- My son. I cannot tell you how in love with this kid I am. He constantly amazes, impresses, and entertains me! I am so thankful that he is a healthy (especially after that lump fiasco!), happy, smart boy! He has added something to my life that I didn't even know was missing before, and I will always be thankful to him for that!
- My husband. I know I often times give Nick a bad rap via stories or get annoyed with him for things, but overall, he is a really wonderful person, husband, and especially father. I do love him and his love for me is also obvious, but, most of all, I have fallen in love with him again because of how he is with Austin! I never, NEVER have any doubts or fears about Nick's feelings towards our boy!
- My family. As Erin said, I have been so lucky never to go through any awkward, not-getting-along times with my family (well, nothing major, anyway!). I know that I can always call and talk to them or get support and that is something that I enjoy!
- My friends. Finally, after having so many of my friends move out of town, I have some friends around me again! I COULD NOT get through the day-to-day without them, and who else would listen to my craziness?
- Our finances. We are by no means rolling in the dough, but when I think of how bad off so many other people are, I feel very thankful for what we have. I need to remember this when I start freaking out!
- My career. I finally have a job that is actually my career! I love what I do, even if I get annoyed at times, and I can see myself staying in this position (or moving up within the area) for a long, long time.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
My Thankful List
Erin made one, so I thought I should give a list of some things I am thankful for, as well! So here you go:
Monday, November 24, 2008
Thanksgiving Past
I was thinking today of a past Thanksgiving that made me laugh. Actually, it was the day before Thanksgiving. It must have been 2003, because Nick was working for Nicor Gas as a meter reader. It's weird to think that it was that long ago that he had that job, but it was! I'm pretty sure he stopped working for them before we were married, which was in 2004, so I think that puts this story at 5 years ago.
We were living in the MLK house and had been for just a year. Erin came up that Wednesday to spend the night and help me get ready for Thanksgiving dinner. Oh, I'm smiling thinking of this already! That Wednesday I must have taken the day off of work, too. It was a horribly snowy, blowy day, and Erin said that she drove up listening to Christmas music. This wouldn't have been so bad, except at some point during the blizzard-like conditions, she listened to that Trans-Siberian Orchestra song that gets all crazy at the end...you know, "Carol of the Bells".
(Note: I just spent like 8 minutes trying to find the title of that song. Know why it took so long? Because I was searching for it as being performed by the Mannheim Steamrollers or Bay City Rollers. That's not right. Every year I forget the name of that flippin' group!!)
Anyway, the combination of the wind and snow and that song's frenzy at the end led to Erin gripping the steering wheel and squinting to try to make out the road. She was exhausted by the time she got here! It was like having your own personal soundtrack playing where the music really matched (and enhanced!) the intensity of driving in the snowstorm!
She got to my house and we went to 2 Pals Pottery to paint Christmas gifts for Mom, I remember. That was fun! It was all warm and cozy in the shop with Christmas music playing and the snow coming down and we were painting pottery! What a down home kind of day! After completing our pieces, we proceeded to drive to Walmart to get the supplies we needed for Thanksgiving dinner. Again, it was still snowing terribly! We finally made it over to Walmart and ran, RAN to the door, only to find a Walmart worker standing at the door yelling to anyone and everyone, "We are closed! We are closed! We have no power!" She was waving her arms all around and yelling out to the masses...it was a production to say the least! You couldn't see or hear her until you got right up to the door, which meant we had to RUN our butts back to the car through the blizzard once more. I remember getting into the car and turning towards Erin and we were both completely wet and windblown and looked like we'd been inside the blizzard or something! Picture red faces, hair all over the place, heavy breathing, and snow like IN your ear. That was us! We immediately died laughing at the ridiculousness of the situation (seriously, it was hilarious the way the lady was screaming out into the blizzard!) and decided we'd go to Jewel instead of Walmart because we did need the stuff for dinner!
