How many dogs do you have? One cute little five pound Shiz Tsu.
43. Does anyone have a crush on you? Anyone who meets me!
44. What are the most fun things you ever did? Road trips with my husband.
45. What are your favorite books? 
Tikki Tikki Tembo, 
The Persian Pickle Club, 
The Alchemist
46. What is your favorite candy? Chocolate…anything.
47. Favorite Team? Team of what? I hate sports.
48. What songs do you want played at your funeral? Something that will make everyone cry. Really why would I care?
49. What were you doing at 12 AM? Not sleeping and feeding an infant. That is always what I am doing it seems.
50. What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up? Not yet please not yet.
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The innocent guy next door.
The unkempt look?
The redhead…
The skinhead.
Your neighborhood skinhead.
The proud dad.
The chef.
The Wookie!
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Just the fact that my husband decided that while they were in the dark at work during a black out that he should walk around and menacingly flash people in the face with a flashlight while hitting a large stick in his hand and saying he was self designated security officer was enough. But the fact that he when asked if he needed anything ordered for work supplies his answer was:
Given the confusion following the recent power outage I’ve nominated myself as the Engineering Security Officer (ESO). In my new capacity I require the following "office supplies".
These will total about $6000, a small price to pay for continuity of security during these troubling times.
This is why my husband rocks and why I married the man. Who is bold enough to do this? Then the fact that his work understands him so well that HR sent it to the CFO so he could laugh as well is just beyond anything I have ever experienced.
I love you baby!
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How is it possible that I have a little girl who will be three? I cannot believe that time flies so fast. I swear it was just so recently that I was counting the day’s till I first became a mom and now my little girl will start dance class. She is turning three and I just can not believe that this has happened so fast. Not to say that I am surprised she is in dance class because I signed her up however I just am amazed that she is old enough to go. Next will be preschool and I might as well just be looking for a job right now.
This brings me to another subject which is, what to do when the two kids get into school. I want to get into something that I can eventually work at a college so that when my kids go to college that I can have a discount through my job. Now that sounds so cheap like I don’t want to have to put aside a college fund which is not true I just think if I don’t have to spend that much on it if I can save some money. I guess I should start to research what my options are.
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I am trying to figure out how I can, with a strait face, tell my children that on Christmas Eve we will make cookies and put socks up in anticipation of a home invasion by a fat man who really has no way of getting into the house and hoping he will know what our little hearts desire and leave them for us. I suppose that we can suspend some cognitive dissidence by writing letters addressed to “Santa Claus” at “the North Pole” I feel this is quite general so would adding in a gingerbread house with lots of very short people roaming around would help, Just saying. So after we are home invaded and our cookies are stolen by this unkempt man with an unruly beard he leaves us “presents” then escapes out of the house possibly damaging the fire place and roof with his enormous girth and heft. Not to mention that he must be a scientific genius having figured out how to make animals that are heavy and not aerodynamic to fly while pulling a sleigh his fat little body and enough gifts to give to the whole world. After leaving with a belly full of our milk and cookies, he and his magical menagerie he shouts and laughs as he is leaving. I ask you what kind of a message is this sending to our children?
Now I have told you!
Here is a pet peeve of mine. Are we as a society really so busy that we cannot use names or whole words? Such as National Geographic now is called Nat Geo. Are you kidding? Is it really that much of a time saver to not saying whole words? And to think that when I saw hard boiled eggs that were shelled and packaged so that people would not have to wrangle with that pesky shell that we had hit the hight of a slothful society. However this is a whole new level of lazy. I am a big fan of things that assist having an easier life but not being able to use your vocabulary to its fullest seems like a joke. On this same rant path I heard a commercial the other day and the person say’s “guess how fast it took for my knees to feel better”. Do we not have any pride in our language? I know that people do not speak properly all the time but I think that if someone is going to try and sell me something damn it do it correctly.
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I recently have loved watching Gordon Ramsay’s shows such as Kitchen Nightmares and I just enjoy his enthusiasm and honesty I guess you could say. He has had some cosmetic surgery and now there is just something about him. I do want to learn to cook better and expand my recipe horizons. I have started to watch all kinds of cooking shows and want to improve my bread skills which, if I do say so myself, are decent to begin with. I think that my husband starts to question what I see in him when I tell him that I find people like Gordon Ramsay, Allen Rickman, and Sam Elliot attractive. Oh well what can you say?
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My daughter is two will be three next month and loves her family, however she just adores her grandma Stratton. Grandma lives in Seattle so she does not get to see her as much as she would like so Grandma has sent Venice many little care packages and in one she sent “the grandma tape”. This was one of the best things she ever got I think. She would listen to “the grandma tape” as she went to sleep for naptime or nighttime. It was the golden grail for me! Somehow my husband did something and broke “the grandma tape”. Having to tell my little girl that “the grandma tape” is not working and see the desperation in her little face was total hell. She has been so strong and we have tried to put it back together and record the audio into digital form but I think it was unrecoverable. Every day I hear the question “can I have “the grandma tape””? SAD!!
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Being a stay at home mom did not come naturally to me. That being said I would not change it for the world. I was not the little girl playing mommy with baby dolls. I was Barbie with the corvette and big corporate job. I got married which was shocking to me as well and my husband said if we have kids I want you to stay home with them. He is a great man and he would stay home if I had a more lucrative job. Having a second child is a whole new level of parental stress. I have no idea how to get out of the house on time. Dressing two girls and me also making sure that diapers all all clean and hair is done is just time consuming. It is the small things that make it so worthwhile. When my little girl looks at me and says “I love you mama” or when she laughs really hard when her daddy laughs. I love my daughters and I am so glad that I have them.
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My husband is a great father he is so interactive. We were at the store and my daughter has decided she wants to wear her underpants so in the middle of the store she says that she needs to go to the potty and I was taking care of the fussy baby so Bryan takes Venice to the men’s bathroom in the store. Later I find out the utter ciaos that ensues in said bathroom. So my husband is in a bathroom stall feeling like a molester because Venice is saying over and over “I want mom” so he is saying “we will go see her after you pee. Remember she is in the toys department waiting for us.” Which makes him sound like he is hiding something because of the detail of his description to her. After a long time of no urine being expelled he takes her out to me and two minutes later she again states that she needs to go. I offered to take her but he did not want the fussy two month old. However he was never approached by anyone trying to save the child begging for her mother. I am unsure if that is a good thing overall. Well I think that potty training sucks! Running into a store with a two month old and a two year old while leaving the dog in a cold car and trying not to knock things down while running holding hands and flinging a car seat wildly around in attempts to not take out other kids walking by. I really think it would have been much easier if I had done all of this before having another child. Oh well I am sure that this too will pass. And if I am lucky I will get amnesia and not remember!
