I love Tiger Balm.

I have been absent because I now coach 5-7 year olds at flag football. It may kill me. Not from the stress like I thought but from the fact that I have to demonstrate all the drills to the kids. Sometimes several times. Until Monday I don't think I'd ever done lunges IN MY LIFE yet there I was doing lunges for 15 yards and then back 15 yards WITH EACH KID. My legs hurt. The third quarter earnings of Tiger Balm, Advil, and Kleenex will skyrocket thanks to me. I hate it. I don't want to coach football. I want someone to come up to me and say, "Hey there, thanks but I know what I'm doing and I'd like to take over." Oh, how I would thank that unnamed stranger. Cpurl has tagged me with the first meme I can't respond to in kind. The challenge was to show off where you keep your handknit socks. Though I have knit at least 5 pair of socks I don't actually have any. I give them away. Mostly to my son who loves handknit socks and requests them for his birthday every year. So I guess, I keep my handknit socks on my blog since it has all the photos of my long gone knits.

At least 7.5 random things about California.

I challenged Bezzie and now I shall have to make good on my deal. 1) The Center of the World is in Felicity, California. I have never been there durring hours when it's open but Edina and I have climbed to the top of it and also pulled open the double doors to get inside after hours. They made those things lock into each other but not bolt into the ground, if you yank hard enough they just come open. Of course, they may have fixed that by now and it's not like there's anything inside it to take or anything so maybe they weren't worried about it. Eh, here's a photo from a postcard that some guy got on his trip. I have no idea if that girl got the duck at The Center of the World or if they just have a random duck walker or something. It's a weird place, who knows. 2) The largest and oldest wooden building in California is the Hotel Del Coronado on the island of Coronado here in San Diego county. It is also the second oldest remaining Victorian resort in the world. One time my buddy Dan and I wandered around the Del for several hours while he pretended to be a tourist of undefined Eastern European or Germanic origin. He kept shouting about shoddy American beer ("I have been in your country three weeks and have not yet been drunk! What is this piss you call beer!?") and asking people if they knew where they sold hot nuts (The Del used to sell hot roasted peanuts but must have stopped sometime before that particular trip). Also, most locals refer to it as The Del as opposed to The Coronado, which make no linguistiacal sense really. 3) This is a real street sign that is used on numerous freeways around San Diego. A huge deal was made of these things when they first went up and people from other states have told me they don't believe that these are really up on I-5. I see three of them on my way to drop off my husband at work every morning. In the 27 years I've been alive I have never actually seen anyone running across the freeway. Ever. 3.5) If California's economic size were measured by itself to other countries, it would rank the 7th largest economy in the world. 4.5) The U.S. Open Sandcastle Competition is held annualy in my hometown of Imperial Beach, California. Imperial Beach is considered to have some of the best sand in the counrty. I find this amusing since the beach has been eroding like crazy for the past 10 years. There's like half as much beach now as there was when I was a kid. If I owned a beach front home I'd be pretty worried. Anyway, after the competition the sand on the beach is totally displaced and for two days while it washes back out to normal it creates two sets of breakers in the water with a big, calm area in between like a swimming pool. The picture at right is actually from the amature division of last year's contest. The winning team for the main contest sculpted a giant hand holding a royal flush that was way detailed. Those people are nuts! 5.5) No one seems to know where the word California actually originated but everyone seems to have an opinion about it. (Wikipedia has a fairly good article about it.) Personally, I like the idea that it was a slam on Hernan Cortes. I find it amusing. 6.5) The only one of California's 21 Missions I have ever been to is Mission San Francisco Solano, the final mission built by the Spanish and the one farthest away from where I live. The first mission was Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala it's right here in town and though I've been by it a number of times I'm pretty sure I've never gone in. Churches wig me out and they still actually use the mission as a church. It is beautiful though, check out the picture over there. They also have a legend that if you hear the mission bells in the middle of the night you shouldn't follow them because you'll never return. You know, good old follow the bells to your death stories. Which will take me to the last fact... 7.5) According to the Travel Channel's show America's Most Haunted the U.S. government actually keeps a list of the most haunted places in our country. The number one house on that list is Whaley House in San Diego's Old Town area. If you stop through town, I'll take you there. Afterward we can go over to the Haunted Coldstone down the street. Okay, so Coldstone isn't haunted but we say it is since it's located in between Whaley House and the graveyard where Yankee Jim is burried. Although there's plenty of skepticism to go around, I have to admit there are many weird things that go on in that locale. Not the least of which being that if you park your car over the grave markers in the road (the cemetary line was moved back ages ago and some of the graves are under the paved road, there are small brass plaques simply stating "Grave Site" where graves have been paved over) your car won't start. It doesn't always happen and it doesn't happen to everyone but it happens just enough to be really odd. The photo below is of my sister Shaniqua and my cousins Irie and Hawkeye at Yankee Jim's grave. And thus ends my 7.5 facts about California that are mostly about San Diego since that's where I'm from. Since I mostly talked about SoCal, I think CPurl17 should tell us about NorCal. On the knitting front, I'm working on a pair of socks for Entrelac that I will show you just as soon as I'm sure they're looking right. Lastly, my baby girl is THREE years old today. Yikes!

