7 Things

So my friend Megain tagged me with this:

We all know I do not deserve any type of blog award but I'm bored so I figured I would play along. I am supposed to post 7 random things about myself. Here goes (beware- they are very random):

• Like Megan, who tagged me, I like numbers. I am really good with percentages. That’s probably because I am a lifelong Hudson’s shopper. Numbers also help me relax. My favorite place to relax is the shower and I figure out my budget in there, figure out how I can pay off notes sooner and then snowball payments for other things, balance my checking account in my head. Sometimes I have to write on the steamed up shower door to keep track! ha... does that make any sense to anyone out there?


• I often wear mismatched socks because I HATE folding/matching socks. It doesn't bother me that I might be wearing 2 different black socks or 2 different ankle socks. Winter is great for me because I can wear one ankle sock and one black sock with boots and no one will know! I do care that Jay puts Lennox in mismatched socks though. I don't want to look like a bad mom who doesn't buy her kid socks!


• I don't like to watch movies, especially sad ones. I think it comes down to the fact that I can't separate myself from other people's feelings. Is that too much empathy? sympathy? Anyway, I get too emotionally involved and I just can't get over it. Last weekend I did watch The Green Mile and then I watched Deliverence. I'm still losing sleep over what happened in those 2 movies. Most people can't understand how I feel. They tell me it's "just a movie" but the fact is that most movies are just captions of what really happened in someone's real life. I have my own problems... I don't want to deliberately take on the problems of strangers! Geez. That's why I hate movies.


• I am a dirty car person. That's not a secret to anyone who does now or ever has known me. I think it's genetic. My mom used to be a dirty car person and my sister is the queen of the dirty car. I just have an aversion to taking things about of my car when I pull into my driveway. I feel that it's my right to just jump out and go inside... that's why at any given time there could be 4 dirty food containers, 3 old sippy cups, 47 pieces of mail from weeks/months/years past, 5 empty coffee cups, etc. I’m not a dirty person, just a dirty car person.


• I hate routines. Megan said in her list that she loves them. I just don't. I don't get to work at the same time... EVER. My arrival ranges from 5 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. just depending on what I feel. We never eat at the same time at my house. Dinner might be ready at 5pm or 9pm. I can't stand the thought of buying the same groceries every week or doing the same chores or driving the same routes. I just don't like it. I feel oppressed in a routine. Maybe I am just disorganized and that's why I can't get into a routine so, in turn, I just decide that I don't like routines?! WHAT? I know. Anyway, having a kid has helped me some. I was initially the mom whose NB might take 5 naps a day or 2 long naps or no naps or whatever... you see what I'm saying. As he has gotten older though, I do try to give him some structure (I know that's good for kids) so he knows when it's time for naps or bed or dinner... I do think that my lack of routine has made my child very flexible. That's a good thing!


• The real reason I don't blog much is because I don't have internet at home! GASP... I know. Isn't that old school?! Well, here is the thing, we did try to get internet when we moved in. We have DirectTV and so we ordered the modem for the internet. Well, low and behold, we don't have DSL access in our area... isn't that the right term? Then, cable internet was the next option but Jay wouldn't give up the DirectTV so we couldn't bundle and that's like $60/month! HELLO... didn't I say we have a budget written on the shower door? Well, it doesn't include $60 for internet. Plus, I am on the computer all day at work so I don't really need it at home... except that Facebook,Yahoo,MySpace, and every other fun site (besides blogs) are blocked from work. Maybe I'll splurge one of these days.... ha ha


• Here is the last one... I have crazy dreams and I usually remember them when I wake up. At least a few nights a week, I am exhausted when I wake up because I've dreamed so much. I always dream that I'm still a waitress at Harveys and I am in the weeds like you wouldn't believe. I dream of putting in the computer codes for my orders and I dream them correctly... like 4-no, 52-lemon. Stuff like that... ha.

Anyone else who wants to play along, feel free... I'll be amused.