I’m so sick that:
I haven’t worn “real” clothes since Thursday.
I haven’t run since last Sunday.
I haven’t worn my pedometer since Tuesday.
I got the sweats so bad last night while sleeping that I had to change my clothes (shirt and pants!).

I am taking vitamins, drinking liquids, sleeping a lot, and yesterday I meditated and stretched my sore legs. Today I went for a two mile stroll cause it was warm and sunny. I put herbal tea in a travel mug and sipped as I walked. Tomorrow I have to put on real clothes for work, and the pedometer is going back on. I have about 56,000 steps to make up. Do’h.
I want to walk tomorrow before work to get some air. Also a nice walk outside on my lunch hour will be nice, too. It’s suppose to be even warmer than today!

While on my walk today, I happened across this awesomeness. I wouldn’t want to come across that in the middle of the night! It reminds me of Megan’s subway monster which I will find tomorrow and post.

I feel like ass. I want to sit in a hot tub for an hour to soothe my muscles. I would want a hot tub in my dream house (if the house was big, and not mini). I’ve been drinking loads of tea, sleeping a lot, taking lots of Vitamin C, and eating oranges. I’m also keeping a hankie with me at all times. That way I don’t waste a ton of tissues.

I was browsing recipes on allrecipes.com, and I found this food related survey. I love food!
1. How do you like your eggs?
Scrambled. Usually I just cook them, and fold them in half like it’s an omelet, but there’s nothing in it. I eat only egg whites because I am lame.

2. How do you take your coffee/tea?
I don’t drink coffee, and I only enjoy herbal tea. I drink it hot. Oh, but I LOVE a small coffee coolata made with skim milk from Dunkin Donuts.

3. Favorite breakfast food:
I’m sure all of you know the answer to that already! Honey Bunches of Oats with sliced banana and skim milk.

4. Peanut butter: Smooth or crunchy?
Smooth. I like Skippy.

5. What kind of dressing on your salad?
Light Honey Mustard

6. Coke or Pepsi?
I like Diet Coke because it has more caffeine, but Diet Pepsi tastes better. My all time favorite would be Diet Pepsi Max for the SUPER amount of caffeine.

7. You’re feeling lazy, what do you make?
Depends if it’s lunch or dinner. I’ve been having soup for lunch lately. I’m off my English Muffin kick. For dinner? Probably pasta.

8. You’re feeling really lazy. What kind of pizza do you order?
Normally just plain, but lately I’ve liked them with peppers.

9. You feel like cooking. What do you make?
Some kind of pasta or a delicious soup.

10. Do any foods bring back good memories?
Uhh. Maybe Kraft Macaroni and Cheese cause we ate it as kids. Other than that, not that I can think of right now cause I’m sick.

11. Do any foods bring back bad memories?
Chocolate and peanut butter together (like Reese’s). I got sick on a chocolate and peanut butter rabbit one Easter. Can’t eat them since that.

12. Do any foods remind you of someone?
Cabbage and Cream Chicken on Toast reminds me of Alissa. Turnovers remind me of my mom and sister. Coffee rolls remind me of my dad.

13. Is there a food you refuse to eat?
Nope. I’ll try anything unless it’s a weird Fear Factor-like food.

14. What was your favorite food as a child?

Hamburgers, I think. That’s what I would always order at restaurants. So much so that Dylan would always bug me about it.

15. Is there a food that you hated as a child but now like?
Um… I don’t remember. I’d have to ask my parents. I’ve been eating a LOT more vegetables lately. I wasn’t veggie crazy as a kid.

16. Is there a food that you liked as a child but now hate?
Uhhhh. No?

17. Favorite fruit and vegetable:
Fruit - I love them all!!! Apples, grapes, oranges, bananas. Vegetable - broccoli!!

18. Favorite junk food:
I like a lot of sweet things, so I try not to keep them in the house. Non dessert? Salsa and chips, maybe.

19. Favorite between meal snack:
fruit

20. Do you have any weird food habits?
I cut my PB&J sandwiches in half, so there are two triangles. HAVE to? No. But I do.

21. You’re on a diet. What food(s) do you fill up on?
Soup and my spinach salads

22. You’re off your diet. Now what would you like?
Cereal. But no diet could keep me away from that.

23. How spicy do you order Indian/Thai?
not spicy at all, I get acid reflux.

24. Can I get you a drink?
Red wine if I feel like it

25. Red or White Wine?
Red for cancer fighting properties, but if I want less calories, white. Again, I am lame.

26. Favorite dessert?
In an ideal world, yogurt with berries and granola. Yuuuuuum.

27. The perfect nightcap?
Wine? Probably nothing, though

Oh how I love food.

