Possumblog

See!?

There IS more!

It's just not very good, nor will it really be worth your time to have come back. BUT!

Uh, well--well, nope--I was hoping for a sudden burst of inspiration there and it just didn't come through.

Went to lunch and got some cute birthday cards, and then went to Parisian and found a cute silk/nylon 3/4 sleeve top in dark purple, and then had it wrapped by the same cute round blonde who waited on me at Christmas, and then went out in the food court and stopped at Taco Bell for one of their Fiesta Chicken Taco Salads, which was not the least bit cute. All I can say is if this is what constitutes a fiesta in Mexico, no wonder everyone's leaving.

Tonight, a stop at The DQ (and yes, nowadays all things have to have a two-initial name preceded by a definite article--shortly, this blog will be renamed The PB) for an ice cream birthday cake for Miss Reba. It's not much, and we might be able to get out and do more sometime, but as I mentioned in the comments in the first post of the morning, we have so much other stuff to get done in the next few days, there's not going to be a lot of time for pony rides and Pin the Tail on the Donkey. That wouldn't be nearly so bad but for the fact that all that busy-ness also means that there probably won't be time for all the other fun birthday games such as Randy Pizza Delivery Guy Who Walks in on Unsuspecting Housewife in the Shower, or Randy Pirate Who Walks in on an Unsuspecting Housewife Lounging in the Poop Deck, or Randy Civil Servant Who Walks in on Unsuspecting Housewife and Cites Her for Failure to Comply with City Ordinance 87-108.12(c).

Which is probably a nice present for Miss Reba, when you think about it.

Anyway, in honor of my dear longsuffering wife, I present to you a little thing stolen from the cradle-robbing Mrs. Adams, in which I will present to you a listing of amazing random facts about my better half. And no, Miss Reba is not shy about telling her age, mainly because she's hot.

1. She's hot.
2. Reba is the most orderly woman I have ever been married to.
3. She still has to wear a retainer once a month.
4. She is afraid of firearms.
5. She played the clarinet in her high school band.
6. She is a voracious reader of Harlequin romance novels.
7. She would not eat Milo's hamburgers when we first started dating because her mother would not eat Milo's hamburgers because she thought the sauce that Milo's uses looked like pigeon poop, which is ridiculous since pigeon poop looks like pigeon poop and Milo's sauce looks like A-1 Sauce.
8. She tends to like and dislike the exact same things her mother likes and dislikes, such as black walnuts and blue cheese dressing.
9. She can cross stitch.
10. Her feet are always cold.
11. She is a very poor judge of distance/length.
12. She has worked a paying, full-time job of some sort since she was 16. (Except for about three years when she stayed home with the two older girls.)
13. She and I are distantly related, through two different sides of the family.
14. She has two associate degrees in addition to the bachelor's degree she just earned, and has attended four different colleges.
15. She likes it when the bedsheets are brand new and cold.
16. She has hit a deer with her car.
17. She used to save seats for me in Sunday school.
18. She has a brother.
19. She rides the brake pedal.
20. One time when we were pulling up to a gas station, she exclaimed, "Look at those big jars of mayonnaise!" She didn't realize until a split-second after she said it that she was looking at propane cylinders.
21. She slipped and fell in the parking lot of Olive Garden in Irondale while she was pregnant with Jonathan, carrying Rebecca in one arm, and a takeout box of pasta in the other hand. She still has a small black dot in her kneecap from where a hunk of gravel imbedded itself. (She did not drop food nor child, by the way.)
22. She puts her elbows on the table when she's eating.
23. She has a very pronounced Southern accent.
24. She does not like potato chips with ridges.
25. The first car she ever bought with her own money was an '86 Camaro with a V6.
26. She can swim, but not all that well.
27. She sings beautifully, but not very loud.
28. She once slammed her finger in the door of our van.
29. She thinks she's much better at math than she actually is.
30. Her favorite movie is Gone With the Wind, followed by Pretty Woman. And yet, she fails to see the humor in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
31. She has no gall bladder.
32. Her favorite actor used to be Sean Connery, until we went and saw him in that movie with Catherine Zeta Jones and they kept showing closeups of him slobbering all over Mrs. Douglas, and from that point forward she now gets a little shiver whenever she thinks of Connery, similar to the kind of shiver one gets when seeing a dog clean up after itself.
33. She was once possibly bitten by a spider.
34. She does not like bananas because one time when she was in elementary school, one of her classmates ate a banana that had a giant bruise on it. She does, however, love banana pudding. As long as it has no actual pieces of banana in it.
35. She was baptized when she was 18.
36. She has taken modelling classes.
37. She has visited England, France, Switzerland, and Jamaica.
39. She has a closet full of clothes and nothing to wear.
40. She was the director of a daycare for three years.
41. Her favorite breed of dog are boxers.
42. She only has a very faint idea of what a weblog is, and has never heard of something called "Possumblog."
43. Have I mentioned how hot she is?
44. She once said that she wouldn't have minded having more kids--a LOT more--crazy religious cult more--if we could have afforded them.
45. She is a less than graceful runner.
46. She is my best friend.

SO, there you go. Enough for today--see you all tomorrow.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at January 25, 2006 03:51 PM