Nephew Destined for Clown College.

I'll give you a tiny sneek peek of my soon-to-be-new nephew's sweater (Auspicious Coincidences from Compassionate Knitting) that I started yesterday. I'm not sure if I was possessed or if baby sweaters are just THAT speedy but I'm almost through the body and onto the sleeves. The thing is a riot of color. I'm pretty sure the only place it wouldn't be an eyesore is at a clown college. The Bright Freaking Orange* trim isn't going to make matters better. Oh well, my sister will love it because it's striped, orange, and insane. I may have it finished by the end of the week since I'm knitting in the ends as I go to avoid the mad number of ends on the thing. *The orange is so bright that on a pervious project I had to put it down every few minutes to readjust my eyes. I started seeing blue everywhere because of that whole negative image thing. It's so bright that it should come with some kind of a warning label telling you not to stare directly at it since, like the sun, it causes blindness, as opposed to the sweater that just makes you WISH for blindness. Keohinani had a meme that required actual thought! I decided to run with it, consider yourself tagged if you feel like being tagged. Rules: Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following...They MUST be real places, names, things...NOTHING made up! If you can't think of anything, skip it. Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial. You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question. Your Name: Sarah 1. Actor: Sylvester Stallone 2. 4 letter word: sock ( bet you thought I'd go for a REAL 4 letter word, didn't ya?) 3. Street name: Sisson St. (It's in Boston) 4. Color: sage 5. Gift/present: sweets 6. Vehicle: Suzuki Swift 7. Tropical Location: St. Bart's 8. College Major: Sociology 9. Dairy Product: Smetana 10. Thing in a Souvenir Shop: snowglobes! 11. Boy Name: Seth 12. Girl Name: Sally 13. Movie Title: Silverado 14. Beer: Schlitz heh 15. Occupation: Smarmy Salesman 16. Flower: Snapdragon 17. Celebrity: Susan Sarandon 18. Magazine: Seventeen 19. U.S. City: Springfield

