31 Things About Me
You may have felt that something was missing from your life today. Perhaps you were thinking, “Gosh, I really feel like I need to know 31 things about an anonymous blogger.” If that’s the case, you’re in luck. Here are 31 random things about me.
1: One of my first jobs was as a singing telegram girl.
2: The man who would become my (now ex) husband owned the singing telegram company.
3: I lived and worked on a blueberry farm for a while.
4: The most famous person I delivered a telegram to was Tim (”Rocky Horror Picture Show”) Curry.
5: I used to go to a lot of rock concerts.
6: During my marriage, I lived in a trailer with three walls for a long time. Chickens would come in through the holes in the cabinets from under the trailer, and I’d find eggs in my living room.
7: The marriage didn’t last long.
8: I used to freelance writing greeting cards and button slogans.
9: Growing up in Memphis during the 60’s and 70’s was an amazing experience.
10: The only foods I’m not fond of are eggs, potato salad and cole slaw.
11: When I was little, we were poor. We ate a LOT of eggs.
12: My parents fought a lot when when I was a kid. It made it hard to sleep. My grades sucked.
13: The first day I drove alone for the first time, I backed into a cement light post. The globe fell off the post and onto the trunk of my mother’s car, leaving a crater-sized indentation. Amazingly, no one noticed for weeks, and when they finally did, I feigned ignorance.
14: I fessed up to the dent when I was in my early thirties.
15: As a teenager, I once OD’d on Valium I found in a medicine cabinet of some people I was babysitting for. The parents could barely revive me. They took me home, and no one there seemed to notice.
16: As a young person, I was a fairly self-destructive.
17: I miss my father every day.
18: My mother is one of my best friends.
19: I once auditioned for a musical with my best friend from high school. She was a trained singer, and I’d never sung in front of anyone before the audition. I got a role, and she didn’t. She was furious.
20: The leading lady dropped out of the musical, and they asked me to replace her, but I declined because I was too shy.
21: When I was a kid, I’d barricade myself in my room for hours and sing along to my mother’s albums.
22: I used to have a piano.
23: I wish I still had a piano.
24: I can’t really play piano.
25: I once saw Allen Ginsberg perform, “Howl.”
26: I once played a lamb in a television commercial.
27: The costume made me hyperventilate.
28: I was born in Florida, near the beach.
29: I can’t swim.
30: I am very competitive when it comes to word games.
31: I once taught a writing class to developmentally disabled adults. The book they wrote is one of my treasured possessions.
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November 25, 2007 at 11:05 pm
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