1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
2. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged write their own blog post about their eight things and include these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged and that they should read your blog.
5. 8 is a magic number. Not three.
Eight Obscure Things About Me:
1. I can get lost in a shoebox. I get lost driving to places that I go regularly. I will be driving and forget where I was going, I usually remember quickly but it is disconcerting anyway. I use to know how to get places by which fast food or restaurants were near by, now it is by stores or parks and play places. I am married to a geography/cartography
2. I love silly pop music (think Paris Hilton's CD) I have to sing while I am driving. (maybe that is why I get so lost, hum?) Lilith now thinks you are suppose to sing in the car. It is a-door-bell! I hardly listen to the radio, I hated satellite radio!
3. I hate the color orange. I don't know why. Blame it on 70's decor that I had to live with growing up. I won't even consider buying a beige, brown, or orange car for the same reason. Between my daughter and myself, we easily have enough pink clothes to fill 4 laundry baskets. She owns one "peach" (I tell myself that it is peach so I can accept her wearing it)outfit that was a gift. She looks best in purple. My mother always dressed me in red as a child. She thinks I look best in red. I own 5 red items of clothing. Lilith will probably either really love or really hate pink, sigh.
4. I loved London. I felt like I was at home there. I considered moving there when I was 18 but was too afraid to go through with it. One day I hope to have lived there. If you believe in reincarnation, then you will understand why I feel such a connection to London. I honestly felt like I knew what was going to be around the next corner in some of the older areas. I didn't want to leave.
5. I hated Paris. I expected to love it. I wanted to love it. I had seen to many coffee commercials, you know the ones with the couple sitting in the outdoor cafe with the Eiffel tower in the background, etc. Well the reality wasn't so lovely. The coffee (Diet Coke in my case at that time) had 4 different prices- from cheapest to most outrageous- to go, standing at the walk up bar, sitting inside the cafe, and sitting outside the cafe (it has been overcast almost every time I have been there so no view of the Eiffel tower). It was dirty, and had graffiti every where. (I later read that it too over 6 weeks to clean up 3 blocks in Paris so they could film the movie "Amalee") I was very disappointed.
4. I secretly wish I could chuck it all and become a writer. I ruin movies for my husband all of the time by telling him the ending within a few minutes into a movie. The last movie that kept me guessing was, The Prestige". I have loved to write since I was in first grade. I would love to write horror or mystery.
5. I use to read EVERY Stephen King book as soon as it came out. I even read the books he wrote under aliases. I use to believe that he was one of the rare people that could actually see and feel things that most of the world chooses to ignore or pretend doesn't exist. Like when Lilith talks and waves to something in her bedroom when I rock her to sleep. (this really bothers Will, it only bothers me when I bathe her and my back is towards her room and she waves and plays peek a boo with it as I have my back to her room! I always feel like one day I am going to turn around and see it too! Maybe she will grow up and be the next Stephen King!) The scariest movie I ever saw as a child was, "The Shining". I loved the book even more. The first book of Stephen Kings that I almost couldn't finish was, "Tommy Knockers". When I see a movie or read a book that I think is awful by someone that I had previously thought was wonderful, I always say, "Well, I guess they had to pay their mortgage or alimony".
6. Three movies have made me cry, "The Color Purple" When Oprah's character came back from prison for Christmas dinner and her spirit was broken, it gets me every time, "Set It Off" at the end when all of the other girls have died and the FBI agent sees the last girl on a bus after witnessing her friend kill herself rather than be apprehended, I found myself crying hoping he would let her go. "Terms of Endearment" when Debra Winger is saying bye to her older son and she tells him, "It's okay. I know that you love me. Remember that and don't beat yourself up later on because you didn't tell me. I know" I hated the book "The Color Purple". It is the one time I have loved a movie and hated the book.
7. My favorite childhood story was, "Alice in Wonderland". My mother hated the fact that I loved it. She said it was all about drugs. I later read a book about the author that said it was about chess. My mother also said that ring around the Rosy was about small pox and that Hansel and Gretel was about child abandonment and cannibalism, etc, etc. She also said that Scooby Doo was about teenage runaways that lived in a van and never changed their clothes and slipped the people they went to "solve mysteries" at their homes, etc drugs (hence the psychedelic chase scenes) and that the mystery was always solved about the time Shaggy and Scooby would have eaten all of the home owners food. That's my mom for you. She loves, hee hee that I have a tattoo of the Cheshire cat (aka Disney's animated version) on my left foot. I wanted to do Lilith's nursery in "Alice in Wonderland" but ended up doing it in Butterflies and Easter M&M colors. I saw a bumper sticker that said "What would Scooby Doo?" and loved it.
8. I didn't talk till I was 2. My first sentence was, "Where are the boys?" (I was asking about twin grandsons of my mothers neighbor who often brought them over to play with me when she was visiting my mother. My mother says I almost gave the woman a heart attack as she had never heard me speak before that. I talk incessantly now to make up for lost time, ha ha!
Okay eight people; Carla, crystal, Missy, Amanda Jo, Krissy, Ashley, Jennifer,and Beth.
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