I’m sure not sleeping well at night yet!  Not that I ever sleep that great, but it’s worse since I’ve just gone back to work, and have to readjust my sleeping habits!  I took the puppies for a walk again after work, and they were just dancing at my feet waiting to get their leashes on.  They’re so good!  That in itself makes it very motivating!  As, it’s sure not the weather!  In fact, it’s -3°F with a bit of a breeze, so it’s not very warm, however not near as bad as it could be either!

Work is pretty good, except that the whole school seems to have been hit with a stomach virus.  That’s just the worst thing for me!  I can handle lots, but I’m as neurotic as they come, when it comes to PUKE!  The minute I hear about someone being “sick”, I start feeling all queasy! Blech!  Sucks to be so neurotic!

Thanks for the compliments on the picture. This year when I was buying my flowers to plant, Sarah was with me, and was still feeling pretty rough from her tonsilectomy, so I chose almost all my flowers in various shades of purple, along with white and lots of foliage for filler. Purple is her favorite color, so it cheered her up a bit! The rest of the pics I took that day are here.

1. Strawberries or blueberries? strawberries!
2. “Legally Blonde 2″ or “Terminator 3″? Legally Blonde 2
3. Hamburgers or hot dogs? I actually love both!
4. Boating or hiking? due to motion sickness I’ll walk thank you!
5. Suntan lotion or sunblock? When I remember, it’s usually SPF 15… but as you saw from a recent picture I posted……I typically forget unless Nurse Ratchett is around!
6. “Big Brother” or “The Amazing Race”?This is tough! I love both of these shows!
7. Beach Boys or Jimmy Buffett? Beach Boys. That’s all we partied to when I was a wild young highschool girl (yeah…. back in the Flinstone era)
8. Grow your own produce or buy from supermarket/greengrocer/farm stand? GROW it? Hmmmph! No way! I gave that up for Lent! I go to the supermarket, or when I’m feeling ambitious, to the Farmer’s Market!
9. Drive with car windows/top down, or with air-conditioning on? air conditioning (only place we have it!)
10. Go away for vacation, or stay at home? typically stay at home.

1. Surf sites at random, or have a set list of regular reads? I have a list of regular reads.
2. Do you visit mostly blogs, or news or other sites? blogs and forums mostly
3. Do you go online every day, or just a couple of days a week? everyday unless I’m away or dead
4. Do you allow comments on your blog, or not? yes
5. Do you shop online at all, or at regular stores? mostly online for lingerie, books, videos,etc. Regular stores for clothing.
6. Have you ever done online bill-paying/banking, or not? yes, for years
7. Which news site do you prefer… MSNBC.com or CNN.com? Or do you prefer some other one? I usually read Edmontonjournal.com
8. Live chat rooms, or message boards? message boards
9. Instant messaging or e-mail? IM with Candy and Monty, otherwise email.
10. Yes or no: have you ever met, or at least talked on the phone with, another blogger? If not, would you want to? Why or why not?
No I haven’t. There are a couple of people I would love to meet.

1. Newspapers or magazines? magazines
2. Books-on-tape or regular books? regular books
3. Paperback or hardcover? hardcover
4. Fiction or non-fiction? both
5. Sci-Fi/Fantasy or romance novels?Romance, I hate Sci Fi
6. Borrow from library or buy books (either new or used)? buy books mostly
7. Subscribe to magazines or buy on newsstand? buy them
8. Current best-sellers or classic literature? current best sellers
9. Read books once, or re-read favorites every so often? Very few books that I read more than once!
10. Here in the U.S., we have two hot best-sellers…former First Lady Hillary Clinton’s memoirs, and the new Harry Potter book (coming out June 21). If you had to read one, which one…Hillary or Harry? Why? Harry!!! Cause he’s awesome, and who gives a shit about Hillary, Bill and Monica!??

1. “The Munsters” or “The Addams Family”? the Munsters
2. “The Sopranos” or the “Godfather” movies? neither
3. “The Jetsons” or “Lost in Space”? Lost in Space
4. “Superman” or “Batman” (either the TV shows or the movies)? Batman (TV)
5. “Sex & The City” or “Friends”? Sex and the City
6. “The Wizard of Oz” or the “Harry Potter” movies? haven’t seen Harry yet (I know… how lame, and we own both of them!)
7. “The Simpsons” or “King of the Hill”? oh GAG!!! neither!
8. “Grease” or “Saturday Night Fever”? Grease
9. Old prime-time soaps: “Dallas” or “Dynasty”? Dynasty
10. Not very thought-provoking this week…do you prefer TV shows or movies? TV shows

This-or-That Tuesday: as mentioned on Weblogs Central at MSNBC.com!

