Here we go:
The rules:
1. Let others know who tagged you.
2. Players start with 8 random facts about themselves.
3. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.
4. Players should tag 8 other people and notify them they have been tagged.
1. I don't currently have a driver's license -- just a state ID -- but my identification has never been honest about my true height. I'm 5'11 and 3/4", or I was when my college roommate Michelle and I got drunk on screwdrivers while baking oatmeal-chocolate-chip-rum-raisin cookies to celebrate moving out of the dorm and into our first apartment. We had no furniture, so I laid down where the dining table should have been and we measured. It's possible we weren't entirely accurate. Or I may have shrunk since 1990.
For a while my license said I was 5'5", and after I added a couple inches a cop once looked at the ID and then down at me in my scooter and declared there was no way I was as much as 5'7". I've always overestimated my weight too. Sometimes people don't want to see the truth.
2. I was so painfully shy as a child that even though Laverne & Shirley was one of my favorite tv shows, I'd often have to leave the room when their escapades led to public spectacle and embarrassment that I could not bear to witness. It's like getting tickled: There's the joy of being unabashedly alive, but it also makes me anxious and need to pee.
3. As a child, I took ten years of classical training in piano. I also played the guitar, the viola, and was part of the percussion team in the grade school and junior high bands. All of that was over by the time I was 16 and my manual dexterity began to go. But the piano lessons have left me with a natural affinity for any music with some good piano riffs in it.
4. Ten minutes. I need a minimum of ten minutes after I first get out of bed with no one talking to me or messing with me in any way. Once I get that, it'll likely be a very fine day, but if I don't get that, all bets are off.
5. Guacamole is the soupy-green nectar of the gods.
6. Either that or margaritas are. Rocks and salt.
7. The absolute best thing I did for myself last year was to splurge on two art prints that are now framed and in my bedroom. I had no idea how much joy they would bring me each day, how much color and creativity they'd let into my life. I'm still working on what I can do this year to equal that.
8. My twin sister and I have a very juvenile response to bra-shopping. We gather our choices, go into the giant accessible dressing room, then giggle ourselves sick with the visuals each option presents. You'd think we'd have outgrown this at age 38, but no. And what's really silly is that I no longer actually wear bras.
9. I'm a sucker for any story -- book or film -- that messes with the space/time continuum. And post-apocalyptic fiction. Combine the two and I'm stunned into geeky bliss.
Will you play?
I tag Steve and/or Connie, Laura, Dawn, Elizabeth, Trinity, Wheelchair Dancer, Frog and Amanda.
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