Andy at Wild ARS Chase posted some oddities about himself on his blog this week and challenged his readers to come up with some of their own.

• I do not like sauerkraut. In fact, the smell of it makes me a little nauseated. As I type this my husband is cooking sauerkraut.
• I prefer to sleep with my feet uncovered. This really seems to annoy my husband for some reason. I think I feel trapped if my feet are under the blanket.
• When I was a little girl, I was chased down by a big red dog. Even though he didn't hurt me, I still don't really like dogs.
• I am terrible at mathematics.
• When I swim, I hold my nose with my lip. I bet you are dying to see how I do that.
• I can raise one eyebrow without raising the other.
• There is a birthmark on my head that no hair grows from.

If you want to play along, post something odd about you in the comments or link me to to you blog post. I'd love to find out something odd about you.

1. My sister: "I'll just sleep for five more minutes."
5. "This sales item isn't coming up the sale price. I'm going to have to have a manager override this." Register light begins to flash. 28 people behind us begin to glare.

6. "Doesn't Toys R Us know we are going through a recession? Why isn't everything in this store on sale?"

7. "Do yous want the buffet or are yous ready to order?"

8. At Target, the man on the intercom kept continually announcing that the line started in the "intimates" near the associate dressed like the Cat in the Hat. What part of that sentence doesn't belong?

9. "I think I need another Red Bull."

10. "I'm about to fall out on this here couch and drool on myself," my sister about five minutes ago.

Here's hoping you had an equally "enjoyable" time.

We were expecting quite a crowd for Thanksgiving this year, but due to weather and some other unexpected events, we had a few cancellations. My sister and her family were able to make it up from North Carolina. Here she is below with my daughter teacher her table manners.


Here is the kids table. My girls pretending to like each other and my nephew cheesin' up for the camera.

Here's hoping that you all are smiling as big as my little guy tomorrow during your Thanksgiving feast. We were supposed to have quite a crowd, but the weather and every day life is not cooperating.

I don't know about you but it is hard for me to believe that I'm going to eat one of these guys in just two days.
Look at him, he's giving me the eye. Or maybe it's you he's looking at.
In preparation for my upcoming Griswald Family-like Thanksgiving, I decided to educate my children about the turkey. This way they will be able to throw out random facts during dinner as a way of distraction.
Of course, now that they are educated I'm convinced no one is going to eat any turkey. After all, "He's so cute" according to my 9 year old. (Pray that my future son-in-law is less bird-like)
Now for the list of random facts you probably never wanted to know, but once you read will likely never forget. At least you can say you weren't warned.
1) The costume that "Big Bird" wears on Sesame Street is rumored to be made of turkey feathers. Makes sense to me.
2) Ben Franklin actually wanted to make the turkey our national bird. Picture old "One Eye" on all of our coins.
3) Turkeys can run up to 25 miles per hour! I'm surprised more don't get away.
4) In 2007 the average American ate 17.5 pounds of turkey. I mean damn...what do they consider average!
5) Commercially raised turkeys cannot fly. However, wild turkeys can fly for short distances up to 55 miles per hour. Again, its surprising more don't get away.
6) The heaviest turkey ever raised was 86 pounds; his name was Rover and his family treated him like he was the pet dog. I'm not really sure about that, but 86 pounds What. Were. They. Feeding. Him???
7. The male turkey is called the Tom and the female turkey is called the Hen. Female turkeys can occasionally have beards similar to their male counterparts. Now I'm picturing a bunch of Hens at the salon getting waxed. Can you say adult ADHD??
8. 45 million turkeys are eaten on Thanksgiving.
9. In England, 200 years ago, turkeys were walked to market in herds. They wore booties to protect their feet. Turkeys were also walked to market in the United States. Makes me want to recite "To Market"

Andy at Wild ARS Chase" is challenging his blog readers this week to post one of the following:

A) Something nobody knows about you, or B) One of your favorites stories from your childhood, or C) Your 10 Top Favorite (Fill in the Blank).

It's a "Get to Know Ya" kind of week.

Since I find it my duty to do whatever Andy says and because this is my 200th blog posting I decided to provide you with a list of 200 things you know you want to know about me, but unfortuately I couldn't think of that many. However, I'm sure you will be enlighten by this list of 100 and want to be my new BFF.

