Eight Things About Me meme

So, Bookfool tagged me for this meme.

Here are the rules:

1: Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.
2: People who are tagged: write a blog post about their own 8 random things and post these rules.
3: At the end of your post you need to tag 8 people and include their names.
4: Don't forget to leave them a comment and tell them they're tagged and remind them to read your blog.


It's going to be hard to find eight weird things about me since I have already posted the 100 THINGS ABOUT ME. (see sidebar) I'll give it a shot.

1. It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child....(just kidding)
I actually grew up on the poor side of an affluent neighborhood in Dallas. It was 99.99% white. My best friend was Jewish and got harassed in high school. I got in several fights about this. A football player threatened to hit me one time.

2. Besides the unexceptional fear of being alone, I have some odd fears as well. Mariachis make me uncomfortable and I am scared of cyborgs. I think the Borg on Star Trek are really scary. I went through a haunted house with my friend Dave one time and they had a Borg room. I actually trampled my friend Dave to get out of the room. Not my proudest moment.

3. I grew up in a big church that would put on lavish musicals. As a child, I was the star in many of them. This probably fueled my secret desire to go into musical theater. Too bad I didn't have the talent. (I still love singing showtunes today)

4. I have never owned a video game console but I used to love going to Dave and Buster's to blow off steam playing games. I actually had a GOLD PowerCard.

5. Sometimes, I wish I was Lara Croft.

6. I have bizarre and irrational pet peeves. For example, it enrages me when people back into parking spaces instead of entering them the "correct" way. I call those people "rear-enders."

7. One time, a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman conned and intimidated me into buying an $1800 vacuum cleaner. I consider myself a pretty strong woman so this really threw me for a loop. I eventually came to my senses and demanded that the contract be cancelled. I left the vacuum cleaner on the front porch until he came and got it.

8. Even though most people would say differently, I am an extremely shy person. Every time I go into a situation with new people, I have to draw on my old acting ability to get through it. I PRETEND to be an outgoing person. Kind of a "fake it til you make it" strategy. But it is very wearing on me and it takes a lot of effort for me to be social sometimes.

Thought of a few more...

9. I took clowning lessons for awhile and developed my own makeup and persona. It was really fun.

10. I never took ballet and was never involved in any team sports. Instead, as a child I took tap lessons and acting lessons and went on cultural excursions and attended science camp. Now you know why I am the way I am.

Okay, that's it for now. I'm gonna tag Vieve.

What [Malady] Needs

Got this meme from Vieve. It's truly weird. (I used my real name when I did it but substituted my nickname here)

Instructions: google your name and the word needs. Report the top 10 results.

1. Malady needs to either wake-up or start getting some extra will-power.

2. Malady needs some help drinking apparently.

3. Malady needs sleep.

4. Malady needs your help.

5. Malady needs to get out the monkeysicle and do some tests on him and what not. (?!!)

6. Malady needs a crash pad.

7. Malady needs a twitter. (?!!)

8. Malady needs an article.

9. Malady needs to learn responsibility.

10. Malady needs some Carmex.


Oh, Google. You are so wise.