Wee Bit Wednesday

{one} what color best describes you + why?Hm... I guess maybe brown? It's a neutral color, down to earth, laidback... like myself.
{two} how have you changed in the past year?This is an easy one - I became a mommy! Life and your priorities change as soon as you know you're carrying a little one and then they take precedence over thing once they're here in the flesh!
{three} have you ever had any surgeries? Yeah, I had a LEEP done in December 2008. It went well, I healed just fine, recovery only lasted a few days at home, taking it easy since it was an outpatient procedure.
{four} why did you start your blog?Well I started back with some old form of Livejournal back in the day, just type, vent, share, that kind of thing... that got carried over to Myspace and eventually I decided to make an actual blog here on Blogspot. I also use it as a way to connect with people who I have things in common with.
{five} what are you looking forward to this summer?Lots of things! Tonight we just had our family portrait professionally taken for the new church pictorial directory - I remember the first one my family participated in when I was in grade school (and the 2 times since then), looking forward to the day I'd be getting it done with a family of my own! We have a wedding out of state we're attending in a few weeks... looking forward to Jay's 1st 4th of July and then taking him to his 1st time at the fair in August. And I guess my 27th birthday at the end of August too.
{six} do you have any family traditions for the 4th of July?Cooking out/eating grilled food. After I quit working at the theater I was able to resume seeing the fireworks somewhere every year too! Not sure what the plan is this year though - it's our year to go out to my in-laws, but they have a lot of pets at their house right now (2 of their dogs gave birth to litters of 7 on the same day!) so I'm not sure if we're still going or if we'll just go for the day or if we'll stay in town again this year or what the plan is yet... {seven} what’s something new that you’ve tried in the past few months?sushi! I tried it once before I got pregnant and thought it was just okay, but then I was introduced to sushi rolls which are awesome! We usually get sushi twice a month! I like the California rolls and the Bagel/New York rolls (pending where you order from, as they're called by different names at different places).
{eight} what is the perfect a/c temperature?72 is what I like to keep it at
{nine} what was the last movie you saw in the theater?Fast Five - it was pretty good, liked the whole heist aspect added to the franchise
{ten} what song do you think everyone should hear at least once?I have no idea, lol... 

Wee Bit Wednesday

{one} how many times have you been a bridesmaid/maid of honor?Technically once - I was a Junior Bridesmaid in my aunt's wedding like 14 years ago... but I'm going to be a bridesmaid in my former roomie/college bff's wedding in August 2012! Yay!
{two} what’s the last thing your do before you fall asleep at night?Check on Jay one last time, climb back in bed, turn off the light on the nightstand curl up in bed with my pillow, snuggled under the blankets
{three} you just won your dream vacation, all expenses paid. where are you going?Europe with hubby!
{four} what is your favorite outdoor activity?I guess going for walks, or cooking out with hubby as that's been pretty fun so far this summer too!
{five} as a child, what did you want to “be when you grew up”? did you end up there?I wanted to either be a singer like Amy Grant (I LOVED her when I was like 5) or a kindergarten teacher. Neither happened, but I guess I can be a bit of a teacher to Jay =)
{six} what are 3 things your dream home would have that you don’t currently have?A fireplace, 2 car garage, a formal dining room {seven} what’s for dinner tonight?Thursday... normally we eat lasagna on Thursdays but I think we're going out tonight...
{eight} if someone stopped by your house unannounced on a typical Saturday night, what would they find you doing?Is it early evening or late evening? Early evening I would be hanging out with Jay, maybe napping or watching TV or playing or something while we wait for daddy to get home. If it's later in the evening we'd either be eating our Saturday night Taco Bell or hanging out downstairs in the basement watching a movie or playing a video game.
{nine} what’s your average monthly water bill?No clue - we have yet to receive one! I called last week though and they said it should be arriving in the next week or so since they had to get us on the cycle or whatever... so I guess we'll find out soon!
{ten} what do you do to relax?Nap, read, watch movies, play video games

Wee Bit Wednesday

After seeing several of my blog friends post today, I decided to have a little fun and take part in Wee Bit Wednesday this week!

{one} have you ever been stuck in an elevator?

