Seeking God Knows What

Nicole tagged me. I am supposed to write weird stuff about myself. I’m not sure they are very weird but well, here goes:

1. As a kid, I used to read the phone book when I was bored. Even now, if I have the phone book out (which I rarely do cause I use the internet to search for everything), I will look up my listing and then read all the other people with the same last name- the list was much shorter before I was married.

2. I got engaged in our band director’s front yard during a camp out after my senior year (T had graduated the year before but we met because we had mutual friends and we were all in band together). He and his wife were the master/mistress of ceremonies at our wedding. We had an itinerary for the wedding- he timed the rehearsal and then allocated specific times for the wedding itself. I have a copy of the itinerary in our wedding journal.

3. Homemade chocolate chip cookies are one of my favorite things to eat for breakfast. I figure they are no worse than some of the sugar cereal crap out there.

4. I read 5,000 pages in 5th grade for a reading contest (no that didn’t include the phone book). Over 10 times more than any other kid read. The internet has reduced the number of pages I read now. Bad Internet. Bad Blog. Bad Forums. Bad Erin

5. When I was in 7th grade, I was part of a drug awareness play called “Pinocchio, Don’t Smoke that Cigarette”- we went to the elementary schools to “perform”. I played the Spine. My big line was “You’ll never grow big or grow tall. In fact, you may never grow up at all”. Very funny, ha ha, considering that I was about 4′7″ at the time. And quite sad that I remember the line.

6. I can remember phone numbers very easily. I only have to dial them maybe once or twice and I generally don’t need to write them down.

7. When I read books written by the same author, I prefer to read them in publishing order and I have to read them all. I will not skip ahead if they are a series. And generally, a year or more has to go by before I can reread them because I remember the plot too well.

8. I do not like paper to have any wrinkles. If a page wrinkles, I either get a new sheet or I tear the page out of the notebook, even if it means starting over on what I’m writing.

9. At 29, I still cannot cut in a straight line, even with a guide line.

10. Monty Python and the Holy Grail is my absolute favorite movie. Most people do not expect me to say that when I’m asked.

I’m not sure who to tag, so if you want to do it, post a comment to let me know you did.