I’m not entirely sure, as my inventory of days seems to be COMPLETELY out of whack lately.  (Evie is officially three months old today?  It’s a Friday?  It’s JUNE??)  But I’m going to take everyone’s word for it.  As it is, I am having a hard time formulating coherent thoughts and will rely on a couple of good ol’ standbys for today’s post: a meme and some photos.  Woot!

First up, I found this over at Joys in my Life and couldn’t resist.  I don’t have an iPod, or even an MP3 player, but I do have Winamp on my laptop so I figured it would do.  As long as it could “shuffle”, right?  So here goes:

1. Put your iTunes/music player on “Shuffle”
2. For each question, press the “Next” button to get your answer
3. You MUST write down the name of THAT SONG no matter what. (aka NO CHEATING!)

Ready?  Set?  GO!

IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OKAY” YOU SAY?
“Tainted Love” (by The Cure) - cuz that makes sense.

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
“Albuquerque” (by Weird Al Yankovic) - HA!

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
“I Will Always Return” (by Bryan Adams) - I guess?  Being there does help.

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
“Time of Your Life” (by Green Day) - Okay, yeah.  I can agree with this.

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
“You Give Love a Bad Name” (by Bon Jovi) - Now that isn’t even TRUE.

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
“Apologize” (by One Republic) - Hmm.  Not a bad motto, actually.

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
“The Reason Why” (by Vince Gill) - Uhm…

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
“This Ain’t a Scene It’s an Arm’s Race” (by Fall Out Boy) - Oh boy.

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
“Black Horse and The Cherry Tree” (by KT Tunstall) - I guess this works… or not.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
“testing 1,2,3″ (by Barenaked Ladies) - Ha!  Sorry, Michelle.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
“More than That” (by Backstreet Boys) - say it with me: “Aww….”

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
“Beautiful Liar” (by Beyonce and Shakira) - I, in now way shape or form, resemble this remark.  As if.

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
“Waiting on the World to Change” (by John Mayer) - OMG.  Can you believe how ON that is?

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
“Authority Song” (by John Cougar Mellencamp) - Hee.

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
“Crush” (by Jennifer Page) - Yeah.  No.

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
“This Kiss” (by Faith Hill) - Eerie.  i think we may have actually danced to this.  Or it was played.  It wasn’t our first dance though.

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
“A New Day Has Come” (by Celine Dion) - Wow, pretty intuitive if not right on.

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
“Angel Eyes” (by Jeff Healy Band) - Now if only this was the “dance at the wedding song” one… we almost picked this as our first dance.)

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
“Rockstar” (by Nickleback) - Hoo hoo!  Yeah.  RIGHT.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
“867-5309″ (by Tommy Tutone) - I’m sorry, I’m too busy laughing.

WHAT SHOULD YOU POST THIS AS?
“Fields of Gold” (by Eva Cassidy) - Except I’m so not going to.

Was that fun for you too?  I have some strange songs on my laptop, that’s for sure.  If I haven’t totally aliented you by now, I’m going to post up some pictures.  Who doesn’t love pictures??

I used to sit just like this when I was little.  Not “indian-style”, always like this.

Look at those rolls on her wrist!  CHUNKY-NESS!

Can you tell he just dotes on her?

And can you tell just why he does?

Tags: Evelyn, Harry, Liam, meme, music, pictures
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1. Coma Black ~ Marilyn Manson, 2. Baby Shrimp Scampi, 3. can you tie it in a knot - can you tie it in a bow, 4. Purple fingers, 5. YEE-HAWW!!, 6. Appletini Week, 7. Sunset Beach, 8. Cherry Cobbler, 9. Day 106 - I am a librarian, 10. Autumn walk, 11. Bell(AHHHH)gio, 12. Test photo

I’d like to thank Rhi for doing this and causing me to waste nearly an entire hour working on this. All the other tasks I neglected during that time thank her too.

What you do:

1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
2. Using only the first page, pick an image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker).

My Answers:

1. What is your first name? Marilyn
2. What is your favorite food? shrimp scampi
3. What high school did you go to? Presentation
4. What is your favorite color? purple
5. Who is your celebrity crush? Owen Wilson
6. Favorite drink? appletini
7. Dream vacation? New Zealand
8. Favorite dessert? cherry crisp
9. What you want to be when you grow up? writer
10. What do you love most in life? My children
11. One Word to describe you. busy
12. Your flickr name. callistawolf

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In other news: I have a review up over at my new review blog. But it’s not just a review, it’s a giveaway too (thanks to PBN!). GO CHECK IT OUT. You too can be considered a rockstar in your child’s eyes!