Starting at 6:30am sun light starts to leak into my room. Since rearranging my furniture, my bed is now right near this window. When I go to bed at a decent hour it’s ok. But I went to bed past 1am since it was Lost night. I need more than 6 hours sleep.

I can’t sleep and I’m angry about it. I have curtains that match my comforter thanks to a Martha Stewart 25 piece bed set that was priced for $500 but I got for $80 because of my magical powers at Macy*s (various discounts - nothing dishonest!). I will be putting those curtains up today.

It’s 7am and I can’t sleep so I’m using my phone for random things. I’m starving but I don’t want to get up. Curses!

This post is for Megan.  Back when I was cleaning house, I talked about getting rid of tons of magazines, books, and probably some other stuff too.  well, I had been keeping all of my discarded clothes in Megan’s room, because that’s where I keep all of the stuff that won’t fit in my room.  Her room now smells nicely of feet because I keep two big boxes of shoes in there.  There are been many times where I go in and I go “Ugh!” and I open a window.  I even brought one of those reed diffusers in there the other day, and it seems to have helped.  But perhaps because it is my feet that stink up these shoes; maybe I’m kind of immune to the smell.  If anyone wants to come over and smell her room, you’re more than welcome.  Megan, did you notice your room smelled like feet when you were home in December?

But anyway.  I’ve been collecting these clothes in Megan’s room because I wanted to take a picture of them before donating them so Megan could see all the stuff I am getting rid of.  She’s been telling me for years that I have way too much stuff, so I’m finally get rid of a lot of it!  In the top left hand corner is a pile of 6 Destare shirts.  Lance screwed up when he got the sizes, and they are all size XXL or 1X.  The t-shirts that are that size are obviously huge, but the tank tops aren’t so bad.  For instance, I usually wear a small or extra small at Old Navy, but the Destare tank that fits me is a size Large.  So someone who would wear a medium would need an Extra Large.  But anyway, he didn’t want the shirts anymore, they had been in his office for months and months.  So he said I could have them (he would have thrown them away).  Of course they ended up in my closet for months and months.  I filtered out all the huge sizes, and I figured I’d offer them up on FreeCycle first, to offer them to anyone who loves Destare.  The smaller sizes I will offer them up to the girls who still work there (Caroline, Brianna, Lindsey)  They’re very nice shirts and they’re quite sparkly.

And of course, in the spirit of not getting rid of things, I got a new bread machine on FreeCycle.

I told my brother via AIM, and the conversation went like this:

Usually he doesn’t agree with me all that quickly (if at all), but he too saw the wisdom in having another bread machine.  Now he can have one at his apartment, and we can have one here.  Or, I can move in with my cats, and someone else can have the other machine.  Plus, I saved it from the landfill.  To test it, I’m going to make my famous white loaf to see if it’s as good as the machine we have now.  Trevor picked it up for me, so it’s currently in the trunk of his car.  As soon as I test its awesomeness, I’ll report back.

It’s 3pm, and I’m suppose to be going on a hike with Niles through the one foot of snow we got.  He wants to hike up in the woods somewhere, but I’m afraid that we will die.  We could slip into a pond or river that is covered by ice, and we could freeze to death.  Niles looked at my like I was crazy when I suggested that we might die, and Megan, upon telling her my fears, told me she was pretty sure I wouldn’t die.  But I’ll take her advice to “be careful, just in case.”

Dear Peeps,  (Yes, I mean you, reading my blog)

I just recently learned about a Gravatar.  No, it is not an awesome monster/alien hybrid or anything cool like that… it is a Globally Recognized Avatar!!!

I had always wondered why I left comments on blogs, and I just showed up as this stupid little shadow, but other people had pictures!  I didn’t know why…. but, thanks to Roni’s Weigh blog that I read daily, I now know that I just needed a Gravatar!!!!  So I went to their site, and I got one.  I’m very excited because now when I leave a comment on someone’s page, they will see a cute little picture of me.

And so, go to the site so when you leave me comments, I can see your cute little mug, too!!!

