6 Weird things about ME

I was tagged like a million years ago by Al, and then again by Dylan or Holly or CSR, hmmm or maybe by all of them. I don't know. It could have been Izzy or Drake too. But whatever, point being I'm finally getting to it. So here are the rules.

1. Each player of this game starts with the “6 weird things about you”.

2. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly.

3. At the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave a comment that says “you are tagged” in their comments and tell them to read your blog.

Weird thing #1:
Everything has to be even or balanced. Don't know what I mean? Well here's an example. If my left foot itches I have to scratch my right foot along with the left just so they are even. When I am eating some sort of candy, like M&M's, I have to have two at a time. One for each side of my mouth. Josh messes with me when I ask for some of whatever he has by giving me an odd amount. So I either give him one back or bite one in half. Yeah shut up I know I have issues.

Weird thing #2:
My books have to be in complete and total order. If they get touched I freak. But my house? Well there is just no rhyme or reason to the order of it. Josh freaks out, but it just doesn't really bother me. You'd think if I was anal about my books I'd be anal about everything being cleaned and orderly. Not so.

Weird thing #3:
I was just on the phone with my brother so I asked him what was a weird thing about me and he said "that a lot of your friends are people you've met online". Whatever, I don't think that's weird. Well not that weird. Well okay maybe a little. lol.

Weird thing #4:
I CANNOT sleep in a bed with sheets or a blanket that are not layed out right. Even if the bed is made, I can't sleep in it if the sheet say is upside down. Know what I mean? I swear Josh does it on purpose. He'll get in bed and pull the sheet up around him but NOT from the right corner so it gets all sideways and then he messes with me when I get in bed cause i have to fix it. Or he'll purposely put the blanket on with the tag up by his face! NO No no! It goes on the bottom of the bed. Even though it's not by my face it still bothers me.

Weird thing #5:
Dates for special occasions have to flow for me. This is strange cause it started out with something out of my control. Like my parents are 2 years apart, they dated for 2 years before getting married, had me 2 years later, my brother 2 years after me, then my sister 2 years after him. Then they messed it up by having my baby sister 3 years later. But mostly they kept with it. Lets see, ummm, my mom and me are 20 years apart. The her birthday is 8/8 mine is 8/28, see they both have 8's in them and they are 20 days apart. Oh and I love how my birthday is 8/28/81, 8's in the month day and year. So all of that was out of my control, just things I've noticed and liked.

But I take it to the next level, which makes it my weird thing. My wedding....it took FOREVER to pick a date and I wasn't fully happy with mine. It ended up being 7/8/00, none of them match but at least they go up in consecutive order and the year is 00 so it goes with anything. Then thinks like my son and I have our birthday's in the same month and my husband and my daughters birthdays are in the same month. I know this is freakish but I don't want to have another baby cause I feel like they will be the odd ball out with a birthday not in march or august.

Oh and before I finish this one let me tell you this. Abby was born on 3/30/03 in room 369 on the 3rd floor. Everything in 3's or multiples of 3! She was actually due two weeks later, I went early. You don't know how hard I pushed to have her on the 30th instead of the 31st. She was born at 11:40pm! I wanted that date!

Shut up I know I'm a freak!

Weird thing #6:
Hmmmm, one more thing. Okay this may not really be weird but I need one more thing. If I am reading a book and get tired or have to go do something else I cannot stop reading until the end of a chapter. I really cannot go to sleep if I stop in the middle of a chapter. I'm not lying it will keep me up.

Okay well that's it. You now know all my deep down weird quirks. So how bout yours?

I'll tag.....TAB, Seredipity, Chantal, Anne and Nikki/Nikki (both of you).


~ Nicole

Some fun stuff...or not

Some fun stuff coming up. Well fun for me to do. haha. I am going to add some things to my side bar. Like links to all my most commented/popular posts. That'll be fun, huh? lol. Okay so I guess you can tell I'm not in much of a blogging mood lately. So I'm trying here. Just don't want to lose all you great readers. I know how much you love me and rely on my for your daily read. haha. Who am I kidding right? But I can have my fantasies. Anywho. I'm going cause my house is messy and I have to go to work and dinner isn't even started. So I will try and come up with something witty for you tomorrow or maybe even tonight. Yeay! I know your excited. And when my sidebar is updated I'll let you all know, cause I know you just can't wait! Till later....


