Survey Time!

1) Name 2 favorite colors? blue and purple
2) Birth month and birth sign? August-Leo
3) What is your favorite meal? mexican food
4) Do you exercise daily? Unfortunately no.
5) Do you own a gearshift (manual) or automatic car? Automatic.
6) What movie did you watch most recently? Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King
7) What kind of car do you drive? Buick Lasabre
8) Pepsi or Coke? Neither, just Dr. Pepper please
9) Most recent CD bought? erm...well...let's see....i bought a bunch of blanks CDs to burn some tunes on....and I downloaded a bunch of Christmas music over the holidays.
10) What kind of clothes describe you best? it is fun to dress up sometimes, but i like jeans and a t-shirt with a pullover fleece.
11) Describe yourself as if you were telling someone who was blind what you looked like:
12) What do you do for a living? work n stuff
13) What do you hope to achieve as your goal this year? finish some more classes toward my degree
14) What is the most important thing in your life? My relationship with God, my family & friends.
15) Name 2 things you could have changed about your life. Don't get me started...
16) Do you intend to travel and where? i have traveled quite a bit and would like to do so again some day, but not really sure when. i'd like to go to Ireland, South Africa, Canada, and Australia as well as go back to a lot of the places that i've been before.
17) If there was 1 thing you could remove what would it be? selfishness
18) If you could live any where in the world, where would it be? I'm living there now.
19) Describe yourself: funny, smart, sensative, loving, generous, loyal, frustrated at times, far from perfect
20) How many people will you send this quiz to? No one, maybe someone will copy it like I did.
Hugs and love to all!!

There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil.

Warning...some gross stuff may follow...

well, i never thought i would say this....ever. i miss going to the doctor in Croatia. there it is. out on the table for the world to see. never saw this coming did you? yeah, me neither.

ok, now first of all, i went to the doctor about two weeks ago because my ear was bothering me and my throat had been hurting. they did a test and said that i had neither tonsilitis nor strep. great! then i was thinking they would do something about my ear...but no....take a decongestant and drink lots of fluids. nothing was done to my ear. this inspite of the fact that the doctor said my eardrum was mostly blocked and couldn't be fully seen. ok, fine, do what the doctor says. even though i'm not happy about it.

enter last night. i woke up around midnight with a sharp pain in my right ear. to anyone this would spell trouble, to me, it struck panic in my heart. too many long hours have i suffered with ear pain....i liken it to a screwdriver being jammed into your ear and left there for weeks. ok, hours, but it feels like weeks.

i KNEW two weeks ago that something was up and needed to be done. anyway, i decided to go back to the doctor today. and although i was prescribed an anit-biotic and recommened some drops, still nothing about getting what is in my ear OUT of my ear. argh!!!! in Croatia they would have been very invasive, no thought at all about the pain it would have caused me, but they would have dealt with the issue, not simply prescribe an anit-biotic, not unless it was truly necessary.

so here i sit, with my ear still bunged up....fun times!!

Question.

Have you ever had one of those moments of discovery when you find out something that you wish were not true, but really you had a feeling about it all along, and now that your suspicions were confirmed, you'd rather not think about the whole thing anyway, yet you are a bit disgusted by it and also somewhat angry? Yeah, havin' one of those moments at the moment...

"Wait" - Mat Kearney

The wind hit my back, cold as I remember

And caught me off guard, in the middle of December

Sometimes a crowded room, can feel the most alone

Sometimes I wonder why, I won't pick up the phone when

This wall is glaring and it's too high for me to climb

I've ran and ran and now there's nothing left behind

I see a picture of a broken man inside

I've tried and tried and now there's nothing left but time

I'll wait for you, I'll wait for you alone

And I'll wait for you, I'll wait for you alone

Together we will fly tonight

And leave all the rest behind

I'll wait for you

These hands can feel like they're not even mine

A tree and a nail and a cry in the night

Sometimes a little step is the greatest divide

Sometimes I feel your breath right at my side when

Here I am at the edge of the road

One hand on the end of the rope

One crack and it breaks alone

Wondering who'se gonna take me home

On my knees when you call my bluff

Begging please from the edge of the ruff

And I know I've had enough, and I know it, and I know it

48 things to do in an elevator

1. Make race car noises when anyone gets on or off.
2. Blow your nose and offer to show the contents of your kleenex to other passengers.
3. Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering: Shut up, dammit, all of you just shut UP!
4. Whistle the first seven notes of It's a Small World incessantly.
5. Sell Girl Scout cookies.
6. On a long ride, sway side to side at the natural frequency of the elevator.
7. Shave.
8. Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside ask: Got enough air in there?
9. Offer name tags to everyone getting on the elevator. Wear yours upside-down.
10. Stand silent and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.
11. When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act embarrassed when they open by themselves.
12. Lean over to another passenger and whisper: Noogie patrol coming!
13. Greet everyone getting on the elevator with a warm handshake and ask them to call you Admiral.
14. On the highest floor, hold the door open and demand that it stay open until you hear the penny you dropped down the shaft go plink at the bottom.
15. Do Tai Chi exercises.
16. Stare, grinning, at another passenger for a while, and then announce: I've got new socks on!
17. When at least 8 people have boarded, moan from the back: Oh, not now, damn motion sickness!
18. Meow occassionally.
19. Bet the other passengers you can fit a quarter in your nose.
20. Frown and mutter gotta go, gotta go then sigh and say oops!
21. Show other passengers a wound and ask if it looks infected.
22. Sing Mary had a little lamb while continually pushing buttons.
23. Holler Chutes away! whenever the elevator descends.
24. Walk on with a cooler that says human head on the side.
25. Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce You're one of THEM! and move to the far corner of the elevator.
26. Burp, and then say mmmm...tasty!
27. Leave a box between the doors.
28. Ask each passenger getting on if you can push the button for them.
29. Wear a puppet on your hand and talk to other passengers through it.
30. Start a sing-along.
31. When the elevator is silent, look around and ask is that your beeper?
32. Play the harmonica.
33. Shadow box.
34. Say Ding! at each floor.
35. Lean against the button panel.
36. Say I wonder what all these do and push the red buttons.
37. Listen to the elevator walls with a stethoscope.
38. Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers that this is your personal space.
39. Bring a chair along.
40. Take a bite of a sandwich and ask another passenger: Wanna see wha in muh mouf?
41. Blow spit bubbles.
42. Pull your gum out of your mouth in long strings.
43. Announce in a demonic voice: I must find a more suitable host body.
44. Carry a blanket and clutch it protectively.
45. Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.
46. Wear X-Ray Specs and leer suggestively at other passengers.
47. Stare at your thumb and say I think it's getting larger.
48. If anyone brushes against you, recoil and holler Bad touch!