I got tagged for a meme. So, here are eight random things about me:
1. I am a lousy, and I mean lousy, housekeeper. And frankly, m’dear, I don’t give a damn. But I do keep my car clean.
2. I have never seen Gone With the Wind. Never read it, either.
3. I have seen the Kingston Trio live in concert. Twice!!!
4. I live next door to my mother-in-law, and I love it. My neighbor on the other side also happens to be my dentist. I floss more often than I would otherwise.
5. I almost always have incense burning while I’m working. I used to hate incense. Then one time we had a huge rainstorm and our basement flooded. The carpet reeked! Because I’m such a crappy housekeeper I burned incense rather than go to the trouble of cleaning the carpet. And that’s how the habit got started. (No, our basement doesn’t still stink. Hubby dealt with it. Thanks, hon!)
6. I have a terrible time telling right from left. I have to hold up my hands, palms out, and look for the L. My mom says this is because I never took piano lessons. However, I’m pretty good with compass points.
7. I love salty stuff. I eat all the salty crumbs out of the bottom of the pretzel bag. I eat a whole jar of olives (any variety) in one sitting and then drink the juice. I also have low blood pressure.
8. Speaking of low blood pressure, I have fainted more times than I can count, though not in the last 15-20 years. The weirdest was one time when I was in a canoe. I was 12, riding in the middle, floating down the beautiful Crystal River in Northern MI. We got a little too close to a fallen tree, and my elbow bumped into a branch. It was hardly more than a tap. It didn’t hurt at all. But I must have hit a nerve or something, because I went out like a light. The next thing I knew, I was lying in the bottom of the canoe. My dad also faints easily, and so does my oldest son. They also have low blood pressure.
Now I’m supposed to tag eight people. I think a lot of people have done this one already. If you haven’t done it yet, and want to, please consider yourself tagged!
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Regrettably, I’m with you on number 2) and also 6) as I discovered recently. I’ve been doing driving lessons and found that I get confused about when my instructor tells me to go left or right on the road. For my driving test, I avoided the confusion by sneakily only painting the nails on my right hand.
Sorry about the double post but my mind was a-wandering and I muddled up all the fields in my comment above.
Heehee, I am also a bad housekeeper and I also don’t care! I think that’s why I’m a bad cleaner though, if I cared, I’d probably do better! Once when for a few (loooong) months I didn’t have a job so I was more or less a housewife…there were a lot of fights that went like this,
spouse: “What did you have to do today?”
me: “nothing.”
beat
spouse: “Then WHY, WHY for the LOVE OF GOD is the house a mess?! You had all day to clean! You did nothing!”
me: blank look “I’m supposed to clean? I hate cleaning”
We ended up hiring a housekeeper. Everyone was happier.
Add me to the people who can’t tell right from left- I do the L thing too. But I love acquisitionist’s solution during her driving test! That’s fab.
Are you left-handed? A friend and I were just talking about whether that made telling the difference harder–my son has to check too.
You ought to give GWTW a try–I was surprised at how much I liked it. And I’m glad you’re posting again!
Ah, incense. I haven’t been able to take it since college when I had roommates who built an altar (using my Christmas nativity scene, thank you) and burned incense practically every night. Give me a nice, smelly candle (but no floral smells, those reek).
Thanks for playing….
Well — and all these years I’ve been grumbling to myself about as I did the housework. Glad to know it wasn’t all in my head. :-)
I better not do my own random facts — I don’t know if I could stop once I got started.
Julsie — good to have Bookworm back on-line.
Today, you tagged at least six 7th graders. My Literature Circles (small, independent reading groups) always finish their books at different rates. One of the groups was reading Because of Winn Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo. The book features a “List of Ten” things about the central character’s departed mother. To provide an additional example of a list of random facts about a person, I showed the kids this blog entry, and asked them to write their own lists about themselves. So you have definitely boosted your meme tagging quota today. We shall see if the kids think of anything interesting to put on their lists.
I can’t tell my left from my right either. IT’s a good thing I never joined the army or the drill team!
Or an aerobics class!