It’s been a while since I’ve participated in Small Talk Six, and since I’m obviously in need of a bloggy pick-me-up, maybe this will help.

Today’s topic is “6 things on your wishlist this year.” You can answer this with a list of 6 words, 6 phrases, 6 sentences, 6 paragraphs, 6 photos, 6 videos, etc . .

My list is going to consist of things on my wishlist that I’m absolutely certain I won’t be getting, but they’re on my list anyway.

1. A Pentax DSLR–my K1000 is sitting sullenly in my living room shelf because I use it maybe twice a year.  I live 30 miles from a Wolf Camera, so getting film developed requires a lot of planning and dollars.  While I love photography and wish I had the time and equipment to develop my own photographs, a DSLR is the more practical alternative until my children grow up and move out.
2. xBox 360–only to play the new Halo game.  Pathetic, I know.  But I’m a Halo junkie.  It is true.
3. Hardwood floors–I’m so sick of carpet.  C’mon, orange cat plus blue carpet = GROSS.
4. For Verizon to just get the iPhone already–’nuff said.
5. Maid service for a year.
6. The house next door–it once belonged to Jamie’s great grandfather, so we’d love to get it back in the family.

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Today’s topic is “6 things you’ll miss (or won’t miss) about summer.” You can answer this with a list of 6 words, 6 phrases, 6 sentences, 6 paragraphs, 6 photos, 6 videos, etc . .

It’s been a long, hard summer and I wish that I had enjoyed it more than I did.  With a new baby in the house, schedules were very erratic and it was difficult to find peaceful moments.  Here are the things I’m going to miss:

1. Swimming — We didn’t get to do a whole lot of it this summer because one of us had to stay inside with Timothy while the other swam with the older boys.  It was nice, though, being able to enjoy the sunshine and the cannonballs.
2. Bullfrogs — You read that right.  The sounds of summer include all of the frogs that mate in our pond.  You should hear the deafening chorus around here!  The bullfrogs are the best, though.  They always make me remember that for about two years, I had convinced a friend of mine that the bullfrog calls were really cows doing it in the pastures across the road.  That’s how loud they are.
3. Strawberries — Oh, how I’m going to miss having strawberries in season.
4. Peaches — See above.
5. Timothy’s newborn days — Not that they are going to come back again next year, but still, Timothy’s going to be mobile soon and will no longer be a snuggly little newborn.  I’m going to miss it.  A lot.
6. Sprinklers and Slip ‘n Slides — One of Aiden’s birthday presents this year was a slip ‘n slide that the boys just went nuts over.  There’s nothing like watching your children bust their booties on the ground, getting covered in mud and grass.

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Today’s topic is “6 things you do, used to do, or would like to do to relax.” You can answer this with a list of 6 words, 6 phrases, 6 sentences, 6 paragraphs, 6 photos, 6 videos, etc . . .

Relax?  In a house full of boys?  AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Ok, whew.  That’s hilarious.

I’m going to make this a “would like to do” list because there is no way in hell I can do any of these things right now.

1. Yoga retreat!  Maybe one day when I’m not nursing a child and I have a couple grand to drop, I’ll go on a fancy yoga retreat somewhere tropical.  I could spend the day sitting in mud baths and mineral springs, doing yoga, and eating delicious organic foods.  Oh my word.

2. Get a massage.  It’s indulgent, expensive, and only makes you feel good while you are lying there on the table.  But that time is well worth it.

3.  Sleep in.  Every day.

4. I’d also like to not hear a screaming child all day.  Just one day?  Please?

5. I would like to sing Renaissance music with a small chamber choir three times a week.  You have no idea how relaxing that is for me.

6. Finally, I would like to reiterate number four because my three-year-old is currently throwing a tantrum on the couch next to me.  He is majorly upset because he does not have any more clean BLUE PANTS.  Good Lord.

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Today’s topic is “6 things people do that you think are beyond lazy.” You can answer this with a list of 6 words, 6 phrases, 6 sentences, 6 paragraphs, 6 photos, 6 videos, etc . . .

I thought long and hard about laziness and decided that I wanted to show you some dumb inventions that lazy people would truly appreciate.

1.  For when you don’t feel like picking over the kernels in your popcorn.

2. Or using your arm muscles.

3. Or holding your portable fan.

4. Or throwing your own water balloons.

5. Don’t feel like reaching “down there?”

6. Or boiling an egg…you know. On the stove?

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Today’s topic is “6 things you can do with your body that someone else might find strange.” You can answer this with a list of 6 words, 6 phrases, 6 sentences, 6 paragraphs, 6 photos, 6 videos, etc . . .

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This is a difficult list, but I’ll give it a go.

1. I can pop my right wrist.  Just the right one.  I think it may or may not have something to do with my carpal tunnel.  It may not even be the joint popping but the tendon snapping over my bones.  Either way, it feels so good when I do it that I haven’t been able to stop.
2. I can make babies come out of my body without any pain medicine.
3. I have a fantastic talent for holding in my personal gasses until I am not around anyone, including my husband.  Although we reached an agreement over a year ago, we still do not “crack the cheese” around one another.
4. I can breastfeed while shopping.  If I have a sling, I can usually nurse while walking around the grocery store.  I have also recently been spotted nursing during a choir rehearsal.
5. I can make dolphin noises. And no, I will not demonstrate.
6. But I will demonstrate this:

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Today’s topic is “6 flavors or types of ice cream that you love or hate” You can answer this with a list of 6 words, 6 phrases, 6 sentences, 6 paragraphs, 6 photos, 6 videos, etc . . .

