Five Question Friday! 10/8/10

Ohmigosh. It is supposed to be a balmy, gorgeous, amazing 80 degrees here today. One year ago, we had 2 inches of snow on the ground.

"MinneSOOOOOta's like a box of chocolates, you never know what'cher gonna git."

In other MinneSOOOOta news...our Twins could really use some rootin'. Much as I know the Yankees are near and dear to much of America's hearts, they need to get their behinds whooped, wait, what? Did someone say something? Hmmm, I coulda sworn I heard someone say the Yankees need to get their butts kicked.

Did you hear it too?

Anyway, could you please root for my Joe. And Denard. And Delmon and Michael and Justin and all those other guys. Oh, and I think Mr. Gardenhire would appreciate your prayers too.

GO TWINS!!!!

In yet other MinneSOOOOTa news, I received a "survey" phone call about our upcoming elections...I usually don't participate in these phone calls, but I was caught off guard, and the Mr. wasn't home to hand the phone to, so I was stuck.

I answered as best I could. Then, I said something kinda spunky and silly and made the girl on the other end laugh just a tiny bit. Only, I'm not sure if she was laughing with me or at me. I couldn't tell, so I just tell my self that it was a "laughing with me" moment. It makes me feel better that way.

And, in some final MinneSOOOOta news...

LIVE, FROM MINNEsooooooTA, IT'S FIVE QUESTION FRIDAY!!!!!!

Rules for 5QF: Easy as pie!! For real...easiest blog hop around! Just copy and paste the following questions to your blog post, answer them, then c'mon back tomorrow am (bright and early) for the linky and link your post up! If you don't have a blog (or already wrote a post), but still wanna join in...just leave your answers in the comments below!

Remember...I always leave the linky open until Sunday night!

Questions for Friday, October 8th: (Special thanks to Colleen [Colleen, you need a blog!!],Jesslyn Amber, Chrissy, Nel, and Tiffany for their question suggestions! Wanna be linked in a future 5QF? If so c'mon over and offer up your best question suggestions!!)

1. What do you listen to while driving?

2. What is your least favorite thing about Fall?

3. What does your dream house look like, inside and out?

4. Would you ever own a minivan?

5. Do you wash new clothes before wearing them?

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1. What do you listen to while driving?

Hmmm...well, where do I start?

This is typically what I listen to:

"Stop hitting me!!!"

"Gimme (fill in the blank here) back!!!"

"Mom, s/he took my (fill in the blank here)!"

"Mom, can we go to WalMart/Target/The Toy Store/The Dairy Queen?"

"Mom, s/he's bein' mean!!"

"Mom..."

"Mom..."

"Mom..."

Yeah, that about sums it up.

Now...if I happen to be alone in the car...I'll turn on the Country station and hope for a good song to come on. Or, I'll call up one of my long lost friends and revel in a phone call that goes uninterrupted by, "Mom?" "Mom?" "MOM?!" MOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!"

Ahhhhh...the things a mother comes to appreciate.

2. What is your least favorite thing about Fall?

Hands down, without a doubt, no questions asked...it's knowing that winter is not too far off. :(

I'm not a fan of winter. Heck, I had barely started aclimating to the 50 degree weather we'd been having when all of a sudden we get 80 tossed at us.

How in the heck is a girl supposed to regulate her body temperature when the outside temperature doesn't know what it's doing?

For Sale: MinneSOOOOta weather. Will trade, even up, for someone to take out the Yankees.

Wait. That's a win, win for me. Nevermind.

3. What does your dream house look like, inside and out?

My dream home would be on a lake. Grand in size, homey as all get out. With a great big kitchen, a giant master suite, hardwood floors, a stone fireplace, and all of my family under the roof.

My husband would prefer that I add "hobby farm" to our dream home. I guess I wouldn't mind that, as long as the "farm" part didn't make it's way into our home.

A hobby farm on a lake.

Hence, "dream home". It doesn't exist.

4. Would you ever own a minivan?

Own one, hell, I try to sell my friends on them!!!

I am a minivan pimp. Minivans are the bomb-diggity. In fact, if my husband would let me and if my teenager wouldn't be mortified, I'd drive a conversion van.

Then, each kid could have their own row, wouldn't be able to touch one another, and we'd avoid the above scenarios in question #1.

Conversion vans are the bee's knees. I'm convinced of it.

Dude...if you think you don't want a minivan...just do it. They are the best thing that happened to moms since sliced bread.

Or, breast pumps.

Or, maybe since TV dinners.

Minivans are the best. Amen, end of story. Good night, peace out.

Oh, wait...there's one more question...

5. Do you wash new clothes before wearing them?

Well, I used to give it the college try. I would pry them out of my 9 year old fashion maven's hands if I could, but if I didn't get to them?

Meh.

But then...but THEN!! I heard that a certain large department store's clothes are sprayed with insecticides prior to being shipped to the store. That the workers say that when they open new freight, the smell if awful.

Because we as consumers, have driven this need for perfection...and heaven forbid should a little fly be on our shirt. It's like that one song, about the DDT? Here, I'll change the words for you,

"...I don't care about the bugs on my clothes, leave off the DDT.

Oh, oh. Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know whatchoo got 'til it's gone,

They paved paradise, and put up a great big mall...

Ooooooooooo bop bop bop..."

How'd ya like that? If I ever lose my day job, I can go into the song writing business.

Okay, you can stop laughing now. You're just like that survey girl...I'm not sure if you're laughing with me or at me, so I'll go with with.

It feels better that way. :)

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Happy Weekend! I hope the rest of y'all have a fabulous weekend!