~ Nicole

The little things count

On Tuesday night I asked Josh to wait till I got home from work to watch American Idol so we could watch it together. He did, even though he was tired. So one Wednesday before I left for work he said "Are you gonna ask me to wait for you to watch AI again?" and I looked at him and said in a pretend sad voice "Well if you don't love me enough you don't have to." lol.

A hour or so before closing I called Josh to see if he waited for me. When he answered I said "So how much do you love me?" and he's all "Apparently pretty much since I am waiting for you to watch AI and it was two hours tonight. Hurry home I'm already tired." Awww....

Now I am usually home by or before 10pm but of course this night out District Manager was at our store till closing so we got a really late start and I didn't' get home till 20 after. But he was still waiting for me on the couch.

He tried really hard but was asleep half way through the show and then went to bed about 10 minutes before it was over. But hey it was the thought that counts right? He waited for me. Awww, I love you babe!


~ Nicole

Your loss is my gain!

Okay so tell me what you think about this....

Last week when we were cleaning up the store to close I found a bag with shoes in it. They were actually the shoes in the picture but with a different pattern on them. Cheetah print, in a bad way.

If they were the ones in the picture I might have kept them, lol. Or not they really weren't good quality. Wet Seal. Anyway I put them in the back of the store thinking someone would come to claim them sooner or later.

Well that was over a week ago.

My boss's last day of work before her vacation was on Friday and she told me that she didn't care what happened to the shoes but to make sure they were gone before she got back. Cause they were cluttering up the back room.

Soooo last night when I was working I looked in the bag and the receipt was in there and they were paid with by cash! Woot woot!

I returned them and got the cash! OMG am I horrible? What else should I have done? I really needed the cash too so it was like a gift from God. lol. It was only $25.

Comon honest thoughts here, am I a bad person? What would you have done?


~ Nicole

A-B-C easy as 1-2-3...

Well thank goodness CSR tagged me cause I have nothing else to blog about now. Oh and it only took me forever to realize I was tagged. lol.

A - Available/Single? - Taken. Josh and I have been married for 6 1/2 years now! OMG!

B - Best Friend? - Josh, Carrie and my SF girls!

C - Cake or Pie? Pie, I'm not a big Cake person.

D - Drink Of Choice? Pepsi, or Arizona Green Tea with Honey.

E – Essential Item You Use Everyday? Moisturizer, I can't go without.

F - Favourite Color? Red, all shades.

G - Gummy Bears Or Worms? Worms, they are bigger. And I like the sour ones.

H - Hometown? - Trenton, NJ. REPRESENT! Lol!

I - Indulgence? BOOKS! And purses, and sunglasses, and flip flops in the summer. But mostly books.

J - January Or February? February since it's closer to the warmer weather! And cause I get Valentines gifts. haha. Love presents!

K - Kids & Their Names? Jordon, my son, his name was randomly picked cause I liked it. Abigail, name took forever to pick out, it actually changed the day she was born. We had first planned on naming her Gabriella.

L - Life Is Incomplete Without? My family!

M - Marriage date? July 8, 2000

N - Number Of Siblings? Two sisters and one brother. Oh and I have one brother in law, one step brother in law and one step sister in law.

O - Oranges Or Apples? Ummm, oranges. Although Mangoes are my favorite fruit.

P - Phobias/Fears? Spiders, getting really fat, never moving on job wise.

Q - Favourite Quote? You say I'm a Bitch like it's a bad thing.

R - Reason to Smile? My daughter right now wearing my heels.

S - Season? Summer.

T - Tag people? Anyone who wants to do it.

U - Unknown Fact About Me? I have way to many freckles.

V - Vegetable you don’t like? Zucchini

W - Worst Habit? Yelling, being lazy.

X - X-rays You’ve Had? Teeth, ultra-sounds, and my ankle. yeah I sprained my ankle doing a cheer in the girls bathroom during a Christmas party when I was 13 and I was wearing platform shoes. Real smart huh? lol.

Y - Your Favourite Food? Spanish Rice and Beans, with Potato Salad, and Yummy Chicken.

Z – Zodiac Sign? Virgo.


~ Nicole

What do you think?

I don't know if this was actually said by Ben Stein but I got this email and decided instead of emailing to everyone I'd just post it here. If you've already heard it, which I'm sure a lot of you have, then just tell me what you think. If you haven't read it take the time to now and again...tell me what you think. Me? I agree wholeheartedly with everything here.

If they know of him at all, many folks think Ben Stein is just a quirky actor/comedian who talks in a monotone. He's also a very intelligent attorney who knows how to put ideas and words together in such a way as to sway juries and make people think clearly.