Haha yes! I mentioned this on Twitter when it happened, but for those of you who don't follow me on there or missed it... January 1st my father-in-law was admitted to the hospital and was there for most of the month. Hubby and I visited him a few times and one time we decided to go stop down in the cafeteria for some food. On the way back up we got in an elevator with the repairman in it, as he said it was okay and he'd get us to the floor we needed. 2 RN's got in with us. Well... we reach the floor to get off on... and the doors won't open! And to top it off, I was 9 months pregnant at the time! LOL... this had typical TV show/movie moment written all over it! Fortunately the repair guy got the doors open in just a minute or 2 and no, I didn't go into labor - hubby read my mind though as we were in there and told me not to dare open my mouth and say it! lol...

{two} have you ever ridden on an elephant?

Nope, but I have relatives who have!

{three} have you ever met a well known celebrity?

I think I've met a few has-been celebs in the past at like meet and greet signings but the best and most memorable was the time I met Phoenix from Linkin Park. This was summer 1999 and I went to this huge Christian rock festival (Cornerstone Festival) downstate. Linkin Park's album didn't come out for another 9 months or so and I had no clue who he was at the time. He was doing his last tour or whatever with his former band Tasty Snax. Me and the church group of girls I was with that weekend met him at one of the merch tents and him and his bandmates were flirting with us, trying to get us to come to their show later in the day. It was pretty funny!

Another memorable "celeb" I've met is NFL running back Michael Turner (or "Turner the Burner" as we called him college). He went to NIU and played on the team during the same time I was there and was one of our star players at the time. My roommate and I met him at a party - we went out on the back deck for some air and he was sitting out back, just chilling with a couple guys. As a courtesy we all said a quick hello, although we didn't realize it was him until some drunk guy came stumbling out onto the deck and was all "Whoa! You're Michael Turner!" and congratulated him on all the hardwork he did on the football team!

{four} do you have any food allergies?

No, no food allergies.

{five} do you know how to sew?

No, which is sad and a bit surprising as my mom is a seamstress, doing costuming for various local theatre productions and other alterations for people and her mom was great at sewing too. I totally suck at it - I even fail at sewing a simple button back on as it usually falls off within several wears! lol... I've tried in the past, making stuff like a small stuffed star with my grandma but yeah... never been good at that!

{six} did you get an allowance when you were young?

Yep! I think we started with a $1 when I was little and it increased like a $1 every year. By the time I was in high school I think I got about $20 a week, but $10 of that was for mowing the yard and part of the field behind the house.

{seven} how often do you fill up your gas tank?

I  haven't filled up my tank in ages! I usually put about $20 in when I do go to the gas station and that gets me 1/2-3/4 of a tank depending on the price of gas. I usually go to the gas station about twice a month, maybe less.

{eight} have you ever been stung by a jelly fish?

Nope!

{nine} have you ever been robbed?

Yep, twice! First time was in either Jr. High or High School - I don't remember which, but I had about $100  (all birthday money I had just gotten recently) that I had on me as it was a Friday and my parents and I were going out shopping after school. For gym class we had to change into uniforms and we had lockers. Locks were optional and I never used one at the time. I had it when it changed, and gym was my last class of the day, but when I went to spend it later in the day it was gone! My told the school about it and they did nothing, citing I shouldn't have had that kind of money at school and that I should have used a lock on my gym locker. /facepalm...

The other time was shortly after I got my license and a car when I was 16. My parents put in an aftermarket CD player for me and I kept CDs in a binder stashed under the carseat. Well my parents were having work done on the house and we had a dumpster in our driveway for a week so I had to park on the street at night. One afternoon I went to get in my car to go pick my boyfriend up and sat down in the drivers seat and saw that everything was dumped out of the glovebox and onto the passenger seat! Then I noticed the CD player was gone and just wires hanging from the dash where it should have been! My CDs were all gone too (I had like 100 of them!) as well as my car owner's manual (which was in a leather type case - we think they thought it was more CDs). The busted out the small triangle window in one of the backseat doors and let themselves in that way. The glass place said it would have been less expensive to replace had they busted out one of the bigger windows! The insurance company gave me some money for my losses so I could buy a new CD player, get the window fixed and buy some replacement CDs, but still...

{ten} what is the worst haircut you’ve ever had?

When I was in 3rd grade I got a Bob haircut. I liked it at first, but as the day went on, I *hated* it. By the end of the night I was going around the house with a paperbag over my head! LOL... another terrible haircut was also in grade school during the years I had bangs. My little sister had bangs cut and I wanted them too so mom let me get them cut. Bad idea - my hair is naturally curly/wavy and the bangs NEVER laid flat. I never made that mistake again! lol...