Photo by Laffy4k

Photo by Laffy4k

I have been tagged by Sean Platt of Blogopolis BluePrint and WriterDad to spread a little TMI cheer throughout the land!

The rules are deceptively simple…

  • Link to your original tagger and list these rules in your post.
  • Share 7 facts about yourself in the post.
  • Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names and links to their blogs.
  • Let them know they’ve been tagged.

…but I know the truth.  You’re attempting a digital Vulcan mind meld!  What you don’t know is that my brain is wired to retain no information.  Bwahahahahaha!

Er – I mean – on with the secrets!

1.  I won second place (at Klingon Feast) in an arm wrestling competition.

I lost because my friend had injured her wrist before we got there and I didn’t want to be responsible for any further injury.  (Not that you could tell she was injured, because she totally brought it.  I may have been had.  Shut up, you.)

2. I failed in 2007.

The girl I was mentoring stole $50 from my husband, lied to me about her grades, and was completely unappreciative of everything I did.

I know people should be proud of “mentoring at-risk youth” but I’m not and I’m ashamed that I couldn’t do better.

3. I love my big feet.

When I was a kid, I took gymnastics.  One day my teacher happened to mention that I was so lucky because my feet were perfect for balance.  Ever since then I have been proud of my size 10 feet.

It wasn’t until I was a teenager that I realized that most people think that women should have dainty, narrow feet.  “Fools!” I thought, “I can dance better with the feet God gave me.”

Sometimes I wonder how I would feel about my feet if we never had that conversation.

4. I used to be on Team Mustard.

I have only come to appreciate ketchup as an adult.  As a kid, I always preferred mustard.  (Probably because ketchup looks like blood.)

5. I love geeks.

Geeks are all sorts of awesome – thoughtful, introspective, sensitive – and they have mad technical skills. I am convinced that geeks make the best husbands and lovers, but so far I only have anecdotal evidence to back this up.

(I have noticed that women who love geeks tend to keep this information to themselves…I guess nobody wants a run on the market!)

6. I can organize anything.

Just about my entire family is comprised of hoarders.  (Both parents, my brother, both grandmothers, one grandfather, basically every aunt and uncle, and every grandaunt and granduncle.)

Hoarders won’t let you throw anything away (my dad actually used to fish things back out of the garbage), so I learned to maximize the space I had to work with.

7. I no longer look like a graduate of the Sinead O’Conner Academy.

My hair is back, baby!

Photo by Matt McGee

Photo by Matt McGee

Now it’s my turn to spread the love!

  • Bonne Vie.  She is sass personified; an artiste and absolutely fascinating.  (I mean she literally is art, like aesthetically awesome.)
  • Dr. Awesome.  He is the expert on all things manly and awesome.  (mawesome? mansome?)  I want to hear all of his bear wrestling stories!
  • Ian Peatey.  Because he thinks I don’t love him and I do and now I can prove it and maybe he’ll forgive me and because he always inspires me to be a better person.
  • Tiger Lilly.  I adore her random and delightfully warped “Anorex[st]ics Inanymous” cartoons.  (This is my desktop wallpaper.  I’m just saying.)
  • Pannonica.  Panny is undescribably intelligent.  (There is just no telling what franken-meme she’ll create.  It’s aliiiiiive and I want to meet it!)
  • You!

And since I’m a maverick, I’m only picking 6 people.  So there.