Hippie Grandma

Grandma Elisa Jammin' with her first grandbaby


FOUR THINGS MEME

Four jobs I've had

1. "Fashion" Staff at JCPenny (isn't that an oxymoron??)
2. Barista...the American kind...no booze
3. CD store clerk
4. Paper shredder at my dad's office

Four movies I can watch over and over

1. The Royal Tenanbaum's
2. Amelie
3. Empire Records
4. Peewee's Big Adventure

Four places I have lived

1. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
2. Brevard, North Carolina, USA
3. Huntington, NY, USA
4. soon to be Florence, Italy

Four television shows I love to watch

1. America's Next Top Model
2. Seinfeld
3. Law & Order: CI
4. Curb Your Enthusiasm

Four places I have been on vacation

1. Anywhere in Texas
2. Little Rock, Arkansas
3. NY, NY
4. Pompano Beach, Florida

Four of my favorite dishes

1. Chicken Gumbo
2. Boiled Crawfish, with potatos and corn
3. Sweet Potato Pancakes
4. Adam's Buccatini Amatriciana

Four websites I visit daily

1. Expattalk.com
2. idontlikeyouinthatway.com
3. all the blogs on my blog
4. fedex/usps

Four places I would rather be right now

1. Florence
2. Baton Rouge
3. At Tomo eating sushi
4. anywhere with Adam...maybe Mohonk?

Four bloggers I am tagging

1. I won't
2. obligate anyone
3. but feel free
4. to tag yourself :)

OH....MY....GODDDDD!

have you looked at that ugly ticket over there lately???? holy shit! WHAT?!! 1 month SEVEN freaking DAYS! WHHHAATTTT?!?!?!

50 boring things about me

in true copy-cat fashion, I've compiled a list of 50 things about be. Narcissistic? yes! boring as all-get-out? why not! but it's better than attacking the mulitiplying pile of pans that need washing :)

1) I love the smell of scotch tape (sunset-lover...thanks for the thought!)

2) I have amblyopia (one eye sees better than the other). I am not cross-eyed as a result THANK GOD, but when I was little my eyes looked crazy. I had one thick lens...the other was clear so my left eye looked gigantic. My phys-ed teacher made fun of me. Seriously. Not the kids...the teacher.

3) When I was in elementary school, I'd miss class a couple of days a month on "protest" days to march in front of the factories that were polluting, wearing a surgical mask. My Miss Piggy doll always came along. I got grounded once for throwing a straw wrapper on the ground.

4) Hated Barbies as a child. I had two. One was a motorcycle Barbie, and I neglected the doll as I zoomed around the bike. The other was some kind of a swimmer whose hair and suit changed color in water. I pulled her head off and ran to the bathroom sink to watch blond turn to brown, pink turn to purple.

5) I am one of three children, the only girl. The only special treatment I got was my own room and an earlier burfew. Even though I was born second, I am the oldest.

6) I trained in classical ballet from when I was 5 until I moved to NY at 23. I danced with a modern/acrobatic theatre in Louisiana, and then went cold-turkey when I moved. I regret that.

7) My favorite food is mom's chicken gumbo.

8) My favorite desert is mom's banana pudding.

9) I hate my birthday. The attention stresses me out.

10) I might regret having gotten my degree in Landscape Architecture. I'm not sure yet.

11) I wanted to be a country singer in highschool.

12) I love coffee. Okay so you figured that one out.

13) I am a recovered anoretic.

14) I refuse to eat asparagus because I HATE the way it makes my pee smell.

15) I haven't had a female best-friend since college (3 years). It's difficult for me to attach to girls.

16) My hands look like they belong to an old lady.

17) There are dust bunnies the size of tennis balls in my closet right now.

18) In the 8th grade I stole a bikini, and it was ugly. I suppose I figured if I didn't really like it, it wasn't really stealing?

19) At my parents house I have a large band-aid collection. When I danced, I always needed bandaids from going "en pointe", so I started to save one from each box, unused of course.

