CadyKansas

We're Not in Kansas Anymore, Toto. Oh, wait. Yes we are. I'm a working mother, a working wife, and a working housekeeper. Some things I do better than others.

I'm a working mom, a working wife, and a working homemaker. Some things I do better than others.

In 2004, we moved our family to San Diego, California from suburban Kansas City, Kansas. Then, in summer of 2006, we moved back, and bought a house right next door to our previous house. You can go home again. As many times as you want, apparently.

I moved this blog to Typepad from livejournal in October 2005. Check out the archives there at www.livejournal.com/users/jbm311.

100 Things About Me
This was harder than I thought it would be. One a different day I would probably use 100 totally different things. But this works for now.

1. I am a girl.
2. I am a tomboy.
3. Which means I’m not very good at being a girl sometimes.
4. I am a wife.
5. I am a mom.
6. I drive a minivan.
7. Shut up it has automatic sliding doors.
8. I am not physically high maintenance.
9. I am a little bit emotionally high maintenance.
10. “A little bit” is possibly a term I use loosely.
11. I was a college sorority girl in Fort Worth, Texas.
12. Which is like the Eiffel Tower of high maintenance.
13. Or maybe, the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
14. Because I wasn’t particularly good at being high maintenance.
15. I do not miss being high maintenance.
16. Ever.
17. I think my husband misses me being high maintenance, maybe just a little bit.
18. He would probably deny that.
19. He’s very smart.
20. We met in college.
21. He had a slightly better GPA than me.
22. But only because he knew about the pass/fail option way before I did.
23. I failed one class in college - Intro to Criminal Justice.
24. It was supposed to be a football player class.
25. But someone forgot to tell the new Prof that.
26. There were a bunch of pissed off football players that semester.
27. There was another new Prof after that.
28. I have two little boys, ages 7 and 5.
29. They are wild.
30. Like, Tarzan in the jungle wild.
31. They are often mistaken for twins.
32. Probably because I like to dress them alike.
33. It makes it easier to keep track of them.
34. They mostly look like their dad.
35. They seem to also have their dad’s coordination.
36. Which is a very lucky thing for them.
37. Because I am a klutz.
38. I love a good yoga workout.
39. Its maybe not such a good idea to tell new instructors that you learned yoga in California, because apparently this is an invitation for them to work your ass over.
40. I was born in Southern California.
41. But I grew up in Kansas.
42. This means I am a Valley girl at heart.
43. I was really comfortable living in Southern California again.
44. Like I belonged, finally.
45. I am a liberal.
46. I am not a registered Democrat.
47. Because I don’t necessarily buy into the entire party.
48. I once registered to be a Republican for the sole purpose of voting out a warhorse School Board Trustee who wanted to teach creationism in public school, but I mailed the party change form on the way out of the polling station.
49. Most everyone else in my family is Republican, with a few notable exceptions.
50. Everyone in my husband’s family is Conservative, religious-right Republican.
51. Except my husband, who’s really just a Republican, without all the other stuff.
52. But I love him anyway.
53. I don’t talk politics much with the in-laws.
54. I don’t talk religion with them either.
55. I consider myself a Christian.
56. Although I prefer "Protestant", because I don't like the way "Christian" has become synonymous with "Conservative", "Right-Wing" and also "Closed-minded Bible Thumper" in the current lexicon in this country.
57. Contrary to popular belief, “liberal” and “Christian” are not mutually exclusive.
58. I think, overall, organized religions of any kind can be a good ethical and moral education tool for society.
59. But I’m not really prepared to say that my particular brand of religion is the right and only one, and the rest of you who don't believe the way I do are totally gonna fry.
60. I don’t like to play mind games.
61. I used to prefer the company of men to women.
62. Men aren’t as good at, or as reliant on mind games.
63. Which is why I like them better.
64. However, now that I have three men in my house, I find I seek out estrogen more.
65. As an adult I finally learned how to be friends with women.
66. I make friends easily.
67. I’m not so good at keeping them, however.
68. That’s because I have a big, fat mouth and a tendency to say what’s on my mind.
69. At inappropriate times.
70. I wish I were better at staying in touch with people I care about.
71. I’d like to be a better listener.
72. I have a hard time paying attention sometimes.
73. I get distracted easily.
74. What was I saying? Oh yeah.
75. I am self-employed.
76. Which isn’t saying much.
77. Except that I never did very well with office politics, just another form of mind games.
78. People who play the politics generally don’t appreciate you speaking your mind.
79. I have a standard poodle puppy named Max.
80. I had a beautiful german shepherd, whom I loved dearly, until May 2005, when I held her as the Vet gave her a lethal injection to end her misery.
81. This is not something I think I can ever do again, but at the time I didn't see how it would be possible to let her die alone, on a cold stainless steel table, surrounded by people she did not know.
82. I miss her like I’d miss the sun.
83. Max helps me miss her less, although he's quite the wuss, and my husband hates him.
84. I am terrified of spiders. Mostly big ones, but some little ones, especially if they are fast.
85. As in hyperventilate, cry, and shake uncontrollably.
86. This started as an adult. Not sure why.
87. I am also terrified of snakes, but they don’t randomly show up in my every day life, so it’s less of a problem.
88. And sharks.
89. My husband likes to watch Shark Week on the Discovery Channel.
90. I have to leave the house.
91. I am also claustrophobic.
92. Mostly this manifests in elevators.
93. But also tunnels, caves and caverns, other small, tight or dark spaces. Again, not a big problem in my everyday life. But it has come up.
94. I am also afraid of not being able to breath (something-phobic?)
95. Mostly involving drowning or smoke inhalation.
96. I am a control freak. Duh.
97. I am pretty much a type A personality.
98. I tend to cuss like a fucking sailor.
99. I am very practical, and rather thrifty.
100. This doesn’t mean I can’t spend a good amount of money on absolutely nothing.