Seven small things I regret

1. Losing the horse stickers my grandma had given me in JC Penneys when I was seven.
2. Going to see "Ghost Rider" in the theatre with Pat (his choice).
   
3. Going to see "Date Movie" in the theatre with Pat (I will take 70% of the blame on that one. I really like Alyson Hannigan.... ok?!).
4. Leaving the tap on in my bathroom during a no water maintenance time that resulted in flooding my apartment when the water was turned back on.
5. Not pouring a cup of water on the person who was urinating outside my apartment window.
6. Not going out on St. Patrick's Day my senior year because I had an interview the next day for a job I did not get.
7. Obliviously doing a pull-away when in retrospect he was doing a lean- in.
   

Number haunting

At my job I have to initial and date things all day long. I probably have to do it a minimum of 50 times a day. This month has been problematic. I have been writing a "3" instead of the "6" for June. All the time. I get it right about 3 times out of the day. And then sometimes instead of "08" I will write "06".

Is March haunting me? Am I supposed to go back? Why the 3 all the time? What is going on with March?

Doc, help me out!

Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog

Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.

Seven things that I vowed to do that I clearly have not stuck to

1. Not watch food shows or read my cooking magazines when I get home from work before making dinner.
2. Become an astronaut
   
3. Work out every day after work.
4. Not buy another book until I have read what I have.
5. Not get another diet Coke out of the vending machine.
6. Win the gold in Curling in the 2004 Olympics.
7. Look before I step while walking to prevent major falls. Or minor falls. Just falls in general really.
   

Requiem for a Day Off

...revoking your rights since 2009

I take your five, and raise you seven

Yup, stole it from Ms. Summer Queen herself.

Seven Snacks I Enjoy:

1. Celery and peanut butter
2. Blueberries, walnuts, and vanilla yogurt
3. Apples and peanut butter
4. Tortilla chips and guacamole
5. Kettle Buffalo Bleu chips
6. Spinach and artichoke dip
7. Oranges
   

Seven Things On My To-Do List Today:

1. Clean my books up (this has been on the list for a long time)
2. Finish up edits on application packet
3. Laundry..... or maybe not.
   
4. Call and put the Garden Patch cake pan on hold for my mom
5. Work out (done this am - though that might never happen again)
6. Beat Christa at Scrabulous
7. Write more of that letter
   

Seven Things I Would Do If I Were A Billionaire:

1. Travel for a good year - bringing someone new with me on every trip.
2. Loans and debt for me and the fam.
3. Pay for Maine Youth Leadership seminars and projects forever.
4. Set up a scholarship for student writers and artists.
5. Buy a summer camp to do leadership programs for students.
6. Set up an awesome, well stocked crafting room in a house, with workstations for friends to come over and craft as well.
   
7. Buy a house.
   

Seven Jobs I Have Had:

1. Clown Instructor at the Rochester Museum and Science Center
   
2. Ice Cream Scooper
3. Summer Rec Counselor
4. Security Desk Assistant
5. Driving Range Clerk and Random Yard Work Do-er
6. Office Worker and Receptionist at Springfield College Office of Undergraduate Admission
   
7. Sales Associate at Williams-Sonoma (clearly the most prestigious job thus far)
   

Seven of My Bad Habits:

1. I do not put away things in their proper place.
2. I am too early. Which leads to...
3. ...getting really ansty and impatient when it comes to making it to a flight, concert or movie.
4. I talk at the tv more than I should. Especially during Lost and Battlestar Galactica.
   
5. I never take things out of my car -- it looks like someone lives in there.
6. I am almost always in the middle of a few books - I get distracted if it has not totally grabbed me.
7. I buy more craft supplies than I will ever need.
   

Seven Places I’ve Lived:

1. Lima, NY
2. Nixon Hall, Fredonia, NY
3. Eisenhower Hall, Fredonia, NY
4. Abbey-Appleton Hall, Springfield, MA
5. Upton Hastings, Gorham ME
6. Portland, ME
7. Falmouth, ME
   

Seven Random Things:

1. I like hummus but hate garbanzo beans
2. I like to make up games. People Scavenger Hunts, Extreme Bocce, Extreme Bocce & Croquet (aka Crocce), Truth or Darts... give me a situation, I will make up a game.
   
