“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
Note to self: Neither helps if the man doesn’t want fish.
January 31, 2009
January 29, 2009
January 27, 2009
Pictures!
A whole month worth of pictures! No crumbs here folks, you get a big ol’ piece slab of content, all at once! (Sam has figured out if he takes my hand, I’ll follow him to the ends of the earth- including away from my computer)
Lots has gone on in the first month of 2009, including….
taking Sam to the Children’s Museum….
painting & stocking the baby’s room…
and an astounding amount of growth on the part of my belly.
January 23, 2009
25 random things about me
(because mindless memes are all that I have braincells for)
1. I love taking quizzes. (fun, not educational)
2. I love calendars, and lists.
3. I could spend hours in an office supply store. (post-its, whoo!)
4. Ice cream tends to improve my mood greatly.
5. I’m on anti-depressants (not rocky road flavor either).
6. I’m horrible at staying in contact with friends/family.
7. However, I talk to my mom on the phone for an hour just about every day during the week.
8. Have wanted, at various times in my life, to be the following “when I grow up”: fashion designer, psychologist, counselor, wedding planner, writer.
9. I love cards & stationery.
10. I don’t like low-brow humor or stupid movies.
11. I am a details person, though only on big projects that fall within my interest scope.
12. I love buying people presents.
13. I adore gadgets and new technology, and understand the workings of none of them.
14. I am very introverted around those I don’t know, and am often mistaken for stuck up because of this.
15. I didn’t like Brad Pitt till he became a dad & had a family with Angelina Jolie.
16. I’ve always like Angelina.
17. I didn’t own a single tshirt in high school till my senior year. Now I wear almost nothing but.
18. I love sour things, and haven’t ever tasted anything too sour for me.
19. Do not like spicy things.
20. My friends called me “Mom” in high school.
21. I go through phases of being completely addicted to a food. Ex.- frozen berries, peanut butter & syrup sandwiches, cheese cake ice cream (none are pregnancy cravings)
22. I am a very visual person, and can’t remember anything if it’s just spoken to me.
23. I love to read, and don’t near as much as I’d like.
24. I love gray hair.
25. I wish I could put on a brand new pair of socks every day, never re-wearing them.
January 20, 2009
January 17, 2009
January 6, 2009
really long meme
A
- Available: not even a little
- Age: 25
- Annoyance: gadgets/computers not working correctly, people telling me what to do
- Animal: two dogs- Charlie (yorkie/chihuahua) & Linus (long hair chihuahua)
- Actor: enjoy several – current: Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, George Clooney, Harrison Ford, Richard Gere. past- Carey Grant, Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Spencer Tracey
- Actress: current: Natalie Portman, Angelina Jolie. past: Katharine Hepburn (shorter lists)
B
- Birthday/Birthplace: 11/17/83 in Amarillo, Tx
- Best Friends: Ryan, Niki, my mom
- Best Weather: cold, snowy
- Best Feeling: enjoying time with Ryan & Sam, feeling the baby kick
- Been on stage: during various solos for competitions, barely sang over the sound of my knees knocking
- Believe in yourself: for most things
- Believe in Santa: always
- Been in Love: very much so
- Believe in Magic: not so much
- Believe in God: yes
C
- Car: rocking the minivan
- Candy: sour candies of various types, Milk Duds, maple chocolates
- Color: red
- Cried in school: yes – bruising a rib hurts!
- Chocolate/Vanilla: can I have a twist?
