A few days ago in blogland, the lovely Stephanie posted this: Yeah Me Neither
As soon as I read this post, I knew that I wanted to steal her idea make my own list.
So yeah, me neither...
do you ever...
have a dance party alone in your room every day?
think it's perfectly acceptable to listen to the same song about 20x in one day?
trip over a curb but continue to walk as if you didn't just stumble?
run up the basement stairs as fast as you can (in case there's someone chasing you)?
think it's okay to eat a spoonful of peanut butter sometimes?
avoid walking and drinking at the same time, because you know that your drink is going to spill when you try to take a sip?
break out in full song and dance... just cause you can?
think that laughing for an hour and a half on skype with your family is considered a good enough workout?
check behind the shower curtain (even in friends houses) just to make sure there's no murderer?
eat a piece of pizza or have ice cream even though you're lactose-intolerant?
I've decided to start something new.. I thought of this about 20 seconds ago and I'm just going to go with it.
This is going to be a series. Whenever I feel like it, I'm going to write various letters to People/Places/Things/Whatever...
Remember - this is totally anonymous. Anyway, lets get to today's letter.
Anonymous Letters [Part I}
Dear Anonymous person who closely resembles my landlord (but who isn't my landlord because this is anonymous),
You're ridiculously fit, we get it. Cool story, bro. Your entire family is ridiculously fit - also cool. The thing is that you need to lay off of the cardio and stick to the weights for a little while. Okay, don't cut out cardio all together... but I could REALLY do with you cutting out the whole 'Twenty minutes of running up and down the stairs'. It got old after the two-minute mark. While I 100% support the fact that you're living a healthy lifestyle, I don't necessarily enjoy listening to it for twenty minutes. Please don't take offence to this, but I'm sorry I'm not sorry for this letter.
Which brings me to point number two. This one I could definitely do without. You're a manly man, awesome. I know that you like to fix things. I'm sure your wife loves this and it's an awesome way to help around the house. However, you have two lovely twenty-something year olds living below you. Please, for Pete's sake, do not 'hammer' something for the better part of an hour. Oh, how I wish this was an exaggeration. I actually got so annoyed at one point, and I texted my friend Sarah to complain. As I was finding her name in my contacts list, to text her, I remembered something. One afternoon, Sarah and I decided to do an 'arts and crafts' project. I won't go into detail, but we basically hammered nails into a board for over an hour. She lives in an apartment building. I'm pretty sure that her neighbors (and people who live below her) wanted to murder us.
So you see, I'm kind of stuck at a crossroad here. While I would love to get angry with you, my dear sweet anonymous non-landlord type person, I simply cannot.
Please just don't do either of these things ever again and we'll be cool. Capiche?
Since it's hump day, I'm taking that as an excuse for a blog post of pure randomness today.
I hate country music.
I've always hated it. I won't listen to more than 5 seconds before changing the radio/tv/youtube to something anything else. Until recently. I blame Ms. Yoga Pants for making me like love Wagon Wheel (Darius Rucker's version). Ever since I started liking hating country less, I've been finding more songs that I can tolerate. Also, I loved Blake and his team performing on The Voice last night. Weird. Who am I right now?
I love omelets.
Probably a little too much. I will have 4-5 omelets a week, easily. Weird to most people, I know - but I could have much worse cravings and food habits. Because of my love for omelets, I have become somewhat of an omelet-making expert. It happens. But not always apparently.
Last night, I actually messed up big time - but so what? It was still delicious, and that's all that I care about, which brings me to my next point...
It's okay to mess up an omelet sometimes.
Whoop, there it is...
Despite how sad and pathetic this little omelet looked, I think I turned it into a decent meal.
Just call me Dr. Princess Faith Alexandra-Martha-Stewart-Rachel-Ray.
It's totally okay to face-swap a picture with your grandfather.
Oh papa. I love you dearly, but we shouldn't swap faces - especially when I'm a One-Year old child...
If papa was still alive, he would have loved this. He'd be amazed by the technology, and he would laugh at how stupid we look. I miss him dearly, but this makes me smile.
Don't take your contacts out after you cut a jalapeno.
Just don't do it. Luckily, it wasn't as severe as it could have been (my friend Jennie did this once and it was brutal). I'm making a mental note for future jalapeno-cutting: I will take my contacts out first and wear glasses the rest of the day. No joke. I washed my hands probably four-five, maybe even six times before I took my contacts our - TWO HOURS LATER. But that's beside the point, and I'm not bitter about it. Just trust me on this one, fellow contact-wearers.
Google Maps has the best images and directions.
Wagon Wheel lyrics directions. Yes.
Am I a bad person for laughing at this? Probably.
My mom is probably disappointed in my life choices now - sorry mom.
It's totally okay to waste time looking at pictures online do some 'blog research'.
Seriously though. I'm going to leave you with a few gems that I came across on the interwebz last night and I just had to share them with all of you fine people. You're welcome.
This is cute AND funny at the same time. That makes it a winner in my books.
I giggled over this one for far too long, I'm sure.
Clearly he shouldn't be drinking Mike's Hard Lemonade. That's the problem. Obvs.
Last but definitely not last. This is the funniest tweet that I've read in a long time. Thank you, Robin Williams.
