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Random 12...

1. When you go to Wowmart, what one thing do you get every single time, besides a funky-wheeled squeaking cart full of frustration?

Hot Flashes! I am NOT kidding! I don't even have ovaries anymore - haven't for 4 or 5 years - but everytime I walk IN that store I get HOT FLASHES! I swear the estrogen level in there is sky high! Other than that, there is nothing that I get EVERY time... I shop (okay, I'll play) Wowmart ... (see yesterday's post - I call it Woemart!) ... sporadically! If I have a project going I might be in there 5 days in a row. But sometimes I might not be in there for 3 or 4 weeks in a row! Just depends!

2. What is something that people are currently “into” that you just don’t get or appreciate?

I don't even "get" the fascination with Facebook - so I definitely don't get the fascination with TWITTER. I used to feel sooooo free when I left my house because I was away from the phone and no one could "get" me! Now, the phone goes with me. But honestly - 99% of my phone calls are from my kids - and they don't abuse me! NOBODY needs to know WHERE I am every minute of my day! That is just CRAZY! And WHY would they want to??? Do you need to know if I'm taking the trash to the dump or sitting in the doctors office with Mom? Do ya really? I don't think so!

3. What is something that really hoists your sail that other people might feel “ho-hum” about?

I don't know. It's hard to realize if something excites ME, it may not excite everyone. I almost turn cartwheels if I wake up to a really really super gray RAINY day! I LOVE them! And if it stays that way alllllllll day -- oh my gosh! I just LOVE it! All day rainy days don't come along very often. Usually only if a hurricane is passing through... so ... yea... a hurricane really DOES cheer me up! I know... I'm nuts! I LOVE this season because for a few months there is always a chance! Of course it's BEST if it stays just off the coast and we just get a LOT of rain and some high tides... but nobody gets real damage. I don't wish harm on ANYone... I just like torrential downpours and gray gray skies! (but just so you don't think I'm totally crazy - I do LOVE sunny blue skies too! But we get a LOT more of THEM than we do gray gray rain...)

4. Favorite song to sing in the shower or car?

My favorite Praise songs! I always have Matt Redman or ChrisTomlin or Travis Cottrill playing in the car - and I sing along with all of them!

5. A really great salad must have this ingredient:

Mmmm.... summer squash! Or avocado. Or BOTH of them! And nuts! Walnuts!

6. Advice in a nutshell to new bloggers (one or two sentences):

7. What was the alternate name that your parents almost named you? Do you wish they had chosen it instead of the one they gave you?

Hahahaha.... I think I WAS the alternate name! My mother was Mary Ellen... my sister is Mary Carroll... and I ended up Mary Clare! My mother soooooo wanted a child named Mary! But neither of us go by Mary. She is Carroll, and I am Melli! *shrug* ... it's okay...

8. What in your life are you waiting for?

A wedding. My eldest daughter is married - but she didn't have a wedding. (long story) So, I'm really looking forward to whichever of my children has the first wedding. And of course, mOre grandchildren!

9. You get a package in the mail. What is it, and who is it from?

The most recent was a box full of flamingos! (for church) The next one will have shoes. Two pairs of Crocs to be specific! They are both from me. (and for me.)

10. Today–what song represents you?

What SONG? NOT what song TITLE? Right? In that case, excepting the fact that I'm not a man, I'm going to say Lucky Man, by Montgomery Gentry. Because the chorus says...

But I know I'm a lucky man
God's given me a pretty fair hand
Got a house and a piece of land
A few dollars in a coffee can
My old truck's still running good
My ticker's tickin' like they say it should
I got supper in the oven, a good woman's loving
And one more day to be my little kid's dad
Lord, knows I'm a lucky man

... well... that's exactly how I feel - except I'm a woman!

11. What is one thing that blogging has taught you about yourself?

Wow. Blogging has actually taught me a LOT about myself. Even answering all these stupid memes -- which I LOVE... sometimes the questions really do make me think. I think that I went through so many years of living my life by rote, while I was raising the kids, that when I started blogging ... well... when I started blogging it was just FOR ME! It was my weight loss journal ... but then it exploded! Suddenly there were "friends" out there... I think blogging has taught me HOW to BE real! On a blog you have time to THINK before you speak -- which is not always the case out in the world. I think the people who know me on my blog, no more of the REAL me than people outside my family who know me in real life. But it has also taught me to slow down in real life and TO think before I speak. To make sure that what I say to people is what I really WANT to say. What I really feel. (boy... was that a jumble? Can you make sense of it?)

12. How are you going to (or how did you) choose the clothes you’re wearing today? What do they say about you in general or specifically how you’re feeling today?

They are clean, they are comfortable... and in this case, they even match! (that's not always the case... LOL!) SOME days... this is bad... but if I don't think I'm going anywhere... I might just stay in my jammy shorts allllllllllllllll daaaaaaay looooooong! Today is NOT one of those days. Today I'm going to Mount Vernon! With allllll my girls! Seeeeeeeee ya!

Labels: Random Dozen

posted by Melli at 1:01 AM