7 Random Things About Me

Jen at http://jenshumbleopinion2.blogspot.com/ tagged me for this meme.

Here are the rules:
Link to the person that tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.
Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself.
Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.
Let each person know that they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

1. I love words, and I love to make up my own words. This particular meme is right up my alley because I decided a few weeks ago that "randoming" is my new word. When people are saying random things that have nothing to do with the conversation, or they change the topic abruptly, I say that they are "randoming." Two other phrases I like to use are "soon ago" (versus "long ago," which people always say) and "ever-the-more" when anyone says "nevertheless"). Weird? Strange? Maybe. That's me!

2. Another random fact about me is that I love to take pictures and videos, if I only had more time! I can sit at the computer for hours working with my pictures, making slideshows, adding music to a video I've made, or anything along those lines.

3. I am supposed to be on my way to a martini party right now. It started 45 minutes ago, but we want to be "fashionably late." It's only 2 houses down! And the funny thing is... I don't even like martinis!

4. I have a brown belt in tae-kwon-do. When I remarried and moved 2 and a half years ago, I quit, but I wanted to quit anyway because I'm not getting any younger, and my friend broke her ankle breaking boards, so I figured it was time. Now I am not in shape, though, so I miss that.

5. I have 11 year old twins, a boy and a girl. Both my grandmother and my ex-husband's grandmother were twins. And now I have twin step-grandsons who are about a month old and still in the hospital. Lots of twins in the family.

6. Only two more to go! I have quite a large collection of Dreamsicles which I posted about in Sunday Scribblings http://www.sundayscribblings.blogspot.com/ a couple of weeks ago. They are so sweet and pretty. I have gotten tired of getting them, though, because I have no place to put them anymore, and because I don't want a Dreamsicle for the sake of having a Dreamsicle, only if it is special to me in some way such as signifying the birth of my babies or something of that nature.

7. Last one! What shall I put? This is the first MEME I have been tagged for! It's fun! And now, it's your turn. Who shall I tag?

Scrapperlicious http://scrapperlicious.blogspot.com/

The Quintessential Feline http://quintessentialfeline.blogspot.com/

Liza's Eyeview http://lizas-eyeview.blogspot.com/

And Miles to go Before we Sleep http://brewerfamily8.blogspot.com/

Ellen B http://happywonderer.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/thursday-thirteen-8-friends/

Kellan http://www.ontheupside.info/

Djpare http://djpare.blogspot.com/

...please don't do this if you don't want to, and if anyone who I haven't tagged would like to do this, consider yourself tagged and leave me a comment so that I can read you answers.
Happy writing!

Thursday Thirteen

13 Shows I Remember Watching (and sorta miss) from When I Was Growing Up

1. Happy Days
2. Mork and Mindy
3. The Andy Griffith Show
4. The Dick Van Dyke Show
5. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
6. Wonderful World of Disney
7. Sonny and Cher
8. I Love Lucy
9. Family Affair
10. The Brady Bunch
11. Get Smart
12. My Three Sons
13. Bonanza

Wordless Wednesday

For the love of Money! (Sunday Scribblings)

Money is not the root of all evil.
The LOVE of money is the root of all evil.
So says my beloved Bible.

But face it. We must have money to exist in our world. And I am sure not made of money. Nor does it grow on trees (whether they use the tree to make paper or not). Don’t we wish it did? That’s the $64,000 question!

Money can’t buy happiness, but with all the stuff money could buy me, I promise I’d be happy! Money can’t buy love. Who needs love when I have all this stuff?! (just kidding).

A fool and his money are soon parted. Sure were lots of fools in the mall today!

Money isn’t everything. But it’s something!

And if I put my money where my mouth is, won’t I look kinda funny? And won’t it taste kinda funny, too? You can bet your bottom dollar on that.

I’d like to start a new business, maybe buy a franchise and hire people to run it for me. I’d be raking in the money, but it takes money to make money. Instead I just go to work each day. Another day, another dollar. Or is it less than that now? On the flip side, there are people like Bill Gates who have money coming out the wazoo.

Have you ever noticed how your homeowner’s association keeps raising the amount of blood money they get from you each year (homeowner’s association dues), but nothing ever changes in the neighborhood? What are they doing with all that money?

And if time is money, is that why I’m so broke?

And if you think that I had a hard time trying to think of something to say for this topic, you are right on the money!

Thursday Thirteen

13 Reasons I am glad Halloween is Over

1. When we get a “sweet tooth,” we have a huge supply of candy around the house now. No more hunting for something sweet. At least not for a week or so.
2. No more haunted houses around town. (too scary for me)
3. The children won’t ask me to buy them a Halloween costume for at least another 320 days!
4. The Halloween block party is over. All the planning and preparation!
5. I don’t have to hear the words, “What are you going to be for Halloween?” from my students until next year.
6. I don’t have to hear “trick or treat” for another year.
7. No more “Monster Mash” for a while.
8. No more “Time Warp” for a while.
9. No more Halloween episodes on TV for a while.
10. It’s not my favorite holiday.
11. No more scary yard decorations.
12. “Friday the 13th” and “Halloween” are no longer on TV 24/7.
13. And best of all, 11 school days until Thanksgiving break!