Hoppin on the bandwagon

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Ask me three questions. Any three. No matter how public, private or embarassing and I'll answer them honestly and fully. I've done this twice before but, it's making it's rounds again and I'm sure since I last did this y'all have got some more questions. (And if not, I'm sure with your wonderfully imaginative minds you can come up with some.)

Vickey

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20 Questions

Screw cleaning. Screw my news. (Which, PS, isn't fun or good news but you'll find out later.) I'm catching up on journals as best as I can. I need to update my links on the sidebar. If you're not on there, please tell me so I can remember to add you! Time for Twenty Questions from Dawn.

1. What is one song that got remade that got remade you wish would’ve been left alone?  Umm.... idk. But they shouldn't have remixed Listen To Your Heart (the remake of it). lol

2. What’s your favorite food smells? Fresh baked cookies, coffee, tacos, and grilled cheese (damn and I was hungry when I started writing this)

3. Is there any dish you order in a restaurant that you wish you could make? Ummm.... a lot of 'em? 

4. Are there any dishes you make that is better then the restaurant? My pancakes are WAY better than Riki's

5. Do you believe the advice given in women’s magazines about relationships? I take everything with a grain of salt

6. Is there anyone who you are afraid of? I'm afraid of Mr. Giotto when he does that thing with his eyes

7. Do you believe there is one perfect person for everyone? Not sure

8. Get up early or sleep in? This is gonna sound weird but, get up early and sleep in occasionally.

9.What’s one food you’ve heard described in a blog that you’re dying to try? Ummm... the pudding suprise thing Dawn's ALWAYS talking about

10. Are there any friends from your past you wish you could see again? Let's start with Michelle and that other girl (Sarah? Megan?) and go to Summer and Tori (but she I know how to get in touch with). Next would have to be Liz (but I can get ahold of her too).

11. What’s one physical aliment you wish you didn’t get? Chapped lips, sweaty pits (tmi? sry), watery eyes (not crying, allergies), runny/stuffy nose, sore throat, problems breathing (which I've figured out is from stress and Murph's rose doesn't help anymore)

12. Is there anything in your life you wish you could do over? I don't think I would. I think I may have stood up to Jon a bit more last year or told him how I felt but, that probably would have made ever seeing him again so embarrasing. So no, probably not.

13. What’s one of thing that just annoys you? Stupid questions like "are you mad at me" or "do you hate me" or the like. If I'm not, that question made me mad. If I didn't, I do now.

14. Where’s the one place you’d love to visit? Italy

15. What was your favorite movie as a child? Pocohantas

16. Are there any particular political issues you feel deserve more attention? idk

17. Are there any talents you wish you had but don’t? drawing realisticaly. My abstract and such is good but, my actual things suck

18. Did you experience anything traumatic as a child? Fighting from my parents and probably a few other things that I can't remember at the moment

19. How do you feel these traumas have changed you? The fighting did. I want to shield Samantha and my (future) children from that more than I would if I hadn't heard it. I want to find my one true love before I get married. I don't want to wind up like my parents. Or my grandparents.

20. Do you think you’re high maintenance? Me? High maintenance? Nah. Just give me a CLEAN shower, a CLEAN room, CLEAN sink, CLEAN clothes, food to eat, a roof over my head, friends to hang out with, JLand and the WONDERFUL people in it whom I have come to love so much, my family at the proper distance (aka knowing that they're there but not being all like *there*, ya know?), and chocolate, and I'm happy. Is that too much to ask? hehe ^_^

Gotta go eat lunch and then finish up upstairs. The shower looks so much better, by the way.

Crap

I'm gone for a week and everything here turns to crap. The shower is covered in hair and scum. My bed has a ton of stuff on it for me to sort through. The sinks aren't shining. There's dishes all over the kitchen. The ones in my sink are covered in scum. I could sit here all day and complain but, I've done too much of that already this morning. Right now, I'm going to finish getting dressed, put on some music, and clean the bathroom first. Then my bedroom. Then the kitchen. Then the basement. Lordy Lordy.