As you might imagine, EVERYONE IN TOWN was at Jewel, since half of Bloomington-Normal was apparantly without power, so it made it a fun challenge to park and get through the snow. I think the snow was letting up at some point, because we didn't have quite the insane wind in our faces as we were in the Jewel parking lot. I do remember having a tough time manuvering the cart through the many inches of snow, though! We made it in, got our food, and got home successfully.
To top off our evening, Erin and I decided we'd be nice and shovel the driveway before Nick came home. Nick, as you remember from the beginning of this post, was working at Nicor as a meter reader, meaning he walked from house to house entering numbers from people's gas meters. Poor guy! The city was pulling the mail carriers off the road because of the weather, but Nick and his coworkers had to keep going! He definitely had a long day that day and came home exhausted! Erin and I managed to shovel enough of the driveway so that he could get in (or maybe we did the whole thing? I don't remember). At the time, we only owned one snow shovel, so whoever wasn't using it had to use the regular, metal, dirt-digging shovel, which really isn't meant for shoveling snow!
This might have also been the same year that found Erin, Nick, and I pulling out the hide-a-bed and all piling in to watch TV on Thanksgiving night (Faith Hill concert, anyone? Talk Sex with Sue Johannson?). Plus, I KNOW we hit the Black Friday sales the next morning! That's a whole different story!
That was a really fun holiday! Now that we're all grown up with husbands and kids and other obligations, I don't know if we'll have another time when Erin gets to come up and stay for an extended period of time over a holiday like that, especially where it's just the two of us out having an adventure, but those are memories I'll always enjoy retelling because those were such good times! Love you, Erin!
We were living in the MLK house and had been for just a year. Erin came up that Wednesday to spend the night and help me get ready for Thanksgiving dinner. Oh, I'm smiling thinking of this already! That Wednesday I must have taken the day off of work, too. It was a horribly snowy, blowy day, and Erin said that she drove up listening to Christmas music. This wouldn't have been so bad, except at some point during the blizzard-like conditions, she listened to that Trans-Siberian Orchestra song that gets all crazy at the end...you know, "Carol of the Bells".
(Note: I just spent like 8 minutes trying to find the title of that song. Know why it took so long? Because I was searching for it as being performed by the Mannheim Steamrollers or Bay City Rollers. That's not right. Every year I forget the name of that flippin' group!!)
Anyway, the combination of the wind and snow and that song's frenzy at the end led to Erin gripping the steering wheel and squinting to try to make out the road. She was exhausted by the time she got here! It was like having your own personal soundtrack playing where the music really matched (and enhanced!) the intensity of driving in the snowstorm!
She got to my house and we went to 2 Pals Pottery to paint Christmas gifts for Mom, I remember. That was fun! It was all warm and cozy in the shop with Christmas music playing and the snow coming down and we were painting pottery! What a down home kind of day! After completing our pieces, we proceeded to drive to Walmart to get the supplies we needed for Thanksgiving dinner. Again, it was still snowing terribly! We finally made it over to Walmart and ran, RAN to the door, only to find a Walmart worker standing at the door yelling to anyone and everyone, "We are closed! We are closed! We have no power!" She was waving her arms all around and yelling out to the masses...it was a production to say the least! You couldn't see or hear her until you got right up to the door, which meant we had to RUN our butts back to the car through the blizzard once more. I remember getting into the car and turning towards Erin and we were both completely wet and windblown and looked like we'd been inside the blizzard or something! Picture red faces, hair all over the place, heavy breathing, and snow like IN your ear. That was us! We immediately died laughing at the ridiculousness of the situation (seriously, it was hilarious the way the lady was screaming out into the blizzard!) and decided we'd go to Jewel instead of Walmart because we did need the stuff for dinner!
As you might imagine, EVERYONE IN TOWN was at Jewel, since half of Bloomington-Normal was apparantly without power, so it made it a fun challenge to park and get through the snow. I think the snow was letting up at some point, because we didn't have quite the insane wind in our faces as we were in the Jewel parking lot. I do remember having a tough time manuvering the cart through the many inches of snow, though! We made it in, got our food, and got home successfully.
