My Friday Five

I saw this on my friend's blog and thought I'd give it a go.  Nothing like Friday night honestly laced with a partial bottle of Columbia Valley red...


1.What is the longest road trip you’ve ever taken?
That's easy- the Moses-esque exodus we made from Oregon to South Carolina in 2007.  Why Moses-esque, you might ask? Because Moses fled Egypt with the army chasing him.  I gunned it in the minivan for the California border with the military-hating hippies on my ass!  Never was I so happy to get out of a place in my life.  I miss the coffee on every corner, but it's not enough to make me move back to Corvallis, known in my little corner of the planet as "the boil on the ass of our country."


2.Do you collect anything? Tell us a bit about it.
I collect two things.  One is so Southern, it's mind numbing.  One is so mind numbing most people don't believe it.  I collect Junior League cookbooks and Latin textbooks.  Cookbooks?  A girl from Alabama collects cookbooks?  That's like saying an alcoholic collects booze bottles.  It's a 'duh' moment, really.  As for the Latin books, what most people don't know is that I took Latin for 5 yrs and once, a long time ago in a land far, far away, it was half of my double major in college.  Soooo... next to my Charlaine Harris box set and my matched set of the Twilight series is a pretty pinky-in-the-air collection of 200 yr old Latin books that most people can't read unless they graduated from Oxford.  So take that, people who think a blonde girl with an Alabama public education can't so much as tie her shoes!

3.What is your favorite part about being an adult?
The wine.  Wait, no.  The coffee.  No, seriously, I think it might be my role as a mom.  Even though there have been days where I wanted to hit the sauce at 7am, all in all mommyhood has been a good thing and I'm glad I did it.  There are days that I look at my kids and think "Wow, those are going to be some messed up urchins!" but then I think about the people I know who's kids are WAYYYY worse than mine and it makes me feel better.  And when all else fails, I can get a huge boost to my child-rearing ego by looking at my older half brother and his kids.  He's a train wreck that warrants his own blog...

4.What song brings a tear to your eye?
The Rose- Bette Midler's version.  Hubster wrote the whole thing down to me, from memory, in the first maildrop letter I ever got, back in 1997.  I hardly ever hear it on the radio, but when I do it's a flood of emotions!  I can listen to Conway Twitty's version too, and it brings tears to my eyes, too.  But those aren't anything but tears of full-on terror, because, well, have you seen Conway Twitty?  He's just plain scary...


5.Describe your first plane ride (how old you were, where you were heading, etc).
I'm pretty sure it was to Denver, and I'm pretty sure it was when I was about 3 because my mom was going out to help her parents with a yard sale.  Looking back, how damn redneck is that- flying 1400 miles to help with a yard sale?  I don't help my neighbors get the busted patio furniture to the street and I'm just Southern enough to take said lawn furniture, repaint it, and put it in my own yard.  Oh wait, I've already done that!