1. A whole pig, Hawaiian style
2. My grandma's apricot tarts, who never wrote down the recipe and has passed away
3. Frozen custard (although it is probably a blessing I don't know how to do this)
4. Real, authentic fish and chips
5. Real, authentic croissants
5 ways to avoid cabin fever in the winter!
1. Do you want some gum?
2. Do you want some mints?
3. Do you want some cough drops?
4. Do you use Listerine?
5. Cover your nose and mouth with your hands **should be a good hint**
Name 5 of your favorite scents (i.e. candle, soap, lotion)
1. Vanilla
2. Freesia
3. Citrus
4. Lavender
5. Strawberry
5 favorite childhood memories
1- Making Christmas star ornaments w/my Mom
2- Our annual camping trip to Black River Falls, WI
3- Playing in the snowpiles at the end of my street (I lived on a dead end street so there were really cool big piles of snow)
4- Spending the whole summer either wearing my roller skates or my swimming suit
5- dancing in the rain to the tunes of my new Footloose cassette on my new boombox
(did I just date myself??! LOL)
5 reasons you married your spouse
Because he rubs my feet
Because he rubs my back
He's the most caring man I've ever met
I knew we'd have beautiful children
Because he told me I had to.
Favorite songs
Scooby Doo
Looney Tunes
Hong Kong Phooey
Captain Caveman
Super Friends
(The best I can remember! 
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Name 5 of the most embarrassing things your kids have done in front of other people. 
Shopping at the store and my 6 year old yelling across the aisle "Mom I can't but this because its not on clearence huh?"
Eating lunch at the sizzler they have a little dessert buffet for kids. My DD was about 4 and we let her go and get some dessert by herself. The nexst thing I hear is " Daddy this is goooood!" we look over and she has the serving spoon for the pudding in her mouth and was going back in for more. 
At church I was going up to get communion and my DD was walking with my grandmother who uses a cane. They were a few ppl in front of me. I couldnt really see them to well since there was ppl in front of me but I did notice that ppl were staring and giggling. When I was able to get a look it was because my DD was pretending like she had a cane and was walking hunched over like a little old lady. She was about 3 my grandmother told me if I was embarassed can I just imagine how she felt. LOL
At the grocery store when we went shopping we had a basket full of food. We get to the register and my DD tells the cashier "We get to get alot of food cuz my mom has money today." Making me feel like if she lives in a house with no groceries.
At a restaurant, again when she was 3 we were leaving and my DH sent our DD back to leave the tip on the table. She decides to skip and run so she trips, she goes sliding face first to the floor in front of everyone before I can even start my way to her she jumps up throws her hands in the air and yells "And she gets the touch down !" She had the ppl laughing Oh my goodness it was too funny.
I love my DD and I wouldn't change a thing about her...........except maybe her cleaning habbits.
Name 5 of the most embarrassing things you have done in front of other people.
Let me start by saying that THIS is post #500 for me!! WOOT!! 
Okay, 5 embarassing things I have done...
*Passed out in friend's raspberry bushes in a drunken stupor (many years ago!)
*Lost the top of my swimming suit when I dived in the water.(pre-breast feeding days, thankfully! LOL)
*Passed gas (walking toots) while giving my 'sales spiel' at a home party. I was so embarassed I completely lost my train of thought and had to practically start over. I thought I was going to die!
*Got home from the grocery store one day and realized I had been shopping for the last 3 hours with a huge hole in the butt seam of my pants.
*Got caught doing the 'nasty' with boyfriend in a public place. (really, I'm a much tamer person now. You guys are all going to stop talking to me after reading this!)
5 things in your pantry that have been there longer than you can remember without ever being used.
I'd just like to give you a big,
.CONGRADULATIONS on your 500th! 
Sorry for this interruption back to our regularly scheduled broadcast.
5 things in your pantry that have been there longer than you can remember without ever being used.
1. A can of creamed corn
2. A box of dried pasta brought all the way from Italy
3. A box of strawberry poptarts (what kid doesn't like strawberry poptarts? They're unamerican!)
4. A can of infant formula (my "baby" is now 3 1/2)
5. A box of Wheat Thins (sounds too healthy for anyone to open, apparently, hah!)
5 things you're always reaching for in your pantry and are permanent fixtures on your grocery list.
ketchup
poptarts
Ranch dressing
confectioners sugar
chocolate chips
5 favorite stores that you always shop at
Mervyns
Wal mart ( not a favorite but always there anyways)
Khols
Target
Dollar Store
5 things you wish you would do that you dont do.
clean more
take long soaks in my whirpool tub while reading a book with a glass of wine
eat my veggies
start a garden...i can't even keep artifical plants in my house!!!
sew..know how, but just don't like it much. but have dreams of sewing all these cute clothes and bags and i actually have 2 sewing machines. One has never been taken out of the box!!!
ok, 5 things you do but wish you didn't
This is sooo embarassing LOL
1. count (I tend to count everything. The number of steps I am walking particularly)
2. Shy away from people (I am very introverted)
3. Get angry at stupid drivers (Oops! did I say stupid?)
4. Hit snooze on alarm at least 7 times beforeI finally get out of bed.
5. Hear everything at the same time (My hearing is such that I hear everything around me including air conditioning or any little thing running in the background. It makes me ill.)