And I have some news for you all but, it's gonna have to wait until I have the time to honor it as best as it should be. (As in not just "blah blah blah" but telling how I found out and memories and whatnot. You'll see what I mean when I tell you.)

Biopoem

Victoria
Intuitive, compassionate, loving, and inexperienced
Daughter of two ppl that just can't get along
Who is struggling through life at times, always caught in the middle of something, and relying on her faith and her friends to get through
Lover of words, Coke, and fuzz
Who fears bugs, the dark, and dying alone
Who needs a good night's sleep in her own bed, to regulate her sleep patterns, and Coke for my newest addiction (caffeine)
Who gives advice on things she's never dealt with before, a shoulder to cry on, and kisses to Samantha on every occasion
Who would like to wean herself off caffeine, a nice hot shower, and a cure for cancer
Resident of a land where unicorns roam wild and the horrors of Pandora's box were never unleashed
Victoria

Why don't you try your hand at one? Instructions are at Poetry Dance.

She has returned!

Kay, y'all I'm baaaaaaaaaaack! I got my tan and flirted a little bit with a bunch of guys (but didn't find one guy to flirt my head off with). Ummm.... I'll update tomorrow at Gramma's. For tonight, I need to crash. A week away will do that to ya! Love ya and I'll catch up with your lives ASAP. I'm going to turn all alerts back on as soon as I save this. So.... what did I miss in *your* life?

I miss you!

*waves*

I'm going away for a while. Not my choice exactly. Now before you all start going "What did she do? Why is her computer time off again?", let me 'splain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up. *giggle* Actually, I can explain and quite simply too. Lindz has been gone for a week in WI. Tonight, I'm sleeping at her dad's house. (I'm there now.) Tomorrow, we leave for Alpine Lake (near Saratoga Springs). We went there a few years ago. Lindz lost her bracelet in the lake. Let me back up. Lindz and I got matching charm bracelets. One charm on mine said "best" and on hers it said "friends". That's the one difference. We rented a paddle boat and were out in the lake when her bracelet snagged and came unclasped. It fell in the water and before we could get it, it was fish food. So now, we're going to drop mine into the water at approximately the same spot from a paddle boat. Anyhow, for the next week I'll be gone at Alpine. I've shut off all alerts except four (my comment alerts and the journal jar) and put FLYlady on hold. I'll be back at Lindz's on the 28th until the 29th. Then I go to my gramma's and then I come back home. (The 29th I have a chiro appointment and the 30th I have a waxing appointment and then the 31st I have my birthday party!) So until then, I shall be gone. I love you all and I'll miss you and I'll catch up as best I can when I get back.   Oh, and guess what? Yesterday when I was shopping I got this cropped hoodie and it says "L'amore Tourajours" or something like that and it means "Love always". Isn't that perfect since I (typically) sign this journal "Love always, Vickey"? I think it's too cool. = ~ ) Kay, time to go work on my list of 500 facts. (Got the number from Dawn but was working on the list before then just didn't know how long I was gonna make it.)   I'm gonna go do some reading before Lindz gets in. Til next week, I love you and I'll miss you! I'll try to remember to write each night before I go to sleep about the day but, I do apologize if I forget. My one hope for this vacation other than a light tan is to find a guy to flirt with. Lindz found Terry last time we were there. I want to find a guy to flirt with. Just for the week. Please? hehe ^_^   Love always,
Vickey

