Tagger Blog Meme Thingys

Will you all still be my friend if I never do one of these ever never again? Promise?

I lost track of the 'tag you're it' emails I've been getting. And honestly, I can't remember what all I'm supposed to do. I think I owe my first born to a mythological creature, have to recount my swiss-cheese memory about something or another, and tag all my friends. So, um...

I don't even know if this fulfills my tags, but here ya' go:

Random Things About Me: (may this fulfill my 2008 quota of memes!)

1. I swallowed a wiggly tooth on a roller coaster once. I think I was 5. Maybe 6.
2. The tooth fairy came anyway.
3. I would not go on said roller coaster again.
4. I am the most motion-sick person I know.
5. I need Dramamine to watch the Discovery Channel.
6. I'm not kidding.
7. I had 3 c-sections and an abdominal repair surgery because of said 3 c-sections.
8. The last one hurt.
9. A lot.
10. I wanted to name our middle child "Noah".
11. Handy Man wanted to name him "McCartney."
12. He will so thank me for dodging that bullet.
13. My middle child's name is not Noah.
14. But it's not McCartney either.
15. I have finished every single book I've ever started except for one.
16. In the book all the darn characters have the same names. Generations of people named the same names.
17. I couldn't tell anyone apart anymore. So I quit reading it.
18. I feel like I should send Mr. García Márquez an apology letter.
19. And a baby name book. Dude.
20. I read Dante's Inferno.
21. In the author's native language.
22. It was hard.
23. I spent a whole semester on those canti.
24. As a result, I often refer to people I don't like as characters from the book.
25. Be nice to me, or I will imagine you with the arms of a bear and the tail of a scorpion.
26. I'm just kiddin'.
27. Mostly.
28. When I grow up I want to be like my mom. And Pioneer Woman.
29. Ten years ago I lived in Italy.
30. Siccome abitavo a Firenze, parlo la lingua.
31. But now I have no one to practice with.
32. Except my friend Giovanni.
32. I wish he would email me more. In italian.
33. I taught Giovanni to speak Italian. Sorta.
34. I was his teacher.
35. I was also Handy Man's Italian teacher.
36. We aaaaallllll know where that led. ;)
37. Three beautiful boys. None of them named McCartney.
38. I don't even really like the Beatles.
39. Don't tell Handy Man that.
40. We homeschool our boys.
41. We are normal.
42. Well, for the most part.
43. We do it to keep Trouble safe.
44. It's hard to keep Trouble safe.
45. One of my pet peeves is defending our choice to homeschool.
46. 'Cause I'm going to do it anyway.
47. Even if my boys don't go the prom.
48. When's the last time you talked to your prom date?
49. I last talked to my prom date in 1995.
50. Not long after the prom.
51. I love twitter.
52. If you twitter, let me know.
53. I'll follow you.
54. Until you drop the f-bomb.
55. I bought an iphone.
56. It now costs 1/2 as much, and holds 2x as much.
57. I wanted to run it over with my car or throw it against a wall.
58. I'm generally not a violent person.
59. AT&T service was awful.
60. I couldn't keep any calls.
61. So people stopped calling me.
62. I missed text messages.
63. People got mad at me for it. For reals.
64. I just got a Blackberry Curve. Tonight.
65. I can't figure out how to work it.
66. But I will, because I want my friends to call me.
67. And text me.
68. And not be mad at me.
69. I am addicted to Photoshop.
70. And my Nikon.
71. Okay, it's Handy Man's Nikon.
72. But I want it.
73. He wants a d300 or d3x or d453487539283765
74. Hope the lenses still work on it when the d453487539283765 comes out.
75. My BFF and I grew up in IL.
76. We met in college.
77. We lived together for 4 years.
78. We both married Iowa boys. Born 'n' bred.
79. Now we live 15 mi apart here in IA.
80. Isn't that bizarro?
81. I live 6 hours away from my closest blood relative.
82. Except for my kids, of course.
83. Remember them? They're not going to the prom.
84. Heckle me and it's inner circle for you, baby.
85. Why, Good Lord, do people do these things?
86. I have run out of interesting things about me.
87. Back around #9.
88. Oh, wait. I just thought of one.
89. I have a degree in Speech & Hearing Science.
90. It was a really hard major.
91. I should have been an education major.
92. College would have been a lot more fun.
93. I dissected a human being.
94. Twice.
95. The first day, I called my mom crying and hyperventilating.
96. She told me to 'get a grip'.
97. Dead people really freak me out.
98. For reals.
99. I am so very glad that this almost over.
100. Anymore, and you would have had to hear all about Gross Anatomy.

Hope you still love me. I have the urge to go take a shower now. Ew.

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