I've been Tagged!

I've been tagged by Living Our Life in Cycles. Thanks for tagging me! Here we go!

Here are the rules:

1) First post the rules.
2) Answer 11 questions from the person that tagged you.
3) Create 11 NEW questions for the people you tag.
4) Tag people and link them to your post.
5) Let them know that you tagged them.

1. What kind of sleeper are you? Stomach, side, stomach, all of the above I am a side sleeper. Well I fall asleep on my side. After that all bets are off.
2. What is your favorite app on your cell phone- if you have that kind of phone My favorite is the Nook App. I've been reading a lot lately.
3. If you could have any wild animal as a pet what would you have? Why? A monkey! Like one of those cute baby chimps. They seem so have so much personality.
4. If you have any super power what would you choose? Why? Time travel. I'd like to have my husband meet my father.
5. What is your favorite candy? Usually I'm into fruity candy like Starbursts or Skittles. But I do love Heath Bars too. Toffee is gooood.
6. What is your favorite season? Spring. Love being able to open the windows!
7. What one movie could you watch over and over again? Grease 2. Way better than the first.
8. If you HAD to move to another state or country where would you go? Really anywhere in Europe, but if I had to pick- Spain. Another state- would prefer somewhere that I don't have to shovel a lot of snow.
9. Are you a night or morning person? Um, neither really. I'm a get up without the alarm clock around 7:30 kinda girl. So not early morning, but I don't sleep so late anymore.
10. Biggest pet peeve? Ugh. There are a lot.
11. What's your favorite website to visit? Probably Facebook.

Here are MY questions:

1. If you had to eat one food every day for the rest of your life, what would it be?
2. Who was the last person you called and what did you talk about?
3. Do you like candles? What kind of scents?
4. If you could have dinner with any celebrity, who would it be?
5. What is the last good book you read?
6. Do you collect anything? How did you start?
7. Do you have a nickname?
8. Zombies are attacking. Do you run or stay and fight?
9. If you had to spend $1000 on yourself, how would you spend it?
10. What is your dream car?
11. What color are your bathroom towels?

I'm tagging (and please forgive and ignore if you've already been tagged)

1. Brooke at Invisible Finish Line
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Um, Wow. So everyone's blog that I follow has already been tagged. SO I tag no one! ha ha

I am alive, I swear.

Um, sorry for the enormous blogging hiatus. Totally didn't mean to do that. Where has the time gone?? It's almost freakin March?!?

So I'm home. Er, I've been home for a while now. I'd be lying if I said I missed Maine. Cause I don't. It was good to come home to my husband and have lots of "I haven't seen you in two weeks sex". Brown Chicken Brown Cow! ha ha

And now I'm back at work where my job is slowly sucking my will to live. I've been cut off from the internet during the day. I can only do a little web surfing from my phone in between phone calls. This really means almost none. I'm working in a call center now- chained to the phone all the live long day and by the time I get home, I have no interest in computers or telephones, really. It fries my brain for the most part. So I've been reading at night in place of interwebz surfing. Reading so much that I may make it to 75 books this year!!??!? Whoa.

I'm going to blog more, I swear. Things are picking up and hopefully we're going to get back to all that baby making. More on that to come.

I lied.

I said Maine wasn't so bad, but I lied. Holy Shiz. I am so bored and I miss my husband. GET ME OUT OF HERE!!! AHHHHHHHHhhhhh!!!

Answers!

Thanks for your questions! I know I'm late, but here are the answers!

MH- I 100% owe you an email. Coming soon- stay tuned!

Share with me an embarrassing moment from college or high school.

Hmmm...Well let's see. Junior Year at Beach Week I wet my pants running home to t

he house so we wouldn't be late for curfew. My friends mom (who was chaperoning) almost wet hers laughing at me.

Favorite tv show? book?

TV show is the Big Bang Theory. It's pretty much the only show that I watch on the regular. I love all the nerd humor. My favorite book is Good in

Bed by Jennifer Weiner. I can 100% relate to the main character.

Were you named after anyone?

