The topic for this week's Friday 5 is "Sleep"

1. How many hours’ sleep do you need in order to be at your best, and what’s the minimum you can get on a regular basis and still be functional?
I need at least 8hrs to be at my best, the minimum I can have and still be functional is 5hrs.

2. What’s your favorite sleeping position?
I sleep on my side most of the time with a pillow on either side, one in between my legs and cuddling another.

3. What was the cause of your most recent difficulty sleeping?
Stress

4. When you can’t seem to drift off to sleep right away, what are some things you do to bring about sleep?
I just count numbers, not sheep and sometimes I sing myself to sleep.

5. When did you last doze off at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate place?
At work during training in November.

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The topic for this week's Friday 5 is "Similes"

1. Who in your life is as blind as a bat?
I am gonna go with Mark the girls dad.

2. Who in your life is as happy as a clam?
My mom!

3. Who in your life is as mad as a wet hen?
Hummm I do not have an answer for this one I guess I am lucky!

4. Who in your life is as stubborn as a mule?
I am gonna go with my oldest, Cameron

5.Who in your life is as quiet as a mouse?
Our friend Joe is scary quiet does that count? lol

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The topic for this week's Friday 5 is "Getting to Know You"

1. What are the titles of the last three books you read all of?
LOL! There is no telling, I do not remember the last book I finished!

2. What are the titles of between three and five magazines you subscribe to or used to subscribe to?
Wmagazine, People, Parenting Magazine

3. What’s on your night table?
Candles, alarm clock, phone, a few empty soda cans....

4. What are the three best things that happened to you in the past seven days?
1)Our electricity and gas were not shut off Friday
2)Princess had an AWESOME birthday
3) I have an interview for a job next week, finally!!!

5. What was your senior yearbook quote, and what would your yearbook quote be this year if there were such a thing?
I did not have one then.......now I would go with,
"Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success."
-Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

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The topic for this week's Friday 5 is What's It Take?"

1. What does it take to get you to grab the mic and sing in a karaoke room?
Lot's of ALCOHOL!

2. What does it take to get you to give up a whole Saturday to hang out with people you don’t like?
Wow idk food?

3. What does it take to get you out of bed without your hitting the snooze button?
Taking a shower immediately after waking up!

4. What does it take to get you to take someone else’s turn at a really unpleasant task at work or home?
A good compromise!

5. What does it take to get you to eat something you really dislike?
If I really dislike it I am NOT going to eat it unless you pay me a million dollars!

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The topic for this week's Friday 5 is Bottles:

1. When did you last drink something out of a glass bottle?
Oh wow I honestly have no idea........

2. Whose energy would you like to bottle for those future listless days?
Spunky's energy for sure she's a freaking monkey!! lol

3. How many plastic bottles are there in your shower, and what’s in them?
Two, shampoo and conditioner.

4. Who in your life could be described as lightning in a bottle?
I am gonna go with my man!

5. You’re playing Spin-the-Bottle with your sixth-grade classmates. When it’s your turn, to whom do you want the bottle pointing?
Jason Risinger for sure I had the biggest crush on him!

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The topic for this week's Friday 5 is More Less:

1. In what way this week were you reckless?
I was reckless yesterday with the way I handled my fear.

2. In what way this week were you shameless?
I am not sure I have been shameless this week.....it has not been a good one...

3. In what way this week were you fearless?
I have not been fearless this week, in fact I am overcome by fear!!

4. In what way this week were you thoughtless?
I was thoughtless yesterday in the way I treated my mother....

5. In what way this week were you doubtless?
I am doubtless in my love for my children!

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The topic for this week's Friday 5 is Tolerance:

1. How’s your tolerance for alcohol?
Pretty good actually, maybe I should cut back....

2. How’s your tolerance for noisy neighbors?
Zero tolerance!

3. How’s your tolerance for physical pain?
Pretty good in this category as well!

4. How’s your tolerance for intolerant people?
Not very good.

5. How’s your tolerance for bad music?
Zero tolerance, of course that only includes country and elevator music!

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The topic for this week's Friday 5 is U! G! L! Y! You ain’t got no alibi:

1. What’s so ugly it’s kind of cute?
Hairless cats, rats and any other hairless animal!

2. What’s the ugliest article of clothing in your wardrobe?
Has to be the old hand me down clothes from my mom, all of them I cannot choose just one! Sorry mom! lol

3. What’s the ugliest car on the streets today?
I understand the purpose and I think it's awesome, but the Smart Car is hideous!!

