Five Question Friday!

It's time for another Five Question Friday! 

Do you look forward to this as much as I do? 

Wanna participate?  Head over to My Little Life and link up with your answers.  It's fun, I promise!

So, without further adeu, Five Questions Friday:

1. If you could be a fly on any wall, which would you chose?
   I don't think I want to be a fly.  Is that a possible answer?  They eat poo...among other things.  If I were a fly on a wall in order to spy on someone though, that might be different.  I'm not really sure who's wall I'd like to be on though.  That's tough.  I fear I'm not going to have a very good answer for this.  All I can think about are political walls - boring.  I would have loved to have been a fly on my parents' wall in the early years of their marriage - so I could learn from them.  Most likely the living room wall, I'd stay FAR away from the bedroom wall.
2. Do you budget your Christmas shopping or just get it done without budgeting?
   I wish I could budget for Christmas but there just isn't enough money to put into a Christmas fund.  Hubs and I have already bough four Christmas presents though, so we kinda start early so we can spread it out a bit.  It makes it a bit easier that way.
3. What is the craziest fad diet that you have ever done?I've never tried a fad diet.  No grapefruit or cabbage soup or low-carb diet here.  Oh wait, you could say I'm on the eat-cake-for-breakfast diet.  Actually it is currently eat-pumpkin-spice-cookies-with-loads-of-cream-cheese-frosting diet because I've had some for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the past week.  I think I want one right now actually.  That's it though - nothing too crazy 'round this joint.
4. Is there a TV show that you have seen every episode of?
   Yes - I have seen every Sex in the City.  I only know that because I never watched it while it was on TV and then in the summer of 2007 my sister and I rented every single DVD from Blockbuster.  I feel like I've seen every Friends episode but every once in a while I'll catch one on re-run that I haven't seen, so I can't be certain about that.  I've probably seen almost every Gilmore Girls too, but not certain about that either.  And back in the day, I think I watch every episode of X-Files.  I'm a dork, what can I say!
5. What one song always pulls at your heart?
   What???  We can only pick one??  Not possible.  Here are songs that make me tear up:
        * Barcelona by Freddie Mercury (from the 1992 Olympics when they were in Barcelona - totally makes me cry but I'm not sure why)
        * We are the World - I think this makes everyone cry
        * Lean on Me - this song too, makes pretty much everyone cries when they hear it
        * The National Anthem - I can't help it, I love the USA
        * God Bless the USA - this one makes me cry EVERY time I hear it - for real, it must be the military brat inside of me.  Even this American Idol video makes me cry, right now as I'm watching it.  This is a GREAT song.
   
   

So there you have it!  I hope you have an amazing weekend.  I'm be keeping my fingers crossed that my eye twitch goes away!!!

Professor Wife



Aren't books just beautiful!
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 If you can believe it, hubs and I hit the English books again.  Pretty amazing since it's been a full three months since our last attempt.  I must admit though, it was more me than him in the "I don't feel like having class" category.

Yes, hubs is the one who didn't want to return to a formal class.  I didn't really want to force him since I'm his wife, not his mother (although sometimes I think people expect me to act like a mother and force him to do things).  The agreement was that I would teach him English, since I am a literacy volunteer and have taught English to many people before - I figured I could tutor my hubs for free.

The only problem?  Umm, I'm tired after I get home from work and I'd like to relax and do nothing.  Yup, like a lazy bum.  So, although hubs would say - hey, can we have English class on Tuesday - I'd say sure but then when the day rolled around I'd pretend that I forgot and hope he did too.  Yeah, kinda uncool.

Anyway, today we pinkie swore that we were going to have English class and we DID.  Hubsters is not the studious type.  I know that and I don't expect him to change.  However, he's been very amenable to having class just the two of us.  I just haven't had the energy.

However, today, we headed to the basement, broke out the textbooks, and went to work.  I was quite surprised that he remembered so much.  Working at the golf course and interacting all summer with the other employees has made him practice more.  So, that's a good thing.

I was quite happy with our lesson and although we only did one hour - that was enough (plus, I have lots of nutrition studying to do).

Plus, I must admit, I love having the extra time together.  Usually we are both so tired from work that we just eat dinner together and then veg out on the couch (and often on different couches watching different TVs).  Or we head to the gym.  So, this was fun in an educational way.

Boy do I love my hubs!

It's Five Question Friday!

