Normally, the idea of spending the night in a hotel on New Year’s Eve sounds like fun. Unless, of course, you are without electricity in your home due to an ice storm, so you packed up the kids and checked into the Holiday Inn. We managed to survive one day and night, but after 2 days, I was missing not only my internet connection, but heat. The gas fireplace only heats so much (but eating grilled steaks via candlelight is quite romantic). I hated forking over $85 for a hotel room, but it is a justifiable business expense since I am getting some work done. And I’m sure I would have spent at least that much celebrating the coming of the new year.
I am a little partied out actually with all the Christmas cheer, so tonight will be a good time to catch up on beauty sleep. Note to single chicks, a great place to meet men is at a Gentleman’s Club. Just don’t get a flat tire on the way there or pulled over on the way home. (So a friend told me…. ) Happy 2007!
I was blog tagged by Shumly last week who was tagged by Kris who was tagged by shoemoney who was tagged by Andy who was tagged by Avinash who was tagged by Dave… geesh.
According to the “blog tag rules”, I have to divulge five things about myself that most people don’t know and then tag 5 new people to be it. I wish I wouldn’t have waited til today to start this post because the few people I had planned to attack, already got hit up… Shawn, Scott, and Rosalind.
Hmmm, what should I reveal about myself?
1. My first “real” job (besides babysitting) was working at the local ice-cream shop when I was fifteen for $2.00/hour.
2. My first car was a 1981 bright orange Mustang that used more oil than gas and saw a few ditches and barbed wire fences in it’s days. I am still a terrible driver - I can’t be good at everything.
3. I have never taken any illegal drugs. I’m sure if I had been offered them when younger, I probably would have, but I guess I hung out with pretty good kids. And I’ve always lived in the middle of nowhere. Our beer parties were in corn fields and gravel pits.
4. I originally went to college to be a commercial artist. I wanted to write television commercials. I never took one computer class in high school or college.
5. I have never really been out of the country (unless cruises to the Bahamas and Nova Scotia count). One of my goals is to travel the world, and write it all off as business expenses.
One of the disadvantages of living in a small town is that everyone seems to know everything about you, and if they don’t, well, they make stuff up. Gossip runs rampant in this town. So, I thought I’d share the latest rumors about me and my house that gave me a good laugh…
Myth #1: Kim’s “Bonus Room” is actually a “cage” for her out-of-control daughter that she can lock her up in. Fact: There is not even a door to the bonus room, only an open staircase with a balcony that overlooks my living room. Granted my daughter with OCD does go up there to “rock her head” as a method of relaxation, but I don’t consider that out-of-control.
Myth #2:Kim got nice 6-panel solid oak doors for her house for the price of cheap hollow doors because she slept with the salesman. Fact: I am a bargain shopper and got different quotes on my doors, and obviously went with the lowest bid. I have went on a few lunch dates with the above-mentioned salesman, but I also go on lunch dates with my mother.
And the best for last… Myth #3:Kim makes all her money by producing porn videos in her basement. Fact: I’m sure there is money to be made in online adult entertainment, but I better stick with endorsing my current list of family-friendly websites. And c’mon, my body is not of porn star quality, as the few people that have seen me naked can attest to.