Lots o’ bloggin’ love,

Robin

p.s. - I like using the word “peeps.”  When waitressing, I used to call my customers peeps (Such as, “I’m going to go see if my peeps need anything”).  I used that term in front of my parents, and my mom said “What’s ‘peeps’?”  And I turned to my dad, and said “Daaaad?”  And he said “friends.”  And I said, “Yes, it’s short for ‘people’.” Then I probably said “Silly mommy.  Get with the times!”

p.p.s - I do not like peeps the candy.  I do remember that Maria like peeps when they are stale. 

I woke up this morning and saw that I had received a text from Niles in the middle of the night (1am!). It didn’t wake me up, but it said “Plan to go to Hooligans after Lost, it’s open mic night.” That was very clever of Niles, because he knows that I don’t like doing things at the spur of the moment…. I always back out and say “I’m tired…” or something. But now that he warned me ahead of time, I’m obligated to go. It’s also funny that he didn’t ask me to go to Hooligans, he just told me that we were going. Clever, clever Niles.

I babysat for many hours today. It was slightly warm, so the two boys were playing outside. I grabbed the little baby, bundled her up, put her in a stroller, and joined them outside. I only lasted about 10 minutes because it was so cold!

While I was babysitting, I finished a book! I think that I had read over 200 pages today! It was a book about a woman journaling her first year as a mother. She was a writer already, and someone suggested that everyday, she write down something that she noticed about her son. I really enjoyed this book, because I love reading journals and blogs. She was a single mother, but luckily, she had family and wonderful best friends who stopped by and helped her.

As of this moment, this book convinced me that I do not want children. She talked about all the pain she was in after child birth, how her stomach was still so large (even though she lost 20 of the 25 pounds she had gained) that it just laid next to her in bed. The baby was also very colicky at first, and she stated how she understood how people could abuse their children. She went from loving him one day, to absolutely hating him the next. However, she never regretted having him, which is good. She barely got to sleep every night, and it just sounded so awful. She had people who came over to visit with the baby, but not once did she talk about how someone took the baby so she could sleep. I think if it was me, and the baby didn’t need food, need to be changed, or anything like that, and it was just crying to be a pain in the ass, I would put it in the furthest room, and I would sleep in the room on the complete other side of the room. I would say “You can cry all you want baby, but I can’t hear you! Nah nah!” I mean, really, I don’t think the kid would be in any danger, right? It would just be super annoying!

I don’t think that I want to have kids, because it sounds awful. Plus, her one friend said it wasn’t even easier with a husband, because he would complain about dinner, and not getting to have sex, and other stuff. In fact, she said, I think it is worse. I would, however, go over to my best friend’s house all the time to hang out with her, and sit on the couch while she nursed and watched TV. But I would also, most definitely, take the baby away so my friend could nap. I would take the baby to a park, or even take him home with me for the night. Whatever my friend wanted. I would let my friend take a bath or shower, and then relax in bed. And I would keep the screaming child as far away as the mom wanted me too.

I just want cats. Cats can be annoying too, but cats can be locked in the basement.

Today was pretty good.  There was one point in which I smiled tomyself and thought, “Today is a good day.”  That’s good for me, because I have not been feeling too happy at all lately.  I’d say in the past week, I’ve had only two days where I was able to think “Today is a good day.”

It’s funny, because my day started out very crappy.  First thing this morning, I reached over to check the time on my iPhone, and I knocked over my bottle of lotion that I keep next to my bed (for my dry hands before bed!), and the bottle of lotion knocked over my glass of water.  It got water everywhere.  I grabbed my towel from my door knob (because I am too lazy to ever return it to the bathroom), and mopped everything up.  It was not a good start to the day.

But the day got better.  But now, I’m in a funk.  It is only 8:45, and too early for bed.  But I don’t want to read blogs, I don’t want to watch TV, and my mom is reading our book for book club (we both need it read for Friday, and we have only one copy).  At first, I got up and thought I was inspired to clean the kitchen.  I was not.

Another thing that sucks is I got heart burn from my garlic bread!  And what sucks even more, was that I got a craving for ice cream.  I still have left over chocolate sauce in the fridge, and that’s all I could think about, even though I just took 3 Tums, and I am burping because of stupid acid reflux.  But of course, I kept thinking about it for over an hour, so I just went and had a very little bowl.  I even dumped some of the ice cream down the sink cause I didn’t care to finish it.  But I don’t know what I get cravings like that!  I’m clearly not hungry, I had a good dinner… and my stomach is even a bit upset because of the garlic.  But I still can’t stop thinking about ice cream!  It is very annoying.

