100 Things Divided by 4 = THE FINALE !!

Thanks to all of you for reading and commenting this week, and for encouraging me to hurry up and get the 100 !! Who knew I was so interesting ? *snort*

So here's the last 25, for now !! Thanks !!

The Final 25 !

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• Even though my Dad played for the 49ers and I like the Eagles because of Gregory, my favorite team is still the Saints and I hope they go to the Super Bowl while I'm still alive !
• I can put together just about any type of yard implement, gadget or furniture with a 6-pack of beer and some good music
  
• If the Cubs could win the World Series before I die, all I need to do is see the Triple Crown of horse racing, and my sports life would be complete!
• I am finally becoming comfortable in my skin.....and it only took 39 years!
• I ran through a plate glass sliding door when I was 13 and required a blood transfusion and 183 stitches, including several plastic surgeries on my face
• When I was 14 I let go of the line too late while water skiing and ran into the dock, luckily I fell back and just the skis broke, not me.....and I don't drop off at the dock anymore
• Obviously I'm quite uncoordinated
  
• My favorite place I have ever been is Nepal. That country and their people are amazing.
  
• I have ridden a camel along the Great Wall of China
• I think Twilight is stupid. "Lost Boys" is a far better flick, even with the two Coreys.
• To quote Tim Wilson ... " Everybody Loves Raymond, except for f---ing me!"
• If I have to sit in the back seat of a car I will not sit behind the driver
• I love bacon. It is the perfect food.
  
• I like stuff with skulls and crossbones on it. Aye matey.
  
• I once got over-served at Mardi Gras, busted my ass, had to get stitches and had a black eye, the day before being a speaker at the opening of a Battered Women's Shelter. Oops.
• I'm not really into designers but I would luuuurvvve a Coach purse
• My favorite WWII movie is "Tora Tora Tora"
• My dad is an engineer and designed the world's largest jack-up oil rig back in the 80's, which spawned a series of them for Rowan called the Gorilla
  
• When I was about 4, I had "Hee Haw" overalls and would walk around singing "where o' where are you tonight, why did u leave me here all alone....," and my mom has a picture to prove it. I must find it and destroy it before my reign of Princess of The Universe begins.
• When I was 7 I set my grandmothers yard on fire with fireworks when I wasn't supposed to be playing with them. I blamed my cousin. He took the heat. He was my hero.
• I was born a day after Hurricane Camille, and my Papaw drove down and had the Seabees bring him across from Biloxi to Ocean Springs in a boat to see if my parents were ok and I had arrived. He kissed me on the head and went back to tell my Granny. They were the biggest influence on my life and I miss them immensely.
• My favorite old school TV shows are Green Acres, I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched.
• I will watch "Smokey and the Bandit" anyplace, anytime, anywhere. It makes me LOL.
• I am not a bandwagon fan or friend. I liked the Yankees when they stunk. I was never ashamed to be a Saints fan....embarrassed maybe, and come on, I'm a Cubs fan....who else can take failure as well as we??
  

And on that note (drum roll!) , here is #100 !!

• Like me for me. Not my looks, my education, my political preferences, my views, my ups and downs, my quirks or my idiosyncrasies, my fashion, or anything else. Don't "feel for me" because of my situation. Be there for me. I am no different than you, except that I am living the life that you don't want to be yours. Many others are doing the same. Be my friend, and theirs, without judgment, without expectations, but always with love, support and the love and friendship that you will need when it becomes your turn.

100 Things Divided by 4 - Part Tres !!

100 Divided by 4 - Part Tres !!!!

Hellloooooo yall !!! Here's your daily installment of KIM-fo !!

• I love skully caps (or toboggans, whatever!) They are my fave winter headgear.
• I am a side sleeper and have a thing for pillows. It's like a pillow castle.
• My t-shirts have a hierarchy. My favorite ones hang in the closet, my next fave are in my dresser, and workout, yardwork and just "meh" shirts live in the hamper in my closet!
• I have learned that some things are just not worth getting worked up over.
• I only like blackberries and strawberries. Raspberries, Boysenberries, and Dingleberries need not apply.
• I say "awesome!!!" and "cool" way too much
• My grandparents let me stay up and watch Saturday Night Live when it was still good...
• Even though I don't always agree with their opinions, I like Fox News Channel
• I think Shepard Smith is hawwwtt and I love Geraldo Rivera, he's such a drama queen
• I cannot stand when people don't use their turn signals
• If I see a dog or cat outside a store or restaurant I buy them something to eat
• I never ever thought I would be a widow at 39, and I hate it , but anyway....
  
