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Me Me Me MEME from Shelley

TECH-OLOGY:
Number of contacts in your cell phone?
I’d guess about 60.
Number of contacts in your email address book? I have no idea, but there’s lots.

What is the wallpaper on your computer? A picture of Steve (my hubby) and Lance Armstrong on bicycles racing away from the race.

What is your screensaver on your computer? I hate screen savers so I don’t have one because whenever I do have one and I’m trying to read something on the screen it’ll pop up, which BUGS me.

Are there naked pictures saved on your computer? No, not even of a naked squirrel.

How many landline phones do you have in your home? Four

How many televisions are in your home? Four plus the one in the camper.

What kitchen appliance do you use the least? A food steamer thing that I have somewhere on my shelves.

What is the format of the radio station you listen to most? Rock – The Bear, then country.

BI-OLOGY:
What do you consider to be your best physical attribute?
Hair

Are you right handed or left handed? Right-handed

Have you had anything removed from your body? Four babies and my tonsils.

Would you like to? No.

Which of your five senses do you think is keenest? Do I remember what my five senses are? Touch, Hearing, Sight, Taste and what? Smell. Um…let’s go with touch.

When was the last time you had a cavity? I have one now that needs fixed.

What is the heaviest item you lift regularly? My children. The two youngest hover around 55 pounds, give or take a few.

MISC-OLOGY:

If it were possible, would you like to know the day you’re going to die? No. NO! Really, NO!

If you could change your first name, what would you change it to? A long time ago I’d have an answer to that readily made. Now I’d have to think about it. Maybe Lydia, but that’s still an old-fashioned L name. Not Missy, that’s for sure. I don’t know…

How do you express your artistic side? Home improvement. Writing.

What color do you think you look best in? Green, I think. But why not ask someone who looks at me?

How long do you think you could last in a medium security prison? It would totally depend on what side of the bars I was on. Let’s say I was on the outside looking in… then I’d do fine as long as I remember to stay out of reach.

Have you ever swallowed a non-food item by mistake? Not that I recall, but I once read we’ve probably ate a bunch of bugs as they crawled on us while we were sleeping. Charming thought, no?

If we weren’t bound by society’s conventions, do you have a relative you would make a pass at? NO! I have several I would love to claim they weren’t related, but I still wouldn’t make passes at them.

How often do you go to church? Whenever my children perform, which is fairly frequently.

Have you ever saved someone’s life? No.

Has someone ever saved yours? Yes

DARE-OLOGY:

No.

Would you kiss a member of the same sex for $100? My mother or daughter, yes. Others? No.

Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000? No. If I did how would I ever type a p?or hit the shift button? Or enter?

Would you never blog again for $50,000? No.

Would you pose naked in a magazine for $250,000? No.

No. I don’t use it now for free.

Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for $1,000,000? No

Would you shave your head and get your entire body waxed for $5,000? No.

Would you give up watching television for a year for $25,000? Can I Tivo the good stuff?

Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000?

For this last section, if you would do it for less or more money, indicate how much.

Would you walk naked for a half mile down a public street for $100,000?

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Truly Tasteless Jokes

On Wednesday, I returned to my camper to find a book on my side of the bed. This is not uncommon. In fact there were actually three books there, but I had left two of them. The third one, I’m not sure where it came from. It was titled, "Truly Tasteless Jokes" by Blanche Knott.

I asked my husband about it and he pled ignorance. I suggested his girlfriend should leave more captivating reading material next time. However, it did provide us with several laughs before finally calling it a night. There were jokes on dead babies, Helen Keller, male anatomy and female anatomy. Just to give you an idea, here’s the book description from Amazon.com, "The original is back. TRULY TASTELESS JOKES took America by storm and made it laugh at itself. It’s all in here, disgusting, repulsive, cruel, and just plain tasteless jokes and stories that will make you smile, laugh, or groan–and love every minute of it. "

And let me ease your mind, you WILL get your money’s worth if you are in search of truly tasteless jokes. Yet, I laughed. And the next day we hauled it out for the in-laws. That’s when we realized where the book probably came from — my 12-year-old daughter.