Yep.  This is the easiest Small Talk Six ever.  I’ll try to rank my favorites in order from least to most.  Here we go!

1. Strawberry
2. Mint Chocolate Chip
3. Vanilla Bean with Hershey’s Syrup
4. French Silk
5. Cookie Dough
6. Oreo Ice Cream of any brand.  I’m talking store-bought, Dairy Queen blizzard, whatever. Just throw some Oreos in there and I’m going to gobble it up.

Today’s topic is “6 things you think would be great about being a rockstar (or just famous in general).” You can answer this with a list of 6 words, 6 phrases, 6 sentences, 6 paragraphs, 6 photos, 6 videos, etc . . .

I have severe social anxiety, so it’s hard for me to think about ever being famous. Cause you would be surrounded by people. Constantly. I would have to take many xanaxes or something. But these things might be great:

1. Eating what I want to without having to cook! I would so hire a personal chef. Who wouldn’t? And then I could eat delicious organic vegan meals without having to worry about who’s going to cook them.
2. I would also hire a personal assistant. That way, I don’t have to think about my schedule. I am notorious for double-booking on my calendar and having to rearrange things cause of my own stupidity. If I had someone to plan stuff FOR me, I’d be set.
3. Housekeeping? If I was famous, I hope I would have enough money to hire someone to clean my house. Holy crap, that would be awesome.
4. Speaking of houses, I would get rid of this one and build a better one.
5. (Somehow this turned into a money post…) I think it would be great to have a trampoline room in my house.
6. I want to wear sunglasses indoors. I think you can only wear them indoors if you’re famous. Otherwise, you look like a douche.

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Today’s topic is “if you had magical sunglasses, name 6 things you would like to see with them.” You can answer this with a list of 6 words, 6 phrases, 6 sentences, 6 paragraphs, 6 photos, 6 videos, etc . . .

1. I’d like to see myself if we had waited to have children.  Corey and Aiden came along when I was still in college, which meant it took me 8 years to finish my Bachelor of Music.  We were making plans to move up to Bloomington or New Haven, CT for grad school when Simon surprised us.  I’m not regretting anything.  Just curious.
2. Are there faeries?  I like to believe there are, so I want to see some!  The other day, Timothy was waking from his nap in the other room and I heard him laughing.  I wish I could have seen what was so funny, but for all I could see, he was looking at a blank wall.
3. My magical sunglasses would be so nifty if they could show me my dreams.  Don’t you hate it when you can’t remember them?
4. I want to see like a cat.  Wouldn’t that be cool?  Or at least see from my cats’ point of view.  Cause sometimes they look at me like I’m the strange one (though judging from everyone’s reactions to my mommy confession this week, my cats might be right).
5. I also want to see what it would be like if all the colors in the world were reversed.  Like this:



6. Finally, I would like to see what’s going on in my three-year-old’s mind when he’s doing something he knows he isn’t supposed to do.  I went into the kitchen once and saw that he had pushed a stool over to the kitchen counter and taken all the knives out of the butcher’s block.  My mind flashed back to one of the first episodes of “Rescue 911″ where the toddler got stabbed in the stomach with a huge knife when his brother came running around the corner with it.  Yeesh.  Needless to say, all dangerous objects are in the highest cabinets now.

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Today’s topic is “6 things you think the father of your children deserve to have.” You can answer this with a list of 6 words, 6 phrases, 6 sentences, 6 paragraphs, 6 photos, 6 videos, etc . . .

The father of my children deserves a lot.  And not just a swift kick in the pants.

1. He deserves a new job.  For years, he has worked some crap jobs, sometimes three at a time.  When I finally graduated college, it was his turn to finish his degree.  So he did and is currently finishing up his teacher certification.  Unfortunately, pickin’s are slim around here for teaching jobs.  I’ve lost count of all the interviews he’s had.  He deserves to have a steady job with good pay, decent vacation time, and it would be nice if he really liked it, too.
2. A massage!  I’ve been able to get massages thanks to some generous family members, but he has never been to a professional masseuse.  I’m not strong enough and my carpal tunnel bothers me too much to give him a decent massage myself.
3. A nap.  I always take a nap on Sundays.  It’s become a tradition ever since I was pregnant with Simon.  I hate to give it up for one day, but I think he deserves it.
4. A piece of electronic equipment that doesn’t break.  In the past couple years, he has gone through three flash drives, a DVD/VCR combo (the DVD part works fine but the VCR part broke), a stereo (it is very temperamental but still works…when it wants to), two MP3 players, and if you count appliances, a dryer and a vacuum.
5. A vacation.  Don’t we all!  I always go on choir trips and retreats, but he has never been away from all of us for any amount of time.  For Father’s Day this year, I gave him a weekend for himself.  He’s going up to the mountains with his nerd club friends to hike, drink beers, and talk about philosophy.
6. A day without yelling.  For just one day, the kids need to stop fighting and doing stupid crap.  Jamie deserves to laugh and have fun with the kids, not play referee and warden.

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Today’s topic is “6 things you’ve made during your lifetime that you were proud of (can be a craft, a dish, . . . anything).” You can answer this with a list of 6 words, 6 phrases, 6 sentences, 6 paragraphs, 6 photos, 6 videos, etc . . .

I’m a crafty person, so I’ve made a lot of things in my lifetime.  Here are six of my favorites: