I've been tagged!!

I was recently tagged by a fellow blogger and cyber friend Colleen over at The Non-Smoker. Colleen and I "met" in cyberland soon after I got engaged. She had a little over 5 months until her wedding but I had a well over a year to go. We've never met but I think she and all my cyber friends were a major part in helping me to plan my wedding. Go check out her blog. She is successfully kicking the nasty habit of smoking so leave her some love. I hope one day to finally meet you Colleen and share some good beer together (maybe Christmas Ale?)

Okay, so here's the rules:



7 Random Facts about me:

1. I stress out about EVERYTHING. It's horrible and I really need to stop. I hate delegating something to someone else to do for fear that it won't get done. I stress about work, cleaning, money, the future. I think it's a disease really.

2. I despise the snoooze alarm. Seriously, why would you want to be awakened every 9 minutes for an hour when you could just set the alarm an hour later and sleep in perfect harmony? In my life, I think I have pushed the snooze button ONCE.

3. My third toe is longer than my second. Look at your hand. See how the third finger is longer than the second? Now look at your feet. Not so much huh? Ohhhh, but mine is....

4. I could watch hours on end of Life in the ER and Trading Spaces on TLC, but I force myself to stay away from that channel. The stuff ER docs see never ceases to amaze me. Talk about never having a boring day at work! And who doesn't like to dream about decorating their home in an eccentric or untraditional way?

5. I am the proud aunt of an adorable little girl named Lily and a sweet young man Cameron and will be a new aunt again in November, but the thought of having children scares the hell.out.of.me. Someday I'm sure that thought will change, but the thought of giving up 18 years of complete independence when you have a child is overwhelming and stressful (refer to random fact #1)

6. I think red wine and chocolate, especially dark chocolate is the best food combination ever. Hands Down.

7. I have a severe diversion to food if I don't like the way it looks. Some food may be amazing but if you tell me it's raw, some kind of delicacy. or it has eyes staring back at me, I won't eat it. I also don't like to mix my food. Every portion of my dinner gets a little place all to it's own on my plate.

My Tagees:

Jaime at Jaime's Journal

Jason at Intersections

Adrienne at The First Year Married

Ann at My Life of Craziness

Ang at Bring The Rain though I doubt she'll ever see this since she gets a zillion comments.

Greg at Light Your World (he'll probably never see this either)

Julian at Julian at Large (and he won't let me leave a comment so I'll have to track him down in this world somehow...I think he's in Turkey now??)

OK Ok I'll post something!

Sorry fellow blog readers for the loooonnnnggg delay in posts! This crazy ride I call life has been insane. Since my last post, I turned in my 30 day notice at my job (read the last post to find out how much I hated the job) and was forced to find a new job FAST. I still wanted a "traveling" position even though I intend to stay in Portland now that we are happily married. It was looking a little hairy but I managed to find a new job. I start Monday! Yep, tomorrow. On top of looking for a new job, because I lived in corporate housing, if I wasn't working for that company, we had to move out of the apartment. James and I planned to do that anyways when the contract was up and wanted to find a house to rent. This would enable us to take our housing stipend from my company but not have our housing "attached" or dependent on a particular job. If I left that company and went elsewhere we wouldn't have to pick up and move again. So after FINALLY getting settled in to our tiny apartment, it was time to start packing up again and look for a place to live!! We spent countless hours on craigslist looking at housing ads and went and visited a few. We found a cute house in a great neighborhood in Northeast Portland and we moved "in" Sept 13. Well, we got the keys that day anyways! We spent all of last week trying to finish packing, and moving everything over. Plus, try to finish up all my loose ends at my old job. FUN.

Oh yeah, the other thing about finding a place of our own? We need furniture. I've been living in corporate housing for 4 1/2 years now. Basically I show up, there's furniture there, I move my clothes in, and I'm settled. Well we rented a storage POD from Ohio to bring our stuff out here in. It contains our bed, some end tables and night stands, lamps, a dresser, and a lot of our wedding presents. Said pod was supposed to be delivered after a LONG delay (don't get me started on that) this past Friday, our first night to sleep in our new house. It was perfect: we'd have a bed to sleep in! Except the company screwed up the delivery date AGAIN and we won't have the pod until NEXT weekend. So we spent the first night on an air mattress which was not fun because the pump wasn't charged and our extra pump wasn't doing the trick. Luckily, I had some fellow co-workers and traveling therapists who were moving out of their apartment and had gotten a queen size bed on craigslist. We took it off their hands for a guest bed for our 2nd bedroom and it's now become our bed until our POD finally gets here. We also hit up some garage and estate sales and managed to score a coffee table, 2 bookcases, an entertainment center and a dresser to go along with the free futon and free desk we already found on craigslist. We topped it off with a trip to Bed Bath and Beyond and IKEA to find a few home touches and it's ALMOST starting to feel like HOME.

So please forgive me for the long delay. I promise to be a better blogger in the future.