• I'm still here.
  
• I love lava lamps, they remind me of my childhood!
• When I was a kid and had those "jerk awake" dreams, I always thought my brother was waking me up and would go into his room and scream at him! Sorry Alya. (Alan)
• I love James Taylor. JT puts on a hell of a live show. I'm telling yall, he JAMS!
• I sing at the top of my lungs and in a bad note to Billy Joel's " New York State of Mind". Keep me away from alcohol and a karaoke machine, or there could be problems. And evidence.
  
• I hate being asked what "category" my blog is under. Uhm, I dunno, KIMTASTIC ?!
  
• I am a gadget techie goob, I must have the hot new item to fiddle with upon release. Hence my collection of iPhones and iPods and other shiny things.
• Smoothie King smoothies are like my own personal crack.
• I love Snoopy and all things Charlie Brown.
  
• On that note, I always get Charlie Brown cards for bd's and occasions for others. They have come to expect it. Once I didn't, and I got the "Wha?? No Snoopy card??"
• And in other CB News, I played Peppermint Patty in a school play.
  
• I post at a message board that started off as a place to make snarky comments about Survivor in it's first season, and it has grown into a huge community. I love some of those folks even though I have never met any of them in RL. It's my first internet stop of the day. Besides Twitter. ; )
  
• My favorite place in the world to get a burger and a beer is Fudpucker's in Destin, Florida.

Ok, that's all folks !!! Finishing up tomorrow when who knows what type of awful secrets will be revealed??? Bwa ha ha ha .........

100 Things Divided by 4 - Part Two !!

By popular demand......here's part two !!! I decided to finish this up this week, so yall wouldn't be on the edges of your seats !! LOL!!

25 Things Part 2 = 50!

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• I have a HUGE crush on Craig Ferguson. OMG. HUGE.
• I saw Ferris Bueller's Day Off when it first came out at the movies, and I still have the "Save Ferris" pins they were giving out.
• I have to have clean feet, always. If I had it my way, I'd have one of those little foot wash things permanently installed in several areas of my house.
• I have a mole on the bottom of my left foot. It's always clean. ;p
• I adore New York City... but I love New Orleans.
• I would love to have a 1969 Camaro.
• In my first ever car wreck, my car hit a tree so hard that the cassette in my car radio popped out and landed in the back seat. I still can't hear "Jungle Love" without my neck hurting. You !! You got a pretty car ! Think I wanna drive it !! Oh-e-oh-e-oh.
• I can kick your ass at UNO. Yea, that's right...and skeeball too !! ;)
• I only like Hellman's mayo, and only mayo on one side, mustard on the other. No mixing. And I like my cheese between the sammich meat.
• If you have a smashed fingernail or toenail that is black?? Get the eff away from me....that grosses me out !! If you're dead, you're fine. Eh?
• I am a t-shirt whore, I love cool sayings, bar and unique restaurant t-shirts and that is my first choice as a souvenir from anywhere.
• I have a "thing" for John Larroquette, must be the NOLA connection. Or the grey hair. He gets better with age.
• I have met Jimmy Buffett, several times....and I have the pics to prove it !
• I lovvve me some Horse racing.
• I love rollercoasters and amusement parks.
• I'm a Nintendo girl. None of that Playstation or XBox stuff for me.
• When I was a kid, if I had acted the way kids did now, my parents would have torn my ass up, followed up by outpatient ass tearing by grandparents.
• I am not a morning person. At all. In fact I am downright grouchy in the A.M.
  
• I think "The Office" and Conan O'Brien's late night show are stupid.
• All these young guys and hipster women wearing pork-pie hats?? You look like idiots.
  