I feel like I should be up doing something - cleaning my room, putting my clothes away - something!  But my head hurts, and I am cold, and actually I am quite tired.  I also tried writing more of my little short story, but I’m stuck.  I keep going back and changing it, altering it, when I shouldn’t be.  It’s already five pages long, but I don’t know where else to go with it.  That’s why I’m changing things I’ve already written.

This blows, I don’t know what to do with myself.

Dave from Canada had some suggestions that made me smile:  Could you eat a steak for me? And drink something through a straw.

Ho ho!  Funny man, that Dave!

Ok, time for me to get off the couch.

I walked by an A-frame sign about giving blood on Thursday February 12.  I thought it would be a great idea to do right around Valentine’s Day!  I came home and told my mom, but she said “You can’t give blood!  You have cancer!!!!”  Except in my head, I like to say it “caaaaaaaaaaaancer.”  So I looked it up on the Red Cross’ website, and she’s right.  I can’t give blood.  Yet.  I have to wait one year after my treatments.  Which would be late May.  Perhaps I can give blood right before I go for my next treatment?  That way, I can give blood once, then get more treatment, then I’ll have to wait another year.  But hey, even giving once is good!  My mom is such a wonderful person, that she gives blood EVERY time she can.  It is allowed that people can give blood every 53 days.  And she does.  It’s amazing.  She gives blood all the time.  She has O-, which is the universal donor!  That’s why she gives so much, because anyone who has negative blood can get her blood.  That’s just one of the reasons why my mom is so awesome.

I’ve tried giving blood before (twice, I think), and once they couldn’t get my veins, and the second time, they stopped with the bag half full because I was turning white and didn’t feel so well.  But now that I’ve gone to the hospital so many times and given blood for tests, I’m sure I could do it!

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Megan and Mac are doing a challenge where each of them is only allowed to spend 2 pounds on food for the entire day.  That is about $2.92 (with the exchange rate of 1.46!).  When I was there last, it would have been close to $3.50, with an exchange rate of 1.86 or so.  So all of their food all day can’t be over 2 pounds.  They just started at the beginning of February… so it’s only been a few days.  I decided it’d be interesting to see how much my food costs.   Mine is pretty easy because I eat pretty much the same thing every single day.  Breakfast is always the same, and then I rotate my lunches.  Dinner is the only thing that is different.  I haven’t calculated dinner yet, but I did lunch and breakfast.  Every morning, my breakfast costs $1.18.

4 oz of milk - 21 cents
1 cup of HBOO - 24 cents
1/2 banana - 14 cents
3/4 cup egg whites - 59 cents

Megan has oatmeal and raisins for the morning for 18p.  That’s $.26.  My breakfast is more than four times the cost of Megan’s!  Even without the egg whites, my breakfast is $.59, more than double Megan’s cost.  I realize I eat a big breakfast.  But breakfast is my favorite meal, and it’s the most important meal of the day.  Plus, I exercise for at least one hour a day.  Don’t judge me!

(It’s easier to write 15p over 15 center or $.15, so I’m going to start writing 15c instead.)

Megan can drink tea for 4p, my tea costs me 15c!   What’s up with THAT Mr. Charleston Fluffypants?  I bet it’s because I drink herbal tea, and Megan drinks English cheap tea.  Because everyone in England loves tea.

Here’s the rest of my breakdown of food costs that I’ve figured out:

Apple - 23c
Orange - 33c
Veggie Burger - 75c
can of tuna - $1.00
English muffin - 42c  (for good ones, for cheap ones, they go down to 16c)
Red pepper - 44c
Spinach (for one of my salads) - 66c

A typical lunch would be spinach (66), a pepper(44), an English muffin(42) - that’s already $1.52, and then either tuna, a burger, or a mini pizza.  I haven’t calculated the pizza, cause measuring the cost of cheese and tomato sauce seems like a pain.  But I guess it’s just math.  Either way, my lunch comes out to be over $2.50!  And that’s not including the dressing, raisins, or seeds for my salad.

I could definitely cut my food costs if I didn’t have egg whites.  Breakfast for only 59c is VERY reasonable!  I could also cut my food costs without eating any fruit.  They seem pretty expensive.  But really, if someone said “please pay a quarter for this piece of fresh fruit,” I would most definitely do it.  Buy 4 apples for a dollar?  Hell yeah.  That’s apples for four days!  That’s pretty good, too.

