Fill In the Blank Friday!

Another week down! That means I get to do another one of Lauren's Fill in the Blank Fridays. It's kinda my time to wind down after an entire work week. I love it. Head on over to her blog to participate (or just copy, paste and answer the questions on your own blog) and to get linked to other participants. Here goes:

1. Today I am wearing (well, right now) Malu's XXL USC sweatshirt and my yoga pants. It's kinda sad. I've been wearing it every night for about a week and a half now. It's just so comfy. And I love being in his oversized clothes!

2. My favorite childhood food was anything local Hawaiian, since I did a lot of growing up there (i.e. rice, portuguese sausage, teriyaki anything,and spam!)and my favorite food now is anything Italian. You can't go wrong with pasta. I love it! I still love local Hawaiian food, and lucky for me, El Paso has a Hawaiian BBQ restaurant not too far from where I live. I get cravings every now and then. It's so yummy! If you've never eaten real local Hawaiian food, you have to do it! You won't be disappointed.

3. A day that I am too busy to wash the dishes or call my mom is a day that I am too busy.

4. The last movie I saw was "Precious" on video and the next movie I want to see is, honestly, "The Princess and the Frog". My sister is going to be bringing it to El Paso this weekend, so we'll get to watch it!

5. [One of] my favorite smells is (and this is weird) Lucy's paws because who would think that that musty smell would make me smile every time? I'm sure most dog paws smell this way, but I like to think that it is unique to my Lucy girl. I like to massage her paws at night before we go to bed. Don't worry...I always wash my hands afterwards.

6. A weird little quirk I have is I blink excessively...like, A LOT...and I blink hard. It's a bad habit I picked up when I was younger, I think after watching one of my cousins do it. There's a video from my senior year in high school. I was at an awards ceremony and I was called up to stage to be recognized for some scholarships and the entire time, I must have blinked a million times. My mom was in complete disbelief, because it was the first time she'd actually noticed. She told me to stop doing it. I still do it to this day. Sorry mom.

7. When I take personality quizzes, they always tell me that I am sociable, easy going and that I care for others. I like personality quizzes!

And this wraps up another Friday! Yay! Tomorrow, Lucy is going to the groomer first thing so that I can spend all day cleaning before the parentals and the sis get here. My unit goes to the field all next week, but I'll be in and out since this pregnancy doesn't allow me to stay out there overnight. Thank goodness for that! Anyway, I digress. Have a great weekend everyone!

'Honest Scrap' Blog Award & Getting to Know M&M More

My blog pal, Tori, of Tori & Chad, gave me the 'Honest Scrap' blog award a few weeks ago and I'm finally making the time to pass it on. As I've said before, I've received blog awards on my cooking/baking blog, but never on this one. So Tori...thanks so much for giving me my first blog award on here! She and I have gotten to know each other through blog comments and occasional emails and you guys, she's one cool chick. So head on over to her blog and get to know her!

As with any blog award, there are certain rules. This particular award has THREE rules! First, I have to pass it on to 10 other people. I have no problem doing that. Only, I don't think I can pass it on to ten people, but to the people that I've been blogging with the longest and are great friends. They all have cool blogs too, so check them out!

Melissa of Together We Have it All
Lindsay of What the Dinkins are Thinkin'
Misty of Mischief
Pamela of Cookies with Boys
Sabrina of Superfluous
Liz of Our Crazy Life
Sara of Sara's Journey

Second, I have to tell my readers ten things about myself that they may not know, but that are true. I'm going to do this, but do it slight differently. A few weeks ago, Tori had completed a survey about her and her hubby and I've been telling her that my husband and I have so much in common with them, that I couldn't wait to fill that survey out myself. So I am--only there are 30 things you'll find out about us. I actually think I've done this survey somewhere before (probably on MySpace), but I have no problem doing it again. Now you'll get to know Michelle and Malu a little bit better!

