You're it, I Quit
I've been tagged by SoccerDad for the following meme:
The Rules are: Each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves.The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed.At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.
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1. I like doing memes but I don't feel constrained to follow all the directions. For example, I have no intention of asking people to read my blog. They either do or they don't. Begging is like just too demeaning.
2. I talked very early, according to my mother. She told me that people used to hear me and then come closer to take a look in my stroller, and when they did, they were completely amazed at how young I was. One of my first phrases was inexplicably, "Who's the beautiful lady?" I think I must have heard it somewhere and then repeated it like a parrot saying "Polly want a cracker."
3. My mother thinks one of her major responsibilities in life is to build my self-esteem. I've always known that her stories about me and my great precocity and brilliance are exaggerations. But I don't dig too deeply. It's one of those fun fantasies that I kind of enjoy.
4. I was never very athletic except in a couple of things: I could connect a bat with a baseball and hit it much further than I should have been able to for my lack of athletic ability, and I was always a good swimmer. I earned Red Cross certification in senior life saving and taught swimming to kids. And I used to love to water ski. I could drop a ski and slalom across the wake, man. But I didn't have enough upper body strength to climb the godforsaken rope in gym at school. I hated PE with a passion. Don't even get me going about the puke blue uniform (it was a one-piece thing with snaps down the front, identical to a prison uniform, but it was shorts, not long pants). They made us girls embroider our names across the left breast pocket. The boys got to wear normal t-shirts and gym shorts.
5. I never ate breakfast growing up. Now I never miss eating it. I am a firm believer in feeding one's brain and the importance of morning rehydration. I have tried to impress this upon my children, and now they know my shpiel entirely by heart. The single missing piece of this successful parenting strategy is getting them to follow through on it by actually eating breakfast.
6. I love to cook and I love to hear my husband and kids brag to others about the things I make.
7. I love all four seasons. One day we will move to a place where there is no winter and I will miss it for the rest of my life.
8. When I was 6 years old, we went on a family trip to Washington DC. While we were standing in front of the White House, President Kennedy landed on the lawn in a helicopter and waved to the crowd. He was killed the following year.
I am tagging the following people/blogs:
Oh those DANG gym suits!
Great list! I'm working on mine.
Posted by: Shirl | July 01, 2007 at 12:00 AM