your outfit sounds niiice!

i am at work so i cant see your elfish beauty!


good answers, i think i may steal this.....

Hey, go right ahead and do it.  Let's see how far this survey gets passed around.  I just did it off the top of my head to get my writing juices flowing

ohhh its an original survey!? woooohoo! i better do it then!

Yep, that it is!  Have fun.  Look forward to your answers

That hat is smokin!! (and, I'm stealing the survey..me likey)

Yay!  I made it so it would catch on -- the survey that is!  But, yeah, my hat is so unique and silly, and oh, so warm and fuzzy, the cold gives me a good excuse to wear it just to put a smile on other people's faces.

Noice.  Good job, then!! 

My uncle has what I call a "Moscow" hat.  You know, the big, furry ones with the ear flaps..I've been trying to steal it for years!!  LOL

Oh, those are great hats.  It's hard to find the right kind of ear flap hat, too.  My friend has a store and she sells 'em but they're not the ear flap hats that come from Russia, these are from Nepal.

~V

1.  How do you feel right now?

Like I've forgotten something very important but don't know what it is.  Like I have a whole lot of blank spots in my memory.   Kinda like the hungover feeling without the headache and throwing up.

 

2.  What was your first thought of the day today?

That I wish Andy would leave me the hell alone. 

 

3.  What are you hungry for today?

chicken broccoli divan- chunks of chicken and broccoli baked with cream of broccoli soup, topped with cheddar cheese and buttery bread crumbs.  Served over whole wheat macaroni. mmmm
 

4.  What are your plans for the evening?

Finding my tolerance for caffeine and never sleeping again.
 

5.  Current dominant color of the clothes you're wearing right now:

A black silky skirt (it's technically a petticoat skirt)  A super girly pink tshirt with hello kitty, and pink socks.       Gotta love boys going shopping for you.   This is all Michael's fault.

 

6.  Current nail color:

7.  What does your hair look like right now:   

 Kinda flat from wearing my mohair hat. yep, it's pink too. koolaid pink.

8.  What is the worry in the back of your mind

That I'll never get past this and he'll haunt every relationship I'm going to have.

 

9.  What is your goal for the week:  to clean the house and give Rowan a kickass 2nd birthday party.

 

10.  What would you like to happen right now: 

to win enough money so that everyone I love can be comfortable for a long long time.

1.  I think it's that wintery malaze everyone seems to be going through at the moment!

2.  I second that!

3.  Yummy, yummy comfort food

4.  I can't seem to quit caffeine...

5.  Pink is cool, however I have a hard time pulling it off myself.  Silly Michael, he's got pink on his mind, has he?

6.  Oh, neat!  glittery nail polishes rock

7.  It's that time of year for flat, frizzy, dry, and staticy hair looks.

8.  I have the same worry.  Bastard.  And bastard me for constantly unable to get him off my goofy mind, too.

9.  Yay!  Rowan turns 2 soon!!!  Give a hug for me.

10.  Me, too, me, too!

I had an email from him asking how Rowan and I are doing. He mentioned yet again  being negligent of seeing Rowan and blahbity blah blahs... 
It seems like everytime I can finally go a day without thinking of him, I get an email or a dream. 

Well, at least he stopped emailing me when I told him what I go through when he contacts me.  I know it hurt him and I hated to say it, but I had to.  I hope that one day I'll be over him enough to let him be friendly or at least ask if I'm okay.  Someday...

You may look like an elf, but at least you are a very cute elf!

It's good to be an elf.  No matter how chubby I am, at least I'm cute!

As Michael tells me (and Jonathan always did and still does from time to time)  there's just more of us to love and more soft spots to rest their heads on.

Yep.  My nephews tell me I have a "pillow body" which I think is a great comfortable comment.  Gotta love the things kids say every now and then!

better than being called a bitch by a 3 y/o nephew.    Pillow body. I like that.

Ouch.  Yeah, when my nephew Nick was 3 he once decided to JUMP on my chest (he was used to tackling his dad like that and didn't realize he could hurt his Auntie Val) and I ended up with a toddler sized bruise on my boobs!!  It didn't hurt until a day later.  BUT that's terrible that your 3yr old nephie calls you a bitch.  You know that's not him talking, don't you?  He's gotta be getting that cuss word from someone else...  Jeez.  My nephews cry whenever I accidentally say "shit" and then I feel really bad.  Again, I guess I'm lucky they are so well behaved, but that didn't happen over night.  I worry still about what kind of teenagers they are going to be...

He's 19 now... That was his first word to me. My sister adopted him when he was 2 1/2. On his 3rd birthday I was carrying him downstairs to the basement to show him the toyroom and the present I got him  - a teddy bear and some piano thing- and he looks up at me, says "aunt mymy bitch"     He didn't say a word to me again until the summer and called me a bitch again when I was helping him with his toys. I was like 10 or 11 at the time and it crushed me.

OH, I can just imagine.  Some kids really do let out those curse words and don't mean to, but I betcha you must've thought it was a sign of things to come, eh?  He's still young, you can only hope.  I hope to be the best aunt I can be.  My inspiration, believe it or not, was the movie Practical Magic -- I want to be, not just a cool aunt, but the kind of aunt my nephies will come to for spiritual and magical advice.  They have it in their blood!

That was what I wanted..  Sadly, his early behavior was a sign to come. All of the early troubles my folks and sister (and earlier on her husband- now divorced and he recently passed away) just said "oh, he's adopted, cut him some slack."  or the one that always pissed me off "you're just jealous."  When he was 10 he threw my nintendo across the room, breaking the gamedrive and one of my mom's crystal swans.   I yelled for my mom and she said "Miya you shouldn't break things and blame them on Ryan, he's just a child."  I was 17, getting ready to go to college, and never jealous about Ryan. I was thrilled to get a nephew as it was kinda like getting a sibling since my sister and I are so different age wise.

Yeah, I can see why they played that card on you.  Sounds to me like your adopted nephew came with some anger management issues or a possible diagnosis of a bi-polar disorder (not that I want to blame a kid's bad behavior on a disorder, but you never know).

And, seriously, like a 17 year old is going to throw her nintendo and her mom's crystal swans!  You were 17 not 3!  Some people need to get hit in the pimple, even if they don't have a pimple...

yep. now he's 19, and is going to jail in a few days for about a month and owes a few grand to the city park's district for being a dumbass.  He and a friend rode their bikes to the baseball diamond after dark, broke the lock on the gate, broke into the concession house/stand, stole half a box of candy bars, and set fire to an outside trashcan.  He had actually gone in and waved in front of the video camera, thinking it was a fake.  His buddy is scheduled to go in to jail tomorrow and if he has skipped town, Ryan owes the full fine for the two of them and has to do 4 months in jail.

Yep.  I agree.  Dumbass indeed.  I hope he learns how to better himself!

What a cute picture! Thanks for  visiting my blog today. Have a wonderful evening!

Thanks back at ya!  You, too.