because I like a good game of tag as well as the next guy...
...(thanks lianne.) According to the rules…Each player of this game starts with the ‘6 weird things about you.' People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names.
Six weird things about me
(...and glo said it first, but I terribly wanted to play off of a line from "Emma" and mention the difficulty in limiting myself just to six)
1. I used to eat pizza backwards. Mostly because I liked the chewy-gooey-cheesy part at the end and I ALWAYS save the best for last.
2. I was born with dimples on my shoulders. My mom used to pull my sleeves down to show people--maybe even complete strangers--when I was little. I still have the dimples, but thankfully she doesn't do that anymore.
3. I can negotiate a round-about successfully. Apparently being able to do so in Utah makes me weird.
4. I finally fulfilled one of my life-long dreams. I have been officially invited to sit at the cool table. I could die a happy and fulfilled woman now. (Of course making the list doesn't mean I am weird. But wanting so badly to be on it is likely to qualify me.)
5. I like to talk to people. Even perfect strangers. I'd like to think I understand social boundaries and don't trespass into the "too much information" zone. (Like the woman who once spilled out to me her entire life story--including too many details about her very messy divorce--while I was waiting in line to complain about my kid's lousy English honors teacher at Jr. High.) But I will most likely chat you up a bit if you happen to be waiting in the return line at Target or sitting next to me at the bus stop. OK, so that last one will never happen, but if it did...
6. I tore my ACL while participating in a dutch-oven cook off. The worst part is that I only took second place. It was a fabulous salmon recipe, but I forgot to account for the fact that some people take a strong dislike to seafood. My bad. In any case the recovery was hell and it's one of the worst experiences I've been through in my entire life. But now it's long past--except for the fact that I can't kneel on that knee and I never regained feeling in part of my right leg--I can at least get a kick out of telling people how I did it. It's not as "out there" as someone I know who tore her ACL on a stripper pole, but it's at least up there with weird ways to sustain a serious sports injury.
I know I'm supposed to tag people, but I can't bring myself to add one more thing to your to-do list over the holidays. If you feel like playing, jump right on in.
Six weird things about me
(...and glo said it first, but I terribly wanted to play off of a line from "Emma" and mention the difficulty in limiting myself just to six)
1. I used to eat pizza backwards. Mostly because I liked the chewy-gooey-cheesy part at the end and I ALWAYS save the best for last.
2. I was born with dimples on my shoulders. My mom used to pull my sleeves down to show people--maybe even complete strangers--when I was little. I still have the dimples, but thankfully she doesn't do that anymore.
3. I can negotiate a round-about successfully. Apparently being able to do so in Utah makes me weird.
4. I finally fulfilled one of my life-long dreams. I have been officially invited to sit at the cool table. I could die a happy and fulfilled woman now. (Of course making the list doesn't mean I am weird. But wanting so badly to be on it is likely to qualify me.)
5. I like to talk to people. Even perfect strangers. I'd like to think I understand social boundaries and don't trespass into the "too much information" zone. (Like the woman who once spilled out to me her entire life story--including too many details about her very messy divorce--while I was waiting in line to complain about my kid's lousy English honors teacher at Jr. High.) But I will most likely chat you up a bit if you happen to be waiting in the return line at Target or sitting next to me at the bus stop. OK, so that last one will never happen, but if it did...
6. I tore my ACL while participating in a dutch-oven cook off. The worst part is that I only took second place. It was a fabulous salmon recipe, but I forgot to account for the fact that some people take a strong dislike to seafood. My bad. In any case the recovery was hell and it's one of the worst experiences I've been through in my entire life. But now it's long past--except for the fact that I can't kneel on that knee and I never regained feeling in part of my right leg--I can at least get a kick out of telling people how I did it. It's not as "out there" as someone I know who tore her ACL on a stripper pole, but it's at least up there with weird ways to sustain a serious sports injury.
I know I'm supposed to tag people, but I can't bring myself to add one more thing to your to-do list over the holidays. If you feel like playing, jump right on in.
Comments
Please :)
As has been discussed before, the blogroll can be both the beauty and the bane of bloggers. I'm really just having some fun with a way to describe the blogroll that I thought was rather clever. But the honest truth is there are bloggers out there whom I really respect and I do--not-so-secretly--sort of long to be on their blogrolls. It makes me feel like somebody I respect gets something about me and it can be very validating.
Glad that part of your life is over.
I would add you to my list, but I don't even have a clue how to add amything to my sidebar :(
Every time I read this story about your ACL, I keep trying to picture exactly HOW it happened....were you boogie-ing while you were cooking? ANYWAY, I love that you are quite vocal about the cool table, thus making it easier for me to whine about it!
Here's the other bad thing. My doctor--who is one of the top orthopaedic surgeons in the county--was convinced it was just a torn ligament. I went under planning on walking out of the surgical center. I woke up and couldn't walk for weeks. I was completely unprepared to be laid up for so long and had no idea what to expect.
So know I've sort of made it my mission to prepare people in my same shoes and to be there for them during the long recovery when people say things to you such as "Why are you still on crutches?" and totally abandon you after the first week when in fact you will be down and out and in need of a little support much, MUCH longer.
p.s. please don't get me wrong--I love azucar's cool table. I think it's really cool!
Thank you so much for explaining your injury, for reals, because now I will be more careful!
BTW, speaking of dutch oven cookers, do you know Rick Shumway?
And, yeah. Do be careful. I got all this information from a day-long lecture series I attended a couple of years ago at CUMC's new sports rehab place because I wanted to make absolutely certain I never do it again (repeats are not impossible). You know what advice I got? If you want to decrease your chances of tearing your ACL, get a sex change.
Sad, huh?
I do not know Rich Shumway. This was an amatuer event. But I'm going to Google him right now to see if I can find any good recipes!
Noooo. don't google. If you live by pottymouth julie....the Shumways live right there in that ward on Grandview. Rick is a really good dutch oven cooker and his wife Carolyn was my boss for 18 years.