I actually love doing these little question things, so I figured why not keep doing them?  So I am.  I also did Fill in the Blank Friday on my other blog, 365 Days of Happiness, if you are just dying to find out more about me...:-)

If you'd like to participate in Five Question Friday, link up with Mama M. over at My Little Life - her blog is so fun to read, I just know you'll love it too.

1.  Who is the better cook, you or your spouse?Well, considering my spouse cannot cook a SINGLE thing, I would have to go with me.  He is absolutely helpless in the kitchen.  No, I mean helpless.  He can barely warm things up in the microwave.  I have to have things made in the fridge for him because he can't put two ingredients together.  Part of the problem is he is completely unfamiliar with American food so putting a sandwich together is foreign to him (and he doesn't like sandwiches anyway).  For lunch he's used to full-on meals like chicken and rice, ect.  I love cooking though, so I don't mind.  I find it completely relaxing and fun to try out new recipes and spend all evening in the kitchen cooking (on a Saturday - during the week I'm happy my sister does the cooking).
2. How often do you talk to your mom?
   My mom moved far away to Vermont, so I don't get to talk to her too often.  We probably only have really long chats about once a month.  I call her randomly when I'm at the grocery store and can't remember the ingredients to a recipe, or if I've screwed a recipe up and don't know what to do, etc., but that doesn't really count because we aren't truly talking.  So, I guess once a month - which doesn't seem like much at all.  But I love my mommy to pieces and miss her every day.
3. Are you adventurous in the kitchen or stick to the recipe?
   I don't like being adventurous but sometimes I have to be.  A lot of times I start cooking a recipe and don't have an ingredient and so have to make it up.  Or I skip a step and have to figure out how to fix it.  Sometimes I whip things up on the fly, but it's nothing adventurous...it's like cooking a chicken breast with rosemary and garlic without a recipe - not too scary.  So, I guess I'm not very adventurous.  But I'm adventurous with recipes and ingredients - if that counts.
4. Is your second toe longer than your big toe?
   Funniest question EVER!!!  My sister and her husband argue about this all the time - his second toe is bigger and he INSISTS that that's the norm.  However, both my sister and I have big toes that are the longest and the next toe the next longest, etc.  We think that's normal.  I really think that it's rarer to have a second toe that is long, but who knows.  My brother-in-law insists it's rare to have your big toe as your longest.  It's an endless debate - trust me!
5. Do you dress up for Halloween?
   No, I don't.  I don't really do the Halloween party thing and we rarely even hand out candy because we head over to my sister's in-laws to celebrate with all the little nieces and nephews.  So, there is no dressing up on my part.  It's a good thing too because I'm kinda a modest girl and the Halloween costumes for women are pretty scandelous in my opinion.  I can't just be a nurse or a pirate - I have to be a sexy nurse or a sexy pirate.  Kinda crazy in my opinion.

That was fun!
I am so happy it's almost the weeked!

Happy Friday!!!!!

 

Twenty facts about the hubster and me

lemme get that ice cream off your face!

I'm not sure how many people read this blog that aren't my family, but I figured I'd have a little "get to know us" post - about the hubster and me.  So, here are 20 random little facts about us! 

1. We met in Honduras - I was a Peace Corps volunteer and he worked on the town bus.
2. I never thought in a million years that I'd marry a Honduran, and he never thought in a million years that he'd be living in the US.
3. He likes using his brawn and I like using my brain.
4. We like to scream out the lyrics to Air Supply when we're in the car.
5. We're complete opposites when it comes to entertainment - he likes TV and I like books.
6. If I leave the clean clothes in the hamper long enough, he'll fold them and put them away (except I may find my bras mixed in with my jeans).
7. We both enjoy going to the gym except he lifts weights for an hour and I like to do cardio.
8. One day we'd like to live in the country with some cows and chickens.
9. Neither one of us can wait for Christmas to arrive and we get to head up to Vermont.
10. We love to eat out and do it more than we can afford - of course it's almost always to the same two places, Chinese or Mexican.
11. Our wedding was one of the happiest days of our life - along with the day we got his visa and the day he arrived in the US.
12. We should probably floss more.
13. There is a six year age difference between us - guess who's more mature....
14. We spent the first 7 months of our relationship together and then the next three years apart.
15. We still have a lot of adjusting to do.
16. But we fall more in love every day.
17. We could eat spaghetti every night for dinner and never get tired of it.
18. He takes cold showers, even in winter, and I take HOT showers all year round (like a normal person :-)).
19. Our favorite time to talk is in bed right before we fall asleep.
20. We both can't wait for a morning when we don't have to wake up early and can stay cuddled in bed for hours (or at least past 6am).