As If You Didn’t Know Enough Already
David, blogmeister of Thoughts-O-Dave, tagged me for a meme. Since my own blog is kind of a
nauseatingly neurotic homage to my every thought and deed, it’s going to be a challenge to come up with things I haven’t already told you, but I’ll try. Here’s how David explains it:
“Have to come up with seven ‘facts’ about self and post these rules:
1) Link to the person that tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.
2) Share 7 facts about yourself.
3) Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.
4) Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.Then I have to tag 7 innocent bloggers. That’s the part that I have the most trouble with.”
I’m with Dave. I don’t want to bug anyone, or make them feel that they have to do this, so I’m going to do as he’s done, and just list my seven “tag-ees” at the end of this post. Don’t feel obligated– just know that if you break the chain, your life will probably become an unending hell on earth, you’ll get traffic tickets, and little ghosts will visit you in the night. Not really. I just had to make it a little more interesting.
A few months ago, I did a post called “31 Things About Me.” I had to go back and read it to make sure I didn’t duplicate anything. Here are seven more.
1: I am the oldest of four, and each of us has different coloring. One brother has brown hair and blue eyes, my sister has blond hair and blue eyes, another brother has red hair and brown eyes, and I have black hair and hazel eyes. Okay, black hair with a few silver strands. Soon, it will be some Loreal-colored hair with hazel eyes.
2: People say I’m very hard on myself, and it’s true. I’m very forgiving of others, relentless about myself.
3: I eat very weird stuff for breakfast. One morning last week, I had a bowl of black olives; another day, it was fake crab and cream cheese spread on crackers. This a.m., it was Ramen noodles. These morning munchies are always accompanied by gallons of coffee.
4: I tend to take people at face value, and it’s taken me a long time to realize that some people have hidden agendas. I once dated someone who observed, “You could meet an axe-murderer, and find something nice to say about them.” Tom says I’m like Mary Tyler Moore, which is really only true when I’m not hormoning out. Then I’m more like Mary Tyler Moore’s evil twin cousin.
5: I’m messy and perfectionistic at the same time.
6: I love old stuff, mostly from the twenties, thirties, and forties: movies, antiques, photographs, architecture, clothing, etc. Included in this are old Popeye cartoons and all things Theda Bara.
7: I once had a tiny pet piglet named Petunia. She was a sickly little runt, and I was trying to save her, but she was too far gone. I remember my ex-husband asking, “You don’t have that pig in bed with us again, do you?” Um…
Here’s who I’m tagging:
Sometimes Saintly Nick said,
November 26, 2007 at 1:28 am
Well, I now know seven more things about you than I did five minutes ago.
Maybe seven things too many, huh? Hope you had a happy Thanksgiving, Nick!
randomyriad said,
November 26, 2007 at 10:17 am
Thanks for the tag. No I really mean it, but it may be a while. I’m right in the middle of this novel and I’ve got work. But, I will get to it. Really I will.
No rush. I know you’re in the middle of NaNoWriMo. I think these “meme’s” are supposed to be for fun, so no deadlines, no stress, and you don’t even have to complete the assignment (though I’ll be interested to read your list).
CuriousC said,
November 26, 2007 at 10:19 am
Oh goodie! This doesn’t sound too difficult. I’ll play. Eventually. (am I typing/talking like the chick on Grey’s Anatomy? staccato. incomplete sentences. sigh…)
Oh good. I’m glad. Looking forward to it. When you get to it.
cantueso said,
November 26, 2007 at 10:48 am
One day you will have to tell us whether your daughter reads this blog. I think you are a great mum, the way you can picture things from her side.
She doesn’t read it (as far as I know). Ohhhh, I wish I were “a great mum.” I’m mediocre, at best. I have to see things from all sides though, or I’d just spend all my time crying!
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Life With Buck said,
November 26, 2007 at 12:36 pm
All these factoids were interesting, but I am most fascinated by this pig thing. I’ve always wanted one but have been too scared to get one. My daughter’s friend got a miniature pot-bellied pig, but the breeder lied and today the pig is about 500 pounds with TUSKS that have to cut off by a vet every so often. And they had to build a special barn for it.
During my marriage, I moved from the big city to this teeny tiny country town to help manage a gorgeous 150+ acre blueberry farm. I was a miserable failure as a farm girl, but for some reason, a neighbor brought me this little, adorable runt to try to nurse back to health. She was just a little larger than my hand, and just as sick as she could be. I fed her through a medicine dropper and let her sleep with us for warmth. She never got strong though, and finally my ex said that we’d have to put her out of her misery. She was really suffering, but it took me a while to agree. The ending wasn’t happy– it involved a gunshot, tears, and me singing the “Star Spangled Banner” at the top of my lungs so I wouldn’t hear it.
I had neighbors who had a domesticated pig. She was huge and smart and stubborn, and had the run of their house. Eventually, they had to make her an outdoor pig. She was more demanding than friendly– kind of like a cat who insists on affection but gives little back. I would read a lot about them before getting one– from what I understand, there are lots of abandoned Potbellies out there.
Beth from Avenue Z said,
November 26, 2007 at 1:33 pm
What an honor! I’ve never been tagged before….
Uh oh. Now I have to do something. Ms. McQueen, can I just use some of yours? I’m a messy perfectionist with hazel eyes and Clairol hair (whatever is on sale, really). Does that count for two?
(thinking, thinking…)
Feel free to plagiarize! Two down, five to go!
K said,
November 26, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Your morning munchies on their own aren’t so bad, but I’m not sure how I feel about any of them paired with coffee. Then again, I ate green bean casserole for breakfast three days in a row. Cold. So I don’t have a whole lot of room to judge.
Green bean casserole sounds like a fantastic breakfast (although I’d heat mine)! And coffee goes with everything. I did better today, and actually ate oatmeal for the first time in a million years, because I read David’s list and felt guilty. Apparently, he eats oatmeal mixed with flax meal every day. Ugh.
Renée said,
November 27, 2007 at 3:15 am
I feel like Sally Field at the Oscars. “You LIKE me! You really like me!” :blush: My very first tag! I feel like a sixth grader asked to dance for the first time, awkward and special at the same time.
Now I have to produce something. Shit.
:walks away muttering:
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Renée said,
November 27, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Well, for better or worse, my 7 things are up. :chews fingernails:
http://theemptynestblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/tagged.html