Monday, July 5, 2010

Hey, It's Okay Tuesday!!

**We return home tomorrow! Then I'll be able to catch up on blog notes. I swear, I haven't been ignoring anyone!*

I got this idea from Glamour magazine. They have a section called Hey, It’s Okay and will list a bunch of things to be okay about. I think I’m going to do this every Tuesday now. You're welcome to join in and do something like this on your diary. Doesn't have to be on a Tuesday either.

Hey, It's Okay....


To hate when a sea shell digs into the bottom of your foot while you are hanging out in the ocean.


To have tried Bojangles chicken for the first time and liked it (it was spicy! I guess Bojangles is a Southern thing.)


To hate going through the airport security. Sorry dude behind me, I'm moving as fast as I can. Stop creeping up to my ass and clearing your throat. I get it. I have two kids I also have to help. I'll move when I can.


To hate how your husband just breezes through security and looks surprised when you're not right behind him. Our offspring, dear. Did you forget about our offspring?


To still like getting those giant pixie sticks that they sell at amusement parks.


To love visiting family but also love getting back to your own home. And stuff. And bed.


To hope to go to Jamestown, Virginia someday. I love history.


To love Sharon Osbourne even though she probably won't end up liking you back. (She'd probably think I was a flitty thing with a potato shaped face.)


To still have hope that an agent will want to sign me even though so many have said thanks, but no thanks. Anyone BFFs with an agent or started a new agency? I'd be the easier author ever. I'm totally not picky and am told that I have impecible manners.


To have to sleep with a fan going on in the background since absolute silence is freaky. We sleep in absolute silent at the hotel, minus the small blast of air conditioner that pops on for like five minutes before clicking back off again. Tom says he prefers the quiet and would love to turn off the fan that I keep on at home. I said no way, as I need some noise to filter out his snoring. He says if he can deal with listening to me fart all night (which I totally DON'T) then I can deal with his snoring. Newsflash Tom: I can't.

42 comments:

  1. Check, check, check. We pretty much in synch! Love Bojangles & Popeye's (which we don't have here-Popeye's that is). And yes, without a doubt you must find your way to Jamestown, VA someday. It's awesome! Enjoy the rest of your time in NC!

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  2. Have a safe trip home!

    Hope you had fun here in NC and glad you got to try Bojangles. I sometimes pronounce it bo-hahn-gah-lees in an effort to make it sound classier, but that doesn't really work, does it? Still, it's delish.

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  3. Oh-oh-oh...O M G! I am the first to comment. Do I get a special prize? I think I should.

    Bojangles sounds fun..never tried but I will if I ever get the chance!

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  4. Hope you have a safe trip home and find a great book agent!

    *giggles* at the thought of your noisy bedroom...

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  5. Welcome Home! I may have to join you on this tomorrow, I can so relate.

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  6. I;m with you on the silence one. I do need some white noise.

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  7. Mmmm, Bojangles. Did you get a tub of sweet tea while you were there, too? Yum.

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  8. Nothing compares to going home to your own bed!

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  9. I have a fan in my room too, I cannot live without it!!

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  11. I always have problems at airport security - even on my own! Apparently my favorite boots have steel something or others in them so I have to take them off before going through security. Have you ever tried putting on zip up high heel ankle boots with no chairs to sit on???

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  12. I honestly couldn't sleep without a fan at night - the noise blocks out so much that would normally wake me. It's a chore to re-learn to turn it off at the end of summer's heat.

    M

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  13. I like the cotton candy! I have to get cotton candy everytime we go to an amusement park or fair! Or the mini donuts! Ya those are the Best!...I think it's time for a cheat day on this diet. Yeesh.
    I love travelling, but if I'm gone too long then I miss my Lola furball and don't enjoy the last little bit of the trip, And also miss my own bed.

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  14. I love spicy chicken but not pixie sticks. That amount of sugar at one time just makes me squirm!

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  15. So glad you liked BoJangles chicken...that what we had for supper last night .......yummmy!

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  16. I love your okay tuesdays! And um, our husbands need to remember that girls don't fart. If they heard something it is obviously the dog - or the neighbors dog if you don't have one!

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  17. My husband does the same thing at airport security and I want to throttle him every time.

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  18. I'm sure you DO fart all night...just my opinion. You should be proud of it. It's great payback for snoring.

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  19. Bojangles is awesome. . .some people down here swear by it.

    I had a friend that moved to South Carolina and the closest Bo's to her was 40 miles away, in Georgia.

    She made the weekly trek.

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  20. I love Sharon Osborne, too. I think she's one interesting lady. Horrible taste in men, but interesting.