This is all very interesting, thinking about everything that I eat in terms of what it costs.  Last night, my mom and I almost made a box of Near East pasta, and the box cost $2.59.  What a rip off!!  And it’s only a side dish!  A delicious one, yes, but Megan could make the same thing with 50 cents worth of angel hair pasta and some olive oil and spices.

Tomorrow I’m baking veggie pot pie because Larry is coming over.  Saturday we’re going to a Beatles fundraiser for the senior center.  We’re getting Fish and Chips in a paper bag!  Sunday, the next night we’re all around for dinner, I’m going to try and make a Sausage Minestone Soup.  It looks delicious, and we all love sausage!  I am really enjoying making new foods, but I am still having a hard time figuring out what recipes look good.  I have saved a lot of recipes from cookbooks (that had wonderful delicious looking pictures), but a lot of them are summer only recipes that require fresh tomatoes, zucchini, summer squash, or some other summer vegetable.  I’m trying to be good and making only those things when the vegetables are in season.

**Wow, I go on crazy rambles.  I just re-read this, and deleted three paragraphs because it was all stuff that no one would be interested in reading.  Fiber One cereal, and free dinner tonight!  I must just LOVE to write.  I need to find a way to harness that love, and make money off of it.

Oh man, do I want a treadmill desk.

I was at the gym this morning, and I did 30 minutes on the elliptical. I got really tired, and my feet hurt (because for some reason the elliptical makes my feet hurt), and I said “I can’t do this anymore” so I moved to the treadmill. I walked at a brisk pace of 4.2 (does that mean 4.2 miles per hour?), and I finished watching my episode of Roswell (alien version of Twilight). While walking, I realized that even though I was walking pretty quickly, I could still be steady enough to view the mini screen on my iPhone well enough. It made me think a lot about having a treadmill desk. I think that I could spend most of my day just walking. No matter how slowly, it’s something. Lately, I’ve just been sitting on the couch with my laptop. Whether I’m looking up recipes, reading or writing blog entries, doing homework, or even just reading a book, I’m sitting on the couch. With a treadmill desk, I could do all of these things while walking! Even going just two miles an hour (2.0 on a treadmill?) is super slow for me, but that’s still an extra 200 calories burned. I read somewhere that no matter how you do it, you burn 100 calories for every mile. It doesn’t matter if you run it in 5 minutes, 9 minutes, or walk it in 15. It’s 100 calories burned. The only thing that is different is the time it takes you to complete it. That is very interesting to me. I could most definitely just hang out and walk for 5 hours during the day. Spend my Sundays watching a movie and walking. Read my chapters for school while walking. First I’d need a treadmill, though. And I wouldn’t buy a treadmill desk, I’d make my own like this one.

I understand that the reason that I’m not losing weight is because I eat too much. I get it. Today, while babysitting, I made myself a cup of soup (left over from my homemade stuff), then I had some strawberries and blueberries in milk. (notice the nice kid-safe plastic bowl?)

Then I had an egg white sandwich on an English muffin (cause the soup wasn’t my real lunch). Then I had some baby carrots. Then I had a clementine. Then an orange. Then more baby carrots. Then some string cheese while I was feeding the baby. Too much food! Then I came home and had dinner. I think I’ve decided I can’t go to a Super Bowl Party on Sunday because I will over eat. I would rather not put my self in that situation, because I’ve discovered that I have no self control. I do have control when it comes to putting myself in those situations (where bad food is available for free, and is just out there for people to eat). Once I get there, however, I’ll just eat and eat and eat! It’s like I never get full.

Like tonight, at 9:30 I got a craving for Honey Bunches of Oats. I swear I should just start eating them for dinner. Maybe that would cut my night time craving. So I was telling myself “Well, I’m not really that hungry, right? *trying to read my stomach - is it empty? full? just barely enough room for HBOO**” So then I think “Ok, well, I can have half a cup, and that will still take care of my craving. And then maybe I could just add a whole banana rather than just a half, and I’ll fill up more on fruit. Oh, but wait, bananas are one of those bad fruits that you’re really not suppose to eat a lot of.” Seriously? Bad fruit? What the heck is wrong with me?