It seems said daughter went home with the grandparents (I should make it clear here that she went to the grandparents’ home) and during that time she had to reclaim the cover to one of my Harry Potter books (in an aside, when I buy a hardcopy book, I keep the cover on the book. My daughter hates the cover and takes them off, leaving them wherever she happens to be, which bugs me when it happens to be MY book). In the process, she grabbed a book to read (see link above).

Standing around the campfire, my husband read a few choice jokes out of it. Then the father-in-law did. Then the mother-in-law did. We all laughed at how bad they were. I recited a few from memory too. Then the book was gone.

Later I learned the mother-in-law burned it in the campfire. I think she was embarrassed that my daughter got it from her house. As grandpa said, my daughter reads fast so she probably read a good portion of it already.

The theory is that the book was either a gag gift for the in-laws (before there were grandkids) or (this is MIL’s theory) it belongs to my brother-in-law who is known for his tasteless jokes. Either way, they were truly, TRULY, tasteless jokes.

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School Starts Tomorrow

There’s never been a phrase that I’ve said with more glee, anxiousness, sadness and panic than that one. School starts tomorrow. Are we ready? Let’s hope so.

We have new clothes and they are put away neatly. First day of school outfits have been carefully selected. Backpacks are filling up with school supplies. Yesterday Amanda and Justin spent quality time sharpening 20 or so pencils.

Plus we have the camper unpacked. The hot water working again (minor home improvement glitch there). A sizable dent in the laundry that needs laundered.

So what’s left to do? Orientation where the kids find their locker, meet their teachers and generally check out their new schools. This is something Steve gets to do by himself because I have to be in Mt. Pleasant for school. (Sniffle.)

Back to the hot water… Steve was fixing a copper water line and it wasn’t working. There was water, which means it won’t sweat (solder). After lots of effort and a few choice words he came back upstairs and said "Don’t you have a book on plumbing?" I do. I did. I immediately opened it up and there in a blue-highlighted tip box was the tip that you stuff your pipe with bread to soak up random water because any water keeps the whatever from doing whatever. So. We took bread to the crawl space and Steve stuffed up the pipe. And behold, it worked.

Then we went camping. For nearly two weeks. We realized on one of our trips home that the hot water in the bathroom sink wasn’t working — and it was just the bathroom sinks. On another one of those trips, the kids took showers and the water smelled like rotten, well I would have said eggs, but it turns out it was rotting bread. Apparently we stuffed a bit too much.

So yesterday when we returned home, we had a bit of cleaning up to do that involved clearing out the pipe. At one point little bits of moist bread went out all over the wash machine area, covering the walls and Steve. But he fixed it. My hero. :-) He is much better at this home improvement stuff than I am because he has the patience to keep doing it until it’s done. Whereas I tend to get to the end of the time I alloted for this project and decide, ah, that’s good enough. So his projects tend to turn out nicer than mine. I’m the idea person.

Oh, and Justin is fairly healthy again, and almost cute enough to kiss. Not quite though. See, on Aug. 24, Justin got a fever. Then on Sunday, Aug. 26, it spiked up to 103.9 despite taking over-the-counter fever medicine. I took him to the clinic where they diagnosed a virus and told me it would take about a week to run through his system. But along with the fever came fever blisters.

By Tuesday, his mouth was sore. He could barely open it. He had a bunch of sores around the corners, on his chin, under his nose and on his lips. It looked bad and probably felt a lot worse. It got worse. I finally got him in to see a doctor on Friday. He was given antibiotics (fever finally started coming down too). By Saturday morning, after just two treatments, his mouth already started to look better. Last night it was nearly gone.

And that’s my update. School starts tomorrow.

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