Thirteen Reasons my Family Loves Me...

This is my first Thursday Thirteen...seems like fun, so I thought I would give it a whirl...

Thirteen Things about Julie I give things a whirl. I am always willing to try stuff, although I am often apprehensive about it. But we have lived in Germany and The Netherlands, because of Mark being the Army guy, and once you have lived in another culture, feeling like a sore thumb and an idiot most of the time becomes natural. I have weird obsessions. Shopping bags. I have an enormous pile of shopping bags. I have strange ones, like from a bagel place in Cologne, Germany, and a pile of Old Navy bags, because my kids like cheap t-shirts. We use them, though, they are not on display or anything... I am funny. I am. I make sound effects when I talk. The dog didn't bark, the dog went 'woof", and the tires went "eee ee ee eeee eee". Just yesterday I was thinking I need to add that facet of my quirkiness to my blogging. I am good with dogs. Dogs really like me. I am not exaggerating when I say I am god to Mojo. I can cook. I make stuff that tastes great. Especially soup and chocolate desserts. I don't make them eat it when I make something they don't like. My kids never have to eat something they don't want to. Because I want them to make decisions for themselves, and how can they do that if I don't allow them to make decisions, and because they throw up very very easily. I am very creative. (Which means that I am also messy. I wish those two were not so hand in hand.) I : quilt, sew, bead, make bracelets, paper collage, scrapbook, crochet, paint (walls, not photos, but with depth and texture, not flat), dye fabric, photograph stuff, photoshop those photographs, and draw cartoons. Hey I got to 13. I cannot knit, however. Tried and suck at it. I play video games. I love Dead Rising and Rock Band, but Gears of War is the best game ever. I hang all their t shirts to dry. (Okay, right now we don't have a dryer, but even if we did, I still would not put their t shirts in the dryer because they shrink and the design fades faster.) Not only do I hang them up to dry, I hang them by the hems, because they complained about hanger bumps in the shoulders. I love color. I hate white walls in my home. So when we live in our own house, I paint. My kids get to choose the colors in their rooms. Zeke is dark brown, Thor has a creamsicle room -- three walls are white and orange blended together with the woolie roller and a red wall, and Tess, who is very into dragons, has a blue room with a stone look vinyl floor with an antique bed and wall sconces that look like torches. Hey! Last one! I thought this would be harder than it was...um, #13...drawing a blank...Okay. I laugh at myself. We were walking down this rather steep road from a castle outside Prague when I tripped and fell flat on my face. Wham! (See? there are those sound effects.) I get up and look up and there is an entire terrace of Europeans eating lunch, and looking at me. Okay, so I don't know that they were looking at me, but it felt like they were all looking at me...so I bowed. I took a big deep bow and then when around the corner and bandaided my hands, which were scraped up and bleeding...

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