7 deadly sins--I mean 7 Random Things

Knitterista tagged me, so here goes...

1 - I hate feet, but love love love baby feet. I mean, I wear sandals all summer and love to be barefoot, but I can't really stand to look at adult feet for long...they always just seem yucky to me and I don't really get people who have foot fetishes. However, show me a newborn or any lil one, really, and I can't help but unwrap the swaddle, remove the socks and look at those cute lil toes.

2 - I'm trying to become a self-proclaimed queen of the crock pot. Thinking now that I'm having a baby, I should probably try to become a little more domesticated (just w/ the cooking, not so much the cleaning so far...one step at a time, right?) and cook more meals at home as opposed to eating out most nights. But by the time I get home from work, the last thing I want to do is prepare a big meal from start to finish. Well...I found that it takes very little effort to toss some meat and whatever else into the slow cooker either in the morning or at lunchtime (I live around the corner from my office, so I walk home to visit the puggers on most days). Then, when I get home, not only does the house smell like food (a welcome change), but it takes no time to throw together a side dish and a veggie (I cheat and use alot of prepared or semi-prepared stuff...like I said...one step at a time) and call it a meal. Plus, then hubby is grateful and usually cleans up, which I really don't like doing either.

3 - I have a hard time typing short, to the point emails and posts. I mean, my friends can all send me quick little emails here and there telling me what needs to be said, but for some reason, I tend to be quite long-winded when it comes to my correspondence. Not really sure why, but I've tried to be more to the point, and it just doesn't seem to work.

4 - I can't stand eating at a tv tray (sometimes we eat at the dining room table, and other times we eat in the living room in front of the tube) if the hubby is watching something that I don't care for. I feel like it ruins my meal if I'm not engaged in something on the screen when I'm in front of it. This drives DH crazy cuz that basically means I have control of the tv whenever we are eating in front of it, but I feel like I'm wasting my good meal or something if there's something boring on, like sports that I'm not into, or something on the History Channel (I rarely find something on that channel that engages me, not sure why).

5 - I usually avoid people I know when I'm out shopping. It's not that I don't like talking to acquaintances, but for some reason, just not really while I'm shopping. If I see someone I know (close family and friends excluded), I will generally dodge them at most costs. Sometimes I think it's rude, but I have talked to other friends who do the same thing, so I guess it's just who I am.

6 - I am a girl of MANY collections. I've always been that way...when I was younger, it was seals (like the cute figurines and stuffed animals...I think it's cuz I did an independent study on them in like 4th grade or something, so people just started buying them for me), then it switched to frogs (I still display this collection in my home, although I haven't really added to it in years), then there's the knitting, knitting books, cookbooks (which reminds me - I need to look for the slow cooker one I know I bought years ago and never really used...), socks (I love any kind of cutesy cool socks and wear mostly maryjane shoes so I can show them off)...the list goes on and on.

7 - I have some kind of weird cleaning A.D.D. Like anytime I'm cleaning my house, I get VERY easily distracted. I'll be cleaning away in the kitchen and see something that belongs upstairs, so I'll grab it to take up, abandoning the kitchen, then grab a few more things to take up along the way, and before I know it, I'm upstairs cleaning the bathroom with a pile of stuff in the hallway that belongs in the office, bedroom, etc. Sometimes it takes me awhile to make it back down to the kitchen, so the rooms in the house very often get only halfway done.

Ok, there's my randomness. I won't tag anyone specifically, but would love it if you feel like playing along. Leave me a comment so I know to check yours out. Thanks for tuning in (hope you all don't think I'm a total weirdo now, or any more of one than you already did lol)! :)

Friday Smiles

What is it about these cuties that makes everyone have to smile??

freebies - true lemon, plus an update on the pumpkin

just signed up to get some freebies and found out that if i blog about the deal, i'll get even more. so here goes...




Get your free samples of True Lemon here.

Plus, if you are a blogger, you'll want to take note of this note from Tammy:

I read about this deal in the True Lemon e-newAnyone who blogs about True Lemon free samples and links to their free sample page can get 15 free packets of True Lemon/Lime/Orange for doing so! Just email them with the link to your blog post and give them your name and address. Oh, and you get to choose which flavors you want, too! :)

The free sample page to link to is: http://truelemon.com/gratitude-sample.html

And the email address to contact them is: customercare AT truelemon DOT com.

i got this link from this site and might be posting more of these things in the future. hope they aren't too annoying, but i love me some freebies and am gonna be looking to save money wherever i can (definitely on my mind these days, especially when i stop in the baby sections when i'm shopping and see how much diapers cost - YIKES! ;))

ps - speaking of baby, here's an update: went to the doctor after a spotting/cramping scare at about 10 weeks and had an u/s...all is well and had my next appointment this past wednesday. we got to hear the heartbeat and it was the most amazing thing ever! baby is doing great, i'm at 13 weeks today, and the morning sickness is so far not letting up, but actually getting worse. hopefully it won't be much longer, but i'm hanging in there. like all of my mom friends keep telling me, it'll all be worth it in the end! here's some pics of our lil pumpkin from the 10wk-ish appt...