All About Me Tag

I was blog tagged my my friend Clancy so here goes.

Disclaimer: This is the very first blog tag I have participated in. Early in my blogging "career" I declined several blog tag invitations. I wanted my blog to have only what I wanted to blog about on it and not have my blog posts dictated by others. I thought it made me unique to decline those invitations but now I realize that I was being a total stick in the mud. (I wonder where that expression came from.) I think I was also afraid to share information about myself. But I decided more recently that this blog needs a little more of my personality in it and a little more about me. Since "blog tags" are usually about the author I decided that I will play. So bring on the blog tag's.

7 Things about me

1-I only sluffed school once (one class, not one day) and I didn't even like it. I was in high school at the time. I was with a friend and neither of us had never cut class before so we didn't know what to do. We were both afraid of getting caught so we went to her house and hung out/hid. But I felt guilty about it the entire time, and I'm pretty sure I even told my mom later that day what we did. I think she laughed at me.

2-I am a serial email checker. I probably check my email at least four or five times a day. Many days it's more than that. The sad thing is, I usually only get an email or two per day if I'm lucky. I'm not sure why I expect so many more than that. At least you know that if you need to contact me via email I will receive it quite quickly.

3-I am also a blog stalker. I love to look at all the blogs listed the sidebar of a blog of someone I know. And then sometimes I look at all of the people on that person's sidebar. I have found quite a few people I know that way, and now I follow their blogs but they don't all know it. I even set my sister (Carolyn) up with a guy I found that way. A friend of a friend of my sister (Katie) had a post on her blog about her brother and how great he was and that she was looking for someone to set him up with. They actually went out once so far and probably will again.

4. I have a habit of counting things. It's not intentional and I don't have to end on a certain number or anything. I just find myself automatically counting things sometimes. Like when I go up or down stairs, chop vegetables, or take forks out of the dishwasher. Once I realize that I'm counting I make myself stop but sometimes I get pretty high before I notice what I'm doing. I attribute it to my nursing background. I count heart beats and breathing all day long at work so counting comes automatically to me.

5-I can't stand to eat with a metal fork or spoon if the bowl or plate I'm eating off of is also metal. It makes the fork or spoon taste...um...like metal. Weird, I know. But I don't know how else to explain it. So when restaurants serve their food in pie tins or on skillets I have to request an actual plate or use plastic eating utensils.

6-I hate replacing batteries in the kids' toys. I think it's because of the stupid childproof battery cover that has to be opened with a screwdriver. We usually have the right kinds of batteries around but I hate replacing them. When one of the kids' toys needs new batteries I always have Casey do it. And if he isn't home, the kids have to wait for him. I think the kids must think I'm pretty dumb to not know how to put new batteries in their toys but I don't care.

7-I was a published author in the 5th grade. I bet you'd never guess that by reading my blog but it's true. We had to write something for a standardized writing competency test that year. Everyone had to write about a childhood experience they learned something from. I wrote about jumping off a diving board by myself and how I wouldn't always have someone there to hold my had all the time but I would still be ok, blah...blah...blah. Anyway, my teacher liked it so much that she submitted it to a children's literary magazine and it got published. I always felt kind of guilty about it because I felt like I was making the whole thing up. Of course I had jumped off a diving board but it's not like I ever made that comparison until I wrote it for that assignment.

I know at the end of a blog tag post you're supposed to tag others to do the same but I don't know if anyone will want to since I may have previously declined their blog tag invites. I will simply leave it open to anyone who reads my blog and wants to participate. That was fun, thanks Clancy!