1. People ask what color your hair USED to be.

2. You don’t care where your spouse goes, just as long as you don’t have to go along.

3. Your sweetie says, “Let’s go upstairs and make whoopee” and you answer “Pick one, I can’t do both!”

4. You’re smiling all the time because you can’t hear a thing anyone is saying.

5. You’re very good at telling stories over and over and over and over.

6. You’re having trouble remembering simple words like…

7. You’ve owned clothes so long that they’ve gone back into style - TWICE.

8. You start Christmas shopping in August.

9. You point out what buildings used to be where.

10. You answer a question with, “Because I said so!”

11. You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.

12. Your best friend is dating someone half their age AND isn’t breaking any laws.

13. You can live without sex but not without your glasses.

1. Sleeping like there’s no tomorrow, like a night is more than 12 hours.

2. Eating in a cozy restaurant with my husband.

3. Long bath times with scented candles and cool music.

4. Chatting like crazy with 5 different friends simultaeneously, in 3 different languages!

5. Reading CNN from link to link, reading the newspaper from cover to cover.

6. Cross stitching.

7. Watching my recorded episodes of Ally McBeal. I love that show. I miss John Cage.

8. Browsing through amazon page and selecting a great book and reading it.

9. Listening to recent songs.

10. Polishing some of my IT skills like learning Flash and PHP programming.

11. Going to the library sitting, doing nothing, killing away the time.

12. Not having to do anything, no deadlines to beat, no bills to pay and no pressure to succumb to.

13. Not thinking about work and home and kid all at the same time, at the same intensity.

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1. I usually write my T13 post on Saturdays and Sundays and this weekend was just crazy. The babe was sick on Saturday and I had to do errands for her birthday on Sunday.

2. It was her birthday on Sunday and I have limited time on the internet at home due to some company policy. As much as possible, I don’t go online at home.

3. It’s Christmas week! I had cards to write and give out.

4. I had a tough time looking for the post office location. Seriously!

5. I had to buy a Christmas gift for our family Christmas party where we will exchange gifts.

6. I slept really late on December 24, waiting for something to happen. Nothing happened.

7. I was busy thinking of strategies how to get an excuse to be absent on the 25th; consistently peeking on my boss’s cabin and analyzing his every move.

8. I had to replace lights outside because our Christmas lights in the balcony decided to die three days before Christmas.

9. I was busy chatting with my many brothers and my sister, scattered around the globe (ok, exaggerating — 3 are in the home country though one is in a different place and one brother is in Japan. My lovely sister is left in the family home).

10. Instead of blogging and making a T13 at night, I slept early at 9 pm on most days this week. I’m never functional enough to write a decent post at late nights anyway.

11. I became too immersed in doing another Thursday Thirteen list at my other blog.

12. Year 2007 will soon be over and I was busy making my new year’s resolutions.

13. Everyone is busy for the holidays to even read TT’s!

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My daughter at 3 years and 10 months never writes on the walls or on the floor, always on paper or drawing canvas. But my mother has lately took up a part time job of childminding our neighbor’s son who at 2, thinks he is Van Gogh and our white walls are his canvasses.

1. Toothpaste - Regular paste, not the gel type. It also cleans up permanent marker stains easily.

2. Baking Soda - Make a paste with water and use it to gently scrub the mark. You can also sprinkle baking soda on a damp sponge and rub on the area.

3. Hand Lotion - Just rub directly into crayon and wipe off with tissue or cloth.

4. Rubbing Alcohol - Saturate part of a clean cloth then rub on stains.

5. Baby Oil - Apply directly to marking, rub in then wipe off.

6. Vinegar - Soak a toothbrush in white vinegar and scrub.

7. Ammonia- Soak a section of cloth in household ammonia and scrub.

8. Artgum Eraser - Gently rub marks in circular motion. My daughter helps me erase the markings with eraser, she actually love this activity!

