Tagged!

I was tagged by Susan from By Grace to do a Meme. I'm sure I've done this one before, but I'll play again. After all, there are many crazy things about me I can share with you.

Here are the rules:
1) Link to the person who tagged me.
2) Mention the rules.
3) Tell six quirky yet boring, unspectacular details about myself.
4) Tag 6 other blogger´s by linking to them.
5) Go to each person’s blog and leave a comment that lets them know they’ve been tagged

*Well, y'all know I have this thing about numbers. Especially even numbers. I particularly enjoy numbers by twos and fours. But when I eat those little goldfish crackers, I have to do them in increments of ten. If I pull out more than ten I put how many I am over back in the bag/box. If there is an odd number of them left in the bag/box, I won't eat them.

*I get aggravated when the throw pillows on the couch are not where they are supposed to be. Putting them in their proper place is the last thing I do before going to bed.

*I DESPISE burping. I mean, I know we all do it. It is a natural way of expelling gas from the body. BUT, EXCUSE YOURSELF FROM MY PRESENCE. And when children do it, especially older children who should definitely know better, I have certain thoughts toward their parents. What is wrong with teaching our children manners? Hello, people!

*When someone says something to me I usually spell out the sentence in my head and wiggle my toes with each letter. I could expound on this, really, but I'll spare you every detail of this crazy habit.

*When you visit our home, I like for our entire family to stand on the porch and wave goodbye to you like the Beverly Hillbillies until you are out of sight.

*I do not like to talk on the phone for idle chit chat. I would much rather communicate through emails or IMs. The sound of the phone makes me cringe (except this week while my kids are gone.) I LOVE my caller ID so I can screen my calls. Yes, I know people hate to hear my machine. And yet...they still call.

Who I am tagging:
Susan from Boogers in the Woodpile
Amy from Music and Notes
Lisa from A Place to Land
Tiffany from Mrs. Creative
Dana from The Simple Gift James 117
Katie from Turner's Talent
Starla from Anything and Everything
Carla from Three Men and a Lady...and a Poodle

Yes, I know I tagged eight people, but sometimes I'm a rebel.

TAGGED!

I was tagged by Kim from Down By The Ocean for the '6 Weird Things About Me' meme. Since I've done this one before, I decided to repost it because I have quite a few new readers that don't know these things about me. So, here goes!

Here are the rules for this meme:
1. link to the person that tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Share 6 non-important thing/habits/quirks/about yourself
4. Tag 6 random people at the end of your post.
5. Let each random person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.

My initial reaction was There's nothing weird about me. But I knew that wasn't true, so here goes.....
1. I have a compulsion to count things by twos or fours. I cannot enter my kitchen without counting my cabinets or look at my backdoor without counting the brass butterflies that hang above it. I'm like this with everything! I count, count, count. You can in fact count the dimples of a golf ball if you use a black sharpie to mark your counted dimples. I have to count the blocks on my closet doors by fours when I go to bed or before I get up or anytime I'm facing them. I like counting the lines in digital numbers on digital clocks. I count the lights in our church everytime I sit down from choir. I spell numbers in my head and have to move my toes when I do it. Don't ask me why. And I never retain the numbers for some reason. I just count. LOL It's crazy, I know, but this HAS to be the weirdest thing about me.

2. I have a tendency to drive my kids up the wall when they need a simple answer to what they think is a simple question. I can go on and on and on and sometimes end up in a rant from chasing rabbit trails that eventually lead to personal convictions and end up "preaching a sermon" of some sort. The kids may ask, "Mom, do I have any clean socks" and I spend thirty minutes answering this simple yes or no question that eventually leads to a sermon against smoking or how we should love our Pastor. LOL If I have ever left a comment on your blog or you know me in person, I always have a mouthful to say. Sorry about that...that's just who I am.

3. I can't sit in my recliner without my toes and feet wiggling. Justin has pointed that out.

4. I never think to turn a light on in any room I enter at home. Whether it's the kitchen, the bathroom, the bedroom, etc., Bruce is forever coming in behind me and turning on lights wherever I go. LOL What would I do without him? And I have the same reaction everytime. When a light suddenly pops on I think to myself, "Wow, that's better." But do I learn from it? Apparently not. I have learned that although light is better, I can do anything in the dark.

