15/30 Things: If you were an animal, what would you be and why?

Kitten/Cat

I mean, come on. How much fun does it seem to lay around all day and sleep?

Even as an adult cat, you could lay around. And nobody would care.

14/30 Things: Describe 5 strengths you have.

Let’s continue with this game…

 

I can type 80+ wpm. I took one semester of typing in high school – purely because I needed an easy A class. I already knew how to type, and was typing faster than anyone else in the class. I suppose I get this skill from my mother. She was always a top notch typist.

 

Multitasking. My job requires it. If I couldn’t successfully multitask, I couldn’t successfully do my job. The office would be a mess, things would get forgotten, and production companies and clients would be upset. It is a MUST. Often times I feel like an Air Traffic Control tower. I send each group of trainer to a different location with a different group of dogs. I’m in constant contact with them during the shooting day, and they are always aware of what their next job will be. And since there is ALWAYS something happening in the production company world, the emails on my cell phone run 24hrs a day. And believe me when I say, production companies expect answers to their questions no matter the time of day. Sometimes, it’s a pain. But it pays my bills. ;-)

 

I’m a rock star. Haven’t you heard me singing in my car? I LOVE to sing, and people tell me I do it well. So, I’m gonna take it as being a strength. I was in the choir in elementary school, and again in high school. I loved it.

 

Driving. Enough said.

 

Kissing. And everything that entails. I’ll leave it at that. No explanation should be necessary. ;-)

13/30 Things: Describe 5 weaknesses you have.

RJ. I cry when I think about all the time I lost with RJ. The years of not tucking him in at night. The years of no school pictures. The years of no communication at all. When these thoughts come to mind, I hide in a corner or curl up in bed, and refuse to do anything else.

 

I’m impatient. I get annoyed at slow drivers. I get annoyed at slow checkers at the grocery store. I get annoyed at slow bank tellers. I get annoyed at slow typists. I’m constantly wanting to do things fast, and you slow people get in my way. Maybe it’s time to slow down. Just a bit.

 

Ramen & Udon. These two melt my heart. I’d do anything for these two. Strange to hear from someone who doesn’t like animals, I know, but they, for one reason or another, make me  happy. Maybe it’s because they don’t shed. Maybe it’s because they don’t lick my face when I get close to them. Maybe it’s because they are well behaved. Whatever it is, they make me stop in my tracks. No matter what kind of mood I’m in, I always have a moment to stop and give hugs and kisses to these two. ♥♥♥

 

Rude. I can be rude. If someone is rude to me, I can be more rude, right back. I don’t tend to sugar coat conversations, and I do not spend a lot of time “gossiping”. If I call someone to give them some information, I don’t need to carry on a useless conversation about their sick Aunt Sally. If you’re not someone I converse with on a daily basis, then chance are I don’t even know you have an Aunt Sally, rendering the conversation a waste of time. This comes across as rude to most people.

 

JK. He is one of my biggest weaknesses (and I his). This weakness is fun!

 

12/30 Things: Describe a typical day in your current life.

Some days are better than others. Some days are action packed with errands or RJ or shopping or car fixing or JK or overtime or lots of other things, but alas, most of my days are like this…

7:00am - wake up

7:15am - take shower

8:00am - leave house for work

8:30am - stop for breakfast

9:00am - start work

1:00pm - LUNCH TIME!!

2:00pm - back to work

4:14pm - bff@work arrives

6:00pm - OFF WORK!

6:45pm - arrive home to relax for the evening

11:30pm - sleeping

11/30 Things: Describe 10 pet peeves you have.

1. When someone doesn’t replace the toilet paper roll with a new one.
2. When someone pulls into my lane, and isn’t going as fast as me. PEOPLE, DO NOT DO THIS! If you’re not going faster than the car you’re pulling out in front of, you deserve to be hit.
3. When someone tells me they’ll call me, and don’t.
4. When someone posts something on Facebook that all 500 of their “friends” didn’t need to read/see.
5. When someone leaves a light on in a room that nobody occupies.
6. People that wear sandals with dirty feet.
7. Someone talking during a movie.
8. When I order iced tea (with no lemon) at a restaurant, and they give it to me with lemon.
9. When someone puts the cap on my pen. I leave it off for a reason. Don’t sit at my desk, use my pen, and change something about it. Don’t.
10. Those impossible plastic packages that cut your hands up when you try to get into them.

10/30 Things: Describe your most embarrassing moment.

Embarrassing moment?

I don’t have embarrassing moments. I don’t have any funny stories of embarrassing moments.

I guess this is the best I got… Wrong car. <--- click that link to read the story.

Sorry.

9/30 Things: List 10 people who have influenced you and describe how.

In no particular order….

