Kenju over at Imagine What I'm Leaving Out tagged me with a meme the other day, which I promised to do, but I got sidetracked and I'm just now getting around to it. I hope ya'll forgive me. Here are the rules:
1. Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 random and or weird things about yourself.
3. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
4. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
Okies, I'm not sure there's anything weird about me that a lot of ya'll don't already know, but for the benefit of my newest readers I'll rehash some of the weirder facts about myself.
1. Due to my Melungeon heritage, I have a little humpy thing on the sides of my feet, where an extra toe could have grown. Thank goodness the good Lord decided I had enough things in my life to give me a complex and saw fit to spare me the trauma of extra toes.
2. Baby powder makes me gag. Actually any sort of talcum or body powder chokes me. I can't stand the feel of it on my skin, it makes me cough and must immediately wash my hands if I come into contact with it. You would have thought this would have occurred to me when I had the bright idea to buy some of that spiffy new "mineral powder" based makeup.
3. My first and favorite job was as a volunteer at the Virginia Zoological Park in Norfolk when I was 13. I worked in the barnyard exhibit, shoveling horse, cow, pig, donkey, rabbit and goat poop every Sunday morning for a year. If I still lived in Norfolk, I'd be begging to work there. I'd rather shovel animal
4. I've been homeless. I lived in a Volkswagen hatchback for three months with a man who had just gotten out of prison. I learned about humility when I had to pay my boyfriend's grandmother two dollars to let me use her shower for 15 minutes. She set a timer outside the door.
5. Ask anyone in my family (aunts, uncles or cousins) and they'll tell you that I am and always have been a spoiled, rotten brat. I think they have a warped definition of what "brat" means. Most of them fit my description of the word quite well.
6. I cuss like a sailor, using words that would likely make your hair stand on end. I censor myself carefully when writing or in public.
7. I haven't attended a church service in more years than I care to admit, but I pray every day. I have very strong beliefs which I struggle to adhere to.
I always feel guilty if I tag people for memes, so feel free to snag this one if you'd like and let me know in comments. I'll give you a little linky love :)
4 comments:
I love that you admitted to #7. Bet that describes way more people than would actually admit to the same.
I'll play!
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TR
Very interesting post. You and I are very much alike on #6 -my vocabulary, at home, can always use a lot of fine tuning in the cussing department. Although I do try to attend church as often as I find possible -which is no where near as often as it really should be -like you, I too have very strong beliefs that most likely would shock the living daylights out of many people who probably profess to being shocked by my oft used "blue" vocabulary.
And, I have to confess too that you used a term I had never ever heard before referring to your ancestry -and as such, I had to google that and read a bit on the topic. Fascinating, truly fascinating. I love studying family trees and connectivity, etc., so that was right up my alley!
LOVE this list to little bits.
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