Normally, I suck at internet memes. I’m always bad about returning emails and blog comments, so this should really be no surprise. When Karen tagged me, I completely bailed. I’m sure I had some excuse, something must have been going on, something is always going on, but I totally flaked. This time, I magically got tagged twice, on the same day, by two of my oldest friends who have never met and don’t even know the other person exists. Even with my expert rationalization skills, I can’t let this one pass me by. So, Ali, meet Mark. Mark, meet Ali. Great minds think alike.
Here I go:
1)Include these game rules at the beginning of your blog post
2)Each player lists six facts/habits about themselves
3)At the end of the post, tag four more people by posting their names, and leaving a comment on their blogs that they have been tagged and to look at your blog for the rules.
Random Facts about myself:
1) I always have to start any list like this with the obvious crazy fact. I left home and school at 16 and lived in my car while I worked three jobs and put myself through community college, and then transfered to BYU. I went from the street to happy valley, UT. Quite a culture shock for me.
2) I think I need at least 10 lives to be able to explore all my interests. At one time or another I wanted to be: a singer, an actress, a fashion designer, a high school history teacher, a therapist, a surgeon, an artist, a writer, a graphic designer, a scrapbooker, a craft show host, a politician, a journalist, a literary editor, a photographer, and a craft artist. And when I say I wanted to be them, I mean sincerely. I’ve at least gotten some education in that direction. Some of those things I’ve actually done, some I tried hard to do and failed, some I still hope to do, and I’m sure even more things will be added to the list as time goes on.
3) I’ve always considered myself a feminist, and I seem to have come out of the womb that way. One of my earliest memories of school is chasing a boy around the playground to expound on all the accomplishments of women and why in fact, girls do not drool while boys rule. I was probably 5 at the time.
4) In person I come across very outgoing and gregarious, but privately I’ve struggled with anxiety issues all my life. Just after I was married I went through several months of intense agoraphobia and didn’t leave the house unless I couldn’t help it. Even now, I usually avoid running errands on my own, and if Bear is available, I don’t go anywhere without him.
5) In the back of my mind I’ve always believed that I would end up famous one day, and even now I’ll still give the occasional imaginary Oprah interview as I’m stuck in traffic.
6) I was always absolutely clueless about boys and their intentions. Once a guy tried to ask me out by asking if he could see a review I’d done for a class, and I just told him to go talk to the professor. She had a copy. Another boy who was a good friend of mine and a big singer/songwriter fan serenaded me with “I’ll Have to Say I Love You in a Song” and I didn’t get it at all. When he finished, I just asked him to play something else. I was such a dummy.
And since Mark’s version asked for a seventh, here’s the one I always pull out as the ultimate story topper:
7) A former roommate of mine got pregnant and decided to give the baby up for adoption. The baby was adopted by another former roommate of mine who never met the mother. It turned out the father of the baby left the mother for a man: my old high school boyfriend. dun Dun DUHHHH.