Five Question Friday 5/21/2010

Rules for Five Question Friday: Copy and paste the following questions to your blog, answer them, then c'mon back to link up (on Friday, of course!). If you'd like, the blog hop code is available for you to grab! I would be a very grateful mama, if you'd link back to me, Mama M.!


If you don't have a blog, but want to play along...feel free to answer the questions in the comments of this post, or any blog along the blog hop way!

Questions for Friday, May 21st:

1. Do you have an iPhone and, if so, how do you get apps and what are your favorites?
YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I {{HEART}} my iPhone!  like seriously - don't know how I would survive without it! 

I get only FREE apps and I usually get them from the app store on my phone...

My favs......Hmmmmmmmmmm - facebook OF COURSE (because i'm an A.D.D.I.C.T!  no seriously - I AM!}
and Shazam!  coolest app EVAH!!!!!!!  if a song comes on and you don't know who sings it - you can pull up shazam, it will listen to the song and tell you who it is and even give you a link to find the song on youtube.  I LOVE shazam!


2. What is your fondest memory of K-3rd grade?
I have a couple..

One being the sticker books and garbage pal kids cards we would trade.  I mean REALLY... puffy stickers, smelly stickers.  and our sticker books were like PRIZED possesions!

and what about my BFF and I used to make "fake fingernails" with glue in our desks!!!  YEP sure did!  Squirted out glue and shaped it like a fingernail.  Then peeled it from the inside of the desk and put them on our fingernails!!!!!!  (Traci I SURE hope you are reading this and REMEMBER that!  LOL)


3. What makes you cringe at the thought of touching?
Ohhhhhhhhhhh - I think mine would be vomit.  (same as Mama M)  Can't stand the stuff.  Not people vomit not pet vomit - NO vomit!  BLECH!
My poor child........I just don't do well period with vomit.
One time......(yes I'm about to divulge TMI!)  one time, the boy got sick in the night (we had Mexican that night) and threw up ALL OVER his comforter on his bed.
I literally made him help me carry it out to the driveway the next day and took the waterhose to it!  NO flippin WAY I was touchin that REFRIED BEANS vomit!  BLECH!  {choke} {gag}

Sprayed it with the water hose, it wouldn't all come off.  So guess what I did.  THREW AWAY THE COMFORTER!!!!!!  EEEEWwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!

oh and one time, when I was little..... I went swimming with a friend.  We were at the pool ALL DAY eating junk food.  CAndy and crap right.  On the way home, I had on FLIP FLOPS...... we were sitting in the back seat together and she THREW UP on my foot.  Between my TOES!!!  {choke}  {gag}

Vomit... YUCK!


4. If you could have any celebrity show up on your doorstep who would it be and why?
hmmmmmmmmm
I pick two  (I can't do anything by the rules!  LOL)
Chris Knight.  Why?  Because his music has made SUCH an impact on T's life.  Every song tells a story and every story has had some effect on T.  And not JUST T - but on anyone who will take the time to listen.. and really listen.   He's a very REAL and RAW, UNDERdiscovered song writing genius  ;-)

and Oprah!  LOL
I don't even like Oprah - I'm just hoping she'll bring me a new car and buy me a new big fat house!  LOL
I'm kidding!!!!!!!!  {fingers crossed}  hee hee

really - I guess I can't think of anyone - other than any kind of musician.
I want Keith URban to show up and play and sing to me.  just him, his guitar and that voice!
or Jerrod Niemann....... hee hee

hmmm - that is all.

5. What would you say is your best physical feature?
I guess probably my legs.........I like my legs.  Get compliments on my legs.  I'm good with them  ;-)
Or maybe my smile?  People say I have a good smile.
I don't know.
I'm pretty happy with me overall.  Other than a few extra pounds around the middle that I would like to drop.. I'm pretty good with everything else  :)

(Special SHOUT OUT to my friend Denise who is celebrating her BIRTHDAY TODAY!!!!!!! Happy Birthday D!!!)

Shout out to all the servers out there!!!

A friend of mine posted a really good blog tonight that I have swiped (with his permission) to share with everyone!  If you have ever waited tables - you will TOTALLY identify with this blog.... maybe you worked YOUR way through college, maybe you are working through now OR maybe, being a server is your livelihood - but regardless - you will appreciate the sentiment written below!  (I posted a lovely picture of me back in my server days - ha ha - that's my head poking out on the right in the back!  WOW!)
If you have NEVER served - please take the time to read this, understand and respect whats going on on the other side when you go out to dinner!!!

RESPECT your servers!!

Leave comments AND go find Greg and tell him you enjoyed the blog!   Shout out to Greg Almond from WUHU 107.1 FM Bowling Green KY!!!  (you can follow Greg on twitter @GregAAlmond and check out his blog via the link below!!! )
Thanks Greg - LOVE IT!!!!

http://allhitwuhu107.com/pages/1229288.php

Let me start out by saying that I have never been a huge fan of Oprah.  I feel that she has way too much influence on society for her position in life.  And by that I mean she is not an elected official, a minister, etc.  I do think she has brought some attention to serious matters and she has done some good with her celebrity.  But now she goes on her show on national television to tell her audience that to save money during the recession, they should only tip servers 10% when they go out to eat. 

Let's first forget that the she nor the majority of her audience is not feeling the effects of the recession.  Because that would only further undermind the credibility of her statement.  Let's instead look at the demographic of most servers.  For starters alot of them are college students or students of college age.  Let's not give them money to help pay for their education so they can be productive members of society.  And that the job market is so saturated that most degrees will only get you a job waiting tables these days.  There are also alot of servers working two jobs because they are working their way up in your career.  I myself am one of these people.  You may or may not know that I wait tables at a local restaurant on the weekends.  It's just something I have to do.  It's no biggie.  Also, lots of servers are people that are in between jobs, or people that can't find work anymore, or single mothers who work some days just to pay a babysitter.  Take all those people out and what do you have...the upper middle class and the rich, which SURPRISE!, you are part of Oprah.  I actually calculated the difference between the standard 15% and 10% and for the average check, it's about two dollars.  Two more dollars is not going to be the difference between you making rent but if everyone gave two dollars less, it could be for your server.  Just remember that.  And remember that the extra two dollars you are saving will probably go towards your Oprah's book club membership.

I also wanted to touch on the fact that I think I remember Oprah supporting Barack Obama.  I also must mention that I am too.  That doesn't mean I agree with everything he does or is going to do...that means I'm giving the guy a chance because I agree with most of what he says and I like that fact he's creating ideas to make a difference.  But the whole platform for the Obama campaign was Change, Hope, and helping out your fellow American.  Well what Oprah is telling the upper middle class to do is completely against what Obama is trying to do.  Obama is encouraging Americans to not be afraid to spend and Oprah is telling us to save.  Kinda contradictory don't you think?  Captialism is based on spending money to make money to boost the economy...I learned that in 8th grade by the way...and the almighty Oprah is putting forth an extremely conservative stance on how to deal with the economy.  Wonder if she just sided with Obama for the face time?  I also want to make the point that servers spend money too.  And here is a secret...if they have a good shift the spending usually happens that day or the next.  Shhh, don't let that get out. 

The most confusing thing is that Oprah comes from poverty, so you think she would have a heart for people busting their ass to make something out of life.  But I guess money casuses amnesia.  I wouldn't know.  I do know that the companies that give money to Oprah to have her hock their products on air are not hurting for money.  Amd I know that it's every server's dream to chase down a table and give them their tip back when they leave you a crap tip.  And I know that Oprah better leave me MORE than 15% if I ever wait on her table.