Childhood, Humor, Life, Nonsense

Beer Breath, Cat Smell and Big Hair

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– Since high school, I’ve used the same hair pick to comb out my wet hair after getting out of the shower.
– I love Monty Python and The Holy Grail

-The smell of beer on my husband’s breath gets me in the mood.

– I can smell cats as soon as I walk into a house. Even if you’ve never owned a cat, maybe the previous owner did? I can detect it.

– I have large feet. Size 9.5- 10.

Woman Blowing Bubblegum

– Because aspartame gives me headaches, I rarely chew gum.

– My parents considered naming me Amy. If I were a boy, my name would be Jonathan.

Side note; my brother’s girl’s name was going to be Christy. My brother married a girl named Kristy.

– I love the smell of fresh road tar.

– I put salt on apples and watermelon.

– I also love ketchup on cottage cheese.

Galeries Lafayette Building

– I took three years of French in high school and I only remember three words.

– When I was 12, I won a blue ribbon at the county fair for snickerdoodles in 4-H.

– I don’t know how to swim.

-Sometimes when I’m home alone, I turn up the music really loud and pretend like I am on Solid Gold.

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Dakota Fanning Courtesy/ Pinterest

– When my oldest daughter was younger, she resembled Dakota Fanning. So much so that random people on the street would stop us and ask if it was her.

– I had an irrational fear of getting Toxic Shock Syndrome growing up.

-Def Leppard’s Hysteria was the soundtrack to my senior year of high school.

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Tina Yothers (aka Jenny from Family Ties) Courtesy Getty Images

– In high school, everyone called me “Jenny” because I looked like Jennifer from Family Ties.

2021 note: My youngest daughter looks so much like Tina Yothers in that photo that when I showed it to Mike, he thought it was Ella.

– I was a cigarette smoker for 17 years.

– I was almost a nurse. I completed all of the required courses and passed the entrance exam. After years of trying, I was finally accepted into the nursing program, only to turn it down. (I got cold feet)

– I am freakishly strong. Both of my daughters are as well.

-I love getting a foot rub, but I hate touching other people’s feet.

– I miss big 80s bangs.

Off to have a smoke and watch The Holy Grail.
Wanna come with?

24 thoughts on “Beer Breath, Cat Smell and Big Hair”

  1. I, too, am I roller skating diva! I saw Def Leppard in concert during the Hysteria tour and have pictures of Joe Elliot in his ripped pants.After reading this list we ARE sisters from anotha mutha!!xoxo

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    1. Omg is there a concert you havent been to??You are my taller, more photogenic, fearless sistah. And I know my mom will adopt you. 🙂

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  2. You make me laugh, Kari! I love your blog posts. I know I commented on FB about you winning the iPad Mini, but I'll say it again – woo-hoo! That is so awesome. I don't know if you had any kind of tablet beforehand…I don't, so I'd be thrilled to death. Heck, I don't even have a smart phone! (A little behind the times.) I do have an iPod (whaddya know) and like you, I turn it on and DANCE my tushy off when no one is home. I pull the blinds so my neighbors don't see me and think I'm having an epileptic fit or something. ;-)Gum…there's lots w/o aspartame now; most of them have xylitol instead. I loved Def Leppard when I was in high school (a looong time ago). Met them in person at a record store and got their autographs and I'll be darned if I remember what I ever did with it. Probably threw it away as I got older. Had an autographed poster of Ozzy too. 🙂

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    1. Omg this is awesome Melanie!! We need to get together for lunch soon since we arent too far from each other, sound like a plan?

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  3. Once again…WHY didn't you live next door to me growing up????? Think of the fun!But I always had flat hair. My sister used to put water in my hairspray bottle. Totally not bitter or anything…

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    1. Omg that is awesome. We would have had so much fun!!! We will make up for it at Blogher. 😉

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  7. I still have friend that has 80’s hair and bangs! Lol. I have very large feet too; in fact with all the weight I lost I can now fit back into 9.5’s and I am so happy to have “smaller” feet again. I forgot most of my French but once Alec began using Duolingo and started saying some of it aloud/ asking me questions, I was pleasantly surprised to find that much of it came back to me.

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  9. Is the French word you know “merde”? 😉

    As Ella has gotten older, the pictures you’ve shared look so much like the pictures you’ve shared of younger you. And you both look A LOT like Tina Yothers.

    I was going to be Stephen if a boy. There seems to be no consistent taste/philosophy in my parents’ name choices (Steve is a really different kind of guy than Rita is a girl), but I suspect they didn’t put nearly as much thought into it as parents do now. I suspect we were a lot less precious than today’s kids.

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    1. YES!! You know me well. 😉

      We do! I’ve occasionally checked up on Tina Yothers over the years and she is a lovely woman. So I like the comparison.

      I agree with you on the names. My dad just liked my name; no real meaning behind my first name. My middle name, Ellen, was named after my grandma Ella but they didn’t like the ring of Kari Ella. So there ya go…

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