That Damn Christmas Meme

I give in. NAME: Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Fana Bo Besca III 1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Hot chocolate. I have a hot chocolate maker. I have my own recipe. I am a crazy. 2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Santa only brings things that fit inside a Christmas stocking. All the big presents come from Mom and Dad because no fictional fat man is taking credit for my work. But I'm not bitter. 3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? My Christmas decorations are in storage. I honestly don't recall what kind of lights are on the tree. I do know that we had the red and green only strands up in my living room, though. 4. Do you hang mistletoe? We have a fake mistle toe ball at my mom's house that no one is required to kiss under. At Red Todd Kidd's parents' house they hang mistletoe over the spot in the kitchen that gets the most traffic. I am not thrilled with this tradition. 5. When do you put your decorations up? I like to do it the first weekend of December. 6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? RTK's family does pork tenderloin with biscuts and gravy. I like it. 7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child: The year the Christmas play at church had my cousin had to be a giant popcorn ball. That or the year that my sister's part in the play required an English accent and the best she could muster was Austrailian. I still remember her line, say it in your head like Crocodile Dundee if you can. "Hey ole chaps, this town is mine! Look, there's me house and me mum standin' outside. This is jolly old England, it is!" Stereotype city, I know, but I bet you're cracking up. 8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? When I was seven years old my mom married my step dad (in October). That year Santa labeled all my Christmas presents with the name Sarha instead of Sarah, just like Dad. 9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? I don't think so. 10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? Uh, you take the decorations out of the boxes and put them on the tree, what are you? New or something? 11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? What is this snow you speak of? 12. Can you ice skate? Believe it or not I can. 13. Do you remember your favorite gift? Uh, is it really sad that I can't remember a favorite? The Nintendo back in '88? The Cabbage Patch Kid of '83? Perhaps the Lexie Barnes bag from last year? Honestly, I can't pick out something that just made me swoon. 14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Cookies. 15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? See above. Or maybe fudge. I do like fudge. 16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? I suppose I could say the cookies again but really it's the horrible gift exchange that begat the Overalls of Shame and now the Velvet Painting Purse. 17. What tops your tree? I forgot what we have for our tree. Clearly it holds great sentimental value. Though, when my parents were first married they had this tree topper that wasn't anything. It was just a weird light up thing that sat on the top of the tree. It was hideous. When we moved in 1998, I found it and put it away in my things thinking it'd be funny to swap it out with the really nice angel Mom has now and just make her flip out. Last year, I finally got around to doing it. It was pretty funny since I hid the angel and then we left for Arizona for several days. 18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? What kind of question is this? Get you mind out of the gutter, we're supposed to be talking about Christmas! 19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? I like The Carol of the Bells. It's fun to belt out O Holy Night when no one is around. 20. Candy Canes? Of course. You have to suck on them until you've sharpened them to a point so you can menace your siblings with a slobery, candy weapon.

The Cheetos Naturals, Coca-Cola, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Diet

I'll let you know how that goes. Oh, and if you haven't tried the bliss that are Cheetos Naturals, don't. They're hard to find and I want them all to myself. Red Todd Kidd finished his MCSE last week, we're pretty excited about that around here. That means we're coming up on the end of his classes and we're all the closer to getting out of my parent's house. Yipee! Don't get me wrong, I love my parents but as an adult is really sucks to live with your parents. You may think you want to feel sixteen again but believe me, you really don't. The thing I will miss about living here is the weekly dinner. We have dinner every night, of course, but once a week RTK makes a big dinner for everyone and usually a couple of extra people we invite. Last night it was pork tenderloin, mashed potatoes, biscuts, and gravy and we had my grandma and RTK's mom over (his dad was out sailing in some race or something). It's just so much fun to have the great food and a few drinks in a relaxed atmosphere. In a couple weeks we're going to try and do a vegetarian meal (which I've never done before) and invite over our neighbor from across the street. The artist and his wife not the drug dealer. You know what I've been craving (other than the stuff in the title of this post)? A good poker game. RTK and I used to have our friends over for Texas Hold 'em pretty often. We ended up watching a WPT game on television the other night and now we're both rabid to get a game together. Sigh. I got one of Rachael Ray's cook books, 365: No Repeats. I picked it up at my sister's and flipped through it and it seemed pretty good so I picked it up at Costco this weekend. Yeah, Costco where we sepent almost $240 and I couldn't even tell you what we bought. Except peanut butter, I remember we got peanut butter. And the Cheetos Naturals, can't forget those. I was meme-ed and I somehow missed it! Oops! 1)What's your favorite LYS? : The Antique Yarn Shoppe in Poway which despite it's name is a very laid back, cool place run by a very cool lady. 2)What about it do you like most?: That the staff is just two hippies as opposed to other places I've been where the staff has been pretentious or INSANE. 3)What is your 2nd favorite?: I don't have a second I don't think. I guess if I have to I go to Two Sisters and Ewe but I don't love it. 4)What would you improve about it to make it a tie with your first?: I'd have to live closer to it since it's way out of my way. I'd also have to there and make freinds with people. Really It's on me, I suppose. 5)What's the last thing your bought at your #1 LYS?: Addi Turbos and two skeins of bulky weight Alpaca. 6)Who's Next?: I'm breaking the chain. I'm a rebel and I'll never, ever be any good.

