Taggin' Along

Look what the delightful Jessica from Turkey Cookies gave me yesterday -

How sweet was that?! Now I get to pass it on to 7 of you!

So here are the rules and my nominations:

1. The winner can put the logo on their blog.
2. Link to the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs you’ve nominated.
6. Write an acceptance speech in the style of the Academy Awards, thanking every body’s mother, father, sister, brother, aunties and uncles and the kitchen staff at your favorite restaurant!

Em & Jeff - for her great 32nd year post
Curly Top - because she's brave
Mama Said There Would Be Days Like This - for her genius Build-a-Bear muffin tin
Lisa - for her recent photos
Julie K. in Taiwan - awesome rainbow muffin tin
Yo Ali - for sharing her belly with us
A Bit of This and a Bit of That - awesome rainbow muffin tin

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And. . . I was tagged by Anandi with a meme that she received via email and decided to take online.

1. What is your occupation right now?
mommy
2. What color are your socks right now?
bare feet

3. What are you listening to right now?
The fan on the computer

4. What was the last thing that you ate?
1/2 a turkey sandwich

5. Can you drive a stick shift?
yes and I do everyday

6. Last person you spoke to on the phone
friend, Sullivan

7. How old are you today?
35

8. What is your favorite sport to watch?
No sports for me. If pressed, I enjoy watching tennis.

9. What is your favorite drink?
Hard: Margarita
Soft: Hansen's Diet Pomegranate Soda

10. Favorite food?
Bread

11. What is the last movie you watched?
Little Children

12. What is your favorite season?
Fall

13. Cherries or Blueberries?
Blueberries

14. What is on the floor of your closet?
Clothes, 2 laundry baskets, and more clothes

15. What did you do last night?
Had dinner with some friends at a park

16. Plain, cheese or spicy hamburgers?
Cheese - Red Mill Deluxe with Cheese to be specific

17. Favorite dog breed?
um, um, um . . . not a dog person, but probably a golden retriever

18. Favorite day of the week
Saturday because it's my day to sleep in

19. How many states have you lived in?
Two

I'm not going to tag anyone with this. But if you choose to do it, please send me the link!

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I'll leave you with this:

The Carrot Can-Can!

This is not a joke - these are really the carrots I pulled from the garden this evening.

That's it for me -

See you Monday for the usual Madness!

Tag, I'm It!

I've been tagged with a meme by Michelle of Hathersage Hall. I have to say I'm enjoying the reflection these personal memes require. Hope you're not tiring of these all about me posts. Here are the rules for this meme: link back to the person who tagged you, include the rules in your post, share 6 random bits about yourself, and then tag 6 other people at the end of your post. Here goes:

1) The farthest I've traveled from home is to India ~ 2000. I will absolutely return there someday.

2) I was in Pacific NW Ballet's production of the Nutcracker when I was 4 (nearly 5, technically). Here is the pair of ballet shoes I wore. Now my oldest daughter runs around in them.

3) I love colored glass - depression glass, milk glass, glass tile and recycled glass. This plate is from my BFF Lori.

4) I'm *obsessed* (I can't stress this enough) with the HBO series The Wire. Bryce and I are trying to wait patiently for the final season to be released on DVD. My fav character is Omar Little.


5) I was born breech, resulting in a sprained arm.


6) At Starbucks I order a tall soy latte, iced or hot.


Now you're it!
Emily
Stacy
Lisa
Dawn
Anandi
Marf

No obligation to participate, of course.

Coming up soon: Tales from my sister's bachelorette party and a garden update

Meme

This meme seems to be sweeping the blogging nation, just had to give it a go. Each picture corresponds to an answer. For a complete explanation of this meme and for directions so you can do it too (come on, everyone's doing it . . .), click here.

The Questions:
1. What is your first name? Katy
2. What is your favorite food? Fage Yogurt
3. What high school did you go to?
Ingraham High School
4. What is your favorite color? Lime Green
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
Jim from The Office
6. Favorite drink? Margarita
7. Dream vacation? Ireland
8. Favorite dessert? Ice cream
9. What you want to be when you grow up? Present
10. What do you love most in life?
Husband & Sweet Girls
11. One Word to describe you. Tired
12. Your Flickr name. Sycamorepictures

Please click here for photo credits.

Send me a link to yours . . .

Movie Meme

I saw this meme* on manic mommy's blog and it looked like so much fun, I had to give it a try myself. Don't worry, I won't tag any of you bloggers with this, but I will tell you just how much fun I had with it. If you do it, let me know I'd love to see your post. Once you get started, you will quickly get addicted, it reminds you of why you love the movies you do. On with the meme~

The rules:
- Pick fifteen of your favorite movies.
- Go to IMDB and find a quote from each movie.
- Post them on your blog for everyone to guess.
- Fill in the film title once it's guessed.

This part is for the reader:
- No Googling or using IMDB search functions.
- Leave your answer(s) in the comments.

