Random Dozen

Day 9- Some One You Didn’t Want To Let Go But You Drifted & Random Dozen

Today’s topic is ironic because I wrote Misti a letter telling how we had drifted apart these past few months.  It has been my fault because I am going through so much right now I have just been doing me and not really taking time for other people or things.  I am in my hermit stage right now because I am tired of some people and how they treat others.
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1. When was the last time you laughed until you cried?
A couple of weeks ago when I was watching TV in my grandparents room while they were getting ready to go to the prison for a program.  Grandma was having a super hard time finding something she wanted to wear and just all three of us going back and forth left me laughing so hard I was crying.  My grandma and I always end up crying though when we start to go back and forth with each other.
2. If you found $10 today, what would you do with it?
Use it at Wal-Mart tomorrow to buy chips or other junk food.
3. Do you volunteer anywhere?
No but I really want to start volunteering and the VA Hospital. I would love to work with soldiers.
4. What is your favorite summertime veggie or fruit, and how do you eat it?
Tomatoes-  I will eat them almost anyway.  I am not a huge fan of fried green tomatoes though but other than that I will eat them anyway.  My favorite was is when they are red and I can just put a little salt on them and eat they straight out of the garden.
5. Is your social sphere (circle of friends) small, medium or large?
Super small and that is okay with me!  I don’t let a lot of people in because I hate getting hurt.
6. When was the last time you attended a family or school reunion? How did that go?
 July 31-It was the typical Tidwell reunion.
7. When you’re feeling blue, what is the best way someone can cheer you up?
Just let me be with my computer and my kids.  My cubs can always make me smile!
8. Have you taken a vacation this summer?
I don’t even remember the last time I went on vacation-it was probably the year I graduated from high school.
9. What is the most unnecessary item you carry with you all the time?
My cell phone
10. What is the best summer flick you have seen so far?
I haven’t seen any new movies this summer so I have no idea what is even good out there anymore.
11. Describe a perfect summer day.
At home with my computer and cold Dr Pepper.  It doesn’t get much better than that oh and maybe a good book or two to read!
12. Please a share a favorite photo from the summer so far!
I couldn’t just pick one so I went with both of them! 

I Wanna Talk About Me!

1. Ever had any run-ins with the “library police?”
No I haven’t I always behaved when I was at the library!
2. Do you have a special organizational plan and place for wrapping paper, gift bags, etc., or do you just purchase whatever you need as you give gifts?
My grandma has stuff that she buys ahead of time but I just buy it as I need it.
3. Have you ever been in (first-hand witness) a natural disaster?
No but that would be so cool if I was!!!
4. What’s your favorite Barry Manilow song?
I don’t know any of them!
5. What’s the best costume you’ve ever worn?
I don’t like to dress up but I think my most favorite one was when I dressed as an army man in middle school.
6. Which do you use more often, the dictionary or the thesaurus?
Dictionary
7. What’s your favorite breakfast food?
Nothing- I don’t eat breakfast because it makes me sick to my stomach
8. Have you ever purchased anything from an infomercial?
No but I do buy the as seen on tv stuff all the time lol
9. Have you ever crawled through a window?
Ya-One time when we got locked out of the house and I was the smallest one so I had to go through a window and let everyone else in the house.
10. Do you believe in love at first sight?
Yes I do
11. How man pairs of jeans do you own?
To many but only 3 pairs fit me right now
12. If someone were going to bake a cake to honor/represent you, what would it be? (Think creatively, like Duff and Crew on “Ace of Cakes.”)
Either the Playboy Bunny or the Baby Phat cat logo!

My Easter


1. How do you feel about the marshmallow Easter Peeps?
They are disgusting.  I just can’t bring myself to eat them.
2. Chickens are notoriously nervous creatures. When you are nervous, what is the best way to calm down?
I get nervous all the time and all I can do is try and talk myself down so that I don’t have a panic attack.
3. People say, “April showers bring May flowers.” Do you enjoy Spring rains?
If it is warm rain yes I enjoy it but if it isn’t no I don’t enjoy it at all.
4. When I was randomly flipping through TV channels this week, I saw a show in which tattoo parlor employees received tattoos of a co-worker’s face on their bodies. I can’t imagine having a portrait of a colleague tattooed on me. But if someone forced you to receive a portrait tattoo (face only) of anyone, who would it be? Why?
I would have to chose Misti because she is my friend and it would to crazy to have face on my body.  She has a pretty face as well.
5. Would you rather have a tattoo (any kind) or a nose ring?
Nose ring because I could take it out and a tattoo is permanent.  I change my mind to much to have something on that I can’t change on my body.
6. Do you have any special plans for Easter?
Nope.  My Grandparents are going out of town so I will be home.  I may go to Misti’s house for her families Easter party but I am not sure about that yet.
7. Cadbury Eggs or Reese Eggs?
Reese eggs but Cadbury Mini Eggs are to die for.  I have to pick Reese Eggs though because I won’t eat the whole bag in one sitting.
8. What was the last thing/person you took a picture of?
Probably my nails to send to Misti or one of my girls
9. What book are you reading now, or what was the last one?
The Shack and the last one I read was about the Jews in concentration camps. (I can’t remember the name of it)
10. What do you think is the most difficult task when it comes to Spring cleaning?
All of it.  I am not a dirty person but I do hate to clean.  I will do pretty much anything to get out of cleaning.
11. How many pairs of flip-flops do you own?
5 or 6 I believe.  I don’t wear them though so I don’t really know how many I have anymore.  I have started buying them because my girls like to destroy them.  So I buy them when they are super cheap and give them to them to keep the entertained for a few weeks.
12. Which color makes you happiest?
Probably purple.