4. Under what circumstances are you most likely to whip out your ugliest behavior?
When someone is mean or obnoxious to my children or others children! I have a really hard time not letting the "mama bear" come out in me!

5. Which of the United States of America has the ugliest shape?
Hummm has to be Michigan!

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The topic for this week's Friday 5 is Taboo!

"This week’s 5 is inspired by the party game called Taboo, in which players must make their teammates utter key words by giving them clues. The twist is that each key word is assigned five Taboo words, and players are forbidden from using the Taboo words in their clues. For example, one key word might be milk, and its Taboo words might be dairy, cow, drink, white, and carton. Your clue might be something like, “It’s a beverage from Bessie,” or “You add it to coffee,” or “The land of BLANK and honey,” or “It comes out of breasts.”

Your task is simply to answer these five questions without using any of the Taboo words or phrases. Challenge yourself not just to avoid using the words, but to think of fresh, new answers to these sort of cliched meme questions!"

1. Who’s making a positive difference in your life?
Taboo words: friends, family, husband/wife/spouse, boyfriend/girlfriend.
This is really a hard question for me because currently everyone is really trying to help me get out of this rut! If I had to choose one person I would say Wolf because he saved us last week!!

2. Where would you like to be right now?
Taboo words: home, bed, anywhere but here.
I would like to be on a boat in the middle of the ocean floating along without a care in the world!

3. What’s the first thing you’d do with a $5,000 (or your local equivalent) gift?
Taboo words: save, debt, vacation, payments, invest.
The first thing I would do if I had $5,000 would be to take my family, parents and siblings out to dinner!

4. What super-power would you really like to have?
Taboo words: invisibility, x-ray vision, flying, strength, transform.
I would really like to be able to read people's thoughts, I think.....

5. What’s your favorite sound?
Taboo words: laughter, music, ocean, wind, ____’s voice.
I think my favorite sound would be SILENCE! Does that count? lol

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The topic for this week's Friday 5 is Usefulness:

1. What’s something in your possession that has long outlived its usefulness?
I am gonna go with the broken dryer that is in the garage!

2. Who in your life has proven to be a very useful person to know?
Wow it is hard to pick just one cause I know quite a few useful people.

3. For group projects requiring collaborative planning and then collaborative execution, in what capacity are you most useful?

I am most useful in the planning and organizing stages.

4. What’s something someone gave you that you didn’t think much of but later became surprisingly useful?
The cool neck and shoulder herbal pack mom got me years ago (like the one below) has really come in handy lately! 5. What is the most useful book in your house?
LOL! I am not sure we have any "useful" books!

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The topic for this week's Friday 5 is Scattergories:

"First, go to this nifty online random-letter generator. Set the “number of random letter sequences to generate” to 1. Set the “length of each random letter sequence” to 1. Leave the “letters to choose from” how it is and click the button. You’ll get a rather non-dramatic one letter. Use that letter to begin all your answers to the 5 questions below.

Alternately, if you find that boring, you could set the “length of each random letter sequence” to 5, thereby giving you five letters, a different one for each question.

Let’s rock!"

What random letter was generated by the online random-letter generator? (this doesn’t really count as one of your five questions)
W

1. With what famous person, whose name begins with the letter in question #1, would you most like to be stuck on a desert island?
Will Ferrell cause as least I know he would keep us laughing and people would be searching for him! lol

2. What food item, whose name begins with the letter in question #1, can always be found in your pantry?
White wine vinegar

3. What song, whose title begins with the letter in question #1, always makes you feel good?
Aerosmith ~ Walk on Water (lol cause I am an old Aerosmith fan)

4. What is your least-favorite film whose title begins with the letter in question #1?
Waterworld

5. What unusual animal, whose name begins with the letter in question #1, would be a fun pet?
A Walrus would be fun and interesting!

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The topic for today's Friday 5 is Holes:

1. Where can you go for a really good bagel, and how do you like yours?
Einstein's for sure and I like my plain just the way it is.

2. What is your favorite style of doughnut?
My favorite is just regular glazed and on occasion strawberry jelly donuts are good!

3. What’s your favorite flavor of Lifesavers?
Pina Colada

4. What O-shaped breakfast cereals do you like?
Cheerios and Fruit Loops are the only ones I can think of! lol

5. How do you feel about onion rings, and where can you get some good ones?
I love onion rings and the best place I have found to get them is Sonic imo!

