Eight Random Things

My friends, Susan Meissner and Winter, tagged me yesterday. I’ve never done this before, but it seems pretty painless. 🙂

First, these are the rules:

1. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.

2. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.

3. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.

4. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

Without further ado, here’s what I came up with:

1.) If my junior high friends would call and ask me to go somewhere and I was in the middle of a good book, I would ask my parents to ground me so I’d have to stay home.

2.) (Strongly related to #1.) One day, as I was getting ready for bed I screamed, “Mom, my belly button is bleeding!” I’d grown up on the old Bill Cosby comedy tape where he said if you play with your belly button too much, it will pop open, all the air will leak out, and you’ll end up as a withered balloon. Hours before I’d been reading, curled up in a chair with a handful of chocolate chips. Apparently, one of those chocolate chips had fallen into my shirt, caught in my navel, and melted. Despite my greatest fears, I was not dying.

3.) My nails never break. I have to clip them or they grow evilly long. They were also pretty much the only part of my body I liked in junior high. If I had nail polish on, people would try to rip my nails off my hands because they doubted my word and believed they were Lee Press Ons.

4.) I do not like making lunches. I would rather cook up a whole dinner than custom-make my family’s sandwiches.

5.) I love pickles!

6.) I do my own taxes.

7.) I’m a blue belt in Taekwon-do.

8) In 2000, I led our family to victory on Family Feud. If you ever want to watch the video, just come on by. Or, if you ever see me in person, I can reenact the hysterical laughing, jumping, and clapping, thereby saving you a half hour.

I’m tagging Sherrie Ashcraft, Angela Hunt, Dana McCall, Sandra Glahn, Robin Lee Hatcher, Randy Ingermanson, Dianne, and Brandilyn Collins.

P.S. Dianne just tagged me with a similar one, so we’ve already reciprocated!