To top off our evening, Erin and I decided we'd be nice and shovel the driveway before Nick came home. Nick, as you remember from the beginning of this post, was working at Nicor as a meter reader, meaning he walked from house to house entering numbers from people's gas meters. Poor guy! The city was pulling the mail carriers off the road because of the weather, but Nick and his coworkers had to keep going! He definitely had a long day that day and came home exhausted! Erin and I managed to shovel enough of the driveway so that he could get in (or maybe we did the whole thing? I don't remember). At the time, we only owned one snow shovel, so whoever wasn't using it had to use the regular, metal, dirt-digging shovel, which really isn't meant for shoveling snow!
This might have also been the same year that found Erin, Nick, and I pulling out the hide-a-bed and all piling in to watch TV on Thanksgiving night (Faith Hill concert, anyone? Talk Sex with Sue Johannson?). Plus, I KNOW we hit the Black Friday sales the next morning! That's a whole different story!
That was a really fun holiday! Now that we're all grown up with husbands and kids and other obligations, I don't know if we'll have another time when Erin gets to come up and stay for an extended period of time over a holiday like that, especially where it's just the two of us out having an adventure, but those are memories I'll always enjoy retelling because those were such good times! Love you, Erin!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
And here's a preview!
So, we did the pictures tonight at Sears and....here's a tiny preview just to keep you interested!
He did SO great tonight! We had a much better photographer tonight. Our two ladies on Monday weren't bad by any means, but tonight we had Daisy who was just AWESOME! Austin was a little bit whiny at first but Daisy pulled out a bouncy ball and got him smiling! I, of course, bought a little more than I thought I would, but they turned out so well! Plus, since I bought the CD, I can upload pictures to Snapfish or Shutterfly or something and print them out myself!
Enjoy the cuteness!
Christmas List
I can't believe I left the last 2 questions blank...what happened to my brain at that time?
You can't get enough of me today, can you? Here I am, stealing from Cecilia's blog...
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?
Wrapping paper unless I have a cute gift bag that someone else already gave me that I'm reusing (because I'm cheap like that).
2. Real tree or fake?
Fake!! It's so much neater and, once again, then you don't have to buy one every year (see the cheap reference above -- this will be a theme).
3. When do you put up the tree?
The weekend after Thanksgiving.
4. When do you take down the tree?
Pretty soon after Christmas...usually by New Year's Day or so.
5. Do you like eggnog?
I think so, although I don't drink it much.
6. Favorite gift received as a child?
I'm going to say my My Little Pony nursery or my Barbie Ice Cream Maker? However, I did also the receive the ever-popular ROCK TUMBLER!!!
7. Hardest person to buy for?
My dad for sure.
8. Easiest person to buy for?
Austin. He likes it all!
9. Do you have a nativity scene?
I used to have one? I think I have one still somewhere, although we may be missing some pieces.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards?
Now that I have a child, mail. Prior to having Austin, I would buy cards but usually forget to send them out!
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
Anything from my mother in law! Sorry!! I mean, "Cotton Candy Note?" What is that about?
12. Favorite Christmas movie?
Elf!! Also, Christmas Eve on Sesame Street and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
October! I like to be done early...it's my own personal challenge to myself.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
Hell to the yeah. Please see the cheap theme above.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?
Sugar cookies, those "wedding" pecan cookies, and any other kind of cookies!!
16. Lights on the Christmas tree?
Is this a yes or no question? Or color? I say yes, and I do purple lights with red ornaments.
17. Favorite Christmas song?
All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey and Merry Christmas Baby by BB King
18. Travel at Christmas?
Only to Decatur or Lewistown
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer?
Of course
20. Angel on the tree top or a star?
Multicolored star
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?
Christmas morning, but maybe one on the eve
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year?
Grinchy people or crappy weather! I like snow, but only pretty snow.
23. Favorite ornament theme or color?
Bright jewel tones OR blue and silver and white (but not together)
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner?
My dad's lasagna!
25. What do you want for Christmas this year?
I don't know still!
26. Who is the most likely to respond to this?
Lindsay said her answers while I was typing this, but also Erin might steal it for her blog!
