Five Things You Didn’t Know About Me
I wasn’t officially ‘tagged’ for this, I was only inspired by a post on Little.Yellow.Different.
I don’t think this is going to be as easy as I’m expecting. There are a lot of things you don’t know about me, but will you find any of them interesting? Do you care that I’m afraid of propane tanks? I guess we’ll see.
1. I’m afraid of propane tanks. And jumpstarting a car. And my blender. I have a list of things I’m afraid of, actually. I started it as a joke, but I’m keeping it to try and systematically cross things off.
2. My first “real” camera was a Nikon N60. An ex-boyfriend gave it to me in ‘98, and I had no idea what to do with it. I shot a dozen or so rolls and then gave it to my step-dad, Roger, a professional photographer. I had no idea at the time I would eventually become so interested in photography. I asked to borrow it back this year over Thanksgiving.
3. I played saxaphone until my freshman year of high school. I don’t know why I played so long, I was horrible. I chose it because my uncle played sax in high school and I inheritted the instrument. It was brass, but it had this matte gold finish that ended up looking plastic. That joke never got old.
4. When I was very little, we were once poor enough to qualify for welfare and government cheese. My parents will probably hate that I am sharing that, but I know it’s not because anyone was lazy. My entire life my dad worked a week on and a week off, often 8 or more hours away or in another state. He worked outside, in temperatures below zero and over 100. The oilfield sustained us, but was not always good to us. And in addition to the cheese, you actually get powdered milk and instant mashed potatoes.
5. At one time I wanted to be a geologist. I also wanted to be an English teacher, a social worker and a writer. But first, I wanted to be a geologist. I collected boxes of rocks. My parents would go to use a cooler for a camping trip and find it completely full of rocks. Later, I’d go on to work in a bead and rock store. By then, I had other, less geological career goals, but I’ve kept up with it as a hobby.
December 26th, 2006 at 10:50 am
[...] I was tagged by Kristin, so here goes. . . [...]
January 2nd, 2007 at 6:32 pm
curses… I’ll have to think about this one.
January 3rd, 2007 at 9:06 am
Working on it… I’m such a blabber mouth I can’t imagine 5 things you don’t already know :-)
January 4th, 2007 at 12:00 am
I’m pretty much an open book, but I think I can scrape up 5 things…
1.) I have an obsession for wrapping gifts. Crisp folds, fashionable ribbons, shiny stuff. I will even wrap my own presents in order for them to look perfect.
2.) I like porn. Not in the dirty, gets me off kind of way; more like the I can’t believe people do this in front of camera crews, is the world really this demented kind of way. Sometimes it’s educational, and if it’s from the ’80’s it most likely has a lame plot that makes me laugh. My favorite being a Long Dong Silver movie that goes through various fables…like the old woman who lived in the shoe.
3.) I keep people at an emotional distance and do not like to make new friends. However, once you’re in, I’m extremely loyal and would give my life to save yours.
4.) I have a problem with ugly people. Not a dislike of them personally, just of looking at them. I am rarely able to look an ugly person directly in the face, let alone the eyes. It’s kind of like a lot of people are with handicapped people, you just don’t want them to think you are staring at them. Poor ugly people. This is why I enjoy Extreme Makeover, it gives ugly people a chance at a happier life.
5.) I have an above average, near genius IQ. What’s in a number, though? Nothing to brag about, it’s just something that is. Something that has not made my life any better than someone else’s.