please answer in comments, since y'all have really rocked the comment section lately!!
1. secret talent
2. if you have a blog and a spouse, does the spouse read the blog?
3. fruit or chocolate
4. eye color
5. ranking 1-10 of overall life satisfaction
Mine:
1. I can tell a yellow m&m apart from all others, as determined by numerous blind taste tests. I taste, then classify as 'yellow' or 'non yellow.'
2. never ever would he read it!
3. chocolate. hate all fruit and their icky, overrated juices.
4. green-blue
5. 8. there's always so much more i want to be doing and am planning. I love my life!
UPDATED TO ADD: Y'all, Mike COULD read this blog if he wanted, but he doesn't. (It makes it much easier to write, too!) Also, I'm LOVING your answers!!
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Your Comments
1. secret talent--I can pick things up with my toes, grosses hubby out. lol
2. if you have a blog and a spouse, does the spouse read the blog?--Yep, hubby reads me every day, even when we are arguing and its all aobut him, it actually helps!
3. fruit or chocolate--today fruit, next week chocolate, its a hormonal thing.
4. eye color-brown
5. ranking 1-10 of overall life satisfaction-that would be a 10! Yeah, I make myself sick with my perkiness today.
Talent- organizing and rallying the troops. Put me on a committe and I die. Put me in charge and I'll get'er done for ya! I could organize an army, no problem!
Hubby and blogging: Hubby reads a post or two from my blog once a week or so-- I write too much for him to keep up with. And I read the best bits of other people's blogs to him. (He knows all about you, HOLYMAMA!) Yesterday-- get this-- he told me I was as funny as Finslippy. If that isn't love, I don't know what is....
Chocolate. Duh.
Eyes- hazel
Satisfaction--at least a 9.9. I am so blessed.
Mary, mom to many
1. I can touch my tongue to my nose
2. My hubby reads my blog once in a while but doesn't want to comment.
3. I only like dark chocolate so I would have to say it depends on what fruit or chocolate is temping me.
4. Blue
5. I'd have to say 9. I'm pretty satisfied with my life overall right now.
1. Secret talent? Hmmmmmmm........I play a mean
paper and comb, LOL.
2. Does my spouse read my blog? Nope, no interest
in it whatsoever, but he does have opportunity.
3. Fruit or chocolate? Fruit almost every time.
The chocolate gene skipped over me.
4. Eye color? Hazel-green, blue and brown.
5. Life satisfaction? 8, I would say. I could get
a lot more accomplished around the house, and I
could always be doing more for my Lord.
1. I'm pretty good at hooking things up--like I'm the one who figured out how to run our VCR sound through the stereo system, back in the day.
2. Yes
3. I love fruit! I love chocolate occasionally--too much makes me sick and fat. and sick of being fat. Hey! What about fruit DIPPED in chocolate?
4. Green or Grey, depending on my mood and what color I'm wearing. Usually grey; when I've been crying they turn bright green.
5. Can I copy your answer verbatim?
1. Offending people. But, I think it's hard to keep that one a secret.;) Actually it would have to be that I can pick up anything with my toes. Like the cat, laundry, whatever. I am monkey like.
2. Yes. And pouts when I don't read his.
3. Fruit. I hate chocolate. ...Stop the booing! Stop throwing tomatoes...oh, wait those are a fruit. Go ahead - I can take it.
4. Brown. Green blue? Show off.;)
5. 10 - I have reached the point in my life where if God blessed myself and everyone I love with good health that day it is a 10! (Doesn't mean I don't get to whine and complain though)
1. I can also tell M&M's apart. My fav. is red so I concentrate on that. I eat them one at a time.
2.Yes. He thinks It's great. That's because I don't let him read anybody elses. ;D
3.Chocolate, but only since this 40 thing. I hated chocolate before.
4.Blue
5.8.5 - I have a great life, just a lot more to do.
1. Well my daughter told me twice tonight that I have skills that could be used in the circus. :P They were 1. grabbing the car door and closing it with my foot because arms and hands were full and 2. feeding myself while feeding the baby. So I guess I got skillz!
