Tag you, Tag me, Tag this

I've been tagged by my crone mistress, CDR.

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Post 10 random things about yourself.

Choose five people to tag and a reason you chose them and make sure to tell them. Don’t tag the person who tagged you.


1. I don't cook. But occasionally bake. Really really well.

2. I can walk on the sides of my feet just as comfortably as the bottoms, a fact that my podiatrist felt I should be casted for. I should learn to shut up.

3. I've never been to Hawaii. Seems like most people I know have been so maybe it's significant enough to mention.

4. I can't roll my tongue into a U. But I can turn it upside down in both directions (left or right).

5. I like Spam. And Tang. And PopTarts. And Cheetos. And Fritos...dipped in chocolate frosting. And Dr. Pepper. And a thousand kinds of other junk. A product of middle-class suburban upbringing, through and through. With the thighs to prove it.

6. I got up at 4 am (Central time...was visiting family in Louisiana at the time) to watch the wedding of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer in 1981. Was an avid "royal watcher" til Diana's death in 1997. I got up at 5am Pacific to watch her funeral.

7. I was a cheerleader in 5th grade. I was also a Girl Scout, from age 5 to age 13.

8. Speaking of Girl Scouts, I won a blue ribbon in archery at Girl Scout camp. Speaking of blue ribbons, I won another blue ribbon for cow milking at some county fair in the late 70s. It was my first time ever touching a cow. Udderly dumb luck. Yes, I did write that. Wouldn't you? Yes, you would so get the hell off my back.

9. I haven't been on a boat since 1985 when I literally tossed my cookies (Oreos, to be exact) into San Francisco Bay off the side of a sailboat on a particularly choppy day. My mother managed to keep me from going over the side by grabbing my ankles. Was lucky not to be wearing socks that day. My very real inner ear issues (Meniere's Disease) and overwhelming fear of seasickness have kept me away since. I'm great IN the water. Just not ON it.

10. I've seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show 57 times at the now defunct Varsity Theater in Palo Alto. Misspent youth.

(p.s. if you want to know yet more crap about me, check out the "Crap about me" link under the "Sundry Crap" area on the upper-right side of this page)

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My fab-tagged-5: Andrea (Ator's Love Theme, cuz she's as snarky as me) , Heather (My Universe is Room 3, because she always has a fresh perspective), Helen (I Forgot Where I Was Going With This, because she's hysterical and one of the strongest people I know who doesn't advertise it), Jason (Vermyndax's Lair, cuz he's Jason, duh), and Todd (Rhymes with Drowning, cuz I'm always searching for ways to crawl deeper into his head). Ok, go.