lizardblog ( the blog of liz creech

June 28, 2008
Things about me....

I was going to try and do a post about "almost" t.m.i. about myself. I decided that naturally I have a tendency to do that anyway and I might embarrass my husband. Not with things about him but with my bluntness to the whole world. Anyway, the older I get the more reflective of myself I become. I am reverting back to my teen aged years and thinking only of myself I guess. No, I know that isn't the case because it is usually about how I might impact others and such things. With that said, I don't know how much I might list, and how much of it will be redundant but there you go and here I go:

1. I am an early to bed early to rise kind of person, although I have learned to do the opposite since my husband is a night owl and my job requires me to stay up late.

2. My food tastes have changed as I have gotten older. I think I have realized what I was missing as a child by being picky, and I wasn't a typical picky child. Also, I believe that our tastes mature as we do.

3. I am a perfectionist when it comes to "how my house should be". Typical of a perfectionist, and because of the fact that it seems like I am never home, my house does not meet my expectations. I can always find something to change or improve. I have learned to live with it though, since I am only one of 6 people living in it and not everyone holds my views.

4. I have no tolerance for judgmental Christians. I believe that God calls us to union as his body. The "my way is better than your way" attitude just really PISSES me off.

5. I get seasonal depression. At least I have self diagnosed myself as that. I like the winter and snow, and in general I don't mind the cold, but for the 3 months that it is dreary, I am not my normal self.

6. I am a horrible friend. I NEVER "make" the time to call and stay up with friends. Not until my conscience gets the best of me. It is funny, I will think about someone for about a week and then I end up getting a call from them. I have decided I am going to try and "schedule" phone calls in my ICal to remind me to call people. HA!!

7. I love nature and animals. If it was only me I would have so many animals that it would be ridiculous. Of course if you ever go to my other blog you will see my addiction there.

8. With above said, I HATE animal cruelty. Any person who does bad things to an animal is on their way to doing bad things to a human being. I am not talking about horse racing, raising calves for veal, or in general using an animal to work or for food. I am talking about starvation, beatings, and neglect. Unexcusable.

9. I may say it but I am not a lazy person. I have my moments, but that is not my nature.

10. I am always eager to please. That you like me and my work and who I am is very important to me. It isn't the be all and end all for me, because if you don't like me than you don't know me - that is a fact.

11. I assimilate very well to almost any situation. It might take a minute, but I adapt very well. I would have been the perfect soldier.

12. I am a loner. I have no problem hanging out, getting in front of people, talking to complete strangers, and making any one else feel welcome in an awkward situation, but afterwards, I have to decompress. If it has been a hard day at work or we have had a big bunch of people at our house, I have to go take a bath. Watch if you ever come to my house with a bunch of people, but I will "disappear" for about 5 minutes every now and then - Weird, I know.

13. I hate it when I sound like my mother. I don't mind sounding like A mother - you can ask the people I work with - I sound like their mother all the time - HA!!

14. When I first meet someone I instantly put them at the top of my respect, admiration and trust scale. I choose to think the best of someone and allow them to change my mind gradually. What is sad is that most people usually do and will change my mind.

15. I like to eat clover. I just did as a matter of fact. That is one of the reasons I don't use chemicals in my yard. Some things just taste good and when you put poison on them, you at least shouldn't eat them. If you like basil or other fresh herbs, you should try a clover flower.

16. Horses are my favorite animal. That may be why I pushed Meaghan so hard to stay with it when she was young - I think today she is glad that I did. If I had the money, I would own a lot of them.

17. Too much t.v. at a time makes me feel physically bad. Even when I had broken my wrist and couldn't really do anything, I got so sick of watching t.v. I would choose to read a book any day over television.

18. I am afraid to die. I am not worried about being dead, but the process of dying. Although, falling off a ladder actually made me think that it might not be so bad. I hadn't really realized what had happened until I was on the floor. I could have died and I really wouldn't have known it until I was standing there at the gate waiting to be let in by St. Peter. Then again, I don't want some agonizing death either.

19. HA!! Even though I don't like to watch too much television, I could sit for DAYS and watch movies!!

20. I would like to own my own business. I haven't decided what exactly, but I have a few ideas. None of which I will do, but I will use the ideas when we do the Monastery. I wish we owned the farm now!!

Ok that is MORE than enough.

posted by Liz at 10:59 AM - permalink - -

June 09, 2008
Afraid in my "old age"

When I was younger I was a real go getter. I was brought up that if I saw someone who needed help, I should help. If I knew that someone needed something, I should supply it. If I was put in charge of something like getting volunteers for supplying meals for someone, I often ended up doing most of it. I always needed to be the first to volunteer, even to my own detriment, and the last to leave. Not that there is anything really wrong with that, but I sometimes put my family on the back burner. I became quite proud of myself and what I did. Thanks to my wonderful husband I have learned how to say no and that it is ok to NOT do everything every time.

The funny thing is that I am quite accident prone, and until I broke my wrist, I never really thought much about all the silly things that happened to me. On Friday night I sliced the tip of my thumb off. See, if had done what I was supposed to and put on a cut glove I wouldn't have had to pick up the chunk and throw it into the trash, after I stopped the blood that is. I stayed calm and kept thinking just how stupid I was.

Afterwards I got kind of scared and wondered if I am just going to end up killing myself by some stupid accident instead of getting to die in my sleep like I would prefer. I have to admit that that was the first time I have every been afraid of something like that. I don't care for the feeling too much, hopefully I just become more cautious instead of bound up in fear.

posted by Liz at 10:04 PM - permalink - -

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books i like

Here are some books I suggests if you are looking to homeschool or just for information. I gleaned a lot from them. Our church gets credit if you buy through these links.

In their Own Way
by Thomas Armstrong

Seven Times Smarter
by Laurel Schmidt

How to Talk So Kids Can Learn
by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

Teen Proofing
by John Rosemond