Tagged!!

I’ve been tagged by ican. She wants five random/weird facts about me.

Here are the rules:

The first player starts with the topic "5 random/weird facts about yourself." The people who get "tagged” need to post an entry about their 5 random facts, as well as state these rules clearly.

In the end, you must post the names and/or diaries of the 5 people you wish to tag. Leave a note saying "you’ve been tagged" on their diaries and tell then to read your site.

5 Random Facts:

1. Parenting teenagers is the hardest thing I have ever done.

2. One of my favorite ways to write my initials is using a treble cleff musical notation with my maiden name initials.

3. I am the 5th of 6 children. All of my older siblings are now in their 50’s. My mother had me when she was 38 years old, which age I will turn next year. The way my life has gone, I cannot imagine "starting over" with an infant at this point in my life. This gives me even greater admiration for my mom.

4. One of the most important things to me in any relationship, be it friendship or relationship, is honesty.

5. From the time I was a little girl, I have always had a very rich "inner life". I have always been my own best friend, mostly and am very self-sustaining with regard to the "need" to be around other people.

5 Weird Facts:

1. I had to bowl, like, 300 games to graduate from high school. I went to the "alternative" high school because I skipped a year and had to catch up. The gym teacher told me to bowl three games to equal one class and I think I had to have 30 classes to get my credit. When I turned in all my papers, she had forgotten about this arrangement and almost didn’t accept it. This made me very angry.

2. When I was a sophmore in high school, i was supposed to participate in a German student exchange program. The girl came, she stayed with my family for three weeks (was supposed to be a month) and six days before she was supposed to leave, she went to the advisor and told him she hated me and hated my family and refused to stay with us any longer. She hadn’t said anything to us. So, she stayed the last six days with another family and that person went to Germany. I was devestated, completely and totally.

3. I love to shop, but on my own terms and often the purpose of shopping, for me, is to find the best "deal". I generally know what I want, go directly to get it, and am then done. I refuse to shop the day after Thanksgiving. Did it once in recent memory and have no plans to ever do it again.

4. I have double-jointed knees and can lay my legs flat on ground and life my feet probably six inches off the ground while my thighs remain firmly planted on the ground. Those I have shown this anomoly are grossed out by it. My thumbs also bed backwards in a very strange way.

5. I sometimes feel guilty because although I know I was very sick when I had my hysterectomy, I pushed the doctor to do it because I didn’t want to deal with the mess, the pain, the horror of my periods anymore. Sometimes I think this makes me a big ‘ole baby and affects my "womanhood"…that I should have stuck it out. But that usually passes quickly….I tried to miss having a period and couldn’t do it. I still think it’s one of the best things I’ve ever done and was well worth the money, effort, and recovery I went thru.

I’m tagging: hurricanekatie, teresa, RandomChance, FourthRow, and Atrevida.