Cardiogirl: 19% body fat 100% fun

Do you plan on “going back to work” when your kids are older? This is a question I have been wrestling with myself; do I try to find something that I can stay at home and do, like on the computer, or do I return to -horrors- corporate America?

Do you know the history of the low top and when the first was released?

Yes, I will be going back. Ideally I would like to work in my kids’ school then I’d have the same vacations/school breaks but I’m sure every other stay-at-home mother out there would like to do the same thing. I’m going to try to find something part time (10-3) while my kids are in school when my youngest is in first grade — 2011-2012 school year.

I do not want to go back to corporate America. (shudders)

How did you end up with three girls when you wanted a hysterectomy for Christmas?

Not much more than what Wikipedia has told me — they were first produced in 1917 and Chuck Taylor was a basketball player who helped refine the design and then went on to sell the hell out of them.

That’s all I need to know.

I know. That karma is one tricky betch, isn’t she? When Mr. C and talked about getting married we talked about the kid thing. I agreed to one (somewhat grudgingly) and then said I’d reassess later.

He did mention up front that he’d like to have three.

Even though I agreed to the one I didn’t think I’d have a biological urge kick in, but it did around 30 and then my first kid hopped on the scene at 32.

I still can’t believe *I* — of all people — have three kids. I really think I will go to my grave not believing that.

What was your passion as a child?

Reading, jack. I was living in the Adult Reading Room at our local library by the time I was ten years old. The librarian constantly asked me if my parents knew what I was reading (Sidney Sheldon and Jackie Collins at that time) and I told her, “Yes, ma’am. They don’t care what I read. You can call them.”

And it was true. I never hid what I was reading and I always sat on the couch in the living room with my nose in a book. They never did pay attention to what I was reading.

Now that it’s been 30+ years I finally have an idea of what Jackie Collins was talking about :)

If one of your siblings (and spouse) were to die unexpectedly, would you want to or be willing to take over guardianship of their children?

Second ? – if you are up for two – whatever happened to Guilty Secret? Your snapfish thing reminded me of her and when I tried to view her blogs, they were both private.

I keep meaning to leave a message on your cool vocal comment forum (since I was the one who expressed the nostalgia for it), but cannot snag either a moment without loud children in the background or a brain wave that moves in a straight trajectory!

“I do not want to go back to corporate America. (shudders)”

i told you what this sucks. M.B. i want out.

besides being a writer, your alternative career would have been…

favorite dish….

hobby….

talents….other than writing

oh if you’re going back to work next year, will we still get the a.m. edition of cardiogirl. you’re kind of part of my routine, jinjah. so selfish of me, thinking only of me.

one question? okay pick one then.

that’s all for me.

If money/time/child care etc wasn’t an issue, where would you want to go for a week or two long, completely free vacation? Kinda lame but all I could come up with…lol

I finally left you a (very, very lame) comment on your voice recorder thingy over there!

My initial comment actually involved using ~!~ as a spoken-word punctuation, which I was very proud of, but at this point I feel like it’s lame to leave you a message about my imaginary dog that pees on things.

As for a question for you … what’s your drink of choice at parties/bars? (Everyone else may already know this, but I am relatively new to the Empire, so I don’t!)

First of all, you really should eat something other than Kraft Mayonnaise. Throw in a burger with it at least. lol

Okay, how about favorite movie of all time? Cliche question, but I’d still like to know.

Zeus

If they were making a movie of your life, what actress would you have play you?

LJ,

I love that question! I’m going to use it in my next round of 21 questions with my next potential date. I love it!

Eliz. stole my question. That’s what I get for being slow to the post. But now I know the evolution of Cardio-Mom.

me too. good question. i’m interested in the answer. don’t say marge simpson either, cg.

I had a good feeling things haven’t changed much even though it’s been almost a decade.

Glad I could clear that up, Bumbles. It’s funny but Cardiogirl sounds normal, but Cardio-Mom makes me think of some sort of bionic woman.

Don’t know why that is, but I like Cardiogirl better.

Hmm, not my own siblings but I would take my husband’s sister’s kids.

Guilty Secret is now Cate Subrosa and she can be found at Project Subrosa. Tell her I said hi!

