Another facebook thing that worked well as my daily post. Play along, if you like.

1. Did you date someone from your school?
nope

2. Did you marry someone from your high school?
nope

3. Did you car pool to school?
I picked up a few people and gave them a ride in my car.

4. What kind of car did you have?
A very tiny pumpkin colored Toyota Corolla

5. What kind of car do you have now?
Toyota 4-Runner & Jeep Cherokee…I alternate between them.

6. Its Friday night…where are you?
Last night I was out with Adam having cocktails and gambling with dice.

7. It’s Saturday night, where are you?
Tonight I’m staying in, and fixing Super Bowl food

8. What kind of job did you have in high school?
I never had a job in high school

9. What kind of job do you do now?
I’m a stay at home mom

10. Were you a party animal?
I’d say so.

11. Were you considered a flirt?
No, I’ve never been a flirt.

12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
Nope

13. Were you a nerd, jock, prep, greaser, punk…ect.?
None of those above. They used to call us “heads” back in the day.

14. Did you get detentions, suspended or expelled, or, all of the above?
Nope, I was too smart to get caught.

15. Can you sing the fight song?
I don’t even know if we had a fight song.

16. Who was/were your favorite teacher(s)?
Mr. Meredith, the psychology teacher. He could have had us suspended soooo many times, but he must have identified with our type.

17. Where did you sit during lunch?
Outside on the curb by the woods, or on the football bleachers. I never sat in the cafeteria.

18. What was your school’s full name?
Bayside High School

19. When did you graduate?
1978

20. What was your school mascot?
Marlin

21. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
Sure, I had a good time.

22. Did you have fun at your Prom?
The prom? My boyfriend was older and out of school, and prom just didn’t fit in with my coolness back then.

23. Do you still talk to the person you went to Prom with?
If I’d gone to prom, then no, I haven’t talked to the guy I would have gone with since 1979.

24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion?
Doubtful. I went to the 10 year one, and I can’t imagine duplicating THAT scenario again.

25. Do you still talk to people from school?
I never stopped talking to the people who were important to me. Others I run into in passing, but I’m not using facebook to find high school people.

Anyone who knows Ethan knows that food is on the bottom of his list of concerns.  It’s just not a priority wtih him, and he’ll think of any reason not to discuss it.  This morning, while he was in the bathroom, I called out to him from the kitchen, “wheat or rye toast for breakfast?”  His response?

“I can’t talk to you about toast right now.  This pee-pee power is way too strong for me to talk about that.”

Cristin’s neighbors have two pugs and this past weekend the momma pug delivered five babies. Today Cristin was babysitting for the mom and the puppies, and we didn’t hesitate to run over there to see them. Ethan really wants the one he’s holding, which is one of two males and the only black one. The others are all fawn with black masks.

We have every intention of visiting these babies at least once a week so we can watch them grow. They really are adorable and very hard to resist, but we will not be getting another dog in this house.

You can see more of the cuties here.

Copying Misty and a couple of others, and posting my facebook 25 here, too.  For what it’s worth, and it’s not much, it is a post for the day.  So, in all its exciting glory, I present to you “25 Random Facts About Me.”

1. I have three kids.
2. I’ve been married for almost 8 years.
3. I have two dogs.
4. I love being a stay at home mom.
5. I am a cancer survivor.
6. I start each day feeling lucky and go to sleep each night feeling luckier.
7. I think trendy is sketchy.
8. I need a haircut.
9. I need to call Nadine for that haircut.
10. My favorite food is a softshell crab sandwich.
11. I appreciate a good burger.
12. My parents were and are the best.
13. I’m a Democrat.
14. I like the normalcy that is my life.
15. Looking back on my life, I sometimes wonder how I survived the things I did.
16. I love cottage style gardening.
17. Love beach and pool days with family and friends.
18. Enjoy my adult nights out.
19. Wish I lived in year round summer.
20. Love Las Vegas.
21. Love Dive Bars and Golden Tee
22. Still like old school punk.
23. I’m direct and honest, and if you are in my life, you’ll learn to deal with it. Eventually, it will be what you love most about me.
24. I love dogs.
25. Coke and cherry slurpees make me smile.

I ordered Ethan’s Valentine’s cards for his classmates today. He was thrilled with it!

