Recent Find on the Bookstore Clearance Table

Anyone who has been reading this blog knows that I love list making. Serious lists, goofy lists, grocery liusts; you name it. I tried my hand at a bucket list a few years ago and it got a bit overwhelming. Then I found this:

Seriously, how funny is this?!? I would never have paid full price for it, but the $3 I spent on the clearance rack was worth it! I haven't started filling it in yet, but have had a good time flipping through the pages and imagining what I'm going to write!

The Fifth and Final Listmania (for now, anyway)

Nine Things My Socks Would Say If The Could Talk

1. Not me again! Can't you wear a different pair today?!?

2. Um, hey, this isn't my mate!!!

3. Get that cat away from me! I'm not a chew toy!

4. Time to play hide and seek!

5. Cut your damned toenails already! I don't need holes poked in me.

6. Wait a minute...that shirt clashes with us.

7. Have you ever heard of odor eaters?!?

8. For god's sake, keep your shoes on at your friend's house! You want the whole world to see how many holes you've worn in us?

9. If WE'RE wet & cold, YOU'RE wet and cold!

Listmania the Fourth

Seven Things I Always Lose

(I decided to skip the list of things to say after you burp in favor of this one. You're welcome.)

1. My temper. Lots of people can attest to this one

2. My lip balm. I suspect it goes off to party with this next item...

3. My pens. It never fails, if I find a good pen with an ink color I like, it will vanish shortly thereafter.

4. My keys. I bought a carabiner clip so that I can attach them to my purse or belt loops. The problem now is REMEMBERING to attach them to said items.

5. My train of thought. I'll be in the middle of doing something and suddenly there's a chocolate pie in the fridge, but I'm waiting for a break to eat it and what was this supposed to be about?

6. My place on cross stitch charts. Even when I highlight the parts I've stitched, I still get off track.

7. My heart, to pretty British boys. Like this one!

The Third Listmania

3 Strange Things About My Toenails

1. They grow REALLY fast. I usually have to trim them every week.

2. The 3rd nail on my left foot was damaged in a car wreck when I was 21. Now it's permanently cracked down the center, but grows in 2 pieces and they grow at the same rate.

3. Nail polish doesn't adhere well to them at all. The few times I've bothered to do polish them, it has worn off in less than 3 days.

Listmania the Second

5 Superpowers I Wish I Had

1. Flight! I want to be able to swoop and soar through the breeze!

2. Invisibility. Although as a middle aged woman, I seem to be invisible already. Neat trick for a purple haired 6ft Amazon!

3. Telepathy. I have been told I can communicate quite effectively with my death glare. It might be nice to be able to communicate OTHER things though.

4. Telekinesis. Being able to move things without having to touch them would be great. Especially heavy loads that do my back in!

5. Shape-shifting could be fun.

Listmania the First

So, I read this book over the weekend and was totally charmed by it. A kid that makes lists? My kind of kid, and my kind of book. The best part was at the end, where the author helpfully provided lists to be filled in by the reader with a variety of goofy suggestions. Mind you, this is a kid's book, but I couldn't resist posting some for the fun of it.

Six Things I Would Like My Sweatshirt To Say

1. Quit Staring At My Chest!

2. No Vacancy

3. My Eyes Aren't Down Here

4. Loki Is My Love Slave

5. My Other Chest Has Drawers

6. What Are You Looking At?




Another list to follow next week! Just because I'm nuts like that...

Monthly Goals- Utter Failure

So here were the July-recycled-from June goals


1. Move back into the main bedroom

2. still trying to excavate Laundry Mountain

3. clean out current bedroom

4. create order out of the 5 boxes & innumerable bags of stitch stash

5. take another box of books to Half Price Books

6. Finish the birthday card I started stitching for Uncle John LAST year so I can give it to him THIS year.

7. take 3 bags of culled wardrobe items to Goodwill



I didn't get a single damned one of them done.



Attempting a new list for August:

1. Watch Thor:Dark World

2. Get main bedroom vacuumed

3. Tidy living room

4. Watch Season one of Grimm

5. Go here: on/near my birthday

File Under Things I Will Never Try Again

1. Mikesells Smoked Bacon flavored potato chips
They smell like bacon. They vaguely taste like bacon & fake mesquite. Then the salt from the first 5 you eat hits and you drink a gallon of water in 15 seconds.