3. Right handed, but I use my mouse with my left hand.
4. My friends call me the Admiral. And it might just be one of my favorite nicknames, ever.
5. ....and I really like nicknames, especially throwing one out there for a stranger when talking with a friend to see if they pick up on who I am talking about.
   
6. I saw Lilith Fair all three years in a row at the Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center.
7. I miss Wegmans, and that makes me a little pathetic.

Just say the C-word.

Note, this video is not suitable for work. It does use the C-word often, but its to prove a point that it is a horrid word. Still pretty damn hilarious use though. Thanks for the good fodder, McCain.

Bread making.... more erotic than you might think.

I some how want to eat less bread now.

Seven things I have dreamed about in the past week

1. Being sent on a trip to London or East Germany by my work and having a time conflict between the two, and London was the one we picked. BUT, I realized I did not have a passport and had to get to the airport in ten minutes. Woke up in a panic.
2. That I was me but in Top Chef Stephanie Izard's body. Not bad.
3. One of my friend's got videotaped throwing a fit in a restaurant when the waiter was not looking...
4. ...and as a result other friends and I had an intervention about her drinking this mixture of chocolate sauce, wild blueberries, and cough syrup. She had it all over her mouth and was kind of wild.
5. I had to check out of a hotel and coming back to find that my room was turned into a conference room and my luggage was now trash bags
6. Having to find files for these student's that had the same names as people I went to high school with.
7. I took a sword out of a stone.
   

Is someone's who's daughter likes Spoon going to take away my right to choose?

Ooooh, its Dr. McCranky... when did he get here?


Another interesting thing on all these angry women from Frank Rich

"And the evidence of misogyny in the press and elsewhere is irrefutable, even if it was not the determinative factor in the race. But the notion that all female Clinton supporters became “angry white women” once their candidate lost — to the hysterical extreme where even lifelong Democrats would desert their own party en masse — is itself a sexist stereotype. That’s why some of the same talking heads and Republican operatives who gleefully insulted Mrs. Clinton are now peddling this fable on such flimsy anecdotal evidence.

The fictional scenario of mobs of crazed women defecting to Mr. McCain is just one subplot of the master narrative that has consumed our politics for months. The larger plot has it that the Democratic Party is hopelessly divided, and that only a ticket containing Mrs. Clinton in either slot could retain the loyalty of white male bowlers and other constituencies who tended to prefer her to Mr. Obama in the primaries.
This is reality turned upside down. It’s the Democrats who are largely united and the Republicans who are at one another’s throats.

......The ludicrous idea that votes from Clinton supporters would somehow make up for McCain defectors is merely the latest fairy tale brought to you by those same Washington soothsayers who said Fred Thompson was the man to beat and that young people don’t turn up to vote."

And this oath that the Clinton to McCain Voters would have to take is eye opening as well.

And the best nickname I have heard for McCain: McSame.

And what will happen to Huckleberry Pie?

I am not pleased about this.
Not one bit.

In the 80's did I need my Strawberry Shortcake to have neon colors and wear jams? No, part of her fruit smelling charm was that she got to wear petticoats and be from a different magical land where petticoats were the cat's pajamas. I did not need my childhood play things to look just like me. Now they are kind of tarted up and pimped out to be little fashion plates. It's not what they are supposed to be! I liked them because they were smaller than Barbies, fit in my doll house and had their own look and feel to them. And my mother never bought me Sour Grapes or any other bad guy. Interesting.... apparently she did not want evil going on in the dollhouses under her roof. I also never remember watching many shows with Strawberry Shortcake at all -- I just really dug the dolls apparently. Orange Blossom and Plum Pudding were my favorites. I always found Lemon Meringue to be kind of stuck up. That's just the kind of chick she was.

Seven reports I did in grade school

1. The Pancreas
2. Georgia
3. Kristi Yamaguchi
4. The longhouses of the Iroquois
   
5. Malaria
6. Abraham Lincoln as a child
7. Metamorphosis..... and not the Kafka work