Pad Patter 3/16 - 11 Things

melrio

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While I was perusing Trish's blog, I was intrigued by her answers to The Paper Mama’s 11 Things Post. And since I'm about to leave out for her neck of the woods, I figured we could share something about ourselves. I hope you have a beautiful Saturday.

1. If you HAD to change your name, what would you change it to?

2. Are you a collector of anything?

3. What is your first thought when you wake up?

4. Do you prefer sweet or salty foods?

5. Name one thing you miss about being a kid.

6. Are you a morning or night person?

7. List 5 items on your life’s to-do list:

8. Share one thing that people may not know about you.

9. What is your all time favorite song, movie, and book?

10. Do you have any hidden talents?

11. Are you a really clean or super messy person?
 
1. If you HAD to change your name, what would you change it to?
I kinda like my name but my mother did inform me that she almost named me Karen Renee. I was named after my grandmother on my dad's side so I think I'll keep it! LOL

2. Are you a collector of anything?
Does clothes and shoes count? I usually can not pass up anything Harley Davidson related though.

3. What is your first thought when you wake up?
Why am I still so tired! I never feel like I get any rest. I sleep just never rest!

4. Do you prefer sweet or salty foods?
I usually navigate to more salty foods nowadays. With something icy cold to drink.

5. Name one thing you miss about being a kid.
Rollerskating! I still remember me and two other girls my age rollerskating around the neighborhood, playing Charlie's Angels and saving the neighborhood from bad guys! Bwahahahaha

6. Are you a morning or night person?
I'm more of a night person. Love the nightlife!

7. List 5 items on your life’s to-do list:
Pack clothes, confirm hotel room, stop by ATM, eat breakfast, load up!

8. Share one thing that people may not know about you.
I love being a biker's wife! We have all kinds of fun and the girls I hang around are so much fun and are just regular women just like all of us!

9. What is your all time favorite song, movie, and book?
I love all kinds of music, my favorite movie is 'The Promise' with Kathleen Quillan and Stephen Collins (1979), and my favorite books are done by Sandra Brown.

10. Do you have any hidden talents?
I don't think I have any special talents. Just a regular ol' gal here!

11. Are you a really clean or super messy person?
I am clean! I have a hard time seeing a mess and not getting in there to clean it up. Drives me nuts!
 
1. If you HAD to change your name, what would you change it to?
I always loved the name Julie when I was a kid. Right now that's the only thing coming to mind.

2. Are you a collector of anything?
Books. Lots and lots of books.

3. What is your first thought when you wake up?
Dang it's cold (DH likes to sleep with the window open and when it's below freezing outside I'm so not a fan).

4. Do you prefer sweet or salty foods?
I have a huge sweet tooth.

5. Name one thing you miss about being a kid.
Having the time to read everything that I wanted to.

6. Are you a morning or night person?
A little bit of both...I go to bed late and wake up early. I like having an hour or two to myself on both ends of the day.

7. List 5 items on your life’s to-do list:
Take stuff to thrift store, post stuff on Craigslist, go get boxes, pack, move.

8. Share one thing that people may not know about you.
I stage managed a national tour for a children's theatre company in the late 90s (we performed for children..all the cast and crew were adults). It was a crazy gig...but I got to see so much of the US and Canada and learned what it truly meant to be sleep deprived.

9. What is your all time favorite song, movie, and book?
Song: Scenes from an Italian Restaurant by Billy Joel
Movie: Bringing Up Baby
Book: A Ring of Endless Light by Madelaine L'Engle

10. Do you have any hidden talents?
Nope...I don't even know that I have any visible talents..lol.

11. Are you a really clean or super messy person?
Clean as far as I make the kitchen and bathrooms are clean, the floors are vacuumed and mopped, etc. But...I live a very cluttered life, so everything looks super messy to me....it drives me completely insane. We homeschool and have a ton of hobbies, and things don't always get put away like I wish they did. And people in this house seem to have an inability to throw anything away.
 
1. If you HAD to change your name, what would you change it to?
Peyton. It's a name I fell in love with after I was done having children.

2. Are you a collector of anything?
Handbags. I have a serious addiction to them.

3. What is your first thought when you wake up?
What do I have going on today?

4. Do you prefer sweet or salty foods?
Salty. My favorites are sunflower seeds or beef jerkey.

5. Name one thing you miss about being a kid.
The endless time I could spend hanging out with friends listening to music.

6. Are you a morning or night person?
Definitely morning. I can't seem to sleep very late, so therefore I can't seem to stay up very late either.

7. List 5 items on your life’s to-do list:
Make a dr. appt for myself
catch up on Project Life
finish cleaning out the basement
grocery shop
get a car wash

8. Share one thing that people may not know about you.
I was on the diving team in high school.

9. What is your all time favorite song, movie, and book?
song: Unchained Melody
move: The Lord of the Rings trilogy
book: The Harry Potter series

10. Do you have any hidden talents?
I have an uncannily good memory.

11. Are you a really clean or super messy person?
I'm a bit of a neat freak. I think it comes from my love of interior design - a space has to be clean in order to feel right to me.
 
