I got Tagged.

Hey folks. I got tagged over on Junior High School. Here goes!

10 years ago (Sept 1995) I was:
* had just gotten back from a summer in East Asia
* very, very chubby
* very insecure and legalistic
* afraid of boys
* living with two of my Best Friends in Seattle with another B.F. living just down the street

5 years ago (2000) I was:
* living in the coolest town in Oregon
* with two sweet friends
* having tea parties all the time
* watching RED DWARF and DARK SHADOWS like nobody's business
* reading a Series of Unfortunate Events as fast as they were written
* clueless that I was about the run into the man who would become my Hubby.

1 year ago (Sept 2004) I was:
* just moved half way across the country and bought a house with my Hubby.
* just left staff with Campus Crusade for Christ
* 5 months pregnant
* starting a business
* homesick

Yesterday I:
* changed a stinky diaper and helped my Bubby pull himself up on the coffee table
* read part of Camille by Alexandre Dumas
* dusted my living room and baked bread (wheat-free!). I also repainted our range vent cover to match the rest of our kitchen.
* watched LOST, Season 2 Episodes 1 & 2
* didn't spend time with God

5 snacks I enjoy:
* chocolate chips, chocolate kisses, chocolate chip cookies, hot cocoa
* anything for tea: scones, crumpets, fig newtons, finger sandwiches, cookies
* popcorn, kettle-popped!
* did i say chocolate?
* apples or bananas with peanut butter. celery works too.

5 songs I know all the words to:
* Oh Love that Will Not Let Me Go (www.igracemusic.com)
* Backe Backe Kuchen (German equivalent to Patty Cake)
* You are my Sunshine
* Lullabye Baby-O
* Mr. Roger's Theme Song

5 things I would do with $100,000,000:
* get some programs started to help folks get out of poverty here in NM
* pay off our house & my parents' & my sister's & my brother's
* support a bunch of missionaries
* get our home's electrical system updated
* adopt a BUNCH of kiddos

5 places I would run away to:
* Anyplace in the Pacific NW especially where the sky is grey and drizzling
* Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory
* Germany
* Heaven
* any mountain range

5 Things I will NEVER wear:
* tight faux leopard skin t-shirt with gold chains
* spandex biking shorts & matching sun visor
* string bikinis
* mohawks and/or mullets
* platform shoes (would make me taller than everyone I know)

5 favorite TV shows:
* LOST
* Little House on the Prairie
* The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (PBS)
* RED DWARF (BBC)
* Starting Over

5 bad habits:
* never putting stuff away
* leaving AFTER I need to be somewhere (and wondering why I'm late!)
* staying up too late
* being rude, selfish and inconsiderate
* procrastinating stuff I don't want to do

5 biggest joys:
* God's grace toward me, a sinner.
* My family
* doodling little aliens, creatures, whatever comes out of my pen
* HIKING!
* sitting down to coffee and/or tea with a good friend

5 (or more) people I tag to do this:
* A Oh
* A Heck
* D & H Nagy
* EJ & A Johnson
* K Volpe
* T Anstett
* Hubby

Flying Aardvarks Victorious!

Yah, we WON last night. Volleyballs flying all OVER the place. It was awesome. I had this one sweet move - I was playing back row and this serve came over, so fast. It was coming straight for my chest...and since I'm tall, that means it would be out, if only I got out of the way fast enough.

So I pulled a Keanu move, like from the Matrix, when he's dodging bullets. You know the move I mean? So, the ball missed me and bounced out. One more point for the Fl-Aardvarks! Whoot whoot!

Monster Tales

I was looking through an old box and found this story that I (or my little brother) wrote sometime in the distant past. Don't ASK me how long I've been toting this box around with me. HEY! I told you not to ask. ALL RIGHT ALREADY! Well, it's got stuff in it from highschool, and college, and before either of those! Anyway, here's the story. I think it's got some funny parts, for sure. I never finished it. Or maybe my little brother never finished it. Anyway, enjoy.

CLYDE
Clyde wasn't very old. But he was ugly and he was growing uglier every day. He lived in a forest with his mother and his father.

Father Monster was a big, big monster. He was very ugly, which was good. Mother Monster was even uglier, which was better. (Monsters make fun of pretty monsters.) All in all, Clyde and his mother and his father were lovely monsters - as monsters go.

All day Clyde played in the forest doing monster things, like making big holes and bumping into things.

At night Clyde should have gone to his cave to sleep. But he would not go to his cave.
"Why," asked his mother, "why won't you go to your cave?"
"Because I'm scared of the dark," said Clyde.
"Scared?" asked his father. "What are you scared of?"
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MAN! This story seriously cracks me up.

Flying Aardvarks

So Hubby and I are playing on a recreational (indoor) volleyball league these days. Our team, the Flying Aardvarks, won last Thursday against a long-standing rival. We've got another game tonigt. Things I'm looking forward to:

1) Getting some exercise of the Volleyball Variety.
2) Getting some serves OVER and IN.
3) Winning. I like to win.

Phew...the rules are SO different from back in the day when I played in highschool. Here are some differences:

1) We play to 25, not just 15. But you still have to win by 2 points.
2) It's okay if serves touch the net, as long as they are over and in, they're good.
3) You can hit the ball with any part of your body! (One guy on our team kicked the ball twice last week and it was totally fine.)
4) There's a point scored on every play, regardless of which team served it.

Home!

I'm at home in the PNW visiting my family. It's been really fun to hang out with family and friends. Little EJ has gotten to see my friends Tina and Sherri, and also his Auntie Martina and Uncle Ken and cousins Mikki and Zander. One day EJ FILLED up his diaper and his cousin Zander ran out of the house yelling, "EJ IS REEKING UP THE WHOLE HOUSE!" It was funny. Mikki just stood nearby and said, "EEEeeewww. Groooooossss."