Not really, I just figured I’d make something up. Please don’t beat me up.

My love Miss just awarded me this awesome award. I’m taking it upon myself to assume that she thinks I kick arse so much that I deserve it twice, and not because she hit “Mark All Read” one too many times in her reader. Right, Miss? Hehe, Thanks. I love this award and I love me some Miss even more. She pretty much rocks, strawberry chapstick and all.

And, because I am just so dang interesting Hockeyman tagged me for a meme. I’m not going to be a cheater (cough cough), and will do the full 8. I am, however an ass kisser. Except, I don’t know whose.
8 things I am passionate about

-Lorelei
-My family
-My friends
-My morals
-Children
-My beliefs
-Learning
-Art/Crafts
-Helping those that need it.

8 books I’ve read and enjoyed

• Harry Pothead - I mean Potter.
• The Boxcar Children (childhood)
• My Side Of The Mountain (childhood)
• The DaVinci Code
• Chronicles of Narnia
• Little House on the Prarie
• Any of Janet Evanovich’s number books
• White Oleander

4 words/phrases I say often

• Put that in your juice box and suck it.
• What up, homeskillet?
• Steven, get off me.
• Steven, you’re getting on my nerves. Will you please shut up?
• Hey Steven, will you make me some brownie bites?
• Huh? Did you say something?
• I’m sorry.
• Ahm…I’m telling! (Hubs and I say this as a joke to each other. We might be the only ones that think it’s not weird. We realize and accept this.)

8 things I want to do before I die

• Watch my daughter and any other children grow up to be old and happy
• Write a book
• Change people’s lives
• Travel the world
• Live debt free and comfortably
• Inspire others
• Love like nothing else matters
• And lastly, I hope to be sedated when I die. Well, I want to say goodbye, but would rather not be in excruciating pain. I’m a wuss like that.

8 things I’ve learned in life

• Everyone has their own agenda. Accept it. Move on. Deep down, so do you. Even if your agenda is to love and help others because you enjoy helping others.
• Homeschool does not necessarily mean schooling your children in a remote barn with pigs. If you do it right, your child will be just as socialized as anyone else’s, considering their personality type.
• Some people just say the wrong stuff. All the time. They’re accidental asses, but they mean well. Most of the time.
• It’s the tough stuff that makes you the strongest, and sometimes the loneliest (because you get so hard).
• Some of the unhappiest people are the ones with the biggest smiles and rainbow puppy fart blogs/conversations. Basically, it takes a while to REALLY get to know ppl.
• 90 percent of the people that ask you how you are doing really don’t care. They want and expect you to say “good” and move on. They don’t want to hear anything else, and they may not know how to react. Learn it and embrace it. Maybe they care but maybe they are too uncomfortable with their own lives to listen to your issues, because once they start it means they’ll have to recognize theirs too.
• If you truly want to learn and grow, accept opinions different than yours. You don’t have to take them as your own, but listen to them, and in your own brain decide if you want to accept them and why or why not. The worst thing a person can do is shut another person down because they share different opinions. Challenge yourself to know your own self and why you believe what you do. Learning to accept others for being unique and having different opinions and understanding where they are coming from is a beautiful thing.
• If you want a friend, be a friend. It’s really taxing when you are the only person in a friendship that makes the phone calls, send the emails, drive to meetup, arrange the “dates”, etc. Same goes for significant others. Relationships need both sides working.

8 places I want to see

• Canada
• Italy
• France
• Ireland
• NYC
• California
• Germany
• Las Vegas
• (there are tons more)

And, for tagging, TAG you’re it. if you want to be, that is. For a second there, I almost considered tagging some random people just to see if they’d come to my blog. But, then a wave of niceness overwhelmed me. Don’t worry. It’ll be over soon.

Oh yeh, and because I rock so much, will you please go vote for me? (You will need to click on Boss Sanders to earn your 100 years of good fortune.)

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