Get to know me...

I got this thing from my biological mother, I have never not completed one and thought it would be nice to catalog the various ones I've completed when I come across them...I wish we'd stop asking about favorite sports and colors as well as ice cream flavors, but those are the rules of the game, I guess...Enjoy.

1. FIRST NAME? Depends on where we are…right now, I am Ama
2. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? A neighbor who passed away

3. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY? When Ohene hit me in my eye last week

4. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? Only when I use the best of pens

5. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCHMEAT? Veggie pattie from Subway

6. KIDS? I have one for sale to the first to bid (I’ll take him back in 6 years)

7. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? I would be IN LOVE with me!!!

8. DO YOU HAVE A JOURNAL? No…I blog sometimes
9. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? NO WAY!!! I would never do that, its so deceiving
10. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? I shouldn’t, but I do

11. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? NEVER
12. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Crunchy Raisin Bran

13. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? Don’t like shoes with ties

14. YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? Compared to what? An elephant, no…Ohene, yes

15. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR? Chocolate laced with chocolatey chocolate, hot fudge and chocolate crunchies
16. SHOE Sizes? A lady never tells

17. RED OR PINK? EWWWWWWW!!!! RED is the only color of the rainbow

18. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? My infatuation with my gut.
19. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? My college years…

20. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU? It’d be nice, but hey, I can’t MAKE anyone do it

21. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? Brown stripey pants, no shoes (don’t tell my boss)

22. LAST THING YOU ATE? Crunchy raisin bran and an apple (yes, I AM regular, thank you)

23. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? The people in my office
24. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? RED!!!
25. FAVORITE SMELL? I am pretty picky about smells and it varies day to day…I like a clean man…

26. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? Another employee here at my wonderful job...(see #9)

27. THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE YOU ARE ATTRACTED TO? shoes

8. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? I guess (see #9)

29. FAVORITE ADULT DRINK and KID DRINK? Adult: sweet iced tea kid: root beer/crème soda

30. SPORTS: I am gonna go with Soccer, although anything rodeo has always captured my attention
31.HAIR COLOR? Reddish-brown with about 10 greys in the front…

32. EYE COLOR? hazel
33. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? Don’t I wish it somedays

34. FAVORITE FOOD? Sweet potato ravioli with a cream sauce…haven’t had it in years

35. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDING? Happy—funny is best

36. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? In the theater? Monster House

37. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? brown
38. SUMMER OR WINTER? I like spring and fall…not too cold, not too hot..

40. FAVORITE DESSERT? Cookies (chocolate chip, of course)

41. WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? Well, I am only sending it to a select number of really good friends, so I would think that they would all take some time to sit back and ponder how important it would be to me to get more info on them…
42. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? I am going to hope that everyone does
43. WHAT BOOKS ARE YOU READING? How to survive the first 20 years of your child’s life (not a real book, btw)

44. WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? Don’t need a mouse pad, I am technological with mine--I’ve got a laser mouse….

45. WHAT DID YOU WATCH LAST NIGHT ON TV? 48 hours mystery, Marilyn Monroe’s death…intriguing.
46. FAVORITE SOUNDS? My husband and my son snoring in unison….

47. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? How about HENDRIX???

48. THE FURTHEST YOU'VE BEEN FROM HOME? Hawaii

49. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? I am a jack of all trades and master of none…
50. WHEN AND WHERE WERE YOU BORN? Routt County Hospital, Steamboat Springs, CO 8/23/1975 (note that I mean nothing by that..)

A Mother's Work...

Yesterday, after I picked my son up, I was trying to keep him busy inside the house, so he wouldn’t want to go outside, where it was god awfully hot…well, we somehow got on the subject of farm animals people eat (I’ll say he started it, and I chimed in once I knew what he was babbling about)…He asked me if people ate ‘Lemongoats”….I had no idea what a lemongoat was…I asked what he meant and he said “Lem AND goats, mommy, Lem AND goats do people eat em?” I kindly said, “If I knew what a lem was, I’d be able to tell you…and I think most people only drink milk from goats…”

Later on, he was asking his father about goats and brought out the lem’s again…he was getting frustrated with us because we had no idea what a lem was (I suppose we’re not the most intelligent parents, sometimes). Since its normally my job to de-code threeyearoldese, I sat up for several hours, trying to figure out what the lem’s might be…

3 hours into it, I realized, LAMB…LAMB AND GOATS….

So, when he woke up this morning, I revealed to him as he awoke that, yes, some people eat LAMBs, but not vegetarians (which he claims to be). He looked as if he could care less. A mother’s work is never done.