2. Yes. He has his own blog but it's mostly serious-y man-y type stuff, so he enjoys reading my blog and the comments on it, more than his own. He even likes to go to the blogs I read to see if I commented. I'm sure he's lurked here. :)
3. Chocolate unless like Jeana said it's fruit dipped in chocolate!
4. brown
5. I'd say 8.5 There's definitely room for improvement but it's pretty dang great right now!
1. Secret talent....I can peel a banana with my feet. And I have an entire Ashlee Simpson album committed to memory. Seriously.
2. No spouse. Yet. Knock on wood.
3. Chocolate. Fruit only in the form of fresh-fruit popsicles or summer produce...good peaches or strawberries
4. Hypercolor! Blue/gray/gray green.
5. Um, a solid 7? It varies. Life is a roller coaster.
1. secret talent-I have SCARY freaky super-sonic hearing. It's a curse.
2. if you have a blog and a spouse, does the spouse read the blog?
Oh yeh he reads it. He likes to look at the pictures of the kids.
3. fruit or chocolate- CHOCOLATE
4. eye color- hazel
5. ranking 1-10 of overall life satisfaction
8.5
1. Hmm... I can burp on demand. I guess you didn't say it had to be a *desirable* talent!
2. Yes, my hubby reads my blogs -- and several ones on my blogroll, too.
3. Chocolate, unfortunately.
4. Hazel eyes (green-brown)
5. I'd say my days average out to a 7.5 or so. I have my 10 days and 5 days, and a few in the lower digits.
I. I know a little bit about cars - I know scary...I have changed brake pads, calipers, tires...I can use jumper cables correctly and I can start a stick shift by popping the clutch.
2. A couple of times a week. But, we also enjoy having the same blogs on our bloglines and discussing them (especially yours!)
3. Chocolate (as if)
4. "Baby blue" (I was feeling left out with all the fancy descriptions of the eyes!) LOL
5. 9 - Once we get back to Texas that could move up to a 10 pretty fast!!
1. I can sing every single word of Larry the Cucumber's long, spoken monologue in the middle of "Love My Lips."
2. Yes, but he won't comment. Doesn't read any other blog.
3. chocolate. I don't think I could be friend with anyone who would pick fruit over chocolate.
4. brown
5. 9.5. If I could lose 20 pounds it would be 10! :)
1. Secret talent: Biscuit baking from scratch. Don't tell my husband. LOL
2. My husband reads my blog only if I ask him to.
3. Chocolate. I am addicted.
4. Blue
5. I agree with the one that said "roller coaster," and currently I'm plummeting to the bottom at I'd say a 5. However, I am looking to rise to the top just any day. Ask me tomorrow, I might have a 10. Just learning to live on faith folks.
1. Secret talent: I can make up songs with pretty much any words at any time. I'm constantly doing it with the kids. I'll get a phrase stuck in my head (i.e. "Henry's got a big poop") and I'll create an entire song around it.
2. My hubby sometimes reads my blog. He'll usually go a month without reading it & then catch up.
3. Chocolate. Milk chocolate.
4. Dark brown
5. I would say 7.5. If I lost about 60# and got my house/parenting in order, it would be a 10.
1. I have a crazy good memory for numbers. I still remember my phone number from when I was 7 years old.
2. No. He could. He knows how to find it, but I think it's too much girl talk for him.
3. Without question, fruit! I am very picky about my fruit though. Chocolate? Forget it. I can't stand the stuff.
4. Green and yellow striped – seriously.
5. Today? 6 Ask me tomorrow though, and I'm sure it will go up to about an 8.
1. I'm reading all of your talents and thinking, "Waahhh...I don't have any secret talents." But my husband says I can fix a great pot of pinto beans.
2. He says he likes to "keep up" with what I'm writing, but "you write too much for me to read it all." OK, so basically, he skims it.
3. I like both. But when I'm stressed, I definitely head for the M&Ms and Reeses.
4. Blue
5. Honestly? 8. It will move up to 9 once my toddler is potty-trained 100%. It's a 10 when we're on vacation.
1. Secret Talent: making up songs to original tunes, make them rhyme and fit into whatever tune I choose.
2. Husband reads blog?: He reads every so often...mostly to make sure that I am not saying "bad" things about him :-)
3. Chocolate or fruit?: Chocolate all the way...fruit is way overrated!
4. Color of eyes: Hazel...green and/or blue
5. Life satisfaction: 8...live with chronic pain, but life is still good and God is great!
1. Secret talent - I always seem to give gifts to people that are absolutely perfect. I don't know how I do it, but my daughter says I'm really good at buying gifts.