27. Who is the least likely to respond to this?
No one.
28. Favorite thing about Christmas?
From childhood, my favorite thing was staying up to go to the Christmas Eve service and watching the 10 p.m. news. Judy Frazier (is she still alive?) always did the "Santa Watch" during the weather and I LOVED that! Then, we'd all get in the car and drive around looking at the lights, especially the Santa House, before going to the service. I did love that Christmas Eve service, too, especially when we'd be singing Silent Night by candlelight and the bells would ring. Then we'd blow out the candles, the lights would come on, and it would be CHRISTMAS!!! But, you had to go home and go to sleep!!! That was always the hard part!
Now, my favorite it also the Christmas scheming that goes on and watching people open their presents. It's too much fun!
You can't get enough of me today, can you? Here I am, stealing from Cecilia's blog...
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?
Wrapping paper unless I have a cute gift bag that someone else already gave me that I'm reusing (because I'm cheap like that).
2. Real tree or fake?
Fake!! It's so much neater and, once again, then you don't have to buy one every year (see the cheap reference above -- this will be a theme).
3. When do you put up the tree?
The weekend after Thanksgiving.
4. When do you take down the tree?
Pretty soon after Christmas...usually by New Year's Day or so.
5. Do you like eggnog?
I think so, although I don't drink it much.
6. Favorite gift received as a child?
I'm going to say my My Little Pony nursery or my Barbie Ice Cream Maker? However, I did also the receive the ever-popular ROCK TUMBLER!!!
7. Hardest person to buy for?
My dad for sure.
8. Easiest person to buy for?
Austin. He likes it all!
9. Do you have a nativity scene?
I used to have one? I think I have one still somewhere, although we may be missing some pieces.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards?
Now that I have a child, mail. Prior to having Austin, I would buy cards but usually forget to send them out!
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
Anything from my mother in law! Sorry!! I mean, "Cotton Candy Note?" What is that about?
12. Favorite Christmas movie?
Elf!! Also, Christmas Eve on Sesame Street and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
October! I like to be done early...it's my own personal challenge to myself.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
Hell to the yeah. Please see the cheap theme above.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?
Sugar cookies, those "wedding" pecan cookies, and any other kind of cookies!!
16. Lights on the Christmas tree?
Is this a yes or no question? Or color? I say yes, and I do purple lights with red ornaments.
17. Favorite Christmas song?
All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey and Merry Christmas Baby by BB King
18. Travel at Christmas?
Only to Decatur or Lewistown
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer?
Of course
20. Angel on the tree top or a star?
Multicolored star
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?
Christmas morning, but maybe one on the eve
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year?
Grinchy people or crappy weather! I like snow, but only pretty snow.
23. Favorite ornament theme or color?
Bright jewel tones OR blue and silver and white (but not together)
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner?
My dad's lasagna!
25. What do you want for Christmas this year?
I don't know still!
26. Who is the most likely to respond to this?
Lindsay said her answers while I was typing this, but also Erin might steal it for her blog!
27. Who is the least likely to respond to this?
No one.
28. Favorite thing about Christmas?
From childhood, my favorite thing was staying up to go to the Christmas Eve service and watching the 10 p.m. news. Judy Frazier (is she still alive?) always did the "Santa Watch" during the weather and I LOVED that! Then, we'd all get in the car and drive around looking at the lights, especially the Santa House, before going to the service. I did love that Christmas Eve service, too, especially when we'd be singing Silent Night by candlelight and the bells would ring. Then we'd blow out the candles, the lights would come on, and it would be CHRISTMAS!!! But, you had to go home and go to sleep!!! That was always the hard part!
Now, my favorite it also the Christmas scheming that goes on and watching people open their presents. It's too much fun!
I resisted...mostly!
Today at work, we celebrated someone's birthday. Apparently, her birthday is next week, but since she won't be here, the goodies were brought in today. Someone brought in a large, marble sheet cake with whipped (WHIPPED!!!) icing and a box of a dozen or so doughnuts. Also, one of the gals in Student Records won breakfast from a local radio station, so at the same time that we were singing Happy Birthday and cutting the cake (at 9:30 a.m., for the love of God!!), her doughnuts, coffee, bagels, and cream cheese were delivered!
