40 questions

40 of The Most Random Questions You Will Ever Fill Out
(Why do all these surveys have missing questions?!)
1) What side of the heart do you draw first? left
2) Can you dive without plugging your nose? no, I don't dive
3) What color is your shirt? blue
4) What is your blood-type? no idea
5) Who would you want to be tied to for 24 hours? umm...I don't think I know anyone that I would want to be tied to for 24 hours. Maybe Zoe?
6) What is a rumor someone has spread about you? I don't think anyone has a spread a rumor about me in years, or at least not one that has gotten back to me
7) How do you feel about carrots? I like carrots as long as they are not cooked
8) How many chairs at the dining room table? 4
9) Which is the best Spice Girl? that is random...I guess the scary one that was Posh, but she is totally scary now.
10) Do you know what time it is? 1:50 pm
11) Do you know all the words to the Fresh Prince? I think so
12) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator? not much. it's happened before
13) What's your favorite kind of gum? I like the Orbit Wintermint and I've also been chewing Trident lately
14) All's fair in love and war? I don't think so
15) Do you have a crush on anyone? No
16) Do you know how to use some words correctly, but not know the meaning? Seems possible
17) Do you like to sleep? definitely
18) Do you know which US states don't use Daylight Savings? I thought Indiana was the only one
19) Do you know the words to the song Total Eclipse of the Heart? Yes!
20) Do you want a yellow 06' mustang? No. Ew
21) What's something you've always wanted to do? be brave
22) Do you have hairy legs? sometimes
23) What does "Semper Fidelis" stand for? Always faithful
24) Would you rather swim in the ocean or a lake? Neither, but I will wade in the ocean. I stick to the pool for swimming (not that chlorine is much better)-I'm with you on that Christina
25)Do you wear a lot of black? Not a lot, but some
26) Describe your hair? Brown, thick, getting longer :)
27) Do you have Entomophobia? ha! yeah
28) Are you an adult? I guess
29) Where is/are your best friend(s)? BG and Alabaster
30) Do you have a tan? Ha! Never
31) Are you a television addict? yeah
32) Do you enjoy spending time with your mother? I wish. That would make my life easier. I do like other peoples' mothers
33) Are you a sugar freak? sometimes
34) Do you like orange juice? not really
35) What sign are you? Pisces
36) Where do you wish you were right now? Home, laying on the couch
39) Have you kissed anyone in the past week? Yes, I kissed Addie and Zoe this weekend. They're too cute
40) What are your plans for the weekend? I couldn't say yet. It's only Tuesday. :)

Health plan

My head hurts...a lot. I stopped taking my drugs between Christmas and New Year's. Except for my stomach one. I even stopped taking Prevacid, but I have been having really bad heartburn lately, so I think I'll bring that one back. It was just an experiment. And I've been mostly ok until today. But this headache could be because I really screwed up my sleep schedule by staying out until after 5 Monday morning. Or something else. Or maybe I shouldn't have stopped taking my drugs. I just hate the idea of having to spend $120 a month on drugs indefinitely. None of the dudes ever said anything about me stopping, or tapering or anything. So I made an executive decision about my body. Let's wait and see if it was ill-advised. One pretty bad headache will not stop me in my tracks, so I'll wait at least another month (I think). So I have started crying when other people cry (even people on TV, but this was perfectly normal for me before-I was always very empathetic), so what? I was used to it once, I can get used to it again. When I was in high school, I don't think there was a single person who had a class with me my sophomore year who hadn't seen me cry. No crying at work so far. Awesome.

So I was pissy when I wrote my last post. Sorry. Anyway, I feel better today and I'm going to church tonight and I'm not even on for camera or graphics. How new and different. I got Shannon's stuff from Sephora the other day and they always send you three free samples with your order. I think I really like one of my samples. It's Fresh Sugar perfume. I don't wear perfume every day or anything, but I love products. It's smells mostly clean, but a little sweet. I don't like my perfume cloyingly sweet. I can't decide if I like it enough to purchase some. Anyway, work to do now!

