2/1/2005 02:47:57 PM|||Amy|||I have a few questions. And since a blog is (and this blog specifically) is a notepad so to speak - what better place to ask them?

1) Whose job was it to teach me how to be articulate? Why am I more articulate when I am so rushed and busy that thought focusing isn't something I have time to think about? Why do I ramble? And can I blame my tendency to ramble on my father?

2) Why didn't my mother freak out when I burned the house down at 13?

3) Are soft drinks really all that bad for you?

4) If I drink a lot of water all the time, will that really stave off the hungries?

5) What is that funky smell wafting up to me from my feet?

6) Do I have time to sneak out and go buy new shoes? Have I mentioned how I wear shoes until they grow enough funk to out funk James Brown?

7) How do I end up in long drawn out conversations with total strangers about the existence of God?

8) Was that media tech guy really hitting on me today, or was he just being kind? If he was hitting on me, did I do a good enough job at freaking him out so that he won't hit on me again? Or have I just encouraged him - which is what I inadvertently tend to do when I just don't have the heart to be cold or indifferent?

9) Do I tell my ex-husband that I have scheduled Bear's 7th birthday party for the weekend he's planning on getting wasted, laid, whatever, it's not my deal anymore in Austin?


|||110729159755656739|||Questions2/1/2005 09:35:44 PM|||Judy The Great|||1)Some freaking school teacher, but hey this is TX. Because you just talk and don't have time to over analyze what your saying. Rambling is fun. Yes, yes you can. You can blame anything on your parents.

2)Medication maybe? Possibly she was just focused on the fact that none of her precious offspring were injured in the fire and therefore absolutly thankful. Hmmm... medication maybe?

3)Yes, yes they are, even the diet ones.

4)Maybe... Are you good at head tricks with yourself?

5)The foot funk.

6)Oh dear lord, I think they'll GIVE you the afternoon off to spend at Payless! yes, yes you have.

7)Because it's fun?

8)Hiting on you. Not a chance. At this moment he's trying to decide exactly where to tatoo your name and how big of a heart to put around it.

9)Would it matter?2/2/2005 12:38:06 PM|||Amy|||Got it. Parents are to blame. My feet smell and no more diet cokes.

But why??? Why are sodas bad?????2/2/2005 04:11:19 PM|||Judy The Great|||Because of the acid in them. Diet sodas do just as much damage to teeth as regular ones.

Also - they contain a lot more sodium than most people realize and phosporous - both of which leach calcium from your bones.