2. My husband knows I have a blog, but I don't think he's ever read it. Oh, maybe once.
3. Chocolate, but I love most fruit, too.
4. blue eyes
5. Life satisfaction? You mean not counting a moody teenager daughter and a non-potty trained son?? Actually, I have the best job and the best husband in the world. I get to stay home with my kids and still write books. I love my life - definitely a 9.
This was a really fun post and I loved all the comments. Thank you for visiting my site, or I might never have found you and I can tell already that I'm going to be a big fan!
1. secret talent: Over the years I have developed great muscles that allow me to sit still for long periods of time. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
Actually I eat goldfish crackers one at a time and split them exactly in half along the seam with my teeth. I just found out that my husband does the same thing. I guess our being together is destiny.
2. Yep. He reads it every time and leaves comments so that I won't feel like I'm all alone in cyber-space.
3. Chocolate, especially if it's warm and I'm dipping fruit or other lucious thing in it, or dribbling it over great stuff (like cheese cake or eclairs.
4. blue, grey or green according to the weather or what I'm wearing. Basically I'm just indecisive.
5. 8.5 I love my life - just wish I lived closer to my kids and grandkids, could loose some weight and get more accomplished every day.
I can make an awesome monkey sound but I'm going to start practicing on the M & M's thing.
Yes, he reads it and lets me read some of you to him.
Chocolate, but I've found out recently that I'm allergic -it makes my butt swell up
hazel/green
8 - some room for improvement but pretty wonderful overall
1. Secret talent -- I can wiggle my ears and raise one eyebrow at the same time--maybe I should be on "Stupid Human Tricks" with David Letterman? I've always wondered how people find out they could do those weird things.
2. He usually likes me to read it to him, because then he can hear my inflections and truly catch the funny parts ; )
3. Both, I'm one of those that could put chocolate with anything -- especially strawberries or bananas.
4. My hubby calls them "summer wheat", but I call them green. Just like Jeana, mine get brighter after tears.
5. I'd say 8+. Sure wish I could lose some of the poundage too, but that would require reduction of the bloggage. I don't know if I'm ready to do that!!
1. Secret talent: I animate stuffed animals....my kids all thought their special stuffed animals were really talking to them til they got older. I just 'know' what they are thinking and say it...in their voice. ;) I can do that rhyming/making up songs thing too Suzi!! My kids hate it...my dog loves it!
2. He used to read it but he hasn't made any comments lately. I will have to find out....somehow. bwahahaha
3. Chocolate please. I made a fresh strawberry pie for dinner (had company) and I was wishing the whole time while eating it that I'd made something chocolate.
4. Hazel: green/brown
5. EIGHT....kinda exciting after a recent move, making new friends, etc etc, but a lot of work and lonely at times.
1. secret talent: I can pick things up with my toes. Actually, I use my feet for a lot of weird things. I guess that's what happens when your toes are as long as most folks' fingers.
2. if you have a blog and a spouse, does the spouse read the blog? I have both and no he doesn't.
3. fruit or chocolate? Fruit!
4. eye color. Brown
5. ranking 1-10 of overall life satisfaction: If there were no heaven, I'd say 10 - I'm pretty content overall. But compared to heaven, this life probably sucks rocks.
1. Secret talent: If I race you from a stand still I could get my swing to reach the highest point faster. Yes, I've practiced in case they ever make it an olympic sport.
2: Spouse does not read my blog... shameless plug...www.allnaturalmom.blogspot.com
3. fruit!
4. Eye color: blue
5. life satisfaction: 8 I like my husband, my kids, my house, my age. I wish I was done with school though and had my dream job (nursing) and oh yeh, richer.
1. I can "crack" my toes - by themselves, I just wiggle them and they make cracking noises. Totally freaks hubby out.
2. I don't think he reads it. At least he's never mentioned it.
3. Both - like what could be better than chocolate covered strawberries :-)
4. Blue
5. 8 - there are so many things I want to do but I just have to be patient and know that everything has it's "season". God has blessed me and my family in so many ways it is impossible to count.
1. I can smell rain. I am right better than 9 out of 10 times. My nose is sensitive to changes in the level of ionization in the air so I recognize the change in the air even before any visual signs.