2. Angry Orchard Hard Apple Cider
I'm not much of a drinker anyway, especially now with my assorted cocktail of medications. But I do like soft cider and have had one or two hard ciders that I thought were tasty. This was not one of them. Now I have 4 bottles left in my fridge and no clue what to do with them. The 6 pack was too expensive to just pour them down the drain. I may try adding some to homemade applesauce or something.


3. Knitting
I suck so badly at it that even one of the hand loom things can't help me.


4. Dating anyone more than 5 years younger than me. Unless it's Tom Hiddleston.
Nothing kills a mood faster than hearing a song you loved in high school on the radio and hearing your date say "I think I was 3 when that came out." (Not a recent experience, but I'm still traumatized by it)


5. Streaking
My ex-college roommate/partner in crime & I streaked around the bell tower at UNC our freshman year. Only the friends we were with saw us, thankfully, and it was an unique experience, but NOT one I will ever repeat. Especially with my 40-something body. Things jiggle a bit more.


6. Almond Oolong Tea
Got to pick a free sample with my last Teavana order. I like almonds, so I thought maybe it would be good. It wasn't. I'm guess I'm just not a flavored tea person.

If I Were To Be Interviewed By A Woman's Magazine...(as stolen from Gail Carriger) **now with corrected spelling!**

20 Questions from Marie Claire Magazine


What food is on your kitchen counter?
A partial loaf of white bread, a bottle of olive oil, and a tin of cat food

What is the best gift you've ever received?
My mother took me to London for my 32nd birthday present, and we spent the actual day on a side trip to Bath & Stonehenge

What is your fantasy vacation itinerary?
An extended tour of Great Britain & Ireland.

What can you not miss on TV?
I don't actually watch much TV. I am looking forward to seeing the new show, Gotham, when it debuts this fall, assuming my coworker actually lets me watch it. otherwise, I wait until things come out on DVD and binge watch.

What is the best advice you've ever been given?
Hmmm. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, maybe?

What movie do you think has the greatest ending?
Romancing the Stone. I love how Jack surprises Joan at the end with a scene straight out of one of her romance novels.

What is on your perennial to-do list?
Cleaning my kaza-flatching house.

What is on your bookshelf?
An inch of dust and too many books per shelf. LOL. Lots of fantasy/sci-fi, mysteries, and a TON of British themed books. Oh, and comic collections.

What is on your feet right now?
A pair of heavily worn Dr Scholl's brown leather sandals

What is you go-to karaoke song?
I don't sing in public unless everyone I'm with is too drunk to remember it. However, under those circumstances, I have been known to belt out Garth Brooks' "Friends in Low Places."

What is your beauty secret?
Lip balm! Lots of lip balm.

What should every woman try at least once in her lifetime?
Lord, I have no idea. Red lipstick?

Do you have a secret talent?
I can pick up just about anything with my toes.

What makes you laugh?
silly animal antics, British comedy, Improv style comedy

What makes you mad?
stupidity, passive-aggressiveness, people who try to screw me over and then play the victim.

What charities do you support?
Cancer, literacy, & animal charities. And the local food bank

What splurge is well worth it?
400+ count cotton sheets. OMG, love mine. Also, thick bath sheets.

Do you have an pet peeves?
Far too many to list. The current list toppers are people who say "I don't want to interrupt you" and then do just that, anybody who pulls out in front of me on the interstate and then slows down for no reason, and being second-guessed

How did you make your first dollar?
Babysitting, followed by being a page at my local library.

What's the one thing you wish you'd known when you were younger?
There is no such thing as financial security and you should really learn how to manage finances before going out on your own. Also, credit cards are the devil.

3 More Things- Entertainment Edition

3 of my favorite British actors:

1. Tom Hiddleston

2. David Tennant

3. Ben Miller


3 CD's currently in my car:

1. Keb Mo'- Blues Americana

2. Kelly Clarkson- Greatest Hits

3. Pop Evil- Onyx


3 Movies at home waiting to be watched:

1. Thor: The Dark World

2. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

3. Safe


3 Favorite snacks while watching movies:

1. Popcorn (preferably movie theatre with butter)

2. Potato chips

3. Chocolate