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25 Random Things About Me

// February 9th, 2009 // No Comments » // tagged: Life

This is actually from facebook … and has been making the rounds.  

RULES: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random/interesting things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you. (To do this, go to “write note” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people, then click publish.)
1. I can’t parallel park.
2. When we moved from Washington, D.C. to Nashville – our furniture was stolen by the moving company. (The FBI found most of our furniture in Pennsylvania a few months later… Goodbye air mattresses we had been sleeping on! Needless to say … we don’t trust movers anymore.)
3. I *love* to read … am always reading something… and LOVE the Nashville Library system.
4. I like pizza without tomato sauce.
5. I married a Brit .. who would want me to clarify that further – an English Brit :P I feel lucky to be married to my best friend … and love that we still have fun together after 8 years of marriage :) 
6. I’ve spent the night on every Christmas Eve of my entire life at my grandparents house.
7. My undergrad degree is in Biochem.
8. I spent a summer during college in Ecuador doing medical missions … changed my worldview forever.
9. I love brussel sprouts.
10. Laundry is my least favorite chore… I think our clothes multiply in the washer and dryer!
11. I have really vivid dreams / nightmares… and can’t ever watch scary movies.
12. I don’t like voicemail or talking on the phone.
13. We have a siberian husky, MacGyver Jack … he’s solid white with ice-blue eyes. Mac has two vacation homes – my parents and Tracys. (and he’s named after two Richard Dean Anderson characters — MacGyver, obviously, and Jack from Stargate!)
14. My name – Lacy – is my mother’s maiden name. My middle name – Marie – is the same middle name of every woman in my family (maternal side) for generations.
15. I don’t watch any reality television at all. 
16. I’ve played piano since I was in 2nd grade…. and now playing is a way to relax. I can’t play by ear … and have always been amazed at people who can!
17. I’d like to be a mom sooner rather than later. 
18. My first instinct is to say “yes”. I’ve had to learn how to say no … but I feel like if you are able to do something for someone, do it; we’re all blessed with something we can give back – time, talents, etc. 
19. Love PETROS … and used to go to the one in Hamilton Place every time we were in Chattanooga. Now there are only a few Petros open – and none of them convenient. 
20. I broke my nose when I was a little girl – I was watching Captain Kangaroo and jumping back and forth over my brothers legs. It ended badly on the edge of a table … 
21. I played piccolo in my high school marching band … best instrument ever for marching band ;) Now I wonder how I ever memorized a whole marching band show … 
22. Love the movie Pride and Prejudice (Not the recent remake – the real one.) There is only one Mr. Darcy … Colin Firth.
23. Love Ghengis Grill … the art of the perfect bowl. 
24. I’m inexplicably drawn to introverted people.
25. I love arranging flowers… especially with my flower buddy Jill :)

Oh the typewriter!

// December 15th, 2008 // No Comments » // tagged: Life

Saw this typewriter on mightygoods.com in their gift ideas section. 

“This portable style is the very last manual typewriter in production today. No power required! 44 keys w/ 88 symbols, one ribbon included that types both black & red ink and that oh so satisfying clickety-clack of the keys.”

Oh how I LOVE typewriters. When I was growing up, my grandmother had a REALLY old typewriter in her back room. I would go in there every time I was down there, put a sheet of my school paper in the type writer, roll it up to the first line, and start typing a note to someone (usually my best friend, Karen – who I think still has some of these notes!)  These notes were usually totally meaningless … but I can recall many of them where I would be heartbroken – or insanely happy – but most of them weren’t memorable notes. But I do remember loving using the typewriter.  It made everything seem … more.  More important.  More dramatic.  Just … MORE!

Even then, I loved the neatness of the typed note.  The ability to have RED words.  Double spacing.  It was just cool. And click clack I would go.  Then — I’d roll out the paper — and do the only thing a girl could do with a note then — fold it into an intricate almost origami-like piece of beauty. You had to fold it just right too … so that the little corner stuck out from the last folded edge – so your friend could easily unfold it.  

I think I’m too cheap to spend $125 on this typewriter … but my grandmother still has that old typewriter at her house.  Over Christmas, I may just have to sit down and type a letter to Karen for old time’s sake!

