Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Like people didn't know I was weird??
My friend Amy Wallace tagged me today to play "Six Weird Things About Me." Then Sally double tagged me, so I'm giving it a shot in lieu of some of the other posts percolating in my head right now.
1. I love to cook and I hate to throw food away. In fact I get a perverse kick out of creative recycling of leftovers. So far this week, baked apples turned into apple-oatmeal pancakes, and mashed potatoes into potato-asparagus soup. Good thing my kids are (for the most part) cheerful eaters!
2. I hate going to restaurants and paying to eat things like spaghetti that I make all the time anyway! Consequently, we eat out mostly at ethnic restaurants like Japanese and Thai. With our budget right now, we're mostly not eating out!
3. I get weird housekeeping pet peeves. In my last house having the back (glass sliding door) smudged up made me crazy. So, with four kids home all the time, I spent a lot of time cleaning it. So far in this house, keeping up takes so much energy that I haven't developed one yet!
4. One of my favorite lines as a mom is, "We speak standard English in this house". I'm working on eliminating the answer "Yeah?" from my children's vocabulary.
5. No matter how hot it is, I have to sleep with a comforter on the bed. Sheets alone don't have enough "weight" to them for me to relax.
6. I secretly develop crackpot theories. My latest is that no one but me in my house knows how to shut doors, drawers, or closets (especially the linen closet at the top of the stairs). I've also theorized that if I die, my children will walk around with six-inch fingernails and earwax blooming out of their heads in sticky clouds (gross, I know) and slowly go deaf.
1. I love to cook and I hate to throw food away. In fact I get a perverse kick out of creative recycling of leftovers. So far this week, baked apples turned into apple-oatmeal pancakes, and mashed potatoes into potato-asparagus soup. Good thing my kids are (for the most part) cheerful eaters!
2. I hate going to restaurants and paying to eat things like spaghetti that I make all the time anyway! Consequently, we eat out mostly at ethnic restaurants like Japanese and Thai. With our budget right now, we're mostly not eating out!
3. I get weird housekeeping pet peeves. In my last house having the back (glass sliding door) smudged up made me crazy. So, with four kids home all the time, I spent a lot of time cleaning it. So far in this house, keeping up takes so much energy that I haven't developed one yet!
4. One of my favorite lines as a mom is, "We speak standard English in this house". I'm working on eliminating the answer "Yeah?" from my children's vocabulary.
5. No matter how hot it is, I have to sleep with a comforter on the bed. Sheets alone don't have enough "weight" to them for me to relax.
6. I secretly develop crackpot theories. My latest is that no one but me in my house knows how to shut doors, drawers, or closets (especially the linen closet at the top of the stairs). I've also theorized that if I die, my children will walk around with six-inch fingernails and earwax blooming out of their heads in sticky clouds (gross, I know) and slowly go deaf.
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