Picking 15 movies was a hard task for me as I'm not a movie buff at all! Some are current favs and others were favs at certain times in my life. Honestly, the whole time I was choosing, I kept thinking of my husband who is passionate about certain movies. For him, narrowing it down to 15 would be hard.

MOVIE #1:
We're all going to hell for the songs we sing!
And what about me, Jerry Lee; am I going to hell too?
No, June, you're beautiful.
Walk the Line - Ambika (Into the Fray)

MOVIE #2:
It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.
Mister... my family will pay cash. Whatever ransom you're askin' for, they pay it.
It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.
Yes, it will, Precious, won't it? It will get the hose!

SILENCE OF THE LAMBS - Trina (Woven Chains)
MOVIE #3:
Honey, I'm thinking of switching to the mock turtleneck?
Is that not breathing?
Well, it's breathing now, but it'll be hot down there. I could go with the lambswool, but then again, you'll see a lot of khaki down there and this merlot looks good with the gray.

Best in Show - Ambika (Into the Fray)
MOVIE #4:
Baby don't you cry, gonna make a pie, gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle. Baby don't be blue, gonna make for you, gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle. Gonna make a pie from heaven above, gonna be filled with strawberry love. Baby don't you cry, gonna make a pie, and hold you forever in the middle of my heart.

Waitress - Em

MOVIE #5:
What are you looking at?
Oh, the silent majesty of a winter's morn... the clean, cool chill of the holiday air... an asshole in his bathrobe, emptying a chemical toilet into my sewer...
Shitter was full.
Ah, yeah. You checked our shitters, honey?
Clark, please. He doesn't know any better.
He oughta know it's illegal. That's a storm sewer. If it fills with gas, I pity the person who lights a match within ten yards of it.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Manic Mommy)

MOVIE #6:
The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

Mr. Franz I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

INTO THE WILD - Lisa (Franny Kate)

MOVIE #7:
I knew a man once who said, "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."
I wonder, did your friend smile at his own death?
You must know. He was your father.
You loved my father, I know. But so did I. That makes us brothers, doesn't it? Smile for me now, brother.

Gladiator - Dawn (Scary White Girl)

MOVIE #8:
Grandpa, am I pretty?
You are the most beautiful girl in the world.
You're just saying that.
No! I'm madly in love with you and it's not because of your brains or your personality.

Little Miss Sunshine (Manic mommy)

MOVIE #9:
What's that?
It's singing.
Yes, I realize it's singing, but who?
The children.
The children?
I taught them something to sing for the Baroness

The Sound of Music (Manic Mommy)

MOVIE #10:
Very clever dinner. Appetizing food fit neatly into interesting round pie.
It's a quiche.
How do you spell?
Well you don't spell it, son, you eat it

16 Candles - Em

MOVIE #11:
I been comin' here for six years, and for six years ya been stickin' it to me, an' I wanna know how come!
Ya don't wanna know!
I wanna know how come!
Ya wanna know?
I WANNA KNOW HOW!
OK, I'm gonna tell ya! You had the talent to become a good fighter, but instead of that, you become a legbreaker to some cheap, second rate loanshark!
It's a living.
IT'S A WASTE OF LIFE!.

Rocky - (Manic Mommy)

MOVIE #12:
What are you all, the second team?
We're the first team.
Yeah, and we're not going to fall for a banana in the tailpipe.
You're not going to fall for the banana in the tailpipe? It should be more natural, brother. It should flow out, like this - "Look, man, I ain't fallin' for no banana in my tailpipe!" See, that's more natural for us. You been hanging out with this dude too long.

Beverly Hills Cop - Marf

MOVIE #13:
Each time I tell myself it's the last time, but then I get a whiff of her hot chocolate, or...
...Seashells. Chocolate seashells, so small, so plain, so *innocent*. I thought, oh, just one little taste, it can't do any harm. But it turned out they were filled with rich, sinful...
...And it *melts*, God forgive me, it melts ever so slowly on your tongue, and tortures you with pleasure.

Chocolat - Em

MOVIE #14:
How about a little Sneaky Pete to get the party going?
Anyone want a Twinkie?
Twinkies and wine? Oh, that's real class, Jan.
It says right here it's a dessert wine.
What's the matter? We don't got cooties!
I'll bet you've never had a drink before, have you?
Oh, yes I did. I had some champagne at my cousin's wedding once.
Well, ringa ding-ding.

Grease - Trina (Woven Chains)

MOVIE #15:
And you know what they call a... a... a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris? They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese? No man, they got the metric system. They wouldn't know what the f**k a Quarter Pounder is.
Then what do they call it?
They call it a Royale with cheese.
A Royale with cheese. What do they call a Big Mac?
Well, a Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they call it le Big-Mac.
Le Big-Mac. Ha ha ha ha. What do they call a Whopper?
I dunno, I didn't go into Burger King.

PULP FICTION - Trina (Woven Chains)

*Memes are also known as tags. As far as I can understand (thanks Ambika) tags are a series questions or blog post suggestions that are answered then passed on for other bloggers to complete then post on their own blogs.


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