So, I got tagged in one of those notes in Facebook, and I don’t usually find time to play along and respond. But I had one second this morning and did it and thought it was fun.
1) Come up with 25 things about you, it does not matter what you pick as long as they are true.
2) You then have to tag 25 people, including the person who tagged you. (I’m also posting this in Facebook, and I’m tagging people there.)
So, here goes:
1.) For over 20 years, I saved my Barbies and Barbie trunk, full of clothes, to pass on to my children, in case I decided to have children. I lugged them from house to house, East Coast to West Coast.
2.) My children broke the Barbies the first time they played with them.
3.) In the 90s, I used to collect children’s picture books. I had a little note card for each book, detaling the themes and how the book would be useful in the classroom. (Can you say “nerd?”)
4.) One of my closest friends wrote a wonderful picture book called The Giant Hug.
5.) The laptop I’m using doesn’t type the number five, so I always have to copy and paste it. Sometimes password fields don’t accept a paste, so then I’m SOL.
6.) I’m using Facebook to get connected with some of my cousins in Spain and am therefore practicing my Spanish (in writing, at least)! This is good because my checks turn hot and get very red every time I try to speak Spanish.
7.) Every day, I miss my grandmother.
8.) I didn’t always think I’d have kids, but I did think that if I were to have kids, that I’d have twins. (and I did!)
9.) The album that turned me on to the Beatles was Revolver, and the album that turned me on to Bob Dylan was Blood on the Tracks.
10.) Once, and only for a short time, I was an auctioneer.
11.) I love Valentine’s Day and jangly bracelets. They don’t have to be expensive. Just jangly.
12.) I cannot stand coconut shavings or water chestnuts.
13.) When I put dirty dishes in the sink, I have a hard time remembering to put water in them, and it drives my husband crazy.
14.) I love to play games and do crafts with my daughters, but I’m not much good at make-believe games, even though I pretended a lot when I was little.
15.) In gym class as a kid, I was dangerous with any type of equipment, like field hockey sticks or lacrosse sticks.
16.) I take modern dance classes, and I want to learn to do flamenco.
17.) When I was in college in the late 80s, I was very happy with my electronic typewriter and did not understand the relevance of computers. I thought it was a fad that would die.
18.) My favorite book is Stuart Little.
19.) Lately, my favorite song is The Kinks’ “This Time Tomorrow,” but that could change, um, tomorrow.
20.) For a long time, I have been fascinated with the Civil Rights movement. Lately, as I’ve been searching for a way to talk about Martin Luther King Day with my daughters, I have been learning a little more about Ruby Bridges.
21.) Sometimes, I think I enjoy my kids’ toys as much as they do. Especially Playmobil.
22.) My husband and I can’t wait for the next Harry Potter movie to come out.
23.) I am a breast cancer survivor.
24.) When I had down-days during cancer treatment, it would cheer me up to think about the many ways that we are all inter-connected, how we all matter to each other. For example, I am a mother, wife, daughter, sister, cousin, aunt, friend, teacher, writer/blogger/journalist, dancer, confidante, helper, lots of things … What are you?
25.) I am happy to be here.
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