I’ll get Fausta for this, but because I am busy with a project and haven’t time to really read news and write, I’ll play along:
FIVE THINGS YOU DO NOT KNOW ABOUT ME
1) The doctor who delivered me was a WWII vet missing a leg. When I was born he held me up to the ceiling like Kunta Kinte holding Kizzy up to the stars, and began to sing “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling.” He was not Irish.
2) As a kid you couldn’t take me for a car ride of longer than ten minutes duration without a bucket. I got carsick all the time. I still dread long car rides.
3) When I was 3 or 4 I would sit on the basement steps and sing out all the Dr. Seuss books as I read them, setting them to music. We had evergreen trees on the side of the house, where moss would grow in the shady cove. I used to dig up the moss with a tablespoon, to flip it and relish the smell of dark, fresh, moist earth. My birth-mother never had enough tablespoons to serve soup.
4) I am the shortest of all of my very tall siblings.
5) For almost 20 years I have owned the same pair of black cowboy boots with red hearts on them. I wear them every Valentine’s Day. They are the most comfortable things I’ve ever worn on my feet.
Now, who shall I annoy with this meme? How about, Cobb, Jeanette, c’est moi, Gaius and Patrick O’ Hannigan.
January 9th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Thank you!
I love my cowboy boots, too. Mine don’t have hearts, though.
January 9th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
I have a pair of red walking shoes with which I will not part! Out of at least 50 pairs of shoes, those are my favorites.
The doctor who delivers you sounds like a character!
When I was little, I used to run unexplained, very HIGH fevers. The doctors couldn’t figure out the cause, although I was regularly hospitalized for 2 weeks at a time, hospitalizations totally 6 months over a 2 year period. Finally, my father became frustrated and took me to the GP he went to. The only honest doctor I’ve ever met. He scratched his head and said he hadn’t a clue what was wrong with me - but he figured taking out my tonsils, appendix and adenoids probably would get rid of whatever low-grade recurring infection I might have. So at age 6, that’s precisely what was done. Within 2 weeks I was recovered, in roaring good health and over a period of a year grew from being the shortest in my class to being the tallest!
So whatever the cause of those infections, thank you Dr. Frank Trump for curing me in 1948 after others had put my poor parents through the tortures of hades!
January 9th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
I like your post here, it’s very sweet! I particularly love the part where the doc held you up to the sky. It seems so spiritual somehow.
I’ve been in this country for a long time now…lived in Colorado and Texas and I still don’t own a set of cowboy boots. I can’t seem to bring myself to it. I do like them on others though!
January 9th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Viola, try these.
January 9th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Sorry about the Kung Fu comments–but they so fit you! I promise I will stop, but here is one last flashback exchange with Caine and Master Po:
Caine: Master, forgive me for I have failed.
Master Poe: You have not failed no one Grasshopper, only your own ambition.
Caine: My ambition?
Master Poe: It is sometimes difficult, is it not, for you to remember that you are but a humble priest?
Caine: Yet, as a man I sometimes greatly fear that I may fail.
Master Poe: If that is our destiny, you cannot change it. But do not go in fear, Grasshopper. Fear is eternal darkness. Go instead with inner strength. For it is like a deep river, into which all streams flow. It increases, always moving forward. And soon, there is nothing that can stand in its way.
January 9th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Five Things You Don’t Know About Me
Tagged!
January 9th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
[...] Laura Lee from The Wide Awake Cafe tagged me with this meme. Almost everyone I would have tagged with it has been tagged already. The Anchoress did hers here. I think Sissy Willis was tagged twice. I don’t think Lady Jane’s been tagged yet so I’ll tag her. 1. Laura Lee spoke of her high school drama experience so I’ll speak of mine. I had the same drama teacher as Gary Sinise (he graduated a few years before I got there)[...]
January 9th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
[...] Check out Kim at Musing Minds. She’s posted five things about her that we didn’t know until now. The Anchoress was also tagged and revealed some funny things about her. [...]
January 10th, 2007 at 12:56 am
classic…
irish eyes…
January 10th, 2007 at 8:08 am
[...] Anyway the Anchoress has unkindly taken advantage of our friendship and tagged me with a meme. [...]
January 10th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Gary Sinese is a national treasure in my estimation! And there’s something about him that is unbearably sensual! He’s one heck of a fine actor as well, and unpretentious about his brilliance! I’d watch him read a phone book.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:51 am
I was out with a girl the other night who knew your blog. That was quite possibly the most frightening moment in my life, more so than that tornado that tore through my block a couple of years ago.
January 10th, 2007 at 11:09 am
Misogynist, were you frightened because she knew my blog, or because in discussing it her head spun around and she began to spit venom and call me a nazi-warblogger-christianist-evil sort?
January 10th, 2007 at 11:44 am
It was sweet of you to share that with us. It’s refreshing to know about others’ humanity. That way, you’re not just words on a page to us.
January 10th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
The doc that delivered me, dropped me.
Explains a lot, don’t you think?
Good stuff!
January 10th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
FIVE THINGS YOU DO NOT KNOW ABOUT ME
I saw that The Anchoress has posted: FIVE THINGS YOU DO NOT KNOW ABOUT ME So I thought I would also give it a try. FIVE THINGS YOU DO NOT KNOW ABOUT ME I was born in Centreville, Il and
January 10th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
You have a comfortable pair of shoes that you wear only one day per year?!?!?!?!???
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I’m not sure what could possibly be holding you back, but just in case this is what you were waiting for:
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I, cathyf, hereby grant The Anchoress permission to wear the comfy boots at any time.
January 10th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Fausta, thanks for the link! My, what stylish cowboy boots. I can just see myself in them!
Hint: I’m a bit of a nerd!!!
January 10th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
TAGGED: 5 Things You Don’t Know About Me
Hey, I’ve been tagged! It’s my first time (blushes) and what an auspicious event it is!
January 11th, 2007 at 6:51 am
[...] How'd I get hit with it? Why, none other than C'est Moi tagged me. And she was tagged by The Anchoress who was tagged by Fausta who was tagged by AcademicElephant (Elephants in Academia) who was tagged by Baseball Crank who was tagged by Matt Welch who was tagged by Howard Owens who was tagged by Jay Small (Small Initiatives) who was tagged by Greg Starling (Screenwerk) who was tagged by Matt McGee (Small Business SEM) who was tagged by Lisa Barone (BruceClay.com) who was tagged by Graywolf (Graywolf's SEO Blog) who was tagged by Digital Ghost (Speaking Freely) who was tagged by Marketing Guy (Fused Nation) who was tagged by Aaron Shear who was tagged by Avinash Kaushik (Occam's Razor) who was tagged by Dave Gale (Hitting the Wire) who was tagged by Jeff Pulver who was tagged by … nobody. He gets the credit … or the blame … for starting this line of this darn thing. [...]