2. No blog (yet) no spouse (and no plans to change it)
3. Depends on the fruit. Apples and pineapple, then chocolate, then all other fruits.
4. Deep turquoise, a really odd color, due in part to damage to my eyes effecting the color.
5. 8, some Sunday's I manage a 10.
1. Hmmm...I am great at finding good deals, does that count?
2. He only reads it if I say hey read this and tell what you think:)
3. Chocolate for sure but I am sure that when I join Weight Watchers it will turn to fruit, I really do love fruit though too(Watermelon is my fav.
4. Brown
5. Life satisfaction is a 6-7 right now but I am diligently working on changing that to a 9-10:)
This is a fun idea Kelsey, I loved reading all of them:)
1. I'm like Angi, I can do amazing things with my feet. Infact, I think if I ever lost my arms in a freak farming accident, I would go on to live a full and satisfying life. I could probably still braid my daughters' hair. Ok, maybe not and EW!
2.Yep, he read it everyday, sometimes I make him proofread posts before I post them. I make lots of typos. :)
3. Both.
4. Muddy.
5. 8+
1. secret talent: I can paint walls like pro. really--I can.
2. if you have a blog and a spouse, does the spouse read the blog? Yes, but not regularly. He's more of a marathon/catch up reader.
3. fruit or chocolate: fruit. Chocolate just isn't my thing.
4. eye color: green--Irish Eyes are Smilin'
5. ranking 1-10 of overall life satisfaction:
10
1. My secret talent is also remembering numbers, mostly useless ones like my great-aunt's license plate.
2. Yes, I have a spouse and he does read my blog. My mom, however, does not. I think she would if it didn't require the use of a (gasp!) computer.
3. CHOCOLATE. No contest.
4. I have brown eyes.
5. 7
1. I was thinking I was all original with my toe picking up capabilities, so I thought of my wiggle ears and eyebrow raising skills... Nope, peach took that one. I can copy voices from movies and recognize voice overs, but dang it someone else took that one. I can remember words to songs and movies. There I think I got one that is all me.
2. Yes, and he loves it!
3. My gut goes with chocolate, but give me some sweet strawberries and I will pass chocolate almost every time.
4. Rainbow (some days blue, some days green, some days gray)
5. 9.8 (Hey the kids are gone all week. I'm in heaven on earth!) My goal is to be a 9.8 with them home too.
1. Oh I have many hidden talents! :) The weirdest is probably that I can pop my hipbone out of joint (and back in of course). You might be too young to remember, but Carol Burnett used to do that on her variety show, and people from the audience would come up and put their hand on her hip while she did it and exclaim, "Ewww!!" My sister thinks I am just too gross for words.
2. Yes he does read it and his new nickname for me is Bloghead.
3. Chocolate, most definitely, but it has to be the dark kind, preferably Ghirardelli or Lindt. I do love all fruit, too, though.
4. Khaki green with goldish brown around the pupil. Dual-tone I guess you'd say?
5. If it were summer I'd say 9.9 but since it's still freezing out, I'll have to say just 9.0. Ask me again when it's at least 70 degrees! :)
1 - my secret talent is speaking in different accents. my kids love it. my man gets annoyed by it. (my bother and i will speak to each other in a different accent depending on our mood and after a few days it drives everyone crazy!)
2- yes, my man reads my blog and he emails me when i mispell or use words in the wrong form. i never use spell check and i suck at articulating my my thoughts in a grammar way.
3- chocolate (oreos and m&ms too!)
4- hazel or green (depending on what i wear)
5- 8.5 - life is sa-weet, has its ups and downs, always room for improvement but i count my blessings day by day.
Talk Back Ya'll ROCKS! Thanks Kelsey - have a fun fun fun time with your Mama! ;)
1. I have several. ;) I can open any door with my foot. I can shut my minivan sliding door with my uh..... rump. I can detect eggs in cooked foods--I detest eggs. I can hear super high-pitched sounds--kinda like a dog. :) I can eat a sausage gravy biscuit from Bojangle's and leave every single speck of sausage on the plate and I can eat a bowl of chili and leave the beef at the bottom of the bowl. Why? you might ask. Well, I don't eat meat. I just don't like it. Okay, I admit I'm a freak of nature.
2. No spouse or boyfriend. Not looking either.
3. I am woman--that means C-H-O-C-O-L-A-T-E! Fruit is an okay substitute.
4. pickle green
5. 7 right now because of college stress and watching my grandfather die with lung cancer.
