http://www.pleonast.com/user/bromita recent pleonast.com entries by user bromita en-us http://www.pleonast.com/user/bromita?l=5&entryID=599713 Thanks for all the well wished and congrats on the last post. I still feel yucky most days and am ready to have the sickly part behind me and to feel really truly excited. Nobody tagged me but I thought I would share something interesting about me. I used to REALLY hate weddings. Ironically I've been a bridesmaid 7 times, and the 8th coming up next week. Well let me give a little idea why I hate weddings. Before I met my wonderful husband I pretty much figured I would never ever be a bride. And most of the time I was really ok with that, except when I was in or attending a wedding and was reminded. I literally hid many times when I feared the bouquet toss was coming up. At one wedding I went to, I was trying to hide in the bathroom when all of a sudden people started chanting my name. To my horror the only single gals were me and this 10 yr old girl. So even though the bride tossed the bouquet straight to me, my hands were frozen and she caught it. Many other times I just let it fall... 2008-11-15 http://www.pleonast.com/user/bromita?l=5&entryID=594020 Want to know the weirdest thing about me being pregnant? I will have one violent sneeze right before I am about to be sick. -Anxiously awaiting the second trimester 2008-11-01 http://www.pleonast.com/user/bromita?l=5&entryID=576773 Fall is REALLY my favorite season. The cooler air this week has made me sooooo happy! A few reasons why I love fall. 1) My hubby asked me to marry him in the fall! It was a gorgeous fall day and we were on a hike in the north GA mountains. He did it right on the side of the mountain and before and after we walked in a bed of crisp bright yellow and red and orange leaves. 1b) We also had our first date in the early fall. We took the old jeep to a Mexican restaurant and sat outside on the patio. Then the old jeep broke down on the way home. 2) Football! And I may be crazy but I honestly love it just as much watching it at home, eating wings or a pizza or something totally off my diet. 3) Camping. This is something I did b.J (before Jason) but not as often and fall is THE best time to get outdoors. We usually go for a long weekend and tent camp the first week of Nov. 4) This fall Meagan's getting married! I'm so happy for her and Daniel and looking forward to their big day. 5) This fal... 2008-09-18 http://www.pleonast.com/user/bromita?l=5&entryID=562875 Have you ever said something completely ridiculous and somewhat inappropriate and then just couldn't stop laughing? My office mate and I have moved to a new office. This office unfortunately houses a printer that is used by about 6 other people, so they are constantly coming in and out. The printer is circa 1988 and often jams and causes havoc among those users, and quite frankly, my office mate and I are sick of it. We have fixed the stupid thing so many times we might as well don a ricoh name tag. Anyways, this co-worker came it to find that once again her papers did not print and exclaimed, "Did you take my papers?????!!!!" I replied, very calmly, "Yes, I did. I ate them. So if you need them, you can find them in the bathroom later." And I couldn't stop laughing. So she asked me to repeat myself, but realized about that time what I had said. Good news is, she laughed pretty hard too. 2008-08-14 http://www.pleonast.com/user/bromita?l=5&entryID=559839 My favorite neighbor stopped by to bring me a basket of figs from her tree and to let me know we now have a sex offender in the neighborhood. Yep, it was child molestation, already looked up the reason. We don't have children but I'm still freaked out. And I find it annoying that the bus stop had to change. I think he should have to move instead. Does anybody have any good recipes using figs? Otherwise I fear the fruit flies will devour them. 2008-08-07 http://www.pleonast.com/user/bromita?l=5&entryID=548307 Um, what happened to June? My life is really whizzing by. I think I loose a lot of time during my commute. This time last year I was REALLY bored and worried, while I was still getting paid summer salary from the school, the last August paycheck was looming and no prospects. Now I have 2 jobs and long to be bored. Do you ever struggle to be honest? Wow, it is so easy and worldly-acceptable to just tell a lie. Every day at my job people suggest I fib a little, no big deal, here and there. I have to take a few hits now and then to avoid being dishonest. Here's a fun idea. When somebody's really negative around you, bust out a line such as, "Gray skies are gonna clear up.. put on a happy face!!" and throw in some jazz hands. If they don't smile/giggle at that... 2008-07-09 http://www.pleonast.com/user/bromita?l=5&entryID=536960 There really is something to be said about heaping hot coals. Maybe it's for the wrong reasons, but I feel really happy when I am really sweet to somebody who's just a meanie for no apparent reason. Like when I call to a hospital billing service at work to inquire why we haven't gotten the bill we ask for (so they can ultimately get paid) and the customer service lady is rude. I have learned that replying, "Hey, I'm going to hang up now, I hope your day gets better," makes me feel good and that bill magically appears in my fax in box within a couple of hours. Or like just now when I got a response from a vacation rental inquiry, the person laughed at my budget and said good luck. I told her thank you and added, "good luck renting out your unit." Now, what I wanted to say was, "Next time just don't respond if you don't like the numbers," or "A simple no thank you we're not in your budget will suffice." Ohh, I hear Bear Grylls on the tv, I mu... 2008-06-08 http://www.pleonast.com/user/bromita?l=5&entryID=527209 Happy's Mother's Day's to all you mommies out there. This morning at church and Friday at work I noticed a certain awkwardness to everyone as they went around saying Happy Mother's Day to all the females. When they got to me they said, how are you or have a good weekend! HA! I'm living it up. School's out for summer! I was pretty ready to bid farewell to most of my students this semester. I only failed when necessary. Well nobody answered my last question but we're working on house projects with our Chinese money! Just bought the tile for the kitchen and now the search for labor begins. I have begun a crackdown on unhealthy eating habits. I am reading a book called "The Sonoma Diet." I started last week and so far, it's great. I read several books and this one seemed like the healthiest, practical, best choice for me. I am eating SO many veggies and nothing processed at all, only lean protein and no sugar. I feel great and have a lost a few pounds so far. It's a great book... 2008-05-12 http://www.pleonast.com/user/bromita?l=5&entryID=517019 No wonder the kids I taught could never own up to their mistakes! They learn from the pros! So, I'm a little preturbed b/c I get these surveys that I'm supposed to give in my college class. Ok, they do evaluations of me and the school every semester so I didn't think anything of that big brown envelope at first but then I realized these were much more complicated. Upon reading I realized this was going to take 45 min of my 90 min class period. That's a lot to sum up the college experience. Anyways, turns out my dept head was tardy in getting them to me. Then I get this email that I'm basically the hold up. So I remind her that I got them late and I'm TEACHING so I can't do them in the selected class until next week. I offer to give them to my other class., and I ask her where the #2 pencils are that are mandatory in the directions. Supposedly she tells me via email it's ok to give them to my other class but I check my email daily and I get no such email. Well she forwards me a message ... 2008-04-15 http://www.pleonast.com/user/bromita?l=5&entryID=513060 And what a year it's been. Everyone always says the first few years are the most difficult, but I honestly have NO idea what they're talking about. I really can't imagine being happier here on this earth. I'm the luckiest. Sorry ladies, he's taken. 2008-04-04