OH! I've Been Tagged!

How fun to be tagged by Ellen! Here are some odd things about me....

1. I have to sleep on the side of the bed that is closest to the door. I suppose I should say it's because I'll be able to get to my kids more quickly if they cry out in the night, or that I'll be closest to them if they wander in during the night, but it's really because if there's a fire, I'm going to get up and run out of the house, and I want to be first. I've always, always, always done this. If - sorry, when we move, if our bed is on another wall, I don't pay a bit of attention to "my side" of the bed, I just take the one nearest the door. Lately, Landy has claimed *my* side because he thinks it's better for his back. I really, really do want to be a good wife and act as if this doesn't bother me...but...I just ain't right.

2. I am an only child, and while there are certain very nice things about that status, they never stopped me from wishing for a brother or sister. And I don't just mean the one I imagined living in my closet who would tell me if my outfit looked alright. When I married Landy, I finally got that sister. Love you, Laurie...

3. I don't like feet. Except my own feet, or my kids' feet...they're fine.

4. I used to love Duran Duran so much that I made my mom go to their concert at Roberts Stadium in 1984 just to get a long sleeve t-shirt for me. Mind you, I don't think she actually attended the concert (unless she was a closet fan), she just went for the t-shirt. I secretly wore it to school under my dress code approved frilly shirt with my little skirt and tights, then once at school left my frilly shirt in my locker. That lasted approximately 30 minutes, when I changed back into the frilly shirt under threat of having my mother called, when she would no doubt have had to explain that she drove across the river just to get me that shirt. Oh........... Yeah, I still love me some DD!

5. I like to wrap my Christmas gifts in solid red paper with black and white gingham ribbon. For different packages, the ribbon can be different widths or check sizes, but the paper must be the same. Every year. I don't know - it's just my thing.

6. When I was in the 4th grade, 4 people in my whole school (K-12) won the Presidential Physical Fitness Award - 3 boys and 1 girl. That girl was yours truly. I had to get up at an assembly in front of the whole school to get my pin and certificate. My feelings alternated between mortification at being recognized in front of everyone and wonderment, because I recall that I actually thought that Ronald Reagan himself was going to walk through the gym doors and present the award to me. Anyway, that proves that at one time I could do at least 10 chin-ups and run forever and ever. What the heck happened to me?

7. Once Gran and Pop (Landy's grandparents) thoughtfully gifted us with tickets to a play at Actors' Theatre. We were excited to go and decided to dine at Club Grotto before heading downtown. Naturally, we each ordered the super-awesome filet, which at that time was served with asparagus, whipped potatoes, corn pudding, AND a mushroom strudel. Of course we also ordered a molten chocolate lava cake (which was not nearly so easy to come by as it is these days). Its preparation was so precise and delicate that it had to be ordered at the same time as the entree. When our cake arrived, we were waaaay too full to eat it, but could not bear to pass on the chocolaty goodness, either. What a dilemma!!! We ate the cake, then I found I needed to unbutton my pants. We decided that we were too uncomfortably full to go anywhere but home, and we did not attend the play. Didn't even try to head in that direction. We told Gran and Pop that the show was wonderful.

I am tagging: Jennifer, Rhonda, Leah, Caroline, Susan, and Julie.