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February 26, 2005
We love lists ...
Want to get a lively and entertaining discussion going? Start asking for lists ... and even the usually quiet and retiring wall-flowers and lurkers will perk up with their "faves" or "hates." I'm not sure what it is about the human condition about lists, maybe because the topic can be both personal ("I like this because ..") and safe (can you think of any one that would engage in flaming over a list?). The Oscars is an annual public list everyone has a love/hate relationship with. Rock stations love to do "Top 100 Countdown of ..."
Which brings me to my list just for fun this morning. I've recently been checking in on a blog recommended by a reader, and this morning, Rebecca of Adventures in Applied Math started the ball rolling with Ten Things I've Done that I Bet You Haven't Done. Now, I replied in her comment section with some coordination with her list. I'm going to reprint my list over the jump. Feel free to come up with a list that intersects mine, or is totally different. What a neat way to see what little adventures have highlighted our lives!
1. While being charge of a high school band on tour, stand toe-to-toe with a police officer and refuse to allow him to talk to any of 'my kids' without my presence
2. (this is an oldie) While as a high school student myself, was in charge of publicity for our spring play -- and was able to garner a full review plus two pics on the front page of the 'View' section (now Calendar) of the Los Angeles Times.
3. learned to touch type in the 7th grade because my handwriting was/is pretty much illegible.
4. I've lost more [than 60 lbs]..but it's the same 15 lbs. over and over again! (save for the time of losing 175 lbs of ugly fat...I divorced him)
5. Taught a dance routine to a bunch of 11 y/o's for a talent show when I was 8 mos pregnant
6. Took the opposite political position on a research paper for Poli-sci than the professor, still got an A (sweated bullets about that one)
7. was a divorced mom of 4 daughters who then met and later married via the Internet (AOL)
8. wanted to see what all the fuss was about, so read all five Harry Potter books in one weekend (love 'em!)
9. chatted with Ray Bradbury at a Christmas book-signing several years ago (charming man!)
10. a mom thing again - gave birth to all 4 kidlets sans any drugs.
Posted by Darleen at February 26, 2005 11:20 AM
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1. I have never given birth (altough passing that kidney stone back a few years ago is probably as close as a male can come to same....)
2. I tracked down a "murder incorporated" mafia conigliera while on assignment in the navy. (Many mafia people had a habit of joining the military when it got too hot in the kitchen...)
3. I was a NICAP investigator working with Major Keyhole during the sixties flap when UFO's were in vogue. Later I interviewed most of the major players in the area of the "Incident at Exiter". (Then I grew up and learned to think.)
4. I got fed up with all the nonsense after reading some 100 books on the JFK conspiracy so as a part of a biz trip I stopped in Dealy Plaza, rolled around on the grassy noll, took 4 rolls of 35mm film, stood behind the picket fence, talked Russian with Maria and convinced myself that it was all about book sales.
5. I actually owned a '57 chevy. But the real fun was beating Ronnie Hassle for top D gas eliminator in my chevy II (427 engine) AFX at the NHRA meet in Stowe Ohio.
6. Art Arfon's jet dragster was a piece of junk, with a long hunk of chicken wire running from the cockpit back to the gas valve on the J-49 Westinghouse engine. But it was twice as fast as his brother Walts immaculate jet dragster. I got to make a pass down the strip with it once. Unbelievable.
7. I was an accomplished ice skater in my teens. Had a chance to join the team of Frick and Frack in the Ice Capades but joined the Navy instead. I didn't have the courage to climb that 25 foot stack of woven baskets and take a header onto the ice. Later while braving 50 foot sea's in the winter time version of the Northern Atlantic I wondered just what the hell I was thinking when I made that erudite choice.
8. My Mother was a statuesque redhead dancer with the Rockettes at Radio City, Rockefeller Plaza in NY. At the tender age of 6 I stood on the stage at the Philadelphia auditorium and performed with the rest of the USO entertainers during the "VE" three month tour after the war was over. Bob Hope gave me a silver dollar, my first professional paycheck.
9. I was walking with my mother on 42nd Ave. when the Air Force bomber got lost in the fog and hit the Empire State building. She thought the world was coming to an end. I dropped my lollypop when she dragged me into Macy's.
10. Aarvarks make strange pets. If I had one I'd want to name it Antz. The strangest pet I ever owned was a puruvian Cavie (guinea pig). What was strange is that He was jet black with 12 inch long silken hair, and large even for a peruvian, with a white stripe running from his nose to his rump. Since his fur was so long he looked like he had a tail that curled up over his back, so I was able to pass him off as a miniature skunk, which made for a great ice breaker with the babes. But it didn't save me any money on my car insurance.
Posted by: Big Bang Hunter at February 26, 2005 07:09 PM
1) I was both the Latin and English medalist in my high school. Honesty compels me to admit that there were only 65 students in my graduating class and only two students in senior Latin. With a dictionary to shore up my fading vocab, I am still fairly fluent (on paper) in Latin.
2)I married my blind date to our Senior Dance (two years later.) We've been married for 31 years.
3) I can knit a pair of booties in 90 minutes. Nice ones, too - not Speed Booties.
4) I won a blue ribbon at the State Fair of Texas for an Object with Crocheted Trim.
Posted by: Sal at February 28, 2005 10:55 AM