20) I have a memory from my parents first house, of pushing a penny into the door jam, where the door latches, and not being able to get it back out. I always wonder if it is still there.

21) Realizing that there really aren't that many interesting facts about me.

22) The only day I ever skipped school was to pay a speeding ticket so my parents wouldn't find out.

23) I was the last one in my highschool gym class to get my period (hey, I can't think of anything else!)

24) When I was about 3 I was playing house in my bedroom. I had a Playskool kitchenette, and the closet was the bathroom. Determined to play right, I went into the closet, squated in the corner, and peed.

25) I had many adventures playing house. With my kitchenette came a petit "blender" which spun when you pushed a button. I decided my imaginary friends needed a cocktail, so I added baby-powder and water and proceeded to whip us up some "magguweetas"

26) I wish I were a gay man, or that Rufus Wainwright were straight so we could have a wild affair. hahaha

27) As a small child, I went to a very poor public school, so once a year a few kids were sent home with lice. In third grade, I got the lucky ride home. While my mom was washing my hair with that nasty shampoo, she decided it was a good time to tell me about sex. She started to explain that it wasn't just for making babies...and I stopped her there. That was the first time I asked my mom to hush, and the first time she actually listened.

28) My second toe is longer than the first. My mother says it means I'll be the head of my household. I think it just means I have ugly feet.

29) I know all the words to "Green Acres" and "The Beverly Hillbillies"

30) I bleach my fem-stache

31) The first time I saw Adam, I knew I was going to marry him.

32) I wish I was 5-10, and weighed about 10 pounds less. Who doesn't?

33) I also wish that I had tiny boobs.

34) Ou es la bibliotheque?

35) When I was 8, I thought I was going to be the first woman President. Now that I know what it takes, I think I made the right choice in going a different direction with my life. I remembered I had a soul and it wasn't for sale.

36) If I could have my way, I'd live in a small house near the ocean, with land to grow my own food, chickens, a dog and a horse. I'd only go into town once a month, and I'd have 10 kids. This wouldn't really work, but it's my fantasy,

37) When I was in Kindergarten, I had this terrible skin problem on my entire right hand palm, and I'm right handed. Each morning my mom would have to wrap my hand in gauze slathering it with creams. At the same time as this skin issue, one morning I used my parents toilet, somehow knocked my mother's curling iron off of the vanity, and caught it with my left hand, which my mom slathered with creams and wrapped with gauze. I looked like a leper.

38) which leads to the town I used to live in...It had a leprosy hospital on the outskirts. I always imagined it was a place that a leper went to grow BACK their parts.

39) I HATE the sound of cardboard rubbing on cardboard....yikes! I can barely type it.

40) I also can't stand it when Adam, or anyone for that matter, affectionately rubs my arm over and over in the same spot...I feel like it will be rubbed raw and it gives me chills.

41) I'm extremely ticklish. I cry if someone tickles me more than a split second. Seriously.

42) I stole my brothers' ADD meds to speed/lose weight in high school.

43) At night while driving, I have to keep my gaze low b/c I feel like the tree branches are going to scratch my eyes. The is also true when a plane on TV flies towards me, or anything of that sort.

44) As a small child, I wanted to be president (as stated above), a hair-stylist, a marine biologist, an architect, a ballerina, and in Greenpeace.

45) I've never found a four-leaf clover.

46) I'm moving to Italy in less than weeks and I don't speak a LICK of Italian.

47) I didn't like my middle name for a long time because it reminded me of Blair from "The Facts of Life"

48) When my mom bought me a training bra WAAAAY before I would ever get breasts, I got angry with her b/c I felt she was throwing it in my face. :-) heehee

49) I just changed the title of this blog from 100 to 50, b/c I can't think of any more interesting/uninteresting things about myself

50) I compulsively spell in my head. I could spell an entire sentence that you speak to me without stopping. HOWEVER, I will NOT spell check this post. In fact I'll read it later and THEN make corrections. Naughty girl.