If you know my office, you know that we freaking ALWAYS have food. It's kind of ridiculous actually. The birthday celebrations got so bad (and frequent) over the last couple of years that, starting with 2009, we're enacting the "Happy Birthday Month" Day -- one day of food for birthdays per month. Thank goodness is all I can say to that! I'm sure there will be other food brought in at other times, but at least we won't have cake 7 times a month like we seem to now!
Anyway, I was really proud of myself this morning. I TOTALLY resisted all food! I was enjoying my pumpkin spice coffee (brewed at work, not Starbucks, unfortunately!) with my English Toffee Almond creamer and didn't partake in the food at that time. Later, I did have a SMALL piece of cake after lunch, but that's been it! Yay! Also, if you let the food sit out in the break room long enough, it either gets completely eaten or it gets kind of dried out and becomes less appealing, so if you can just hold out for a while, usually you don't have as big of a craving!
Yay for me! I'm celebrating this as a victory and, even if you're reading this thinking, "But you shouldn't have had the cake!", I hope you can see my victory, too! :)
If you know my office, you know that we freaking ALWAYS have food. It's kind of ridiculous actually. The birthday celebrations got so bad (and frequent) over the last couple of years that, starting with 2009, we're enacting the "Happy Birthday Month" Day -- one day of food for birthdays per month. Thank goodness is all I can say to that! I'm sure there will be other food brought in at other times, but at least we won't have cake 7 times a month like we seem to now!
Anyway, I was really proud of myself this morning. I TOTALLY resisted all food! I was enjoying my pumpkin spice coffee (brewed at work, not Starbucks, unfortunately!) with my English Toffee Almond creamer and didn't partake in the food at that time. Later, I did have a SMALL piece of cake after lunch, but that's been it! Yay! Also, if you let the food sit out in the break room long enough, it either gets completely eaten or it gets kind of dried out and becomes less appealing, so if you can just hold out for a while, usually you don't have as big of a craving!
Yay for me! I'm celebrating this as a victory and, even if you're reading this thinking, "But you shouldn't have had the cake!", I hope you can see my victory, too! :)
I'm such a lazy blogger...
I know. I'm totally falling off the wagon of blogging. Sometimes, I just don't have any funny stories! Or, more accurately, I tell the few people who read this blog the story in person or via phone and then who wants to just read the same ol' blog after you've heard the story? I've gotta work on conserving my funny antics!
Tonight, we are trying Take 2 of the Christmas photo shoot. We decided to go with pictures of just Austin, mostly because I couldn't come up with coordinated outfits for the three of us fast enough! Monday we attempted these pictures, and Austin was HAVING NONE OF IT!!! He did not want to have the photographers even look at him, let alone take his picture! We finally convinced him to sit on the floor and play with some blocks and the gal snapped a few pictures, but most of them are of him looking dead into the camera with an, "I hate you..." type look on his face. Nothing says Merry Christmas more than that!! We'll see how it goes tonight. If it's not much better, you might be getting a holiday card from The Grinch!
Tonight, we are trying Take 2 of the Christmas photo shoot. We decided to go with pictures of just Austin, mostly because I couldn't come up with coordinated outfits for the three of us fast enough! Monday we attempted these pictures, and Austin was HAVING NONE OF IT!!! He did not want to have the photographers even look at him, let alone take his picture! We finally convinced him to sit on the floor and play with some blocks and the gal snapped a few pictures, but most of them are of him looking dead into the camera with an, "I hate you..." type look on his face. Nothing says Merry Christmas more than that!! We'll see how it goes tonight. If it's not much better, you might be getting a holiday card from The Grinch!
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Family pictures
Forgive the darkness of these uploaded pictures. I had to scan them into my computer last year because I didn't buy enough poses to get the free CD of pictures!
