tried to take a bath together five years ago, he did NOT fart on my foot, I’m pleased to say.
The cool thing about losing 145 pounds is that there’s more room in the tub. Not only was there enough room for the two of us, I think we could have fit several of the cats in there with us, if we’d been so inclined (which we were not). I was able to stay mostly under the water and not get cold, and we were able to move around into various positions (winkwinknudgenudge) without squishing anything, uh, important.
And that’s all I’ll say about that.
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Meme, stolen from
Nance.
1. What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before? Deliberately met a Crazy Internet Person (PEOPLE, even!) that I’ve “known” (in the internet sense) for several years. And I lived to tell the story!
2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I don’t think I made any for this year, and I don’t plan to make any for next year.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Nope!
4. Did anyone close to you die? No.
5. What countries did you visit? I didn’t leave the country. Maybe next year!
6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006? The proceeds from a vegetable garden packing my freezer and cupboards.
7. What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? January 30th – the day I went in for RNY (weight loss surgery). I can’t believe it’s been 10 1/2 months!
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Meeting Nance and Rick and not acting like such an idiot that they screaming into the street.
9. What was your biggest failure? Not even thinking about getting started on that novel that’s always bouncing around in my head.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Yeah, I had the whole liver thing going on.
11. What was the best thing you bought?The Smallville house!
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Fred’s. He didn’t over-the-top freak out while the whole thing with my liver was going on, he just freaked out quietly to himself.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? I don’t know that anyone else’s behavior could ever make me depressed, but that whole thing with Isaiah Washington making an ass out of himself was pretty appalling. In my personal life, I could go on and on about various people who’ve appalled me, but I’m going to just shut up. Actually, I think the number one most appalling thing of the year was my incredible failure to keep on top of my email. I LOVE getting email, I love reading it, but when it comes to responding, I SUCK.
14. Where did most of your money go? Disposable income? Books. Always books. I bought a lot of clothes to replace the ones I’d shrunk out of, but I didn’t spend a lot of money on the clothes, except for bras. Non-disposable income? The usual – house payment (now TWO house payments, thank you), car payments, phones, electric, gas, etc etc etc.
15.What made you really really really excited? Meeting Nance and Rick!!!
16.What song will forever remind you of 2006? Every Mile a Memory, Dierks Bentley.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:a) happier or sadder? About the same, really.
b) thinner or fatter? Thinner, by 145 pounds!
c) richer or poorer? Poorer in cash (see: Two house payments), richer in property owned.
18. What do you wish you’d done more of? Writing, exercising.
19. What do you wish you’d done less of? Worrying, stressing, being pissed off at situations that didn’t involve me and I couldn’t influence.
20. How will you be spending Christmas? Christmas Eve morning, we’ll be spending with Fred’s mom and stepfather (and his sister and her family), Christmas Eve evening we’ll be spending with Fred’s father and stepmother (and his sister and her family, and his stepsister and her family). Christmas morning we’ll get up, open presents, hang out, at some point I’ll have to go to the pet store to feed the cats and scoop the litter boxes, and then around noon (maybe a little earlier, depending), I’ll be driving to Gatlinburg, TN to spend the week with my parents, sister, and nephew in a timeshare condo.
21. How will you be spending New Year’s? New Year’s Eve day, I’m sure we’ll be working on the house, New Year’s Eve evening I’m sure we’ll be watching TV (and going to bed long before midnight), and New Year’s Day? Probably more working on the house.
22. Did you fall in love in 2006? I remained in love in 2006. Well. I might have fallen in love with Maddy, but she did not return my affection and moved on to bigger and better loves, the brat.
23. How many one-night stands? None.
24. What were your favorite TV programs? Grey’s Anatomy, Survivor, 24, The Closer.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? Yes. Well, maybe not “hate” – “find distasteful” is a more accurate description.
26. What was the best book you read? She Got Up Off the Couch, by Haven Kimmel.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery? There Goes Your Heart, sung by Caprice (also known as Chemda, of
Keith and the Girl). It’s absolutely addictive!
28. What did you want and get? An iPod. Which I LURVE.
29. What did you want and not get? Uh… I can’t think of anything I truly wanted and didn’t get. Maybe a camera with a kick-ass zoom.
30. What was your favorite film of this year? The Lake House. Shaddup, I don’t care if it was sappy and not believable. I still liked it!
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I don’t have a clue what I did on my birthday; I’m sure pretty much the same thing I do every day. 38.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? If I’d finished (or at least STARTED) the aforementioned novel.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006? Teenage boy: cotton pants (or jeans), t-shirt, sneakers.
34. What kept you sane? Fred, the spud, and all those damn cats.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? TR Knight (George, from Grey’s Anatomy).
36. What political issue stirred you the most? I don’t get much stirred by political issues, except the same-sex marriage issue (for the record: I’m pro).
37. Who did you miss? My grandmother, at strange and surprising times.
38. Who was the best new person(s) you met? Nance and Rick!
38. Side question…who would I like to get to know better? Um. I don’t know. TR Knight? He seems like he’d be fun to hang out with.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006: Pointless stressing over someone else’s life is just not worth it.
40. Favorite Memory of 2006? Stepping on the scale to see that I weighed less than 200 pounds for the first time in over 20 years.
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Want to meet the new babies? You know you do!
Faith.
Jack Frost.
Kringle.
Merry. (
Cat. She’s a kittycat. And she dancedancedance and she dancedancedance.)
Noelle.
I went with the suggestion Rhys made last week (when we were trying to come up with names for Seamus, Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail), to go with Christmas/ holiday names. Once I named Faith, I kind of wanted to go with Faith, Hope, and Charity for the girls (the torties are girls; the orange and brown tabbies are boys), but Hope had been used before, so I couldn’t.
Kringle was almost named “Parson Brown”, by the way, but we preferred Kringle. Actually, Fred preferred Frankincense (Frankie), but I liked Kringle better.
These kittens are real scaredy cats. They’re about 10 weeks old and apparently haven’t been handled much up until now. They’re not feral, by any means. They’ll let me handle them, but when I hold and pet them, they give me the sad eyes and say “Lady, why you torturing me with the love and kisses?”, and run off as soon as I put them down.
They also sleep a lot, which is probably because they were all spayed and neutered Wednesday, and were also dewormed, given shots, and had Frontline spray sprayed in their ears (ear mites). I imagine if all that happened to me in a short amount of time, I’d be longing for the release that sweet, sweet sleep would afford me.
I love love LOVE little long-haired kittens. And that is all.
(All the pictures I’ve taken of them thus far can be seen
here.)
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Newton (full name: Newton “Newtie” McNewterton, the salty country kitty) is pretty, yet aloof. It drives the wimmins CRAYZEE.
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Previously
2005: “Us”? Who’s this “us” kemosabe?
2004: I suppose I need to actually start buying lottery tickets to make these dreams come true.
2003: And also because you Canadians are so cool that I want to canoodle with each and every one of you.
2002: No entry.
2001: No entry.
2000: God bless the internet and online merchants, god bless their little black hearts.
1999: More Christmas talk.]]>