Amy J. Bennett

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Not Me Monday

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This is my second week of participating in Not Me Monday and I did NOT spend the week thinking of things I did NOT do to add to this post.

  1. I did NOT  get a bit miffed when I found out Scott drank 2 of 3 Starbucks’ Frappucinos I got at CVS yesterday.  I love sharing.
  2. I was NOT woken up by a call from work this morning at 8:30.  I get up super early and do…early morning stuff.
  3. I did NOT put a pair of semi-clean underwear on my daughter the other day when she had an accident and there were no clean ones left.  OMG.  I would NOT do something that gross.  Especially since I am ALWAYS on top of the laundry.
  4. I did NOT look up my first crush on Facebook and then giggle a little when I got an email that said he had confirmed my request.
  5. I did NOT get myself a bowl of ice cream and try to sneak it by Lexi sitting at the computer.  I also did NOT groan when she caught me and asked what I was eating.  I love fixing food for my children.
  6. I did NOT spend 6 hours sitting in my bed watching Pride & Prejudice this weekend.  That would be such a waste of time.  I also did NOT think it was really good.

Lie to Me

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lietome No, please don’t actually lie to me.  I hate when people lie to me.  Actually, that’s the name of the newest show added to my DVR schedule!

I heard about it on twitter last week and you know I love me some TV.  I finally checked it out and WOW.  Twitter folk were right!  It was a really good show.  I’m coining it the new House.  It’s like House and CSI combined actually.  But the character Tim Roth plays reminds me a lot of Dr. House.  He’s a master in his field, can be quite manipulative and sarcastic and doesn’t care what people think.  Except guess what?  They didn’t get rid of his English accent!  Yippee!!

I also like it because Kelli Williams plays his right hand woman and played on The Practice and Scott and I used to LOVE that show.

And also? Eli, played by Brendan Hines, works in their office and he always tells the truth.  And it makes for some really funny moments.

Oh and figuring out whether people are lying is mucho fun-o.  And you only have a split second to figure it out before he tells whomever he is talking about.  Plus there’s the big picture of the case to solve.  I’m really hoping the rest of the episodes are as good as the Pilot.

So for reals, you should check it out if you haven’t.  Fox.com has the full episode up for free!

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My First Crush

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Ok, this should really be titled One of My First Crushes or My First Crush on a Boy at Church or maybe even more appropriately The First Boy I Stalked.

When I was in Fifth Grade (or was it Sixth?), we started going to a new church.  We moved from a church of about 30 to 3,000.  Somewhere along the way Heather and I both developed a crush for a boy.  He. was cute.  But very, very unattainable.  Since it was such a large youth group (over 200 I think) we didn’t really cross paths except to say we were in the same room 3 times a week.  We definitely didn’t run in the same circles.  And we didn’t even go to school in the same state so we never saw each other there either. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever spoken to him in my life.  (Heather, correct me if I’m wrong.)  So I have no idea how we started liking him.  Except did I mention he was cute?

But somehow we obsessed over him.

The sanctuary was large, shaped in an arc with two stories.  Heather and I always sat in the second section from the left, first row in the balcony on Sunday evenings.  This boy always sat in the second from right section about mid-way on the floor.  And for whatever reason, we stared at him the entire time clapping and singing about how God was a Strong Tower hoping he’d look up at us.  And every once in a while he would.  And I’m very sure now trying to see if the two crazies had quit staring.  But how did we poke each other and giggle which further encouraged our stalker-like staring.

I think word eventually got around to him that I liked him.  I was told he said he wasn’t interested.  I was ugly and I looked like a St. Bernard.

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Either that was a lie, he didn’t know what a St. Bernard looked like, maybe I heard through the grapevine wrong or he REALLY thought we were crazy and was exaggerating so we’d leave him alone which was highly likely.  Because as much self-confidence as I lacked, I knew I didn’t and don’t look like that.  But, I got the drift.  I wasn’t pageant material and he wasn’t interested.

But somehow we never quit looking at him, hoping he’d change his mind one day.  I left that church when Scott and I got engaged.  My family continued to go for a while and I remember going back and visiting and hoping he’d look at me and see how much I did NOT look like a St. Bernard, declare his long-time love for me and carry me off on a white horse.  Needless to say my “love” went quite unrequited.  Especially since we never, you know, TALKED.

