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Friday, February 03, 2006

counting down from ten

lifted from Michael again

TEN Random Things You May Not Know About Me:
After two and a half years of online journaling, there's a pretty serious likelihood that if you don't know it already, it's because I don't want to discuss it in a public forum, but let's see if I can come up with anything.

  1. Until I was twenty years old I didn't know that "Another One Bites The Dust" was a Queen song.
  2. I have acne and wrinkles at the same time. This is patently unfair and if anyone had told me this would happen I might have filed an injunction about getting older.
  3. I smoked a pack of cigarettes in about a week when I was fifteen. Jenn and I were friends with this girl Nicole, and Nicole and I had a fight with Jenn, and Nicole and I were hanging out, and she was a bad little influence. :)
  4. Up through high school I was really possessive of my friends (and especially my boyfriends). If one's number was busy, I would call the others to see whom s/he was talking to. Even as an adult I sometimes feel a tiny residual twinge of envy when my friends talk about their other friends.
  5. If I eat Grape-Nuts I measure the serving size with a measuring cup even if I'm not trying to lose weight.
  6. I can't chew gum anymore because it hurts my jaw too much. This is the same reason I hate going to the dentist.
  7. If I'm limbered up I can put my feet right next to my ears.
  8. My hands are the same size as my husband's. They're so large that I usually have to wear men's gloves.
  9. I live about 300 yards from the very spot where I was born.
  10. I still have my wisdom teeth, but my twelve-year molars were removed when I was eleven.


NINE Places I’ve Visited:

  1. Flintstone's Bedrock City (Arizona, summer 1989)
  2. Chaffee Zoological Gardens, Fresno, CA (often, since babyhood)
  3. Morro Bay, California (every summer and assorted other times, regularly since 2001 and occasionally in childhood)
  4. The Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado (summer 1989)
  5. Kissimmee, FL (February 2004)
  6. Great America, back when it was Marriott's Great America, early 80's, when the Demon was the scariest roller coaster they had
  7. Lick Observatory (most Father's Days since 2000 or so)
  8. Golden Gate Park (July 2005)
  9. Yosemite National Park (more times than I could count, since birth)


EIGHT Ways to Win My Heart [or at least my affection, or gratitude, or fond remembrance, or... something]:

  1. Compliment my photography :)
  2. Compliment my cooking
  3. BUY ME A LENS FOR OUR ANNIVERSARY, thank you so much, sweetie
  4. Give me flowers
  5. Compliment my children's behavior in a restaurant
  6. Compliment my children, period. :)
  7. Let me see an unexpected (but pleasant) personality quirk
  8. Make me laugh


SEVEN Things I Want to Do Before I Die:

  1. Learn to keep my house clean enough that I'm not embarrassed when people stop by
  2. Read the complete works of Dickens in chronological order
  3. See my adult children living fulfilled, happy, Godly lives
  4. Wear a size 10 again
  5. Get a flattering haircut
  6. Grow old gracefully
  7. Ride a(nother) rollercoaster; it's been a long time


SIX Things I’m Afraid Of:
I try not to dwell on these things or let them eat away at me, but they do pop into my head from time to time.

  1. permanently damaging my child(ren) emotionally
  2. someone ELSE permanently damaging my children emotionally
  3. my husband being killed or seriously injured on the job
  4. something happening to one of my children
  5. my dad dying, especially my dad dying alone
  6. centipedes. Really not so much fear as loathing, squirming, shuddering aversion.


FIVE Things I Don’t Like:

  1. horehound candy
  2. black licorice
  3. the media
  4. the smell of a dairy farm
  5. getting stuck behind a tourist who speeds up for passing lanes but slows back down to a crawl as soon as the curves start again
(that one was easy)


FOUR Ways to Turn Me Off:

  1. Tell me about a long dream in minute, numbing detail.
  2. Fish for compliments.
  3. Whine.
  4. Be rude.


THREE Things I Do Every Day:

  1. eat more than I should
  2. love people
  3. use the computer


TWO Things That Make Me Happy:

  1. holding hands
  2. taking pictures


ONE Thing on My Mind Right Now:

  1. It's a mistake to give everyone in the house but me ice cream with Splenda in it. Oh my gosh is it a mistake.

Posted by Rachel on February 3, 2006 10:10 PM in oh, great, another meme

Comments

Don't feel bad, I get a twinge when I hear about my friend's friends too, mostly because I'm here all by myself with no females to talk to. I live a mile from where I was born, however that isn't nearly as cool as where you were born. GAG. There's a Flinstone's Bedrock City? I lived in AZ for three months and I never knew that! As for eight ways to win your heart...Aside from #3 I think I've accomplished said winning of heart! WHAT is "horehound candy?" I think I've won your heart AND turned you off (Several times over)...When I was reading your three things you do every day - at first glance - I read "Eat more people..." OK, I'm done now ;)

Posted by: jenn at February 4, 2006 01:38 AM

I like this Meme Rachel, it's always neat to find out more about such a cool friend :)

Posted by: Debbie at February 4, 2006 08:19 AM

I don't understand the ice cream one :-\ What is Splenda?

Posted by: Carol at February 5, 2006 01:00 PM

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