ce poteau n'est pas en français

So, the only bad thing about my Funky Friday post titles is that if I post a comment on someone's site, they may see the foreign-language title and assume the whole blog is in that language. I don't know what to do about that!

I realize that this is another copout post, but at least you're getting to know me, and I'm actually updating my blog.

Body....

I'm 5'1". Col is 6'4". We spend a lot of time making fun of each other because of it.

I have nice legs, even if they are short. In particular, I have lovely ankles.

I have freckles. I like my freckles. I was once told by a Mary Kay representative that they were blemishes that needed to be covered with foundation. I don't know if her opinion was an anomaly or the norm, but I just don't agree.

Because of the height, the freckles and my resistance to spending time on preening (I don't wear makeup and I do not style my hair), I look about 5-10 years younger than I really am.... which would be great if subtracting 10 years would still mark me as an adult. (I was carded for the last R rated movie I attended in the theater - in 2006).

Luckily since I've been pregnant people aren't giving me funny looks; apparently they assume they were mistaken about my age, instead of assuming I'm a pregnant teenager.

I have never wanted a tattoo but I have seriously considered getting an exotic piercing. Where you wouldn't see it. Maybe after the baby.

I don't floss.

I have never broken a bone.

If my life depended on my skill in sports I'd already be dead. I have no natural grace or coordination, but someday I will enroll myself in enough consecutive adult beginner ballet courses to acquire some.

After owning two guinea pigs over a period of 6 years, with no problem originally, I developed an extreme allergy. If I touch a piggy now, I break out in hives on my skin, I sneeze, my eyes water and itch and my nose runs.

Foooooooood.

I like food. Especially when someone else makes it, just because I'm not that natural cook like Col is.

I'm not so much on the cooking but big on the baking. I love the feel of cookie dough under my hands and knowing when it feels just right. I love making and eating banana bread.

I would die a slow and painful death by starvation if I was gluten intolerant.

Apple pie is the only fruit pie that I will eat.

The craziest/grossest thing I ever ate was really just chicken innards... I was in another country and was eating stir fry chicken, and we were really grossed out to find a recognizable fallopian tube in there. Nobody was watching, I could have thrown it out, but I ate it anyway just so I could say I had done it.

In case you were going to bring me a care package:

Candy: Ferrero Rocher. I may or may not have polished off a 48-pack of these in 3 days.

Ice Cream: Cinnamon ice cream, or anything that incorporates nuts (pref. pecans) and/or caramel. Bonus points for both (e.g. pecan praline, bluebell Mocha Madness, etc). Points subtracted for chocolate flavor ice cream. Ice cream with fruit in it is dungeon-worthy.

Chips: Ruffles Low Fat, or bite sized Tostitos.

Guilty Indulgence chips: Nacho Doritos.

Words and Writing
My favorite kind of pen is a fine tip Uni-ball.

I hate it when people say they need to orientate something. The first time, you get oriented. If you have to do it over, you get re-oriented. The process of becoming oriented is called orientation. It is, however, impossible to become orientated.

I read so many books by British authors that I often "misspell" things using the British, rather than American way. The only thing I don't get confused on is "-our" such as in "color/colour." The ones I have the most problem with are those ending in -ise/ize.

I can puzzle out written Spanish fairly well, but I couldn't construct a sentence in Spanish to save my life.

I won the district-wide spelling bee when I was in 5th grade, but either my parents didn't want to put the stress on me or we couldn't afford to move on, because I never went on to state. I think the winning word was "psychic." As part of my prize, I got a dictionary in which they had inscribed a note about how I won it; the inscription had the word "school" misspelled as "shool." When I won, it was the only time I can ever remember seeing my dad cry. The next year, I got 4th place when I misspelled "triangular". I knew how to spell it correctly, but was going too fast and said "triangluar" and didn't realize what I had done wrong when they told me to step down.

I keep thinking I'm going to make a searchable database of quotes, but I never get around to it. I have a lot of them collected up though.

i think capitalization is overrated.

Entertainment!

Col and I are supernerds... as an homage to how we met [in the Star Wars Galaxies online game], in amongst the table confetti at our wedding, we had little lego lightsabers. Our recessional was the Throne Room march (when Luke & Han get their medals at the end of the first movie/Episode 4 A New Hope). We had a special, light-up lightsaber cutter made for the cake, and I surprised him with a tailor-made Obi-Wan costume as his wedding gift from me.

[assuming Col did not exist and I was single] There is not a single actor that, if he walked up to me and offered to... marry me/court me/be my sugar daddy that I would go for. There are lots of hotties out there, but none of those dudes do it for me. Now their CHARACTERS on the other hand...

[again assuming the above] if Jack Sparrow happened to take a fancy to me, I think I'd probably end up stranded on some godforsaken island with only an empty bottle of rum and several venereal diseases, when he decided to move on to the next best thing... same with the new James Bond. I would SO fall for that. or Daniel Jackson from Stargate. *ahem.*

Movie/TV people I totally don't "get": Captain Kirk (Just because he boned every woman in the show doesn't mean he's sexy.) [I reserve the right to revise this opinion after watching the new movie.], Kevin Bacon (The movie Picture Perfect was the most illogical movie I ever watched... she spends the entire movie trying to get the attention of the buttugliest jerkhole on earth.... *shudder*), Will Ferrell (the man is just Not Funny. If you are trying to get someone to be Not Funny, hire him. otherwise, just... no.), David Caruso (aka Horatio Caine of CSI Miami).


Yeeeeeeeeeeeepp.