tiggerprr’s scratching post

I read this on Kay’s site, it was interesting and she tagged me…so I’m gonna do it too!

I am tagging anyone who has started a sentence with “When I was young …”

1. What bill do you hate paying the most?
The mortgage, and we just wrote our first check….29 years and 11 months to go!

2. What’s the best place to eat a romantic dinner?
Anywhere your love is!

3. Last time you puked from drinking?
About 20 years ago, 10 tequila shots in a row. I’m amazed I lived to tell the tale. Thank goodness for good friends who took tender care of me and tucked me in like good gentlemen. Thanks Lenny and Pete!

4. When is the last time you got drunk and danced on a bar?
I haven’t actually danced ON a bar…but it was pretty close to that at Ra Nightclub on my 30th birthday in Vegas. Lots of fun. In fact, that’s prolly the last time I got really drunk.

5. Name of your 1st grade teacher?
Miss Henry at Misawa Elemetary School on Misawa AFB in Japan.

6. What do you really want to be doing right now?
Rolling around naked in the big lottery cash that I just brought home! But since I didn’t win the lottery, I’ll just sit here and answer these questions.

7. What did you want to be when you were growing up?
The President of the United States. People of the Earth would get along and be kind to eachother…or else!

8.How many colleges did you attend before you settled on the one?
Just one.

9. Why did you wear the shirt that you have on right now?
It’s comfy.

10. Gas Prices! First thought?
Ouch.

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Join me for Friday’s Feast!

Appetizer What is your favorite herb/spice?

That would be garlic. Love it…especially on steak.

Soup Name a song you like but haven’t heard in a long time.

“Only Lonely” by Hootie and the Blowfish. Love that song, love the group. Even better live than on CD.

Salad If you were to take just one minute to write down as many things as you can think of that you need (not want) to do, approximately how many things would there be?

Around 5 or so. It’s not very exciting, all revolving around the move and job hunting. Bleh.

Main Course Tell something interesting about one of your family members (nothing scandalous, please, just something unique).

Well, way back in the day, Davy Crockett, killed him a “bar” when he was only 3. Seriously! His mother was a distant cousin! Though, I love raccoons…but to watch. I’d never make a hat out of one!

Dessert What’s the latest you’ve ever stayed awake?

Does not going to sleep at all count?

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So…I’m going to fire Lucky the Gargoyle if he doesn’t get his act together. The cable guys came and hooked up my PC to the internet yesterday. Yay! Right? Oh heck no, the powers that be can’t allow me to be happy, no siree.

Today…my hard drive died, I think. ::mourns her hard drive:: ::kicks her computer:: ::drives to the library:: Life just isn’t fair.

Someday, I’ll have a fully functioning blog where I do more than gripe. I swear. Someday.

EDIT: Yay…my hard drive isn’t broken. Hubby came home and “reseated the connections” or whatever that means and I’m back! He did make me backup all my important stuff though…just in case. So yay!

I observed something the other day at the library and it struck me as both odd and sad at the same time. I really debated whether or not to blog about this, considering the sensitivity of the subject matter (you’ll understand when I finally get around to spilling it)…ultimately my need to blab has won.

So, I am in the library and this girl (I use the term “girl” because she’s got to be in her early 20s at most and that’s more than 10 years younger than me…so she’s a girl) sits down at the computer next to me. Picture if you will…a freckled person with red hair…but…she has dreadlocks halfway down her back. Not that dreadlocks are a bad thing…I mean, they look great if you’re like, Bob Marley, and have a Jamaican accent…they so weren’t her. But I digress…she asks me a question about getting to a website that illustrates her lack of internet savvy, but that’s cool, I don’t mind helpin’ out. My time runs out at the computer (30 mins a shot, ugh.) so I get up to leave and notice she has a stack of pregnancy books and deduce that she’s just found out the happy news. So I go sign up for another computer slot, and get assigned a couple rows away from her. Now, I don’t know how things are at YOUR local library, but I would think it’s just common courtesy to put your cell phones on silent mode while at the library…not so in our lovely town. So her cell rings…I look up because it breached the wonderful silence that is typical in libraries. She excitedly tells the caller her wonderful news. “I just found out, I’m sooooo excited! I just had to tell you!” So I smile in my head and start to look back down at my computer, when I see her face just cloud over and she says, “What do you mean what are we going to do!?! I dont’ understand? What do you mean?” I quickly looked back down and TRIED with all my heart not to eavesdrop any further but her voice, in utter disbelief, was the only sound that pierced the now deafening silence that was the library. I felt really bad for this poor girl, because clearly the caller was not as excited as she was whether it was the father, or maybe her mother. At the same time…I had to wonder…

If you’re just finding out you’re pregnant, why are you sharing it with someone via cell phone in the middle of a public library rather than getting up and moving to a more private place?

Anyway…I’ll take a moment here to feel sorry for the clueless redheaded girl in the library and be done with it.

Not sure why I felt the need to share that with the masses…but…there you have it. Oh and please for goodness sakes put your cell phones on silent mode while in the library…otherwise I, or someone like me, might have to eavesdrop and possibly blog about you. ::shudder::

Join me for Friday’s Feast!

Appetizer Measured in minutes or hours, how much exercise have you had in the last week?

Well…I spent a couple hours at a driving range and I walk around a lot everyday at the Walmart shopping. Does that count?

Soup If you had to change your blog title to something else, what would it be?

tiggerprr’s bouncy place. I think.

Salad Name one television show you watched when you were 9-12 years old.

What a sneaky way to get people’s ages. I loved TV as a kid, but the most “life changing” one would be “The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries”. I LOVVVVVVVVVVVED Shaun Cassidy. I had exactly 258 pictures of him on my walls. He is even the reason I believe in the power of wishing on stars. I woke in the middle of the night and looked out my window (which NEVER happened much at all), saw a falling star and wished I could see him in person. I saw an ad in the newspaper the very next day advertising that he was going to be in concert. I got to go…my poor dad…he endured 1000000s of screaming girls to take me to my very first concert.

Main Course If someone gave you $50 to spend with the one condition that it had to be educational, what would you purchase?

Why, books of course!

Dessert Do you prefer dark colors, neutral shades or lighter/pastel hues?

Dark colors. Particularly dark green and burgandy.

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