5. I'm scared to be in the house at night when Bruce works third, but I'm not afraid to stand outside in the middle of the yard during those same hours.

6. I am allergic to Tilex and bleach, but I must and insist that my bathrooms be tilexed and/or bleached on occasion. Usually I break out or my hands swell and itch alongside a brutal headache. Very uncomforting for a while, but I get over it and do it again eventually.

OK, these are six weird things about me.
Now, who shall I tag? Well, I have several new blog bluddies, so I think I'll tag them.

*Mike and Susan from Fruit Basket Turnover (That includes you too, Brother Mike!)

*Amy from Music and Notes

*Tammy from Carter Family

*Ted AND Rebecca from Mountains-N-Valleys

*Dana from The Simple Gift James 117!

Tagged for a Meme

Tori tagged me for a "seven things about me."

Here are the rules:

*Link to the person that tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.
*Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself.
*Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their
blogs.
*Let each person know that they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on
their blog.

Since there are several bloggers who have a "no tag zone" blog, I'm going to opt out of tagging anyone. But please feel free to play along if you like. And please let me know if you do decide to play. And thank you, Tori, for including me. :)

I've done the Eight Things About Me and also the Six Weird Things About Me. I'll try not to repeat myself. It's hard thinking up stuff about myself, but I'll try.

1. When my mom found out she was pregnant with me, she cried. She was afraid she'd give birth to another child like my brother, John. But God blessed her instead. (Oh, come on, John....you know I'm kidding) :wink wink:

2. When my dad was in school at Bob Jones University, he was also the assistant manager of the campus snack shop. So us kids spent a lot of time on the campus just running around having a good time. One of my favorite places to go was the DP (dating parlor). There were love seats EVERYWHERE and Mrs. Collins, who was over the DP at that time, would play games with me at her desk, let me answer the phone, etc. She even let me make rounds with her. I would tell the dating couples they were sitting too close and remind them of the six inch rule. I was seven.

3. My brother, Larry, hit me in the head with a table leg one day when we were all playing. It was an accident, but I ended up with stitches in the top of my head. My dad thought I was OK until my mom came home from work and saw how much blood I had lost and was still losing. Can you say "HYSTERICAL?"

4. I got married at age 19. That's only four more years for Justin. I can't even imagine him being married at that age. Pretty scary!

5. I had a complete church wedding and reception thrown together in less than two weeks, an hour and a half away from our home. What would I have done without our friends and families?

6. I had my first child less than two weeks before my 21st birthday. I was in Germany with no mom in sight and scared to death.

7. I have a scar on the ring finger and the pinky finger of my left hand where I opened a can of Crisco before they had the easy pull tabs. For several days I nursed them with Vitamin E oil and hid them from my mother because I was afraid she'd take me for stitches. But for some reason I didn't think about the bloody towel I had left in the hamper giving away my secret. Again.....can you say "HYSTERICAL?"

I've Been Tagged!

MOOBEAR from Claudia's Place has tagged me for "Eight things about me" Meme. So let's see what interesting facts I can come up with.

1. I was bitten by a timber rattler on the left foot when I was 15 years old. It was MONTHS before I was back to normal from the horse syrum they had to give me. At the time we didn't know what kind of snake it was so they had to act fast and give me what they would give horses. For months after that, I craved oats and sugar cubes. HA, just kidding about that part. But the rest of it is true.

2. One year later, almost to the date, I was horseback riding, was thrown from the horse, shattering the right tibia of my leg and breaking the ankle in two. I pulled well over 90% of the ligaments in that leg which hurt much more than the breaks. I still have plates and screws today.

3. I was married to Bruce when I was nineteen years old and we made our very first home in a small appartment on Gabelsbergerstrasse in Frankfurt, Germany where I was the young, proud wife of one of the Air Force's finest airman.