1. On a scale of 1-10, how superstitious are you, honestly?
Probably like a 5 or so.
2. Julius Caesar is quoted as saying, “I came, I saw, I conquered.” Which circumstance or experience of yours does this saying best describe?
Everything in my life to be honest with you.  I feel as if I have had that attitude a lot because I haven’t had any options but to conquer things that are put in front of me.
3. If I peeked in on your day like a mischievous little leprechaun, at what time would I most likely find you blogging?
While I am at work or after work in the middle of the night when I should be sleeping.
4. Re springing forward for Daylight Saving Time, is there anything you’ve ever been really early or really late for?
I always try and be places early because if I am going to be late I don’t want to go at all.
5. What are you most looking forward to concerning Spring?
The warmer weather and being able to ride around town with my sun roof open on my car.
6. Shamrocks are the national flower of Ireland and are picked on St. Patrick’s Day and worn on the lapel or shoulder. Do you wear green on St. Patty’s Day?
Yes I do only because little kids take things to far if you aren’t wearing green.
7. One of Caesar’s assassins, Casca, said, “But, for my own part, it was Greek to me,” which of course means he didn’t understand something. Probably his own lines in the play. Anyway, what is something that is “Greek to you,” something incomprehensible or indecipherable?
How some people are such idiots and can keep making the same mistakes over and over again with out learning from them the first couple of times.
8. Is March behaving more like a lion or a lamb where you live?
Both-It is bi-polar like it always is.
9. “An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.” -Winston Churchill. If you had one extra hour per day every day, what would you do with it?
Sleep or at least try and sleep because I never get enough sleep that is for sure.
10. Legend says that every Leprechaun has a pot of gold hidden deep in the Irish countryside. Aside from real gold or money, what material item would be in your dream pot of gold?
A house of my own
11. “The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you.” Robert Louis Stevenson. Look around you right now and tell us about something essential or beautiful very near you that you take for granted every day.
Misti-She is always there for me and some days I take that for granted.  I try not to but if someone is always there and you work with them it is hard to not take it for granted.  At least it is for me anyways.
12. Just for a bit o’ fun, click here  and then report your Irish name.
My Irish name is: Jacinta McNamara

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1. How old is the oldest pair of shoes in your closet?
Probably from high school so at least 7 years or so.
2. Did you buy Girl Scout cookies this year? If so, what variety?
I didn’t but my little brother did and he brought me a box of thin mints
3. Do you know how to ballroom dance? If not, would you like to?
No I don’t know how and it doesn’t seem like fun to me so no I don’t want to learn
4. Were you a responsible child/teenager?
For the most part I was
5. How many of this year’s Oscar-nominated movies did you see?
One I think
6. If you’re going to have a medical procedure done, such as having blood drawn, is it easier for you to watch someone else having the procedure done or have it done yourself?
It doesn’t matter either way to me.  Things like that don’t bother me.
7. What is your favorite day of the week and why?
Friday-because then I get two days off from work
8. Do you miss anyone right now?
I always miss someone
9. Do hospitals make you queasy?
Not at all-I actually wanted to work in one.
10. At which store would you like to max-out your credit card. Not that you ever would, you responsible person, you.
Kohls or Target
11. Are you true to the brand names of products/items?
Not really.  If I can find something cheaper I will by the cheaper one.
12. Which is more difficult: looking into someone’s eyes when you are telling someone how you feel, or looking into someone’s eyes when he/she is telling you how he/she feels?
Both are hard for me-I am not good at eye contact at all!

Lucky Questions

Here are your dozen for this first week of March. You know the drill; read, ruminate, write, for tomorrow we post and link. Did that sound just a tad Irish?

1. Do you prefer even or odd numbers? Any particular reason?
I have always like odd numbers.  I think even numbers totally suck!
2. On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being “not at all” and 10 being Carly Simon-worthy, how vain are you?
1-3-I really have no idea because I have never thought about it so I would have to say between a 1 and 3.
3. Among these Irish stereotypes, with which do you identify most closely? Talkative, Proud, Inquisitive, Love to party, Hot-tempered
Hot-tempered for sure
4. How lucky do you consider yourself?
I am not lucky at all.  I have never been lucky either
5. What is the subject of your favorite post that you’ve written?
I would have to say it is a toss up between Brita’s story or when I told about my story with the MS. 
6. Describe March weather where you live in three words.
Bi-Polar, Screwy, Crazy
7. How apt are you at detecting blarney when you hear it? (Smooth talk, flattery)
Not good at all!
8. How “green” are you, environmentally speaking?
I will be the first to admit that I am not the best but I do try too be more green.
9. What is your favorite song this week?
I don’t have one this week
10. You are walking along and see a coin on the ground. What denomination does it have to be before you will stop to pick it up
Probably a quarter.
11. Complete the sentence: “Every time I look outside my window ….”
I see my car and grass.
12. What was the #1 song on the day you were born? See this site to find out.
Wake Me Up Befoe You Go-Go – Wham!