25 Random Things About Me This Week

1.I feel superior in my 10 yr. old minivan at stoplights to people in ginormous SUVs by conveniently ignoring my own humongessness in size and overall debt.
2. Lily the Labradoodle drives me crazy for a solid 6 hrs out of every 24 with her inner directive to dig personal swimming holes and moon worthy craters.
3.Neutral colors of dirt and dog are my favorite things about my house
4. When my husband gets home from long trips, it can take me a few days to feel like we know each other again. Pretty sure this is a "girl" thing.
5. I'm okay when it is cold outside because I don't have to leave house and can say it's because of my asthma
6. I find the road between Georgetown and Charleston to be the most frustrating road in America because it's straight and ugly, and I know beauty is nearby, but not visible.
7. I researched on itunes to find a song I could say I liked when I was commenting on a blog that asked my new favorite song on the radio. Can't remember the name of the song now, but trust me, it rocked.
8. I believe that I predicted current financial crisis back in 1980 when I told my mother, I didn't want to work at a bank or anywhere that just "made money on paper."
9. I haven't made money on paper and I am a writer. Go ahead. Grizzle
10.Too much perkiness makes my writing bad. Do I sound perky now?
11. I often wish daughters weren't so independent, so I could still dress them like dolls.
12. I told someone I was germaphobic so she wouldn't suspect I'm a total slob, who believes her only path to Oprah is as the featured horder who has to have her house torn down.
13. I decided this week to no longer self efface and apologize as protection from judgment. Not sure if it's working for me.
14. I think people who condemn Michael Phelps are hypocrites even if they've never tried marijuana.
15. I spent way too much time wondering if I was being judgy of the judgmental in #14.
16. I am envious of husband's energy and travel life.
17. Time flies when I'm having fun. This concerns me. Where is it going?
18. My current idea of luxury is toilets that flush.
19. I find the main post office to be too much like the old Newark Airport to feel completely safe
20. Somebody twittered that it is no coincidence that the stock market went up on the same day it was announced that Kelly Clarkson isn't gay. I believe them.
21. I kind of resent the movement against global warming for obscuring the less fashionable conservation movement.
22. I got on the scales for the first time in over a year.
23: Idea for story: The Beached Whale Cometh
24. I think the first step to improving the economy is for Americans to start baking from scratch. Like little elves in trees.
25: I believe the solution to our "shattered economy" (that's what a commentator on CNN kept calling it last night - truly, alarmist verbs are irresistible) is the Chiaobama