Today is the day that Ethan turns “seven and a half exactly.”  Today is the day you sing half of the birthday song.  “Happy Birthday Day to You, Happy Birthday to You, Hap.”  It’s the day you do everything, or as much as possible, in halves. 

This year is a very special because Ethan turns 7 1/2, the age of Alice in Through the Looking-Glass.  This is where the entire idea for celebrating 1/2 birthdays began.  If you’re interested in a little more detail:

Alice is a fictional character in the books Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which were written by Charles Dodgson under the pen name Lewis Carroll.

The character has been said to be based on Alice Liddell, a child friend of Dodgson’s. Dodgson said several times that his ‘little heroine’ was not based on any real child, but was entirely fictional.  Alice is portrayed as a quaintly logical girl, sometimes even pedantic, especially with Humpty Dumpty in the second book. According to Through the Looking-Glass, she is seven-and-a-half years old but seems to conduct herself like a somewhat older child. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland takes place on May 4th, Alice Liddell’s birthday. Through the Looking-Glass takes place on November 4th, her half-birthday (and Alice states that she is “seven and a half exactly.”)

We started the half birthday celebration on Friday.  I baked some huge cookies (I am seriously talking HUGE) for Ethan to share with his classmates, and had planned to have lunch with him, but the whole lost voice thing got in the way.  Yesterday I took him to Target (crappy as I felt) and let him pick out a little something.  Today we have plans to go see Mall Cop, and we’re hoping Adam wakes up soon so we can go out for breakfast.  If he continues to snooze then he’ll be taking us to dinner and it’ll be Ethan’s choice, which I can almost guarantee will be “Amigos”. 

A lot of people consider half birthdays an indulgent waste.  And that’s fine.  However, I’m one who enjoys celerating the little things. The things that create memories.  I can remember being a kid, and I recall how long it seemed between each birthday, and how thrilled I was that my parents celebrated my half birthday each spring on May 8.  So why shouldn’t I give my own son this special memory and make his year a little more special by giving  him not one, but two of his own special days? 

Happy Half Birthday, Ethan…I love you.

Since I’ve been feeling a little blah the past two days, I decided we should just spend the day relaxing. Last year I bought a clicker couch for Ethan’s playroom. Today I let him turn it into the chaise and lounge while playing Animal Crossing. Look how itty bitty he looks on that thing.

We did make a quick trip to Target so he could pick out a little something for his 1/2 birthday which happens to be tomorrow. 7 1/2! How did that happen?!?

If only I’d realized that today is National Pie Day…I’d certainly have baked a pie. The difficulty would lie in deciding what kind of pie to bake. Pecan? Chocolate Pecan? Chocolate Cream? Coconut Cream? Banana Cream? Peach? Apple? Apple with vanilla ice cream? Pumpkin? Sweet Potato? Key Lime?

A little Pie Day history:

The American Pie Council created this day simply to celebrate the pie.

National Pie Day is a special day that is set aside to bake and cook all of your favorite pies. On this day, you are also encouraged to bake a few new pie recipes. And most importantly, it’s a day to eat pies!

A great way to celebrate National Pie Day is to bake some pies and give them away to friends, neighbors, and relatives. You never know, you may be starting a tradition of pie giving between your friends and family.

The American Pie Council sponsors the National Pie Championships. Some of the best pie makers in the world enter their pies. Perhaps you will enter and win the “American Pie Council’s Best Pie in America” award.

If you don’t feel like making a pie, then you need to watch “Waitress” tonight. It’s a great little film, and the main character is a pie baker. She creates pies, all sorts, with funny little names and all sorts of ingredients. Watch. You’ll be glad you did.

If you do feel like making a pie, either today or in the next few days, please share your recipe here. I’m going to make one this weekend, as can be expected undecided as to what I should bake.

Also, what’s your favorite pie? And if you say you don’t like pie, then you’re Un-American. After all, they don’t say “As American as Apple pie” for nothing.

For homework tonight, Ethan had to write President Obama a lettter. Knowing Ethan, I’m pretty certain this won’t be the last letter he writes to our newly elected President. I think he did a pretty good job making sure he got all the important stuff covered. He kept it friendly, while reminding him of his promises. And then he ended iby mentioning his family. I’m not sure if that was his intention or if it just worked out that way.

You can see Page 1 here and Page 2 here.