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July 7-2:39AM On July Fourth, Lindz and I planned to go to see the band that always plays here before the fireworks then wtch the fireworks and come home. After waking at noon and cleaning/organizing (to earn some money), Lindz and I decided to use her pool for it's intended purpose rather than its use of late (swimming vs. cleaning) but wound up cleaning before anyhow. I had talked to Mom the night before and she mentioned Bryan had called. [Note: I was still dating him at this point.] I called him and we planned to met up sometimes at the concert. Around seven, Lindz and I got out, showered, and started to get ready. My shirt was moving a bit too freely so I used double-sided tape to fasten my bra and shirt together. Lindz asked me while I was fixing my make-up if I was doing this for me or not. I must confess, no guy had entered my ind as sufficent reason to do all the preparation I was doing. Walking into the celebration, I was loving life and myself and totally felt wonderful. (I have this one lip gloss I only wear in really good moods. I wore it all night long.) Somewhere along the way, Lindz and Vickey became Lindz, Maggie, Bryan, Mandy, and Vickey. For some reason, I was all over Maggie. (I'm the gayest straight girl you'll ever meet, as Sayid said.) We ran into Colleen and she said "Murph is here." (What? He's here?) and at that moment this lunatic runs up and says "But nobody knows where." Immediate peals of "Murph!" "What are you doing here?" (What were you doing there, sug?) [Note: That's a useless question since I asked him not to read this blog anymore.] and "Ugh. What? No hug?" Maggie, Bryan, and I walked around to find Meg. The order of each event is kind of jumpled so, another list of random things I remember. 1) We all found Kyle N and he wound up joking around with, oh, idk, everyone about screwing them. At one point he kissed my neck. It took me a second to realize it. lol I agree with Colleen though. She said at Jack's party that she loves guys kissing her neck. Agreed. *sigh* 2) Waiting for Lindz's (non-alcoholic) strawberry daquiri (sp?), I (once again) owund up on Murph's back. Tom (my ex-crush from youth group) walked by and I yelled hi while on Murph's back. Cuz a "nice Christian boy" isn't gonna see anything wrong or sexual in that. *rolls eyes* 3)Our little "fests" (Ya know, writing this down and knowing people will read it makes me realize how wrongly it could be taken. Do I share tmi with y'all?) Gropefest:squeezing boobs and feeling chests. Lead to... lick fest: licking chests, faces, and necks. Oh, and Lindz licked my stomach. Gropefest again.   It was really funny and really fun. Bryan kinda stayed out of it. Maggie, Mandy, Murph, Lindz, and I sure didn't. 4) Waiting for sno-cones after finding out that Murph likes me (and after Lindz told him I like him. Thanks, hun.) I decided to put my money in my bra. I was in mid-sentence and I put it it and saw Murph, Bryan, and the adolescent boys at the booth follow my hands with their eyes. Next, my sno-cone spills on my other boo! More stares as I wipe it away. We wound our way over to the fried dough (fyi: this is post-fireworks) after saying good-bye to Murph (and getting his cell #). [*stops typing for a few to dance/sing to Katrina Elam's I Want A Cowboy*] Standing nearly to the window, Lindz (by this time it's down to Lindz, Mandy, Bryan, and I) says "he really likes you". *eyes widen* "I know". But wrong time for her to've opened her mouth. Bryan was listening. Opps! (Meanwhile, I'd been telling ppl all night that by the time summer's over, I'll probably have... nvm. He can read this now. *blushes* Don't worry, Mom. Nothing like what you did at 15.) [Now that he's not supposed to read this.... I was telling every one that before the summer was over, I wanted to kiss him. I didn't.] We soon said hello to Bryan's family. He got so embarassed. They raelly weren't embarassing. After getting fried dough, we said good-bye to Mandy (whose mom wanted to know who Bryan was and asked before we were out of earshot). Nibbling on buttery fried dough, we made our way to find Becky but not before passing a half-naked couple involved in who-knows-what. Bye, Bryan. Hi, Becky. Walked to the car and went to McDonald's. Lindz got a chocolate milkshake, I got a strawberry one, and Becky got a coke. When we got back, we pretty much went to sleep. Speaking of which, at 3:29am, I think I'll try (again) to find the Land of Nod. *sigh* Off to think of kisses on my neck and electrical tape roses... hehe ^_^ Love always, Vickey   July 7-11:24PM   On July 5, I met Jake for coffee. Lindz and Dad went to Wal-Mart while I went to talk to Jake. I went in with a sense of dread and worry. I ordered a "blended iced mocha coffee" and flirted