8 things meme
So I got tagged by Mithen to do this.
1. Post these rules.
2. Each tagged person must post 8 things about their selves on their journal.
3. At the end, you have to choose and tag 8 people.
4. No tag-backs.
I don't tag people to do memes, but feel free to play along if you'd like.
1. I lived in 4 different states, and changed school districts (and thus schools, friends, etc) 7 different times before I graduated high school. The only reason it wasn't 8 school districts is the last move in 10th grade brought me back to a school district I had been in before with some people that remembered me.
2. The only totally new from the dealer car I have ever technically owned is the jeep my husband drives. It's both our names on the title so I own it, and it may be 11 yrs old at this point but we did buy it new, but man do I hate driving it (since I am a full foot shorter than my 6'3" husband who bought the thing so he would have a car he could drive without hitting his head when he got in and out of the car so I feel like I am climbing a jungle gym every time I go near it)
3. I own something over 4000 books and think that giving up a single book, even one I doubt I'll ever read again, is a crime. It's an issue in a house as small as the one we live in.
4. Of the 4000, over 250 are cookbooks so I can indulge my love of cooking.
5. My husband has forbidden me to purchase any more cookbooks unless I am willing to give away some of the existing cookbooks, because he says between the books and the cookware the house is starting to tilt toward the kitchen. Cookbooks people give me are excluded from this rule, as long as I don't specifically ask for a cookbook by putting it on my Amazon wish list.
6. I ran track in middle school. I actually got cheered by my team once. It was because I finished my event (the 1/2 mile) without being lapped by the person who won, but it was a cheer.
7. At my wedding, the minister started his sermon (and the first words he spoke to the assembled guests) by quoting Peter Cook's speech from the marriage scene in The Princess Bride.
Marrwage. Marrwage is what brings us together today. Marrwage is a dweam within a dweam....
He did the first minute or so from the movie, and them started talking about how the ceremony in the movie was a mockery but the sentiments it expressed were real and it flowed into the rest of his sermon on what love and marriage meant. Half the audience got it that it was meant to be funny (all our friends, many of whom knew the minister personally as our minister was a good friend from college that we role-played with on many an occasion) and started laughing, and the other half were trying to shush the half that was laughing at the poor man's speech impediment until he started talking in his normal voice.
8. I am violently allergic to poison ivy, once getting a rash from riding a bike along a paved road that bordered a wooded area with the plant because the prevailing wind was coming through the woods across the road and the amount of the plant oil carried by the wind was enough to make me react. Considering my name, I find that really, really annoying and it caused me no end of teasing in elementary school.
1. Post these rules.
2. Each tagged person must post 8 things about their selves on their journal.
3. At the end, you have to choose and tag 8 people.
4. No tag-backs.
I don't tag people to do memes, but feel free to play along if you'd like.
1. I lived in 4 different states, and changed school districts (and thus schools, friends, etc) 7 different times before I graduated high school. The only reason it wasn't 8 school districts is the last move in 10th grade brought me back to a school district I had been in before with some people that remembered me.
2. The only totally new from the dealer car I have ever technically owned is the jeep my husband drives. It's both our names on the title so I own it, and it may be 11 yrs old at this point but we did buy it new, but man do I hate driving it (since I am a full foot shorter than my 6'3" husband who bought the thing so he would have a car he could drive without hitting his head when he got in and out of the car so I feel like I am climbing a jungle gym every time I go near it)
3. I own something over 4000 books and think that giving up a single book, even one I doubt I'll ever read again, is a crime. It's an issue in a house as small as the one we live in.
4. Of the 4000, over 250 are cookbooks so I can indulge my love of cooking.
5. My husband has forbidden me to purchase any more cookbooks unless I am willing to give away some of the existing cookbooks, because he says between the books and the cookware the house is starting to tilt toward the kitchen. Cookbooks people give me are excluded from this rule, as long as I don't specifically ask for a cookbook by putting it on my Amazon wish list.
6. I ran track in middle school. I actually got cheered by my team once. It was because I finished my event (the 1/2 mile) without being lapped by the person who won, but it was a cheer.
7. At my wedding, the minister started his sermon (and the first words he spoke to the assembled guests) by quoting Peter Cook's speech from the marriage scene in The Princess Bride.
Marrwage. Marrwage is what brings us together today. Marrwage is a dweam within a dweam....
He did the first minute or so from the movie, and them started talking about how the ceremony in the movie was a mockery but the sentiments it expressed were real and it flowed into the rest of his sermon on what love and marriage meant. Half the audience got it that it was meant to be funny (all our friends, many of whom knew the minister personally as our minister was a good friend from college that we role-played with on many an occasion) and started laughing, and the other half were trying to shush the half that was laughing at the poor man's speech impediment until he started talking in his normal voice.
8. I am violently allergic to poison ivy, once getting a rash from riding a bike along a paved road that bordered a wooded area with the plant because the prevailing wind was coming through the woods across the road and the amount of the plant oil carried by the wind was enough to make me react. Considering my name, I find that really, really annoying and it caused me no end of teasing in elementary school.