Tagged: 10 Things About Me

Think your friends and family know you? Perhaps there are things they are missing! Tag your it! Rules: Things have to be about YOU, not places you've been to, people you know, etc. Whom will you tag? Now, here is the chance for 3 friends to join in. Thanks to my sister Deborah, I've been tagged. Hmmmm.....

1. My middle name is starts with M. No its not Maria! However, it is Wendy's grandma's name in Peter Pan, or shall I say Hook....yes it's Mayra.

2. In high school, I was in marching band, took sewing for 4-5 years, took photography, in DECA, and took welding and auto mechanics talk about a variety of classes.

3. I took the ASVAB Test (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) and scored high in the Engineering and low in the Home Economic portion. Note: it was the 80's and my mom didn't want me to join the Armed Forced and become an airplane mechanic. My vision is not 20/20, otherwise I would have loved to be a pilot:) She felt it was not for proper girls. The Air Force, which I really wanted to go to, kept calling interested in me. I respected my moms wishes and after I married my first husband, she told me she regret me not enlisting.

4. I was a Bluebird first & later a Girl Scout.

5. My favorite color: none. I love colors that remind me of the ocean sunset. Blue/Purple/Red/White/Deep Green, kinda like a peacock feather.

6. I sometimes think I was born in the wrong era. I love the 1930's-1960's. I also like the Victorian and Renaissance era. Yet I'm glad I'm living today, where there are vaccines, epidurals, tampons, deodorants, woman rights and voting, washing machines, and especially the A/C.

7. I love Music. I haven't played the piano in aloooooooong time, but I can still play Moonlight Sonata. I some day will have my piano. Until then, I love buying sheet music, even though I don't have a piano.

8. I want to learn to play the harp and guitar.

9. The same daughter that wants to send me to What Not to Wear, thinks I collect junk. I just say, "Don't Hate, Appreciate". I collect Renaissance Swords, Fairies, I collect Coca-Cola (Pepsi not allowed in my home), Shells and anything Beach/Nautical/Ocean, I collect musical instruments from around the world, Pottery, Vintage Kitchen anything (table clothes, doilies, aprons, kitchen utensils, bowls), Pin-up Corona and vintage tropical & Garden Deco.

10. I love visiting small towns and trying family restaurants and shopping in 2nd hand and antique shops with my husband.

Chalo's Family Restaurant and Soda Pops Antique Store Located in Globe, AZ

Wow, that was HARD! OK, I tag, Rachelle, Molly, Rachel and all you visitors. Let me know when you post your tag:)

I've been tagged by my little cousin Cassie:{

Experience Tag
To participate, just copy and paste in your own blog, and bold all of the things you have done.
1. Started your own blog (bnaalfaro.blogspot.com, hell-0)
2. Slept under the stars (In my front lawn when our AC broke when I was little & Camping)
3. Played in a band (Clarinet)
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower (in San Carlos & Flagstaff, AZ
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain (And a Pyramid in Mexico, That was worse!)
9. Held a praying mantis (Many a times)
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris (Paris, KY & Paris, TX)
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Taught yourself an art from scratch
14. Adopted a child
15. Had food poisoning
16. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
17. Grown your own vegetables (My tomatoes are growing in again now, and bell peppers)
18. Seen the Mona Lisa in France (Someday!)
19. Slept on an overnight train (no, but I've been on a train ride)
20. Had a pillow fight
21. Hitch hiked (Never!)
22. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
23. Built a snow fort
24. Held a lamb (At the zoo)
25. Gone skinny dipping (In a Pool)
26. Run a Marathon (A little one when I was a kid)
27. Ridden in a gondola in Venice (In Mexico City I have)
28. Seen a total eclipse
29. Watched a sunrise or sunset
30. Hit a home run
31. Been on a cruise (Does a yacht count? then yes)
32. Seen Niagara Falls in person
33. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
34. Seen an Amish community (In Tennessee and Mexico)
35. Taught yourself a new language (When I worked at Sprint and I also handled Italian and Portuguese, I can't speak it anymore, I could understand it though. And a little Japanese)
36. Had enough money to be truly satisfied (for a very short time)
37. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
38. Gone rock climbing
39. Seen Michelangelo’s David
40. Sung karaoke
41. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
42. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant (The Missionaries and Occasional homeless people in McDonald's)
43. Visited Africa
44. Walked on a beach by moonlight
45. Been transported in an ambulance
46. Had your portrait painted
47. Gone deep sea fishing (I tagged along)
48. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
49. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris (There is to much France questions, blah!)
50. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
51. Kissed in the rain
52. Played in the mud
53. Gone to a drive-in theater (Every Spring and Fall here in Scottsdale AZ)
54. Been in a movie (for 2 seconds)
55. Visited the Great Wall of China
56. Started a business (Lemonade? HA HA) I ditto Cassandra & Babysitting
57. Taken a martial arts class
58. Visited Russia
59. Served at a soup kitchen
60. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
61. Gone whale watching
62. Got flowers for no reason
63. Donated blood, platelets or plasma (I tried but was denied because I almost passed out)
64. Gone sky diving (Does para sailing count? then yes)
65. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
66. Bounced a check (That was embarrassing)
67. Flown in a helicopter
68. Saved a favorite childhood toy (Yes, but my EX threw it away, my bunny argh!!)
69. Visited the Lincoln Memorial (We drove by)
70. Eaten Caviar (Blah!)
71. Pieced a quilt
72. Stood in Times Square
73. Toured the Everglades
74. Been fired from a job (Actually, layed-off, but same thing)
75. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
76. Broken a bone
77. Been on a speeding motorcycle
78. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
79. Published a book
80. Visited the Vatican
81. Bought a brand new car
82. Walked in Jerusalem
83. Had your picture in the newspaper (The Beehive)
84. Read the entire Bible (3X's)
85. Visited the White House (Outside the gates)
86. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (If trout counts)
87. Had chickenpox
88. Saved someone’s life
89. Sat on a jury
90. Met someone famous
91. Joined a book club
92. Lost a loved one
93. Had a baby (4 and then added 6 more)
94. Seen the Alamo in person
95. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
96. Been involved in a law suit
97. Owned a cell phone
98. Been stung by a bee (And a WASP! That was more painful)
99. Seen Mount Rushmore in person
100. Learned to play an instrument (Piano, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Oboe)
Tag Since Cassie tagged Deborah my sister, I'll say Maren, Molly, and anyone else who is reading this.
Please let me know when you posted your tag so I can take a peak!
Ciao for now,
Arnnette

