Good morning! 27/7

[gibbylod]

I have been away for a while and miss being part of this forum. Since I woke up at 4am for work today, and there is no morning post yet, I thought I'd go ahead and do one (my first!).

What's new with everyone?

I got back from my month-long ride across the US, and then spent the rest of the month organizing our new home (which we finally moved into just one week before leaving for vacation). I finally unpacked the last box yesterday, which I was very happy about. I wanted to celebrate this great accomplishment but there was no one around and DH worked late so I just had a glass of wine by myself as a personal tap on the shoulder.

QOTD: What is one thing no one knows about you?

Very few people know how completely obsessive I am about cleaning. If I start cleaning something, I'll literally clean until I have bloody fingers. This is why I try to avoid doing it (contradictory I know) and don't like people touching things around my house. DH hired a maid and it frustrates me that she doesn't clean things like I would.

[crimsonandclover]

Morning!

Not much new here. DH is running a local race tomorrow and we have to go pick up his registration packet today. I'm hoping I can keep my nausea at bay long enough for the car ride over and back. DH thinks we're going to eat at an Indian restaurant while we're out and about, but I highly doubt that will happen.

QOTD: No one no one, or just no one on here? I'll go with the second since the first would be pretty hard. When I was 15-16, I wrote two books. I never tried to get them published, but they occupied my time well for a couple of summers, and my friends (claimed they) enjoyed reading them. I've gone back and read them since, and they're actually not too bad, although they do sound like they were written by a teenager for teenagers.

[doctoranda]

My husband and I have received a little surprise gift of a weekend getaway that we decided to cash in this weekend which will be our first wedding anniversary (7/28). We decided to go to some random small historical town in a province nearby but that we don't know at all. It used to be a big university town in the 1600/1700s and then just perished. It has the oldest planetarium in the world (we're geeks!) The kitten is coming with us!.

QOTD: I stole and read my best friend's diary when I was 12 and then put it back.

[gibbylod]

Jul 27, 2012 10:21:12 GMT -5 doctoranda said:

My husband and I have received a little surprise gift of a weekend getaway that we decided to cash in this weekend which will be our first wedding anniversary (7/28).

Congrats on your first anniversary! My brother-in-law is getting married tomorrow, so you guys will have the same anniversary!

[Wanderista]

What's new? I'm trading in my car over the weekend and I'm kind of sad about it. I'm very emotionally attached to it, but it's an object and it's the right time to go (right age, right amount of mileage, right value). I'm way more emotional about it than I should be.

I found out that a close friend is pregnant. That's really exciting. Only a few people I know well have done that yet. She's the first of my closer friends to make that transition. She works with kids so she will be great at it.

Another friend just lost her job, so I am playing emotional counselor there.

QOTD: I spent my summers on a dude ranch when I was 11 and 12. I did rodeo sports like barrel racing, learned to shoot guns on a riflery range and learned to make Pueblo Indian-inspired handicrafts. I also did "desert survival camping" in the Sonoran desert. It was really fun and not something that people would expect that I've done.

Edit: When I say guns, I mean it was a target practice class where we shot at plain metal targets out on a range in the desert, ie: marksmanship. Totally tame and innocent!

[clickerish]

What's new? I am exhausted from constantly travelling and can't wait for the 9th when I finally am back in my house again for a while. Never thought I'd say that so I guess that means I'm old.

QOTD: I think that there is only one person besides my therapist who knows how much I hate flying on airplanes. I fly all the time--and grew up flying a lot--so it seems like I would enjoy it. But I don't. Don't tell!

[anna7602]

I went out late last night to celebrate the birthday of my one pre-existing friend in Paris (did that make sense? I've known her since college). It was fun and let me hang out with real, live French people (except I was annoyed by one woman I posted about already). But DH accidentally woke me up early this morning (DD slept until 9) and now I have been cranky all day.

Anyway, I have been trying to think about the QOTD. I feel like I am such a ridiculously open book that it's hard to come up with something people, IRL or here, wouldn't know about me. Ehhh... I had a massive crush on Bill Clinton my senior year of HS and had a big poster of him over my bed. I attended his inauguration & inaugural ball that year (through the Nat'l Young Leaders Conference).

[allibally]

Driving up to Wisconsin later tonight once H get's off work. We are spending the weekend with my family. I'm excited to get out of the busy city.

QOTD: I honestly don't know. I have around 1000 bottles of nail polish.

[Deleted]

We miss you too Gibby, I especially miss looking at your precious dog it sounds like you had a pretty eventful last few months!

Nothing new with us these days, just big plans that require a bit of tweaking. For now they're just that though, plans.

QOTD: I don't think many people know that I'm a registered professional lyricist. A friend of mine is an active broadway musical composer and I helped him with some of his works. He took care of registering me last year and that's pretty much the extent of my knowledge on the matter

[gibbylod]

Jul 27, 2012 14:26:02 GMT -5 @jewels6711 said:

We miss you too Gibby, I especially miss looking at your precious dog it sounds like you had a pretty eventful last few months!

Aw thanks! I wanted to put up a pic of my dog again, but after several unsuccessful attempts I gave up