Runaway October

I have been tagged by Tamara of 1/4 of an inch. Yay!

With­out fur­ther ado:

1.) I absolutely abhor clowns in any shape and form. *twitch* They really make me get creepy crawlies and I have to look away. I’m always afraid that I may go bal­is­tic if one ever approaches me in per­son.

2.) My hus­band pesters me to stop drink­ing soda, and I know I should. But I fear the caffiene with­drawls I get . I also fear try­ing to get through the day with­out caffiene.

3.) I des­per­ately want a lit­tle girl, but I need to drop a lot of weight (I’d be happy with 80 pounds) and I’d like to have the 3k for my home­birth mid­wife saved up already.

4.) I have a prob­lem fol­low­ing through and fin­ish­ing projects. I have 4 sewing projects that need fin­ish­ing and a ton of stuff that needs doing for Hal­loween.

5.) Speak­ing of Hal­loween, it is by far my favorite hol­i­day — fol­lowed by Christ­mas and St Patrick’s Day.

6.) I spend mas­sive amounts of time scour­ing blogs for tuto­ri­als. Much more time that I actu­ally spend doing the tuto­ri­als. Sad.

7.) Matt and I are try­ing to get into Real Estate invest­ing, but we’re hav­ing a hard time get­ting the money together for the tuition. I’m really scared about some of the cre­ative financ­ing ideas he is com­ing up with. I don’t want to ruin the lit­tle credit we have.

Wow. That felt like a mini ver­sion of Post­Se­cret!

As far as tag­ging peo­ple, well that never works. If you feel like play­ing please join me. Leave me a com­ment if you decide to play along.

Oh! I will tag Tina of Miz­zTin­aBam­Bina. Go check out her blog!

I’ve been tagged by Eliz­a­beth so here’s goes.

1. Link to your tag­ger and post these rules.
2. Share 5 facts about your­self.
3. Tag 5 peo­ple at the end of your post and list their names, link­ing to them.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leav­ing a com­ment at their blog.

Five quick ones:
1.) When it comes to crafts and the com­puter, I have the oppo­site of a short atten­tion span. I lit­er­ally have to be dragged away some days.
2.) I hated hav­ing the same name as peo­ple grow­ing up, so I hope my kids don’t go through the same thing.
3.) I really want to raise Urban Chick­ens.
4.)  I’m extreeemely self-conscious. at all times. (I’ll just leave this one from E.)
5.) I worked at a fab­ric store while in High School and had almost no inter­est in sewing or craft­ing then.

Now it’s your turn Nicky, Sara, Juli­ette, DeAnna, and Amy.

What is your ideal age?

For what? Cheese? Myself? I dunno. Really age is just a num­ber — life is more about reach­ing a cer­tain point of wis­dom and com­mon sense before you get old and crotchity. Seri­ously. There’s a point where the rise of one meets the fall of the other and I never want to go past it.

What is your best excuse for being late?

I usu­ally blame it on Matt. He’s hor­ri­ble with times. I swear it takes him twice as long to shower and the hair on his head is only inches long. It takes a good five min­utes just to detan­gle my mane. If I don’t blame it on Matt I usu­ally use the kids or traf­fic. Pretty unoriginal.

If you had to give your­self a nick­name what would it be?

I dunno. I’d want a cool one. I once thought about ‘Z’, but I wouldn’t want to go to Canada and be called Zed. That’s the old wiz­ard from The Sword of Truth series.

You have accom­plished a dif­fi­cult task and hear some­one else tak­ing the credit. How do you deal with the situation?

Truth­fully it depends on the task. If Matt claims to fold those pre­vi­ously men­tioned 17 loads of laun­dry… oh well. Actu­ally, it depends on how much of a brat I feel like being. If it’s not some­thing huge like invent­ing a pollution-free renew­able power source then there’s really not much to fight about.

If you had to marry some­one that you presently know unro­man­ti­cally, and spend the rest of your life as their spouse, who would you choose?

Can it be a girl, because I would so marry Nicky. Period. She com­pletes me.

If you knew that in one year you would die sud­denly, would you change any­thing about the way you are liv­ing now?

Absolutely. I’d only have one year to make to huge impres­sion on my chil­dren and fam­ily. I’d need to become the per­sons that I want them to become, but I’d have to do it almost overnight. I’d need to make finan­cial changes as well, so no one is strapped with my debt after I’m gone. I have a long list of things I’d like to do before shuf­fling off this mor­tal coil, but these two things come first.