• I don't get the whole Brett Favre "retire/unretire/for the love of the game" crap.....go your ass home and stay there. Please? And tell Deanna hi.
  
• Swan Creek candles are one of my favorite guilty pleasures.
  
• I was in the band in middle school. Couldn't read a lick of music. I just faked it.
• I collect Buddhas.
• This below was once my bedroom .Then a tornado came. I was almost Dorothy.

Ok !! That's all for today !! Later dear readers !!!!!!

100 Things Divided by 4

Lots of people post the "100 things about Me" on their blog. That's a bunch of info to absorb in one sitting. Thus, I have decided to do the 100 in segments.....then combine them all at the end...so, for the next 4 days.....I will give you a few things you may not already know about me , dear reader !!

25 Things About Me - Part 1
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• I used to be a cop, and a damm good one. I rescued kids (and their mommies)from monsters.
• Now I'm a computer nerd, and I'm much happier.
• I grew up in Singapore.
• I am obsessed with the weather and anything weather related.
• I only like lettuce in a salad, not on a sandwich.
• I love TEEVEE (blog post to follow)
• I don't like even numbers, except for 16, which was Joe Montana's number
  
• ^^^^ Obviously, I love Joe Montana....segue way...
• My dad played Pro Football for the 49ers in the 60's
• I still have the first pair of Vans I ever owned when I was 15, and boy do they stink!
• Theodore Roosevelt is my favorite President.
• Whenever I hear the word President the song "Peaches" plays in my head.
• I wish I'd grown up to be a forensic pathologist. Death fascinates me.
  
• I really wouldn't do anything for a Klondike Bar.
• I stalk my local weatherman....ha!
• I cannot remember life before the iPhone. Well I can, but I try not to.
  
• I love Howard Stern, I know I know, but he's smart, and funny, even when he's obscene.
• Hearing Kenny Wallace, Robin Quivers or Dolly Parton laugh makes me happy.
• I used to have a HUGE crush on George Strait, then I grew taller than him, so oh well.
• My favorite song is not by DMB. Shocker eh?
• Charles Lindbergh stayed with my grandparents once when they lived in Liberia.
• I wanted to be a veterinarian but didn't because I could never put a dog to sleep, even if I knew it had to be done. The guilt would eat me alive.
• I never learned to scuba dive. Why? JAWS. And I'm a nervous snorkler.
• I have never watched even one episode of Star Trek. Or Lost. Or a dozen other shows that all other nerds seem to love.
• I love the news, I even DVR it if I'm not home. Yep, color me loser.

So that's my 25 for today !!!

Check back tomorrow for part deux !

Playing hooky...

I'm playing hooky from widow school tonight. Yes, I'm a bad widow. It just wasn't in me to go sit in a group of people who feel as bad or perhaps worse than me and "hug it out". Not that we actually do a lot of hugging, I just needed a metaphor for how it makes me feel. I was tired and whiny from two days of retail customer hell and just could not do it. So I stopped by Whole Foods and fixed myself an antipasta tray for dinner, got some warm french bread , flavored olive oil and a bottle of wine. Then I stopped at Best Buy and splurged on David J's new limited edition box set. By 5 pm I was bathed and in a pair of Greg's pajamas, sitting in his chair with a 78 pound puppy trying to crawl in my lap, watching my favorite weatherman. This is what I wanted to do. So I did it. Bad widow.

I had a pretty good weekend with my friends, but it was alwaysrighthere waiting. It. Oh and him. Dr. Lecter made an appearance in the pool Saturday afternoon while I was sitting with my friends and they just held me and tried to help. It was only for a few minutes but damn, why did I let him get to me???? Jerk.

I took lots of pics and drank lots of blue waboritas and danced and got lots of sun and laughed a lot and heard how I was missed and caught up on gossip and I actually felt good for awhile (bigtime run on sentence I know get over it! ;) ). And I am glad I went, even though now I have some guilt about it and. But I went, and that's one way of healing, and guilt is supposedly natural, and normal. It sure does suck though.

