Thursday Thirteen - Lets Get Personal
How about we get personal today? For my Thursday 13 I have decided to share 13 random facts about myself.
1. I did not go in my basement for 8 months after spotting a wolf spider hanging out at the bottom of the stairs. It looked like it could have eaten me. 1 year later, I have yet to find his dead body anywhere. I loathe spiders.
2. I am 5’11 and wear a size 8.5 shoe. My baby sister who is 5’11” wears a tranny size 10. I blame my small feet on my clutzy behavior. Seriously, walls jump out at me all the time.
3. I broke my right ankle last year on the first day of summer. It was three months hell. I was commitable by the end of the summer. I have yet to wear any of my three inch heels since then because I am afraid of rolling my ankle and breaking it again. Silly I know.
4. I started my college career out wanting to run a hotel and then realized how many hours they worked. I became a professional student. My student loan bills are freaking AWESOME.
5. I think about closing down this blog at least once a week.
6. I miss making out with my hubby. So when I saw this post on The Bingham Diaries I declared a kissing epidemic. How do we fix this?
7. I am so done having babies, but I secretly wish I had a little girl to go with my two little boys. Especially now that my very good friend just gave birth to her little princess. Sit uterus sit. (no mom I am not pregnant)
8. I grew up on welfare because my dad never paid a dime of child support for his three kids. But you would never know it because my mom made her dollar stretch to make every Christmas or Birthday seem magical. Though to this day I shudder at blocks of cheese and hamburger helper.
9. I play lotto once a week. Only because if I won lotto I would hand the ticket over to my mother to pay her back for everything she has sacrificed in her life for my sisters and me.
10. I love to play chess. My hubby and I used to play for hours on end before the kiddies came along.
11. I just found out I have high cholestorol from our life insurance policies blood test. I don't eat fatty foods and I exercise. Gotta love genetics.
12. I envy stay at home moms. Having only 2 hours a night with my boys during work days kills me.
13. I sold my eighth row Pearl Jam tickets to take a ride with my girlfriend to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina so we could hang out with her Marine boyfriend and make googly eyes with his hot friends. I regret that decision big time. So much so that I am going to try to get tickets again when they come around our way this summer. I don't care that I am as old as dirt I still want to see Eddie live.
Kim
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xoxo...
men who don't pay child support suck! just ask my ex-husband...he sucks! big! time!
xoxo
"Sit, uterus. Sit" has to be one of the best lines I've ever read.
Loving the "thinking about closing this blog down once a week". I think we all do that!
Mommie
Please don't EVER close down this blog. I'd be sad.
Why do you think of closing your blog?
I hope you never go through with it!
What a great TT. Although, I do not think you should close down your blog...just from what I have scanned over it is an AWESOME blog...
I have 4 kids and the reason we have four is because we were trying for my daughter a sister to make it an even two boys/ two girls. didn't turn out that way....it turned out better...We have 3 boys and 1 girl.
You have a awesome blog!
Keep at it..
Happy T13!
Laughing at #5. Why is that? I can very well relate with your #12.
2. I also wear a size 10!
5. Don't shut it down..
9. Love that...Moms are so good.
13. My Dad is a retired Marine. We spent 6 years at Camp Lejeune. It was the most boring place on Earth. And I also heart Pearl Jam!!
I'm 5'4, wear a size 9 shoe, and I am still the klutziest klutz that ever klutzed.
A bum beat me at chess when I was in college. A real bum, like in the movies. He even used a timer and gave me unlimited time. I never played again.
I can't believe you passed up Pearl Jam for Marines at a boring Base!
Deadbeat Dads SUCK big time. Trist's bio dad isn't paying child support and still won't give up his parental rights so Michael can adopt him. grrrr
Your mom rocks!
I have those same blog-ending thoughts. Please don't EVER act on them. :(
your list cracks me up, especially about wanting to see Eddie live! I also love #9--I was a single mom with my first and it really is the hardest job in the world. give your mom a great big hug from me! :)
I feel your pain on #5 and #12, but I think I should start playing lotto!
Loved your post !