And don’t forget to read about Melissa’s First Crush

Be Quiet!

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Not much to report today but here’s a funny picture from just now….I’m lying in bed trying to finish watching Pride & Prejudice on my laptop and Scott is insisting staying on his cellphone talking.  He won’t go in the other room….he’s in there somewhere talking.

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Build a Bear

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Emma and Lexi both have Build a Bears but they don’t remember doing it because they were so young.  Emma was super-duper insistent about going back to the mall after we were there last night with Heather.  I know she must have asked me 20 times…in 5 minutes.  She went to bed asking and it’s the first thing she asked me this morning.  I gave in when Scott didn’t put up a fight to go.

Emma went with the Hannah Montana white bear with matching Hannah Montana outfit and named her Hannah.  Lexi at first picked a brown and red High School Musical bear but when she saw the wedding dress outfit, she switched it up and went for the pink bear and named her Swan Lake.

My First Kiss

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I always heard first kisses were something to look forward to.   They said it’d be heavenly, spine-tingling and unforgettable.

I remember through middle school that was always a question that seemed to come up…have you kissed anyone yet? Those were the days we still openly called it French kissing. The days when we held and attended our first boy/girl parties and seven minutes in heaven was a valid and much anticipated party game. And no, my first kiss wasn’t in a closet. Although it could have been. One time I got put in a closet with a boy and didn’t kiss him. We just stared at each other, neither willing to make the first move.  I still regret not kissing that boy.  He grew up to be a mighty handsome man.  *Ahem*

No, my kiss didn’t happen until I was in Ninth grade. Yes, I was 14 before I first kissed a boy. I had met a boy at one of those first boy/girl parties. He was my age but he lived in the next town over. But that didn’t stop us from “dating”, “going steady”, “being boyfriend and girlfriend” or whatever you called it. One day said boy came over with a friend to hang out at my house. I don’t recall too much about the visit except that we played a game or two of HORSE on our half basketball court in the backyard. Dad had just had it done and I had spent a good amount of time practicing.  The guys were actually impressed with my mad basketball skillz.

The next thing I remember is telling him goodbye in my parents’ foyer. I stood facing towards the door and he stood in front of me. His friend stood a few feet behind him facing me right near the door. I don’t remember how I knew we were supposed to kiss but I knew I was supposed to. And I was FOURTEEN and I KNEW I had to French kiss this time. So we both leaned in with open mouths that eventually met. I remember his tongue awkwardly moving side to side and all the sudden I hear “Close your eyes!” from his friend. I looked at him while still kissing and then snapped my eyes shut, mortified. I think we might have kissed another few seconds and then it was over.

Looking back, the only thing they were right about was that it was unforgettable. Maybe sometimes it’s spine-tingling and heavenly.  But sometimes it’s just an awkward, tongue-moving, spit-swapping rite of passage.

Melissa wrote about her first kiss too so go check it.  I know I’m dying to read it.

Hi. It’s Thursday.

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Hi.

I’ve realized just about all I’ve blogged about this week was TV.  And I guess because that’s what I’ve done a lot of .  In fact, that’s what I’m doing right now.  Sitting in the recliner watching Grey’s Anatomy.

Besides the day off spent cleaning Monday and the big snow day Tuesday, this week has been pretty status quo.  Which actually means just yesterday and today has been status quo.  Yesterday I worked, ran to Target with Scott and ate at Five Guys and then went to church.  And then watched TV.  Today I went into work and ate WAY too much food.  Egg and cheese biscuit, tilapia, fettucine, canoli, baby shower food including cake.  Ugh.  I get almost sick thinking of all of it.  This evening we ate at home, made a run to Starbucks and Wal-Mart and like I mentioned, watching TV again.

In other random news:

  • We’ve signed up to host a small group with our youth group on Tuesdays.
  • Melissa and I have started blogging about random things together.  My “first kiss story” is coming tomorrow.  I’m excited to read Melissa’s post.  I wrote mine earlier and it’s just…so typically MY first kiss.
  • I found out a friend that works at Disney can get the girls a private meet and greet with 3 princesses when we go in March.  I haven’t told the girls and they’ll be super excited.
  • I’m REALLY nervous about doing our taxes this year.  Usually I’m super excited but with the blogging income from last year, I just…am nervous.

So, for those (MOM) that like to know what’s going on with me, that’s it 🙂