1. If you HAD to change your name, what would you change it to? Sophia cause it is classy

2. Are you a collector of anything? yep...shot glasses

3. What is your first thought when you wake up? where are my glasses

4. Do you prefer sweet or salty foods? both equally

5. Name one thing you miss about being a kid. not being an adult :)

6. Are you a morning or night person? night, but once I am up, I am up:giggle

7. List 5 items on your life’s to-do list:
1.Christmas at Disneyland on Christmas Morning
2.Take my youngest DD (7) to Paris to see the Eiffel Tower (her tower as she calls it)...her older sister has been 3 times
3. Take a cruise (preferably a Disney Cruise with all of my kids)
4. TO learn how to take/adjust/compose pictures like a real photographer and just do it!!!!
5. To visit Asia/Australia since that is part of the world I have never experienced

8. Share one thing that people may not know about you.
I just got my nose pierced last night

9. What is your all time favorite song, movie, and book?
Watermelon Crawl/Wide Open Spaces.....Dirty Dancing.....Twilight Series:giggle
10. Do you have any hidden talents? I can pick things up with my toes :)

11. Are you a really clean or super messy person?super messy and then I turn super clean maybe once a month...having 4 kids and both adults working full time makes it very very HARD to be super clean all the time...so we just get by!:dizzy
 
Sarah I love Bringing Up Baby!!! I love old Katharine Hepburn movies. (well, ya know, they're ALL old, lol, I meant the ones where she is younger) And this post totally explains why The Lilypad is currently my #1 traffic source. :giggle

Here are my answers from the blog:
1. If you HAD to change your name, what would you change it to?
Hmmm… I kinda like Trish, so I think if anything I’d get it legally changed to just Trish. Patricia is nice and all, but I don’t necessarily feel like a Patricia. Patricia just seems so mature and dignified. I’m neither of those things. At all.

2. Are you a collector of anything?
Junk count? No? Dang. I collect things dealing with Where the Wild Things Are, the book not the stupid movie. God, I hated that movie. Way to make an awesome childrens book depressing.

3. What is your first thought when you wake up?
Is Mason up yet? Did Mason wet/poop through his diaper? Do a quick check. Baby still sleeping, diaper still good – go back to sleep until Bella comes in to snuggle. After getting up and changing Mason my next priority is coffee.

4. Do you prefer sweet or salty foods?
Of the two – salty, but generally, I prefer hot and spicy foods. Like gumbo. Oh man do I love some gumbo. It makes me happy. And it makes my tummy happy.

5. Name one thing you miss about being a kid.
Sleep. Oh my word do I miss sleep. And I was one of those good kids too, I slept, I napped. I did not fight it because I loved it. I also miss Saturday mornings. Generally my older brother and I got up with our little brother first and we’d all go downstairs turn on shows and play. Then after a while my parents would get up and my mom would make us all a big breakfast and we’d listen to music.

6. Are you a morning or night person?
Afternoon. I hit my stride around 11 and it goes to about 4/5 pm. After that I tend to be worn out, tired, and ready to go to bed.

7. List 5 items on your life’s to-do list:
a. become a neat tidy person. b. not finish my college degree. c. write and illustrate a childrens book. d. see anything I make in a magazine. e. have pink hair.

8. Share one thing that people may not know about you.
I’m 18 months younger than my older brother and 11 years older than my youngest sibling (step-brother).

9. What is your all time favorite song, movie, and book?
I hate this question. *sigh* I always wonder how on earth am I supposed to pick these sorts of things?! I mean they tend to change. As of right now: song – the Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong version of Dream a Little Dream of Me. movie – Pride and Prejudice the A&E version. book – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (surely I don’t need to link that one for any of you….)

10. Do you have any hidden talents?
I can pop my belly button from an innie to an outie. It is apparently extremely gross.

11. Are you a really clean or super messy person?
Well… as one of my goals is to eventually be at least a somewhat neat and tidy person like my mother, it’s safe to say that I am a messy person. A very messy person. I thrive in mess, however my oldest son and husband do not.
 
1. If you HAD to change your name, what would you change it to?
Cordelia Blythe. Kisses and gold stars for you if you get that reference.

2. Are you a collector of anything?
Nah.

3. What is your first thought when you wake up?
Uggggggggggggggggggggggh.

4. Do you prefer sweet or salty foods?
80% sweet (chocolate), 20% salty (chips with french-onion dip).

5. Name one thing you miss about being a kid.
someone else being responsible for me!

6. Are you a morning or night person?
My ideal schedule would be sleep 2 am - 10 am, work 11 am - 7 pm, and then hang out/relax from 8 pm - 2 am.

7. List 5 items on your life’s to-do list:
ziplining, see and/or touch my great-great-great-grandfather's book (the closest copy I can find is at Boston College in one of their collections), visit Ireland, get a tattoo, be a size 14

8. Share one thing that people may not know about you.
I love motorcycles! For reals.

9. What is your all time favorite song, movie, and book?
I can't pick an all-time favorite of any of these things! Impossible.

One of my top ten songs is Peter Gabriel's 'In Your Eyes.' I love 'The Princess Bride.' I adore the AoGG series and movies (just Vol. I and II - NOT III!) and the 'LoTR' books and movies.

10. Do you have any hidden talents?
No?

11. Are you a really clean or super messy person?
I'm such a Messy Martha. Clutter does not bother me. I wish it did.
 
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