Don’t Break the Chain
Feb 07
Because I link up on Yeahwrite on Tuesdays anyway and because I was tagged, today my entrance into Yeahwrite#43 is a list of questions. Erica from Yeahwrite was given questions from Ado at The Momalog and she has her own list of questions for 12 lucky winners, myself included. Don’t hate me for my answers.
1. What’s your favorite sandwich?
Cream cheese and jelly on egg bread. Easy peasy.
2. Who’s your favorite ethnic actor?
Will Smith. He’s made me laugh, cry, angry, scared…he’s good.
3. Besides searching for porn new blogs, what’s your favorite Internet activity?
Porn.
Oh wait – what? You said NOT searching for porn? Okay, then Twitter stalking. Periodically throughout the day I like to jump onto Twitter to see who’s there and you know what I discovered (and no offense if this is you)? It’s the same dozen people on there all day long. It’s almost creepy.Â
4. Fill in the blank: When I was 13, I got in big trouble when my parents caught me …
…with pimples, frizzy hair and a ridiculously heavy period.  Only I didn’t get in trouble for that; I got pitied. HOWEVER, when I was 17, on New Year’s Eve, I was at a fabulous party when I had a beer from a keg. Realizing it was like no biggie I kept refilling. Eventually a friend (still don’t know who) called my mom and left me lying on the cool grass half-conscious with some creep trying to “keep me warm” by rubbing my way-upper thighs until my mom got there. She had to leave her own party at our house with two uncles to help her carry me to the car. When I got home and crawled onto the bed she cursed me out and made me get changed into jammies because I was “not going to just pass out like some drunk.” Ahhh, morning, when she got up bright and early and came into my room making lots of noise so that I could get the full experience of a hangover. I was only grounded for a week, because probably half of that I was still sick anyway.
5. On a cross-country road trip, who are the three people you’d want with you, living, dead or fictional?
Hot Joe and Noah because I want to go on a cross-country trip with them anyway. The third person is hard. I’m torn between my nephew (so Noah has someone to hang with and Wyatt knows a lot about how my sister’s motor home works since we’ll be borrowing that – thanks Beth and Dan), and my mom. Mom took Beth and I all over the country and to other countries growing up and she herself has traveled all over the world. She’s pretty much a pro.
6. What item do you keep buying at the store over and over thinking you’re out, and when you get home, it turns out you have plenty?
 Peanut butter. Seriously, SERIOUSLY, we have 5 jars right now.
7. What’s the most expensive item you’ve ever let your children play with? If you don’t have children, insert [irresponsible unemployed ingrate] here.
The car. Granted, it’s off and he’s just pretending to drive and listening to music, but it is WAY more expensive than the Wii or the electric carving knife.
 8. Who wears the pants in your family? Do they make your butt look cute?
If you were to ask Hot Joe he would totally say it’s me but it’s absolutely not. We’re pretty equal, although I am a bit spoiled; if I really, really want something (within reason) I usually get it. On the other hand, Joe is very sensible and more money-wise. As far as parenting, we totally share and stick together there.Â
And nothing makes huge, round and wide look cute. Nothing.
9. If it paid good money, which of your character flaws would make you a millionaire among millionaires?
My mouth. I curse. A lot. A little perspective: Hot Joe is an ex-military, Italian/Irish construction worker who grew up in upstate New York on the back of a Harley Davidson ridden by a leather jacket wearing step-father who had long hair with rubber bands and a matching belt-length beard, with his mom riding the bike next to them. They’re the real thing, and super awesomesauce.
I curse more than Hot Joe.
10. Leftover pizza: cold or reheated?
That so totally depends. If I’m home alone I will grab a cold piece and eat it as fast as I can without thinking about a healthier choice first. If Hot Joe is home, he will heat it up in the oven and bring it to me with a side bowl of ranch for dipping and a glass of ice-cold diet root beer with a straw.
11. Tell us about your first love, living, fictional or inanimate, in exactly 140 characters
WTF? EXACTLY 140 CHARACTERS? DO THESE CHARACTERS COUNT? Geez, I could be up all night with this one. For the record, inanimate scares me a little. Gross, Erica.
My first real love loves me just as deeply as I love him. He chose me and my child. He makes me laugh and smells like heaven.  My Hot Joe.
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There you go, my 11 questions. I hope you have learned a lot about me. Now it’s my turn to torture 11 more people return the favor with 11 questions of my own:
1. Have you ever played an instrument? If you haven’t, what kind would you like to be able to play?
2. What’s the longest you’ve ever gone without sleeping and why?
3. If you could be a fly on anyone’s wall, whose would it be and what would you hope to learn?
4. What are 5 items in your home you could not possibly live without?
5. If someone popped by your house unannounced right now, what would you be most embarrassed about?
6. Honestly now – Do you watch any of the Kardashian circus?
7. If you could be famous for anything, what would you want that to be?
8. Who is that one person from your past you would most like to connect with but you either don’t remember his/her last name, don’t know her married name or just can’t find on any searches?
9. Who is at the top of your “list?” You know, the one you’re allowed to stray from the marriage for.
10. What’s your preference: Phone call, text or email?
11. Do you have a new/newer/newish laptop that you just have no need for and you want to send to a family who currently has only one working computer, and it’s a work computer and really isn’t supposed to be used for anything but work but is currently being used for this blog right this very second?