I've booked us not one, but TWO appointments with Sears to get some pictures taken in a couple of weeks -- one for all three of us and one for just Austin. I figured I'd cancel the session we don't need, depending on whether or not we decide to all be in the pictures. Last year, we had the CUTEST family picture done at Portrait Innovations, along with a really sweet one of Austin by himself. By the way, I love how he smiled in this picture -- a wide open mouth without teeth smile is the cutest, except maybe if you're over the age of like 2...then we're just looking at someone with a probable history of poor dental hygiene.
So here's my dilemma this year...do I go for another whole family picture or just Austin?
Pros for whole family:
- It would be nice to have an updated family pic that we could put in a frame. We really never had pictures of the three of us, because someone (usually me!) is taking the pictures.
- I'd like to send it out with Christmas cards to family and friends, especially those we haven't seen in a while.
- If we don't do one with everyone, I think I might feel sad that we didn't later!
- Getting all of us there, dressed, and looking GOOD in the picture can be a challenge!
- What the heck do I make us wear? You know we have to wear something that coordinates AND I'm thinking something holiday-ish would be nice, since this will be our "holiday" picture.
- If I come up with outfits, can I find something that we either already own or to buy that will work? It's not so easy to find a specific type of shirt that looks good and fits right, especially for me sometimes!
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Brrrr!
Okay, it's cold.
We were getting pretty spoiled last week (was it just last week?) with the GORGEOUS 75 degree weather in NOVEMBER, for Pete's sake, so now that it's like 35 degrees out, it seems horribly cold. I don't completely mind the cold weather. I don't love it, but I'd rather be cold than hot. When you're hot, you are just HOT. It's hard to cool down sometimes, and I always feel like feeling hot and sweaty makes me so much less attractive than normal! If you're cold, you can put on more layers or get a blanket or something. More importantly, there's no excessive sweating involved.
Me + sweating = not a good situation.
On another note, Cecilia and I became certified Zumba instructors this weekend by attending a 1-day Zumba workshop! This workshop consisted of an hour-long master Zumba class which kicked our asses and then a full day of learning the basic moves and working on them. Frankly, at about 2 p.m., I was ready to just learn the rest of the info via a DVD or website or something. My legs and feet were totally yelling at me in agony, and we had to spend quite a bit of time sitting on a hard, wooden gym floor. Not the most comfortable! Overall, it was fun and interesting, and I'm glad we did it so that we can now teach Zumba classes! I've already started choreographing routines in my head when I hear fun songs! Watch out, future Zumba students!
We were getting pretty spoiled last week (was it just last week?) with the GORGEOUS 75 degree weather in NOVEMBER, for Pete's sake, so now that it's like 35 degrees out, it seems horribly cold. I don't completely mind the cold weather. I don't love it, but I'd rather be cold than hot. When you're hot, you are just HOT. It's hard to cool down sometimes, and I always feel like feeling hot and sweaty makes me so much less attractive than normal! If you're cold, you can put on more layers or get a blanket or something. More importantly, there's no excessive sweating involved.
Me + sweating = not a good situation.
On another note, Cecilia and I became certified Zumba instructors this weekend by attending a 1-day Zumba workshop! This workshop consisted of an hour-long master Zumba class which kicked our asses and then a full day of learning the basic moves and working on them. Frankly, at about 2 p.m., I was ready to just learn the rest of the info via a DVD or website or something. My legs and feet were totally yelling at me in agony, and we had to spend quite a bit of time sitting on a hard, wooden gym floor. Not the most comfortable! Overall, it was fun and interesting, and I'm glad we did it so that we can now teach Zumba classes! I've already started choreographing routines in my head when I hear fun songs! Watch out, future Zumba students!
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Stealing from Erin...
Erin stole this from some blog, and now I'm stealing from her!
My Guy
1. He’s sitting in front of the TV. What’s on the screen?
I would guess Bears football, Crossing Jordan, COPS, Mythbusters, or some sort of video game!
2. You’re out to eat; what kind of dressing does he get on his salad?
Ranch, although he usually doesn't get salad!
