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Trying to catch up on a few of my outstanding memes. Tash tagged me once again for the six things about me meme. Maddie's Mom tagged me for a meme where you can either (1) share five random and/or weird facts about yourself; (2) share the five top places on your “want to see or want to see again” list; (3) share five things you never pictured being in your future when your were 25 years old. I picked the first alternative, which means I’m listing 11 facts about myself.
1. I have no tonsils. They weren’t taken out. They just never grew in the first place.
2. One night when I was three, sitting under the dinner table and listening to the grown ups tell jokes, I decided to chime in with my own original contribution. This was the first (and probably the only) joke that I ever made up::
Q:What has eight legs and does not go around the house?
A: Two dead donkeys.
3. I signed all my kindergarten artwork with both my name and brother’s name. I didn’t want him to feel left out because he was still too little to go to school. I also carved his name into the piano, just above the keyboard, though my motivation in that case was probably somewhat different.
4. In our fifth grade play, I was given the role of Carrie Nation, the militant prohibitionist who roamed the midwest in early 1900s, toting a Bible and using a hatchet to destroy establishments that served liquor. I was disappointed that I had to make do with a cardboard hatchet.
5. The pediatric practice I went to had two physicians, a husband-wife team, who both went by Dr. Green. On one visit, I saw the male Dr, Green but, at the next, the female Dr. Green was the one who examined me. Afterwards, I commented to my mother, “You know, she used to be a man.”
6. It’s exactly six inches from the place where my palm meets my wrist to the tip of my longest finger – a fact that I’ve frequently found useful.
7. I have only one first cousin.
8. In the 1980s, I had one of those oh-so-trendy asymmetrical haircuts, crewcut-short on the back and left side, with one long piece of hair falling into my face.
9. As a child, I loved watching tv so much that, as soon as I woke up, I would turn on the set and stare at the test pattern until it was time for the Early Morning Farm Report.
10. After I graduated from college, I spent a year in southern France working as an au pair. Because the father was a fireman, I lived over the fire station.
11. When my third grade class took a field trip to the state park, I got lost in the woods. Eventually, I found my way to a highway and hitchhiked back to the main parking lot, where I waved down the school bus as it pulled out. No one had noticed I was missing.
I won't tag anyone in particular, but if you ever need inspiration for a post, feel free to use one or both of these memes.
27 comments:
i enjoyed reading these. i especially liked the last one, i can just imagine an 8 yr old, nonchalantly hitchhiking, but i didn't like that no one noticed you were missing.
that joke you told at three? quintessential niobe, even then.
as is the story of your third-grade hitchhiking. calm, cool, and composed, even at eight, eh?
Yeah, hitchhiking in third grade. Can you imagine the hysteria that would cause now?
Oh, I forgot to say I am really curious to see your 5 hotties list. I know you've been tagged more than once on that one. Will Rob Lowe make the list? Judd Nelson? Or completely opposite? I know, William S. Buckley??
I have to believe it'll be intriguing, as only a Niobe post can be.
Awwww, you signed your brother's name on your artwork, too? so sweet.
I enjoyed reading this one - and I loved the joke you made up! It just made me laugh! Our fifth grade play was the Wizard of Oz and I was the wicked witch of the west. I have to say, the video is pretty amusing.
My hand serves as a half-ruler, too.
I can just see that haircut.
I like that you signed your brother's name to your artwork. I wouldn't have done something like that, I didn't like my brother much when I was in kindergarten.
Which Box: I'm still thinking about that meme. It's an especially hard one for me, because my mind doesn't seem to work that way.
Is that a broom in the picture? Because if it is, I'd like to know where you got one of those as I am in need of a good broom like that. My crappy supermarket ones are not doing it for me.
Love the monkeys joke. Two, count them, two twists. We are currently subjected to a lot of knock-knock jokes. Kindergarten is so educational.
Why was there a prohibitionist in your fifth grade play? And was she a hero or a villain? Both possibilities are disturbing to me in the context of fifth grade. But I do have to agree with you-- either way you slice it (ha-ha!), cardboard hatchet is not a great prop.
You are so interesting!
And you have small hands. Because after I read #6, I totally broke out the ruler. I have short fingers, but mine is 6.75 inches...which I think might be slighly less useful...
My favs? The joke and the hitchhiking.
I so see you and number 8. I can't believe the last one. I hope the teacher got in trouble. :)
Julia: It is a broom, but, though I took a picture of it in nice light to make it look pretty, it's just a cheap supermarket broom.
I'm dying at the Mr/Mrs. Green one. Dying. These were great to read. I am bitter that I can never get any of my pictures to look Niobe-esque, no matter now hard I try. And I've been practicing a lot. DRAT!
#5 is very comical. Very.
#3 is sweet, #10 is interesting, but #11 is scary.
"You know, she used to be a man."
Priceless.
I got inspiration to measure my hand. It is seven and a quarter inches between the tip of my longest finger and the palm/wrist border. Much less useful.
i heart you...you interesting chicka.
i love people who are different and introspective and have a slight darkness. the donkey joke is hilarious.
You have tiny hands.
No tonsils? I think that means you're on the cutting edge, evolution-wise. Who needs 'em, anyway?
I can't find a ruler!
I love reading all these things. :)
Hugs
xxx
wow. and that is why i'll be attending a field trip with my daughter next week. yikes.
I bet your joke is a classic family story that gets told and retold.
#11- so sad.
You never cease to amaze. Fun and interesting list.
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