"Sarah needs"

Google "Sarah needs" in quotes and this is what you get. Try it with your own name, it's fun. Sarah needs to feel peaceful, and also to feel equal to (or better than) everyone else. Ha! Ain't that the truth! Sarah Needs to Vent. And she does, endlessly. Sarah needs a team of committed people to pray for her and her ministry. Yeah, uh, you do that. Sarah needs no explanation. And she won't give one! Sarah needs to lighten up. That's what my husband would say. Sarah needs to be an only dog and probably no small children. Wait, what? Sarah needs Nat and her computing skills to survive and find whatever she needs to keep ahead of her faceless pursuers. I'm being persued? Oh no! Sarah needs to figure out what happened in her house before her family moved there. And now I'm haunted too? Sarah needs cheerleading. I do NOT! Sarah needs to have a stake put through her heart. Only if you catch me cheerleading. Sarah needs more risk in her life. I'm already being persued, what more do you want? Sarah needs to use her voice a little more. HA! Sarah needs to come to grip with the fact that she's not a very attractive person. Hey! Sarah needs more cash, cuz killing terrorists is expensive work. Shh, don't let my secret out! Sarah needs to be put away to keep other people safe from her. Yeah, like terrorists. Sarah needs to tear down the walls she’s built up between herself and God and to open her eyes to the Lord’s relentless pursuit of her. So, God is persuing me? Wow, he's gonna be hard to get away from. I get how my persuers are faceless now but how many gods are after me? Crap, a whole pantheon? What did I do? Oh yeah, the terrorists. I thought I was doing good! Don't hold it against me! Sarah needs to talk to you about another one of your inventions. Which invention? Why do I need to talk about it? Is it cool? Does it suck? Will it help me kill terrorists or get away from The Pantheon? Sarah needs a series of videos devoted entirely to her. I have a feeling this was probably dirty. Sarah needs a special talisman to defeat the Silver Wraith. And the terrorists. And the pantheon of gods that persue me facelessly and relentlessly. This was hard because I kept getting other peoples lists from their blogs. After much time and considerable effort I have put together a list I believe is truly original. Until tommorrow when some other Sarah doesn't check her work and includes all my stuff in her list. Oh well.

New blog game, thought I'd give it a spin.

Here's the game -Do a Google image search of the following and post the first (or favorite) result for each: *The name of the town where you were born- San Diego (first image) *The name of the town where you live now- San Diego (Third image, for some reason it's "Portland's favorite man in a dress") *Your name- Sarah Sisson (maiden name) yeilded the best image *Your grandmother's name- Sally *Your favorite food- Mexican food (this one's great, I have NO idea how it came up in the search) *Your favorite drink- Coke *Your favorite song- I don't know so I searched "I don't know" *Your favorite smell- Mmmmmm

I'm it again.

