6 posts tagged “me”

Phew.  The wedding weekend was something else.  But I've got a lot of catching up to do!  First and foremost: 3 year old basketball from two Saturdays ago:

 

Tyler's number 8.  He's the shortest kid on the team.  I guess if he grows up to be a basketball player he'll have no choice but to place center.  :)

 

Defending the goal.  Trouble is - they're too young to fully understand the concept.  So, they defend the basket from everyone!

 

He made a basket!  It only took him a few tries.  He's really getting the hang of it.

 

Water break!

 

After the game (tied, of course) they all congratulated each other with low fives.  :)  See little Tyler there in the middle?  He's so tiny!

Then this past weekend was the wedding.  My mom was the official photographer for the event so I'll have to wait for actual pics, but after the wedding Tamera and I had a couple of pictures taken just so I could post something here.

 

 

Okay, pics are up.  I'll have to do a lot more posting later to really catch up - but at least I did what I said I'd do - right?  :)

What's your name?

What's your sign?

 

 

Where do you live?

 

 

What's your favorite color?

 

 

What's your favorite food?

What's your passion?

 

 

13 Pictures of me as a little one

 

1-4: about 1 year old

 

5-10: Two years old

11-12: 4 years old

 

13: 5 years old

 

I was having trouble coming up with a list so this is what you got.  :)

Show us a photograph from a wedding.
Submitted by Connie.

From Jessica's wedding.  I couldn't believe I didn't have more wedding photos available to choose from!

When I did a search on my flickr page for "great" this is the only pic that came up so I figured I'd share it.

In the upper left hand corner you've got me and dad.  He was pretty great.  Upper right hand is my dad again with one of the horses at OBS.  The bottom left hand corner is my grandmother (dad's mom) with me and my cousin (I'm the younger one).  She was an amazing woman, born in 1905, and she went through a lot of stuff - pretty great, I think.  The bottom right hand picture is four generations of the Chamberlain women - though none of us carry that name.  That's me, my mom, her mom, and her mom's mom, my Great-Grandmother.

 

I've included this picture of Man O' War because he was my favorite of the racing giants (and since someone already brought of Secretariat).  He won 20 of 21 starts and was retired in 1921 with career earnings of $249,465.00.  Legend has it that when a spectator saw him in action he asked the groom, "Who's he by?" to which the groom replied, "He's by hisself and there ain't nobody gonna get near him".

Play along here. 

Boredom is really getting the better of me today (which sort of sucks because I'm at work) and this was flying around.

19 Questions That Could Really Tell You Something.

1.  Is it difficult for you to look into someone's eyes when you are talking to them?

Sometimes.  Firstly, I primarily read lips as a form of hearing (though it's pure laziness more than anything else because if the ambient noise is at a fairly normal level and you're close enough that I can read your lips you're probably close enough for me to hear) so looking people in the eyes is a little more difficult for me than it is for the average hearing person.  But since I hear well enough to listen I should look people in the eyes more than I do.  If I've got a crush on someone even if we're having a perfectly respectable conversation about something I get all flustered when I look them in the eyes.  It's true they're a window to the soul and I get scared by that connection with someone.  Especially when I'm not sure how they feel about me.

2. You are on a flight from Honolulu to Chicago non-stop. There is a fire in the back of the plane. You get enough time to make ONE phone call.

Okay.  Is the question who do I call?  Honestly, it wouldn't be one of my parents.  Not because I don't love them or care about them, but because I think that would be an awful thing to do to my mother.  I honestly think it would be easier to let her remember our last conversation as the happy-go-lucky one we had on the way to the airport.  I'd call one of my girlfriends and make sure that needed messages would get passed on.  Likely.  Of course, if this is a hypothetical plane fire can we hypothetically believe that somewhere on earth there's a man that's crazy about me that I'm crazy about too that would feel robbed if he didn't get to hear my voice that last time?  Just asking.