But the whole time I felt like I was playing hooky. I had this nagging feeling in my head that I should be sitting at home wearing a black veil and sobbing around an 8x10 and a candle. I don't know why. I just did. And that is so not me. Drinking 10 or so blue waboritas while sitting in a huge salt water pool with 80's music and my closest friends is so me...so I let it be me for the weekend. And I hope that being me starts to come without the guilty interest rate. Oh I will never be me again, because that me is gone. She went away on March 20th of this year, never to return.

I kind of have a new me now. Notice she's not in italics. I am not quite sure where she belongs or where she should go or what she is going to do. I just know she's here now, and she's the new Kim. This Kim lives minute by minute, kinda like the old one, but this time with an additional helping of cautious pessimism. I hope a little of the old Kim comes along for the ride, cause wherever she's playing hooky, I sure do miss her.

I won't bore yall with alot of pictures.....but here's the link to my gallery... Girls Hard Rock Weekend 2009.....

Bring on the rain......

I work today from 9-5.

Then I go to my "group" til 7:30.

I am not sure I'm ready to be a part of a group I really want nothing
to do with. It's club I never wanted to join.

And the fact that the weather is supposed to be all rainy and crappy all week reinforces my "I don' wanna"" philosophy.

And despite what Jodi says....I am afraid. Bad afraid.



Bring on the rain baby.

We'll drown together.

I love you G.

Me-mes....

Alot of people that have recently met me and started reading my blog can only define me as "Kim whose husband Gregory died."

Even though that is unfortunately a HUGE part of who I am now, there's a lot of other things about me that make me who I am as a person. Many of them I like, many of them I don't. But all in all, it's all me.

So here's kind of a bullet list of things about Kim.....


* I was born in Mississippi but grew up in Singapore, because my dad was in oil.

* My dad also grew up overseas. In Liberia. He had monkeys, elephants and such for pets. What a life.

* I was born two days after Camille, lived through a tornado tearing my parent's house apart in 2004, made it through Katrina, was in a boat that was struck by lightning and have survived a monsoon or two. If the weather gets bad you may want to get away from me. Far, far away.

* When I was 3 I fell off the roof of our house and almost "PUT MY EYE OUT."

* I loved Singapore and am so thrilled to be reconnecting with friends from there thru the interwebz. Yay interwebz!

*Upon moving back from S'pore I lived in Poplarville, MS until 2005. I miss my friends but again, the miracle of the interwebz is bringing us together !

* My mom is deathly afraid of animals but has always let me have a dog. Thanks Mom.

* When I was 13 I walked through a sliding glass door and had 182 stitches in my legs and face. Oh and plastic surgery.

* I have trekked in Nepal, camped in the Australian outback and walked along the Great Wall of China.

* I have also been to about every country I can think of.

* But I've never been to the Grand Canyon.

* My dad played pro football for the 49ers for a few years.

* I have always struggled with weight - up/down/up/down. But I'm ok with that now.

* I have an older brother whom I adore - Hi Alya !!

* I used to be a cop. Near the end, I HATED IT. I wasn't actually thrilled with the circumstances of my leaving law enforcement but it was the best thing that happened to be professionally.

* I am now a computer nerd and I LOVE IT. I LOVE going to work. Except when I'm in a funk, and getting there usually alleviates that.

* I am obsessed with the weather. I wish I was a meteorologist.

* I miss my grandparents now more than ever. I wish my Papaw was here to guide me.

* Speaking of my Papaw, he didn't speak english until he was 12. Only french..and my dad was born in NOLA...so technically I'm a cajun girl.

* I have no musical talent whatsoever. I can't draw, I can't sing, I can't dance. Somewhere in the gene pool I lost out.

* I love t-shirts. Any cool restaurant, bar, visiting place, if you've got a cool t-shirt, it will be mine.

* At Mardi Gras and parades in general, my friends used to call me the bead whore. I never flashed for any, but I was good at getting them !

* I love jello shots.

* I am having a hard time watching my Daddy fight cancer but I can't stand to not be around him.

* I am mad at God and the world in general, but especially me, for taking my Husband away.

* I am trying very hard to deal with the thing above. Not so easy.

There's alot more that I am sure I will add, but I'll leave that for another post.

Happy Wednesday everyone.

Oh and one more thing.

* I love my husband.