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Ten on Tuesday

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Here’s another edition of Ten on Tuesday, brought to you by Roots and Rings!

1. What television character do you identify with?

I really have no idea! I’d like to say one of the characters from Grey’s Anatomy, but I can’t pick one. Maybe Yang because she’s Chinese and crazy.

2. Describe your morning routine.

The alarm goes off at 6:50 a.m. (It’s 5-minutes ahead so it’s actually 6:45 a.m.) I hit the snooze button and eventually roll out of bed at 7:01. (No lies) I pee the jump in the shower! Then it’s fixing my face and hair, getting dressed and breakfast time! I let the dogs out and feed them. I make my coffee then sit down with my newspaper and a bowl of cereal. (Right now it’s a mix of Corn Bran and Kashi cereal!) After I eat I check my email, Facebook and Twitter and tweet that my new blog post is posted. At 7:55 a.m. I put my coffee in my travel mug, organize my lunch, put Molly in her crate, kiss Daphne goodbye (because I feel she’ll forgive me for leaving if I do!) and head out the door! I usually get to work at 8:20 a.m., 10 minutes before I’m actually suppose to start. Huzzah!

3. How do you do lunch? Bring from home or dine out? Same thing every day or mix it up?

To save $$ I try to bring my own lunch to work. Usually we make enough dinner the night before to have leftovers for the next day. Kyle and I both like to take lunches, but sometimes we don’t have leftovers. If that’s the case, he’ll stop at Tim Hortons in the morning for a sandwich and I usually grab something at the deli next door to my office.

4. What is one moment that, although seemingly trivial at the time, changed your life?

It’s probably not that trivial, but being on Academic Probation after my first semester of university. I had a 0.5 GPA. I learned that I need to be more dedicated and that university isn’t anything like high school.

5. Name your top three beauty products.

Concealer, eyelash curler and lotion! I get random zits all the freaking time and I swear by my concealer. My eyelashes stick straight out and when I put mascara on they stick together. Lotion, because well, I live in a desert and my skin is stupid dry. “It puts the lotion on the skin or else it gets the hose again … ”

6. What do you do when you’re alone in the car?

Sing! Haha, I sing so stupid loud in my car, it’s embarassing. Kyle always asks me, “Who sings this song?” and I tell him, so then he says, “Okay, let’s keep it that way, okay?” :P

7. What is the ideal city for you to live in? If you can, take this survey (< that’s a link) and tell us the results. Do you agree with them?

So I took that survey and my top three answers were 1) Hartford, Connecticut, 2) Little Rock, Arkansas and 3) Charleston, West Virginia. To be honest, all those places are too big for my liking! I checked the box that said “mid-sized town” and there’s almost a million people in one of those places! Too many! I actually really love living where I am now. The size is perfect.

8. Are you waiting for something?

I am and I’m getting quite impatient about it all.

9. What was the last shocking news you heard?

It’s not news I heard, but things I’ve realized. There are SIX people pregnant at the grocery store I work at. Needless to say, I don’t drink the water there …

10. What are three things you wouldn’t do for a million dollars?

  1. Hold a spider
  2. Eat a spider
  3. That skinny, greasy guy from Twilight. Ick.

Honest Scrap!

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On Sunday I received the “Honest Scrap Award” from the wonderful Holly at Scattered Words. She’s currently expecting a lovely bundle o’ joy and it just makes me all bubbly inside thinking of babies!

So apparently the rules of acceptance are that I’m supposed to list 10 things you may find interesting about me and then nominate seven other bloggers to do the same.

Here are the things:

1.  I’m a sucker for guys with no hair. Not naturally bald guys, but guys who shave all their hair off. Long hair is gross. That being said, I’m in love with Georges St. Pierre, Jason Statham, etc. Kyle also shaves all his hair off, and it’s wonderful :)

2.  I am terrified of passing semi-trucks on the road. I white-knuckle grip my steering wheel and hold my breath while passing huge trucks on the road. Logging trucks freak me out the most I think. To help, I either sing loudly in my car to distract myself while passing, or Kyle will talk to me about something random, asking me silly questions.

3.  I hate wet socks. If my socks get the slightest bit wet I have to change them. It’s really hard in a house with two slobbery dogs, so I wear slippers all the time. Kyle hates them, but I don’t complain so he deals with it.