RJ: He makes me a better person. He gives me confidence that I can do anything. He makes me feel invincible.

BFF@work: He influences me to relax when I’m not working. He pushes me to enjoy time off and not let things beyond my control, control me.

StepDad: He raised me. Enough said.

JK: He makes me want to be a better girlfriend. ;-)

Sis: She influences me to play with her cats. Even if I don’t want to.

Squid: He influences me to be lazy. He’s one of my favorite people with whom to be lazy.

Mom: She taught me that hard work doesn’t always equal happiness.

Dad: Taught me about the kind of person I don’t want to be. He showed me an example of how unhappy life can be when you push everyone around you away.

Boss#1: He’s taught me the most about money.

DD: She is the one person, that makes me work hardest. She expects the most from me while I’m in the office. She doesn’t allow me to slack off. She is one of my closest friends.

8/30 Things: What are 5 passions you have?

NASCAR

 

Writing

 

Music

 

Kissing

 

Food

7/30 Things: What is your dream job, and why?

I once had my dream job. I was 21 years old, a brand new wife, and lived in an upscale part of Corpus Christi, TX. I was, a Stay-At-Home Mom.

It was the best job ever. I didn’t have to get up and drive to an office. My office was just down the hall. I didn’t have to answer to an ugly boss. My boss was the cutest newborn ever. When he woke me up in the middle of the night, we’d cuddle and go back to sleep. We watched tv, played with toys, and went for walks in the middle of the day.

It was the best job ever. I’m jealous of myself for not still having it.

6/30 Things: What is the hardest thing you have ever experienced.

I thought and thought and thought about this one. I went around and around with different situations I've been in, thinking about which one was actually the hardest. After I wrote them all down and read through them, it was obvious. Jail.

Jail was one place I definitely feared. It was the place bad people went. People that didn’t belong on our every day streets. People that were poisonous to society. Mean people, who fought with other mean people. Guards were just as mean as some of the inmates. I was afraid, every single night, to go to sleep. And I was afraid, every single morning when I woke up, that I would never get out. I feared that I would wake up in jail, every morning, for the rest of my life. :-(

There were a lot of rules I had to follow, and if I didn’t learn the rules from watching someone else, I would be punished. There was no excuse for not following the rules. I remember stepping across a red tape line on the floor once, to help another woman in the restroom. I was sent to confinement for six hours. I never stepped across the red tape line again.

I remember being awaken at 4am one morning, by a guard hitting me in the head with her flashlight. Not only was I annoyed she was hitting me in the head, she was waking up the wrong person. Under normal circumstances (at that time of my life), I would have hit her right back.

In jail? Nope. I dealt.

5/30 Things: What are the 5 things that make you most happy right now?

1. I have a full time job. Although I may complain about my job, it really is a very cool job. I work descent hours, I get to play around with animals of all kinds, and I get to meet famous people. Not a bad gig.
2. I am housesitting for my boss for two whole weeks. That means I will be one block from work. Helllloooooo Sleeping Till 8am.
3. JK has been gone for eleven days on a work assignment. North Carolina and New York are very far from me, but I’m happy he’ll be back tomorrow.
4. Sex.
5. The song Pontoon, by Little Big Town.

 

4/30 Things: List 10 things you would tell your 16-year-old self, if you could.

1. Men are not the answer to everything.
2. Don’t expect too much from people. Your high expectations will only let YOU down.
3. Allow yourself to get your heart broken by that one true love. It will teach you things you didn’t know you’d learn.
4. Don’t go to school drunk. Having to repeat an entire class in summer school because you were suspended during the final, doesn’t make for a fun summer.
5. Don’t be mean to your Sis. Just because she tattled on you, doesn’t mean you should disown her. She will one day be someone important to you.
6. Don’t allow other people’s opinions of you distract you from what you WANT to do. It’s your life. Live it like YOU want.
7. Spend more time with Grandma. One day you’ll wish you’d heard more stories about your family.
8. Stick with the guitar lessons. They won’t kill you.
9. It’s okay to be into racing. One day, people will accept it.
10. When that snotty kid talks back to you, and The X takes her side, walk away. Jail is not a place you need to be.

3/30 Things: Describe your relationship with your parents.

My parents. Always a touchy subject. I don’t speak of them often, and there’s a reason.

I’ve written about my dad on several occasions. You can find them anywhere on this blog. The relationship between him and I was never good. From the day I was born. Perhaps he was disappointed I ended up being a girl. Maybe it’s because I remind him so much of my mom. Maybe it’s because I’m so much like him. Whatever the reason, from the day I was born, the relationship between my father and me, has sucked. At best. We do not speak. I have him blocked from all aspects of my life. I get annoyed when Sis talks to him about me, because I don’t want him knowing anything about my life. He is not part of it, and that’s how I like it.

