Silly questions

1. What are you wearing?

 White tank with really pretty crochet in the back, black yoga pants with gold filigree painted at the bottom of the left leg and the ever present compression sock 

2. Ever been in love?

 Yes. With my husband. My horse Needles, my poodle, my kitty Tiki!

3. Ever had a terrible breakup?

 Oh yes. The break-up with the cab driver from Kentucky - long story short he left me for his step sister (truth)

4. How tall are you?

 5' 4" 

5. How much do you weigh?

 Not answering 

6. Any tattoos?

 Yup, I've got my momma's wings on the back if my neck and plans for 2 more once I'm a little more mobile

7.  Any piercings?

 My ears

8. Favorite song?

 Currently? All of me

9. Quality you’d look for in a partner?

 Friendship - my husband is my best friend and without that I think we'd have nothing

10.  Favorite quote?

 "The only way around is through"

11. Favorite actor?

 I don't have one

12. Loud music or soft?

 Soft everything UNLESS I'm in a class at the gym then it's all loud!!!

13. Where do you go when you’re sad?

 If I'm mobile? For a run or a good heavy bag class or spin! Now? I just watch another tv show

14.  How long does it take for you to get ready in the morning?

 Depending on if I'm giving myself a facial or not (today I am) anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour)

15. Every been in a physical fight?

 Nope but I wouldn't hesitate if someone I love needed me

16. Turn on?

 Eyes

17.  Turn off?

 Cruelty

18.  Fears?

 Being trapped

19.  Last thing that made you cry?

 Pain

20. Last time you said you loved someone?

 About 3 minutes ago to the poodle and about 500 times already today to him

21. Meaning behind your YouTube name?

 It's alwaysjoy - a reminder that my name is my name and not a command

22. The relationship between you and the person you last texted?

 It was Laura - she's one of my dearest friends and the person I am most honest to.

23. Favorite food?

 Popsicles

24.  Place you want to visit?

 Disney - I need some lighthearted child like happiness

25.  Do you have a crush?

 I have love 

26. Last time you kissed someone?

 Last night when J got home

27. Last time you were insulted?

 I think my insults come from my own insecurities so who knows when one was actually real

28.  Favorite piece of jewelry?

 The diamond that was my moms and before that in my fathers family I treasure it! 

29. Who should answer these questions next?

 Anyone who wants 

 

Me from a to z

I'm not terribly motivated for anything today - I have a dr appointment and I'm not excited so I thought I'd start the week off with something fun!

I got this from the way too fabulous janetha over at mealsandmovesblog.com

A is for age:
36

B is for breakfast today:
Probably red velvet tea with almond milk

C is for currently craving:
Sleeeeeeeeeeep

D is for dinner tonight:
Depends on what hubster wants what I'll make him

E is for favorite type of exercise:
Walking, hiking, running

F is for an irrational fear:
Going into the hospital

G is for gross food:
Meat

H is for hometown:
Wilmington

I is for something important:
Good skin care routine!

J is for current favorite jam:
Born this way

K is for kids:
Does the handsome man in the photos count?

L is for current location:
At home in bed with my 2 favorite guys sleeping next to me (technically 51 pounds of pupster is ON my right leg)

M is for the most recent way you spent money:
On my car grrr

N is for something you need:
Vitamin d levels that aren't a joke

O is for occupation:
Doggy mama

P is for pet peeve:
Noisy people

Q is for a quote:
The only way around is through

R is for random fact about you:
I fractured my back twice

S is for favorite healthy snack:
Celery?

T is for favorite treat:
I go through phases - right now I'm all about zen tea with a splash of soy and lots of Splenda

U is for something that makes you unique:
I was an exchange student to costa rica

V is for favorite vegetable:
Hmmmm that's a hard question for a vegan - sweet potatoes cooked in the crockpot are amazing, so is raw fresh lettuce, a farmers market tomato, steamed broccoli, pretty much any veggie in soups minus peas (I'm allergic) and corn (not a fan)

W is for today’s workout:
Mad abs march and a walk

X is for X-rays you’ve had:
Ummm every single thing!

Y is for yesterday’s highlight:
Getting my car back!!! (yesterday's low light was the $620 it cost)

Z is for your time zone:
Eastern standard

Stitch in time

I got this fun 5 survey from:
http://f.riday5.com/
Go check them out!

What was your first wristwatch like?

It was a swatch - and I wanted it sooooo bad and I lost it the first day

What lately seems to have been a thief of time?

Working out?
Therapy?
Purging? (yup wrote it, meant it, wanna stop it!)

What were yesterday’s quietest five minutes like?

Ohhhh sitting on the couch with my feet on hubster and my pupster 'nuggling up close

In what way have you lately been saving time?

I save time by doing things exactly the same each morning

We are often charged hourly rates for labor, but we never get to reciprocate in kind when promised completion times don’t match actual completion. If you could bill people for the time you spend waiting, what would be a reasonable amount?

I think somewhere in the $10-$20 an hour range would at least make people stop and think!

