I’ve been hit! 2 for the price of one.

I was tagged by Chasing the Highs for 8 embarrassing things and I’ve been randomly tagged by Cole Twins - Wisconsin to list 7 random things.

I could not come up with 8 embarrassing things for the life of me, seriously! I could only come up with 3. One of 'em isn't even that bad.

The other ones are more recent and have already made my blog.

So without further ado… (I’ve always wanted to say that!)

7 random things.

1) Because I wore nothing but jeans for the first 25-ish years of my life, I no longer like to wear ‘em and only own ONE pair of jeans.

2) I don’t like roses.

3) The color green and I do not like each other. Green to the extreme, I will never drink out of a green cup/glass. Please don't make me!

4) I owned a total of 3 dolls growing up. One when I was too young to know better. The second when my mom tried forcing Barbie on me so she bought me Gold Barbie. And the last one was when I was 7-8 and they bought me one of those dolls that are almost as tall as the little girls themselves. This thing scared the crap outta my brother’s and I! Especially since my mom had the great idea to hang her from a nail on my wall so that when you walked into my room it looked like she was floating and her arms were always out-stretched as if she was trying to grab you…::shiver::

5) I am not a fan of apples. Apple pie makes me gaggy... but I like caramel apples go figure!

6) I never planned on getting married. My goal was to live in sin with my man until my ticket on the Bee train expired but Andy would have none of it! His ultimatum was either we get married or we live with our parents for the rest of our lives… When he put it that way! ;op

7) I just walked into my back porch (unheated) to let the dogs out and found a dirty mashed potato pot I had put outside on Thanksgiving to get it out of my way... OOPS! I guess thaat could go in the embarrassing column but I'm not. Don't worry I'm gonna wash it! ... ... ... Tomorrow.

Embarrassing Things

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When I was 17, I was walking with my mom one day after school. I still had my uniform on and since I'm such a rule follower... instead of wearing the required pleated skirt, I had a specially made straight A-line mini skirt with a slit in the back. I would wear it under my pleated skirt and take off the top one once I passed "inspection". Anywho, I stepped on something and my right foot slid forward so I ended up doing a half split which split the slit of my skirt. (Ha! Bet you never the thought you'd see the word "split" & "slit" so many times!) Yup! Exposed in the middle of downtown Small Town USA! But for some reason this didn't embarrass me, I just took off my sweater put it around myself and continued walking. My mom almost had a stroke from laughing though.

2)
When I was 11-ish. I was caught shop lifting chocolate bars at our Safeway. Although I was scared shitless, I was a tough little cookie even back then. The stocker guy who caught me was all self satisfied and really angry that he was unable to intimidate me. [message to him--Bastard!]
That wasn’t the embarrassing part.
They called the police and since the town I lived in California was smaller than any Chicago suburb, the cop turned out to be one of my classmate’s dad. He was a pretty cool guy so he followed me to my house. Me in my beach cruiser (bike) and he going 2 miles an hour in his squad car.

That was the embarrassing part! It seems every single one of my friends was playing outside that day! Needless to say, I will no longer even eat so much as a grape without paying for it.

3)
When I was working at the chicken place, there was this "cute guy" that worked in a nearby factory and came in everyday for lunch. I had the biggest crush on him. I mean huge crush for years!
You could tell he had an ego thing going so I never gave him any more attention than I did his co-workers. I joked around with all of them equally.
One day…
I was busy so I couldn't bring his food out, instead I asked a male co-worker if he could "take this out to the cute guy." Guess what he did? He went and asked -in front of all the other factory workers- "who's the cute guy? Bee said to bring this out to the cute guy." All of them, of course, claimed to be the cute guy and I had to put up with their teasing for years! No worries, I went on to date the male co-worker.

Sorry folks, that’s all I got.

With the powers vested in me I tag the following people.

I know what the “rules” are but you can choose to end the tag with you after you post and not tag anybody else or tag peeps whatever.

No tag backs!

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Jean Knee from put some polka dots on your head
Brian from Brian O Vretanos
Chris from Avant Garden
Berta from Qwerty

Aroogoogoola Queen from Arugulas in Love (BWAHAHAHA!)

The Rambler #444

So... winter in Chicago!

Saturday was our first winter storm which was horrible if you were out in it. You gotta love this town otherwise why risk your life every winter? :o)

I had a nice semi-relaxing weekend.

Husband Andy had a Saturday from hell due to plumbing issues so I feel kinda bad that the first part of my post is about his sandwich, let's not tell him... deal?

Andy went grocery shopping Saturday afternoon and came home with a deli sandwich for himself.

This was not an ordinary deli sandwich ladies and gents, this one came in a box with instructions on how to build it!

Why?

Is it that difficult to make a sandwich?

Is this the type of world we want our kids to live in??

A world that reduces their brain function??

See, and you thought there were no serious topics on this blog.

How to build it.

The assembly.

The finished product.

Side note: Just so you know, he followed those instructions as if he was building a rocket ship!

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In the midst of Andy working on the plumbing problems, I watched about 4 movies and went thru all our old sales catalogs.

I did ask him if I could help but he insisted I relax (he pretty much just wanted me out of his way cuz he was uber cranky).

One of the movies I watched was Troy. It was bittersweet for me because I had been recently informed by Andy that Brad has decided not to do anymore nude scenes.

I am now calling for a moment of silence.

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Aaaaaand we're back!

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Going thru all the sales catalogs, I came across the gift I want you guys to get me. (don't fight over who will buy it for me okay?)

It is an Electric Back-Hair Shaver!!! Finally! It's like they read my mind! I was just thinking the other day that I was beginning to resemble a gorilla...

Don't you wonder what people did 100 years ago?? Maybe they used a straight razor ::shiver::!

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Lastly.

I want to thank my sister, mom and husband for forcing me to eat yummy cookies, chocolate cake and buñuelos.

When January rolls around and I feel like a big hippo I guess you guys will help motivate me right? You'll go for winter walks with me and Mocha...?

This is a picture of cookies Nancy made, she said she'd leave a couple then left me about 50 of her delicious-delectable-delightful cookies! The things I do for you guys!

I'm thinking about bringing them into the office so that bats can help eat 'em.

They've got potato chips in them.

What are the chances of me eating nothing but rabbit food from now until Christmas Eve?

My job doesn't seem so bad now...

In my blog stalking, I came across that picture on Just Plain Jane's blog.

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Now, it looks like the picture was taken in a restroom and the camera phone looks like it's being operated by a woman's hand, for some reason this is more disturbing to me than if it would have been a man's hand...

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Any suggestions as to what kind of place would require the nether regions be washed.

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I guess I'm happy about the thorough-ness but ummm I'd rather not imagine what they're doin' with their hoo-hahs!

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Also, I came across tons of blogs that have a sign off message. For example "End of Chat" by HWHCTD and there have been others but I can't remember. Being the copy catter (I've never had to spell copy-catter so I'm not sure that's how you spell it but I'm sure you get what I'm saying) I am, I want a sign off message too!

I'd like suggestions on that too.

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Later chivatos!