5 Exotic animals you would like to own if you could
1. Koala bear
2. Meerkat
3. Polar bear
4. Penguin
5. Elephant
5 of your all time favorite board games
Dust
Lose weight
brave a new hairstyle
quit procrastinating
quit collecting things I have no room for
quit opening my mouth before my brain has time to process......(pretty much all the time I say what I think before thinking about how it will affect the other person, I am really trying to work on this !!!)
5 things that make you always laugh !!!!!!
1. I Love Lucy reruns (what could beat Lucy and Ethel eating chocolates?)
2. My grandchildren's stories about their girlfriends/boyfriends and who is "going with" who, especially the ones in elementary school
3. Politics
4. Looking at pictures in my yearbooks (my oh my! all my friends look funny)
5. People who think they have the answers to everything.
5 things you like to collect
old mixed matched pieces of floral china
cake stands
crosses ( for my wall)
black and white photos
cake stuff
5 things you would like to do before you die ( morbid sounding, but I just watched Last Holiday)
Tour Ireland via horseback
Have a clean desk for more than 2 days
Go on an African safari trip
Watch my children have children
Own a '66 Ford Mustang
Last 5 times you cried- good or bad
Okay, maybe that was a bummer '5' topic. Let's try this: 5 favorite Disney characters! 
1) trailer for Brokeback mountain (shirt in closet scene)
2) holding new grand nephew
3) hugging sis at Christmas
4) seething in frustration!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5) thinking of mom & dad (see post on how met valentine)
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1) Malificent (Sleeping Beauty villian)
2) Pinnochio
3) Jiminy Cricket
4) Mary Poppins
5) all the characters in the "Ballet" segment (Dance of the Hours) in Fantasia
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5 times you howled/laughed for joy!
1. When I got engaged--and I couldn't stop smiling even though by the end of the evening my cheeks hurt!
2. When on our first vacation together my husband farted in his sleep and jumped out of bed and yelled "Did you hear that?! It sounded like a gunshot!!! And then ran out to the balcony and over to check down the hallway of the hotel--and then he FINALLY realized just what that "gunshot" was! It was SO hysterical!
3. When I was pregnant with my son, I had read Genesis 38 and how when Tamar was giving birth to her twins that one stuck his hand out first and I thought (and even said out loud) "That's crazy--what kind of baby is born by sticking his hand out?" And guess what? My son was born hand first! I REALLY laughed at that--sometimes I think that God has the best sense of humor! My son kept that hand on the top of his head for a good two weeks after he was born!
4. Anytime I talk to my best friend. We just crack each other up. My husband doesn't even ask who I was on the phone with--he can tell by how fast I'm talking and how much I'm laughing.
5. When I watch NBC's "The Office"--it is THE funniest thing ever!
5 cleaning or cooking shortcuts you've learned!
1. Use a big bowl for all my "garbage" while cooking (even though Rachel Ray gets on my nerves I got this from her). Makes clean up so much easier
2.Use packeaged yellow rice that I doctor up and frozen boneless, skinless chicken breasts for my chicken and yellow rice. Throw everything in together and bake!
3.Just learned the other day about "hot spots"-places in your house that are always messy. Now I clean my "hot spots" in the morning and at night.
4. I always keep some frozen ravioli, frozen veggies and jar of sauce around if I need a very quick but decent dinner
5. Organized my canned goods by alphabet-a little Sleeping with the Enemy-but I can be disorganized a bit so at least I know what I have while I'm cooking or going to the store.
5 more cooking and cleaning shortcuts (I know I could use all the help I can get-lol)
lotsoftots-I almost fell out of the chair reading #2!!!!
1. One of the first things I learned in Home Economics class was to organize the kitchen. Always put things closest to where you use them.
2. I have a carry all that I put my cleaning supplies in and carry from room to room as I am cleaning.
3. Don't allow smoking in the house. When I quit smoking and quit allowing it in my house, it cut the cleaning in half.
4. I live alone and on a fixed income so buying groceries is tough. I buy large packages of pork chops, hamburger, chicken, etc. I make hamburger patties, seperate the chops, chicken, etc. and put them on cookie sheets in the freezer. Once they are frozen, I pop them off and put them in zipper zip loc bags so I can take out one at a time. Most of the time I use my George Foreman grill and just put them on it frozen.
5. No matter that I have a dishwasher, when I start cooking for a bunch, I make dishwater and do my utensils and pans as I go. Saves so much time after dinner.
Name 5 favorite things to do when you get together with your friends (guys or gals).
1. Eat!
2. Play cards
3. Play board games
4. Talk!
5. Work on various craft projects
5 signs of spring that give you hope that winter will finally be over--since tomorrow is Groundhog Day!
Winter? Here in Missouri we haven't even had what I call winter. Have had 50 and 60 degree weather all through January. Crazy! I figure winter will decide to get here about March. My mom always said sending all these rockets to the moon messed up the seasons. I'll leave the list to someone else--just wanted to comment.
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