Christmas Tag

I'm pretty much tagging anyone who reads this. Rules are you have to copy and paste this onto your blog. Thank you Deborah, Merry Christmas!!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Gift Bags for adults, wrapping paper for kids. It's fun to see the young kids unwrap their gifts. Although my sister has a point, I like the convience of gift bags and whatever is less expensive, including newspaper. For reals, we gift wrapped my stepdads fathers day gift in the sports section.
2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial. I don't even think I would know how to put up a real tree. I've never done it. How sad. Artificial, haven't heard our ozone is dying. WE NEED MORE TREES PLANTED NOT TAKEN AWAY FROM MOTHER EARTH. PS. Deborah, it's the same way to put up, just add sugar water daily if needed so that the tree doesn't burn like Gramita's did when she was a child.
3. When do you put up the tree? Just to give you an idea, my Thanksgiving decorations are still up. LOL, The day after Thanksgiving.
4. When do you take the tree down? After New Year's. Ditto.
5 . Do you like eggnog? Yes. Ditto, and I like it more when I didn't know it was made with real rum, ;).
6. Favorite gift received as a child? I can't remember a specific gift but every Christmas was great! Hey, I filled this out already! Click here. I knew the questions were beginning to sound too familiar. I'll skip to 25.
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? To be with the ones I love and have fun. I ditto this too, however I also like my original answer too, HAHAHA. I know you want that trip to Hawaii for X-Mas, don't lie Deb's. Merry Christmas everyone!

Getting to Know You

Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your friends.
Okay, here's what you're supposed to do, and try not to be a SCROOGE!!! Just copy (not forward) this entire email (in this case your blog) and paste into a new e-mail (blog) that you can send. Change all the answers so that they apply to you. Then send this to a whole bunch of people you know, INCLUDING the person that sent it to you(Please comment that you posted this on your blog, so I can get to know you)......Tis the Season to be NICE!
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Gift Bags
2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial, save the trees. (I like to free branches and make wreaths or swags from the tree stands and make my home smell fresh as if I have a live tree)
3. When do you put up the tree? Weekend after Thanksgiving
4. When do you take the tree down? After New Year
5 . Do you like eggnog? Yes! Especially the ones you didn't know were made with rum, hee hee.
6. Favorite gift received as a child? My tape recorder.
7. Hardest person to buy for? Mundo
8. Easiest person to buy for? Ayla
9. Do you have a nativity scene? Not one, many from around the world.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Email. I always buy cards and don't send them off.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I got a bunch of barbie stuff, the house, the car, the dolls, eww! I didn't like dolls especially Barbie. I played teacher with my stuffed animals, danced and sang in my room while I looked at all my Teen Beat photos on my wall of John Travolta, Rob Lowe etc., and played out side with the greenmachine, starwars with the neighborhood kids or hide and seek.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Charlie Brown and the dead christmas tree that I love so much, Wizard of Oz, Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, White Christmas, Home Alone, The Little Drummer boy, Miracle on 34th street, and It's a wonderful life. Oh and A Christmas Carol and Frosty the snow man. Have I ever told you I don't have just one favorite of anything?
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? All year long.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Hmmm.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Costa Rican tamales and Bunuelos with Champurrado
16. Lights on the tree? Yes
17. Favorite Christmas song? Holy Night. Away on a Manger, Silent Night, Ave Maria, Baby it's cold outside
18. Travel at Christmas or stay at home? Home
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? How can you forget..."Now Dasher! Now Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen!On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donder and Blitzen!To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall!Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!" and lets not forget Rudolph.
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? A bird house with fairies painted on it, although I want Tinkerbell from Disney store.
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas Eve, Christmas Day is for Christ.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? The meaning seems to be lost.
23. What theme or color are you using? Fairies and Nature.
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Did I not say Naca/Tica Tamales
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? I want a gift card to Desert Book Store, Kohls, or Lowes.
Ciao for Now,
Arnnette
Please let me know if you post this or email me.