 And now I must tag 11 people who hopefully have not already been tagged, only I feel all guilty and teenagery and insecure so I’m only tagging 6 (LOSER). HOWEVER, if you read this you think, “WTF Kim? Why didn’t you tag me?” Then call me out and I will ADD YOUR NAME and you can do one too!! Then I’ll feel super important. Your mission – if you choose to accept it – is to answer my 11 questions, write 11 of your own and tag 11 additional people (or 3 or 7 or 25 – whatever). Make sure you let them know they’ve been tagged or the questions will just sit there with their name in a list and they’ll never be the wiser.
 1. Lenore
2. Jay
3. Sara
4. Nami
5. Jamie
6. Bridget
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Blogger or not, come back tomorrow after 6 pm (PST), click on the pretty flower above, scroll to the bottom where all of the bloggy-boxes are, read a few posts (or all of them) and vote on your favorite 3 (or just mine)!!
The item I keep buying over and over because I think I have run out is lasagna pasta. At one point, I had four or five unopened boxes. So I quit buying them at all, and the joke will totally be on me when I actually DO run out.
Ha! I do the same thing. It’s because you only need half a box and really how often do you make lasagna? I have 3 boxes currently.
I love your photo at the beginning and your “disclaimer” at the end of the post
P.S. Get peanut butter from Costco… you will NEVER run out!
Um Costco is the REASON we have so many jars. My husband buys a 2-pack every time he goes no matter what. My son has peanut butter on his waffles for breakfast and his sandwich at lunch. Every day.
Ha, ha! A million bucks for cursing – I don’t even think George Carlin accomplished that, though he came pretty close. And cold pizza…that’s a dude thing. My boys would LOVE hanging out with you on left-over night. Okay – although I’m not feeling “pressured”, being a native NY’er empathetic to Jewish-Asian-Catholic cultures, I’m naturally feeling guilty. Forgive me if I screw it up.
Haha! You’re loved no matter what!
Great answers. The ‘I hate it when…” quote at the beginning is awesomesauce.
Now I have to respond to the tag, so I don’t die. Thank you for offering good questions!
It was NOT EASY.
Haha! I am still laughing out loud at the getting in trouble one! Hangovers suck, especially the first…especially when your parents catch you
Awesome answers
Seriously, my mom brings it up at least once a year. I’m 41. You’d think she’d let it go.
The chain letter/ imminent death thing cracked me up!
Pinterest. I knew I HAD to use it.
Girl, you can never have too much peanut butter. I get so aggravated when I go to the pantry and the jar has like, a smidgen left. Just enough to piss you off.
Speaking of pissed off, the pup with the painted toenails does not look happy. Smooshable, but not happy. How ever did you get her (him?) to stay still for that?
Please, I could go for a scoop of peanut butter right now!!! As for Allie’s nails, I had to sit on her and sooth-talk her and my son had to help while my husband shook his head. Now I can’t even polish my own nails without her running from the room. It’s not like it HURT!!
OMG. The questions were awesome and your answers cracked me up. The thing about Twitter…you are so right about that!
I know I’m right! I just checked right now and there they were. I’m going to have my husband open it up and I’m going to name 3 people tonight. JUST 3. They will all be there I just know it.
Funny post. Glad you forwarded it before death.
Thanks. My family’s pretty glad too. Close call, though.
Funny stuff. Appreciated your 17 y/o self story. That was kinda pitiful too.
-Ellen
SO pitiful. But kinda typical too.
Can we borrow some peanut butter? Cuz that’s the one thing I always totally think we have, which we TOTALLY don’t. And you’re right, the same baker’s dozen of weirdos are ALWAYS on Twitter. I don’t really get on there anymore. I have programs that tweet for me and shit.
If you like Skippy, IT’S YOURS. Hot Joe won’t even notice it’s gone. Besides, he’ll buy more soon anyway. You have tweety programs? You’re coolness.
Hhahahaha I can definitely see how that would happen with peanut butter. I do it with toothpaste.
Ha! Yeah, we sometimes have 6 to 9 packs of toothpaste as well!!
This is a great post. I had to laugh at the peanut butter thing, because I do that crap all the time. I think I have three or four right now. To be fair, I use it every day. So that makes it okay, right?
It TOTALLY makes it okay. We go through almost a jar a week. Peanut butter is the PERFECT source of protein!
I thought Joe would smell like leather. Way to ruin it for me. Thanks for not tagging me.
He smells soooo good, even at 3 am. Seriously. Always. After work. You name it. Why didn’t I tag you? Are you going to unfriend me now?
I’m totally opposite on the peanut butter. In my house, we always run out because I’m always positive I bought some the last time I went grocery shopping. You’d think making lists would help, but no. No it doesn’t.=)
Hahahaha! We do that with milk.
First – do you think Will and Jada are getting a divorce? I really don’t want that to be true!
Second – I love blog homework. It gives me an “easy” post to write – thank you for tagging me!
Third – the Pin that says please text, don’t call or something like that – that’s how I feel for sure. Hate talking on the phone!
I just saw that on the magazine stand yesterday! Those rumors have floate around for years. You’re welcome on the homework. I’ll send you a list of math problems next. And I have that same pin! Thanks Pinterets for ruling the world.
I wanna be tagged. It’s a throwback to middle school and I’m on the sidelines thinking “well maybe THIS time I can catch the ball…” But regardless of my own inner demons, your post made me laugh and laugh. I always figure cold pizza doesn’t have any calories, right? I mean, it’s COLD. The calories have congealed…
See now I always hated being tagged because everyone was always faster than me and I ended up being IT until dinner.