Quirks

Here are the rules:
1. Link back to the person who tagged you: http://saralouiselamb.blogspot.com/
2. Mention the rules on your blog
3. Tell 6 unspectacular quirks of yours
4. Tag 6 fellow bloggers by linking to them. Who ever has not played (SMD I am looking at you)
5. Leave a comment for each tagged blogger to let them know that they have been tagged
6 Quirks about me:

1. I can't stand butter on my pancakes. Butter is not meant for pancakes. There, I said it. Syrup only please.

2. I eat all the chocolate coating off of a Ding Dong before eating the cake part. Weird I know, but that is just how I like them.

3. I read all magazines from back to front. It doesn't matter if it is Cosmo or National Geographic. The better parts are in the back, so I start there. It drives C crazy!

4. I can sleep with my eyes open! This is a fairly new development, at least to me. I have to be really really tired, but I can fall asleep and leave my eyes open, no blinking at all. The first time C found me this way he was really freaked out! I just hope next time he takes a picture because I have no other proof than his word.

5. My elbows are double jointed. I can basically turn my arms 360 degrees all the way around too. It is because I have really loose ligaments. The same is true for my finger joints, knees, ankles, shoulders. It seems like elbows freak people out the most though. When I put my arm down on something it kind looks like it is on backwards since it bends to such extremes. Growing up I thought it was normal until other people pointed out that it was not natural. I think those people were just jealous.

6. All year I look forward to decorating for Halloween. It is by far the best holiday all year (I think I am especially partial because it is 2 days after by bday). Labor day weekend is the negotiated earliest day I can start decorating. I was out of town/nearly dying this year so I got started a week late. The only thing about Halloween that makes me sad is that Christmas over-shadows it. I mean Hobby Lobby had out their artificial trees before the fourth of July. Halloween got ONE measly aisle a few weeks later. How lame is that? So my apartment has already started its Halloween transformation. I may post pics if there is interest.

Another book down!

I read the second book in Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic series. In Shopaholic Takes Manhattan Becky finds herself skipping across the pond, with her boyfriend, to Manhattan. When she takes in NY she goes a little crazy with her shopping. This is yet another funny book by Sophie.

From Publishers WeeklyThe world is a different place since Helen Fielding triumphed on both sides of the Atlantic, but the torrent of benignly self-indulgent Bridget Jones's Diary knockoffs has not subsided. In this sequel to Kinsella's bestselling Confessions of a Shopaholic, Becky Bloomwood, a personal finance "expert" with her own TV show, is more of a financial mess than ever: she can't stop shopping, even though she can't afford anything. She's even assigned her flatmate, Suze, to monitor her spending, but to no avail: Becky is full of cute rationalizations, like "Foreign money doesn't count, so you can spend as much as you like," and can't stop herself from sneaking into posh boutiques. Her work-obsessed boyfriend, Luke, runs a financial PR agency, and when he gets the green light to open an office in New York City, he brings Becky along. Upon her arrival in the Big Apple, she euphorically discovers Barney's, Saks, Sephora and sample sales but when wind of her shopping excesses gets back to the British press, she loses both her relationship and her TV job. Becky manages to save the day in predictably winning fashion, with plenty of comic moments along the way. Sure, it's tongue-in-cheek and all in good fun but will the barrage of shopping hijinks be enough to hold readers this time around? Kinsella creates some winning characters, but the credit card and shopping bag action is wearing dangerously thin.

I almost died...

Tonight Chris and I were walking around downtown taking pictures. I am trying to get better with my DSLR. We were walking down 5th street holding hands and talking. Then when we got to the corner of Neches and 5th street we heard tires squealing. We look up and a truck was headed right for us on the sidewalk! We ran right because it seemed like the truck was going to come at us on the left. The whole time I am thinking where is Chris? We had stopped holding hands when we realized it was coming right for us. Then I am thinking oh no we are going to get smashed against the brick wall by this truck, we are going to die. Then the truck started to turn and we bolted back the other way. Then the truck hit the stoplight pole.

Thank God for the pole. The pole saved our lives. Both of the vehicles were damaged quite badly. Everyone was fine. Well except my big toe. It got messed up pretty badly. No injuries though. I am not quite sure how it all happened. It was all a blur.

People came up to us that were across the street and kept asking if we were OK. I am guessing that they too thought we were goners.

If anyone knows the couple that were in the truck thank them for me. Thank them for the last minute turning. Thank them for intentionally putting their truck in the pole. Thank them for saving our lives.

If you have made it this far. Thank you for listening to my rambling. I feel all jittery and like I needed to tell someone else who wasn't there. I am just so shaken up, I feel like crying, but there are no tears.