If she had the proper words to say,

~ tagged by danoke

A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it".

1. Whenever I am browning ground beef, I always add a couple splashes of Worcestershire sauce for extra flavor. Always.

2. I wipe down the phone (regular or cell) every time I use it. EVERY TIME. I also clean out all the nooks and crannies of the phones at least monthly with a needle.

3. I love sheets with the highest thread-count possible, but the higher the weave, the hotter I get while sleeping. So I sacrifice being cool for extra softness, and then I have to sleep naked - which I really don't like at all. Still, I won't give up my yummy sheets.

4. I chronically mis-hear lyrics to songs, much to the amusement of those around me. It's no matter to me - I enjoy belting out the wrong lyrics just as muchly. ("I found my free-UMP... on Blueberry Hill..." C'mon, it sounds a heckuva lot more like *my* lyrics, you know it does!)

5. I think plain, toasted hot dug buns are the best snack in the world. I first had this snack at my Great-Grandma Litchford's house when I was a tiny thing. The bread is much sweeter, and it's just so yum.

6. I rename every file as I import it into iTunes. I name them by chronological order of how they play in the CD. I can't stand it any other way. Sometimes I'll set iTunes to play all the '01s' in my list, followed by all the '02s,' and so on.

7. I bought myself a filing cabinet with my birthday money when I was 12. I organized all of my papers and artwork from kindergarten on in appropriate file folders. I love filing cabinets. ♥ ♥ ♥

Lastly, I tag the following folks: cupcaked, deza, spiffanda, lesliepear, traceylala, jespere, and lotsofjoy. :-)

~ meme that's been making the block

Jan - It's very quiet in our house lately.

Feb - Open your Paint program. Close your eyes. Draw a cat!

Mar - Yes, THAT movie.

Apr - I can cry at the drop of a hat today.

May - I'm so very tired of being so stupid with maps and directions.

Jun - I've worked my frustrations out in the earth today, and I will sleep well tonight because of it.

Jul - Remember when my iTunes directory went kaput a few months back?

Aug - We're finally back!

Sep - We can't find Vanilla Coke™ anywhere lately, and after several weeks of looking, I was frustrated!

Oct - Normally, I love Hallmark.

Nov - I have been working, working, working, and working some more lately - craziness!

Dec - We're officially homeless now!

~ taken from gardenmama

(Jack's answers are first, and then A.J.'s answers are in parentheses.)

1. What is something mom always says to you? – Yes.
(Shut your window, or Turn off your light.)

2. What makes mom happy? - When I'm good.
(Tetris.)

3. What makes mom sad? - When I'm not good.
(Arguments.)

4. How does your mom make you laugh? - Tickling me.
(By tickling or joking me.)

5. What was your mom like as a child? - She lived in Texas.
(Southern girl?)

6. How old is your mom? - 29.
(29.)

7. How tall is your mom? - I don't know that!
(I don't know - how tall are you?)

8. What is her favorite thing to do? - Play Tetris.
(Be on the computer!)

9. What does your mom do when you're not around? - Work.
(Work.)

10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for? - Running as the President... 'cuz there is no girl president yet.
(To be elected as the first President that's a woman?)

11. What is your mom really good at? - Tetris.
(Typing!)

12. What is your mom not very good at? - I guess, 'cuz she hasn't tried it, 'Pirates' the game.
(Swimming races?)

13. What does your mom do for her job? - Work at Runza.
(A supervisor at Runza.)

14. What is your mom's favorite food? - Chinese food.
(Gumbo.)

15. What makes you proud of your mom? - She loves me.
(That she's the only one I've got.)

16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be? - The Cat in the Hat!
(Hmmm... Jerry, from Tom & Jerry!)

17. What do you and your mom do together? - Do crafts sometimes.
(Shop for stuff.)

18. How are you and your mom the same? - Our last name is Cleghorn.
(We both have hazel eyes.)

19. How are you and your mom different? - She wears glasses.
(I'm a boy, and she's a girl.)

20. How do you know your mom loves you? - 'Cuz she shows it.
(Whenever I'm upset, she asks me what's wrong.)

21. What does your mom like most about your dad? - He's nice... sometimes.
(That he came back from Iraq.)

22. Where is your mom's favorite place to go? - Wal*Mart?
(Wal*Mart.)

~ yanked from welfy

Open your Paint program. Close your eyes. Draw a cat!



On my first attempt, most of the body went out of the screen. My second try doesn't look too terrible, but I probably should've nixed the nose idea. And also labeling it "cat" underneath! On my third attempt, I tried to stripe the cat's tail. During the fourth one, I went for just a cat face... but Philip laughed while he was watching me, and then I laughed in response, and it totally jagged my mouse away from where I was working!

( So then I made him try, too. )

If you do this meme, I wanna see the results!

