Kelly Hines tagged me in this meme.

Here are my 7 things in no particular order.
1. I am not a cat or a dog or any kind of animal person. I have allergies, however I live with a dog and 2 cats (husband, son and daughters convinced me they needed them to be happy.) I dream of the day when all the pets are gone and I can live in a pet free home. My children do not like to hear me say this.
2. I love Gilmore Girls. I own all seven seasons and have watched each episode many, many times. I watch it when it airs daily at 5pm and if I am home at 11am. I can recite the lines and often do. I want to visit and live in the fictional “Stars Hollow” and eat at Luke’s Diner. My oldest daughter is also a Gilmore Girl fan and we pretend we have the same perfect Mother-Daughter relationship.
3. I love to be alone. I do not often get this opportunity as a teacher by day and wife and mother the rest of the time, but when it does happen (like the 4 days I was alone over the 4th of July last year) I treasure it. I do love my family, however everyone needs some time when things are quiet and no one needs them. It is bliss.
4. I am not a good housekeeper (anyone who has visited my home does know this.) There are a million other things I would rather do and I often do them instead. I need the threat of family or friends dropping by to buckle down and get things cleaned. I did clean the best when I was pregnant with my second child – major nesting instinct kicked in, however that has never happened again. I am looking for ways that my laptop can clean my house, maybe my PLN at Twitter can solve this for me?
5. I collect Nativity sets. I only have a few, but I love each of them. Some of them I keep out all year. They are too beautiful to put away in a box for 10 months a year.
6. I do not eat peanut butter, nuts or fish. The lack of peanut butter and nuts in my diet goes back to childhood. My older sister is allergic, so I was never offered peanut butter or nuts and do not have a taste for them. I also do not like fish of any kind and do not care for the smell when it is cooked in my presence. I do not cook it for my family either. I feel these two things are important to add to the list as people who have known me all of my life still do not know this about me and will offer me fish or ruin a good brownie or cookie with peanut butter or nuts.
7. My favorite ways to spend time are reading, playing scrabble online, watching a movie (or Gilmore Girls), working in the garden (I love to be one with the earth every spring,) thinking about exercising, but not actually doing it and exploring web tips from my Twitter Friends. I even enjoy working on my lesson plans. I do them on my computer and add clip art, color and font changes. They are very fancy.

I am now tagging friends from my Twitter PLN…enjoy!
njtechteacher
TeachaKidd
teryl_magee
ehaygood
billgx