Seven Random Facts About Me
I have been too busy to post lately – and I have missed it!
Donna Marie at A Garden of Roses and Lilies tagged me for this meme (Mom, a meme is like chain mail for a blog.) I don’t always get a chance to participate, but I have a few new readers, so I thought I’d put some random stuff out there about me. I actually had this post done last week, and then blogger crashed at the very moment I was about to publish my post!!!! I was fuming mad, and couldn’t pick up the computer again for a few nights.
Let’s see how random I can get…
1. I’m a cajun – born in Louisiana! Give me crawfish etouffe’ anyday!!! Geaux Tigers!
2. I met my husband at Space Camp – we weren’t campers 🙂 we were counselors! That was over 18 years ago. Those are some great memories. We met astronauts and had some of the most awesome behind the scenes and up close tours of NASA. I was even a part of a photo session with Arnold Schwarzenegger and then President George H.W. Bush. They were promoting the presidential physical fitness program. I have a picture of us…somewhere. Anyway, Rob asked me out, I turned him down. Then, a good friend of mine told me what an idiot I was, but by then Rob wanted nothing to do with me. So…I…um…took matters into my own hands. We were at a party celebrating the end of counselor training one year, and he was standing against a column or the wall or something with his arm outstretched, sort of leaning against the wall. I took a deep breath, walked up and placed myself under his outstretched arm, looked up and smiled. And the rest is history. Whew! That was a close one, and I nearly blew it!
3. My favorite painting in the whole world is Raphael’s Disputation on the Holy Eucharist. It is a fresco which is painted on the ceiling of one of the apartments in the Vatican. I’ve never seen it in person, but maybe one day? It is a dream of mine.
4. My weakness – bags! Purses, diaper bags, tote bags. Leather, quilted cotton, canvas. Browns, calico, paisley, stripes. Should I stop now? I am a total sucker!
5. I’m a Jane Austen junkie. I prefer Pride and Prejudice, but all of her characters are so complex and delicious! Why don’t we talk like that anymore? Our language has lost all beauty.
“You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you supposed that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman like manner… You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it.” Elizabeth Bennett
6. I used to have blond hair until I had my first child. Then my hair started growing out in a positively drab, awful shade of dull brown. Thank you Lord for the gift of humility.
7. Oh! I know a weird and completely unknown fact about me! Only my mom knows this! I love raw potatoes!!! Seriously! When mom would cut them up to boil them for potato salad, I would eat them by the handfuls. I still would today!
How’s that for 7 completely unrelated and random facts about me? I’m pretty boring, huh?
These are the rules for passing along this meme:
1. Link to the person’s blog who tagged you.
2. Post these rules on your blog.
3. List seven random and/or weird facts about yourself
4. Tag seven random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
5. Let each person know that they have been tagged by posting a comment on their blog.
I’m not going to tag anyone though. If you’d like to have fun with this one, consider yourself tagged!! It is harder than you might think to come up with 7 random things.
Why not ask a sibling for random facts? It would be so much more interesting! Shall I? (absurd question)#1: makes great mini pb&j sandwiches#2: pioneer in the less-is-more baby-sitting movement#3: secret admirer of action movie dialouge (but who doesn’t love “do ya feel lucky punk?”) #4: Can, in the heat of attempted-child-disaster-prevention, fire out her first son’s name at a rate of 4 reps/sec (probably a gift common to all mom’s)#5: voted most likely to habitually scare the begeezus out of her helpless little brother #6: voted least likely to tolerate impromptu ballet mockery of favorite soap opera#7: lapsed member of baby-toe-smoochers anonymous
Please make u.c. stop!!! I can’t take it anymore! My uncontrolable laughter is disturbing everyone around me. Thanks for the uplifing look back into time.
hmmm….not sure I approve of your random facts…besides, my membership in baby-toe-smoochers anonymous is completely up to date. I’m a founding member! Perhaps my next post will be random and embarassing facts about my little brother? Shall I Violet?