Four Truths and a Lie: 1)I live across the street from a well known fine artist. Indeed I do. I live across the street from William Glen Crooks. He lives next door to the guy we think is selling drugs. 2) I stole a cow from someone's yard. Hey, I never said it was a real cow. It was a tacky lawn ornament. I hid it in the garage for several months and then we put it in their neighbor's yard. They were baffled. 3) I gave the lead guitarist from Foreigner a bloody nose. True again. I was walking out of a radio station with a friend who had just been on the radio and he was walking in. I nailed him with the door. The whole situation was made more humorous by the fact that I had no idea who he was until we heard him talking about it on the radio about 10-15 minutes later. 4) In my younger days, I appeared in a "Hot Girls with Guns" calendar. This one's the lie! 5) I have met all of the surviving members of The Doors. The San Diego Rep did a production called Celebration of the Lizard many years back that featured poetry by Jim Morrison and music by The Doors. All the remaining members attended on opening night and I met them. My friend's mom hit on Ray Manzerick right in front of his wife. It was pretty funny. Knottyknitpicks is the winner!

Four MORE Truths and one MORE Lie

1) I once lost a tooth in a bar fight that I wasn't even involved in. I was hit in the face by a flying barstool. Yeah. That was fun. 2) I used to be a mechanic in my dad's shop. Nope. I was the secretary there for a few years though. 3) I torment my younger cousins by yelling embarrassing things when we're out in public. Well, duh. 4) I broke a Marine's nose in Tijuana. Remind me to tell that story sometime. It's pretty funny. 5) I love karaoke. It was a secret love until now. The winner is Tabbytuxedo!

Four Truths and a Lie

It's blog game time! Here are four truths and a lie about me, see if you can guess the lie and you'll be 'it'. I'd like to point out that this is especially difficult considering I just did my 100 things about me list. I'm getting kinda sick of me... 1) I was a three time gold medalist in the Academic Decathlon in high school. 2) I would like to attend the University of Reno. 3) I think I might live to see the fall of civilization. 4) I bake cinnamon rolls from scratch. 5) I was once misquoted in a local newspaper leading to many nasty letters and phone calls. Have at it!