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This is a comment from Ben Stein
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Herewith at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my beating heart: I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I am buying my dog biscuits and kitty litter. I often ask the checkers at the grocery stores. They never know who Nick and Jessica are either. Who are they? Will it change my life if I know who they are and why they have broken up? Why are they so important?

I don't know who Lindsay Lohan is either, and I do not care at all about Tom Cruise's wife.

Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and asked if I am a subversive? Maybe, but I just have no clue who Nick and Jessica are.

If this is what it means to be no longer young, it's not so bad.

Next confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees.

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, "Merry Christmas" to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him?

I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too.

But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.

Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this Happen?" (regarding Katrina)

Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives.

And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?"

In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.

Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school . The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell.

Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.

Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.

Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing?

Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.


~ Nicole

Cum off!

Okay just to for warn everyone this may be a to much information post! lol. But I just gotta bring it up.

Here it is....who the heck can tell me a good way to get cum off you?! I'm so serious here. lol. I mean you get freaky doing your thing, and sometimes depending what your doing things get messy. I for one cannot seem to find a good way to remove the cum! From your stomach, legs, chest, you name it and it's like I've got this thick layer of gooey glue on me. And no matter what I do it never comes all the way off! Grrr.

I swear I get out later and find it still there! Soooo frustrating, I've gotta take like three showers. Okay so that's a little bit of an exaggeration but you get my point right?!

Just the other night I used a scrub brush that I had gotten for my toes and it worked but can you say OUCH! lol.

So I told Josh I am going to create some wonder scrub and call it "cum off" and I swear I'll make a killing off it. Now I just need to figure out what to put in it. Yeah, and Josh said it was the funniest thing I've ever said. Hmmm, and I wasn't even trying. Guess it just comes natural. ha ha.

Now I don't know if this is something the men or women would be more knowledgeable about but if any of you have some secret solution...PLEASE share your secrets with me!!! I swear I'll cut you in on some of the proceeds from my "cum off" scrub.


~ Nicole

I'm so jealous!

My baby sister just got herself an apartment. Her and a friend moved in together in the city close to their college but not on campus.

When I went to visit her it was in the ghetto, kinda, third floor, no elevator) small little kitchen, horrible view. And I was soooo jealous!!! Why? Cause I never got that. I never did any of that. I went from high school, to engaged, to married.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to not have Josh and my kids. I love them all. But do you ever feel a pang of jealousy for what you never had?

But in general I am so happy for my sister. And she's not that far from me. I actually told Josh I was going to be single for a week and go stay with her. Yeah, he laughed at me.

The picture is of my sister and my baby.

~ Nicole

Open mouth insert foot

Last night my mom had all her kids over for dinner. Now that my youngest sister has moved out and my other sister with her baby is now living elsewhere with her boyfriend, she (mom) only has my brother in the house with her and my dad. Oh and my grandmom lives with them. But Jose is barley there that much anyway. Soooo she has decided to make a every other Sunday family dinner for us all to go to. I like the idea.

Josh was of course invited but didn't come cause the Eagles were playing. Yeah he thinks the games all weigh in on him being at home with the TV in the right place and him wearing the right Eagles attire. I'm so not joking. One time they lost and he said it was all my fault cause I didn't have his grey boxers cleaned and he was wearing blue ones instead (wrong color). lol. MEN! So he stayed home cause they only win when he's home.

Anywooo, after dinner we were all having coffee and ice cream. And no surprise but me my sisters and Kristin (my youngest sisters housemate) ended up sitting at the table long after everyone else was done and doing other things. What do girls do when eating ice cream, drinking coffee, and left to themselves? Gossip!

My mom had just informed us of a young girl from our church was pregnant and so it sparked the topic of how many girls from a certain generation of youth in our church got pregnant. I know we are horrible, but whatever my sister and Kristins sister were included on the list.

About half way into our conversation a friend of my mom's walked into the house and went right into the kitchen. Me, Hannah and Kristin all saw this but since Sarah had her back to the door she didn't. Bad bad thing.

About a minute later I turned to Kristin and said another name, I whispered it cause it was the daughter of the woman that just walked into our house. Not even ten seconds later Sarah yells out the same name! Me, Hannah, and Kristin stare at her with wide eyes of horror and bust out laughing.

Sarah's all "What?" then after we told her that that girls mom was in the other room she says all loud "Oh I didn't mean so and so I meant (another person's name)" OMG she was so bad at trying to play it off. But it was really funny! I'm just glad I didn't say it. Cause even if she didn't know what we were talking about it was obvious we were gossiping and it's never good to hear your child's name thrown into it.