1. What are your middle names? Mine=pre-marriage, it was Rosete (my mom's maiden name, which is such a Filipino thing to do); post-marriage, my middle name is now my maiden name, Ioapo. I think I did it to appease my dad who didn't want the name lost. Malu's middle name is Milionea, which means millionaire in Samoan.
2. How long have you been together? We met in June 2005--so almost five years. Seems like it's been longer.
3. How long did you know each other before you started dating? I think it was about two weeks from the time I saw him to the day we went on our church "date".
4. Who asked who out? If Malu was sitting here and I was telling this story to a bunch of our family and friends, I'd totally lie and say that he did. But the truth is that after I saw him for the first time, I'd totally stalked him on Army Knowledge Online (on which every Army employee has an email account), found out his email address and sent him an email asking if he wanted to go to church.
5. How old are each of you? Well, I'm 30 and Malu--he's 24. Yes, I'm a total cradle robber. I didn't find out until our church date. I had picked him up at his work and we were driving to the church when I had randomly asked, "so how old are you?" To which he responds, "I turn 20 next weekend." No joke...I slammed the brake halfway down a road and yelled, "what? do you know how old I am?" To which he nonchalantly responds, "well, I figured that since you're a captain and all, you should be around 25 or 26," and I'm like, "uh, yeah! I'm 25 (about to turn 26 in a month)." And that was that. He's younger than my younger brother. His older sister is younger than my younger brother. I didn't tell my mom how old he really was until after we were married. Funny.
6. Did you go to the same school? Uh, see response to #5. No way.
7. Are you from the same hometown? No.
8. Who is the smartest? As young as he was when we met, it was his charm and intelligence that roped me in. He is wise beyond his years and I will always say that he is the smartest of the two of us.
9. Who majored in what? I got a bachelor's in biology from Colorado State University (Main Campus--Fort Collins) in 2001 and an MBA from Colorado State University at Pueblo in late 2008. The Army sent me to grad school for free! My husband hasn't been to college yet. He entered the Army right out of high school, but has aspirations to major in Middle Eastern Studies when he finds a break from all these deployments.
10. Who is the most sensitive? Gosh, I'm oversensitive. He can be sensitive too.
11. Where is the furthest you have traveled together as a couple? Well, we met in Iraq so I don't think you can get any further than that. But the second furthest is Samoa. It was the first time I met his family as well as my dad's side of the family.
12. Who has the worst temper? Both of our tempers can flare from time to time. But I think I have the worst of the both of us.
13. How many children do you want? Malu has been known to want to a big family, which is typical of Samoans. I mean, my dad is one of 13. He's mentioned 6 kids before, to which I gave him my favorite "stink-eye" look. I say less than or equal to 3.
14. Who does the cooking? When we're living together--me.
15. Who is more social? We're both extroverts and love being surrounded by people. Malu, though, is so much more the "life of the party" than I am. He can brighten up any gathering, trust me. I love that about him.
16. Who is the neat freak? Um, I am. I have OCD.
17. Who is the most stubborn? I think he is. He will stick to his guns even in the midst of my tears....most of the time :)
18. Who wakes up earlier? Definitely me. When he's home, I usually spend the better part of an hour trying to wake him up to do something with me. He's nocturnal and can stay up all night long writing music and playing his guitar, which is why he sleeps in so late in the mornings.
19. Where was your first date? Our first date was to a Samoan church service in Iraq. See this blog entry.
20. Who has the bigger family? Well, considering Samoans and Filipinos generally have big families, I'd say that we're pretty equal. I have two siblings and Malu has four. I can't remember how many siblings his parents have (I know it's a lot), but as I've said before, my dad is one of 13 and my mom is one of 7.
21. Do you get flowers often? From Malu? Not really. He doesn't like giving me flowers too much because they don't last a long time. He usually gives me plants that do last a long time (well, sometimes, if I maintain them) or sweets that he knows I like to eat, or just things that he knows I will put to good use.
22. Who is more jealous? I am more jealous by nature. Malu is sooooo not the jealous type. He doesn't do things to make me jealous, I just get that way. I'm much more insecure than he is.
23. How long did it take to get serious? A week. But really, after two days, he was telling his friends that I was going to be his wife.
24. How do you spend the holidays? Always with family. We're both home bodies.
25. Who eats more? Definitely him.
26. What do you do for a living? We are a dual-military Army couple. I'm a Human Resources Officer and he's a Psychological Operations NCO.
27. Who does the laundry? We both do.
28. Who's better with the computer? I think we're both the same. We know enough to get by.
29. Who drives when you are together? He does. But our greatest point of contention when he does drive is where to park when we get somewhere. I feel like he parks the furthest away that he can just to irk me. And I'll nag him until he reluctantly moves somewhere closer. It's even worse when it's cold/rainy outside.
30. What is your song? We don't actually have a song-song. But Malu wrote one just for me, so it's my song. He also plays and sings lots of songs to me...all of which I consider our songs. He loves to play songs by John Mayer and Jack Johnson so whenever I hear those songs, I always think of him and sing along.

Wow. That was longer than I thought. I hope you guys got to know me a little bit better because I enjoyed it.

The last thing that has to be done for this award is for me to let my blogger friends know that I'm passing it on to them. So I guess I'll go and do that now!

Five Questions/Five Answers

I got this from Katie of The Life of An Army Wife and it's perfect because I didn't want to spend too much time blogging tonight...I'm exhausted!

Question 1: Where were you five years ago?

1. I was two months into my first deployment to Iraq

2. I had been promoted to Captain the month before--on New Year's Day. And the only food I could serve at my promotion party was pizza because that's all we had on that base, aside from Burger King. The guy who worked there, his name was Sanjay, made me 30 pizzas.

3. Counting the days down until R&R to Europe. My best friend Chrissy and I stayed in Garmisch, Germany and visited Austria, Italy, and France six months later. It was awesome!

4. I was single and had no clue I was going to eventually meet the hubby.

5. I was probably in the best shape of my life.

Question 2: What is (was) on your to-do list today?

1. Walk Lucy

2. Go to work

3. Go to Lunch

4. Go back to Work

5. Leave work (actually early today), take Lucy for another walk, eat dinner and wake up and do it all over again tomorrow.

Question 3: What five snacks do you enjoy?

1. ANYTHING chocolate

2. Fruits (faves to date: pineapple, mango, canteloupe, and strawberries)

3. Ice Cream (preferably Cold Stone)

4. Baby carrots (raw)

5. Milk Duds (go easy on them though...you'll be stopped up for three days. trust me, I know)

Question 4: What five places have you lived?

1. Hawaii (dad was stationed there and all my mom's family is there)

2. Fort Drum (dad was stationed there too)

3. Fort Bragg (for like six years...I was stationed there)

4. Colorado (dad stationed and retired there; finished high school, college and grad school there; family still lives there)

5. Iraq (for deployment)

Question 5: What five things would you do if you were a billionaire?

1. Buy a house for my parents, my brother and sister.

2. Send money to my family in Samoa (both on my dad's and hubby's side).

3. Donate to charity, of course.

4. Save for my kids' educations/invest.

5. Get out of the Army and be a stay at home mom. But I think I'd miss my job too much.

I'm supposed to pass this on to five people, but I'm too lazy to do that too. So if you wanna, copy and paste it to your profiles. It's fun!