Seven Random Facts

The Sassy Southerner tagged me with the meme, "Seven Random Facts About Me." So here goes:

1. I was daydreaming about my new puppy in fifth grade and wishing that there was a club for kids that would teach us how to teach our dogs tricks when I heard the teacher ask, "Who wants to join?" And since I thought it was a dog-trick-teaching club, I raised my hand and nearly jumped out of my seat waving my arm back and forth. She picked me! That's how I ended up a member of the Children of the Confederacy. (I didn't last long. Weak Kool Aid. Cemetery visits. No dog tricks. And my poor mother had to go down to the records office and get my great-grandfather's honorable discharge papers from the Confederate States of America army to prove my pedigree to get me in, too.)
2. In an unrelated act, I married a Yankee who won't let the dog come in the house.
3. The dog knows three tricks: sit, shake and speak.
4. Oh dear. Four random facts to go. I went to a dermatologist for a while who told me, quite seriously, that I smiled too much and it was wrinkling my face. His nurse told me when he left the room that she was sure that was why he never smiled. If you keep smiling, people don't notice you have smile wrinkles because your face is wrinkled into a smile.
5. I'd rather go to the beach than just about anywhere.
6. I wear Thymes Eucalyptus cologne. My Yankee husband doesn't like perfume, so I wear it when I'm not with him. Sometimes I get too excited and put on too much.  I think it made my client have a sneezing fit today in a meeting. Nobody said anything. It was just a feeling I had, part of my enormous guilt about just about anything. The stuff smells really, really good, though. Wish my mother-in-law were allergic. Lots of possibilities there.
7. I collect two things: coffee mugs from places I've been (and only places I've been) and feathers I've found on the ground that were shed by birds of prey, if you consider a pelican a bird of prey. I love pelicans -- their unlikely flight and plummeting dives speak to me of God. I also have feathers from hawks and barred owls I found in my yard. I'm filled with wonder whenever I look at them. The cat doesn't touch them for some reason.

Now, the deal is I'm supposed to tag other bloggers I barely know. The Sassy Southerner already tagged My Life is Murphy's Law, which is a fun blog I'd never visited before. I'm tagging:

• Kazoofus.com
• Electric Venom
• Heart to Heart
• Wiping Up Snot
• Because I Said So
  
• Angry Buttons

Comments

[Angry]

I was touched by your blog and now I'm tagged.
I'll try not to disappoint you.

[Sassy]

Excellent Anne. My hubby who is very much southern and redneck didn't like having a dog in the house. Now he rather loves Cricket J. Crackhead like she's one of the kids.

[Anwyn]

A pelican tried to eat me once.

Well, okay, it bit my sleeve. But I didn't see it coming.

[DM]

It's 3:46 AM...couldn't get back to sleep so I'm going to work on my "7 things" now :-)

[Angry]

I was half way through my 7 list and thought I'd come here and steel some ideas from you Anne. But how could I possibly do that with your happy, trusting and remarkably wrinkle free face looking right at me? So I thought I'd comment on your list instead.

#1. I've been known to agree to something without having listened to what was being asked. How else would a sane man end up with 7 children.
#2. I'm glad to hear that when you married, he was totally unrelated.
#3. Coincidentally those are the same three basic things we taught our kids, after that they were entirely on their own.
#4. That's why I have a permanent frown, people can't see my smile wrinkles.
#5. I surfed as a teenager and can't stand the beach now.
#6. Ah the smell of Eucalyptus, how it takes me back to my childhood here in Aus. You know even today it still makes me remember the smell of a freshly cleaned bathroom.
#7. One of my kids was chased by a pelican at our local zoo. I think he also thought of God at the time, although I suspect it was more a plea for deliverance from this crazy bird that stood taller than him.

There we go. And reading over this I have just realised that I have used up at least 3 facts that I could have used in my meme.

[Ev Nucci]

I'm so glad you left a comment at my blog. I would have never known I was tagged by Sassy...I'm a tad clueless from time to time on these things! Too much to do too little time...

Nice blog!

[Angry]

Okay Anne, I have finally posted my facts...
http://www.angrybuttons.com/blog.php/79

I hope this little insight will encourage you to be a regular at my blog, even if it is out of pitty for me.
:)

[KathyHowe]

I'll be posting mine tonight on Kazoofus!