Week at Camp

// July 23rd, 2007 // No Comments » // tagged: Life

So … last week was summer camp with the student ministry at my church. Part of my responsibilities this year included helping the senior class produce camp news every day. It’s *exhausting* because we film after midnight usually and then I have a few hours to edit and have ready for noontime news. But … it’s all fun ;)

Full Camp Coverage Here

Here are a few of the videos we put together:

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I’m a Christmas Light-ist

// December 15th, 2005 // 6 Comments » // tagged: Life

Every Christmas I am faced with a bizarre fact about myself. I’m a Christmas Light-ist. I have white christmas lights in my house – and ONLY white Christmas lights. Steve knows not to bring colored lights within 100 feet of our home. Thankfully he’s also a Christmas Light-ist – although I think that just comes from growing up in a country where they didn’t even have icicle lights until recently. For the past few years, we’ve sent boxes of icicle lights to one of his friends in England because his neighborhood has a Christmas decorating contest. Every year he wins because he’s the only one on the block with the contraband icicle lights ;) And of course we only send WHITE icicle lights …

When we’re driving home each night … my eyes are accosted with several houses with colored lights up. Do they not know? Weren’t they raised right? How did it get so bad? Did no one tell them to leave those colored lights on the shelves and pick up the good stuff? The only thing worse than multi-colored lights … are the solid red lights. A house about 4 miles from us has all their windows lined in red lights … it looks like some evil den of demented elves or something.

Now I know lots of you have colored lights in your homes right now. I just want to tell you that its not too late. Leave your colored past behind. There’s still time to come to the light … the white light…

September 21, 1977 12:55 PM

// September 21st, 2005 // 3 Comments » // tagged: Life

:propeller: At 12:44 PM on September 21, 1977 my mother was checked in by my frantic father to Bradley Memorial Hospital. I was born at 12:55 PM. :bday: According to my mom, they stopped on the way to the hospital at one of her friends house to drop off my brother – and it’s lucky I wasn’t born on their front porch! As my father said at lunch today – I was in a hurry then – and I have been ever since. Twenty Eight! That doesn’t seem as old now as it did when I was a teenager ;)

Enough Already

// September 13th, 2005 // 4 Comments » // tagged: Frustration > Life > Politics

I’ve turned off my newsreader this week. I was talking to a fellow blogger last week – and we agreed that it seems like every body can’t stop talking about Katrina and who’s to blame for the aftermath. People are either ranting about it – or linking to everyone elses rants. Other than my entry about HCA’s evacuation efforts (which was a POSITIVE post), and displaying a Red Cross Donation link, I haven’t felt the need to blog on the situation. What could I possibly say that would do anything for those people? But some people just can’t seem to keep away from their keyboards.

Enough already. Instead of spending an hour writing a blog entry about how Bush, Brown, FEMA, black people, white people, etc are to blame for the suffering in the gulf — get up and actually do something for the people. Drop off clothes and toiletries at the local collection point – donate some money. Clean out all the extra stuff from your house — everyone’s got stuff they can give. Blogging about it, rehashing every single thing that has happened, casting blame this way and that … that does absolutely NOTHING for those people.

40 cent jump in 9 hours!

// September 1st, 2005 // 3 Comments » // tagged: Life > Treo Pics

Woah! This morning I filled up for $2.59 — on my way home tonight — it’s $2.99 ($3.01 at a gas station I saw later!!) That’s a 40 cent jump in 9 hours! Pam says she read that it was $3.29 in LaVergne. Again – woah.

As a point of reference — Steve and I drive about 60 miles a day round-trip just getting to and from work every day. $3 gallon quickly adds up.

Taking a breath …

// July 23rd, 2005 // No Comments » // tagged: Life

I’m back from camp with my church’s students … and now I’m halfway through my ten year high school reunion weekend!

I can’t wait for Monday :)

I’m off to Camp!

// July 16th, 2005 // 2 Comments » // tagged: Life

Tomorrow morning I leave for a week at camp with my church’s students. As my internet access situation is still up in the air (or at least the speed of said internet access) – I doubt there will be much activity here this week. Well — that and the fact that I will barely have time to breathe this week, much less have a few minutes to sit down and blog ;)

MacGyver is spending the week at his grandparents. They were up here in Nashville this weekend — and we sent him back with them for the week. Steve’s out of town this week too — and since we’re down at my parents next weekend for my reunion (more on that subject) — we figured they could spend some time with the grand-dog — and we’ll just pick him up when we’re down there next week. I think they’re more nervous about watching Mac than they were about keeping Sarah, their grand-daughter, for the first time overnight. Maybe that’s because Mac tends to get in trouble when he’s visiting friends ;) Sarah is pretty easy to take care of! They do have one thing in common — they’re both complete cuties.

It’s Been Ten Years Already?

// July 11th, 2005 // 3 Comments » // tagged: Life

My ten-year high school reunion is two weeks away. I’m on the planning committee :censor:. (yes, I must have been smoking crack to agree to that.) We’ve been working on it since September of last year. That may sound like a long time – but not when you consider that we had almost 600 people in our graduating class — so just trying to contact everyone in our class was a huge task. We divided up the yearbook pages amongst the committee members – so each person had about 40 people to locate.

Lesson one – we needed a bigger committee.

We gave ourselves til January of this year to locate everyone on our lists. That was about 4 months. In December, some of our committee members hadn’t contacted anyone on their list yet. :banghead:

Lesson two – those people you didn’t like in highschool? you still don’t like them

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