3. You are at the doctor's office and she has just informed you that you have approximately one month to live.

(A) Do you tell anyone/everyone you are going to die?

I do.  I tell my family and closest friends.  I'd want them to know so they'd have time to say the things they want or need to say just like I do.  Don't we all regret the things we didn't say when someone's gone.  Now, if you only knew the end was coming wouldn't you handle things differently?

(B) What do you do with your remaining days?

I'd go skydiving, for sure.  I'd visit as many of my far-flung friends and family as I could.  Which obviously means I'd quit my job.  I'd find a good home for Bailey because she deserves it.

(C) Would you be afraid?

I know I'm technically supposed to say no to this question, but I think in a way I would be.  I don't have a fear of what's going to happen to me in the afterlife because I don't believe in the afterlife, but I'm scared of the idea of not being here to take care of the things I need to take care of.

4. You can have one of the following two things: trust or love?

Trust.  Trust begets love of various types.

5. You are walking down the street on your way to work. There is a dog drowning in the canal on the side of the street. Your boss has told you if you are late one more time you get fired.

I'd save the damn dog.  First of all my boss would never fire me over something like that.  But karma's a bitch baby and you don't let a living thing die because you're going to lose your job.  And, if you're working for a bastard that's that cold, you don't need to be working for him anyway.

6. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?

That's easy.  Everywhere.

7. Think of the last person who you really knew that died. You have the chance to give them 1 hour of life back, but you have to give one year of your life.  Would you do it?

No.  The last person I really knew that died was my uncle and he was very ill and the last hour of his life was painful.  Why would I want an extra hour of that for him?  Ditto for my dad.

8.  Are you the kind of friend that you would want to have as a friend?

I like to think so.

9.  Does love=sex?

It can.  Romantic love usually equals sex.  Platonic love usually doesn't.  The better question is: Does sex=love.  And, no, it does not.

10.  Your best friend dies, what would you do?

I've got several people who fall into "best-friend" category.  I think my reaction would be a bit different for each of them.  I'd go into complete melt-down over two of them.  I'd survive the other two but only because I'd have to be strong for their families.  And when I'm strong for other people I can convince myself that it's real.

11. When was the last time you told someone HONESTLY how you felt?

I'm almost all the time honest about how I feel.  The better question is when was the last time I was DISHONEST with someone about how I felt.  The answer to that question is several days ago.

12.  What would be harder for you, to tell someone you love them or that you hate them?

Harder to tell someone I love them - if it's romantically.  That's probably why I've never (and probably will never) say "I love you" first in a romantic relationship.  In a platonic relationship it's easy for me to say it first and easy for me to say it in general.  Hate is a strong term so it takes me a long time to get there with someone but I will readily say it if it fits the situation and I won't feel bad about it later.

13.  What do you think would be the worst thing for you to give up on?

Myself.

14. Excluding romantic love, when was the last time you told someone you love them?

I think it was either Heather or Shadow.

15. If you had to go back in time and change one thing, what would it be?

If I had to change something about my life I wouldn't have quit UCF.  Long story that I'm sure will come out over time.  If I could change anything at all I'd go back to my dad's childhood and stop him from starting smoking.  Then, he'd most likely still be with me. 

16. Imagine. It is a dark night, you are alone, it is raining outside, you hear a noise.  What do you do?

I'd probably attribute it to the rain (I'm a farm girl, noises outside don't usually bother me).  If it sounds sinister I'd put the dog on alert, cock the gun and dial 911.  Either way, I'm covered.

17. Would you give a homeless person CPR if they were dying?

Well, my certification is currently expired so I probably wouldn't do it at all considering we live in a litigious society.  But if my certs were up then yes, I probably would.

18. Are you old-fashioned?

In many ways, yes.

19. Which would you choose, true love with a guarantee of a heartbreak or to never have loved?

I think true love with a guarantee of heart break.  I think I'd like to know what that felt like.