Have you ever had an incredible yet scary opportunity presented to you, and you almost make up your mind not to do it, but then, as the scariness wares off you decide to go for it only to find out that it looks like it's probably not going to happen after all?
That's kinda how it feels.
Clay Aiken just came on the radio.
Score.
WHAT I DID OVER THE WEEKEND
1. Read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
The first book I have finished in a really long time.
2. That's all.
51 Things You May or May Not Know About Me
(otherwise entitled ripping off Christin)
1. I am the oldest of 3 children.
2. 1 of whom is engaged.
3. Not that I’m bitter or anything.
4. I took 3 semesters of Koine Greek in college, translating 1st, 2nd, and 3rd John, Galations, and part of Luke, I think.
5. I remember none of it.
6. When I was 7 years old, a car ran off the road and hit our house.
7. I received an invitation from Louisiana Tech to live in the boy's honor dorm.
8. After much consideration, I declined.
9. My family raises great danes.
10. My mom is cooler than your mom because she likes Dave Matthews.
11. I am incapable of giving a good first impression.
12. I stole a car once.
13. And had a wrestling match with my brand-new roommate.
14. Which I won.
15. I have never been on an airplane.
16. I still own (and use) my lite-brite.
17. I once got thrown out of PE class for refusing to play football.
18. I was the head baker for a café/coffee shop for all 3 years of high school.
19. That was my dream job.
20. I signed up for a college English course solely because the teacher looked like Hugh Grant.
21. He turned out to be a fabulous teacher.
22. But he was married.
23. My senior thesis in high school was a 30-page paper on the Beatles.
24. I still listen to my Amy Grant CD’s on occasion.
25. Which I am heartily ashamed of.
26. I got an e-mail from my famous uncle this week.
27. !!!!!!!
28. I spent 6 months working as a live-in nanny for 5 magnificent kids.
29. During these 6 months I was convinced that I never ever wanted to have kids.
30. But I think I’m over that now.
31. I participated in my kindergarden talent show by dressing up as Colby the Computer performing an all-lip synching, all-dancing extravaganza that I choreographed on the spot.
32. I have never quite forgiven my parents for letting me do that.
33. And if that weren’t enough, 2 years later I entered the talent show wearing a t-shirt and tutu and performing my own interpretive dance to the Monkee’s “Daydream Believer”.
34. Note that I had no previous dancing training.
35. I recently highlighted my hair for the first time ever.
36. I am now sporting the little bit of blonde you always knew I had in me.
37. I also now have Mandy Moore hair, but that’s another story.
38. Since the age of 6, I have been convinced that the Monkees were the coolest band ever.
39. Especially Mickey Dolenz.
40. It’s the curly hair that does it for him.
41. I spent a great deal of time during high school holed up in my room, playing the soundtracks to Broadway musicals and singing along in full voice with the female leads.
42. I still do that.
43. I invented a sorority in college, and made rush posters to hang up all over the dorm.
44. I know the words to every School House Rock song ever written.
45. I gave a 15-minute speech in college on the life of Dr. Seuss.
46. It was entirely in rhyme.
47. I spent a summer as a rock-climbing/rappelling instructor at a camp.
48. I still am not sure how to spell rappelling.
49. I am fabulous at writing papers on books that I didn’t read.
50. I vowed at 17 that I would never be a secretary again.
51. Ha.
OBSERVATION
A bandaid without Snoopy on it is hardly worth wearing.
AQUIRED AT THE MONROE SYMPHONY LEAGUE BOOK SALE FOR $24.25
The Once and Future King
Possession by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2 volumes)
Gulliver's Travels (which I later discovered that I had bought twice already)
Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Claire Amblerby Booth Taarkington
The Seven Lady Godivas by Dr. Seuss
The Little Prince
Kidnapped by Robert Lewis Stevenson
Kitty, My Rib
Walden by Thoreau
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Clovis Crawfish and His Friends (Louisiana children's literature/signed by the author)
Soundtrack to Beauty and the Beast
3 Martha Stewart Living magazines
Seinlanguage by Jerry Seinfeld
You've Got Mail
JOBS THAT SHOULD NOT BELONG TO THE SECRETARY IN AN OFFICE FULL OF BOYS:
1. Removal of dead cockroaches.
2. Taking out the trash.
3. Disposal of spit cups.
4. Assigning a numerical value to burps and/or other bodily functions.
Every now and then, in a fit of nostalgia, I feel the need to go back and re-experience something that I supremely enjoyed in childhood, believing, of course, that the experience will be just as great now that I am grown up.
Some pleasures remain, no matter what age you are (snow cones, Dr. Seuss, amusement parks, and old Disney movies). Others, however, lose something over the years, as I have discovered this week...
(Please don't laugh)...I checked a Baby-Sitters Club book out of the library, just to see if I liked them as much now as I did in the 4th grade. And wowsers, are they awful.
Neurotic Tendencies:
Every time I walk into my apartment at night, before anything else can be accomplished, I immediately have to walk to the bathroom and check to make sure no burglars are hiding behind the shower curtain.