I’d be interested in being a doctor or a physician’s assistant.

I love the blue corn enchiladas at El Azteco in East Lansing, MI. (Kisses finger tips and then sprays them in front of her) delicious!

I do love quilting but haven’t done that in forever and a day, but it is a hobby.

Talents, eh? I can speak aighy paighy fluently. And I will always write first thing in the am.

Haha my parents didn’t care either. I was reading Jean M. Auel (complete with graphic sex scenes) and Robert Heinlein when I was ten. My parents just figured it was better than me running the streets.

Ugh. I don’t know if we can still be friends. I will only eat Hellmann’s mayonnaise (Best Foods mayo, west of the Rockies). And my sister bought Kraft mayo when she was here over Christmas and it was all I could do to choke it down. What, I wasn’t going to throw it out. Waste money?? Hmph.

Gosh, coming up with a question is hard work! Hmmm. OK, do you ever wish one of your girls had turned out a boy? I don’t mean throwing a specific kid back and getting a boy; I’m just wondering if you enjoy having three girls or do you wish you had a boy in there too? (Me, no way. I’m perfectly fine being the mother of not-very-girly girls.)

I love it! Thanks Erin! It seems all of my chick peeps have happy, female voices that lack any trace of a monotone.

Unlike mine.

Hmm. The drink. I like Diet Pepsi but when I am drinking an alcoholic drink I like a Fuzzy Navel.

(laughs) Mr. C says the same thing. Would you like a burger/bacon/tomato/etc. with that mayo?

Pulp Fiction, hands down. No need to look any further. I also really enjoy A Few Good Men. But if I had to pick I’d go with PF.

Alright, back in the day many people told me I looked like Kelly McGillis. It was when Top Gun was big and we had the same hair style. It was the hair style, trust me.

So I don’t really think we’d look alike if she had bangs and a ponytail, but if I have to pick, it’s her back in the early 90s.

Yes ma’am, I’d go. I want to go to that resort that Tracy mentioned that’s owned by the super millionaire. Let me look it up and I’ll come back with the answer.

It’s Necker Island in the Caribbean. Is that Care-uh-be-enn or Kuh-rib-ee-enn?

@Lola Hey, thanks for letting me snag your coattails. And you will be writing about that experience, won’t you?

@V I want to know who YOUR choice for YOU is, V.

Blue, my chin is trembling and I’m ready to cry.

But I refuse to eat Hellmann’s. I really would have thrown it away after she left.

You know, I’ve always been afraid of raising boys. The first time around I thought Katie was a boy. I was positive and I really would have been cool with it if the first kid was a boy, but as soon as she turned out to be a girl I could imagine boys in the house. And I was really nervous that we would have a boy with each pregnancy after.

So no. I’m not missin’ any of that.

I like Pulp Fiction. Good choice.

I won’t make a comment about this “also really enjoy A Few Good Men”. lol

PS I’m in a weird mood today.

I didn’t even notice that. But it is, uh, interesting eh?

Is that the Clan of the Cave Bear chick? I know I read three or four of those as a youngster. But I couldn’t tell you what they are about today.

Yuck. Kraft Mayo. Wrecking good food everywhere :-)

Questions: Have you ever squeezed a bird? (lightly)(ask JD if you don’t know about squeezing birds, or search my blog)

What critter are you afraid of?

How far in every direction have you traveled from your birth place?

Are you worried about 2012?

No problem.

No, I won’t be writing about my actual dates, I will only be writing about my club experiences or event experiences. I don’t feel comfortable blogging about actual dates, even if they are extremely humorous and very blog worthy fodder. But if you’d like to know about my date with “granny a**” last Saturday, email me, I’ll be happy to share via email, but I don’t feel comfortable broadcasting it. Lin nicknamed that date “granny a**”. Lol!

Oh Tim-in-my-head-who-is-now-really-Ernie-but-is-jacking-up-my-visuals, let’s not start this with a condiment smack down, okay?

I have not squeezed/squozen a bird heavily or lightly, ever. Although, I’m sort of intrigued by it now that you mention it. I’d want to do some tandem bird squeezing where you are the expert and I just stand by watching and covering my head in fear of my eyes being poked out.

