Twice Bitten, Never Shy
It’s happened again. Someone thinks the world should know more about me; as if I don’t share enough. I’ve been MeMe’d. Now, I’m not upset with D. Patrick Lewis for tagging me. Nope, we go way back to my Raleigh, North Carolina days. Apparently we only lived a few blocks from each other, but it took Twitter to bring us together! So here it goes. You probably already know a Meme is a blog post that usually tells others several things about you on a personal level that they probably don’t already know. Then, at the end of the Meme the writer of the blog post ‘tags’ 7 other people to write one about themselves. This variation requires me to tell you 7 things about me that have nothing to do with Real Estate.
1. I hate cold weather, but I love wearing warm, bulky sweaters! I know, I can’t have it both ways. In a perfect world I would only have one month of cold weather so I could get in my bulky sweater time, but alas, the world is not perfect.
2. My favorite drink is Dr. Pepper. - Some of you may already know this, especially if you have met me before. I can’t get enough of this stuff! I am actually starting a campaign for Dr. Pepper to start producing Caffeine-Free Dr. Pepper (they already make a caffeine-free diet version), because of my migraines. So far, they haven’t listened to me. Sigh.
3. I’m a migraine sufferer. - And, yes, I’ve seen a doctor about it! Migraines are horribly misunderstood by people who don’t suffer from them. Actually the medical world doesn’t understand much about migraines either. I pretty much spend my life with a constant dull headache. At times it increases into a full blown migraine. I would say on a good migraine day the pain level is a 6. On a bad migraine day the pain level is a 13. I function at any pain level because life doesn’t stop when I have a migraine. But please don’t ask me if I’ve seen a doctor for them, or if I took some Tylenol. Yes, I have and I still have a migraine.
4. I met my husband the first Thursday of college. - It just took 4.5 more years for us to go out on a date. And another 5 years for us to get married. He has to think things through before he commits.
5. I have brittle finger nails. - They just don’t grow. I’ve tried everything, special nail polish, extra vitamins, nothing seems to work. So, I keep my nails very short.
6. My first job was sorting hangers at a large dry cleaning warehouse.- I got paid $2 a tote. Sorting involved untangling the hangers and facing them to the right. Some of the totes would take 2 hours to untangle. The most totes I could sort in an hour was 10. Up to $20 an hour isn’t bad when you’re 15!
7. I was pressured to quit the Girl Scouts by my Troop Leader. - Yep, I couldn’t hack it as a Girl Scout. I’m not cut out for hiking, spending the night in the woods, cooking over an open fire, or being a good citizen. I go against the grain and always have questions. In two years I had earned 2 badges. Both were Birthday Badges. I got them ’cause I had a Birthday. I was a bit frustrating to the adults that ran my Troop, to say the least. They asked me not to come back after a trip to Girl Scout Camp that went horribly wrong. I was more than happy to retire my Girl Scout Handbook!
Now I am required to tag 7 more people to write a MeMe. But, I’m in a charitable mood and I am giving 7 people a stay of execution! Happy New Year!
Sarah….Loved this! I used to suffer from “ice-pick” headaches. Severely stabbingly localized and quite painful…but they would only last for 10-30 seconds and then be over. But, it happened every minute or two for days on end. So, I feel your pain…
LOL — love this meme, Sarah! I’m betting that today you’d get plenty of badges, like for Good Sport, Good Blogging, Fun Twittering and any number of others. You’d be BURIED in badges — ROFL!