Try to make your Princess come by surprise like you are playing Lotto, just let it happen and if it won't, don't worry !!
DO NOT CLOSE DOWN YOUR BLOG...EVER !!
I love you. I do, I swear. We're so much alike - backgrounds and up-bringing too. As for you telling your uterus to "sit," I hope you're happy now. You made me laugh so hard a little pee trickled out. Yeah, I said it. So what?
Please, please, please don't close down your blog. Otherwise how would we know about your research of plastic surgeons that are all-inclusive!
You're a great writer, and I also worked for a year when I had Cade. I remember how hard it is. Stick to it, and get your support from the blog!
Stop by my blog today, I ranted and raved about you! :-)
Please do not ever close this blog!
Spiders are completely maligned. They eat all kinds of flying pests and don't bother humans.
I love chess, but I have never won a game in my life. No matter -- the game for the game's sake. Sadly, right now I don't know anyone who can play.
I am a size 10 shoe at 5'5". I guess that means I am super sturdy! Please don't stop writing!
I buy a lotto ticket every time I go to the grocery store as a treat to myself because I hate grocery shopping. And same with me on spiders. I once found I huge one in my basement and sprayed it with so much bug spray I think I drowned it rather than poisoned it.
I desperately want to see pearl jam live. And make out with my husband a lot, and win the lottery, and have 4 extra arms to do all the things I need to do. Have a good weekend!! :)
#2 I broke my foot a year and a half ago. Spent a cold hard Canadian winter in an ortho boot with freezing toes. SUCKED! I feel ya. I have JUST started to wear heels again, but it hurts by the end of the day. i don't think it will ever be the same.
#5 - I feel ya. Just dont post as much. Not like this is a money maker, right? It is a hobby. I struggle, too. I have good days and bad days. I really do not plan on being on this computer as much this summer. Life is TOO short.
#8 - makes me respect/admire you even more. I can't imagine not having both my parents being a part of my life.
you are amazing. and i love you. and i would be devestated if you shut down your blog. "sit, uterus, sit" is something i've been telling my uterus for awhile now. GAH, i want babies so badly! i want babies SO SO SO BAD!
i'm glad you played "personal" because i got to know you better :D
love youu.
Don't worry sweetpea...Eddie is old as dirt too ;)
Great list! Love the (no mom I'm not pregnant). Hah. I do that all the time, too. :)
#5 --- nooooo, we'd miss you!
hehe let me know if you get yours to sit -- I'm OLD and still have thoughts of a sister for Max. He, of course, has a brother periodically on order. Heh. I'd drop.
I never remember to play the lotto. I wrote the commercials for the one here for a while, and had to sign a thing saying I wouldn't play. I just don't think about it.
Kissing has recently been revived in my house, I LIKE it. After all the unpleasantness. I think we started again because it grosses Max out and he goes and finds something to do in his room for a while, while leads to more kissing.
Love this list girl! I am terrified of spiders myself. Child support, don't get me started, my dad, my ex. And do not close this blog down, I would miss you way too much!
If you close down this blog, you will force me to hunt you down and drool all over you in REAL LIFE. I suggest keeping it up.
Also, gubment cheese makes me want to die. Unfortunately, my dang kids L.O.V.E. Hamburger Helper. Curse them.
The little girl is nice, even the accidental little girl. Just sayin'.
I have made out with my husband a grand total of 5 times since we met 13 years ago. If I told you how much i miss making out, you'd make out with me in pity.
Don't you DARE close this blog down. :)
I would miss you a lot if you closed this blog down. Though I do understand the pull of many different things on your time, and the feeling that you want more hours with your children. We are all striving for balance...it's not always easy to find, but it's a worthy struggle.
Great list, Kim! Walls (and doors, tables, etc.) are always jumping out at me too! I tore my ACL while stepping out of the aisle in an airplane. Crazy/klutzy!
Your mom sounds like an amazing, amazing woman. And the power of young hormones ... Pearl Jam LIVE? You must do it. I'd be so envious.
And making out, what IS that ?!
And please DO NOT close this blog down.