Hometown: The Roch, MI (aka. The Crotch, aka. Crotchscratcher, aka. Crotchmolester, aka. Rochester)
Currently Living: Clawson, MI
Height: 5'8
Weight: Ha ha, yeah right
Favorite Color: Blue (preferably navy)
Profession: Researcher
Favorite Nickname: Trick, Sloan
Favorite Drinks:Vodka Tonic, Guinness, Diet Dr. Pepper, Dirty Martinis, red wine
Favorite TV Show: Friends, Sex & The City, Project Runway, The Amazing Race, Iron Chef America
Least Favorite TV Show: A Baby Story, I Love Lucy, Martha Stewart, Everybody Loves Raymond, every hour long drama
Favorite Books: The History of Love, Beloved, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Fight Club, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The of Being, SurUnbearable Lightness vivor, Empire Falls, The Corrections, The Bell Jar
Favorite Movies: Little Miss Sunshine, Anchorman, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Wordplay, American Beauty, Life is Beautiful, Amelie, Breakfast Club, Singin In The Rain, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sleeping Beauty, Dancer in the Dark, Duets, The Virgin Suicides, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Austin Powers I, II & III, My Best Friends Wedding, Moulin Rouge, Tommy Boy, Billy Madison, The Shining, Gone With The Wind, Bridget Jones' Diary, Chicago, Love Actually
Guilty Pleasure Movies: Xanadu, Dirty Dancing, Overboard, Groundhog Day, Steel Magnolias, 10 Things I Hate About You, Bond movies, Footloose, Clue, Murder By Death, High Spirits, A Cinderella Story
What I Do Too Much: Check email, crossword puzzles, complain about my job to friends and family,
Obsessions: sushi, Indian food, ranch dressing, toenail polish, song lyrics, hands, awards shows, symmetry, avocados, maps, dreams, This American Life, the display in my car that tracks my MPG
Pet Peeves: loud eaters, slurping, gulping, arrogance, snoring, bad grammar, repetition, late mergers, ripping cardboard, the word "chunky", intolerance, couples in a restaurant sitting on the same side of a booth, pop-up ads, privacy manager, men that drive without shirts on, being foolish, unfairly jumping to conclusions, being made fun of, cat-calling, people who type too hard
Greatest Fear: crossing bridges
Relaxing Activites: late night drives to sing by myself, headstands, hot baths,
Wish I Was: Ansel Adams, Jenifer Aniston, in love, living alone
Prized Possessions: ring from my grandparents, flower pot of my Grandma's, electric blanket (temporarily broken), tongue scraper, my bed
Craziest Thing Ever Done: getting a tattoo, strip Jenga
Things I Eventually Want To Do: skydive, buy a guitar, learn how to play the aforementioned guitar, take flying lessons, travel to France, write a novel, learn how to play the harp, tap dancing lessons, run a marathon
Friday, November 26, 2004 And so it is, just like you said it would be, life goes easy on me....Slightly belated Happy Thanksgiving! Just like me to be just a day or two behind on everything.
Back during Thanksgiving in 1984 (it may have been 1985), our dad had acquired a video camera. I don't remember if he had rented it or bought one (the one he ended up purchasing makes the cameras currently used by news reporters look like a handheld, this thing was such a beast). So we have this videotape that has become a bit of a legend in our family. Because it was all of my brothers and sisters, minus 20 years, all not quite knowing what to do with this new medium of VIDEO RECORDING. So we all went on to be incredibly goofy -- me chomping on my Cap'n Crunch, Brian holding a pencil between his upper lip and his nose, Suzy doing split leaps in the doorway down the hall. I used to hate watching this video, because I was probably the biggest goof out of all of us, and I always just kind of felt like it ended up being an opportunity for us to all pick on me. But now, I kind of wish I knew who has the video. I'm not sure if the 'rentals took it with them to FLA or if they handed it off to one of the kids to pull out and watch on holidays.
So in absence of the videotape to watch yesterday, we sat around and told stories about each other instead. I must admit that one of the greatest things about a hot tub, is that when in it, you're forced to spend quality time together talking. I can't tell you how many great times and conversations we've had since Laura and Kevin invested in the hot tub (best buy ever!). My niece and nephews were loving hearing the stories about their mom and dad and aunties and uncles. From me knocking down the hutch/shelf in our bedroom while Laura was babysitting, to forgetting Brian at KMart, to tricking Kevin with the "My ice cream smells strange," line, to Kevin breaking one of the chairs at our grandparent's place in Port Austin, to Suzy doing lemondrops on the monkey bars and splitting her lip open. If I could have imagined one perfect thing that I would have wanted to be doing yesterday, I don't think I could have come up with anything better. Except for the indulging in gluttonous amounts of food part, but that was effectively taken care of as well. I don't know how anyone could be more thankful for what they have than I was yesterday.
The one similarity between the old videotape and yesterday too was that during the Thanksgiving back in the day, there was a significant coating of snow on the ground. Which was right on par yesterday. I can't remember the last time we've had a white Thanksgiving. But it made things kind of pretty to look at from the windows. And it made things even more obnoxious when covered in ice. Especially if it happens to be your sister's porch step that you fall off of while carrying a heaping laundry basket in styletto boots. But upon rereading that sentence, I was kind of askin' for it huh?
Well, I have a date at the gym to work off a couple forkfulls of what I ingested yesterday. At least this way I can pretend I'm doing something useful right? I hope you had a lovely day yesterday! Unless you're one of the crazies that went shopping at 5am. Then I retract my kind comments, YOU CRAZY PERSON! Kisses.
10:05 AM
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