Singing

I went to choir at church Sunday night. I technically joined back in the fall, but then I only went twice. And after going on Sunday, I remember why I kept preferring to stay home. I ended up sitting next to my mother, who turned to me about halfway through and said, "I'm glad you're sitting next to Jennie too. She can help keep you on track." I just am not the most talented person in my family, which is why I stopped performing when I was 14 and started going behind the scenes. When I joined choir, Benny made a big deal out of the fact that I was a Benz without having ever actually heard me sing. So, he told people who I was and then I felt like people expected things from me. I love to sing, but I rarely do it in front of people. Mark and I used to sing together a lot, but he didn't say rude things to me that made me feel inferior. Thanks, Mark! I'm not saying he isn't a turd (terd for Dave and his wacky spellings) sometimes (he is, after all, my little brother), but at least he doesn't do that. Actually, one of my other problems with choirs was that they kept trying to make me do stupid exercises, or worse, dance terrible dances. And that is why halfway through rehearsals for our eighth grade musical, I became a tech person. I am just terribly uncoordinated and I have always been extremely self-conscious, so it's best that I do nothing to attract attention to myself. I realize this all extremely negative, but apparently that's the kind of mood I'm in today. My jaw hurts quite a bit, as does my head. Also, weird that I used parentheses twice in the same sentence. I somehow think you shouldn't do that. Oh well.

Books?

I had this really weird dream last night. My dad and I were going somewhere and I was still in high school, so I was going to just go chill at the high school in whatever town we were visiting. Apparently I had friends who went there. Anyway, I was really upset because I didn't have any books to take. I have gone anywhere that takes more the 30 minutes to drive to without at least one book since I was like 7. If it's an overnight trip, I take several. In my dream, I had read all the books at my house and in my car and couldn't find any new ones. When I woke up, I started looking around for books. And was relieved when I remembered I wasn't going on a trip and that I have at least four books that I haven't read yet. Crisis averted. I know you were worried for me.

Speaking of books, I read one last weekend that really irritated me. I bought it because it was by Madeleine L'Engle and I loved her books when I was a kid (A Wrinkle in Time, etc.). So I was excited that she wrote a book for adults. But it was written so strangely. The dialogue was extremely stilted, although the plot was passable. Anyway, I don't recommend A Live Coal in the Sea. Yesterday I read a book called A Better Woman: A Memoir of Motherhood, by Susan Johnson. It was decent, especially since I only paid $1.50 for it. As far as books I have read about motherhood, I am still partial to Expecting Adam. It made me cry. Although to be fair, I read it when I was in high school, before I was medicated and everything made me cry. But that's a story for another time.

On the opposite end of the emotional spectrum, Scrubs was on last night! It made me happy. Also, I read that there is a musical episode of Scrubs airing January 18th. That should be entertaining.

Another place no one will go with me...

I have also always wanted to go to the Ave Maria Grotto, which we started passing when we started driving to Birmingham when I was about 15. No one will ever stop with me. I could stop one of the times I make the drive alone, but how is that fun? Once I was so excited that I looked it up so I could get an idea of what it actually was. I still want to go.

It's been a while...

It's been pretty crazy, so I got distracted. Hah, I just remembered my blog name. Anyway, stupidity aside, I had a decent holiday. And a pretty good New Year's. It was quite entertaining. I went to L'ville with people from my small group and while it wasn't what we expected, it was interesting. And it turns out Mark and Ashley were still hanging around town, so they came by and chilled with us for a while after midnight. And then again when we went to lunch later that day. Which was cool because I didn't actually see much of them during the holidays. I also did not get to see much of Dave and Rach and the girls, but I am totally going to take some days off at some point and go see them. Which I hope is cool with them! :) I still haven't gotten the other part of Shannon's Christmas present because it was back-ordered like a month before Christmas, but it should come soon. Sorry, Shannon. I was a little too excited and told her what it was when we exchanged presents. But I was proud of myself for not giving in and giving Dave and Mark the Mercedes-Benz t-shirts early. I was very excited about them and I had them like two or three months before Christmas. And mostly when I told other people about them, they didn't think it was as cool as I did.
On the way back from L'ville yesterday we ended up with less people in my car than we had going there, which was fine and so we somehow ended up stopping at Dinosaur World. Which I have always wanted to do, but no one would ever do it with me. We didn't actually pay to go in, but they have several dinosaurs outside the park, so we took pictures with them and trekked over to the big T-Rex that you see from the Interstate and took pictures with it. It was pretty weird looking. We also found an old wooden outhouse and tried to get in it, but it was somehow locked from the inside. Sad for us. But these people in the parking lot near it saw us taking pictures of it and laughed at us, but as we were leaving, they were totally over by it videotaping themselves with the outhouse. Much like you, Christina, I too only update when I'm at work. So I need to do some more work before I leave.