I saw something like this over at my buddy Josh’s blog (yeah, he’s the up-and-coming photographer responsible for my pic at the top of this little blog – and if you live in Ohio, you should book him).

Now what was I saying? Oh yeah! I know a lot of newbies have wandered over in the past few months, so I thought it’d be cool to have a little meet-n-greet here. Leave us some facts in the comments, please!

1. Name
2. Where you live
3. What you do
4. Blog url
5. 1 strange fact about yourself – the stranger the better!

I’ll let this role through the weekend so all of you can sneak in and take a peak at all the other wierdos!

I used to be afraid of people… I’m realizing that only now because I don’t think I’m afraid of people anymore. I didn’t know it at the time, but I was.
That’s why I kept my world safely tucked away in the confines of “the church” – they were all nice there…. That’s why I ran from the world so much. Why I never ventured far from home. Why I don’t/didn’t “tour” or play at coffee shops /open mic shows / etc…. yeah. Afraid of people.
Now I’m not afraid of people anymore.
Not afraid of addicts or drunks or loudmouths or jerks or whatever.
Not afraid of people from different countries, different backgrounds, different opinions.
They are all just people.
Maybe my insides have caught up with my age, but I can face them – eye to eye – and not get intimidated.
They’re all just… people.
And they don’t scare me anymore.

What are you afraid of?

Continuing along with our theme of domesticity this week, we’ll now begin our discussion of grocery stores.

There’s a grocery store here that makes me wanna cry every time I go. Its like Wal-Mart on Christmas Eve – and no, I’m NOT kidding or exaggerating at all. 21 checkout lines, ALWAYS backed up with at least 6 FULLTOTHETOP buggies.

If I survive an aisle but forget something on the aisle, I WILL NOT turn around and go get it. I only have ONE shot to find it. ONE SHOT. There’s no turning back, or else I might become a pillar of salt or something. It is impossible to navigate through the aisles. Knocking over end caps. Running over old ladies. It’s awful. AWFUL.

I’d rather spend $20 extra dollars a trip, and go to the quieter store, than frequent that madhouse.

Can I just say that I LOATHE that grocery store?

A few months ago, a friend of mine told me about the same store in a different nearby town. I’ll drive the extra 3.5 minutes to this one, because it’s just as cheap, and much more… subdued.

Praise Jesus for friends.
And empty grocery stores.

Which reminds me:
tomatoes
rice
lettuce
chicken
cereal
milk
eggs
corn
asparagus
bell peppers

Yesterday, the strangest thing happened on my blog.

See, a handful of you started talking about laundry in the comments of a sincere and heartfelt post about us reaching our potential. LAUNDRY. With great passion and detail.

So, I thought I’d do my part to foster a productive (and focused) discussion today… I give you:

(insert a huge symphony of dun dun DUNS)

“The Laundry Post”

1. We share 4 sets of washer/dryers with 90 people in our apartment building.
2. Water always stays in the barrel of the front-end-loading washers. Yes. Other people’s dirty laundry water. And it almost always smells like mildew. And that’s not a mild “ew” either – it’s a STRONG “ew!”
3. We allot $25/mo in our laundry budget. Because it costs $2.25 total to wash/dry a load. Robbery.
4. I go through 4 doors and up 1 1/2 flights of stairs to get to the laundry room. (Don’t ask about the 1/2 – it’s complicated. And I’ll probably end up in the fetal position just talking about it.)
5. If I time it just right, I can get TWO loads going at the same time. This means I can knock out all 7 loads of laundry in less than 5 hours.
6. My husband will be the first to tell you that this process actually takes far more than 5 hours. I usually leave clean/folded laundry on the couch for a day or three… Because I’m lazy like that. K. Leave me alone.

Anyway, sorry. Enough about me. I forgot this post was supposed to be about YOU. For the sake of building community around here and all that blah blah, do you have any important laundry information that you feel the need to share?

No really. I’m interested…

zzzzzzzzz……..

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