Also, this is the last day to enter to win the FREE BlogHer ‘08 registration. Better get on that!

Tags: flickr, meme, photography
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My husband really did a great job yesterday for Mother’s Day. Being our first year with THREE kids instead of TWO, I really didn’t have very many high expectations. But I think he knocked it out of the park, pampering me and making sure my day was special. Anyhow, in his honor, I wanted to post about him today. I found this meme over at Fluent Brittish and thought it was a fabulous idea. I mean, you all have got to be tired of hearing about me me me all the time. Now you can hear about Kile.

See what he made me last night? I KNOW.

Okay, with that out of the way, it’s time to post some pictures. Evie needs her internet fix (or is it the other way around?), after all.

It’s the bunched up fists that are killing me here.

Zoot sent us this bonnet and I love it so much it hurts.

Evie decides she’s tired of being the center of attention for a change.

Tags: Evelyn, Kile, meme, pictures
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The lovely lady behind Lag Liv recently tagged me for a very intriguing meme. It’s so rarely that I’m actually tagged for a meme, that I had to do it. Plus, I had to admit, it was a danged fine meme. Who am I kidding? I probably would have done this one anyhow, tagged or not. That’s just how I roll.

THE RULES:

** Post about the meme and link back to the person that tagged you.
** Go back to your archives and link to your five favorite posts.

Link One: must be about family
Link Two: must be about friends
Link Three: must be about yourself
Link Four: must be about something you love
Link Five: can be anything you choose

** Tag five other people (at least two must be new acquaintances so that you can get to know them better). Oh please. We all know I’m not going to follow this particular rule. I am a horrible tagger. I would a) not have the guts to actually tag them in the first place for fear that they would blatantly ignore me and think me a dweeb and b) not have the guts to go to their blog and tell them they were tagged. So there you have it. No tagging. But if you want to do it and/or actually do this meme on your blog, LET ME KNOW so I can go peep at your answers. Deal?

1. Family Hmm. This is hard. Because pretty much a LOT of my posts are about my family. And it was pretty hard to find a “favorite” among those. I finally settled on “Spacing” which I posted last April. While a lot of the content is rather ironic considering my current condition, I think it’s a poignant look at “family planning” and how the whole “planning” thing is really just an illusion.
2. Friends Gah. Heh. I could basically go two directions on this. Fondly or not so. Let’s see… There’s this post where I talk about my anti-social tendencies that have only gotten worse as I’ve gotten older and more isolated. There’s also this post where I discuss how much I am lonely and want to have friends (do I sense a contradiction? Yes, I do!). There’s even this post where I tried (rather unsuccessfully, actually) to kiss some butt and mend some fences. I tried looking for some positive friendship posts but I couldn’t find much that I actually really liked. I guess I need to start writing more positive things about friendships in here, huh?
3. Myself Oh, this shouldn’t be difficult at all. There’s a TON of posts about me on here. I like this post about wanting to find more self-confidence now that I’m getting older. Then again, I also really, really like this post where I expose my feelings about being able to get pregnant so easily a) after suffering infertility and b) when I know so many that struggle so hard. Tough choice! I love them both.
4. Something I Love Well, there is the post I wrote last night about our new bad. I love that pretty much a WHOLE lot. BUT, in the interest of romance, I’m going to have to forgo that one in lieu of this rather schmoopy post from our anniversary this last year. And every word of it? TOTALLY TRUE. I definitely do love that man of mine. Absolutely have no idea what I’d do without him.
5. My Choice Hoo boy! I’ve got a couple here (again!) (good thing the rules aren’t too specific about only picking ONE post). I *LOVE* this post about my religious leanings. I could write that post over every six months or so and probably have a different post each time. But this pretty much holds true. I also love this post I wrote on Jackson’s third birthday (or what would have been, rather) last year. How about this post where Liam was introduced for the first time? That was such an awesome day. And then I like this post where I put up some advice about dealing with someone who has had a miscarriage or stillbirth or the like.

Whew! I think that covers it! At least, it damn well better cover it. I’ve easily been working on this darn post for the last 12 hours. Okay, that’s a lie. I worked on it for a couple hours this morning and then we were out of the house all day long. But I put a good three hours in on this post. So that should count for SOMETHING, right?

Oh, and if you’re wondering? The new bed is just as fabulous as I always hoped it would be. Who knew that I wouldn’t have to flop like a fish out of water just to roll over, that I could simply just roll? It’s a miracle! That bed is my new BFF.

Tags: about me, best posts, links, meme
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