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Piceses Hanna, fellow Coloradoan and single mommy, across the mountains to the west, tagged me with a Meme so through my sleepy haze, here we go.  At least I have something to blog about now tonight.

1. What is your current obsession? Sleep. My sleep.  The N-Man’s sleep. There’s never enough of either.  I spend Saturday-Thursday fighting for it.  And Fridays, my one, lone, night for me , I spend juggling a gazillion demands and requests and typically end up just hoping and praying I can actually get enough sleep to get me through the other six days.  It usually doesn’t happen.  Zzzzzzzz!  I’m seriously on the verge of consulting with a pediatric sleep specialist.

2. What is your weirdest obsession? Chris Tomlin. I personally think it’s fairly psychotic, and 100% going to hell worthy to think these kinds of thoughts about a Christian recording artist.  I’m also stewing on some fairly deep rooted things, that I dare not post in my very public blog, that may or may not be rational and sane.  If you know me in real life, maybe I’ll tell you.  Or maybe not.

3. Recall a fond childhood memory? Click here.

4. What’s for dinner? Tonight was broiled chicken in a less than flavorful, pretty blah marinade, applesauce and butterscotch pudding.  Oh… and ice cream.  Have I mentioned that if I don’t get my ever expanding lard into a gym soon I’m going to gross myself out beyond the point of no return? No really. I’m only 1 pound below my pre pregnancy weight right now, which was the most I had ever weight before getting knocked up.

5. What would you eat for your last meal?An entire bloomin’ onion, NY Strip steak, on the rare side of medium rare, garlic mashed potatoes, grilled veggies, and an whole cherry cheesecake, with a many mojitos as I can down.

6. What’s the last thing you bought? Advertising for my business.  Very exciting.  No?  Aside from that it was a tank of gas. 

7. What are you listening to right now? The news. But mostly old Michael Jackson tunes.  RIP Michael. :- (

8. What do you think of the person who tagged you? Hanna is AWESOME!  She’s a damn fine mommy, wise beyond her years, and a ton of fun to hang out with.  I think she needs to give into that city bug and get thee to the metro area.  Or maybe I need to plan a trip west.  Either one.

9. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished, anywhere in the world, where would it be? Oh you would ask this on a day when I’ve been obsessing about building a new house one mile from where I already live.  Surely I can come up with a better location than that.

10. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?  Anywhere with a buff, Latino cabana boy holding a banana margarita… where I can sleep.

11. Which language do you want to learn? Spanish first.  Then Croatian so that the N-Man can’t tell me off in X’s native tongue and get away with it when he’s a lovely,  dear, parent worshiping teen.

12. What’s your favorite quote (for now)? Oh seriously. I don’t have the energy to think this hard.

13.What is your favorite color? I don’t have a favorite color.  It just depends on my mood. Right now I’m really into shades of green and blue with dark woods.

14. What is your favorite piece of clothing in your own wardrobe?A fun, funky print t-shirt I bought at Target last week. YAY Tar-ghaaaaay!

15. What is your dream job? Other that what I already do?  No seriously.  Um, I guess a being a professional amateur rider would be pretty sweet. 

16.What’s your favorite magazine? Sunset.  Love the recipes.  Love the pics of the houses I’ll never be able to afford.

17. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on? My cell phone payment that’s due tomorrow.

18. Describe your personal style? I have no style.  None.  I try but I just blow at that stuff.  Stacy & Clinton would hate me.

19. What are you going to do after this?  Going to bed and hopefully sleeping.

20.What are your favorite films?  Heart of Dixie, Steel Magnolias, My Best Friend’s Wedding.  Those are the biggies.

21. What’s your favorite fruit? Raspberries

22.What inspires you? The N-Man, the hoofed one, the children and families I work with, other single parents, occasionally I shockingly inspire myself.

23. Your favorite books? OK.  My big, dirty, confession.  I don’t like to read.  I used to, but not anymore.  I don’t have the time or energy.  I don’t find it relaxing at all. That’s right. I’m an illiterate, intellectually inferior, human being.  Eh, I don’t care, really.  Last book I did read and love was A Thousand Splendid Suns.  Took me all of one day to finish.

24. Do you collect anything? Moose.  I love moose.  It’s an obsession that started when I lived in Montana.

25. Any advice that’s come from bitter experience?  Aside from loving your child, there is no such thing as unconditional love. If you still believe in it, you are just fortunate enough to have never been in a relationship that takes you to the limits of that fairy tale and kicks you over the edge.  Cynical? Not at all.  I sincerely hope that everyone has enough self esteem to set limits and conditions on what is and isn’t acceptable behaivor as directed towards them.

26. What makes you follow a blog?  Good humor, real stuff as opposed to painfully thought out dissertation that reads like a text book with no personality, stuff I can relate to, stuff that makes me feel.

Now, in honor of  the fabulous women in my life, who help keep me going every day, I am tagging: Ann, Sheila, Rachel, and… ok… I’m supposed to tag five, but it’s late and a lot of the ones I want to tag are already playing… so I’m cheating.

Happy Thursday night!