Not that I know of, really. I just know that my Mom named my sister so my name was left to my father. My mom wanted Katherine, but my Dad pulled for Kathleen and wouldn't budge. It's nice knowing that, especially now that he's gone.

What was your song for you wedding? Is there another song, that's silly and not wedding appropriate that reminds you of DH?

Our wedding song was "Feels Like Home" by Chantal Kreviazuk It describes our relationship to a T. The only other song that always reminds me of J is Livin on a Prayer. LOL. When we were dating, it came on the radio and he sang the line that says "Gina dreams of running away" as "Cheetah Cheetah running away". Who doesn't know the words to Livin on Prayer?!? I still giggle when I think about how sure of himself he was that he had the lyrics right.

How is your husband since his surgery? Any before and after pics to share?

Hey- Thanks for asking! (and reading too!) He's doing great, actually. He's down about 110lbs since May. Pretty crazy, right? He is pretty sensitive to sugar, but other than that- he feels great. I don't have any before Pics here in Maine, but here's a pic of him standing in one leg of his old jeans. I colored in his face- he would FR-eakkkk out if he knew I was posting him on the internet.
Even though you have to be away for your job right now, what has been your favorite part of Maine?

Ha- Um there isn't a favorite part?!? I've been pretty miserable here, actually. It's frozen up here, fo sho. But the people are all SUPER nice and have welcomed us with open arms. That part is really nice.

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Not in the Metro DC area- too expensive! Maybe somewhere in North Carolina? We're actually still trying to figure that out!

Maine v2.0

Coming to you live from Maine! I was smart enough to bring my computer for this second stint in Maine. I decided two weeks was too long to be separated from the interwebz. We did some sightseeing this weekend and went to the Easternmost point in the US- Luebec, Maine. It was sunny out, but still pretty chilly. Here are a few shots of the West Quoddy Head Lighthouse in Lubec:

Maine is ok. It's cold and boring, but it's fine. We're getting the work done that we need to get done and that's what really matters. J is not a good phone talker, so I find myself missing him even more. I have a hard time falling asleep by myself so I have to take Tyenol PM. Gah- I'm just ready to go home and get my regular life back in order.

And PS- it's *this* close to being February. WTF?? I spent all of my January in Maine and now it's over. I'm hopeful that the rest of the year goes just as quickly.

Ask Me Anything!

Shameless plea for comments? Perhaps.

I think I'm back in Main and just super mega bored. But I have a computer! So ask away, blog readers!

What do you want to know? What can I share with you?

My Trip to Maine

Here are some Maine pics and a few highlights....

The view from the Inn where we stayed. We face the Machias River (which promptly froze about a week later). The Inn was really nice, actually. Very cozy despite having to share a bathroom with Coworker Kim.

The Innkeepers run a restaurant in town called Helen's. They have two amazing things there. 1. Pie as shown above. Chocolate Coconut Pie. YUM. There was a lot of this pie going on while I was there. 2. On Tuesday nights, they serve what might be THE BEST mac and cheese I've ever had. It's the only thing I'm looking forward to about my return trip to Maine.

These are the radio towers on Cutler Navy Base. We visited the base one day (about a 45 minute drive from town) to have our computers fixed. Huge base, but not much around that area. We also learned that Cutler is where lots of the Lobster Fishermen live.

This is me making every attempt not to freeze to death outside the Dunkin Donuts. Needless to say- there is no Starbucks in Machias.

It gets dark in Maine at 4pm. And not just dusk- PITCH BLACK DARK. Note the time on the clock and the blackness of it all. It's dark as a mother clucker. And there is hardly any light in town. A few street lights, but no stop lights. In fact- I drove to 90 miles to Bangor and didn't see my first stop light for about 60 miles.

I drove back to Bangor on Thursday in a snow storm. In a rented Chevy Cruz. Not fun, people. Not fun. The people in Maine are totally used to driving in this kind of mess. They drive big cars, tiny cars- who cares. Those of us who reside below the Mason Dixon line aren't so accustomed to driving in all the white stuff. Needless to say- it was a long ass trip and I was stressed out the whole time.