20 Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know

- I think I have anxiety issues

- I have worn the same ring since I was about 11 years old

- I have never taken my wedding ring off, and refuse to do so

- My new favorite show is called “Chef at Home” on the Food Network

- I have a chip in my front tooth

- I bake way better than I cook

- I could live quite happily as a vegetarian, if I liked beans or eggs

- My favorite book of all time is Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

- I have a passionate love for high heels

- I make the best spaghetti sauce on Earth

- I think I was supposed to be born in the 1700′s in Scotland..but only to a wealthy family, so I could have horses and wear big dresses :)

- I never win at Scrabble or Phase Ten

- I can’t eat chocolate chip cookies anymore because they always taste like shortening

- I always sleep on the side of the bed furthest away from the door – AJ has to sleep near the door so he can protect me from theives!

- I love to scrapbook

- If I could sit down with anyone for a day it would be my Grampie Ingersoll (I would prefer more than a day, but alas…)

- I have 13 fish and they’re all mean

- If I could put in an order for my future children, I would like to have twin boys and a girl

- It is a goal of mine to someday own a concert grand piano and have an entire room dedicated to its existance

- I wish I liked hotdogs

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http://www.ajguptill.com

MOW and A Diet

This weeks Picture Of the Week is actually a Movie Of the Week.  This is a video of my husband, before we were even dating, trying to impress me by risking his neck…. Enjoy

As for the diet, I am now the owner of a treadmill.  AJ felt the need to buy one for his birthday.  It looks at me and makes me feel guilty, therefore I can’t eat anything good anymore, and I must use it.  Frig.

My Holiday Driving Experience, “The eagles did it to ya, didn’t they?”, and Other Tidings of Joy

I love Christmas.  I posted earlier about not being excited for Christmas, but the holiday spirit eventually got to me and of course, I enjoyed myself.  Many adventurous things happened to my husband and I this season, but none so interesting as our driving experiences.  It all started with the first snowfall of the year.  We noticed that the back end of our wonderful (thumbs down) car was sliding all over the road.  Not cool.  Or safe.  But way less cool than safe.  So we got winter tires.  Still with the sliding allllll over the road.  And it wasn’t your usual “no traction” sliding.  It was over the top, can’t drive faster than 35, constant left-to-right steering, all over the road sliding.  So we thought it might be the alignment.  Nope.  We got that fixed and it did nothing.  Boo hiss.  So along comes Christmas (some of the most exciting gifts consisting of new Paderno pots and pans!, an electric blanket for my bed, AJ’s “impact wrench” was his favorite, a beautiful new coat, etc.), and many drives back and forth to Scussex (AJ’s parents live there).  First drive up – road was clear, but everytime we went over a bridge, the back end went haywire.  Kinda scary.  Second drive up – clear roads, all was well.  Second drive home – we had AJ’s sister and her husband in the car with us.  It was freezing rain and snowing (not to mention, it was my birthday ).  We get to about Young’s Cove when the back end starts sliding.  Badly.  We can’t drive any faster than a whopping 45 km/hr, and we used our four-ways from Young’s Cove to about Oromocto.  Needless to say, it was terrifying.  We were alllllllllllllllll over the road and I was just waiting to slide under a transport truck and die.  It sucked.  It took us about 2 hours to get home.  Not cool.  So my husband, being the smart man he is, takes the car to my Grampies garage and uses his new impact wrench to save the day and fix my car!  I don’t know how, or what was wrong with it, but he friggin’ fixed it and I’m amazed and impressed!  He’s so smart!  So back to Scussex we go in our newly fixed car.  No problems!  And it even snows 3cm, and on the way home, NO problems!  I was so pleased.  Until Barker’s Point.  We drove over the little bridge, and saw TWO eagles sitting side by side on a branch.  It was really neat and AJ just HAD to stop and take a picture.  So he pulls into this little driveway like empty parking lot type thing next to the new apt. buildings in Barker’s Point.  Bad, frigging, idea.  We got stuck.  Real good.  Somehow we wedged ourself onto some ice and could NOT get out.  AJ dug and shifted and played around with everything he could think of.  I called every phone number and family member I could think of (THANK FOR NOTHING FAMILY! No one answers their phones in my family), but eventually a nice man with a mustash pulled us out with his pickup truck.  Thank you mustash New Years man.  As he left, he looked back and said to us “the eagles did it to ya, didn’t they?”.  Yes mustash man, the eagles and my stubborn, photographic husband.

Anyways, long story.  But it was a good holiday.  I’m now a certified teacher (yay!) and I’m looking forward to getting to work and paying off the holiday bills and working off the holiday fat!