Rats, spiders, gerbils, hamsters, worms, bugs, moths, daddy long legs, snails. Just about every animal that is not a cat.

Hmm. The furthest south was Cancun and the furthest, um, east around the globe was London.

I have a very vague idea of 2012. Is the world supposed to explode or something? So no. I’m too uninformed and too lazy to look it up. Are you worried? Are all the cool kids worried? Should I be worried?

Being a real prick helps. That’s why my husband is so good at it.

I always hate(d) being called girl. Like, “Hey girl, what’s up?” Seriously? High school was awhile ago.

But you’re right, Cardiomom doesn’t fit. It’s very over controlling, throwing hissy fits at PTA meetings to me.

I’m just glad it was Mr. C’s doing. Because I have the opposite pressure. Jeff has told me that as soon as I start getting baby fever from my impending niece that I’m banned from the baby sections. Because I can’t deal with two biological clocks.

I love mayo. I buy Kraft too. I’ve given it up for Lent a few times. It doesn’t help.

You want me on that wall…! An old roommate and I would do that whole thing together. I miss that guy.

Good Choice!!!!

Uh, if something happened to Mr. Cardiogirl, would you marry again?

And,

What is your most favorite Chuck Taylor EVER? Describe in detail please.

I don’t have a question, I just thought this was a neat idea and enjoyed looking through all of the questions folks asked you. P.S. Holy crap, you *did* look like Kelly McGillis. And Top Gun was one of my *favorite* movies! I wanted to be a fighter pilot when I grew up. Too bad no one told me you had to have the grades of a Harvard grad to be a fighter pilot. Oh well.

Done! Watch your email, sistah.

No, I don’t think so — definitely not while my kids were still kids. I’m pretty sure I couldn’t deal with the whole blended family gig until my youngest was at least 25 and out of the house. His kids would have to be adults and out of the house as well.

And by the time Emily is 25 I’ll be 72 and I don’t think I want to be a bride at 72.

Hmm. I need to get back to you on the fave Chuck (adjusts thinking cap and assumes the pose of bending at the waist with her elbows on her knees and her chin propped on her closed fists.)

Yay! Allie’s back (jumps up and down) I missed you woman!

It was a fun idea, wasn’t it? Props to Lola.

After I saw that movie I wanted blond highlights and a bomber jacket with the sleeves pushed up.

Thanks! Although she doesn’t look like that today. At. All. And I don’t either.

I do love quoting numerous items from a Few Good Men and when Jack said I wanted him on that wall, I believed him.

It depends on who’s calling me girl. Just the other day I was standing in line at Walgreen’s while an old, cantankerous (read fighting) couple was standing in front of the cash register trying to figure out what sort of phone card to buy. I was buying six candy bracelets. After arguing for a minute the husband started to walk away and barked, “Let this girl go ahead, she only has a few things.”

And I thought, yeah. I am a girl, dammit. A 42-year-old who a surly old man has deemed a girl. Sweep the Leg!

I see.

i was thinking about this and i pick jamie foxx. haha. strangers come up to me and say i look so familiar and then they tell me i look like someone they know, but never compare me to an actress. i tell them that my photo is on the wall in the post office. they laugh and go away.

um i can’t think of anyone that has a mug like mine.

Hmmm. Attack of what my husband calls my Southern naivete.

I would prefer to hear young lady/woman.

But understand on the Sweep the Leg part. When people started calling me ma’am on a consistent basis, it freaked me out a bit because I was always the one saying “Yes, ma’am.” Not the other way around.

Woah! A picture of CG! Now I will have that picture of you in my head.

You did look like her!

I like that — my mug is on the wall at the post office. I have that Everywoman face. I’m not kidding when I say almost every other person I meet asks me, “Do I know you? (No.) Do you work at Henry Ford Hospital? (No, but I think it would be interesting.) Did we go to high school together? (No.) You look so familiar.”

That’s when I give by standard reply, “No, but everyone says that. I just have one of those faces.”

I’ve crossed over to ma’am territory. I do expect it now, but it’s nice when I hear something else.

Yeah, I don’t really look like that anymore, but I like the idea of looking like that in your head. I was 27 then, not 42.