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Wacky Wednesday
1) What is your favorite pizza topping?
2) Where we're you living when you were 20?
3) Do you make the bed every morning?
4) What is on your desk?
2) Where we're you living when you were 20?
3) Do you make the bed every morning?
4) What is on your desk?
Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookstores
Re: Wacky Wednesday
2) Where we're you living when you were 20? Sleeping on a friend's couch in Maryland. Ahh, the painfully poor days.
3) Do you make the bed every morning? For the most part. I'm not meticulous about it, but it's passable.
4) What is on your desk? Clutter.
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
2) Where we're you living when you were 20? My sorority dorm
3) Do you make the bed every morning? Nope
4) What is on your desk? Tons of papers scattered everywhere, "The Guide To Nerdfighting" mousepad, two pictures of my family from my wedding and my sister's wedding, and a lot of post its.
my read shelf:
2) Where were you living when you were 20? Moorhead, Minnesota - for college
3) Do you make the bed every morning? DH gets up later than I do. I make the bed when I come home. I like getting in to a made bed.
4) What is on your desk? I have three desks - and all of them are covered in papers right now. Mostly 9th grade journals I need to read by 12:30 today.
2) Where we're you living when you were 20? With my family
3) Do you make the bed every morning? No.
4) What is on your desk? laptop & docking station, dual monitors, phone, 2 lotions, 1 antibacterial thing, two cups, my water bottle, pens, pictures, a couple of stuffed animals, sticky notes, tape, a stapler, a christmas ornament, my badge, some paperwork, and two pictures that my niece and nephew drew.
1) What is your favorite pizza topping? Pepperoni
2) Where we're you living when you were 20? Southern California
3) Do you make the bed every morning? No because DH is still in bed when I get up
4) What is on your desk? It would be easier to answer what isn't on my desk. There is so much crap on it!
my read shelf:
1) What is your favorite pizza topping? Pepperoni
2) Where we're you living when you were 20? An apartment at college with my BFF
3) Do you make the bed every morning? Yes, usually every day, I'm not perfect about it but most days it's made.
4) What is on your desk? Laptop, candy dish, clutter, knick knacks.
Books read in 2011: 111
Books read in 2012: 100
my read shelf:
2) Where we're you living when you were 20? In a dorm
3) Do you make the bed every morning? I pull the covers up to look good, but that's about it.
4) What is on your desk? Computer, pictures, a horn mouthpiece, a flute book, mouthpiece cleaner, lots of paper, and bottlecaps
https://www.goodreads.com/MrsGinTN
2) Where we're you living when you were 20? With my parents in MA.
3) Do you make the bed every morning? Ain't nobody got time fo that!
4) What is on your desk? Stacks of paper, phone, cell phone, office supplies, check scanner, tissues, photo of Wes, banana, coffee.
my read shelf:
Wes: 10/8/2012
2) Where we're you living when you were 20? Off campus apt. with friends
3) Do you make the bed every morning? No
4) What is on your desk? Laptop and a sh!tlo@d of crap.
2) Where we're you living when you were 20? at my parents house in the basement
3) Do you make the bed every morning? Yes. Nice crisp corners. Very OCD.
4) What is on your desk? Everything.
2) Where we're you living when you were 20? Green Bay, WI
3) Do you make the bed every morning? I try to. It gets done about 75% of the time. It all depends on when I get up and when DD gets up.
4) What is on your desk? What ISN'T on my desk?
Books read in 2010: 153
Books read in 2011: 160
Books read in 2012: 134
Books read in 2013: 110
Books read in 2014: 151
Books read in 2015: 153
Books read in 2016: 31
Pineapple and mushroom or basil, fresh mozz, and tomatoes
2) Where we're you living when you were 20?
in college, apartment with 1 roommate
3) Do you make the bed every morning?
Most mornings, though sometimes it's not til later in the afternoon.
4) What is on your desk?
I don't have a desk. (adjunct college instructor) I am working on my laptop at the kitchen table right now.
2) Where we're you living when you were 20? In an apartment with my now XH
3) Do you make the bed every morning? Nope
4) What is on your desk? I don't have one
IVF w/ICSI - transferred 2; froze 3
Beta #1 150 Beta #2 320 - 7/16 124 bpm (6w5d) EDD 3/6/13
Our team green baby was a girl! Emma Lynn born 2/23/13
my read shelf:
2) Where we're you living when you were 20? In my very first college apartment - my roommate quit school and got married at the last minute, so I was blissfully alone, but right next door to my two best friends. It was a semester of perfection.
3) Do you make the bed every morning? Almost never. I don't put a top sheet on the bed because I always wind up just kicking it down the bottom.
4) What is on your desk? Barcode scanner, odometer for counting patrons, statistics sheet for recording reference transactions, phone, various tools for covering books. This is my happy spot
2) Where we're you living when you were 20? In a beach house while I went to URI
3) Do you make the bed every morning? Ocassionally, but if I don't, I either make it when I get home from work or right before I get into bed at night.
4) What is on your desk? I have two. The one I'm sitting at has many papers and files, 6 pens in 4 different colors, a phone, a desk lamp, speakers, my computer with my garbage truck stress squeezy and 4 hair elastics on it, my cell phone, and a Gatorade bottle filled with water.
Sugar & Spice
2) Where we're you living when you were 20? In the dorms in college.
3) Do you make the bed every morning? No, it only gets made when I change the sheets.
4) What is on your desk? Various office supplies, computer, papers, picture of my niece and nephew, radio, tissue box, iPhone charger and Kindle charger.
2) Where we're you living when you were 20? the dorms at school and a little apartment in San Sebastian, Spain while I studied abroad
3) Do you make the bed every morning? hell no, but I do have to make it every night before I go to sleep so the covers are all in order. I can't sleep in a messy twisted- covers bed
4) What is on your desk? Not too much. At work I share an office with the other PTIs so just our computer and gifts from students on top of the bookshelf part.
2) Where we're you living when you were 20? In a rental house with my now DH.
3) Do you make the bed every morning? Nope. It gets made once a week when I put fresh sheets on it.
4) What is on your desk? I don't have a desk.
2) Where we're you living when you were 20? In a crappy apartment with my brother and a roommate
3) Do you make the bed every morning? Nope, we usually straighten the covers before bed, though
4) What is on your desk? A stack of papers, water bottle, cup o'pens, some lotion, and a couple clementines
My new bff Gayle Forman!
“You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control"
- Gayle Forman
"People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality."
- Neil Gaiman
Married Bio
2) Where we're you living when you were 20? At home. I commuted 1 hour to school.
3) Do you make the bed every morning? Nope. MH works nights and is in it when I leave in the morning.
4) What is on your desk? Two computers, two keyboards/mice, water bottle, file and supply organizer, a plant, phone, random crap
2) Where we're you living when you were 20? In the dorms at Grove City College...on my sorority's hall.
3) Do you make the bed every morning? I only make my bed if someone is coming over to my apartment. This rarely happens. I also don't use a top sheet. I prefer to sleep covered up by various soft throws.
4) What is on your desk? I don't have a desk. If I did, it would be a hot mess of clutter with many, many pens involved.