9. Heat - Take a hair dryer near the crayon stain and allow it to heat the wax. Then wipe heated crayon wax off with a hot, soapy cloth.

10. Powdered Dishwasher Cleaners - make a paste with water and gently scrub area. Some of them contain bleach so might not be suitable on wallpaper.

11. Powdered Household Cleaners - such as Ajax or Comet. Mix some with water or sprinkle on a damp sponge then scrub gently.

12. Shaving Cream - Apply directly to markings, rub in then wipe off.

13. Moist Baby Wipes Towelettes - The easiest! Rub then directly and the markings are gone.

13 STUFFS YOU (PROBABLY) DIDN’T KNOW

1. The longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimau
ngahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.

2. Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la
Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula” and can be
abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, “L.A.”

3. Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy.

4. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have
the same pattern of whiskers.

5. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

6. The male gypsy moth can “smell” the virgin female gypsy moth
from 1.8 miles away.

7. To “testify” was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a
statement made by swearing on their testicles.

8. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

9. ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word that is typed with only the
left hand. (My name can be typed with only the left hand too)

10. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters
“mt”.

11. There are only four words in the English language which end
in”-dous” tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

12. The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.

13. The longest word in the English language, according to the
Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The only other word with the same amount of letters is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

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13 MEANINGS WHEN SHE SAYS…

1. Do what you want. - You’ll pay for this later.

2. We need to talk. - I need to complain.

3. I’m not emotional! I’m not overreacting! - I have PMS.

4. Be romantic, turn out the lights. - I have flabby thighs.

5. You’re certainly attentive tonight. - Is sex all you ever think about!?

6. I’m not upset. - Of course, I am upset, you moron!

7. I’ll be ready in a minute. - Kick off your shoes and find a good game on TV.

8. You have to learn to communicate. - Just agree with me.

9. How much do you love me? - I did something today you’re really not going to like…

10.  Do you love me? - I’m going to ask for something expensive.

11. Sure, go ahead. - I don’t want you to.

12. I don’t want to talk about it. - Go away, I’m still building up evidence against you.

13. Are you listening to me!? - Too late…you’re dead.

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13 COURT ROOM CONVERSATIONS (REAL STORIES)

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• Lawyer: “What happened then?”
• Witness: “He told me, he says, ‘I have to kill you because you can identify me.’”
• Lawyer: “Did he kill you?”
• Witness: “No.”

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13 ZEN SARCASMS

1. Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone.

2. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and leaky tire.

3. Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

4.  Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes.

5. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.

6. If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.

7. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night

8. It’s always darkest before dawn. So if you’re going to steal your neighbor’s newspaper, that’s the time to do it.

9. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

10. Duct tape is like ‘The Force’. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

11. If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

12. If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

13. There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.

13 MOVIES I LIKE TO WATCH WITH MY DAUGHTER

1. The Sound of Music
2. The Princess Diaries 1 & 2
3. The Little Mermaid
4. The Lion King
5. Babe
6. Anne of Green Gables
7. The Parent Trap
8. Beauty and the Beast
9. Mary Poppins
10. The Wizard of Oz
11. The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe
12. Harry Potter movies
13. Finding Nemo

13 QUOTES ABOUT LOVE

To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. - - David Viscott

All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion build upon sand. - - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - - L. L. Mencken

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. - - Jerome Moreau

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. - - Peter Cestinov

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. - - Rabbi Julius Gordon

Love is an irrestible desire to be irresistibly desired. - - Robert Frost

Love is not a decision. It is a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler but less magical. - - Trey Parker and Matt Stone

A great marriage is not when the perfect couple comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. - - Dave Meurer

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. - - Mignon Mclaughlin

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. - - Amy Bloom

You don’t need to be on the same wavelength to succeed in marriage. You just need to be able to ride each other’s waves. - - Tony Sciarra Poynter

A happy man marries the girl he loves; a happier man loves the girl he marries. - - Anonymous