The random and the happy.

I've been tagged by a fellow blogger and now I'm supposed to tell five random things about me and six things that make me happy. Here goes:

The Random

1. I just tried to work on weeding my flower bed, but it was chillier than I thought and windy as heck. I felt like some crazy pioneer lady until I realized that no one was making me stay out there in misery. I flung off my gloves and came in. I love being the boss-lady.
2. I am pondering a significant change in my hair style.
3. I have a strange interest in shopping via your television. I have never exercised the option to buy, but I like to watch fairly regularly. My favorite things to tune in for are home storage/organizational stuff (I like to think about getting organized) and women's clothing (I am fascinated by their selling techniques and the obvious following that have of people who seem to buy all their clothes this way.)
4. I have a trashy side to me that honestly prefers cheaper, more juvenile versions of things than nice stuff. Case in point, McDonald's honestly is about my favorite restaurant. You could never take me there and have me be disappointed or tired of it. I'm not exaggerating. I think that this part of me is generally contained within the food category, but it sometimes rears is bizarre head in other areas of my life as well. Sometimes I have to hide this trait in front of people I'm afraid will think I'm gross. Only Dan has seen it all. I've even been known to bring my own artificial syrup to Cracker Barrel cause their real stuff doesn't do it for me.
5. We went to our first dog show yesterday. It was so interesting. There are some wild and crazy looking dogs out there. We went in support of our neighbor who is a Rottweiler, Nashville. He's a gorgeous dog and we cheered wildly for him. He didn't take best-in-show, for which we felt righteous indignation. He was by far the superior dog.

The Happy

1. Harrison is getting surgery in less than 48 hours! To some, this may sound alarming or at least not happy, but at this point I CAN'T WAIT. His ear infection is out of control, not responding to the strongest injections of antibiotics. It breaks my heart to see him dealing with this on a daily basis, and I just want it fixed. As nervous as I am about my baby having surgery, I don't see any other options at this point.
2. I am married to the sweetest, most thoughtful man in the world. Words don't do him or his smokin' hot good looks justice.
3. H-man has this special "na-naah" sound that he makes whenever he's holding two of something. It must have started when he would find two binkies and celebrate, but it's moved on to anything he can find a pair of. I can be in another room or upstairs, and if I hear his specially intoned "na-naah," then I know if I go find him he will be victoriously holding a pair of something above his head. I don't know why this makes me so happy, but I grin from ear to ear every time I hear it.
4. I get to go to Boston and see my favorit-o girls Bren-Bren and Robin in a couple of weeks. Harrison is coming too. We're also going to get to see Aunt Trish and Uncle Scott and my sweet nieces and nephew while we're there. I can't wait. And almost as soon as we get back, the whole family is headed to Detroit to see the Tigers, Pistons, and Red Wings.
5. I mowed the yard for the first time this season a couple days ago. We have so many wild onions growing that it really smelled like I was mowing down an onion patch. The weather is beautiful and we love being outside. (If you're wondering, I wrote #1 of the randoms over a week ago and left it as a draft unfinished till now. Hence the change in my feelings about the weather.)
6. Dan and I are feeling so blessed to be welcoming the newest member of our family this September. This is obviously a very happy thing, but it belongs here doubly because I'm now 13 weeks and should be out of the pukey stage soon. Yeah!

I now tag: Jamie, Becca, Flee, Cora, Shell, and Ender