Let's smirk at my quirks!

O.K., my cute cousin-in-law Katie tagged me. I am supposed to list 6 "quirks" about myself. I know I have thousands, so it is hard to narrow them down. Here goes:

1) I hate silence in a conversation. I will talk about anything to avoid silence. I HATE the awkward silence of just sitting there looking around. Besides, I love to talk, so this isn't that hard for me.

2) Messy microwaves! I can't handle them. I think the old food particles will fall into the new food I am trying to cook up. I freak out when I hear the exploding sound of food while it's cooking, it makes me so mad.

3) I sneeze when I pluck my eyebrows. I don't know why, but it is annoying. I think I'm allergic to grooming.

4) I love to belch really loud. Is that a "quirk"? Probably just bad manners! I can out belch a lot of people.

5) I am obsessed with a neat bed. James hates it when his sheet is tucked in and I can't stand a messy unorganized bed where the sheets wrap around and strangle me. I think it is an actual hazard to have loose sheets wrapped around me at night.

6) My favorite-my weird dreams. I have been blessed to have very vivid dreams and remember them in the morning. I love telling anyone who will listen about my dreams. I would love to go to a dream analyzer, they would have me put into the loony bin for sure!

BONUS QUIRK:

7) I had to add one more because I saw it on my sister's blog and I totally have this HUGE quirk too! LISTS- I have notebooks FULL of lists about everything imaginable! If I died, it would take a year to go through all of them. And...you would laugh hysterically and make fun of me the whole time you read them. They are really weird-like me!
I tag: Jessie, Dayna,Pam, Amanda, and Kjerstin

FINALLY!!!!!

Today is the first day of the rest of my happy basement life! I am so happy because today our contractor started our basement!

We hired a new guy we know and like a lot, and he is doing an excellent job! If any of you need a handyman, call me and I will give you his number He already has closets and walls and our tub drain dug up!

On a whiny note...I feel like my head may explode soon! I have some dang sinus infection, and it is making me very mad!

1+1 = ?????

So...lately a few things have come to my attention. The first thing is that I am not very smart-well, at least at math! My first clue was having a hard time helping my kids with their math homework (how embarrassing)! I want to go back to nursing school, but as I was going over some entrance exam practice tests and got to the math, I felt like I was reading ancient Egyptian writing or something! I have definitely gotten dumber with age. I missed most of the practice questions, so it looks like I need to have Christian or Taylor tutor me a little.

The second thing I realized is that I am really a very weird and air headed person! This may not come as a surprise to most of you, but I have been in denial and now I see the light! While thinking of my kids and all of the weird ideas they have that are so funny, I remembered the weird things I thought when I was younger. I came up with a few and I will let you all be the judge:

1) When I was 7 I believed that I was a cat in a past life. I believed I could speak cat language and that my cat could understand me!

2) I believed that if I poked my belly button my legs would fall off, and that if I ate bread crust I would grow hair on my chest! (these are things my grandpa told me as a joke, and I bought into it)

3) I thought the smurfs lived in the forest behind our family cabin in Island Park and spent many hours trying to find them.

4) When I was younger I wanted to be either the President of the United States or a mortician. I am so jealous of Sarah Palin because I wanted to be a mom and President, but I know I couldn't handle that kind of stress! So now I would settle for being a nurse or a ghost hunter. Those are my dream jobs. Mortician is still on the list though, I think it is because I went to so many funerals as a child, I just figured I should get a job there! Who knows?!?

5) One of my secret desires is to be able to see dead people-only nice ones though. I would love to be able to send messages to people from the other side. I know it's weird, but it would be sooo cool!

6) The airhead stuff I don't have to explain. I make a fool of myself enough to have an experience with everyone I meet, so just remember the last time you talked to me and you will have your own example of my blondeness!

So...it is official! I am a weird blonde. What's new? I just had to confess these things that I have had bottled up for so long!

Here is a cute video of one of my brilliant children (thank goodness they got James' smart genes).

I guess agriculture ain't the only culture 'round these parts after all!!!!

This last weekend we got culturized! I done went to a symphony with James. We sat on the grass, we ate steak, salmon and cheesecake from Outback Steakhouse (them was good vittles). We also got a treat of listenin' to the best darn fiddle player in the whole US of A! Now this is somethin' I could get used to! It was free to boot! Can I just tell y'all that free dates are the best dates! I forgot my camera again! Dang it all!

Oh my gosh! I almost forgot to mention our visit to the Eastern Idaho State Fair in Blackfoot Idaho! This a cultural experience that would turn even the strongest stomachs! Man...why do all of the freaks come out to the fair (what if I am a freak and I am in freak denial-this is a lot to think about)? We saw more back and neck hair on some people than we saw in the animal barns. However, the animals appeared to have better dental plans. I taught the kids my secret weapon of pretending that the "Carnies" are invisible so they don't get duped into the money wastin' games! I was so proud, they didn't even make eye contact once! I am an expert by the way, I grew up going to the fair dodging many freaks! Overall, I learned that I am a germophobe, and I have a touch of social anxiety! I do love the scary rides though, and I had nobody brave enough to go on them with me! Wimps! Maybe next year!

May your week be filled with culturization!

WHY ME??

So...Some of you have heard this story, but I had to blog about it! On Sunday at church Averi was being very naughty , she was in an obnoxious mood. ( ie: In Sacrament meeting she decided that it would be really funny to "toot" as loud as possible several times and laugh about it-very loudly. I got some dirty looks too! She was also yelling out who she loved-Pam she said your name in there!)

Primary rolled around she had no teachers so I decided to spare the sub. and just sit with her! She did pretty good singing and sitting on my lap until the very end. Then came sharing time and scripture and prayer. Well, she was listening to all of the talking and getting every idea jumbled up in her head because she has no context to understand what they were saying. She was sitting on my lap facing me and first of all she kept "tooting" (a little problem she has) and I thought everyone around me was thinking I was over there "tooting". I kept getting out my hand sanitizer rubbing it on my hands and waving it around to dry to try to cover up the smell-I hoped it worked!

She then decided while I wasn't paying attention to use my breasts as punching bags. I told her to stop and she thought that was a funny game. She decided that it would be even funnier to lift my shirt up over my face, and she grabbed the bottom and just flipped it up out of nowhere! I had no time to defend my honor! There were only a few men in the room, so hopefully they didn't go home and vomit! I was wearing my girdle too, so all of my fat was pouring out of the top of it and everything! Then, she decided to copy what everyone was saying and she shouted "The Lord" and then she said "The Lord is pretend" and then "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is pretend". No, I do not teach her these things, she just got all of the the words jumbled up and said whatever she figured they were talking about.

I did the most logical thing and got up and ran out as fast as I could! So, now when I say I sluff church, you can understand why-to save my dignity! I am going to get kicked out sooner or later! What a little stinker-literally!

In this video she thinks she is talking to "Alvin and the Chipmunks". She has some really funny imaginary conversations, that's for sure. We love it!