I’ve Been Tagged!!!

Okay I am completely in shock right now! I’ve been tagged and I was tagged twice!! And the two bloggers who tagged me are two of my favorites! Martha from A Southern Transplant, and Becca from Everyday Life. If you haven’t checked them out please go and look now, They are both amazing women!

So This tag is called

The Blogger Game:

The Rules

1. You must post the rules.

2. Post eleven fun facts about yourself on the blog post.

3. Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post, and then create 11 new questions to ask the people you've tagged.

4. Tag 11 people and link them on your post.

5. Let them know you've tagged them!

 

Part 1 done! Okay 11 things about me…

1.  I just decided that I was going to start running, I’ve only been once and I actually enjoyed it.

2. I love to read, if given the choice to do anything in the world or read a good book, I would pick the book every time.

3. I want to be able to wear the size clothes I wore freshman year of high school again. The only reason I am not is because I am lazy, so I am hoping to fix that.

4. I was introduced in class this semester as “The girl who must REALLY love her boyfriend, she’s been with him 10 years.” I thought it was kind of cute that that’s what my partner picked up on.

5. I always hold my breath when I drive through tunnels, When I was a kid we used to drive through them to visit family when we lived in Ohio and after we moved to SC and if you could hold your breath until the end you got a wish. I’ve only ever made it one time.

6. I usually have a “pause” button on my dreams, if I am sleeping and wake up I can generally stay awake for an hour and when I go back to sleep my dream was paused the whole time, only bad when it’s a nightmare.

7. I wanted to be Belle, Ariel, Aurora, and Esmeralda when I grew up. 

8. I get a pit in my stomach when my work calls, because I am always scared I did something wrong.

9.  I never got the hang of the newer video games, I played Mario, Sonic and even Pokémon, but the newest game I will play is Plants Vs. Zombies

10. I am scared to death of Zombies.

11. I cannot watch any form of a horror movie. The closest I will get is crime shows on TV. Any form of horror/scary movie terrifies me.

 

Now because I was tagged twice I am going to answer both sets of questions! Sorry this is getting so long!!

Martha’s Questions For Me:

1. If you could go back in time to your 16-year-old self and tell them one thing about what to expect from the future, what would it be and why?

I would tell myself to expect and embrace change, I tried for so long to not let anything change and I really should have just gone with it, I would have had more fun.

2. What song creates the strongest memory for you and why that song?

This is actually VERY hard for me because I am a very auditory person, I am going to go with a song from Sesame Street, my Papa used to sing it to me when it was on the TV.

3. If you won the lottery, what is the first thing you would purchase?

First? I would pay off my debts, but my first purchase would be a house, or a new car.

4. What age has been your favorite age to be? Why?

I miss being 22 honestly, I just feel like I had more fun then.

5. Would you want to go back and be that age again?

No, just because I do want to see where my life leads me.

6. Do you have a favorite outfit? What is it?

Not an exact outfit, but I love jeans and cotton polo's, but If I could I’d dress in 50’s dresses all the time! 

7. What do you think is the most overrated product for women out on the market right now?

I think that all the Botox yourself products are a waste of money and just to make people feel bad about themselves.

8. What’s your favorite perfume?

I love Victoria Secret’s Angel Devine.

9. If you could afford a summer house and a winter house anywhere in the U.S., where would they be?

oooohhhh…. Summer house? It would be ON the beach, Myrtle Beach or Hilton Head I think, I mean literally walk out your door and into the ocean on the beach! and for winter? I would love to have a house anywhere that gets  copious amounts of snow! Besides if I had enough money for the houses I wouldn’t need to worry about going to work!

10. What’s your favorite recipe?

I love to make from scratch Chicken Parmesan.

11. What made you decide to start a blog?

I just wanted somewhere to empty out the thoughts in my head.

 

And now Becca’s Questions For Me:

1. IF you had only 24 hours to live, what would you do?

I would say goodbye to all of my family, and I would spend the rest of the time with Kensei.

2. What Is one song that describes your life?

At this current point in time I am going with a Disney song,

Almost There, because that's how I feel I am.

3. Are you good at making new friends?

I try to be, I love to make new friends!

4. Where did you grow up?

I grew up in Dayton Ohio, Buffalo NY and Columbia SC

5. What is the silliest prank you ever played on someone?

honestly I’ve never been much of a pranker.

6. If you could have a $10,000 shopping spree to one store, which store would it be and how long would it take you to spend the $10,000?

ANY store? I would pick Wal-Mart and probably about 2 hours?

7. Do you exercise regularly?

no but I need too.

8. Who would you want to play you in the movie about your life?

Well since a girl can dream? Amy Adams, I just like her.