Sweet self-indulgence

Call me a lemming if you must just don't do it to my face. Here's my list of 100 things about me: 1) I was born and raised in San Diego county, I have never lived elsewhere. 2) Most people from San Diego don't like going to Tijuana after they hit 21. I still love to go. 3) Shoes never fit me. 4) I love cheese. 5) I think every idea I have is a brilliant money making scheme until I realize there's no way in hell that it will work. This happens to me almost daily. 6) I never graduated from high school. 7) I skipped my graduation from trade school. 8) My husband and I eloped. 9) I tend to avoid situations that involve recognition. I'm not sure why. 10) I think my husband regrets not having a wedding. 11) I think the Jungle Cruise at Disneyland may be the greatest ride of all time. 12) I usually have to share my birthday. I secretly like it because it takes the focus off of me. I don't actually like to be the center of attention and I hate it when people gush over me. 13) My sister's birthday is on the 13th of April. I think she's amazing. I don't know if she knows that though because whenever we talk one of us is usually complaining about something. 14) I think my kids are cuter than your kids. You probably think the same in the inverse. 15) I don't think all babies are cute. I think some are downright fugly. I don't lie to parents with ugly babies by telling them they're cute. I tell them something like, "Oh he's so alert!" or, "What big eyes!" or something like that. 16)The best thing about cold weather is hot chocolate. 17) My son missed being born on Halloween by one day. I think if I had gone for a walk like Red Todd Kidd kept bugging me to he probably would have been born on Halloween. I secretly feel a little guilty about that. 18) My favorite movie is Boondock Saints. Or maybe Braveheart. Well, it's actually going to be Serenity in a couple weeks. Okay, my top thre favorite movies are Boondock Saints, Braveheart, and hopefully Serenity. And Mallrats. Oh and Sin City was awesome. I don't have a favorite movie. 19) I used to think (after Darth was born) that I wanted all boys. I was upset when I found out I was having a girl when I was pregnant with Lola Beans. Man, I was a jerk. She's awesome. 20) You know that commercial for Geico where they pretend there's a reality show called Tiny House? I freaking love that commercial and even though I hate reality tv and don't watch any of it (except ABC's Extreme Makeover Home Edition), I would TOTALLY watch that show. 21) I laughed at my sister years ago when she cried at the movie The Iron Giant. A few weeks ago I saw it again for the first time in years and I almost cried. Come on people! He was so great! He wanted to be like Superman! Have a heart you soulless bastard. 22) I'm adapting Hamlet. My version takes place in a porn studio. I hope it to be a definitive work. 23) My high school history teacher showed me how to appriciate art, for that I am eternally greatful. 24) The lullabyes I sing to my kids include: Black Velvet Band by the Irish Rovers (in which some hussy gets some nice Irish boy sent to prison), Goodnight My Love by the Benny Goodman Orchestra, Beyond the Sea (Lola's favorite), Me and Bobby McGee the Janis Joplin version, and on some rare occasions Hotel California by The Eagles. This is because these are the only songs I know all the words to even without the music playing. 25) That's how old I am right now. 26) I don't really like country music but for some reason I love Dwight Yoakam. I also love Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and quite a few of the other old favorites. 27) My favorite Willie Nelson song is Poncho and Lefty, if I ever had my own Mexican restaurant that's what I'd call it. Poncho and Lefty's. I think it's funny because Red Todd Kidd is left handed. 29) My favorite color is red. 30) When I'm around people with accents I have to try very hard not to copy their accent. I blame this on too many years in theater classes. 31) Years ago a visiting Welshman tried to teach me Cockney rhyming slang. Years later on a return visit he quizzed me on it and I actually remembered it all. 32) I think William Shatner is hilarious. 33) Everything you can do I can do better, I can do everything better than you. Any note you can hit I can hit higher, I can hit any note higher than you. 34) I'm one of those people who gets their news from John Stewart. 35) I still remember every halloween costume I ever wore. 36) My favorite beer is Newcastle Brown Ale. I liked it even before it got popular. I don't begrudge it's popularity because now I can actually find it. 37) I have better things to be doing right now. 38) I don't really like animals. Okay it's not that I don't like them it's just that I firmly believe that they belong outdoors. Indoor animals drive me crazy. I don't mind if they come in when they're clean to get loved on a bit but they shouldn't live in the house. In this way, I am JUST like my mom. 40) I think it was a total waste that I wasn't born into a Hasidic family. I think that life would have suited me well. 41) I'm craving lasagna so I take back that last one. 42) If I don't have anymore kids this is how old I'll be when my youngest graduates from high school. 43) When I was little I wanted to grow up to be Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty. I may have succeeded. I just need the hat and cape. Yeah, that's a sweet hat. 44) I think it's adorable that Red Todd Kidd calls the baby girl Boo. 45) Truly Elvis was The King. 46) I once shot an elephant in my pajamas, how he got in my pajamas I'll never know. 47) I think I may have been Ernest Hemmingway in my last life. 48) I hate having my picture taken. 