Brace yourselves. I’m tackling three meme’s at once here.
First up: The Seven Things Meme. Holly tagged me for this one and damn, thinking of seven things I haven’t already told y’all was tough. I’m guessing least one of these tidbits about yours truly is probably old news to you.
1) Sometimes I have to work really hard at not being offended when I make something for dinner that Julia won’t eat.
2) I yell. More than I should.
3) More often than not, when we go through the Tim Horton’s drive-thru, I lie to my kids and tell them I only have enough money for a coffee when they ask for Timbits.
4) I get really worked up over things sometimes. Like, I’ll pick something and just go to town stressing over it; analyze and re-analyze something until I’ve pretty much turned it into a fictional event.
5) Then there are the moments where I get ensconced in paranoia. My mind wanders, and sometimes it wanders too far and I have to work pretty damn hard to get it back.
6) I used to eat cat food when I was a kid, but only Meow Mix. (I had standards, you know.)
7) I can’t stand mushrooms, most fish, creamed corn and lamb.
Onward – Foop tagged me for the book meme. You know, the one where you open the book you’re reading, turn to page 123, find the fifth sentence and then post the next three sentences. I got all excited about this tag, because the book meme is one I’ve never been tagged for. (It’s the little things, people.)
Right now I’m reading Trader by Charles DeLint, sent to me by Chris (along with Carol Goodman’s The Lake of Dead Languages, which I devoured – good book).
Anyway – 123rd page, fifth sentence in, next three sentences:
He gives me that grin again. “So one of the first things you’re saving up for is a hone stone, Max, because I like my blades sharp.”
I’m only half listening to him.
I gotta say, I struggled with this book initially – I had a hard time getting used to DeLint’s narrative and keeping track of the characters’ voices, but I’m about halfway through it and am quite into it. It’s a story with many layers and I’m very interested to see how things end up.
And finally, OHmommy wants to know what’s in my purse. Not much, because my purse is sort of small:
So there’s the normal stuff: makeup pouch with pressed powder, two kinds of lip gloss (one that’s really old and should have been thrown out like, two years ago and one that is awesome and tastes like cake), a tiny spool of dental floss (I am obsessed with flossing) and a very small bottle of perfume oil (because you never know when you’ll need a drop of perfume) inside. Wallet, big enough to hold my chequebook, because although I hardly ever write cheques and never, ever write them when I’m shopping, I feel the need to carry my chequebook with me at all times), which is jammed to the tits with cards and outdated pictures of my kids and other crap. And my cell phone, which is like, ancient, that I hardly ever use.
There’s a hair elastic of Julia’s (one of those old-school bauble kinds), a grocery list and a flyer about Pontiac Waves, which is what we just traded our gas-guzzling, pig of a van in for yesterday. WOOT! It’s very small and copper coloured and it’s got five on the floor, and even though I’ll miss the van, with its sliding doors and power everything and seating for eight, I am so, so pumped about having a car, a car that’s small and peppy and won’t cost me upwards of $60/week in gas to run. (I’m also pumped about driving standard again – I LOVE driving standard – and about it being almost orange in colour, because orange is my favourite colour. And Julia’s, too.)
The quarter is a MUST CARRY, something I always have, because in order to get a cart from the two grocery stores we shop the most at you have to stick a quarter in to unlock them. I also always have lotion with me, because my hands get so dry in the winter they crack and bleed. It sucks.
Oliver’s purple car (named Vinyl Toupee, from the movie Cars), the denim Barbie skirt and the hula girl are all things I found while cleaning out the van and shoved in my purse to take in the house and forgot about. There’s gum, which is a strange thing for me to have in my purse because I rarely chew gum (I carry it more for Dave, who asks me every time we’re out together if I have gum even if he knows I don’t have any).
And fifty cents in Canadian Tire money, which is kind of a pre-req here in the Great White North. If you’re Canadian, you’ve probably got some CT money in either your purse or your wallet.
