My First "Listing"

Hello my Dear Blog Friends!

Do any of you know Amy?  She has a thing with writing lists that I just love...well, truth be told, she is utterly hilarious, too...so raw, unapologetic, unique...and FUNNY...I know I said this already, but she is....that you can't help but instantly like her.  She makes some really cool art, too.....

But this post is not about art today...it's about lists....
I'm going to do one. Just for the heck of it.
A List of Randomness...yeah, I like that.... ;-P

1.  

 If you have an attached garage, don't store fertilizer in there during the hottest months of the year. Your house will smell like poop!

Oh, and if you have a hole in the garage door for your dumb cats to get to their litterbox, but they refused to go in there with the little flap covering it, so you had to take it off for them....you will get flies in your house!  Dozens upon dozens of yucky, buzzing flies!! 

2.

I will ooh and ahh over spiders....save crickets from bathtubs....

...try not to step on pill bugs on the sidewalk and rescue worms that have washed onto the concrete after a rain....but I hate flies in my house....

3.

And cockroaches....well, ants, too....guess I'm not the creepy crawly saint afterall...

4.

I pulled a muscle while swatting flies...

.....a testament to how many flies we actually had....and a wake-up call to just how out of shape I am...haha!

5.

I don't care about shoes.

I'm jealous of my friend's contact lens collection!  She has a pair to match every outfit.  I had a pair once....

I felt friggin' cool that Halloween...though I couldn't see anything.  Your pupil gets wider as it gets darker and starts to get overlapped by the white coloring of the lens. 

This makes everything blurry.  It's okay, they were itchy, too...so I threw them away.

Which leads me to 6.

I like to be comfortable!

This not only goes for shoes and clothes, but situations, as well.... I don't like crowds and will go out of my way to avoid them. 

7.

I tried on 2 occasions to dress with "personality"....once in Jr. High I wore 2 different colored neon socks (this was the 80's) and I was teased all day about how I must've gotten dressed in the dark.  Needless to say I didn't try to be unique again....until High School...Freshman year.

My Mom bought me a gorgeous black velvet skirt and vest at a vintage store after I begged and begged her for it.  The skirt was full without being ruffly and had a satin bow with one rhinestone button in the center around the waist.  The vest had the same buttons down one side.  I wore a crisp white shirt underneath and felt like a million bucks!

Then I walked into school....

Oh well, now I reserve my flair for funky, unique things for occasions where you get stared at in a good way :)

Ren Faire with my Dad...

...and Mom.

8.

Though, you'll find me in jeans and a t-shirt all other days. 

9.

I care way too much about what others think of me....always have.  Wish I didn't.

10.

Being in Nature relaxes and inspires me.

11.

I love animals!

12.

I am not a vegetarian.

13.

My daughter's goldfish took 3 days to die.  I think I cried more than she did.  This was the first time she dealt with the death of someone close to her.  It made me so sad to see her struggle with loss and come to the understanding that every living thing grows old and dies.  She took an active interest in seeing what happens next...so we buried him in our planter where she could see orange flowers and think of him. And we made sure to say some nice things about him, too.

Made me think of my own mortality.....

14.

I really need to start working out again ;)

15.

Isn't it neat when you find a sign out somewhere that speaks to you!

16.

Did you know the name Cameron is of Scottish origin and means Crooked Nose?

17.

I was adopted and came with the name....I have no idea why it was chosen :)

18.

My daughter and I visit the shelter regularly just to give the dogs and cats some good scratches and kind words.

No, we haven't brought anyone home.....yet.....

19.

Pansies are my favorite flower!

20.

I'm surprised I got this far....(and that you are still here!) 

This was a fun little experiment...doing this list....

Now, at least, I can cross it off mine.....haha!

XO,

Cam