Random Dozen: A New Year, Fresh Random!

So The Biggest Loser did not disappoint last night. My hometown team made me proud and per usual, I cried. I can't wait to see how they and the other teams do this season (and the twins being up for elimination was absolutely heartbraking). But you didn't come here to get my very detailed review of The Biggest Loser, you came for the random. And I am here to serve.

1. On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being a cranky-baby-hissy-fitter, how much of a complainer are you? I'd say a 7 or an 8. I am pretty darn good at complaining. And I've been known to hit a ten+++

2. When someone else is talking, do you listen, or are you thinking about what you're going to say in response? Depends on who is doing the talking. But I find that I am a great multitasker and part of my brain really is listening while the other part is formulating a great response. Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

3. I just deleted 1062 messages from my email account. Do you have any plans for a clean sweep this month--of anything? My bedroom. So far the floor is pretty much cleaned off and most of the dirty clothes (yeah, I said it) are sorted for laundry. I did about four loads on Sunday and have four or five more loads to go. Ask my sister, I have A LOT of clothes.

And now, here are some brilliant questions from a gal named Angie at Angie's Ad Lib who graciously offered to let me borrow her brain. Please go over and see Angie because it was so nice of her to help me out. Thank you so much, Angie!

4. Tell us about your perfume. Was it a gift? What does it remind you of? Do you have a signature scent? I started wearing Philosophy's Amazing Grace a year ago at Christmas and it is my absolute favorite scent ever. It reminds me of a song, but for some reason I can't remember the name of it, but I'm sure it is a hymn, or something....anyways it is a clean, fresh sweet scent, not too overpowering. It is my signature scent. For years I wore Happy from Clinique, but my dad told me one too many times that it reminded him of bug spray. In fact, Amazing Grace is the only perfume I've never heard him comment negatively on when I get in the car with him to drive somewhere. Before Happy I wore Lauren by Ralph Lauren, until one day in Student Senate at college one of my fellow senators asked me what scent I was wearing and, when I told her, informed me that she loved that scent, her grandmother wore it. Which ended my run with Lauren. So there you have it, my history of fragrance. Your welcome.

5. What is your best organizing tip for the new year? Sort and purge, sort and purge.

6. What is your favorite comic strip? Calvin and Hobbes

7. Do you sleep with a fluffy or flat pillow? Several fluffy pillows. Flat pillows are the devil.

8. What color is your kitchen? Why did you choose that color? Well, it's my momma's kitchen, so I didn't pick the color. It's sort of a caffe latte color. I prefer a red or yellow or white kitchen with red accents. I love red.

9. What’s the most interesting bumper sticker you’ve seen? I'm not much a fan of bumper stickers really. The last one I saw that caught my attention said this though: Okay, Jokes over, bring back Bush.

10. Do you prefer an expensive writing tool or whatever is lying around? (Are you a Montblanc or a Papermate?) I prefer a gel ink pen in black, but for the life of me I am looking around my desk and can't find anything but a Bic, so I must not be that picky.

11. What chore doesn’t feel like a chore – you just enjoy it (at least most of the time)? Seriously? Never been a fan of chores, I could rattle one off to you but the minute my sister reads this she'll call me out on it. So. I plead the fifth.

12. If your parents often repeated themselves, what is something one of them said more than once My dad says None-ya a lot. A lot.

So there you have it. A fresh new Random Dozen for a fresh new year. For more head over to Linda's 2nd Cup of Coffee for more.