I’ve Been Tagged
SpaGuy’s Wife tagged me with the “8 Things You May Not Know About Me” meme. Even without a TMI category, after four years of blogging it’s rather difficult to find eight things I haven’t told you about myself by now. But here goes:
1. OJ Simpson never asked for my phone number. (Now you know the answer to this.)
2. I was born with one name but given a different by my adoptive parents which I legally changed in my 20s.
3. I never manage to finish video games. I get sick of playing the FPS’s and bored with unending ones like The Sims.
4. I believe in trying just about any food twice: once to get over the shock value, and a second time to find out if I like it.
5. I’ve had roast goat eyeballs and thought they were pretty darned good: smoky, and with a texture that’s hard to find.
6. I’ve never had a pet die of old age: two went to new homes when I moved to Hawaii because the quarantine would have been too difficult for them; two were struck by cars and killed in Hawaii; and one ran away last year. (My current two are never allowed outside as a result.)
7. I am allergic to curry but love it, so I eat it and suffer the consequences.
8. I would be perfectly content to live my life as a hermit (with internet access) because meeting people or even being around them is a major source of stress in my life.
Ok. My turn to tag folks. Chaz, Trish, Kim and Chelle, you’re it!
*never tease someone who is dieting* *never tease someone who is dieting* *never tease...
I can identify with the hermit thing. Every once in a while my wife asks, “Why did you marry me? You were perfectly content living alone!” I got married for the first, (and so far last,) time at 39 years old.
I don’t let our pets out unattended, either. Two of the cats are not allowed outside, period. One is, but only because she seemingly can’t stand everyone else in the house and needs to be alone every once and a while, and because she can handle herself pretty well. The dogs can go out back alone, of course, but are on a leash at all times for their own safety anywhere else. They’re little, and goofy enough to run out onto busy streets.
I was fortunate to marry a man who knew up front that I need huge amounts of solitude or I’ll go insane. He also likes his solo time, whether it’s spent building/fixing something or gaming.
You’d think that would make an ideal match, but since having kids we’ve found ourselves both struggling with the fact that only one of us can be spending solo time. The other one’s got to be on parenting duty.
We solved it a couple of months ago by coming up with a schedule, as weird as that sounds.
Thanks Kate! Now I have to think about 8 things…
Hey, what are friends for if not to be more annoying than strangers?
I’m glad OJ never asked for your phone number. That would be just too creepy. I love curry as well but fortunately am not allergic.
Thanks for playing!
As long as you’ve been reading me, I can’t imagine there are eight things about me you don’t already know.
I’ll work on this tonight.
Eight crazy facts…
Venomous Kate has requested a list of eight things she doesn’t know about me, which may be difficult given (1) I’ve posted an incredible amount of personal crap over the past eleven years and (2) she has a damnably long……