Luckily, I just told myself “Quick, grab your computer and go to bed! Once you get upstairs the cereal will be too far away. Run. Run NOW!!!” So I did. I grabbed my computer (to finish this post - I almost abandoned it on the couch, but thought “blog post!” - I had already started it), and the new book I started reading, Riding the Bus With My Sister, and booked it upstairs. I chugged a bunch of water, and got my set up ready for the night (I have a water glass next to my bed that needed refilling for my mid-night pill taking, and a pan on my radiator for steam - see eye popping graphic below). But now I am safely in bed, away from a bowl of HBOO. I will just have to wait until tomorrow morning to have one! And now, after I spent time making this awesome graphic with Photoshop (just look at my mad skills!), I am going to read now.

I finally caved and wrote the 25 things on facebook.  Everyone is doing it, and I followed the masses.  I tried thinking of things that not everyone already knows “I have thyroid cancer” would be a cop out.

1. I put my contacts in with the left one first, but take out the right one first.

2. My parents bought me my car – a 2007 Ford Focus. The loan is in my name, so I get a good credit rating, but the money comes out of their bank account.

3. I’m very slowly changing to organic natural products – deodorant, lip balm, a menstrual cup

4. I used to eat a lot of candy when I was little, and every time I went to the dentist I had cavities. 13 of my back teeth have silver fillings on them.  Now, I don’t really care for candy, except chocolate in moderation.

5. My current GPA in grad school is a 3.93. I only have one class left.

6. I got my belly button pierced at age 22, and I left work with my boss to get it done.

7. I got my nose pierced at age 20, and took it out four days later. $60 down the drain.

8. Before I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, I was hoping that it was cancer, so that there would be a reason for me to lose my thyroid. I didn’t want it out for no reason.

9. I don’t think that pennies or one dollar bills should exist. I would rather we just use one dollar coins.

10. I was in the model rocket club in high school. Mostly to get my brother to join too, but I think I was there even when he wasn’t.

11. I was my senior class’ treasurer, and single handedly organized our 5 year reunion

12. I am always late to things. Usually only 2-3 minutes, but still late.

13. I really really want to live in a mini house and grow my own food, and not have any need for money. I do not want to work; not because I am lazy, but because I want to enjoy my life.

14. I feel that I have gone a bit crazy since being diagnosed with cancer.

15. I love reading. Once, a while back, I was reading a book at home, had a book on CD in the car, and a different book on CD that I would listen while I walked. Three books at once!

16. I am trying to become a good cook. When looking for recipes, they need to have pictures, though. I need to see the food in order to see if it “looks good.”

17. I know it is mean, but two of my friends are already getting a divorce (under age 25), and in the voice of Nelson Munce, I want to say “Ha Ha!” It just goes to show that you need not be hasty when you select your life partner.

18. I currently babysit for a fabulous family in Leominster. The kids are 7, 4 and 9 months. Other than that, I have no real other job. I’m okay with that.

19. I think that I could survive forever on Honey Bunches of Oats, egg whites, and fruit and vegetables. If I were stranded on a desert island, I’d need those things with me.

20. I have gained 10 pounds since August. At last count, I had lost three. Seven more to go. However, since high school, I’ve lost 20! (if you minus the other seven, then it’s lost 27!)

21. People have commented that I might become a hermit in my mini house. If I have the Internet on my laptop, and my iPhone, I think I might be okay with that.

22. Every day I have to wake up at 5:30am to take my thyroid pill. Then I fall back asleep. It’s very annoying, especially because lately I’ve also had to go to the bathroom, which requires me getting out of bed. Would I like to invest in adult diapers so I don’t have to get out of bed? Yes.

23. I went and visited Emiliano in Santa Fe for two weeks. Before that, I had only hung out with him for three hours in a bar, and then we chatted on the phone for a month while he cycled around the country. It was a bit strange to spend 14 days with someone I didn’t really know, but it was a lot of fun.

24. I have two rings that old boyfriends have given me – one yellow gold, and one white gold. I’m constantly wearing one, depending on if the other jewelry I’m wearing is gold or silver. They’re both very nice. (Gold is a very weird word. Say it, “GOLD.”)

25. This has taken me all day to write. Usually in a day, I can pump out three blog posts! I love blogging, and wish I could get paid for it. That’s what I can do in my mini house, blog about the challenges of living in a mini house and being self sufficient.

Feel free to do your own list of 25 things and put them in the comments, or on your own blog, as Rob did.