4.  I have a really loud sound system in my car. It’s not like, competition loud, but it’s got some junk in the trunk … err, hatch. It was my dream since I was like, 14, to have a subwoofer in my car so when I got my own car I soon got my own system! As a friend of mine says, I listen to jungle music.

5. I hate the word “moist”. It creeps me out and makes me shudder. Right after “moist” is “secrete”. Come to think of it, most onomatopoeia’s are not appealing to me, at least when it comes to well, moist words.

6.  I’m afraid of horses. I’m fine with them being on the opposite side of a fence as me, but I’m afraid to be near them otherwise. Once when I was little I was helping a lady feed her horses and was taking hay to their troff and they surrounded me. It was terrifying. Ever since then I haven’t liked horses.

7.  I can drink energy drinks before bed and fall asleep just fine. I downed a “NOS” energy drink which the 7-11 clerk SWORE it would keep me up all night and a couple hours later, I was ready for bed. Caffeine doesn’t wake me up, it just makes me need to pee every 10 minutes.

8.  I’m a cranky old lady on the inside. I tend to get irritated really easily and this cranky old spinster of a woman comes out every once in a while. This usually happens when customers or coworkers get on my nerves. Just call me Gertrude.

9.  I love my dog the most. As much as I try to love Kyle’s dog Molly as much as my own, I just can’t help but love Daphne more. Molly’s like the step-child that I try to love as my own but just can’t because I didn’t raise her from puppyhood.

10.  I’ve dislocated my shoulder seven times. In the summer between Grades 10 and 11 I decided to try skateboarding with my little brother (who’s much better than I, obviously). I went down this ramp when I shouldn’t have and dislocated my shoulder. It hasn’t been the same ever since. I’m on the surgery waitlist and it’s looking like it’s going to take a while to get it done. For now it’s light exercise to build its strength.

I really don’t feel like nominating seven people, so I’m just going to nominate three. Ha!

1) Melissa at I Has Good Grammar

2) Angela at Craving Cupcakes

3) Fuegita Bonita

Ta-da!

What’s in my head?

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Here’s a list of the Top 25 most played songs in my iTunes library.

I saw this idea on A Day in the Life and I thought to myself, “Self, that’s an easy thing to do before you leave on the weekend so you don’t have to whip up the energy to blog Sunday night when you really don’t feel like doing anything except relax.”

So, here they are, embarrassing in all its glory, the Top 25 Song in My iTunes Library!

  1. Kevin Rudolf & Lil’ Wayne – Let It Rock
  2. Buckcherry – Crazy Bitch
  3. Pitbull – I Know You Want Me
  4. Flo Rida – (Right Round)
  5. Lady Gaga – LoveGame
  6. Kanye West – Love Lockdown
  7. Black Eyed Peas – Boom Boom Pow
  8. Daughtry – It’s Not Over
  9. Chris Brown – Forever
  10. T.I. feat. Justin Timberlake – Dead & Gone
  11. Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
  12. The Pussycat Dolls – I Hate This Part
  13. Common – What a World
  14. Roisin Murphy – Ramalama (Bang Bang)
  15. Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend
  16. Jason Mraz – I’m Yours
  17. Jason Mraz – If It Kills Me
  18. Christina Aguilera – Candyman
  19. Big Ali, Bob Sinclar & Dollar Man – Rock This Party (Everybody Dance Now)
  20. Duffy – Mercy
  21. Taylor Swift – You’re Not Sorry (CSI Remix)
  22. Keri Hilson feat. Lil’ Wayne – Turnin’ Me On
  23. Nickelback – Burn it to the Ground
  24. Beyonce – Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
  25. Kid Cudi – Day ‘n’ Nite

On my iPod I have a playlist of the most recent songs I’ve downloaded so they’re easy to access when I’m in my car. I just took “Let it Rock” and “I Know You Want Me” off! And “Crazy Bitch?” I can’t even remember the last time I listened to that one!

I’m surprised more Lady Gaga didn’t pop up on that list since that’s who’s stuck in my head at the moment. I’m LOVING The Fame Monster!

Any songs stuck in YOUR head right now?