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The topic for today's Friday 5 is Fireworks:

1. How do you feel about fireworks displays?
I LOVE fireworks displays!! I honestly love everything about the fourth of July and I cannot wait for Saturday!! :)

2. What were the details surrounding one of your mishaps with fire?
We have never thankfully had a big mishap with fire. A few years ago though when the girls were four and six one of my family members gave them each a lit sparkler without my knowledge which nearly lead to a huge catastrophe and hair on fire!!

3. Who in your life could be described as a real firecracker?
I am going to have to go with my sister Emily for this one! lol

4. When did you last feel you were being put on display?
A couple of months ago.......

5. How confident are you in your barbecue skills?
I am not to terribly confident in my BBQ skills. I much prefer to let the men do the barbecuing!!

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The topic for today's Friday 5 is News:

1. Where do you get most of your information about current local events?
From our local news stations website.

2. Where do you get most of your information about current national and international events?
CNN, Reuters and Yahoo

3. Who in your family always is most likely to know what’s up with everyone else in your family?
My mother or Emily lol

4.Which of your friends always seems to know what’s going on?
Stacia :)

5. What other kinds of news do you try to keep up-to-date on and where do you get it?
I like to keep up with the odd news on yahoo, I usually find it to be pretty interesting! lol

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The topic for today's Friday 5 is Dairy:

1. What are your feelings about milk?
I cannot stand it unless it is flavored with chocolate or leftover from cereal.

2. What are your feelings about cheese?
I am really picky about my cheese. lol I like all the basic cheeses like Mozzarella, Cheddar, Colby etc, but I am not big on the more fragrant types of cheese.

3. What are your feelings about yogurt?
I LOVE it! :)

4. How do you feel about soy milk?
YUCK!

5. How far are you from the nearest cow?
LOL! I am in the middle of a city, I have no idea where the nearest cow would be!

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The topic for today's Friday 5 is Eat and Drink:

1. What’s something you will not eat unless you also have ketchup?
French Fries

2. What’s something you will not drink unless it is served on ice cubes?
Ice Tea

3. What’s something you will not eat unless it is served between slices of bread?
Sloppy Joes

4. What’s something you will not drink unless you have a straw?
Milkshakes!

5. What’s something else you will not eat except under very specific circumstances?
Sandwiches are something I am very very picky about. They have to be made on rolls or subs not regular bread and NO Mayo!

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The topic for today's Friday 5 is Bugs:

1. What bugs truly freak you out?
Cockroaches, beetles and pretty much any creepy crawly's!

2. Which Bugs Bunny cartoon do you remember most fondly?
I love them all and I especially love Marvin the Martian!!
3. What bugs you most about your life online?
That most of my friends live in my computer! lol

4. Which of your favorite websites seems often to be especially buggy?
Facebook drives me bonkers with buggy issues!

5. When were you last too sick to get out of bed?
This morning actually, I did not crawl out of bed until after 5pm.

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The topic for today's Friday 5 is Longs and Shorts:

1. What is the longest you’ve gone between haircuts?
Oh gosh probably about a year. lol

2. What is the shortest hour of the day?
Probably between 8pm and 9pm

3. What is the longest line you’ve ever stood in?
Gosh that's a hard one, had to be at one of the many theme parks I have been to.

4. Who’s your shortest adult friend?
Missy :)

5. Who among your current friends have you known the longest?
Stacia :)

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The topic for today's Friday 5 is Lessons:

1. What kind of out-of-school lessons did you take as a kid?
I took Piano lessons and I had a tutor for math.

2. What valuable lesson did you learn this past week?
That I need to be much more patient and tolerant of others. I will be working a lot harder on that from this point forward.

3. Who in your life really needs to be taught a lesson?
I have just the person in mind, but I am not naming names! lol

4. What kinds of lessons would you love to have a private teacher for right now?
I would love a personal trainer, but that is not really a teacher is it? lol I would love a private teacher to learn Spanish.

5. What steps have you taken to lessen the impact of these rough economic times?
We have cut out pretty much anything that is not really a need. We plan fun activities to do here at home more often and just generally try to watch our spending.

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The topic for today's Friday 5 is Opps:

1. Which of your friends is the most frugal?
I am thinking Stacia although I am not sure frugal is the right word.

2. Which of your friends is the biggest spendthrift?
LOL the first that came to mind is Julie, although she is not really a spendthrift she just loves her purses! ;)

3. Which of your friends is the most daring?
Probably Debra she is always up for something new and adventurous!

4. Which of your friends is the most cautious?
I am going to say Rhonda :)

5. Which of your friends has the hottest temper?
I am having the hardest time with this one because none of my friends really have a hot temper, that bothers me.

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