I’ve been tagged three times now, once by Zee and once by Julie, and now by Nancy. However, even though I’ve been tagged by three people, I am just going to come up with seven random/weird facts. Hope this doesn’t make me come across as a sour apple. Here we go.
Here are the “rules” I am supposed to follow:
* 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.
Seven Random and/or Weird Facts about Me.
1. Not so random, or weird, I suppose, but I LOVE Ice Cream. I grew up in an “ice cream town” and now that I can’t get my beloved Blue Bell any longer, I’ve been making my own.
2. My 2nd toe is longer than my big toe. My mother always told me that this meant I was going to be the head of the household when I grew up. I’m not really sure if there was ever any research done on this, or if she has anything to back up her story. My future mother in law tells me that I have Morton’s Toe, which after reading the first few lines of the Wiki, it appears that I have a foot disorder, and it’s an evolutionary throwback to my tree grasping monkey predecessors. It was also the idealized form for the sculpture in Ancient Greece. That seems an accurate description of me. Thanks FMIL. Here are some other interesting things about people’s toes…definitely worth a read. Glad to know that I have werewolf potential. Hopefully I will be able to use the cool werewolf skills some day.
3. I don’t really like sharing stuff like this with complete strangers. I normally consider myself a fairly private person. I do realize, however that by blogging, and by signing up for things like NaBloPoMo, that I am going to have a lot of people I don’t know visiting my little place here on the internet.
4. I am a world class drummer in my own mind. I played percussion from Junior High all the way through my first two years of college. I love music, and have a nice collection of tunes on my 30GB iPod. If I go to a concert of an artist I like, and the drummer stinks, it kind of ruins from the whole experience for me. I shouldn’t be so negative.
5. I am madly in love with Liz. This isn’t really random or weird, I just want the whole world to know. I love even just the thought of spending my whole life with her. She loves her Diet Cokes.
6. I had “surgery” on both of my big toes when I was in junior high because I had ingrown toenails. When I was done, I walked into the neighboring room and they had to put my mother on oxygen because the sight of my inflamed toe made her sick. After one of the procedures, my dad took me to a monster truck rally at the Astrodome in Houston. I have no memory of who “won” that night, whether it was Grave Digger or Bigfoot.
7. I (seem to)have really great luck selling things on Craigslist. When Liz and I moved in together, I put most of my things up on Craigslist and they were gone within 24 hours, and some things I got more money for them than I was asking. I didn’t feel like I was giving things away for way less than they were worth or anything. Liz can’t seem to sell anything she’s put up on Craigslist. I had a whole team of firefighters show up to my house to pick up an area rug to take back to their fire house. I guess the only advice I could give to anybody selling anything is to put up really good pictures of things (pasting the HTML of pictures from flickr is a great way to list good full size clear photos rather than using the Craigslist upload tool). This may not even be a weird phenomenon, but it just seems strange to me that there are that so many people out there trolling for a $25 coffee table, or willing to pay $100 for somebody’s 7 year old used mattress.
Now here’s where it gets tricky. I’m not going to find 7 new people, I don’t want to torture them. It was an interesting exercise, though.
by jeremy
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