I'm random?

This is fine while I'm awake, but no can do when I'm trying to sleep.

Stormy tagged me to do the "Seven Random Things About Me" meme. Here goes...

1. I get the same thing every single time I go to Cold Stone. I went to the very first Cold Stone in Tempe, AZ, many moons ago. I got sweet cream with cookie dough, and I've never changed.
   
2. I have a thing for Polynesian men (one in particular) and Robert Downey Jr.
3. I'm claustrophobic. When the heater is on in the car I have to have the windows cracked open. I also can't sleep if anyone is touching me (sorry, Polynesian man).
4. I love doing laundry. I love the post office. I love corn tortillas.
5. I hate being the center of attention. I hate wearing a seat belt. I hate buttered popcorn Jelly Bellys.
   
6. I am a list maker and pile builder to the max. I have no visible performing talents, but piles I can build and lists I can make.
7. I have a strange medical history, including:

a bee flew into my ear and got stuck in my earwax (which my dad tried to extract by sticking a straight pin down my ear canal—nice try, but just take me to the doctor)


my other eardrum burst because my mom wouldn't believe that I had an earache (I love you, Mom—no hard feelings)

I got the mumps in high school (seriously, who gets the mumps any more?)

I get hives when exposed to the cold. The soles of my feet and my fingers go first; it hurts to walk and my fingers look like sausages. (Tell me why again I live in Utah?)

I tag: Laura H., Kristen H., Anne Marie K., Heidi U., Shayla U., Daisy R., and Jenn S. —if you haven't already done it. Let me know in the comments when you do it so I can look at your blog!

Halloween Hangover

I think that's what's going on today. Severe headache, no appetite, tired. The garbage can full of candy wrappers might have something to do with it (at least they're in the garbage, right?).

We survived the annual church chili dinner, complete with kiddie carnival activities and trick-or-treating to all the classrooms. Makai and Ame loaded up their bags, got home, and promptly dumped the contents. They surveyed the loot, threw away all the SweeTarts, offered me some Nerds, and started unwrapping. And eating. And chomping. And drooling. The kitchen floor is sticky and Tevi has chewed gummy something-or-other bits in his hair. Good thing it's Saturday because that's the day that we shine our shoes and we shampoo our hair so we can be ready for Sunday (or however that darn song goes--does it say "mop the floor" somewhere in there?).

But we totally forgot to light our jack-o-lanterns, so we'll welcome the month of November by lighting them up tonight for the first time. So long October. Thank you for being a glorious, beautiful, very fallish, and rather warm month. I'll miss you.

Ame=bunny | Makai=race car driver | Tevi=cow

P.S. Check out what my friend Julie and family dressed up as. Love it!

P.P.S. Another family's theme costumes. What a great idea.