What's on your holiday wish list?
New lense for the rebel. I hate using my flash and I hate getting thousands of blurry picture.
I'm getting one, but not until Mid-January because every other bit of our money is going to xmas for the kids and this stupid house (kitchen ceiling!)....fucking money.
Have you ever Googled your own name? How did you feel about the results?
Submitted by elen.
Yes I have. #1 is my Blogging Baby work. Enh.
I love that the #3 site is my faux blog I "set up" for my in laws titled 'Melissa Summers Is So Mean"
The last result on the melissa summers google page is for Melissa Summers voice over artist.
"natural, warm, pursuasive, energetic, urban"
Totally me! (Except I might have spelled persuasive correctly if I was trying to drum up business.)
PS: This sounds nothing like me. At all.
What are your plans for the weekend?
I bet you can't guess? No seriously try to guess....
BATHROOM!
The bathroom which will never stop! We're painting, which isn't taking long and then I have about 135 feet of trim to prime and paint and while I'm at it I'm painting the hallway and well, Maddie's trim, doors and ceiling look really dingy with her new paint color.
I like painting but it's messy. Especially if you bash your head into the door with we paint on it while folding up a step stool.
Also, my neck is killing me. I don't know how people live with serious chronic pain because this neck thing has been killing me for a week now and I've been reduced to tears at least twice a day for the last 6 days.
I had a beer with dinner and it seems to have numbed the pain...so I guess I have to go paint again.
PS: I forgot about the beadboard I have to prime and paint. WOOOOO!
Want to see the house we're going to tomorrow? "A Real Show Stopper." God I love realtor speak. In my world, a 'Show Stopper' is when you're all sitting around joking and one person pushes the envelope just one step too far resulting in awkward silence....until someone yells out "Show Stopper!" and everyong can then laugh and move on.
We're going to offer them a ridiculously low bid since it's been up for a long time and the people are corporate relocatees. We'll never get it at the price we are able to pay but tomorrow when we go through it...I'm bringing all my stuff and just pretending like we bought it. It's in my friend Andrea's neighborhood and it's where the better school is and I just dont want to live here anymore.
And we're not going to live in here...but first I have to go paint some more.
What do you do to get rid of a cold or flu?
Submitted by ashenflowers.
Go to bed as early as possibly (often 5pm) and take nyquil.
What do you like to make or order for brunch?
I am a huge fan of poached eggs. So eggs benedict but I love it made with smoked salmon instead of canadian bacon and I don't really need the hollandaise sauce.
Let's make a list. What are 20 things in your life that you're grateful for?
Inspired by wyndslash.vox.com.
1) Logan
2) Madison
3) Max
4) Logan's side of the bed when he gets up early and I still have an hour to sleep diagonally.
5) Enough Money
6) Andrea
7) Leslie
8) Brian
9) My bathroom being back together enough that I can shower at home, away from the naked old ladies at the y. Ouch.
10) My kitchen is now acting as only a kitchen, no more blowdrying my hair and brushing my teeth there.
11) My new necklace.
12) I sort of outlined these people previously, but People who love me in spite of myself.
13) Private pilates class: I hate you, but I'm still grateful you're there.
14) My job.
15) I am thankful for my siblings who take the brunt of dealing with my mother. Because I am not kind and hate my mother quite frankly.
16) I'm thankful my kids are not obnoxious brats in school. (I can't tell you how many obnoxious brats I've encountered in the last 3+ years.
17) I'm thankful for the great teacher Madison has this year.
18) Gary's fat belly.
19) The fact that Gary lets me grab his fat belly and shake it around.
20) Still grateful for my toilet. I'll never take you for granted again!
What movie can you quote by heart?
Submitted by clamhead.
The Outsiders.
My sister didn't believe me until I did the first half of the movie one night in our room as we went to sleep.
What's up?
Bathroom. That is all.
My new plan to keep Logan motivated to spend his non-agency non-freelance hours working on the bathroom is to keep encouraging him to invite friends over.
Tomorrow night we're having friends over for dinner and guess what? That bathroom door I've been pressing Logan to reinstall is now installed.
I made another invite for two weekends from now. Let's hope there's a sink, all the drywall and beadboard installed by then. Home remodeling is sucking the life out of me.
<a href=http://melissasummers.vox.com/library/post/qotd-back-where-im-from.html>It is real.</a> At least in this tiny place I live.
<a href=http://detroit.craigslist.org/hsh/208247148.html>"Doorwall" spotted on Craigslist</a>.
It's a wall....but also a door. Your whole wall opens up and becomes a door!
If you could only save one thing in a house fire (thing, not person), what would it be and why?
Submitted by donnunn.
The iBook and the platter Logan had made for me when we were married. It means a lot to me because it's the nicest thing anyone ever gave me which I accepted as a true token of their love for me.