1. I have one sister.
2. Her name is CrazyTrain.
3. She lives in North Carolina.
4. I wish she lived closer.
5. She is four years younger than me.
6. My parents are divorced.
7. My mom and step-father live in Virginia.
8. My dad and step-mom live in Western Pennsylvania.
9. I often get car sick.
10. So does my son.
11. My current favorite TV show is Boston Legal.
12. I'm sad that it is going off the air.
13. I am a work at home mom.
14. I freelance for a local paper.
15. Things I write about regularly include: school budgets, construction projects, taxes.
16. I know...you are bored just thinking about reading it.
17. Believe it or not, I actually like my job.
18. I have three kids.
19. My oldest daughter is 9.
20. My middle daughter is 7.
21. My son is 5.
22. My husband is six months younger than me.
23. He likes to bring that up often.
24. I am a soccer mom and don't mind when people point that out.
25. In high school, I smoked a lot and thought that made me cool.
26. My maiden name used to be a color.
27. I like country music.
28. Occasionally, I rap in the shower.
29. People often accuse me of being funny, even when I'm not trying to be.
30. I don't like to cry in front of people.
31. I have over 20 scrapbooks.
32. My kids are also very crafty.
33. I like to swim.
34. My life is often like a Seinfeld episode.
35. I was born in July.
36. That means I'm a LEO.
37. My husband is a Sagittarius.
38. We have been together since we were 16 years old.
39. That means I have been with him for more than half my life.
40. He still makes me smile.
41. We met while working at Burger King together.
42. Apparently I look sexy while flipping burgers.
43. He is an engineer.
44. My hair is naturally curly.
45. Sometimes I find that annoying.
46. I went to my senior prom with my husband.
47. He went to my senior prom (he was a junior at a rival school)
48. Both my grandmas are still alive.
49. I have one living grandfather.
50. Unfortunately, he has Alzheimer's and no longer remembers me.
51. I do not like to cook.
52. My husband makes all the meat we eat in our house.
53. We don't eat a lot of meat.
54. I am more of a cat person than a dog person.
55. My childhood pet was a cat named Sammy.
56. He lived to be 18 years old.
57. When he died, my dad cried.
58. In my life, I have only seen my dad cry twice.
59. The other time was when my mom left.
60. I am only 5'2.
61. Everyone seems tall to me.
62. My husband is 6'2.
63. I like tall men.
64. My favorite food is Mexican.
65. I could eat tacos every day.
66. For breakfast I usually have a poptart.
67. Cinnamon is my favorite.
68. The Pittsburgh Steelers are the only team worth rooting for.
69. I am a huge football fan.
70. JoePa is considered a legend by all members of my family.
71. My favorite cartoon is Spongebob.
72. For the longest time I thought Spongebob's friend Patrick was a giant tongue.
73. I do not like to play card games.
74. I am a sore looser.
75. My dad encouraged me to play little league when it was not customary for girls to play baseball.
76. Playing baseball was tortuous, but I think I'm a better person because of it.
77. I often played catcher.
78. Nothing pisses a boy off more than a girl taking away his winning run.
79. My favorite movie is Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion.
80. Someday I will write a novel about nothing.
81. If you are still reading this, you should probably find something else to do.
82. My favorite children's book is Harry Potter.
83. My favorite adult book is The Red Tent.
84. My least favorite subject in school - Math.
85. My favorite subject - Art.
86. We have a cat named Natasha.
87. She lives in our garage.
88. She is currently too fat to properly clean herself or fit through her cat door.
89. We also have a hermit crab.
90. His name is Patrick.
91. He doesn't look like a tongue.
92. I like to drink Diet Pepsi.
93. I do not like Coke products.
94. I have worked at numerous fast food restaurants, including LJS, Pizza Hut, and Burger King.
95. I wear contact lenses.
96. Without my lenses, I cannot see the big E on the eye chart.
97. The worst job I ever had was as a maid at the Comfort Inn.
98. If you ever worked as a maid in a hotel, you would never want to stay in one.
99. Once I left more than a half a dozen ferrets loose on the 2nd floor because the person staying there never mentioned to the front desk that they were closed up in the bathroom.
100. There was a senior citizen convention on that same floor.

Wow that wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. Apparently I'm full of useless facts about my life. I hope you feel like you know me a little better or at least will remember what I said about hotels.

Seriously, never stay at one.