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by Jess at Daughter of Opinion:
3 names I go by:
Mom
Money (because the SP stopped channeling Keith Mars and started channeling Trent Walker)
MOMMMMMMEEEEEEEEE!
(sorry, all the others are either my actual name or too close to it)
Screen-names I’ve had:
landismom
booklover
catlover
3 physical things I like about myself:
eyes
hair
cheekbones
3 physical things I dislike about myself:
the fatness
I’m not at all flexible (and never have been)
that’s pretty much it
3 parts of my heritage:
Czech
Irish
Mutt
3 things I am wearing right now:
My Metropolitan Museum of Art watch
Skechers
5 earrings
3 favorite bands / musical artists: (Note - in no particular order)
Mary J. Blige
Tupac Shakur
Bruce Springsteen (hey, I am a Jersey girl)
3 favorite songs:
Tupac’s “California Love”
Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl”
Lauren Hill’s “Zion”
3 things I want in a relationship:
near-constant use of the word ‘hegemonic’
inside jokes
snark-in-common
3 physical things about the preferred sex that appeal to me:
Tall
Dark
Handsome
3 of my favorite hobbies:
Reading
Blogging
Networking (I know, it’s weird)
3 things I want to do really badly right now:
Eat all of the chocolate in the house
Cuddle with my Bee
Kiss my boy on the head
3 things that scare me:
The Bush Administration
Nuclear war
People who have cleaning ladies
3 of my everyday essentials:
Coffee
Email
A walk with the kids
3 careers you have considered or are considering:
Stage manager
Organizer
Poet
3 places you want to go on vacation:
Anyplace with a beach and someone to bring me drinks
Rome (again–but with the kids this time)
Amsterdam
3 kids’ names you like: (other than my own kids’ names)
Nora
Isaiah
Emma
3 things you want to do before you die:
Learn Spanish
Have grandchildren (like, many years from now)
See an end to war
3 ways I am stereotypically a boy:
I hate to cook
I’m not great at small talk
I curse like a longshoreman
3 ways I am stereotypically a chick:
I’m enamored by the pink & glittery
I stand up for myself even if I have to cry to get through it
I love gossip
3 celeb crushes:
Walt Whitman
Allen Ginsburg
W.B. Yeats
3 people to play next:
well, my blog only has three other regular readers that I know of, so I guess it’s:
daddychip
Leggy
Emma Goldman
Saturday night’s alright
Our usual practice on the weekend is that the Bee gets to stay up for an extra half-hour or so longer than during the week. It’s her extra Mommy/Daddy time, and usually, the three of us play some kind of board game together. The last few weeks, since landisdad has been working on Saturday nights, it’s been our Mommy/Daughter time, and we’ve been making collages.
It’s fun to make things together, and unlike most of the art projects that we do where I just help her (or her and the Sweet Potato), when we do collages we both do one. I’ve been having fun too, and we get to have some very interesting conversations. The Bee is big on bathroom humor right now, and her tendency to talk about excrement was exacerbated this weekend by the 24-hour urinalysis test that we had to do. At one point, I offhandedly remarked on her joking, “after all, what’s funnier than pee?” To which she simply replied “poop!” before dissolving in a fit of giggles.
It made me smile, too.
In other news, I was a huge snarky bitch to landisdad this weekend, and couldn’t really figure out why, until Sunday afternoon, when I came home from grocery shopping to tell him that when our house is a mess, I have a mess in both my house & my workspace. Then he cleaned the kitchen and I cleaned the bedroom while BOTH of our children (mercifully) slept. AHHHHH! That’s better.
