Book Tag

Linda didn't actually tag me for this one, but I thought it was neat, so here it is.

The rules: Look up from the computer, look around the room where you are sitting and pick up the closest book. And closest really means closest. No cheating by running upstairs to unearth your pink highlighted college copy of "The Critique of Pure Reason." Open the book, turn to page 123, count down to the 5th sentence on that page and then post the next three sentences.

"He cleared his throat. 'I am here, as I'm sure you know, because of Albus Dumbledore's will.' Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked at one another" (Rowling, J.K. 2007. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books.)

I tag In the Mix and Never Count Sheep.

Tag!

Linda M. tagged me, and since I didn't respond to her last tag, I wanted to do this one!

10 years ago:

I was going to MCC. I was an RA and changing my major every other day. (I'm employing some hyperbole there, but I did have a hard time making up my mind.)

Things on my To-Do List today:
(It's the end of the day, so I'll list 3 things for tomorrow.)

1. Pay bills.

2. Balance checkbook.

3. Read more of the last Harry Potter book -- finally!

Three Bad Habits:

1. Obsessively checking to make sure heat-related appliances and candles are turned off/blown out.

2. Picking at the skin around my nails.

3. As of late, not returning phone calls promptly. :(

If suddenly I became a billionaire:

A billionaire? Pay off all our debts and our familys' debts. Buy a house, complete with a library for me, and the most high tech and complete music room and recording studio for Joe, including instruments and CDs. Quit my job. Donate to things I believe in. Travel. Buy a Mini Cooper. Buy another house by the ocean and let all my loved ones use it. I'm not sure what else - that's a LOT of money. Oh, and I would pray like mad that I'd use it wisely.

Five jobs I have had:

1. Cashier at the Fun Center

2. Baby-sitter

3. Hastings

4. Child Life Specialist

5. Toddler Teacher

Five things you might not know about me:

1. Those air filled advertisement things that shoot up in the air like a pencil, deflate, then re-inflate scare me.

2. I desperately need new contacts.

3. I really like asparagus a lot.

4. I like Family Guy.

5. I am not a huge fan of skiing.

I tag Betsy, Matt, and Joe. You're it!!

Something New

Someday

Someday I’m gonna kiss a girl like that and ask her to marry me and she will be the happiest girl in the world.

Someday I’m gonna meet a boy who will buy me a ring and tell me he loves me and ask me to marry him and I will say yes and be the happiest girl in the world.

Someday I’m gonna be a rock and roll star and sing with a band and wear a bandanna and play the best music anyone’s ever heard, and that girl will fall in love with me.

Someday I’m gonna have a shirt like that and wear my hair all pretty and curly with a barrette on the side and listen to my rock star play music with the band.

Someday I’m gonna kneel down in front of a bunch of people and declare my love to the girl that I love and be a rock star all the way.

Someday I’m gonna listen to the quiet side of a rock star, his declarations of love and hope, and I’m gonna be his bride all the way.

Someday,

But not today. Today I’m only five.

-->I've never posted one of my poems before, and it's sort of twisting my stomach in knots to do it now, but I've been feeling like doing this for the last few days, so here it is. I wrote this for one of my classes. I was inspired by the two kids in the background of the photo. (I assumed they were not related.:) ) Enjoy!