49) I think Gilmore Girls is one of the funniest and best written shows on tv. 50) I'm only half way there? Crap! 51) Right now I have to pee. 52) Now I don't. 53) I don't think anyone would ever reffer to me as patient. Gracious probably doesn't come up often either. I think I'm viewed rather like Gareth in Four Weddings and a Funeral. 54) Oreos are the best cookies that I don't make myself. 55) If Darth asks me to watch the Spongebob Squarepants movie again my head might explode. 56) I like road trips. I have fond memories of breaking in to the Center of the World on the way to Yuma so we could smoke in Denny's. 57) I'm pretty short. People always think I'm at least two or three inches taller than I really am. I think this is partly because I used to wear heels all the time and partly because my personality makes up for my height. 58) She'll be commin' 'round the mountain when she comes. She'll be commin' 'round the mountain when she comes. She'll be commin' 'round the mountain, she'll be commin' 'round the mountain, she'll be commin' 'round the mountain when she comes. 59) This is taking a really long time. 60) My girl cousins all have goofy nicknames. They couldn't think of one for me so they started calling me Nick Nameless. Then they decided I was a pirate and I became Captain Less. They got me a hat and and eyepatch and everything. I wore it the whole night I got it. The people at the movie theater and the bowling alley thought I was way strange. They were right. 61) Fuzzy Tail wants to get a chihuahua. I don't like them. I told her I'd disown her if she got one. In truth I'll probably make it a ton of sweaters. 62) This is my family. Or most of it. Actually there are a couple extra people in there. Also you can't see Lola Beans because I was still working on making her in this pic. 63) Uhh... I like knitting? I'm running out of things. 64) I like stories about mermaids but not like Splash. I like the ones where they drown sailors and such. 65) I want to move to New Zealand but I'm not qualified. They have a points system to get in, you know. 66) I always wanted to be an archeologist. 67) I love Sealab 2021. I am Captain Murphy. Or at least that internet quiz told me so. 68) In fact, I love it so much that my friends and I have started an annual tradition of having an Alvis day. This year in addition to the hate-gift exchange there will be ham and pomp. 69) X-Treme! 70) I'm secretly a superhero. 71) I never dream of being rich and famous. 72) I'm not always honest. 73) My friend just sent me pics of some kittens, I sent back a pic of our cat that we had to put to sleep. I captioned it, "This cat is dead now". I guess what I'm saying is, I have a sick sense of humor. 74) Sometimes I check the whole house for flaws in zombie security. 75) I could never live in Maine because there are too many cemetaries. I think that whole state is haunted. 76) I have only been in like 10 or 15 other states and most of them I drove through in one night on a road trip from Maine to Virginia. 77) I want to try to learn HTML. I'm hopeful that I won't be completely lost like I usually get when things get technical. 78) I met my husband at a LARP. I ran it. He liked me anyway. 79) I think M&Ms are the greatest candy of all time. 80) I let a lot of my exes ruin things I loved for me like irises, Lucky Strikes, and Japan. I did manage to hang on to RPGs, M&Ms, knitting, and Tim Burton flicks, despite some valiant efforts. 81) I have written a one act play. I even got a staged reading of it. Kaylee and the cast were the only ones laughing. I don't think the lesbian coffee house was the best place to run a play about a disfunctional, albiet funny, straight relationship. 82) I cannot miss ER. CANNOT. 83) Although I still miss Dr. Greene. 84) My favorite episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force is Super Birthday Snake. I love the part where they argue. It goes on for so long it stops being funny and then so much longer it gets funny again. That's the best. 85) You take the high road and I'll take the low road and I'll be in Scotland before ye. 86) I can't draw worth a damn. 87) I speak tiny amounts of Russian. I took it in high school because living in Southern California there's such a need for it. 88) I'm never, ever sarcastic. 89) My grandpa told me this great story about when he was a kid: his mom had made breakfast and kept telling his dad to come out and eat before his eggs got cold. She told him several times and when he finally came to the table the first thing out of his mouth was that his eggs were cold. She walked right up to him with an egg in her hand and smashed it right on the back of his head. Without a word he got up and went to clean up and change. It doesn't really have anything to do with me, except I expect my son will tell similar stories some day. 90) Did I mention I have a bit of a temper? 91) I loved Star Trek TNG when I was in junior high. I can't seem to get through an episode now. It's just SO bad. 92) I did open mic night at the comedy store once. I got some laughs even after my first joke bombed. I was pretty proud of that. 93) One of the other comedians that night actually did about two minutes of jokes about my rack. Did I mention my friends and I were in the front row? Did I mention that we were heckling? 94) I don't like baseball. 95) Though I've never worked in a soulless hellhole of an office, I almost always laugh at Dilbert. 96) I have been working on this list on and off for three days, you'd think it'd be more interesting. Go figure, huh? 97) I am an Aries. For some reason I'm proud of that. Like you can control that or something. My husband, sister, and brother are all Aries as well. It makes for a fun family dynamic. 98) I have totalled three cars. They were all Fords. We have a Saturn now. 99) I have a very high pain tolerance. This is not an invitation to punch me. 100) I'm done with this damn list, biotch!

