I ve been tagged a few times and while I loved getting the thinking blogger award from , I m having trouble putting together five of my favorite thinking blogs simply because most of them have already been tagged. She s one of them I love Weekend Zen! 
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I will sometimes eat weird food combos. For instance, I ll eat avocados with just about anything, but I love them in a fried egg sandwich. I also dip pizza in ranch dressing sometimes.
When I was growing up, my dad salted all fruit for us especially grapefruit to this day, I want salt with one. (I didn t say healthy food combos.)
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I will randomly (okay accidentally) mutter spoonerisms causing new family phrases. Big a dig hole is one. The other day I said, Ew!
He nicked his pose!
3. I collected giant panda items as a kid.
Posters, stuffed animals, figurines Still have some okay, a really big one in my office that the hubby gave to me when we dated.
4. I lived in Manassas, Virginia when the Bobbits did.
5. When I asked my kids to list some random things about me, I got these answers, When you ve been in the house working too long, you hide behind doors and scare us. When you ve been in the house working too long, you sing weird songs in the kitchen.
When you ve been in the house working too long, you play pterodactyl. Okay, apparently, I spend too much time in the house working.
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Oh, the other weird fact to them, anyway is that I like hard rock and heavy metal sometimes. That s weird for a mom, daughter said.
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When I asked the husband a neat fact about me, he said nothing. He merely chewed the homemade stuffed pasta shells I made for dinner and grinned. My blog isn t X-rated enough for interpretation.
8. There s a local hospital commercial about a seven year-old boy who dies and becomes a donor and I can t handle it. I turn the channel, but I never fail to burst into tears first anyway.
And since I ve seen this tag just about everywhere, I m letting it fade out here unless anyone feels the need.
I don t know about you, but we ve watched nothing but news the last 24 hours. My heart is in Virginia right now.
I wasn t sure I really planned to share these pics loaded them after a comment about John Hughes movies. I even pulled some movies out and had a blast remembering those days. But the fashion!
We could all probably use the laugh, so I m going ahead and sharing some old pics of me so we can make fun of that 80 s fashion. g
I was 5 10 and weighed 115 lbs. That s like 35 lbs less than today!
Wah. But look at that hair!
I simply can t believe I wore this.
Unfortunately, there s proof. Stirrup pants, the big shirt and those freaky earrings!
The numbered senior shot.
Yes, that is big hair and a real jean dress. I wore a jean dress for my senior picture. Dig the expression.
I gotta find the final shot, so you can enjoy that big hair in all it s frizzed finery.
This looks like I walked off the set of Valley Girl. Oh, I loved, loved those boots.
I think I cried when they finally died.
This outfit cracks me up. I felt so dressy in it and I hated the shirt because it took sooo long to iron.
Then, I felt like I couldn t move in it. From the expression on my face, I must have just finished ironing it. And don t you ever wonder why we thought shoulder pads were cool?
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Okay, this isn t a REAL Thursday Thirteen. I just think the blog needs some silliness after all my serious blathering and I was inspired by a conversation, one of many, with my CP yesterday. Why were we on the phone so much?
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Anyway, we have these fast, meandering conversations that tend to cover every topic under the sun. We did work on a couple of writing things, but one of our topics was the list on Friends.
I d forgotten about it, but it s basically a list of celebrities that you would be with if you could and it didn t hurt the relationship you were currently in. I actually had a hard time picking and Rachel chuckled a lot and called me weird for the few off the top of my head blurts.
So, this is by no means a full list but one I threw together off the top of my head and it is kind of all-over-the-place random.
Plus, it s hypothetical- obviously- cause none can hold a candle to my own, sexy husband. 
1. John Stewart from The Daily Show.
Yeah, he s number one. Come on! He s funny, sexy and attractive!
I bet he d be a riot in the bedroom as much as he is out of it. I have a thing for that fierce, intelligent, dry wit.
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Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs. and I had a conversation about this man. He s that man you just want to hang out with and have beer.
He s smart, a good sport, fun and full of good humor and well, as you can tell from #1, I like sexy and I like to laugh. Plus, he has a really great face.
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Arliss Howard. Watch Men Don t Leave and you ll get it. Years I liked this man.
Debra Winger must smile a lot.
4. Vin Diesel.
I don t need to explain this one, do I? I mean, come on. I m female and he is so freaking male.
Okay, yeah, it was Pitch Black. I wish I d never seen The Pacifier. No, he s not at the top of my list.
I ll leave that to others I won t mention
5. Hugh Jackman. He had me at first growl.
And first towel.
6. Wentworth Miller.
I feel like a perv over this one. Fierce, intelligent sleek. Too young, but it is fantasy, right?
7. Taye Diggs. Yeah, old perv again.
But did you see When Stella Got Her Groove Back???
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I have. Over and over and over
9. Jason Statham- Okay, yeah, Transporter the first one just did it for me.
10. Takeshi Kaneshiro Because he s simply stunning. I d like to think he has a good sense of humor.
If not, I can just stare at him. Bad Rinda.
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Daniel Craig. I have a serious thing for craggy-faced men. Nine times out of ten, I pick craggy over pretty.
There s such character.
12. Sean Penn.
Uh, see the why on eleven. Actually, there are a lot of reasons for him. If you scroll down a few posts, you ll see I married a blonde look alike of Sean in his younger days.
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13. Matthew McConaughey, Gerard Butler and Christian Bale because all three were in Reign of Fire and it had dragons. Yeah, I know there were major plot holes and there were a few times the writer in me cringed but I love the premise and well, you had Matthew, Gerard and Christian.
And dragons.
I was going to post a pic of all the books I have, but someone (translate to probably a kid) took off with my phone cable.
Betty was right.
Those are all books I would read. g The only one I haven t read yet is the Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, but it s sitting here for when I take the time.
So, I put up two short story books and I do actually have the On Writing Short Stories.
Paid a small fortune for a used copy of that one and it is worth every penny.
I don t, however, have this one.
I ll come up with a better topic contest.
Something everyone can actually use logic to solve. With the Internet at our fingertips, that isn t as easy as it sounds.
Thank to all who did guess!
OMG, Amanda s costume was so cool!
My parents best friends. They ve been in our family for 33 years, so they re like my 2nd set of parents.
They are even in my wedding album as such. They are more fun than should be legal and I love them like crazy. When you offered to help him out, he said he ate already.
LOL!
My sister stunning as usual.
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