My new friend Damama decided to help me out with a topic for today’s post, and I thank her because the kids, neighbors, spouse, store clerks, postal workers, etc. didn’t do anything to bother me yesterday. (Usually a day can hold multiple musings for a post – it was freaky.)
- I have a squirrel’s backside statue that I take out and use as a centerpiece for certain family get- togethers. It’s name is “Bushy”. (I have a story about why, but that requires someone to ask about it.)
- It was gold when I got it on sale at the mall, but I spray painted it gray and white to look more natural. Nothing worse than a gold squirrel’s backside.
- One of my kids called breasts “chestes” and one of my chestes is bigger than the other. You’ll get no photo of this. You will just have to take my word for it.
- I have pretty feet. I hope people start looking me over starting with the feet and just stop there. Hasn’t happened yet. When depressed about my 20 lb. weight gain over the past decade, I am temped to wear sandals in subzero weather because Mom told me accentuate the positive.
- To me, only chocolate qualifies as candy. Mints, Skittles, Twizzlers, Necco, Smarties are just sugar taking up space in the candy aisle. I dream in dark chocolate. (20 lb. weight gain – get the picture?)
- I am married to the most patient man in the world and he actually thinks he’s LUCKY to have me. I just get all teary-eyed and snifflely at our “Gift of the Magi” match up.
- I have one coarse hair under my chin that I call my “goat hair” that really bugs me. I really have to go visit an electrolysist and take care of that. If you watch, you can catch me playing with it with a sour look on my face, thinking how I should really make that appointment.
- I procrastinate. (Lucky for my goat hair.)
Well, now you might have guessed that Damama tagged me and asked me for 8 little things about me. Or you may think she asked me to portray myself as very unattractive and squirrelly. At any rate, I think I am supposed to identify 8 other lucky individuals to share their little things with and here they are….
The More the Messier, The Mom Bomb, Tracy Said What, Observations from the Back 40, Beyond the Red Door, Counterfeit Humans, A Toast to Parenting, Angelawd. I will send you all an email about it later but I am ready for some good old fashioned procrastination right now.
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“You can’t be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit.” ~ Sarah Jessica Parker
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1 My Personal Blog » You Said “Little†Things… // Nov 15, 2007 at 9:25 am
[...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerptYou Said “Little†Things… Posted by Mary on 15 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Pet Peeves My new friend Damama decided to help me out with a topic for today’s post, and I thank her because the kids, neighbors, spouse, store clerks, postal workers, etc. didn’t do anything to bother me yesterday. (Usually a day can hold multiple musings for a post – it was freaky.) [IMG Bushy] I have a squirrel’s backside statue that I take out and use as a centerpiece for certain family get- togethers. It’s name is “B [...]
2 Rebecca // Nov 15, 2007 at 10:44 am
I had trouble getting past the back side of a squirrel being used as a centerpiece. I assumed that his name was bushy because he has a bushy tail but it sounds like there is more to the story.
3 Karen Vogel // Nov 15, 2007 at 11:07 am
Okay, I’ll bite. Why is he named “Bushy”? And did it used to be a statue of the whole squirrel, or was it always, um, half-assed?
4 New Diva on the Blog // Nov 15, 2007 at 6:51 pm
I bite too, would love to hear the story. The more natural color scheme is clearly the way to go, gold wold have been tacky this way it just screams classy!
I have a contest going on until Friday, come play.
http://sayanything.typepad.com
5 therapydoc // Nov 15, 2007 at 11:47 pm
The real thrill is seeing a black squirrel. And a little known fact, in Israel, the cats suffice for squirrels.
6 Heather // Nov 16, 2007 at 5:32 pm
I wanna know the story behind Bushy too!
7 Pam @ Beyond The Red Door // Nov 17, 2007 at 11:12 am
I’m cracking up at the thoughts of walking into your home and seeing a squirrels backside sticking up out of the middle of your table centerpiece.
Pam
8 Keli // Nov 17, 2007 at 1:08 pm
I like your ode to the squirrel because, as one of my latest posts points out, squirrels are smarter than many people!
Thanks for the e-mail and giving me a day off from stupidity. As I too subscribe to the procrastinator school of thought, I may be a while with the meme, but I’ll be up and around soon with 8 of the littlest known facts about me!
9 Pam @ Beyond The Red Door // Nov 17, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Thanks for the tag. I love these kinds of things. Feel free to tag me anytime!
I chose not to do it on my HSB blog (Beyond The Red Door). Instead, I did it on my Xanga blog (A Whole Lotta Nothin’ Goin’ On). The link is http://www.xanga.com/SoccerMomtoMandL
I hope everyone will come by and visit me at Xanga, too.
Pam
10 Lucille // Nov 17, 2007 at 5:50 pm
I laughed at the GOAT HAIR comment on the chin. Must be something all wise women get cuz I have one too! It’s super coarse and long too. It scares me every time I pluck it! I think – what the heck? How did this grow out of ME and WHY WHY WHY would it grow there? Lol.
Thanks for sharing and for visiting my blog. I’ve marked yours in my favorites and will get back soon!
http://whosgoingtotellyou.blogspot.com/
11 Strizz // Nov 18, 2007 at 3:22 pm
I have a goat hair
12 Tracy // Nov 18, 2007 at 4:49 pm
LOL…I can only think of seriously naughty things when I hear the name “bushy”. Really..I should put myself in time out. *giggle*
And the goat hair? I hear ya sister. I’ve been pluckin, tweezin, shavin’ and threatening my chin hair for about three years now. I actually think the threatening is doing more good than anything else. *giggle*
I accepted your tagging challenge and have posted my list http://tracysaidwhat.blogspot.com
Tracy
13 Damama T // Nov 23, 2007 at 12:26 pm
YOU CRACK ME UP!
14 jenny gardiner // May 6, 2008 at 10:00 am
Dontcha know that every woman has that chin hair? It’s like a secret handshake, only ghastly.
But you are right, good feet will get you far in life…