Well shit, I'm "it".

I've been tagged (by Keohinani) in one of those blog game/chainletter/some kind of survey things. It's kinda awesome (in a Tiny House kind of way). I feel like an official blogger now. Here goes: Ten years ago: I was a brat. Through and through. I thought I was an artist, I thought I was a writer, I thought I was an actor, I thought I knew what I wanted from life, and I thought I'd always love my then boyfriend, we'll call him... uh... Commie. That's what everyone called him at the time. Ten years ago I didn't think I'd have kids someday. Ten years ago I thought I looked awesome in those shirts I got at the thrift store. Ten years ago I still secretly read Baby Sitter's Club books. Ten years ago I said dude way too much. Ten years ago I was an idiotic teenager. Five years ago: Exactly five years ago I met the man I'm married to now. I confess, I didn't really notice him at first but that's okay because I think I came off as a slutty bitch to him anyway. Five years ago I didn't think I'd have kids anytime soon. Five years ago I was still dating that guy that ruined Japan for me, we'll call him Skunk, but at least I knew I didn't love him. Five years ago I had finished exactly three knitted projects and had been knitting for at least three years. Five years ago I still said dude way too much. One year ago: I had just had my second child. One year ago I had just discovered knitty. One year ago I was so busy with a new baby that I can't really come up with anything else, dude. --------------------------------------------------------- Five snacks: * M&Ms * Cheeze-its * Cracker Jacks (a recently rediscovered favorite) * Oreos * Chicken in a Biskit (the best crackers EVER) Five songs I know all the words to: * Possum Kingdom (Toadies) * Me and Bobby McGee (Janis Joplin's version) * Goodnight My Love (Benny Goodman Orchestra) * Beyond the Sea (you all know this one) * Generator (Bad Religion) Five things I'd do with 100 million bucks * Pay off all debts of my own and close family and friends, buy houses, do all that goody-goody crap, donations, altruistic whatever, blah blah blah. * Fund archeological digs as long as I get to come along. * Buy every damn knitting notion and piece of crafty crap I felt like and some for Erika too. * Start my own theater company. * Start my own museum. I think it would house some fine art, some textiles, and a lot of weird kitchy crap I found on my world travels. It'd have a ton of really strange stuff. Think Ripley's but with arts and crafts. I think I'd also have wandering performance artists or minstrels. Costumed ones. Rude costumed ones. It's be like my brain but in a builing. Five places I'd run away to (in my first draft I wrote "rum away", typo?, I think not): * Belize * Greece * New Zealand * Oregon * India Five things I would never wear: * Tapered jeans * Socks with sandals * A size 0 (or even a size 6) * A vest * This Five tv shows: * ER * Gilmore Girls * Rescue Me * Battlestar Galactica * Scrubs Five joys: * Baby Girl laughing * Darth Vincent's costume obsession * A quiet minute to myself * Finishing a project * A good meal with good company Five things to do, just for me, before I die: * Write a full length play and have it performed. * See some pyramids, I don't care which, really. * Learn another language or three. * Procure, and proficiantly use, a spinning wheel... and perhaps a sheep to go with it. * Learn to weave on a par with Aracne. Oh yeah, that'd be sweet. Well now it's my turn to tag others. Uh... do I know five bloggers I could trouble with this? That haven't already been tagged? * Erika * peatbogfaery * Deserta * Sara * Weaselrina