I never know who has done what meme and when, but if any of these three meme’s appeal to you, do it up and let me know so I can come and check out what you’re reading or what’s in your purse or what seven of your idiosyncrasies are.
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#2, #3 and #4… um.. me too (hee hee)
April 9th, 2008
Congrats on the new orange car. How cool.
Oh and that purse. Totally love it.
April 9th, 2008
In my purse:
1) my testicles
2) 80 cents in Canadian Tire Money (because even in California you have to represent!)
April 9th, 2008
I can totally relate to #1. Both my husband and son are extremely picky eaters and while they often will eat the food I prepare, I can tell they are choking it down. There was one occasion I was so upset that my husband didn’t like dinner I made that I grabbed the fork out of his hand mid bite along with his plate full of food and dumped it down the disposal. Sometimes I just put so much heart and soul into something it just “hurts” when they don’t like it.
April 9th, 2008
Of course the Canadian Tire money, what self respecting Canadian doesn’t have that in their purse/wallet? You are awesome! I can’t believe that is all you carry, my purse is always filled to the brim and twice the size of yours and weighs a ton. I don’t think I could catalogue everything, let alone take a picture without using a wide angle lens from 50 yards away. Hmmm, perhaps this is why I have back problems?
April 9th, 2008
ah babe. i feel the same way too about #1.
April 9th, 2008
Wait, I’m confused – is that cake lip gloss for your lips or snacking?! ;)
Yeah, Trader isn’t quite as easy to get into as the de Lint book I usually start people with – Someplace to be Flying ROCKS. You will want to be a Crow Girl, too!
April 9th, 2008
Hi! I just found your site yesterday – but please don’t ask where from because I can’t remember. Duh.
I loved this post and am going to do my own post as soon as I can.
Until then, could you please tell this American Girl what the heck Canadian Tire money is?
I feel a little dumb asking but I at least know what Tim Horton’s are! (Thanks to Kevin Smith’s Evening Harder concert DVD.)
Your writing is so very, very good. You deserve all those ROFL badges. I laughed out loud so many times!
April 9th, 2008
Number 4 is totally me too! It is very funny to read your description of turning it into a fictional event because that is how I always think of it too. Often when I am done, I can’t even remember what really happened and which part I imagined/added.
I also keep dental floss in my purse because I am obsessed with flossing and clean teeth.
April 9th, 2008
OMG my friend and I totally used to eat Meow Mix when we were kids, too – I thought it was just us.
and I once put down about $75 in CT money towards a power drill purchase. Yeah, we’ve got some.
April 9th, 2008
sassy bag… I love the hula girl. I shove things in my purse all the time but my car is still filthy!
April 9th, 2008
love that purse and I totally lie to my kids too about not having enough money.
I’m not sure if I feel better or worse now.
April 9th, 2008
i LOVE that you have that hula girl in your purse. love.
April 9th, 2008
I spent all damn day today looking for a purse like that. Damn. I love it.
I never munched on cat food growing up, but I occasionally ate a dog biscuit. Or dog jerky. Yummers.
And I yell all the time. It’s only when I talk quiet that everyone starts getting scared.
April 9th, 2008
Midwestern US girl here. What is Canadian Tire money and what do you use it for?
And hey–you have to pay to get a grocery cart? What kind of screwy system is that?
April 9th, 2008
I once had a dream about eating cat food. I can almost taste it and that scares me. :)
April 9th, 2008
Damn your purse is so neat.
I love Canadian Tire money. So far I’ve got $30 saved. Yup, I’m weird.
I yell too much too. It’s a mom disease.
April 10th, 2008
Two kids and that’s all you’ve got in your purse? I’m impressed. My purse, as you saw, busting at the seams.
I love my van, but there are times that I miss my zippy little car. And I absolutely LOVED driving a stick. I think when it’s time to trade this in, I’m going to downsize.
April 10th, 2008
That is the cutest purse! Will you be bringing it to T.O.?
