Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Peek #3 which takes me halfway to 100.

Despite my best intention to start wearing make-up, I couldn't pull it off and I still don't. But I have a lot of new make-up in my closet.

I don't like tattoos of any kind, or any color, on anybody, at any time. I've never seen a tattoo and thought it was pretty or wished I had it. Never. I can't imagine that changing. Sometimes, I can say, "that would make a pretty necklace." Sometimes, I even mean it.

My ears don't flap at the bottom. Or to put it a different way, my ears are attached to the side of my head at the lobes. My lobes don't flap.

I have 2 distinct creases in my arm where it bends at the elbow. If you hold your arms out - palms up and look at the inside of your arm in the elbow area, most people have one line. I have 2.

I don't understand why some people feel the need to have horns inserted in their head.

I almost joined the army when I was 19, excelled at the tests, passed the physical and was well on my way to finalizing the next 4 years of my life - but then I started dating the army recruiter, so that idea went by the wayside. Thanks, Sarge!

I've eaten more imaginary food that you can imagine. Ryan just served me a piece of imaginary cheesecake followed up with a hamburger - no cheese, please - with ketchup and dehydrated onions -- just the way I order it at McDonalds.

I used to have a dog named Bailey who would ride in a backpack while I rode my motorcycle. I must have scared him because inevitably he would poop in the pack and when we got to our destination, I would have to hose him and the backpack off.


Having watched several people get tattoos, I know what mine would look like IF I ever decided to get one. It would look like a freckle . Once I felt that first needle, I'm sure I would come to my senses.

I cook green beans in chicken soup base. Gives them a good flavor, so I'm told. I wouldn't know - I hate green beans.

I never liked my name growing up because it always sounded like a boy's name. I vowed to give my daughter a "girl" name. So I did - Andrea. Then we called her Andi. Her middle name is Jo. 2 boy names - so much for childhood vows.

I also vowed before I had kids that MY children would never wear socks that weren't white on the bottom. NOW, as soon as they come out of the package, I want to take a broad tip, black, permanent marker to the bottom of them just to make them look a week old. If they get 2 socks on that remotely look alike, I'm thrilled. It's only when they come out with a tube sock on one foot and a no-show sock on the other that I say anything at all.

I've never seen nor read Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. Nor do I want to.

I ONCE let a 14 year old friend drive my car on an old back country road out in the middle of nowhere - only to have another girl in the car inform me that my parents were in the car behind us on this old back country deserted road in the middle of the cornfields of Kentucky. She wasn't kidding. I turned around and my dad was giving me that state police officer "pull it over" wave of the finger over the steering wheel.

When he walked up to the car in his very anger controlled voice, he calmly said, "You just lost your car, little girl." Then he made the whole carload of us go to each of our parents' homes and confess our actions. Ouch. Angela, the 14 year old didn't drive for a long time after that day. Come to think of it .........neither did I.