Since Meg so kindly tagged me to reveal five facts about myself, I'm obliging. And they're, as she says, a little left of normal because that's so much more interesting.
1. I have not played a video gaming system since the Atari 2600. We never upgraded to Nintendo or Sega or Playstation. I've played the occasional handheld game, but my skills have never moved beyond the old rubbery black joystick with the single red button.
2. I love hats. Not that awful thing that Camilla Parker Bowles wore in her wedding to Prince Charles. But I wish that we all still wore fantastic hats like they did in the 40s and 50s. I have a hat face. I can wear just about any hat and it looks good on me. It's a sadly underutilized asset of mine.
3. I love Elvis. I love the cheesy movies he made - especially Blue Hawaii, Viva Las Vegas and G.I. Blues - and I love his music. I really love his iconic status and how there's something inherently classic and wonderful and at the same time over-the-top and tacky about it. I have a blue suede coffeetable book about Elvis. And a lunchbox.
4. I rub my feet together when I go to sleep. Usually, I'm laying on my stomach and I rub the left foot over the sole of the right. Until a few years ago, I didn't know that my mother does the same thing. And so did her mother.
5. I have recurring dreams. In one, my parents have a fourth child. His name is Samuel, but we call him Sam. I am four when he is born, and I am always sitting on the couch at my grandparents' house and holding him in my lap while everyone gives me too many instructions about how to hold him properly. In another, I am playing basketball and it's the state tournament (which my high school team went to in real life) and it's either me now that's playing - 10 years out of practice - or it's me then but I've forgotten some essential element of my uniform.
I know most of my fellow bloggers have been tagged, but I invite my non-blogger readers to leave their own weirdness in the comments. Think of it as a weirdness confessional of sorts.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
The Kudzu Jungle Five
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i love hats also! as a testament to a friend and friendship i let her borrow my hat... sort of that feeling like we're in highschool again- and i'm totally nervous about it. such is my love for that hat.
Hats can be very special. I had this blue sort of floppy hat that I wore all the time in college. And then I wore it on the first day of class in grad school. It might be time to retire that I hat - but it's been a good hat.
Okay. I'll be brave and be the first non-blogger to admit my oddities.
1. I shower from the head down. No exceptions. Shampoo, condition, wash, and then shave. Always in that order and always from the head down.
2. I feel my french fries. I will eat any fry, this is not a method of discrimination. (Although, the crispy ones are my favorite.) I must give them a little squeeze before I eat them. My brother does the same thing. Apparently, it's hereditary. We didn't even grow up in the same house. Nature vs. Nurture hmmmm...
3. I'm notorious for losing things AND for being able to find them in the strangest of places at a later time. Lost my checkbook...found it in the pantry. Lost my car mat...found it 2 weeks later on the side of the road. Still loooking for my second set of keys...who knows?
4. Sometimes I pretend I'm starring in my own cooking show while I'm making dinner, but only if no one is around. The dog doesn't count.
5. I'm a dyslexic elementary school teacher with ADD...enough said.
I LOVE that you feel your french fries! Classic!
And you're my favorite dyslexic ADD teacher EVER!
This HAT does not, unfortunately, like hats, but does agree that Aunt Ashley would look quite fetching in all hats designed.
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