Express Yourself - EYM Birthday Week - Rewind

Express Yourself is a weekly Meme hosted by my friend Jackie and myself. We do this every week to learn more about our fellow bloggers and so far we have met some very talented and wonderful people!

This week marks the One Year anniversary of Express Yourself Meme!! Happy Birthday EYM!

Jackie & I would like to know; What has been your favorite question during the first year of EYM?


Oh, this is hard for me. So many questions have come and gone. And so many badges and banners have blessed this screen. Plus, I have slept a few nights here and there since this whole thing started.

I think some of my favorites were from last October...

• List 5 movies/books which cause the hair on your nexk to stand up.
• List 5 favorite monsters throughtout history (fictional or non-fictional).

And one from last November...

• List 5 perfect imperfections about yourself; things which bug others but are a part of what makes you - you.

If you would like, you may go ahead and revisit these in the comments below. Movies, monsters, imperfections... OH MY!

*Starting tomorrow, and every day following until the 31st, I will be highlighting ONE "thing" I love about the month October since it's my favorite month and all. I'm calling it "Thirty-One Loves of October". You are more than welcome to join. Just spotlight something each day that reminds you of October and makes you love it even more!

Cheers!!

Celebration

Ahhh, it's Friday! The weekend is upon us!  VikLit always puts on a great Friday celebration!

This week I'm celebrating...

• It being the first week of summer for the kids! I love when the kids are on summer break.
• Mom taking the kids over night last night!
• Today my youngest son turns 11 !
• Last night the hubby and I watched Fast and Furious 6!! Woot!! OMG that movie rocked! I like my action fast, my cars fast, my men fast, er, I mean hot... I MEANT HOT! And this had hot men, fast cars, guns, action, fights, and some great laughs and one liners and maybe some baby oil... you have to watch to get the baby oil line.
  
  Between Dwayne Johnson and this newcomer Kim Kold - I WANT to be stuck between "The Rock" and hard place tho Kim Kold was a bad guy.

***POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT IF YOU DON'T READ THE INTERNET***
And don't miss the small scene in the credits where we see the set up to FF7. Lord I can't wait for the next one! Jason Statham is the sexiest action hero in MY book and that man knows how to make the eff word sound attractive as hell. Plus it's my favorite word in the whole wide world.

• Found the best tank online yesterday!!

Have a great weekend!!

Birthday Memory Lane

♫♪ Today is my birthday and I’ll cry if I want to, cry if I want to…♫♪

No, no, I’m not on the verge of crying at all. I don’t shy away from my birthdays, I embrace them. Although turning thirty was hard. Why was it? I think leaving my twenties was kind of surreal for me. I didn’t have much of a college experience… well technically from age 18 to 19 I did and that’s how my 14 ½ year old came about. Too much drinking, not enough thinking.

But now that – officially today – I’m halfway through my thirties, I’m totally diggin’ it. Eh, I got a few more blemishes and wrinkles. I’m getting my mother’s jowls for Pete sake’s!

Source

Birthdays, for me, always bring about memories. Good ones mostly. Like playing – or fighting – with brother. Any memories of my brother are good ones. Like the time we were playing “Barbie’s”. I had my Barbie and he had his He-Man with “punchable chest action”. And every time you hit the chest it would flip to the next chest plate and look like you dinted it. Well that day he decided to rip my Barbie’s head off. I screamed being all melodramatic which sent our mom flying up the stairs. She in turn – to teach him a lesson not to touch other people things – ripped the head off of his He-Man. See the head on my Barbie popped right back on, mom thinking the head on Tony’s He-Man would do the same thing – WRONG! This particular He-Man was held together by a ton of rubber bands controlling the switchable chest plate and his arms and legs. So when “pop went the weasel” so did the arms, the legs, the chest plate, etc. The entire He-Man fell apart in her hands, Tony fell apart on the floor, and I slowly backed away to my bedroom. Needless to say, she went out the very same day and bought him another one and neither one of us EVER touched each other’s stuff again. Lesson learned.

See, funny memory. Tragic at the time but funny now.

One more…

In high school I wasn’t, shall we say, the best teenager on the planet but I have never been in trouble with the law so at least I was a smart teenager. Like most some few teens, I would sneak out on occasion. After the second time getting caught by my dad, he decided to put one of the thingamabobbers on my car, so when I backed up it went BEEP BEEP BEEP. When I would get home from school or work I would have to pull my car up to the house so the only way to exit was in reverse. Ugh! Smart dad – he was a mechanic. At school was the worse! If I wanted to back into a parking spot – BEEP BEEP BEEP. If I was backing out of a parking spot – BEEP BEEP BEEP. Embarrassing! Too bad I didn’t figure out years later that it was only clipped to the battery and all I had to do was simple … Un. Clip. The. Alli. Gator. Clip. He was out to ruin me like all good, loving fathers.

There you have it – a few funny Friday stories from my childhood. Have a good Friday everyone!

