Day 30: A Picture of Yourself & 5 Good Things That Have Happened

It said a picture, not a photo.  

Trust me, this is more flattering. 

This looks just like me right now, 

except I don't currently have a rainbow shooting from my brain 

or deformed unicorns floating in midair.  

But that's kind of how I feel (even with it being the craziest morning ever).

So, the 5 good things that have happened to me since doing this 30 blog challenge:

 1. I was able to make it down to the 'Ville to have lunch with some of my Blisters.  Even though it was a quick back and forth trip, it was well worth it to see these ladies and have some down time.

 2. I've lost 10 pounds in about 2.5 weeks.  That means I have about 23 pounds left to lose to be back to my slim, hexy high school weigh (that means I'm actually 10 pounds thinner than the above photo).

3. My gorgeous daughter, Midge, was informed that she is going to be added to the list of players on the Women's Basketball team at the college she plans on attending. 

4. I pulled out an old/new bathing suit the other day that I wore maybe one time and never again because I felt (and looked) like a piece of sausage and put it on and found that it fit and I wasn't a sausage anymore.  

5. I met someone I think it pretty fantastic.  I've spent the past couple of weeks "skipping and farting rainbows" according to my coworkers.  It's pretty insane.

Day 1: Introductions

15 Random Things About Me:

That's me on the right, my sister on the left

1. My mother planned on naming me Laura Beth.  Thankfully she watched the Bionic Woman, liked the name Jamie Leigh better and there ya go. Unfortunately I can't run fast or leap over tall structures or make that cool sound when I move.

2. I used to play the bagpipes.

3. I find the smell of skunk calming.  (Has to do with Classic Conditioning {think Pavlov's Dogs}: skunks are prevalent in Deltaville, Deltaville makes me happy, therefore skunk smells make me happy/calm).

4. I've had several poems and a couple of short stories published.

5. I once wore a yellow rubber ducky float in public- briefly.

6. I sprinkle salt on my cantaloupe. 

7. I once worked as an in-house investigator for a private investigation company.

8. I pretend to be completely cynical about love and romance but really I still hope for kissing in the rain, dancing to the radio and Happily Ever After.

9. I'm a pretty good cook, even though (or because) I don't follow recipes exactly.

10. I love stargazing and once spent a few hours laying on a blanket under the stars in the plowed field in Deltaville while cars drove by wondering what the heck I was doing.

11. If I didn't have to worry about money or finding a job, I'd be a full time student for the rest of my life.

12. My dream job would be something along the lines of park ranger, environmental scientist or marine biologist.

13. I'm contemplating going back to school to get my degree in clinical psychology.

14. Stingrays tickle when they swim over your feet and around your ankles.

15. While I ain't afraid a no ghosts, aliens terrify me.

Just Because

I don't know.  I think I'm rather unbalanced, pessimistic and humorless....

You Are Balanced

You are an expansive and open-minded person. You want to experience the world without judgment. You are energetic to the point of being athletic and sporty. You like to move! You have a good sense of humor. You are easily amused, and others find you to be quite amusing. You are optimistic and always expect the best. You put misfortune in perspective.

The Watercolor Blot Test

Blogthings: A Fine Line Between Insight and Stupidity

Monday Meditation

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll.

I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul.

~William Ernest Henley