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  21. looooove me some bojangles.. good stuff.. major good stuff!

    i HATE flying too.. but for the simple fact of security.. AND I DON'T EVEN HAVE KIDS.. can't imagine how having kids would stress me out even more at security!!

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  22. I have a small space heater, that has a setting w/o heat...and if I get a night off from watching the boys, it has to be on b/c I'm such a light sleeper that I'll wake up every 5 min. And, I take it with me on vacation!

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  23. I need my fan on too. White noise. I can't sleep without it. And I hate air conditioning. But if it's hot, I need air conditioning. I love Sharon too, but she would not love me back either. You do not have anything about you that even remotely resembles a potato, Amber.

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  24. I sleep with the fan on too. I think too much to sleep if it's completely quite. Jamestown is worth the trip, so go for it!

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  25. I meant "quiet". Some days I just can't spell!

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  26. Oh, lots of accord today. Bojangles is goood. Airport security with kids sucks, but is far better now that my tot doesn't have a complete meltdown every time she has to take off her shoes, which used to happen no matter what we did. I'm sweating just thinking about those trips. And I just went to buy a second sound machine because I left the first one in a hotel room a week ago and I was bereft without 'Ocean" setting at its loudest volume. Plus a fan and earplugs. Mine snores too.

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  27. I can't get to sleep without some noise. I wouldn't mind a fan. Someone sitting there going, 'You know, I love your work, I absolutely love your work' would send me to sleep a very happy lady.

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  28. Bojangles always makes me think of dog balls. Big hairy dog balls. I don't know why. I love Popeye's tho. :) Have fun on vacation! I did the airport thing with the two kids, luckily I convinced the ticketing people to give my husband and sister gate passes to help me thru the terminals to the gate. Otherwise, it would have been hell getting thru security with the two kids.

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  29. I too HAVE to sleep with a fan or some noise, I just have too!

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  30. OH my gosh! How dare he suggest that you fart! Everyone knows that (a) girls don't fart, and (b) if they do, the men in their lives are supposed to go on as if nothing happened and make no comments, faces, or any kind of fart acknowledgment.

    KABLOOEY - How do the earplugs work? My husband sounds like he's going to suck in his nose and die. Fortunately, I'm a pretty heavy sleeper, but getting to sleep isn't always easy...

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  31. How do you know you do or not if you're sleeping?

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  32. What? How rude! Girls totally dont fart! LOL

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  33. Humph on the airport security. I'm always envious of those dressed to the nines in their outfits, handbags, and carefree walk in airport lounges -- you know the ones with nary a hair out of place. Me? I've tried it but just can't pull it off. Handbag isn't big enough to fit the book I won't read because I'll be too busy people watching. So I resort to a backpack. Not cool. Stylish clothing doesn't work because I have to take 1/2 of it off to get through security. So, I've resorted to being that person in the sweats and long sleeved tee with backpack whom everyone stares at and thinks, "what is she wearing?" Meh. Gets me through security quickly. The hour staring at everyone else look way cooler than me? Doesn't pass so quickly!

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  34. I just discovered your blog and found that just about everything you said in the above post rings oh-so-true. Most people think I'm nuts for sleeping with a fan, but I MUST have my fan--seriously, if I don't have SOME static noise, I can't sleep...silence alone is so creepy quiet, it's almost too loud. Er. Does that make any sense?

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  35. Airport security -- even without kids in tow I was slowing The Husband down!!! I like Sharon too. And I can sleep in silence, but I must have a nightlight, which makes no sense because I close my eyes but not my ears...

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  36. I do the fan thing too! And airport security-- Ewwww. Hate it.

    Love the idea of this post.

    jj

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  37. I totally have to have a fan. My husband thinks I'm crazy. I even travel with one if I know we're going someplace that won't have one. I hate hotel air conditioners that pop on and tease you with the wonderful hum just to snatch it away 2 minutes later. Hope you had a great vacation!

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  38. IS it okay to be jealous of the fact that you were somewhere you'd get sea shells stuck in your toes? Because I am. The plane ride it took to get there, not so much.

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  39. I know just what you mean about airport security. Shock! Despite my alerting them, I'm stopped when the screws in my ankle set off the alarms. Surprise, surprise! They may as well check my bag while I'm there. Yes, I really need all those prescription drugs. Aagh.

    Got to ask, what are the pixie sticks you mentioned? Some kind of candy rock, perhaps.

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  40. I love my own bed.

    And farting is not the same as snoring.

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  41. I love white noise AND I love to have some air moving.

    When we were kids we'd try to empty a whole pixie stix under our tongue. It was tough. Gotta try that.

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