February 4th

Tomorrow, Feb 4th is my oldest daughters' BIRTHDAY! So in honour of her birthday I wanted to list other famous people that were also born on that special day.


You're probably wondering why I'm posted this today instead of tomorrow. Well ... its simple ... I don't blog on the weekends. The weekends are reserved for my family and my family only. Don't get me wrong; I L.O.V.E. my followers and the rest of the blogging world but after working 40+ hour weeks, taking time to blog and write, and going to after school activities; I need a little down time.


So without further ado, the noted people below share a day of birth with my daughter...

·         1505 – Nicolaus Rey, Polish poet (d. 1580)

·         1524 – Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (d. 1580)

·         1575 – Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1629)

·         1620 – Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (d. 1667)

·         1639 – Alessandro Melani, Italian composer (d. 1703)

·         1646 – Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (d. 1699)

·         1676 – Giacomo Facco, Italian Baroque violinist, conductor and composer (d. 1753)

·         1677 – Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (d. 1731)

·         1688 – Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (d. 1763)

·         1725 – Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1804)

·         1740 – Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer (d. 1795)

·         1746 – Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish, Belarusian-Lithuanian, and American national hero (d. 1817)

·         1778 – A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (d. 1841)

·         1799 – Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (d. 1854)

·         1808 – Josef Kajetán Tyl, Czech playwright, author of the Czech national anthem (d. 1856)

·         1831 – Oliver Ames, 35th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)

·         1846 – Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (d. 1915)

·         1848 – Jean Aicard, French poet (d. 1921)

·         1849 – Jean Richepin, French poet (d. 1926)

·         1859 – Timofei Mikhailov, Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya (d. 1881)

·         1871 – Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st Reichspräsident of the Weimar Republic (d. 1925)

·         1872 – Gotse Delchev, a great Bulgarian revolutionary, (d. 1903)

·         1873 – Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (d. 1905)

·         1875 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (d. 1953)

·         1877 – Eddie Cochems, Father of the Forward Pass in American football (d. 1953)

·         1881 – Fernand Léger, French painter (d. 1955)

·         1891 – Madabhushi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar, Speaker of Lok Sabha (d. 1978)

·         1892 – Andreu Nin, Catalan politician (d. 1937)

·         1892 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (d. 1964)

·         1895 – Nigel Bruce, English actor (d. 1953)

·         1896 – Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (d. 1938)

·         1896 – Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997)

·         1897 – Ludwig Erhard, 2nd Bundeskanzler of Germany (d. 1977)

·         1900 – Jacques Prévert, French poet and lyricist (d. 1977)

·         1902 – Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and social activist (d. 1974)

·         1902 – Hartley Shawcross, British lawyer and politician (d. 2003)

·         1904 – MacKinlay Kantor, American writer (d. 1977)

·         1905 – Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (d. 1986)

·         1906 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (d. 1945)

·         1906 – Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (d. 1997)

·         1908 – Julian Bell, British poet (d. 1937)

·         1912 – Ola Skjåk Bræk, Norwegian politician (d. 1999)

·         1912 – Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (d. 1993)

·         1912 – Byron Nelson, American golfer (d. 2006)

·         1912 – Louis-Albert Vachon, cardinal archbishop of Quebec (d. 2006)

·         1913 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (d. 2005)

·         1914 – Alfred Andersch, German writer (d. 1980)

·         1915 – Ray Evans, American songwriter with Jay Livingston (d. 2007)

·         1915 – William Talman, American actor (d. 1968)

·         1915 – Sir Norman Wisdom, English actor and comedian (d. 2010)

·         1917 – Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1980)

·         1918 – Porky Chedwick, American radio personality

·         1918 – Ida Lupino, English film actress and director (d. 1995)

·         1918 – Luigi Pareyson, Italian philosopher (d. 1991)

·         1918 – Janet Waldo, American actress

·         1921 – Betty Friedan, American feminist (d. 2006)

·         1921 – Lotfi Asker Zadeh, American-Iranian/Russian mathematician and computer scientist

·         1922 – Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian classical singer (d. 2011)

·         1923 – Conrad Bain, Canadian-born actor

·         1923 – Joan Vollmer, American beatnik (d. 1951)

·         1924 – Janet Waldo, American Actress

·         1925 – Russell Hoban, American writer (d. 2011)

·         1925 – Gerald Sim, English actor

·         1926 – Roger Blais, Canadian geological engeneer and academic (d. 2009)

·         1927 – Rolf Landauer, American physicist and electrical engineer (d. 1999)

·         1929 – Jerry Adler, American actor

·         1929 – Julien Chouinard, Canadian civil servant and Puisne Justice of The Supreme Court of Canada (d. 1987)

·         1929 – Eduard Zimmermann, German journalist, TV presenter and security expert (d. 2009)

·         1931 – Isabel Martínez de Perón, President of Argentina (1974–1976), widow of Argentine President Juan Perón

·         1935 – Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (d. 1989)

·         1936 – David Brenner, American comedian

·         1936 – Gary Conway, American actor

·         1937 – David Newman, American filmmaker (d. 2003)

