Meme in the morning

1. What time did you get up this morning?  7:30 so I could drive Mom to her office and keep the big car for the day, the kids need rides.

2. How do you like your steak?  Medium Well to Well, although I rarely eat steak.

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? 500 Days of Summer (loved it)

4. What is your favorite TV show?  Rescue Me

5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be? Here, but I would banish 1/2 of the neighbors.

6. What did you have for breakfast?  Kashi Granola and cantaloupe

7. What is your favorite cuisine?  Mexican, Thai - it's a tie

8. What foods do you dislike? Liver, olives, sardines

9. Favorite Place to Eat? Dick & Jenny's Bake & Brew (right around the corner - although that puts it a mile from here)

10. Favorite dressing?  Whatever Dick and Jenny put on the Jenny salad

11. What kind of vehicle do you drive?  Mostly a Ford Taurus X, sometimes a Ford Escape - we're a Ford family.

12.  What are your favorite clothes? Anything I bought from Talbot's 2 -3 years ago, not anything they are selling today.

13. Where would you visit if you had the chance? Germany - I have friends there now.

14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full?  Overflowing!

15. Where would you want to retire?  Near my sister if possible.

16. Favorite time of day?  The hour before sunset.

17. Where were you born?  Buffalo General Hospital delivered by the same Dr who delivered The Mr. in a different hospital 7+ years before.

18. What is your favorite sport to watch?  Tennis, although I cannot play it.

19. Bird watcher? Always, I'm watching geese, ducks and finches right now.

20.  Are you a morning person or a night person? Night.

21.  Do you have any pets? My beloveds -Lilly and Luna.

22.  Any new and exciting news you’d like to share? My sister is moving into her new condo on my birthday!  It's about time she did this for herself.

23. What did you want to be when you grew up?  In first grade I told the teacher that I wanted to be a cigarette girl in a nightclub or a nun. 

24.  What is your favorite childhood memory?  Any time with any of my grandparents, make that every time with any of my grandparents.

25.  Are you married?  Almost 18 years, very happy years.

26.  Always wear your seat belt? Yes.

27.  Been in a car accident?  Yes, but never injured in one.

28.  Any pet peeves?  Yes, many, enough to open their own petting zoo.

29.  Favorite pizza toppings?  Spinach, feta cheese, tomato chunks, olive oil and mozzarella.

30.  Favorite Flower?   Lily of the Valley.

31.  Favorite ice cream? Vanilla soft custard or  Perry's Cannoli flavor for scooped.

32.  Favorite fast food restaurant?  Mighty Taco.

33. How many times did you fail your driver’s test?  Once, but it was raining so hard that neither the evaluator or me could see the road.  I passed easily three days later.

34. From whom did you get your last email?  BFF Beth.

35.  Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?  Only use a debit card and always know the balances in 4 different household accounts and there is nothing I want or need anyway.

36.  Do anything spontaneous lately?   Yes, I took The Mr. out for lunch yesterday.

37.  Broccoli?  Always.

38.  Do you like your job?  Teaching at my LYS is the best job I've ever had, I would do it for free.

39.  What was your favorite vacation?  Our Caribbean honeymoon, a trip that I want to take with the boys next year, but without the rum.

40.  Last person you went out to dinner with?  The boys and Pia to Outback on Sunday after the movie.

41.  What are you listening to right now? ADELE on my ipod, the contractors working nextdoor, Lilly snoring at my feet.

42. What is your favorite color?  Orange, green, yellow, red, pink, purple - I like color.

43.  How many tattoos do you have? Only a few radiation dots.

44.  Coffee Drinker? Yes, black and in a pink mug.

45.  What time did I finish this quiz?  10:25AM, why aren't those kids up?

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Anywhoos, that was this morning.  The kids did get up and fed and showered, then we were out the door to retrieve a few more.  I dropped 7 kids at the amusement park and then picked up 8 at the end of the day and somehow two of the original kids went home.  This German math is doing me in.

Right now I have 12 (or 13) kids in the basement (I'm still not sure where the other 4/5 came from) playing Rock Band and eating pizza. 

This is all cheering up #1 Son because at yesterday's doctor appointment they removed the original cast, xrayed the arm and then put a new cast on the whole arm.  The hand/wrist/thumb look horrible, as The Mr. says, "horror film horrible" because the muscles have all atrophied and his thumb position was not ideal because of the initial swelling. 

The poor boy needs 2 more weeks in the cast and then probably months of PT.  He received AP Chem homework in the mail today and burst into tears because he couldn't open the envelope himself. 

So friends and fun and food are helping.  Tomorrow the group will spend the day at the Falls and aside from the driving part of it, I should get a little break. 

Somehow I've gotten myself roped into fixing/finishing a lace project for a friend, more on that tomorrow.

Comments

[Trudy]

So sorry for your son - hope the friends and family lift his spirits.

[Sarah]

Awwww, ice cream or chocolate seems appropriate at a time like this.

xo

[Nora]

Hope #1 is feeling more himself today - that's a crummy setback.

Your list is a wonder - you don't like olives? Really? And #23 just about did me in.

xoxo

[Angie]

So sorry for #1. The extra and multiplying young people should be an excellent distraction.

[Bammerkt]

Oh I'm so sorry about your son's arm and cast. What a letdown!

But, wow, I thought my house was a zoo this summer. Your house sounds even busier!

[Stacey]

I almost cried for #1. I remember that feeling of not being able to do the simplest things. Tell him to buck up little buckaroo. It will get better and one day he'll have a great story to tell his kids.

Mmmm... cannoli ice cream? Yum! And I love how full your glass is. :D

[Rockzann]

Big hugs to #1 son. The arm will be back to normal in no time. He just needs to be a little creative in how he does things now. Tell him it's a chick magnet! That should get you a smile.

[marianne]

#23 had me laughing out loud! and I hear you on #35! smart.
I feel for #1Son and his frustration, but... 2 weeks is so doable. Hope everything knits together better now :^)and good thing he has so many friends for distraction!

[Cookie]

... a cigarette girl in a nightclub or a nun.

Yeah, that's my Joan.

xo

[donna lee]

Poor #1. The frustration is great.

[Alison]

Sounds like a perfect day except the new cast of course. I like my steak medium well to well on the rare occasion I eat it. Loving the vest.

[StellaMM]

The ability to surprise - especially 'a cigarette girl in a nightclub or a nun', and yes if you can 1) knit lace, and 2) trained as an accountant, I am sure you 'have four debit cards, and know exactly what the balances are', and may I venture to say, puzzled why everyone else is so lackadaisical not knowing what their exact balances are. LOL.