Saturday Six #479

1. Would you have ever dated someone you knew was in a committed relationship with someone else, even if you knew that the other person was okay with the idea?

  ~ No, hell no! My jealous heart would run amuck, and that is never Ever EVER fun

2. If you were in a longterm relationship and your significant other gained weight because of a medical issue, would you think less of him/her as a person?

  ~ Hell no to this too!

3. When dating someone, how important is it that you’d communicate with that person every day?

 ~ Not important, in fact I've found it's good to have a bit of distance every so often

4. If you had to choose one or the other, which is more important in a relationship: dedication or passion?

 ~ Dedication, if and when I'm allowed to maintain dedication, passion is always just a step behind. I could, and have been, passionate about someone but had absolutely no reason to be dedicated to them

5. Is jealousy healthy or unhealthy in a relationship?

 ~ Healthy, if you know how to work with it, not let it overrun the heart and mind. At times it may help you learn a lesson or two, depending if you have the courage to learn what it wants to present to you

6. Would you have a problem with your significant other spending a good deal of time with his/her exes if you knew it was completely platonic?

 ~ No, and I'd hope they wouldn't mind it either. My heart would be with my SO, but if I can still enjoy the lessons and experiences of others, great

Saturday Six

Six Sentences

I skipped dialysis today, just wanted a Saturday morning where  I lay in bed (well, my couch) soaking up life. I called in sick with a lie about being sick and awake all night with a UTI, I can feel that inner child in me come out to play when I do that. True, dialysis is for my own good, but sometimes, once in a great while, that child needs to come out and play. I received a text from my sister Carole, who left to drive to Myrtle Beach with her daughters and husband this morning. "We're finally on the road! See you next week. If you go to the cemetery tell everyone I said hi" she wrote. Dad passed away three years ago on the 17th.

Six Sentences

Saturday 9: Daddy's Back

1) Crazy Sam's dad often traveled for business, and always remembered to bring her the little complimentary soaps or body lotions he got from the hotel. When you travel, do you bring back souvenirs? Send post cards? 

  ~  I definitely send postcards! The last time I travelled anywhere was over ten years ago. Life has changed so much since then. The last trip I went on was Myrtle Beach, probably sometime in the late '90's. I'd love to go traveling if I could. It would be cool to travel Route 66 from Chicago to LA and see all sorts of cool sites, send postcards from each state!

2) When you fly, do you prefer window or aisle? Or doesn't it matter? 

  ~  Must be window seat, must be last row! Woops, that reminds me, I did fly to Houston, Texas for a friends wedding in 2006(?)  THAT was my last trip!

3) According to Askmen.com, Jim Anderson (Robert Young) of Father Knows Best is the best TV dad ever. Who is your favorite TV (or movie) dad?

  ~ Tom Bradford (Dick Van Patton) of Eight Is Enough is my favorite TV/movie dad

4) Sam's father was the family disciplinarian. What about you? Do you consider yourself a rule maker, a rule follower, or a rule breaker?

  ~ A little bit of each!

5) Sam's father was the one who gave her driving lessons. Think back to your first few times behind the wheel. Were you a naturally good driver? 

  ~ I was bit of a nervous driver, but really I believe it was because I was trying something new to me, and I was with my dad, who made me even more nervous if he got angry. I dropped out of high school driver's ed and learned to drive when I was around 25.

6) This week's featured artist, Kenny Loggins, was born in Washington state. Have you ever lived in, or traveled to, any of our northern border states? (For those of you not as well versed in geography as Crazy Sam, that's AK, WA, MT, ND, MN, WI, MI PA, NY, VT, and ME.) 

  ~ I live in a northern border state, Michigan. I've also been to PA with my sister and parents, my dad grew up there

7) As part of the duo Loggins and Messina, Loggins performed the song "House at Pooh Corner." Do you have a favorite character from the Winnie the Pooh books/movies? 

  ~ My favorite is Tigger, I love his energy! Though out of all of them I would probably enjoy hanging out and talking with Pooh, he's so wise!

8) The mercury is going to start rising. How hot is too hot for you? 85º? 95º? Or are you one of those  "the hotter the better" people?