+++what's a TIME when you were truly happy?+++

20 questions yo

I found this over on janetha's blog and thought it'd be fun to play along

http://mealsandmovesblog.com/2012/01/13/twenty-questions/


1) What is one of your favorite ways to spend a Saturday?
Hiking with pupster :-) (and yup we have every intention of bundling up and doing just that soon)

2) List your top three favorite TV shows.
House
Grey's anatomy
Private practice

3) Would you rather be in pictures or take them?
I'd always rather take pictures * speaking of photos I was cleaning out drawers of our side table yesterday and they were literally stuffed with photos like thousands - crazy huh? So I went through them and between duplicates, horrid pictures, pictures of things I could not care less about and people I don't know I got rid of 60-70% of them - crazy huh? I have a dozen I'm mailing to people who'd love them the rest went out in the trash

4) Why do you blog?
so I exist to more than just hubster and pupster

5) Share five websites that you visit regularly…
google reader
Twitter
Pintrest
Groupon
Task rabbit
Craig's list

6) If you could have lunch with one person from your Twitter list who would it be?
bob from biggest looser

7) List a few of your favorite snacks.
I'm not a snacks person but a yummy tea is always good

8 ) Do you have a pet? If so, what kind?
I have pupster the standard poodle

9) Which three material possessions would you struggle to live without?
my phone
My car
My house

10) What’s your favorite drink?
lately chai tea

11) Do you enjoy cooking?
no

12) Do you have children?
pupster?

13) What are your favorite hobbies?
Running
Hiking
Looming
Crochet
Jewelry

14) Would you consider yourself to be shy or outgoing?
I'd say people probably think I'm shy but I'm really just insecure

15) If you could change one thing about yourself, what would you change?
my attitude towards me?

16) Who is your favorite actor/actress?
Julia Roberts

17) What’s the coolest thing you’ve done this week?
clearing out the drawers was pretty cool

18) Do you live near your family or far from them?
pretty close

19) List three of your talents.
I listen well
I'm pretty good with dogs
I'm a faithful friend

20) What is your greatest attribute?
I'm a faithful friend

+++would you like to answer a couple?+++

End of 2011 meme

1. What did you do in 2011 that you had never done before? Lived at a new address.

2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I don't really set resolutions so I can't really keep them!

3. What would you like to have in 2012 that you lacked in 2011? A better handle on who I am.

4. What’s your biggest achievement of the year? In reality I am pretty proud of myself for having survived last year. And for realizing that I am not responsible for every bad thing in the world

5. What was your biggest failure? Probably how much I let others and myself hurt me physically and mentally

6. Did you suffer illness or injury? Yeah 2011 was the year my kidneys decided they hated me, my heart agreed and I broke 5 bones in my foot thankyouverymuch

7. What was the best thing you bought? Pretty sure I'm supposed to say the house but the reality is my real tree made me happy! Really really happy! So did some craft supplies

8. Whose behavior deserves merit? Pupster. He greets each day and each person with happiness and love

9. Whose behavior made you appalled and disgusted? My oldest sister - there's not one thing she's done I'm proud of

10. Where did most of your money go? Buying and furnishing the tartis house

11. What did you get really, really excited about? The house :-)

12. Compared to this time last year are you?

a)happier or sadder? happier

b)fatter or thinner? Slightly thinner

c)richer or poorer? Same in the bank but WAY less debt sooooo richer?

13. What do you wish you had done more of? Hung out with friends

14. What do you wish you had done less of? Please people who are unpleasable

15. What was your favorite TV program: starving secrets

16. What did you want and get? The new house.

17. What did you not want and not get? A rain barrel

18, What was your favorite film this year? Michael Jackson this is it

19. What did you do on your birthday and how old were you? I don't think I did anything I was 36

20. What kept you sane? Pupster always pupster

21. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Simon cowell.

22. Who was the best new person you met? Nicole my new friend and designer.

23. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2011. That you cannot reason with irrational people who think their way is the only way.

Fun Christmas survey

here is a holiday survey i saw on janetha's blog and wanted to do

http://mealsandmovesblog.com/

Eggnog or hot chocolate?
The new polar egg nog seltzer

Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Santa gives us small gifts in our stocking he doesn't wrap those!

Colored lights on tree/house or white?
It changes by the year and this year it's white (is it bad I had to look to remember)

Mistletoe yay or nay
I've never had it!


When do you hang your decorations up?
When I decide it's time and then we must do it THAT MOMENT!

What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
My sisters chili was always a favorite back when we went there now we go to the movies and whatever else so no specific anything

Favorite holiday memory as a child?
That my mom got me a cabbage patch kid the year they were the it toy we were poor and I'm not sure what she gave up to get it for me but I loved oriana Edith.
What is on your Christmas wish list?
Ummm a rain barrel, and a bracelet that matches my wedding ring and best of all kisses all day long from pupster

Do you open a gifts on Christmas Eve?
I open pajamas that my mom and now my friend Joey give me! Other than that no - I don't usually open any on Christmas either - not a fan of getting gifts!

How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
This year dollar store ornaments and candy canes (I have not found my Christmas spirit)

Snow? Love it or dread it?
Love walking in it and looking at it but hate shoveling it!

Real tree or fake tree?
Usually fake this year real!

Do you remember your favorite gift?
See up above... Cabbage patch

What’s the most important thing about Christmas for you?
Reminding people how much I love them!

What is your favorite holiday dessert?
Slush puppy

What is your favorite tradition?
Stockings

What tops your tree?
A bulb thing

Do you prefer giving or receiving?
See above I hate receiving!

What is your favorite Christmas song?
Christmas shoes!

Candy canes, yuck or yum?
Yuck

Favorite Christmas movie?
weird, i don’t have one.

What do you leave for Santa?
Nothing
.
Do you have a Christmas morning tradition?
a walk and stockings!!.

Do you prefer to shop on-line or at the mall?
Mostly mall and homemade.

Christmas letter or Christmas card?
Card with a pic

+++answer a couple if you'd like++*