I wasn't around these parts yesterday due to the fact that I had no internet on Sunday night or Monday morning. Boo. Our router is in our landlord's office (I'm in a basement apartment), so I couldn't restart it and our landlords weren't around... Amanda and I were too lazy to go outside in the rain and upstairs to get our landlord to reset the router. Hahaha... seriously though.
So, since I didn't have any internet on Sunday night, I ended up going to bed early. But, I couldn't fall asleep because it was so early. So I decided to start a conversation with Siri. Don't hate Okay, even I kinda hate me for this one.
What I learned while talking to Siri is that she's kind of a jerk. She has selective hearing reading and ignores parts of my sentences. She keeps trolling me by calling me Christian (which is my brothers name). Oh, and my favorite: she said I'm fat.
I lied in the Title, I don't have 42 reasons why I hate Siri. But, I do have:
5 Reasons that Ihate Love to Hate Siri
She's useful.
Sometimes, I love Siri. She's useful in situations like this:
She's funny. Sometimes.
Most of the time, she won't tell me jokes, but this time was different. She Siri-ously pulled out all of the stops for this one...
She Sings (And she knows The Wizard of Oz).
The fact that she actually sang to me was amazing. PLUS, the fact that she sang If I only had a brain from The Wizard of Oz. I officially don't hate Siri anymore.
I imagine Siri, singing and dancing exactly like this, in her own little iPhone world.
She 'Trolls' Me.
Not cool, Siri. Stop calling me Christian. My name is Faith. F - A - I - T - H. Faith. Please stop calling me Christian. I might be back to hating you again, Siri...
Haha, very funny...
Just shut up and do it. Please.
This one actually made me laugh. Just call me "Faith" from now on...
I might have resorted to name calling...
She called me fat.
Okay, to be fair - I asked why I was fat. But she could've been nicer with her response.
Maybe Siri's harsh judgement can serve as motivation for me to lose weight.
just kidding.
After writing this blog post - I have realized that perhaps I need to reassess my life choices. Oh well.
Thanks for being such a good sport and agreeing to participate today, mama. <3
1• Am I your favourite child? Okay, trick question - I know that you love me more than you love Christian... but it might be nice to hear you say it.
Well darling - you are definitely my favourite daughter!! No other daughter compares to you. I love you to bits!
2• What was your favourite Mother's Day gift you've ever received? Was it from me or was it from Christian?
hmmmmm - the most useful was the year that you and Christian gave me two small rolling suitcases - Dad and I still use them all the time.
Also, I loved the flowers you gave me one year. But, my favourite is just having you around to have dinner with - I miss that.
3• How do you feel about the nicknames that I've given you over the years? Which one has been your favourite?
I love my nicknames - they make me feel special and loved - I think Mumbellina is my favourite followed closely by Mamabear and Mumbleberry pie!
Yeah, I come up with some weird nicknames for her...
4• Apart from October 1st, 1988 (the day I was born), what has been the best day of your life?
I would have to say the day I married Dad... Of course October 1st, 1988 and June 11, 1986 come a close second!
5• If you could only eat ONE food for the rest of your life - what would it be?
Steak - or chocolate lol! It would be hard to eat the steak without mushrooms and onions though. Hmmm - maybe on second thought I will have to stick with chocolate. After all, it IS a vegetable!
6• You just won a $20,000,000 lotto jackpot - what's your first purchase?
YAY - I won money!!
My first purchase would be cruise tickets for everyone in the family (it would be a long cruise around the world).
7• If you had the chance to be 24 again and get a 'do-over', what would you do differently?
I'm not sure I would want a "do-over" but I would maybe pursue a career in counselling. However, I am happy with how things turned out - if I had continued school I wouldn't have met Dad and I wouldn't have the two most wonderful children in the world!
8• What's your best piece of life advice that you'd like to share with the blog-world?
Don't put off things you want to do - spend time with the people you love - cherish each moment of life God gives you and remember to thank Him for it.
9• Will you share a random fact about yourself that nobody (who reads my blog) would know? Bonus points if it's something that I don't know.
You know we don't have any video footage of your birth but we have some great footage of your conception...hahaha! OMG - mom! You know people who read this blog...
This is my pay back for that comment...
10• What would be your ideal way to spend Mother's Day?
Surrounded by my children eating steak and chocolate - duh!!
11• Tell me a joke. Not a question, but I am in need of a good laugh!
Knock, knock
13• Describe me in 5 words.
Faith has the most incredible... (oops, ran out of words) Low blow, mom...
14• Did you even notice that I skipped #12? I bet you just went back to look...
Oh, Faith! Did you think it was April 1st again? Haha... you caught me
15• Every Friday I link-up with my homegirl, Whitney, for something called #backthatazzupFriday - since you're my guest today, will you please select today's song?
My musical tastes have always been eclectic. I loved Harry Chapin (his bananas song), Elton John, Chris DeBurgh, Patricia the stripper (LOL), and also Queen (Bohemian Rhapsody)... mama is a little weird! Does 'mama' talk to herself in third person often?
16• Any final thoughts? Words? Comments? Jokes? Any words of wisdom?
I will leave you with the advice of Dr. Sidney Freedman: Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice - Pull down your pants and slide on the ice!