4. My first solo in church was at the Faith Baptist Church of Simpsonville, SC when I was five years old. I sang "We Three Kings" in the Christmas pagaent. It was a surprise for my parents. Although Bruce and I lived here in NC, an hour and a half away, Pastor Euete (the pastor of said church) wasn't going to miss the opportunity of performing our wedding ceremony for his "favorite orange-headed child."

5. I defaced a rock at Lake Erie with the words, "Kristi -n- Bruce 1989" painted in black after my dad told me I couldn't, while vacationing in Ohio. When he and my mom went out to eat with some old friends of theirs, my Great Aunt Mavis (daddy's Aunt) took me to Kmart and bought the crime supplies. Then drove me to Lake Erie where the crime was committed. I told daddy about it and he was furious. So furious that he scolded me in front of everyone then drove out to the lake with his video camera and filmed it after taking several snapshots of it. I have an 8X10 of it somewhere around here.

6. I stood outside in a group of army/air force men and women in the courtyard of a Rhein Main Air Base Hotel in nothing but a very short, very thin night gown, holding my little baby in the middle of the night because someone pulled the fire alarm for a prank and I panicked. All I could think about was getting my baby out of a burning hotel. Apparently it happened often and everyone knew it but me because they were all dressed and even took time to tie their shoes. An army fellow was gentlemanly enough to remove his Army coat to let me cover up with it. What humiliation!!

7. I have this thing about watches. I love them. I've been like that for years. But when I first got into buying them, it was the Swatch Watches that attracted me. I bought a Swatch Watch every payday for a long time. Bruce thought I was nuts. They were all different colors, sizes, and shapes. A couple of them were just weird. Do you remember the Swatch Watches of the early 90's? Weren't they so cool??? I think I still have couple of them in the attic.

8. I used to pluck hairs from my daddy's eyebrows while he was sleeping. Not to be mean, but he thought it was funny to let these two wild hairs grow long, so I'd wait til he was asleep on the couch and I'd pluck 'em. He didn't think THAT was funny. As a matter of fact, he'd wake up screaming at me.

RULES BEFORE DOING THE ME ME ME
01. Post rules before giving the facts OOPS....MISSED THAT ONE!
02. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves
03. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
04. At the end of the your blog you need to tag eight people and list their names. Leave them a comment on their blog, telling them they have been tagged and not to forget to read your blog.

I've decided to only tag six people. But if you would like to do this meme, please do it. Let me know if you do so I can read it. I look forward to it!!

My Tags are:
Nanny, from Maw Maw's House
Hannah, from Sugar & Spice
Justin, from A View of My World
Angela, from A-Team's Adventures
Taylor, from Taylor's Blog
Cassie, from Cassie's Corner

An Unusual Pet

DECIDING HIS LIFE would be more fun with a companion, a man went to the pet store and told the owner he wanted an unusual pet.

After some discussion, the man decided to buy a centipede that came in a small white box. The man took his pet home and found a nice location for the box. He thought the centipede might like some exercise, so he asked, “How’d you like to go to the park?” But there was no answer from his pet.

After waiting a few minutes, the man asked again but still got no response.


He waited a bit longer and thought he’d try one last time. Putting his face up to the centipede’s house, he shouted, “Hey, in there! Do you want to go for a walk?”
From inside the box, a little voice said, “I heard you the first time. I’m putting on my shoes.”

OK, this is a literary meme that was emailed to me last week. I was really too busy to get to it then, but now I have the moment, so here we go.....

How it works:
1. Grab the book closest to you
2. Open it to page 161
3. Find the fifth full sentence
4. Post the text of the sentence to your blog
5. Don't search around for the coolest book you have, use the one that is really next to you.
6. Tag five people to do this meme.

The closest book to me is Dante.
On page 161, the fifth full sentence says, "The dropsy's weight which disproportioned so the limbs with humours ill-absorbed within that with the paunch the visage doth not go, held his lips open in the parching skin Even as 'tis with the hectic, who for thirst curls the one lip up and the other toward his chin."

I'm not going to tag anyone, however, if you would like to do this literary meme, please feel free to do so and let me know so I can read it.