9. Who is your celebrity crush male/female?

Male? Currently I love Gerald Butler. and Female? I’ve always adored Jessica Alba.

10. What is your favorite thing to drink?

Coke-A-Cola

11. What is the weirdest thing you will ever admit to having done in the past?

hmmm I went Skinny Dipping once?

 

Okay now My questions and Tags!

1. What scares you?
2. What is your favorite type of food?
3. How did you name your blog?
4. Your dream guy when you were a child? Was it realistic?
5. Favorite movie of all time?
6. Favorite Thing About Blogging?
7. Are you a Cat or Dog person?
8. You’re a Superhero what is your power?
9. What is your nickname?
10. What is your fondest childhood Memory?
11. What song makes you smile just to hear it?

I tag!

Em

Amber

Janette

Brianna

Allison

Hannah

Amira

Whitney

Neely

Michelle

Jess

 

 

 

 

My Papa…

Well this is actually a little late, but I think I can finally write about it with out crying, or getting angry. First the official obit, (names Changed)

 

Albert S.

Albert S
Henrietta: Passed away Tuesday, January 12, 2010, at age 75. He was predeceased by his wife, Patricia; parents, Albert I. Sr. and Evelyn. Survived by his son, Alan; daughter, Cheryl, Son in law- Peter. of S.C.; grandchildren, Air Force, Angel and Jujube.  Albert was a United States Army Veteran serving during the Korean War, an avid golfer and bowler.

 

So that is what the paper, and my uncle put in about my Papa.  The man who told me stories about Italy, and help my Nana, (his mother) teach me to cook, taught me to swim, and would dance around his house singing Frank Sinatra and Rat Pack songs with me. 

The man that taught me that no matter how hard life is you just have to keep trying, and fighting, and making yourself strong.

He cried with me while I raged against the fact I wasn’t there when his wife, and my Grandma DeeDee passed, because my mother didn’t even tell me she was sick. He was there when my Nana passed and I cried at her grave and didn’t want to move.  I remember him picking me up like weighed nothing and carrying me to the car.

I was very angry when he died, my mother refused to let us go see him in the hospital, she was fighting with him.. I never really said goodbye. The last conversation I had with him only lasted ten minuets at most, I called him for new year’s he had just gotten out of the hospital from Christmas, brain tumors, and he was sick, but he told me he was much better, and I was in a hurry so I rushed off the phone. and that was it.

 

I always planned on having Papa sing to me when I got married, if he even came. When I was little he gave me a list of guys I couldn’t date, and me being the smart aleck I was asked him then who was I allowed to date? He laughed and told me I could be a good little catholic girl and join a nunnery, then every birthday, and Christmas along with my gifts would come a brochure for a different one.

I miss him so much and listening to the radio the other night I heard two songs that made me think of him, and even though I cried and still do, I just want to think of him looking down, and sitting with my Grandma DeeDee, and Nana and Grandpa Paul, and watching me smiling.

Aww The Dardnest Things...

This topic came from two of my favorite sites Here and Here, everyone has cute little posts about embarrassing things that their children do, and well because I don't yet have little angels of my own, (who will not be named Blaze, Titan, or Spirtall, although Kensei does want a Gray, Cayn, or Rain, (hehehe if you put them all together they rhyme) ) I would post about myself, my sister, and the kids I have babysat for.

Well this is story time....

Once upon a time there was a little girl, she was a sweet, quiet little girl. She never did anything she wasn't supposed to, she was her parents, grandparents and Great Grandmother (Nana)'s delight. It was roughly 1989-90 ish and She was sitting in the backseat of a station wagon when a song came on the radio causing the dear Papa (her grandfather) to slam on the breaks and spin his head to look at her as she began to sing, "I am the flower, you are the sea... All I want to do is make love to you," He still brings that up to her when they ride in the same car. Apparently a 4 to 5 year old should not be singing it.

A few years earlier at her second birthday party, the same little girl had gone to the television and changed the channel to MTV and proceeded to dance to Thriller, she can still do the dance actually.

Flash forward 14 years

Now the little girl is 15 years old and babysitting a little boy named Carnell, and her little sister Jujube. She decided that it would be nice to take the two of them to McDonald's. She seats the kids in car seats and goes to order food when across the restaurant you her Carnell yelling. "Pretty Mama! Mama! I wan nuggets Pretty Mama!" (His mother thought it was adorable that her called her Pretty Mama) and The Jujube's Voice "Nuggets too Mama! Pwease!" Her face began to turn red and if the people in the restaurant could kill with a glance she would be dead, so she said the first thing that popped into her mind, "I ain't their Mama!"


So here are a few things to read and perhaps laugh about! I hope you all enjoyed them!