  ~ I definitely don't like hot weather, 85º is a bit too hot -75º is perfection to me

9) To celebrate Father's Day, Sam is giving away her father's favorite candy: LifeSavers. Would you prefer a roll of Wild Cherry, or Butter Rum, or Winter Green or Peppermint? 

  ~ Butter Rum

 Saturday 9

7 Quick Takes

~ Best moment of the week: in the afternoon break I told him I heard Marzulli on Coast last night and he said he was working on Watchers 7. I mentioned this to him and asked if he had seen 6. He didn't know there was one. He then let us watch the trailer on his computer.  Two hours later I popped my head in to say goodnight. "Don't get 6!" I said, I intended to order this for him, -I gave him Watchers 5 about a month ago. "I already did" he replied, "this one's my treat!" He must have ordered from Amazon the moment I left his office!

~ Really, really, really feel like canceling dialysis tomorrow

~ Parklane Towers is pretty good! I have an awesome window seat, seat 85. When I was looking at the floor plan in his office I knew I would want this desk and told him. I never told my supervisor but mentioned to him that I was going to send my supervisor mind messages throughout the week-end that I wanted seat 85. I can't help but think that he helped somehow!

~ As I walked in the building on my first day at Parklane I walked fast to walk with a team leader and tripped and fell. I was holding my small fish tank holding Gilly, it broke and my Gilly died. I have a new fish at my desk, a pretty white betta I call Albert Bino

~ Carole, Dave and the girls are leaving for a Myrtle Beach week-long vacation tomorrow. Lucky! She is going to bring me back some conch shells, I have some crafts in mind that I can make with them.

~ I have got to get a letter out to Vin

~ My lab results still suck -very poor protein and phosphorous results

7 Quick Takes

Friday Five: Summer Rules

You are the boss of summer time! So what behaviors are not allowed until summer’s end?

 ~ Early morning alarm clocks (I wish!)

And what is everyone required to talk about until summer’s end?

  ~ Summer fun, happy experiences, great food

And what songs must be in regular rotation until summer’s end?

 ~ Bob Marley Three Little Birds, Derek and The Dominoes Layla, Frank Sinatra Summer Wind, lots of Santana, lots of Jimmy Buffett, lots of Sade

And what must be eaten at least once per week until summer’s end?

  ~ Sloppy joes, ice cream cones, watermelon

And since you are also the poster child for summer time, what activity will the poster display you engaged in?

  ~ Riding a roller coaster! Preferably Cedar Point's Gatekeeper! I LOOOOVE roller coasters, I haven't had the opportunity to be on one in years but if I could spend a summer sampling roller coasters across the world I would think I've died and gone to heaven!

Friday Five

7 Quick Takes

1. Moving into Dearborn's Twin Towers with my company Monday. Looking forward to it, though a bit nervous about how things (my drive, seating, breaks) will run since we'll be on the 16th floor.

 2. Quite curious of how my *him* time will run, though I wish I could just get my mind off *him* (...ok, right after I present *him* with the origami cat and ammonite stones I got *him* for a "first day in the new building" gift)

3. Life is miserable being alone -I need friends, I wish I had people I can turn to and hang with. I feel like I'm the walking dead

4. I'm sure my lab results will be very negative with low protein and high phosphorous

5. I have got to get a letter out to Vin (just entered the marines a month ago and is in basic training), I want to get a letter out to Vin, ...but what the hell do I write?

6. I want to clean my place up, carpet washed, and find a cat who is willing to adopt me

7. June starts tomorrow, I hope it's loaded with good surprises

May 30, 2013: Thursday Thirteen

13 Reasons I Will Miss Working In The Village Plaza

1. The Village Sandwich Shop, stopping in for a roast beef/mayo/cheese/loooots of pickles sandwich (especially good on tomato wrap)

2. Easy drive

3. Walking to the mini forest behind

4. I envisioned myself working in the VP one day

5. Good parking

6. Eric works there -our past general manager, it was always good running into him.

7. The tall tattoo-necked man from Southfield moved with his company there as well

8. Been there since August 2004

9. Easy walk to his office, and past his office

10. Use to it, the routine, the ordinariness of it

11. Remembering dad while walking past the Red Cross, he would go there to give blood 

12. The staircase that I successfully climb with my cane, I can feel my legs getting stronger

13. The aquarium on the floor beneath us, I love aquariums!