TAGGED AGAIN (KEEPIN' IT REAL)
I got tagged by my college roommate Bonnie back in MAY. Yikes. I haven't felt like I had time to do it until now. Picking when you do it kind of defeats the purpose, but I'm doing what I can. It's called Keeping It Real Tag:

This tag is all about keepin' it real! The rules are to take pictures of the things listed below, but no straightening, primping or prepping. Leave everything just as they look and take the picture. Then tag five victims...um, I mean people.

1. Fridge: Gotta have the LeapFrog magnets all over it. Sometimes we line them up, and sometimes there are random words spelled on it. Jared sticks his artwork on the bottom half. The top half used to be mine, but now Jared can reach and Zach gets a barstool to stand on to get his favorite magnet (it has the LA temple under a glass pebble--my sister made it for me a while ago.) He carries it around and says, "Tempo! Tempo!" and sometimes sings "I Love to See the Temple." He's knows both verses!

2. Closet: I haven't really bothered to organize our closet. There are boxes in there that we don't plan to unpack. And 6 more months in this house isn't worth a whole lot of organizing energy.
3. Kitchen Sink: Still got a few more dishes to wash before bed.

4. Laundry room: My laundry system is fairly organized, but the "folding table" isn't. It's turned into the place to put things on their way in from or out to the garage (a.k.a. our storage unit.)

5. Toilet: This is our downstairs/guest bathroom. No visitor has ever asked to use it, though. I could be the nicest room in the house because I bought the stuff to stage our less-than-adequate master bath in Glendale. It needed a lot of help, so it's pretty posh. Except that the counter is always dirty because that's where the boys clean up after dinner and after digging in the garden. And they did pull-ups on the towel bar (together), which of course isn't made to handle their 75 pounds, so it came out of the wall.
I don't know what they're expecting to catch me at by taking a picture of the toilet. The lid up or something? I did get caught with a full garbage can--oh the horror!

6. Favorite Room: The living room. I just love my new curtains. And it's usually the tidyest room in the house. Our nicest furniture goes in there, too. Hah! Nicest is kind of a joke. The chairs are hand-me downs from (see if you can follow this) Ryan's high-school friend's wife's parents' neighbors (I think--hey Kat, is that right?), and the bookshelves were $20 for a set of two at a yard sale. Then we have to pull kitchen or camp chairs in there when the home teachers (or anyone else) comes over so we don't have to sit on the floor, because we're short a couch.
The curtains are pushed aside so the boys could watch our street being chip-sealed today. I'd better go fix that.

7. Favorite pair of shoes: My fun hiker-type shoes. I hate regular old tennis shoes, and everyone in Boise is so outdoorsy. Only problem is they are partially mesh, so they won't work so great in the snow. Insurance paid for these because one of my cute brown shoes got lost while the crooks who stole our Uhaul were rifling through our possessions. I have one, and the other one is somewhere in Nebraska, I think.But they require socks (see the post from last time I got tagged), so I wear these the most lately. They're some sort of Croc look-a-like.

8. What are the kids doing right now?: Ryan's still not home from work, and it's after 8. So we're having a movie night. They just got out of the bath and Jared won't get dressed, so he's hangin out in his towel. Like how they're on opposite sides of our 8-foot couch? That's probably a good thing.

9. Self Portrait: I still had my new tripod adapter thingy on the camera from taking our family portraits Saturday, so I couldn't set down the camera on anything. So I had to get out the tripod for the self-portrait. It also helps that I have a remote control, eh? (I LOVE my camera!) No makeup today, and the hair's kinda frizzy, so I went for a more creative pose. Besides, normal is so boring. My flexibility surprised me. Maybe it the all the Olympic gymnastics I watched rubbed off on me.

10. Where You Want To Go: This is a hard one for me. Because right now, I'm not really thinking of places to go. I just want to settle down somewhere and not move (houses, that is) for at least 5 years. Is that too much to ask? Maybe it is.
I'm hoping I get to go to Utah with Ryan when he goes to take his professional licensing test in October, though. Utah is home to the highest concentration of my good friends. None live in Idaho, of course. But I'm making new ones.
And I've started wishing I could go to one of those fibromyalgia clinics that seem to be so prevalent in everywhere but Idaho. Go get some biofeedback or mudwraps or whatever they do to people there. Anything to get a little more energy! I don't think they're really resort-ish, in-house treatment sorts of places, but they really should make those. Fibro-retreats! Yeah right, just try to get health insurance to pay for that!

Okay, so I don't have six people to tag, just like last time, but I want to tag Melanie, Kika, and Kat.