Tag, I’m It

Today’s post is brought to you by the letters V and T

Jenny at Sticky Feathers tagged me last week to do a random meme and I am just getting to it now. Sorry about that! My brain was mush after my recording diary. It’s still pretty much mush right now, but I’m hoping that will be more charming and less off-putting.

I’m always (not so) secretly thrilled when people tag me. It makes me feel like I’ve been invited to sit with the cool kids in the cafeteria.

So, in no particular order, here are my seven random things:

• I am playing fantasy baseball for the second year in a row. I finished dead last in my league last year, so this time I am simply hoping to finish ahead of someone this time around. It’s nice having low standards. They make it so easy to not fail. So far, I’m hovering around the middle of the pack. I am wildly ecstatic about this.

• I recently bought a kid’s book on eBay (the first book in the Trixie Belden series, if you’re interested). I’m not entirely sure why I felt the need to do this. It was only $8 and I used to read my Grandmother’s copies when I was little. I suppose that could be justification enough. It’s an original copy from the 1940’s. That’s pretty neat.

• I signed up for NaBloPoMo for the month of April. I almost forgot this. How embarrassing would it have been to have failed on the very first day? (answer: unfathomably so) This month’s theme is letters. I’m not so keen on doing 30 open letters, so I’ve decided to go Sesame Street style and have letter sponsors. I can’t wait for the entry that’s sponsored by the letters F and U.

• We installed a chinup bar in our bedroom doorway. Now I do a couple of pull-ups every time I walk by. I think that I’m developing a pull-up addiction. Do they have 12-step groups for that?

• I know who killed Laura Palmer.

• It looks like Kristian and I might be buying a house this spring. I have already mentally decorated every single listing that we have seen. Luckily mental decoration is free, because that is a lot of paint and fabric!

• Kristian wants to get rid of our TV when we find a new place, so that we don’t have to worry about moving it. Then he wants to upgrade to high def. I feel contractually obligated to be the tightwad in this situation (normally I am the one saying “let’s spend money on [foo]” and he gets to tell me to be reasonable). Secretly, I want to call his bluff whenever we go into Costco and he threatens to buy one of the pretty, shiny TVs that they have there and say, “sure, let’s go pick one out.” I will resist temptation, however, because I do not wish to spend our first year in our first house eating ramen noodles and clipping coupons for discount cat food.