1. According to my husband none of my talents are secret since I share everything with the world. Thanks, hon.
2. He reads it, but refuses to comment.
3. fruit AND chocolate
4. hazely green
5. 8. There is always room for improvement but I love my life. Couldn't have asked for a better one.
I think I'm going to keep this for a day or two and then post it over at my place... I'm a sucker for a good meme.
Here you go:
please answer in comments, since y'all have really rocked the comment section lately!!
1. I have double jointed elbows that freak people out.
2. Yes he does... and he comments if I don't write often enough.
3. Chocolate first, but depending on the fruit, I'll take them together. Take the wonder of chocolate dipped strawberries or raspberries and hot fudge over ice cream. Heavenly.
4. Blue with a ton of hazel flecks.
5. About an 8; there is more I want and more I want to do. But I love the Lord and the hubby and the kid... they keep me grounded.
Hee hee.Good fun reading that.
1-secret talent- I can remember the lyrics to most songs I hear (not always a good thing!)
2-No, he doesn't tend to though he will look over my shoulder now and then.
3-Chocolate! Athough it depends how much of a healthy eating phase I am in. I eat more fruit but still love the brown stuff!
4-A kind of blue with mixture of grey....the first thing hubbie noticed about me (awwww!)
5-THis varies- probably about a 7 as I get so frustrated with my own short comings.
1. secret talent ~ I have an ultrasensitive sniffer - I can smell things from miles away.
2. if you have a blog and a spouse, does the spouse read the blog? ~ Occasionally. I wish he would more often.
3. fruit or chocolate ~ If it's fresh pineapple, then fruit.
4. eye color ~ green (not hazel, more like hunter)
5. ranking 1-10 of overall life satisfaction ~ 9. It would be a 10, but I'm just so jealous of the number of commenters you have. ;)
Hi -I am Janice and pretty new here. I discovered your blog a couple weeks ago - actually off a PPC on Google. Thought I would say hi and join in the fun!
1.So sad, but I don't think I have a secret talent...
2.My blog is baby-new, but nope he never reads anything I write, unless I print it out and force him to read it(which he will do on the toilet, which is why I don't ask him to read anything I write anymore.)We have been married for nine years and I have accepted that we just don't share that part of me. Maybe if I wrote about sports and hockey...
3.fruit - I am kinda of allergic to chocolate so I try to stay away. But sometimes i just go chocolate crazy...
4.brown, but fading with the years. I now have some hazel.
5.7 - there is so much to do, I just wish I had more time and energy.
1. secret talent - I can come up with a song for any occasion. Ex: It rains and I start singing "Raindrops keep falling on my head." Not so secret. After awhile it can get annoying and I even annoy myself when I get a song stuck in my head too long.
2. My blog is new too and I read everything to my hubby for his feedback. That won't last long, I think he's losing patience.
3. I'm on LA Weightloss so 3 fruits a day for me and no chocolate. (Except for the LA Lite bars and they're pretty good!)
4. brown
5. I'd have to say a 9. I'm loving my new job and the Lord just keeps on blessing.
1. Hmmm. changing a diaper, talking on my phone, helping with homework, and making dinner all at the same time!
2.My husband thinks blogs are dorky, and he will not read mine now that he's convinced I'm not secretly trying to pick up other men. Gee, talk about the romance!
3. Tongue says chocolate, tummy says fruit. Of course tummy wins in the end,but I try!:)
4.blue
5. That depends on the day I'm having:screaming kids, late for school, and the flu? like a 3 if I count my blessings! Ha! Vacation, baby sleeping through the night, romance and free time, eating at a nice restaurant, the kids playing nicely, and good health! I'd say total 10! Gosh, I'm stable!:)
Secret talent? In our family not much is a secret--although DH says I am really great at making him crazy (not that big a trip, is it, dear?)
Yes, he reads my brand-new blog, but only after reading Jeana's and Holy Mama's.
Chocolate. It's a major food group.
Dark blue.
No numbers. I'm allergic to math ;)
Hey!
1. If i breathe in really hard, my nostrils stick together! haha!
2. I'm sixteen, so nope, no husband yet :P
3. Depends which fruit and which chocolate, but overall, chocolate
4. Brown
5. I would say 8, the only really sucky part is school. Yuck :(
Nat and Petey