I normally throw any kind of "chain-thang" into the delete bin... but, just this once, for Jaye, who tagged me:
1. I have to post these rules before I give you the facts.
2. Each participant posts eight random facts about themselves.
3. Tagees should write a blogpost of eight random facts about themselves.
4. At the end of the post, eight more bloggers are tagged (named and shamed).
5. Go to their blog, leave a comment telling them they're tagged (cut and run).
1. I was such a hyperactive toddler that my parents put a harness and leash on me when we went out in public.
2. I signed up to be trained as a nurse in the Navy when I was nineteen, but I was never inducted because my parents both refused to sign their permission, which was required for females (but not males) under twenty-one in those quaint olden days. The conflict in Viet Nam was just heating up then.
3. I roomed in a former firehouse and when I was late to work, I took the fire pole to the main floor.
4. My college music teacher locked the door after class started, and one morning I was late. I was so desperate to get in that I wrote "pretty please" with my lipstick on a piece of paper, and slid it under the door. The class was laughing so hard he couldn't teach anyway, so he let me in.
5. I love seeing kids learn new things - the excitement they have when they master a new skill, and so I have given lessons in accordion, organ, and piano, and swimming, and have coached kids soccer and coached kids for speech tournaments. I count my greatest success as the Christmas program where I assisted the choir director, when several parents came up to me and said with delight, "We could actually understand the words in the carols this year!". I didn't tell them I cheated. I had promised the kids that they could earn a candy for each verse that they could recite accurately to me, and it became a competition with them, to see who could earn the most candy!
6. The first Thanksgiving dinner that I cooked, I didn't realize the frozen giblets had to come out of the turkey, and several hours later, one of my guests discovered why the bird wouldn't cook right (but the wine was good, so maybe everyone had a good time anyway.)
7. The flower that melts my heart is a pink miniature rose.
8. My favorite holiday is the Fourth of July. Happy Fourth, y'all!
Now this is the really hard part -- who to tag?
Cat over at Kat Dancing
Heather has just been tagged with something else, so she's safe, and I can't think of anyone else right now, so just add yourself in comments if you want to play.
3 comments:
goin down the fire pole when you're late! i love it.
A fire pole! That is so cool!
Interestingly enough, my parents put me and my twin in harnesses, too!
Yes Heather, I loved that old fire pole, and much regretted moving out when the time came (wood rot - the place was falling apart).
Well Jaye, I think if you'd been there you would have successfully negotiated the fire pole too. (Few people tried - it was the equivalent of two stories high.)
Hyperactive twins eh? My mother thought the worst thing she could wish on me was twins just like myself.
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