·         1938 – Donald W. Riegle, Jr., American Senator

·         1940 – George A. Romero, American director, screenwriter and producer

·         1940 – Michelle Rossignol, Canadian actress

·         1940 – John Schuck, American actor

·         1941 – John Steel, British musician (The Animals)

·         1943 – Alberto João Jardim, Portuguese president of the regional government of Madeira

·         1943 – Wanda Rutkiewicz, Polish mountaineer (d. 1992)

·         1943 – Ken Thompson, American computer scientist

·         1944 – Florence LaRue, American singer (The 5th Dimension)

·         1947 – Dennis C. Blair, American admiral and Director of National Intelligence

·         1947 – Dan Quayle, 44th Vice President of the United States

·         1948 – Alice Cooper, American musician

·         1948 – Mienoumi Tsuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 57th Yokozuna

·         1949 – Michael Beck, American actor

·         1949 – Rasim Delic, Bosnian military chief of staff and war criminal (d. 2010)

·         1950 – Pamela Franklin, British actress

·         1951 – Patrick Bergin, Irish actor

·         1951 – Phil Ehart, American musician (Kansas)

·         1951 – Dariush Eghbali, Iranian singer and musician

·         1951 – Stan Papi, American baseball player

·         1952 – Lisa Eichhorn, American actress

·         1952 – Jerry Shirley, Drummer (Humble Pie)

·         1952 – Li Yinhe, Chinese sexologist

·         1953 – Kitaro, Japanese composer

·         1955 – Mikuláš Dzurinda, Slovak Prime Minister

·         1957 – Don Davis, American composer

·         1957 – Evan Wolfson, American attorney and activist

·         1958 – Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer

·         1959 – Pamelyn Ferdin, American actress

·         1959 – Lawrence Taylor, American football player

·         1960 – Tim Booth, British singer (James)

·         1960 – Mark Dawson, British-born American entertainment manager (The Iron Maidens)

·         1960 – Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish author (d. 2007)

·         1960 – Jenette Goldstein, American actress

·         1960 – Jonathan Larson, American composer (d. 1996)

·         1960 – Dave Pichette, Canadian ice hockey player

·         1961 – Stewart O'Nan, American author

·         1961 – Denis Savard, Canadian ice hockey player

·         1962 – Clint Black, American musician

·         1962 – Michael Riley, Canadian actor

·         1962 – Alfred Twardecki, Polish historian

·         1963 – Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss skier

·         1964 – Noodles, American guitarist (The Offspring)

·         1965 – Jerome Brown, American football player (d. 1992)

·         1966 – Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russian cyclist

·         1966 – Kyōko Koizumi, Japanese actress and singer

·         1967 – Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (d. 1995)

·         1968 – Marko Matvere, Estonian actor

·         1969 – Duncan Coutts, Canadian bassist (Our Lady Peace)

·         1969 – Dallas Drake, ice hockey player

·         1969 – Brandy Ledford, American actress and model

·         1970 – Gabrielle Anwar, English actress

·         1971 – Rob Corddry, American actor and comedian

·         1971 – Michael A. Goorjian, American actor

·         1972 –Dara Ó Briain, Irish comedian

·         1972 – Giovanni Silva De Oliveira, Brazilian footballer

·         1973 – Oscar de la Hoya, Mexican-American boxer

·         1973 – Manny Legacé, Canadian ice hockey goaltender

·         1974 – Mijntje Donners, Dutch hockey international

·         1974 – Urmila Matondkar, Indian actress

·         1974 – Eric Townsend, American musician and record producer

·         1975 – Natalie Imbruglia, Australian musician and actress

·         1975 – Thomas Tebbich, Austrian decathlete

·         1976 – Cam'ron, American rapper

·         1977 – Gavin DeGraw, American musician

·         1977 – Mitra Hajjar, Iranian actress

·         1978 – Danna Garcia, Colombian actress

·         1978 – Ömer Onan, Turkish basketball player

·         1979 – Andrei Arlovski, Belarussian mixed martial artist

·         1979 – Giorgio Pantano, Italian racing car driver

·         1981 – Allen Forrest, American recording artist/ music producer

·         1981 – Ben Hendrickson, American baseball player

·         1981 – Jason Kapono, America professional basketball player

·         1981 – Tom Mastny, Indonesian baseball player

·         1981 – Johan Van Summeren, Belgian cyclist

·         1982 – Chris Sabin, American professional wrestler

·         1982 – Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist

·         1982 – Kimberly Wyatt, American singer and dancer (Pussycat Dolls)

·         1983 – Lee Stempniak, American ice hockey player

·         1983 – Jarrad Waite, Australian rules footballer

·         1984 – Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer

·         1985 – Bug Hall, American actor

·         1986 – Mohammad Mahmudullah, Bangladeshi cricketer

·         1987 – Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player

·         1988 – Carly Patterson, American gymnast

Highlighted names are the ones that my 12 year old knew. *laughing out loud*

If you share this birthday; comment and let me know. I'll add you to the list AND ... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!