- Chinese/Mexican: Chinese lately
- Cake or pie: cake
- Continent/Country to visit: France
- Cheese: Cheddar
D
- Day or Night: night
- Dance: slow or not at all, unless I’m trying to make Sam laugh
- Dance in the rain: I have
- Do the splits: not my thing
E
- Eggs: scrambled with cheese
- Eyes: green, rimmed w/brown
- Ever failed a class? : yes
F
- First crush: Zack Morris on Saved by the Bell
- Full name: Meagan Renyae Friedman
- First thoughts waking up: Please go back to sleep Sam
- Food: cravings lately are PB&J, Gala apples
G
- Greatest Fear(s): Sam getting hurt, me drowning
- Gum: rarely
- Get along with your parents? : mom & I are great, dad and I teeter
- Good luck charm: Ryan
H
- Hair Color: dark brown, somewhere between chin & shoulder length
- Height: 5’6″
- Happy: more than I can even say
- Holiday: Christmas, time leading up to it
- Health freak?: nah
- Hate: barking dogs
- How do you want to die: peacefully in my sleep at 113 years old
I
- Ice Cream: cheesecake ice cream
- Instrument: nothing but an attempt at vocals
J
- Jewelry: engagement ring, wedding ring (currently on a chain around my neck, darn fat fingers), and a pink sapphire ring taking their place
- Job: stay at home mom, dreaming of running a stationery store
K
- Kids: constantly
- Keep a journal? : blog is the closest thing
L
- Longest Car Ride: Austin to FL? Austin to Iowa? dunno
- Laughed so hard you cried: many times
- Love at first sight: I think you can maybe just know
- Letter: working on writing more
M
- Milk flavor: chocolate (Nesquik syrup specifically)
- Movie: Gone with the Wind, Mr & Mrs. Smith
- Mooned anyone?: no
- Marriage: working on 3rd year 
- Motion sickness?: not usually
- McD’s or BK: don’t recall ever really eating Burger King, so McDonald’s
N
- Number of Siblings: 2 younger brothers
- Number of Piercings: just one in each ear
- Number: 11 & 17 or 7s
O
- Overused Phrases: you say a lot of things over & over with a toddler around
- One phobia: water
- One wish: win lottery?
P
- Place you’d like to live: somewhere that it snows in the winter, and isn’t hell in the summer
- Perfect Pizza: thin crust, no sauce, cheese only (Domino’s does it best)
- Pepsi/Coke: Coke usually
Q
- Quail: had quail legs at our wedding, think I might have had one?
R
- Reason to cry: breaking your toe
- Reality T.V.: only Dancing with the Stars
- Radio Station: hardly ever listen, but country if I do
- Roll your tongue in a circle?: yep
- Ring size: normally 5.5 I believe?
S
- Song: …I can’t even think of a grown-up song
- Salad Dressing: ranch
- Shrimp: yes
- Sushi: nothing raw
- Skipped school: yeah
- Slept outside: yeah
- Seen a dead body: at funerals
- Shower Daily: when time & Sam allow
- Sing well: used to, haven’t had training in a while
- Stuffed Animals: the bear Ryan gave me my wedding present on (earrings)
- Single/Group dates: rarely get to be alone w/Ryan, so single is nice, but also rarely get to be around other adults- I just want to go out!
- Strawberries/Blueberries: strawberries are my fav, but I wouldn’t turn away a blueberry either
- Shoe size: 9
T
- Time for bed: past midnight
- Thunderstorms: nice, so long as no danger of tornadoes
- TV: so long as my DVR’s working
- Touch your tongue to your nose: no
U
- Unpredictable: motivation
V
- Vegetable you hate: radishes? beets?
- Vegetable you love: tomato w/salt, corn, potatoes
- Vacation spot: nothing beats Hawaii
W
- Weakness: ice cream?
- When you grow up: have a passel of happy kids, a loving marriage & my own business (got all 3 started)
- Which one of your friends acts the most like you: Ryan?
- Who makes you laugh the most: Ryan
- Worst feeling: serious worry
- Wanted to be a model: I suppose I’ve had moments of ego high enough to think of it
- Worst weather: anything above 85 isn’t a temperature, it’s a radio station
X
- X-Ray: had a couple
Y
- Year now: 2009
- Yellow: not a favorite
Z
- Zoo animal: monkeys
- Zodiac sign: scorpio
January 5, 2009
check
We seriously just did this. Cashing in on other people’s resolutions. Part of our resolution too- getting rid of crap we don’t use.
