Quirky Me

Once you haven't blogged in a while, it gets harder and harder to get back in the swing. I think that June 2nd (my last post) is way past the point of no return. Sorry for my absence from the blogging world to those who care. You know - busy summer and all and starting back to college (another post on this later maybe) have gotten in the way. I understand that most of you are Face-booking it nowadays. Not going to do it! Too complicated and too many things to look at there. It is just like technology and pop-culture to change on me just when I get up the courage to take the plunge. Well, I'm revolting! Not as in gross and disgusting. Revolting - as in I'm not gonna do it! So I may be the last one standing in the blog world as the rest of you pass me by. But I'm not gonna do it I say!!

Anyway - I've now been tagged by two sweet people - Andrea and my dear Katie. So, I'm going to blog on six quirks of mine. I actually think that since I've been lucky enough to be tagged twice, I should be allowed twelve quirks. But since I am struggling to find six, I'll take out my allowance on tagging six friends. This is sort of like a chain letter idea. Which thought brings me to my first quirk:

1. I hate, hate, hate chain letters and/or anything that requires me to ask my friends to do something they may not want to do. In spite of the fact that most people think of me as bossy, I'd rather do things myself than ask someone else to do it.

2. I don't like to eat out. I'm a decent cook and I am nearly always disappointed when we spend money on what turns out to be inferior food. Cook some good home-cooking for me and I'll love you forever. But going out to eat doesn't impress me. I'll go just to be with you and enjoy your company. But the food is always better at home.

3. In college (not quite a hundred years ago), I wanted to be a country-western singer. Never mind that I couldn't sing. I think I really wanted the clothes - a fringed vest - and the name - Dixie Debbie Lee. This quirk and the confessing of it in cell group is why you may have heard Don Davis call me Dixie.


4. I'm not afraid of bugs. Both of my daughters have what I consider to be an exaggerated fear or loathing of insects. They each have their own aversions to particular bugs. They didn't get it from me. I take after my grandmother who used to pick up bees and yellow jackets with her fingers and throw them out. She also shot rattlesnakes in our backyard and once a mountain lion when she lived in the Arizona desert. Wow!


5. Naps are important to me. I seldom get to take a nap. But each morning when I get up I almost instantly start to figure out when I'll have time that day to nap. I get that from my Mom who always took an afternoon nap no matter what.


6. I am sure of this - I am the only one who is listing their quirks who can say that they were once in the circus. True - in high school in Tallahassee. I was in the Tallahassee Little Big Top Circus. I walked the high wire, flew high on the shoot-through ladder, and climbed all over a guy who rode on a bicycle with three other girls.


7. I cry about everything. I mean everything. This is so common that it hardly seems quirky for me - until I look around and see that no one else is crying.


So, there it is. More than I was tagged for. That wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I apologize if my quirks are boring to you. They are after all my quirks. I have always thought of myself as extremely normal - nothing out of whack - nothing too interesting. I like that about me. I don't like to be noticed - I am honestly very shy - okay, maybe that is another quirk. I should call this quits right now before I get carried away and discover that I'm not normal at all. That would be upsetting.


So, I tag Kelly Davis, Kaye, Tatum, Mary Margaret, Heather, and Caroline. But only do it if you want to! I hate to ask you to do this, unless you are excited to do it. If you have already been tagged, then forget it and forgive me.

Here are the rules:
1. Link back to the person who tagged you - I don't know how to link to anything!
2. Mention the rules on your blog.
3. Tell 6 unspectacular quirks of yours - how can a quirk be unspectacular? Is the circus thing
too much?
4. Tag 6 fellow bloggers by linking to them - ditto
5. Leave a comment for each tagged blogger to let them know they've been tagged - this I can
do.