25 Random Things

For my faithful readers who are not on Facebook.

1. I miss Ann Arbor, a lot.
2. I love my daughter more than anything, but I miss my life before kids.
3. I wonder sometimes what happened to that girl I was 10-15 years ago.
4. I used to marvel at the machine my body had become, lean and muscular, able to complete triathlons and marathons.
5. My body is still an amazing machine, but one that grows and nourishes life.
6. As of February, 2009 I will have been pregnant or nursing for 4 straight years. I don’t think I’ve ever done anything for that long.
7. Except watch Days of Our Lives. I started watching with my grandparents when I was 3. I started watching it daily in 1986 and have more or less continued ever since.
8. My favorite book is Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein, probably as much for the impressionable time in my life at which I first read it as for the quality of the book.
9. A book I think everyone should read is The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. It will change how you look at food.
10. I don’t want to like Dora the Explorer, but I do.
11. I’m trying to live more sustainably, but still have a long way to go.
12. In college I was a “member” of an “organization” called the Infant Cannibals. (Eat babies!) For quite some time my involvement in that organization was the first thing that popped up when you Googled me. I had a fun time explaining that to people…like my boss.
13. One summer two friends and I built a fort in half of an old farm building. My brothers had their own fort in the other half. We protected our turf with rubberband guns we made.
14. I grew up on a farm, of the hobby variety. While I didn’t always love it at the time, I appreciate now all the time spent playing outside, learning how things work, knowing where my food comes from, understanding the seasons in a way I’m not sure many city kids do.
15. Within minutes of meeting my husband I thought, “Wow, this is exactly the kind of guy I could see myself marrying.” Turns out my first impression of him was way off. But he still ended up being the kind of guy I could marry. ☺
16. I’m hoping if it takes me long enough to finish this (going on about a week now) 25 people will have tagged me and I won’t have to come up with anyone else to tag.
17. I have never devoted myself to anything as entirely as I have to parenting.
18. I wish as a society we valued parenting more.
19. I used to wear a swimming suit under my clothes when I went to parties in college because I knew as soon as I got drunk I’d start taking my clothes off.
20. I’ve only lived in states that start with M.
21. I have two patents.
22. I’m a lot more comfortable with men than women. It makes it hard to make friends as a stay-at-home mom.
23. I can’t believe how different my second pregnancy is than my first and how different this baby is than Madeline even in utero. I know this baby is a completely different person, but it still seems weird.
24. I hate throwing anything away. And it’s more environmental than sentimental. I sell/give away/recycle as much as I can, but every time I put something in the garbage I picture it in a landfill 100 years from now and am filled with guilt.
25. I’m a perfectionist. The kind who would rather not do something for fear of not doing it perfectly than just do it and get it over with. Which is why this took waaaaaay too long.

But what about the goose?

Last night, Al was showing Madeline pictures of the US Airways plane in the Hudson River and explaining what had happened. Madeline looked and listened with great interest then asked, "What happened to the goose?"