with the dude behind the counter (the casherver, according to Lindz) a little. Jake came out of the bathroom and my drink was up. We sat down and he tried to  pull out my chair for me. "I got it." I returned the movie Dad borrowed months ago from him. So we started talking about our Independence Day celebrations (sorry but I left out a lot of detail including umm.... most of the night and the fact that I ran into Murph and was flirting all night) and then I started to talk about why I wanted to met him but couldn't find the words so we started talking about movies. Eventually, I started explaining my reasons. Apparently I didn't do a very good job of it b/c I don't think he gets that I think of him as a friend and that he makes me uncomfortable when he puts his arm around me (hell, when he gets near me at all).   July 9-9:14PM
Smokey has been gone four months. That's all I'll say on that subject tonight.   To all you single mothers/fathers/child care professionals/SAHM/SAHD(ads)/etc.: God bless you. I've been taking care of Sami for about four hours and I'm agitated, frustrated, and thanking God she's a) going to bed now and b) laying down with Joey and not me and that by midnight or so, I get let off the hook. Mom and Ray are at a ZZ Top concert at Tag's. I have no real clue when they'll be bck but I'm waiting up. I have to keep an ear out for Sami so I'm staying up til they get in. Whoop. That's her. Kay, she's laying on Joey, rocking. This is gonna be a long night. We played outside and she played in the tub. By 8:40, I decided it was bedtime. She was throwing a fit and that means she's tired.   12:15am-When I stopped writing, I took her and within 45 minutes, she was asleep. On top of me. For the next hour and a half, I was pinned. Now, I'm exhausted. God bless you who do this regularly.   July 14   At the pool at Kirsten's. Don't feel confident at all today in my bikini. Spending my day on the lounge chair, reading, writing, thinking, and swimming every 20 pages or so when I get too hot. Back to Ashes to Ashes by Tami Hoag now.   July 17   I got burned that day at the pool. Here's something you don't know about me: I can be painfully shy. I can be so so shy sometimes. Like now. I want to go to sleep but my aunt is asleep on the couch. I tried to wake her up but I don't want to be a pain. Maybe it's not shyness in this case. It's a fear of being thought.... idk what. A pain. But I'd only be asserting who I am and what I need. I need a plce to sleep. She's in it. It's the same reason I don't eat here or at Mom's at times. Like, I eat meals but not snacks even ifI'm hungry. I can get very meek and want to blend into the background, try to be "the good child" in comparision to Jeff, Jay, Joey, and Nikki. Well, I'm not overcoming this tonight so I'm going to finish my Bible reading for the night or read some of Ashes to Ashes (prolly the latter since I've already read more of th Bible than I normally would), do my 25 more crunches, and find a way to sleep. Joy.   July 22   I feel quite bold today. Typically, when I see a cute guy, I look for a sec and look away. Any eye contact and I immediatly break it. A truckload (literally) of hot guys drove past and I craned my neck to look. (They were looking right back.) A cute guy walked past while I was on a ride. I caught his eyes and held it til he had to turn and watch where he was going. Oh, yeah. I'm with Lindz, Tiff, and John camping. We got here around 3 or 4 and set up. We ate lunch/dinner and changed. By 5:30, we were in the park. Rode a buncha rides. Got some food. Watched the laser show after a quick call from Nick. Oh, Lindz and Tiff rode the slingshot. Light show, here, walked to the bathroom by myself and nearly couldn't find the campsite on the way back. My writing sucks tonight. Sorry. Bible, Potter, bed. Love ya.   July 24   If I ever even think about stripping my bed and washing all my sheets, shoot me. I'll only get aggrivated and reduced to tears. Lindz, come fix my bed please. You're anal aout yours and I'm anal about fuzz. Dad didn't fold fuzz right and it's irritating me. Poor nights sleep ahead of me. Bible, Potter, bed.   I was Daddy's Little Girl. Some part of me always will be. And part of me is returning to there. I used to hear this song and want to barf beause I "hate"d him so much. Now I hear it and wish I were seven again and Daddy's Little Girl. I think it killed my parents when they went from Mommy and Daddy to Mom and Dad. Daddy changed slower though. Is it prdie that's keeping me from how I (sometimes) want to act? To be sweet and innocent and Daddy's Little Girl? To call him "Daddy" instead of the "Father" I whip out when I'm especially pissed? Damn pride. I have a business call to make tomorrow (to my lawyer) so I need some rest. Good night, y'all. Vickey