- I know almost all the lines by heart of the movies The Princess Bride and Back to the Future II.
- I think porcelain faced dolls are very creepy. The seriously scare me. (I'm sure it's due to the first horror movie I ever saw when I was an impressionable 6th grader. The movie was aptly entitled Dolls.)
- I have no middle name.
- When I read a book and it contains words I don't know, I list them on a scrap of paper and then use that paper as my bookmark. As I go through the book I keep adding unknown words that I come across so I can look them up and learn their meanings. (I've been doing this since highschool but now I do this every time I read a Charles Dickens book. Dickens is my all-time favorite and I've vowed to read everything he's ever written; his Pickwick Papers is the funniest book I've ever read. And I learn tons of new-to-me vocabulary from reading Dickens. I don't know how my vocabulary survived without convivial or stentorian.)
- If I would have had my way, Chloe would have been named Aurora. :) Thankfully Matt talked me out of it. Can you imagine a little kid trying to say all the r's in Aurora?
- When I was single I used to own an entire shoe rack (3 tiers high) for all the black shoes I owned.
- I have been a bridesmaid 7 times. (Not including my sister's wedding which was unconventional and didn't have any bridesmaids. I was her coordinator person though.)
- During my first semester at Northland I tried to throw a polka party in my room. I made fliers and put them in all the girls' mailboxes. I didn't have much common sense back then (I still lapse into those moments now that I'm an adult). Hello, a polka party at Northland BAPTIST Bible College?!? Mrs. Arndt didn't think it was a good idea. :) Another funny NBBC escapade involved putting blackcat firecrackers in the rec hall's fireplace. Hee-hee. I heard the dating couples looking into each others' eyes got quite a fright when they went off.
5.24.2007
Tag-a-licious
Ok, I've been tagged three times now so I guess I can no longer put off posting 8 weird/interesting facts about myself. Here goes . . .
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Those are great! This has been one game of tag that I've enjoyed reading all the comments. Just when you think you know someone...I loved the Polka Party and the firecrackers in the Rec Hall. I vowed I would never sit on those couches!
You've inspired me to look up the two words that you mentioned on your blog. I hated literature class but I do love to read. I always need the professor to interpret what the writer/poet was saying. Perhaps I should "try again". I would imagine that reading/enjoying/understanding the classics is a great way to expand one's vocabulary. My youngest sister LOVES reading the classics. I guess that she has all of those "genes".
This has been a fun game of tag. In response to the comments you left -- Tata is the Ateso word for grandmother, so she chose it for herself. The museum was a blast -- I actually forced Lydia to go up the slide the first time, because I knew she would love it. After that she kept going up until the older kids started shoving in front of her.
Al, the polka party goes down in NBBC infamy. Even I heard about it, and I wasn't a student at the time... maybe that was because my sisters were your roommies?? Great weird facts! I love the word bookmark idea. I think I'll incorporate it into my reading habits.
SO . . . when are we going to hear the details of your pregnancy - at least the due date! You're killin' me!
Hey Alicia, I tagged you on my blog for this thing. check it out.
i remember that polka party... i even got a letter sent home to mommy and daddy b/c of that party.
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