~ yoinked from aiseiri_47

Comment here with a number between 1 and 4574, and I will tell you what song from my iTunes you are equated with. Also, I'll give you my favorite line from that song.

I took out all of my audiobook selections, reducing the total number by over 500 tracks, but I figured none of you would want those as your selection. Yes, they're Harry Potter, but as "lyrics," they could be deemed rather dry. I do still have a LOT of instrumental soundtracks in there, though - be warned. ;-)

I'd click-click-click until I was happy with the picture to represent. :-) A neat meme of your LJ interests in collage form:

( My Interests Collage. )

~ snagged from wookiemonster

You Make My Day Award! from both syven and aiseiri_47 (both picked me on separate days, so I'm doing it in double)

Pick 10 people and give them the "you make my day" award. If you're picked, you are charged with picking 10 of your own.

First set:

- hetterrific
- shoebox_addict
- bigbrain61
- _stacy
- wendywoowho
- gardenmama
- auntee_mame
- mostcurious
- 1grl_revolution
- hp5freak

And the second set:

- marshmelococoa
- posthaste
- jakflak
- a_rockett
- rubyawake
- thatpatti
- the_mommy_in_me
- rafferty
- takarakanashi
- scarletharlot52

So many of my friends make each day special. I love all of you, and I love that there are little things each day that make me think of one of my many LJ friends almost everywhere my little head turns. :-)

---

( Two more memes. )

Well, it's been a few days now, and there are still a few stragglers that no one was able to correctly guess. They are the following:

12. We said our promises by candlelight. You held my hands, I was dressed in white - we were young. "How Can We See That Far?" - Amy Grant

13. Gotta find something to ease my mind, gotta get it off of you. You're tearing up my heartstrings one more time with what you're putting me through. "Gonna Get A Life" - Mark Chesnutt

20. Play us a song we can slow-dance on, we wanna hold each other. "Touch Me When We're Dancing" - Alabama

24. I saw your mama, and she said don't call you. Talked to your best friend, and she said no need to. "Love Is Stronger Than Pride" - Ricochet

25. I used to try to be a fix-it man. She had a problem, I had a plan. "All I Do Is Love Her" - James Bonamy

38. The new day dawns, and I am practicing my purpose once again. It is fresh and it is fruitful if I win, but if I lose -- oooooh, I don't know. "All Will Be Well" - The Gabe Dixon Band

44. Uh, oh. There you go again, talkin' cinematic. Yeah, you - you're charming, got everybody starstruck. "If We Were a Movie" - Hannah Montana

Thanks for playing along! :-)

~ meme taken from welfy

Step 1: Put your iTunes on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 50 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Italicize the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is just plain wrong!

Here we go:

1. Please, gentle Eva, will you bless the little child? "Santa Evita" Evita Soundtrack, by sdaisyk

2. Some say love, it is a river that drowns the tender weed. "The Rose" Bette Midler (or LeAnn Rimes), by soopageek

3. Share my life, take me for what I am. 'Cause I'll never change all my colors for you. "I Have Nothing" Whitney Houston, by cmmunchkin

4. We wish you a merry christmas. (Okay, so that's too easy. So guess who's singing it - go!) "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" The Brady Bunch, by wendywoowho

5. I had a one-night stand with my best friend's baby sister... to this day he still won't speak to me. "Startin' With Me" Jake Owen, by sdaisyk

6. Harry was bleeding. Clutching his right hand in his left, and swearing under his breath, he shouldered open his bedroom door. There was a Crunch! of breaking china. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" Jim Dale/J.K. Rowling, by cmmunchkin

7. Set me free, why don't you, baby? Get outta my life, why don't you, baby? "Keep Me Hangin' On" Diana Ross, by bigbrain61

8. I'm in a hurry to get things done. Oh, I rush and rush until life's no fun. "I'm In A Hurry" Alabama, by cmmunchkin

9. I've been up to my neck, working six days a week, wearing holes in the soles of the shoes on my feet. "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem" Kenny Chesney, by ilenenita

10. Dice are rolling, the knives are out. Would-be Presidents are all around. "New Argentina" Evita Soundtrack, by kitangel

( The rest. )

It was hard to not keep listening to each song as the good tunes came up. If I had, it would've taken me a few hours to finish, though! And darn country songs - so many of them have the title as THE VERY FIRST WORDS. Of course, I had instrumental tracks come up as often as every third song, probably. I do love my orchestral soundtracks. *grin*

I've seen a Christmas Wish List meme go around every year that I've been here on LiveJournal. I've seen a few folks post their wishlists already, but I don't feel quite like really participating in the meme nor in the official community set up for that purpose. Rather, I feel more like a heartfelt list to "Santa" better serves me.

And so, ( my list. )