Tagged by Red

Here’s how you play:

Once you’ve been tagged you have to write a blog with 10 weird, random facts, habits or goals about yourself. At the end, choose 10 people to be tagged, list their names and why you tagged them. Don’t forget to leave them a comment saying “You’re It!” and to go read your blog. You cannot tag the person that tagged you, so even though you can’t tag me back, you still have to let me know when you are done so that I can go read YOUR blog post.

1. I love to mess with my hair, especially the color; recently, I morphed to an auburn so dark it reminds me of fresh bing cherries
2. I want to become a published writer; I mailed out my first short story submission to a magazine one month ago as of yesterday and have not yet heard anything (including no rejection)
3. I guestimate that I have about 400 never before read books on my bookshelves begging to be read, yet I have bought about 30 books recently that I’ve already read because I have a yen to them over again
   
4. I am a compulsive weed puller; I will even stop on the street and pull a weed in someone else’s flower bed
5. I have a love/hate relationship with roller-coasters; I wedge myself in by jamming my feet against whatever’s in front of me, as though that somehow increases the safety of those lock down cow halters (this causes me a great deal of terror on the newer rides that hang from the rail and leave your feet dangling!)
6. I am an unrepentant quiz junkie; as of right now, I have posted 107 quizzes on my blog, which makes me a disgrace to humanity and I couldn’t care less!
7. When I was in the 7th grade, I signed up for Band because I wanted to learn to play the flute. When I found out they didn’t provide the flute and my Mom couldn’t afford to buy or rent me one, I switched to Chorus where I became the lead soprano. Just before tryouts for a capella, I developed an inner ear infection that left me unable to hear my own voice properly, so I switched to Theater. I wrote and performed my own “Humorous Speech” material and swept the entire “Speech” category in every competition I entered. Then I graduated high school and studied literature and writing in college.
8. One of my front two teeth is capped because I was jumping on my mother’s bed one day, fell off and snapped the tooth in half when my face hit the bedside table. The root was exposed and it hurt like crazy, but the root canal hurt even worse. I haven’t jumped on a bed since (or at least not that I remember!).
9. I am ass-scared of ticks. I’m not in love with bugs in general, but ticks make my skin crawl just hearing the name. I’m going to have nightmares tonight having written about the blood-suckers.
10. In my head, I am still 18 years old and wondering when I am going to feel grown-up.

Here’s my list taglets:

1. GT281 – because no one else could give me as good a laugh or a better giggle (‘cepting maybe Puff)
2. Pink – because there’s more under the surface that wants to share
   
3. Sandy – because it’ll be good for her to think about good things about herself
4. Shelley – because it’s fun to pick on your little sister
5. Foltana – because she’s my warrior woman
   
6. Sunder – because he’s my other warrior woman
7. Resha – because she’s got ‘tude and sends me comments that keep my spirits up
   
8. Nancy – because she’s my Fairy Princess and sends me comments that keep my spirits up
9. Nina – because it’s way past time I get to know the beautiful Lady Luna
   
10. Kerri – because she is so kind and loving and is my special child

Okay y’all, time to play! You were tagged because you’re special to me, so let’s see those responses.

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