What are three things you are better at than most people? – Catie
This prompt is causing me way more consternation than it should. I can’t think of anything that I do better than most people.
CUE SAD MUSIC.
So I’m going to go eat my turkey sandwich and try to be proud that I’m so average.
/sniffle
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What is the best and/or worst thing about your life right now? – Dana
The Best: Waking up to two people who love me. Snuggling. Dancing to Christmas music in the kitchen. Then hating the Christmas music and begging for something different. Baking in the morning. Making sweet tea and watering it down so the tiny boy isn’t dancing TOO much. Turning on the dryer so wrinkles in my t-shirt will disappear. Planning the gingerbread house. Friends coming over so I can judge new outfits. Folding blankets over and over because I love to fold them. Not caring if someone rearranges all the ornaments on the tree because “the dinosaurs don’t like it.” Drinking coffee while talking about what marriage means to us. Bath-time for Bonzo and acting surprised when he plants toy “seeds” and GASP, toys grow from the bubbles! Putting on the apron because the kitchen is a disaster and hard work soothes my idle hands. Kissing in the hallway while I search for the 409.
The Worst: Waking up to more bad dreams about chasing murderers through the pews at some church. Too much Christmas music. Knowing that I won’t be drinking sweet tea come New Years when I start the squishy no more project. The piles of laundry that I need to wash. The lack of free-time with my husband because he works All The Time. Feeling like a single parent too often. Imagining what life would really be like if I was a single parent. Crying because single parents are so much stronger than I am. Wishing I could emotionally let people get a bit closer than I do.
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List 10 things you would never do. – Katrina
Really? Just ten things? Does this mean if I don’t include it on this list then I WILL do it at some point? Because I plan on never chopping all of my finger tips off. I also don’t think I’ll gargle with buttermilk at any point in my life. And I really doubt that I’ll ever attempt to milk a spider.
I can keep going. Well, actually, I’m going to need to sit and recover after thinking about milking a spider.
Here are my ten things that have Glaring Red Flags attached to them:
1. Get Lasik surgery. I know people who have had it and LOVE it. But for me, the minor inconvenience of wearing glasses or contacts will never outweigh the possible complications from the surgery.
2. Become a hoarder. Although I do enjoying watching the show (and the immediate cleaning spree that follows), I could never live like that. I don’t have that much sentimentality towards the things I do have so I will never have piles of magazines, cards, porcelain dolls, or trash just because I can’t part with it. I can actually part with things a little too easy. I deleted 20 GB of music off my hard-drive a few days ago (cue fight with Daniel!) after needing some space. I did regret that the next day though.
3. Skydive. Once again, I know people who have done this and you can just see their eyes sparkling. They had a blast. But I know I would have a panic attack on the plane and probably pass out. I’m all for zip-lining and parasailing but no skydiving.
4. Get into a tanning bed. I’m as pale as a piece of paper and normally wear translucent makeup. I’m happy being pale! Having a tan is not worth skin cancer.
5. Stop eating fried okra. Thankfully, my family introduced me to fried okra when I was a wee lass. The best way to eat it is to spread it on the inside of a biscuit (with a bit of mashed potatoes). Who’s the girl trying to lose weight? Yes, that’s me! I’ll raise my hand!
6. Go to a Nascar event. There is no way I will ever, ever, ever, ever spend time watching cars race around a track with a crowd of drunk rednecks. This may be a problem though because my son loves spinning, wheels, spinning, wheels, spinning, and did I mention wheels? I’m not planning on telling him about Nascar for a long time. Shhhh.
7. Dress up as a puppet. It took me years to get over my aversion to puppets. But to actually pretend to BE ONE? Let me go lie down with a cold washcloth on my face. I’m about to catch the vapors.
8. Smoke a cigarette. The smell of cigarettes makes me gag. I know it’s one of the hardest things to quit so I’m glad I never tried smoking.
9. Scream at my child in public: I’m not talking about screaming because he’s about to run in front of a fork lift at Home Depot. I’m talking about “disciplining” in the middle of the grocery store. I’ve seen this happen three times and each time I wanted to swoop in and rescue the child. It was absolutely horrible. Maybe that little boy was being a complete snot and had bugged his mom all day and maybe the mom had just lost her job, was suffering with a migraine, and limping along on a broken toe but none of those things justify screaming at the top of your lungs to your five year old son. Especially over the fact that he accidentally bumped into you again.
10. Enjoy scary movies: Nope. Nope. Nope. I can barely handle Doctor Who at times. I watch it – I just watch it behind a pillow. I’m not the only one, right? Right? Hello?
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What is the one thing you finally did this year that you always wanted or said you were going to do, but in your heart of hearts never thought you would actually do? – Amy
I’ve had a good year. A really, really good year. I’ve been blessed with my health (I haven’t had any *scary* health issues), the support of my family and friends, and we haven’t had some of the stresses of other years.
So, I guess my answer would be…nothing.
Any extra energy I’ve had has went solely towards my day-to-day adventures with Drew and our moving this past summer. I seem to have abandoned my Mighty Life List as some point. And that makes me a little sad. So, I dragged it back out this evening, edited quite a bit (I love the freedom to change), and I’m eager to see how I’ll answer this in a year.
Here’s to exciting things ahead! And here’s my Mighty Life List.
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“How did you become more of a grown-up this year? Or did you pull a Peter Pan and stubbornly remain childlike?” – Bethany
Even though I spent a considerable amount of time photographing Lego’s this evening, I would say that I’ve possibly become more of a grown-up this year. Possibly.
In April, I rushed towards thirty with my arms wide open. A few people cautioned me, sagely, that I’d hit a rockbottom moment where thirty felt like eighty. But it didn’t. I felt freedom from my twenties (which were a swirled bit of poo in my humble opinion) and ALIVE.
Slowly, but surely, I see a wide open horizon ahead where I can change the things about me that bug me to no end. I have a list. Don’t we all? It’s as though for the majority of my life I’ve felt as though I am in a pattern that I can’t escape. But now, magically, I feel encouraged that Things Will Change.
When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.” – Steve Jobs
Although I’m not out to build a piece of technology to change the world, I am seeing that I don’t have to settle for normal.
I have goals. I have dreams. I can still reach them. And it doesn’t hurt to add a bit of childlike fun to the mix.
This means sparkly rainbow barrettes, Lisa Frank stickers, and Legos. Obviously.
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