1. Do you prefer silence or do you like background sound (music, TV, etc)? Totally depends on my mood and what I’m doing. Typically I like background music. When I first get home from work I like SILENCE!

2. Bathe/shower in morning or evening? Shower in the morning.

3. Sleeping in complete darkness, or with a nightlight on? Complete darkness

4. Lay out clothes the night before, or just grab what’s closest in the morning? I just decide in the morning what I’ll wear, unless something special is going on at work, in which case I’ll figure it out the night before.

5. Hang up/fold clothes neatly, or just toss them wherever? Always hang them up or fold them. Everyone else in my family tosses them on the floor. Grrrrrrr

6. Work out at a gym, or at home on your own (or do you not bother with exercise)? I work out at home 5-6 days/week, and have done so for the past 2 years.

7. Talk on the phone, or via IM/e-mail? Email, except to Candy and Monty whom I talk to on IM

8. Are you usually on time, or late? I am usually on time. I used to obsessively EARLY, but now I just kind of cruise in just under the wire.

9. Spendthrift or frugal? Spender all the way.

10. Thought-Provoking Question of the Week: You work with someone who is not in the habit of bathing regularly. The smell seems to be getting worse and worse! Would you: 1. try to do something about it, or 2. try to grin and bear it? If you said 1, what would you do? I do. We’ve got a couple of kids in our class that have very poor hygiene. We go to the BOSS and complain, cause she gets paid the big bucks! LOL

1. Large or small family? We both come from very small families. I often wish they were much larger.
2. Potato chips or pretzels? Pringles
3. House or apartment? House for a few more years, and then I want to go either real urban and get a condo downtown Edmonton to retire in, or go the opposite extreme and buy a house out at the lake and retire there.
4. Zebras or giraffes? zebra
5. Candles or potpourri? cinnamuffin candles
6. Flowers or trees? Trees if I could only have one or the other in my yard. I’m all about shade and privacy!
7. Right or left-handed? right
8. Model trains or dolls/stuffed animals? teddy bears!
9. Comedy or drama? a variety depending on my mood of the moment
10. Thought-provoking question of the week: The city of Boston has recently banned smoking in all restaurants and bars. Would you want to see such a law passed in your city/town/country, or not? I love that bylaw. Edmonton is in the transition phase of implementing this bylaw. I don’t care if people want to smoke. I did it for 17 years, but don’t blow smoke in my face when my family and I are eating dinner! Blech! Don’t chuck you cigarette butts all over the ground! They’re just as much litter as my gum wrappers, and I use a trash can for them! About the only place you can smoke here now is bars and bingo halls. Restaurants have to declare if they are smoking or not, and if they want to have a smoking section then no one under the age of 18 can go there. I think it’s all good. Little kids shouldn’t have to be subjected to all that smoke. I was always a very considerate smoke (as much as you can be…) never smoked at the table, never smoked in the car, etc. but I never realized how unbearable it can be for the non-smokers around you until I quit. As the years have gone on, most of our friends and family have quit too, so we’re rarely around it. Now when I am around it, it makes me physically sick. Blech!

1. Packrat or minimalist? minimalist
2. Computer: desktop or laptop? both
3. Seashore or mountains? mountains
4. Carpeting or bare floors? we have carpeting, but I”d rather have hardwood
5. Drinking water: bottled or tap? bottled
6. Shopping websites: eBay or Amazon? eBay
7. Cute little kitties or big scary tigers? kitties
8. Front door or back door? front door
9. Lots of jewelry, or little/none? just a little
10. Thought-provoking question of the week: At the last minute, you obtain tickets to an event you’re dying to attend. However, you have to work that day! Do you ask the boss for the time off, or just call in sick? Ask for time off.

The Media Edition

1. TV or radio? TV
2. On the radio: talk or music station? Music
3. Actual books or books-on-tape (or e-books)? books
4. Actual newspaper, or web version? web version! Hate the bulkand mess of the real deal
5. Wall Street Journal or National Enquirer? neither
6. TV news…news channel such as CNN, or your local broadcast news? Local news - Global TV
7. A movie you’ve been looking forward to seeing gets bad reviews all around. See it anyway, or pass? probably see it anyways, as I don’t too often agree with the critics
8. See movies when they first come out, or wait a few weeks for the lines at the theater to get shorter? Wait even longer than that….until they come out in DVD!
9. TV: cable, satellite dish, or just plain old antenna? Digital cable TV
10. Thought-provoking question of the week: If you had to choose only one form of media to come into your home, which would you choose…print (newspapers, magazines) or electronic (TV, internet)? Why? Electronic! I’m all about the net and the tube!