housekeeping

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.