Tagged

I was tagged by lauren.
7 weird things about me:

1) I don't know much sign language but I do know the alphabet and I often do it while walking down the street. ABCD half time, EFGH double time and the rest incredibly fast up to P...then I start with QRST half time UVWX double time, then YZYZ. Occasionally I try to spell out "now I know my abc's, next time won't you sing with me" but its hard and I lose focus and move onto something else.
2) I gag a bit when I smell gin, the cologne Drakkar Noir and/or fresh cut celery due to a wild night in college ... I won't go into the details... but the smell memory is vivid. I do still like celery just not the smell. Hate gin and that stinky cologne forever.
3) I had a crush on Ricky Ricardo as a kid and tried to mimic his laugh...and also Pa from "Little House on the Prairie" but even then I thought the actress that played Laura over-acted terribly.
4) When I was a kid it never occured to me that I would have kids or want to be a mother. And my mother was great so its not like I didn't have a good role model. This surprises me because I love it so much and my daughter talks about being a mother all the time.
5) I really dislike many, many cool and popular things and will only admit to a few...I don't get the granite kitchen phenomenon, I hate that certain color green that Martha Stewart and everyone seems to love to paint their house including the paint designer at SD City Schools and I'm not fond of asymmetrical haircuts or "hairstyles" in general, ... and I can see right through the cool glasses everyone wears.
6) I don't really know how to be "in" nature the way other people seem to. I can't sit in it or be still in it. Everything I do outside is some form of organization...and I am not even talking about gardening but ALL my experiences in nature... from placing sticks from smallest on up, to color separating stones. Even if I am hiking I am making connections like this in my mind...building dwellings, collecting and stacking pinecones, making drawings in the wet dirt to reveal the dry, lighter colored dirt underneath. This is probably why I love the artist Andy Goldsworthy (photo of his work above). I especially love the documentary "Rivers and Tides" and the book "Passages".
7) If I could have another life...not change this one but ADD another...I would like to be a choreographer that lived on a lot of wild land somewhere where people spoke with accents. In this other life I would somehow be mellower too.

Here are the people I will now go and "tag":
cami
craig
rhea
amy
that's it... I am all out of blog buddies thanks to Lauren!