Today I am 33. Last year I swore I was 33 for a good 6 months so in reality I will be telling people I'm 33 for a year and a half. Here are 33 tidbits of randomness in celebration of this momentousness day.
- In all of my 33 years I have never made a real pie. I have put together a store bought pie crust and filled it with glazed fresh fruit. I want to learn to make an apple pie, like with a real crust, not from Marie Calendars. The real deal.
- I watch either Law Enforcement shows or medical shows.
- I am very insecure about my cooking abilities. I have issues with doubting myself and I am concerned that people are not going to like what I have made.
- I was raised in Orange County, yes the O.C., home of all things materialistic and fake. I decided in my mind when I had children that I was going to live differently and raise my kids in a more simplistic, homey environment and buy their clothes at Target. It was a good decision.
- I recently just learned to make real mashed potatoes.
- I bought myself a pressure canner for my birthday and made tomato soup yesterday.
- I dream of having a garden but I am concerned that living in the god-awful desert in the boonies will leave me victim to dead and eaten plants.
- I enjoy a mocha frappacinno every morning.
- I smoked for too long and now I am scared. I haven't smoked for about 2 years, I am done this time.
- I will become a 33 year old Grandmother this year and I have mixed feelings about it (step daughter).
- I often struggle with the idea that people are much more organized than I and are better at keeping house than I.
- Pumpkin candles make me very happy.
- It hurts my feelings that my daughter doesn't tell me Happy Birthday.
- My parents got divorced a few years ago and I was surprised how much it affected me, being an adult and out of the house. I am still morning the loss of the family I had.
- This year I finally graduated college. It was my biggest accomplishment (besides my kids) I have ever made. It took me 12 years.
- Even though its usually all bills, getting the mail is still fun.
- Fall is my absolute favorite time of the year.
- My all time favorite TV shows are Judging Amy and Joan of Arcadia.
- The job I have now, as an EMT is the only job I have had for a substantial amount of time. I have been there 4 years.
- I was thinking about how to make a quilt block when I woke up this morning.
- I still want my Mom sometimes when life is tough.
- Clean sheets are a little thing that makes me happy.
- I get way excited when Country Living comes.
- I live in jeans.
- I always mean to wear earrings but I rarely do.
- My room is always messy.
- I am horribly addicted to Coke. I give myself 1 a day.
- I am so grateful for my family and struggle with trying to get my children to appreciate family.
- I am very cheap, I sometimes spend way too much time thinking about finances.
- I want a hand gun but Sarge says he's afraid I'll shoot him and laughs. I wonder if he really feels that way?
- I dream of seeing New York in the fall. Not NYC but upstate.
- I want to write out my goals this week.
- This has taken me over an hour to write.
Happy Birthday, even if it's a little late. We also love Joan of Arcadia! I don't know of another single person on Earth who loved that show!
ReplyDeleteBelated birthday greetings!!
ReplyDelete#1 -- I made my first totally-from-scratch apple pie last year, at age 43, so if you make one this year you will be a decade ahead of me on that goal :). If you want me to share the recipe I used and my tips about it, just drop me an email [wrenandstitchy at wordpress dot com] -- it's a recipe I highly recommend, and, in fact, I'll be ready to make it again as soon as a new batch of organic apples makes their way to our area of Texas.
#3 -- It's only been in the past three or four years that I've become comfortable in the kitchen. I watched Food Network ALL THE TIME for a period of time and started with Rachel Ray's and Paula Deen's recipes -- Paula Deen's, especially, strike me as ones that will please a variety of folks. I really have a love for cooking now, although I certainly don't cook every single day. I still have misses with new recipes, but we always have sandwiches or something in the freezer we can fall back on in those instances! I have come to discover the importance of salt, pepper, and herbs in recipes.
#9 -- Yay for quitting!! No, do not start again! Get a chest x-ray regularly -- this is the biggest piece of advice my hubby's physician gave him when he quit smoking (after having smoked for several decades).
#15 -- CONGRATS!!!
#23 -- Ditto :).
#30 -- My hubby surprised me with a handgun this year, and I had him sell it. I do want to learn to shoot, and I thought I would be okay with having my own gun, but when he put it in my hands I realized that, no, I did not, in fact, want my own gun. Maybe I will feel differently once I learn how to shoot a gun.
Glenda