The relationship I have with my mother, is different. It’s much better than the one with my dad, but not one that I would boast about. I don’t share secrets with her. She doesn’t know who I’m dating, and didn’t even know I moved until a week AFTER we were already settled in. Her life choices have caused me to keep my distance, and unfortunately, that leaves me with no parents to share my life with. This is my choice as an adult.

I’ve had to learn that life does go on without parents. It’s not a bad thing that my abusive father isn’t around. It’s not a bad thing that my mom lives her own strange life. It’s just different. And it’s the way it is.

2/30 Things: Describe 3 legitimate fears you have and explain how they became fears.

1. I am afraid of dying alone. I am scared that I will be dying, and nobody will be there to hold my hand. Whether it be because it happens so quickly and there’s no time for people to get there, or a slow death in the hospital, I fear I’ll be alone. Don’t honestly know where or how this fear came about, but it’s been a fear for as long as I can remember.
2. I am afraid that something will happen to RJ and I won’t know. The X has never been good at keeping me informed about what’s going on with RJ. For years, I knew nothing. I couldn’t get him to return phone calls, answer emails, or even allow me to come to his house. It was a constant battle to talk to RJ. As RJ got older and started being his own person, he became more involved in technology, and calls, emails, and texts  is what I get all the time. It’s great. Several months ago, RJ had to spend some time at a facility for evaluation. Nothing bad, he just needed a little help with some things. I didn’t end up finding out about it until almost a week into his time there, and I only found out because RJ was finally allowed to use the phone. Sigh at the lack of communication that comes from The X. I fear that one day, if something more serious happens, I won’t know. Until it’s too late.
3. I am afraid I’ll eventually get fat. I am 33 years old, and have never once in my life, battled with my weight. Even when I was pregnant, I was thin. I was perfectly proportioned while I was pregnant, and people made comments all the time about how lucky I was. I’m grateful for it. However, there is a fear that rattles around inside my body. It’s a fear that one day, my metabolism will change, and the amount of junk I eat in a weeks time, will catch up to me. One day, I fear I’ll lose this size 2 body, and that does not sit well with me.

1/30 Things: List 20 random facts about yourself.

1. I love Gnomes.
2. I spend more time paying attention to NASCAR, than I do politics.
3. I love a good romantic comedy.
4. Payday is my favorite candy bar.
5. My favorite color is red.
6. My favorite kind of pet is a fish.
7. I love to camp.
8. I’m in love with someone I shouldn’t be.
9. I make lists for EVERYTHING.
10. Too much chocolate gives me a headache.
11. I have an unhealthy relationship with Jack in the Box.
12. My best friend is disliked by all my other friends.
13. I’m addicted to taking pictures.
14. My drink of choice is plain iced tea.
15. I was in the high school choir.
16. I think Dr. Sheldon Cooper is hilarious.
17. I only talk to my mother once every few months.
18. I collect clocks.
19. My favorite number is 12.
20. Shrimp Scampi is my favorite type of shrimp.

30 Things

I ran across this blog ----> HOPESandDREAMS and saw that she did this fun 30 Things run of posts. I’m entertaining the idea of giving it a shot.
Here’s the list…
1. List 20 random facts about yourself.
2. Describe 3 legitimate fears you have and explain how they became fears.
3. Describe your relationship with your parents.
4. List 10 things you would tell your 16 year-old self, if you could.
5. What are the 5 things that make you most happy right now?
6. What is the hardest thing you have ever experienced?
7. What is your dream job, and why?
8. What are 5 passions you have?
9. List 10 people who have influenced you and describe how.
10. Describe your most embarrassing moment.
11. Describe 10 pet peeves you have.
12. Describe a typical day in your current life.
13. Describe 5 weaknesses you have.
14. Describe 5 strengths you have.
15. If you were an animal, what would you be and why?
16. What are your 5 greatest accomplishments?
17. What is the thing you most wish you were great at?
18. What has been the most difficult thing you have had to forgive?
19. If you could live anywhere, where would it be and why?
20. Describe 3 significant memories from your childhood.
21. If you could have one superpower, what would it be and what would you do with it first?
22. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 10 years? 15 years?
23. List your top 5 hobbies and why you love them.
24. Describe your family dynamic of your childhood vs. your family dynamic now.
25. If you could have dinner with anyone in history, who would it be and what would you eat?
26. What popular notion do you think the world has most wrong?
27. What is your favorite part of your body and why?
28. What is your love language?
29. What do you think people misunderstand most about you?
30. List 10 things you would hope to be remembered for.
I’m getting ready to spend a couple of days camping at the beach, so I’ll start when I return.
See y’all on Monday!