10 on tuesday (3)

I'm sticking with the official topic today even though I think it will be hard given my 100 things list.

10 Things Most People Don't Know About Me

  1. I spent the summer when I was 7 with very little adult supervision. My dad was dying and my brother, two male cousins, and I spent a lot of time together. They were 5-7 years my elder. I was forced to watch lots of horror movies, the worst of which was Basketcase.
  2. I am a pretty rational person. I continue to watch horror movies at times. However, I am freaked out in direct correlation to how unrealistic the movie is. Chucky? Freaks me out the most.
  3. The name my birth mother gave me was Karen. I'm not a Karen.
  4. One day when I was driving home from college, it was such a beautiful sunny day that I drove without my shirt on and the sunroof open. That's probably illegal.
  5. When I was in high school my band director's wife hated me. She talked bad about me to ladies at church. She thought I was after her husband. I was not after her husband.
  6. I was always good in music/band. I was almost always first chair from elementary school through high school (and, no, not because of the band director). When I was in elementary school we had "challenges" to try to move up a chair. Everyone could only challenge once per class period, once per week. If I made it through the day without needing to use mine, I could challenge the teacher. Sometimes I won (but never actually got to be the teacher).
  7. I fold my underwear; I don't just stuff them in the drawer.
  8. If I had to have just one, I'd rather have a baby than a husband. I hope I don't have to have just one.
  9. I've had ideas about what my wedding would be like since I was a little girl. I've had a baby names for about 12 years. Both of those things seem really sad to me sometimes.
  10. One of my earliest memories is of Princess Diana's wedding. I think this may have set up some unrealistic expectations.

(If you haven't seen the video below, please don't let this post overshadow it. It is stinkin' hilarious. I think so anyway.)

Comments

Jillie Bean (AKA Bubba's Sis) said…
I love #4!! Sounds like something the Ya-Ya's would do! :-)
5/08/2007 9:55 PM
angelq said…
I knew 1 through 7. Didn't know 8 to 10. Though one of those was a recent discussion I had with someone.
5/09/2007 9:46 AM
Katie Lady said…
Chucky is the reason I don't watch horror movies to this day.

I, too, was good in band, and the director's wife didn't like me, either! Weird.

And I drove an MG Midget in high school and would cruise around with the top down and the straps of my tank top pulled down. Ha!
5/10/2007 8:51 PM
StaceyG said…
We used to drive around in bathing suit tops and shorts, so it looked like we were naked. Caused a guy to wreck his car once!

I was a band geek! But always 4th or 5th chair.
5/11/2007 6:43 AM
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