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i have been a little quiet this past week- i know. even for quiet ole me- i've been quiet. still reading, still here, but we've all had colds & pumpkin has turned into a cranktastic mess starting at 6:30 pm & continuing until she decides it's bedtime sometime between 8 & 8:30. she is distracted for moments by various things- floor time with her awesome leapfrog toy, floor time chasing daddy's toes, floor time literally chomping on the metal bars of the coffee table (hey- who am i to deny her- it's clean!), time in her walker, a frozen peach, a gel toy, dinner, nursing, diaper change. all these things must be rotated every 15-20 minutes and it is exhausting. i have tried no nap in the afternoon. i have tried late nap in the afternoon. i think her teeth just ache by the end of the day & she is tired of it. add to that a dwindling head cold (the vaporizer has been running almost constantly & did seem to shorten her misery a bit compared to ours) and my normally happy babbling little babers is a whiny mess. which means that very tired mommy- who is also sick- is on constant demand because while daddy tries to step in (and really has stepped up a lot) she wants none of it. long story to say i am run the fuck down. so much that the hub has been worried about me & after doing a little work yesterday morning he took us to the park for some relaxing lunch by the water. it was really nice- if a bit windy- and just what i needed to recharge a little.



all this is down the street...

when i opened my reader this morning imagine my delight when i noticed i was nominated for this award by not one- but two people! it's like you knew i needed a little pick me up! so thank you to the awesome nancy (who if you don't know by now i am actually going to get to visit in real life people!!!!) AND by rocket.queen with her little adorable quin all the way from china

rules:

1- thank the person who nominated you for this award

2- copy the logo and place it on your blog

3- link to the person who nominated you for this award

4- name 7 things about yourself that people may not know

5- nominate 7 kreativ bloggers

6-post links to the 7 blogs you nominate

7- leave a comment on each

i think finding 7 things i haven't already shared is going to be tough! here goes my best shot- i am far too lazy to look back & see if i am repeating things!

1- i am uber strange when it comes to food. textures & strong spices trigger some weird response in me to just not like something. if i can get over it & try it- i actually find that i like a lot of different foods, but getting over it & just trying a bite of food is one of the most challenging things i can do. i do blame my parents on this one as i apparently loved all kinds of food before i was 18 months old & they let my pickiness go. can you believe i first tried mac-n-cheese on my 18th birthday? yup. i was scared to try that! and tomatoes freak me out, but i love tomato sauce & pizza- even tomato pie (the northeast version which is basically a thick crust sicilian pizza with no cheese, just sauce.)

2-i am addicted to reality tv shows that showcase a talent in some way- think pr.oject run.way, top ch.ef, hel.l's kit.chen (pretty much anything gordon's in is good in my book- right nancy?!). i even got into the one about the hairstylists! but i can't stand the inte.rior design one mainly because i don't see a lot of what i do in it. it's more about buying furniture & decorating a room than actually designing the space & that annoys me.

3-i can spend hours in malls just to kill time & not buy a single thing. growing up that's what the women in my family did for bonding, but due to my parent's inclination to hoarding- i debate purchases to death & usually end up deciding i don't need something as i really really don't want to end up like them in a house filled with shit i don't need & never use.

4- i love to cut & color my hair. i do it all myself & i have a regular bunch of 'customers' that i will cut their hair too. in fact- my original customer- a good college friend- 'cheated' on me & got her hair cut at a great little salon. when she went in the stylist/owner asked her where she got her hair cut before that one. when she said her interior designer friend did it- the owner told her that i could have a job there any day. i am actually tempted at the moment, but i think with no training at all it may be a little harder than just that! (i am however- thinking very hard about going red...)

5- i love to crotchet & would really like to learn how to knit since you are pretty limited in crotchet to what you can make (at least with the 1 stitch i know how to do!) but i can't understand the instructions at all. it literally looks like another language & my brain hurts when i see it. so i am stuck making hats, scarves, blankets & the occasional little sweater or shirt type thing that i make up how to do it myself. but my favorite part is shopping for the yarn- i can spend hours in the aisle just picking out a couple skeins.

6- i never missed a day of school until my junior year of high school. i was the dork that was called up at assemblies for the perfect attendance award every year. then by my senior year i was dating the hub & had friends who were little hoodlums (bringing liquor into school in thermos bottles, smoking everything in the bathrooms, ditching classes to watch cartoons & get stoned, piercing body parts in the bathrooms, etc) and i made friends with the security guards who i saw out & about at parties with the hubs friends since it was a very small town & they were only a few years older than the hub who's a few years older than me. i got out of a lot of classes with simply a cherry slushy & a jedi 'you see nothing' wave. of course- my gpa dropped me down from high a to low b/c...

7- which leads me to- i flunked out of a semester of community college. i was going to be an actress & things weren't working out with that, or my crappy roommate who i lived with in her dad's house. she did lots of drugs (which i knew about some- but not the coke habit that made her steal my rent money from her dad which i stupidly left as cash in a cupboard) and had lots of guys over all the time. i kept myself separate as i could from that, but being young & easily influenced i did drink & smoke a lot. i was also working pretty much full time & going to classes- well, the going to classes part kind of dropped off- hence the flunking. i wisely decided to move out after finding out i had failed everything & took a semester off. i lived with the hub (for the first time) and the night i left the roommate told me how she was pretty in to me & always wanted to ask me out after i broke up with loser before the hub & before i met the hub. i was slightly flattered (it's always nice to know someone thinks you're hot!) but mainly creeped out after she slashed the hub's tires & tried to frame him for a break in at the house we had lived at together. it was a weird & crazy time, but it helped me to realize i wanted something different & better in my life and forced me to focus. i came down here to go to a great school for interior design & regained my dork status by being on the dean's list every semester. i was actually pissed i didn't get the 'highest gpa' award at graduation as i was off by.01 point & the girl who got it was the biggest kiss-ass.

i guess that last one was really a whole bunch of stuff shoved into one- if there was room for a #8 it would be that i tend to go off on tangents a lot, but i think that's already pretty evident!

i would like to nominate:

merlot

kate

rachel

intricatelycomplex

jewels (even though i know she's been tagged already!)

jen

umm- anyone else who happens to read this & wants to share. just let me know if you do it because i'd love to learn more!