new meme
Snagged from delphipsmith. Let's see if I can keep up with this for all ten days.
Day 1 - Ten random facts about yourself
Day 2 - Nine things you do everyday
Day 3 - Eight things that annoy you
Day 4 - Seven fears/phobias
Day 5 - Six songs that you’re addicted to
Day 6 - Five things you can’t live without
Day 7 - Four memories you won’t forget
Day 8 - Three words you can’t go a day without
Day 9 - Two things you wish you could do
Day 10 - One person you can trust
1. I was home schooled. Okay, it was for about six weeks when we were in Ireland. We were leaving for the US at the end of May and it didn't make sense to go back after the Easter break for that short a period when the school year ran into July.
2. I had a dog. Yeah, me the cat person, had a dog until I was five. When we moved into the house I live in now, the parents didn't want to put up a fence so they gave the dog to a family on a farm (yeah, I know what it sounds like but they really did). Her name was Coco and she was like an Irish Setter with short hair.
3. Until I was nearly twenty I believed I would never drink coffee. It was "gross" and bitter. My parents only drank it black. I had a cup of white coffee the last night at Cambridge on the Summer Institute to Great Britain and loved it. I now know I will never drink black coffee, but I live on the stuff with cream and sweetener.
4. Even though I'd been to three or four before it, I fell in love with English country houses when I first spied Chatsworth in the mist.
5. I'm a Rainbow Girl (it's a Masonic organization for girls). Once you hit twenty and are still active you can become a life member. I've done nothing with them since, but I'm still one. (As is my mother.)
6. I went to therapy for a year after screwing up my Freshman year in college and having to take a year off. I found it useful enough, but not something I needed after one year. (Sadly, if I hadn't screwed up and had done as well that year as I did the next four, I probably would have had about a 3.95 GPA. I double majored and had one B in History and one B in Latin and the rest and everything else were As.)
7. For several years I baked my own birthday cakes (from mixes) because my mother, the gourmet cook, two years in a row had to buy a cake after somehow screwing up the mix! (On the other hand, the one time I tried to bake a cake from scratch I left out baking soda or baking powder and it didn't rise. *snort*)
8. Because I grew up eating only my nana's flourless peanut butter cookies, I can't stand ones with flour. And they are the hardest cookies to make because not only do the measurements have to be exact (the proportions of sugar, pb, egg and vanilla), but if you try to bake them when the kitchen is too warm they spread to brittle).
9. I only started singing in a choir because my best friend at the time (7th grade) wouldn't audition for the 8th-9th grade choir alone. Now I can't imagine not singing.
10. I taught myself how to swim when I was seven. I was at my grandparents' in the pool at their country club and just took off. My nana got me private swimming lessons for the rest of that summer (I can't remember why I spent most of the summer with them, but that was the first time I flew by myself, too, from Kansas City to Indianapolis where they picked me up so I wouldn't have to switch planes. At fourteen, I did the same thing, but the closest flight got me to St. Louis and my grandfather picked me up.)
Day 1 - Ten random facts about yourself
Day 2 - Nine things you do everyday
Day 3 - Eight things that annoy you
Day 4 - Seven fears/phobias
Day 5 - Six songs that you’re addicted to
Day 6 - Five things you can’t live without
Day 7 - Four memories you won’t forget
Day 8 - Three words you can’t go a day without
Day 9 - Two things you wish you could do
Day 10 - One person you can trust
1. I was home schooled. Okay, it was for about six weeks when we were in Ireland. We were leaving for the US at the end of May and it didn't make sense to go back after the Easter break for that short a period when the school year ran into July.
2. I had a dog. Yeah, me the cat person, had a dog until I was five. When we moved into the house I live in now, the parents didn't want to put up a fence so they gave the dog to a family on a farm (yeah, I know what it sounds like but they really did). Her name was Coco and she was like an Irish Setter with short hair.
3. Until I was nearly twenty I believed I would never drink coffee. It was "gross" and bitter. My parents only drank it black. I had a cup of white coffee the last night at Cambridge on the Summer Institute to Great Britain and loved it. I now know I will never drink black coffee, but I live on the stuff with cream and sweetener.
4. Even though I'd been to three or four before it, I fell in love with English country houses when I first spied Chatsworth in the mist.
5. I'm a Rainbow Girl (it's a Masonic organization for girls). Once you hit twenty and are still active you can become a life member. I've done nothing with them since, but I'm still one. (As is my mother.)
6. I went to therapy for a year after screwing up my Freshman year in college and having to take a year off. I found it useful enough, but not something I needed after one year. (Sadly, if I hadn't screwed up and had done as well that year as I did the next four, I probably would have had about a 3.95 GPA. I double majored and had one B in History and one B in Latin and the rest and everything else were As.)
7. For several years I baked my own birthday cakes (from mixes) because my mother, the gourmet cook, two years in a row had to buy a cake after somehow screwing up the mix! (On the other hand, the one time I tried to bake a cake from scratch I left out baking soda or baking powder and it didn't rise. *snort*)
8. Because I grew up eating only my nana's flourless peanut butter cookies, I can't stand ones with flour. And they are the hardest cookies to make because not only do the measurements have to be exact (the proportions of sugar, pb, egg and vanilla), but if you try to bake them when the kitchen is too warm they spread to brittle).
9. I only started singing in a choir because my best friend at the time (7th grade) wouldn't audition for the 8th-9th grade choir alone. Now I can't imagine not singing.
10. I taught myself how to swim when I was seven. I was at my grandparents' in the pool at their country club and just took off. My nana got me private swimming lessons for the rest of that summer (I can't remember why I spent most of the summer with them, but that was the first time I flew by myself, too, from Kansas City to Indianapolis where they picked me up so I wouldn't have to switch planes. At fourteen, I did the same thing, but the closest flight got me to St. Louis and my grandfather picked me up.)