3. What’s one food he doesn’t like?
He is not a fan of pancakes and waffles.
4. You go out to the bar. What does he order?
Bud Select/Budweiser, Jack and Coke, Jagermeister and Red Bull
5. Where did he go to high school?
Graduated from Bloomington High School
6. What size shoe does he wear?
12-13
7. If he were to collect anything, what would it be?
Firefighter stuff, apparently tools now (?), Bears stuff, hunting stuff
8. What is his favorite type of sandwich?
He likes things like the meatball sub from Subway -- big, fatty, hot sandwiches. His ULTIMATE favorite sandwich? The McRib from McDonald's!
9. What would he eat every day if he could?
A McRib sandwich and mashed potatoes.
10. What is his favorite cereal?
He doesn't love cereal, but his favorite would be some sort of Cocoa Puffs.
11. What would he never wear?
A Cowboys jersey -- I'll second that one, Erin! Or a Packers jersey. Or nail polish, even on his toes for a joke!
12. What is his favorite sports team?
We just talked about this the other day. It's the Bears, the Cardinals, and the Celtics.
13. Who will he vote for?
McCain
14. Who is his best friend?
I would hope me, but if we're going with guy friends, I'll say Charlie and Brian Buhs.
15. What is something you do that he wishes you wouldn’t do?
Get on his back about MONEY!!!
16. How many states has he lived in?
One.
17. What is his heritage?
Not sure. I know that he gets so tan that once someone asked him if he was Mexican...
18. You bake him a cake for his birthday; what kind of cake?
He doesn't really enjoy cake (he's crazy!). He says the kind he would eat is chocolate, but he enjoys pies more. I think cherry pie.
19. Did he play sports in high school?
He played baseball in junior high (and maybe high school?) and some football in high school.
20. What could he spend hours doing?
Playing video games, that's for sure! Sleeping, too, and playing with The Boy!
My Guy
1. He’s sitting in front of the TV. What’s on the screen?
I would guess Bears football, Crossing Jordan, COPS, Mythbusters, or some sort of video game!
2. You’re out to eat; what kind of dressing does he get on his salad?
Ranch, although he usually doesn't get salad!
3. What’s one food he doesn’t like?
He is not a fan of pancakes and waffles.
4. You go out to the bar. What does he order?
Bud Select/Budweiser, Jack and Coke, Jagermeister and Red Bull
5. Where did he go to high school?
Graduated from Bloomington High School
6. What size shoe does he wear?
12-13
7. If he were to collect anything, what would it be?
Firefighter stuff, apparently tools now (?), Bears stuff, hunting stuff
8. What is his favorite type of sandwich?
He likes things like the meatball sub from Subway -- big, fatty, hot sandwiches. His ULTIMATE favorite sandwich? The McRib from McDonald's!
9. What would he eat every day if he could?
A McRib sandwich and mashed potatoes.
10. What is his favorite cereal?
He doesn't love cereal, but his favorite would be some sort of Cocoa Puffs.
11. What would he never wear?
A Cowboys jersey -- I'll second that one, Erin! Or a Packers jersey. Or nail polish, even on his toes for a joke!
12. What is his favorite sports team?
We just talked about this the other day. It's the Bears, the Cardinals, and the Celtics.
13. Who will he vote for?
McCain
14. Who is his best friend?
I would hope me, but if we're going with guy friends, I'll say Charlie and Brian Buhs.
15. What is something you do that he wishes you wouldn’t do?
Get on his back about MONEY!!!
16. How many states has he lived in?
One.
17. What is his heritage?
Not sure. I know that he gets so tan that once someone asked him if he was Mexican...
18. You bake him a cake for his birthday; what kind of cake?
He doesn't really enjoy cake (he's crazy!). He says the kind he would eat is chocolate, but he enjoys pies more. I think cherry pie.
19. Did he play sports in high school?
He played baseball in junior high (and maybe high school?) and some football in high school.
20. What could he spend hours doing?
Playing video games, that's for sure! Sleeping, too, and playing with The Boy!
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