Now, what am I to do about my outfit for Saturday nite? What are you wearing?
April 10th, 2008
I’m all over #4. And, who’m I kidding, since I’ve had kids, I’ve started yelling. Never used to. Oh well, evolution of mommyhood I guess.
Love the purse. I would be very ashamed to show the contents of mine… really, you couldn’t pay me to publicize that. People might think I was a slob, and I’m not. I just use my purse as a catchall. For everything. Under the sun. So I can’t ever find my CT money, even if I need it!
:)
April 10th, 2008
Numbers 2, 4, and 5 are totally me. And I too have a grocery store cart quarter.
April 10th, 2008
And yes, what is CT money?
April 10th, 2008
I often use the same lie to my daughter when going through the Dunkin Donuts line – oh, gosh, only enough for a coffee, sorry! and BTW – living in Ohio, we have NO Tim Horton’s here……..Tim’s ROCKS!!! We’re coming to Canada for a few days this summer and I’m bringing back tons of coffee and Timbits!
April 10th, 2008
Hehe :) I love being nosy and looking into people’s purses!
April 10th, 2008
I love that purse. So. Much.
April 10th, 2008
Memo will join you in a memepalooza…
April 10th, 2008
Jeez. I know I have said this before, but you and I have just too many freaky things in common. Freak.
:)
April 10th, 2008
I will totally do the purse meme sometime this weekend :D
I loved your purse, btw.
And I learned more about you.
I’m doing a meme now.
What I really should be doing is sleeping.
Damn.
♥ xo
April 11th, 2008
Just checked my purse. Yup, 40 cents in CT money. No hula dancer though, but I do have a small plastic Boots the monkey dressed as a cowboy. Same reason, found it in the car and stuffed in the purse to bring it inside, does that count?
April 11th, 2008
I love that you put Julia’s hair in old-school hair elastics. It seriously helps restore my faith in the world, that little girls still wear their hair like that. It even softens the blow of the newly-revamped Fisher Price Little People.
April 11th, 2008
I think I might have to participate in the purse meme… ooo, I don’t know if I can. It’s a dis-freakin-aster. We’ll see.
CT money? Interesting! I’m curious!
Pontiac Wave? Really! I don’t think that vehicle is out in the US, at least I haven’t seen it, and it’s not on the Pontiac website – unless well, unless I’m blind that is.
April 11th, 2008
I carry a backpack more often than not, so I’ve got WAAAYYY more crap I could talk about than the average purse carrier. Still, I love the hula girl.
April 11th, 2008
Numbers 1-5…are we the same person. And ditto what Redneck Mommy said – you have to watch out when I get very, very quiet. You can ignore the rest.
And, yes, to orange.
April 11th, 2008
I’m with you on the getting worked up and the paranoia. Then my strange fiction makes me question myself and I’m back to analyzing. I’m completely sane I tell you!
Your purse is so cool and congrats on the new Pontiac Wave. Orange… sweet!
April 11th, 2008
I love that you have a hula girl in your pocketbook. I’m a big fan of hula girls, for some strange reason.
April 11th, 2008
Oh god, #1…huge pet peeve of mine. I’ve resorted to not even telling them what’s for dinner anymore. I could be in the kitchen having worked for over an hour on supper just to have them walk in and say, “oh that looks disssssgggggggusting!”…now they don’t get to know till it’s in front of them.
a.
April 12th, 2008
That is a tiny purse my friend. And MY friends tell ME that MY purse is tiny. *snort*
April 14th, 2008
i LOVE the color orange.
i once bought an orange leather jacket that i was completely bonkers over until i wore it to work. my boss came up and said ‘hey, quite a jacket you have there’ to which i proudly gushed ‘i know, i love it and it was on SALE.’ his reply? ‘orange usually is.’
yep, it still draws blood.
hey, what’s a meme? and do i want one?
ha, great post :-)
linda
April 27th, 2008
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