Opps. Can't wait to see what happens at our next family dinner.

~ Nicole

Are you kidding me???

Two nights ago I went to the gym and since I didn't have my card on me I brought in my license in my gym bag. Then I didn't even need it the guy just let me in.

Yesterday I went to exchange a NEW bed set that had a spot on it when I opened it and realized I didn't' have my ID cause I left it in my gym bag at home.

No worries I did an exchange here the day before and they didn't' need my ID. I go in get my new bed set and what do they ask for? My freaking ID. I tell them that I didn't need it the other day (of course I was a smart ass. She said it wouldn't let her go any further in the computer and I said "Oh it changes day to day? Cause yesterday it let you."). And they tell me that if you return something within 24 hours you need ID, if it's later than that you don't. WTF! Explain that to me. So I say "fine I'll be back in a couple of hours when it will be more than 24 hours" and she says to wait till tomorrow and it won't ask so I said "I will have my ID tomorrow, that doesn't help me now and you said 24 hrs. so that's when I'll be back". Now of course I wasn't going back again in a couple of hours but they pissed me off.

Then I asked if they could hold the bed set till I get back and she has the freaking nerve to tell me she doesn't have the room. So I flipped a little and said something like she can't freaking do an EVEN exchange for me when I have my receipt and now she can't even hold it for a couple of hours??? So she held it. lol.

Sheesh, where is the customer service??? When I left I said to myself, out loud, "Stupid woman" and Abby says "Mommy that's a bad word" and I said "That's a bad lady". lol.

Then I went to Famous Footwear to exchange Josh's sneakers for a 1/2 size different and they freaking don't have that shoe at this location. He looks it up and says sorry it's not available for home delivery either and I'll have to travel over an hour away cause that's the only store that has it. And when I asked he said no he can't have them transferred here for me. Why the hell not? Don't act like I'm crazy for asking. We transfer stuff store to store for customers all the time. It's called good customer service.

Then I wanted to run to the mall and exchange some NY&C stuff I have and I know they need ID so I couldn't even do that. Uggg.

So annoyed.

4 hours later I had picked Jordon up from school and taken Abby to dance and since we were out decided to go and get the bed set since I now had my license on me.

I get there.....the woman pretends she didn't know who the hell I was.....I tell her.....she does the exchange......AND DIDN'T EVEN NEED MY FREAKING ID THIS TIME!!!!

Enough said!

~ Nicole

Karma's a Bitch

Just about every day on my way in to work I call Dylan and we chat. Well yesterday was no different.

We're chatting away and all the sudden I look in my mirror and the following flys out my mouth "Oh Fuck! I'm getting pulled over, gotta go!" and I threw my phone. lol.

I got pulled over for going 69 in a 50 zone. And for driving in the left lane when it is just for passing. Ugh. Cut me a break! At least he didn't notice I was on my cell phone that would have been another ticket.

The cop was cool though, he gave me a warning for speeding and a summons (whatever that is) for driving in the wrong lane. No points on the license at least.

How does this play into 'karma being a bitch'? Well earlier that same day I was at Kohls and me and Josh were looking at these t-shirts that said funny things and there were a few that made fun of cops. Like one said a cops worst nightmare and it had a donut store exploding and stuff like that.

Well I was laughing and said that I should send it to MM (Holly's man). So that night I called Holly and told her it was all MM's fault I got pulled over.

Oh and not to mention about an hour after I got to work Josh calls and is all what's going on? So I'm all innocently telling him how work is when another call comes in so I click over and it's my mom.

Opps, she told him I got pulled over. WTF! She called me while I was waiting for the cop to bring my stuff back to my car and I told her I was pulled over. She called my house and told Josh. Why? I have no idea.

Needless to say when I clicked back over I realized that is why he had called. Not to happy. Especially since he wanted me to call out of work that night and I refused.

So tell me your stories. Any of you get pulled over ever? This was my third time. I've gotten tickets every time, and NEVER paid one. They always get dropped. lol.

The first time it was for going 70 in a 40 zone. I was 8 months pregnant. He didn't have pity on me. But I went to court and he didn't show so it was dropped.

The second was two weeks before Christmas two years ago. I had expired license, registration, and inspection. lol. Three tickets. He said if I got them all done in three weeks he'd have the tickets dropped. Three months later I got the stuff done and went to court...he dropped the tickets. lol.



~ Nicole