Going through posts I’ve never posted, wondering which ones I might salvage, and came across one made Jan 14 2006 in which I’d noted H.o.p. was wondering if Bush could be farted out of office. I also had noted how much I like marshmallows but rarely eat them.
Jennifer at Saying Yes has hit me with a meme where I’m supposed to post 8 random facts about myself.
The marshmallows strike me as a good place to start.
1.) I like marshmallows a lot but rarely eat them. In fact I never ate them for years then I realized a rare ooo wow treat didn’t have to happen once every decade and started picking up a bag every two years. I like them too much to pick them up more frequently. I don’t want to make a habit out of it. Plus, I just don’t like eating that much sugar. We can get a bag of sugar and it will last forever as we use so little sugar.
2.) I used to have a kind of weird fear of post offices because postal clerks freaked me out. I don’t know if I still do as I haven’t been to a post office in so long. But I’ve always liked post office boxes. Getting mail out of a post office box is more special than getting it out of your mail box. And getting mail out of a mail box inside your apartment building is more special than getting mail out of that big box outside your apartment building. (Or I just plain dislike post offices. They don’t make me hyperventilate. I just don’t like them.)
3.) I used to pick through and eat all the raisins out of the box of Raisin Bran.
4.) I can’t take liquid medicine. Gag reflex. If I do have to take liquid medicine that doesn’t immediately make me gag and throw up, I hold my nose and wash it down as quickly as I can with a really flavorful chaser, like cranberry juice, and still I jump up and down and flail my hands screeching yuck yuck agh agh gross gross for fifteen minutes.
5.) When H.o.p. was an infant, several months old, 1, 2, 3, 4 years old, I used to bury my nose in his hair and drink in as much of his wonderful H.o.p. smell that I could, because it was the best the most incredible the most special smell in the world and I hoped never to forget it.
6.) Street lamps used to turn off when I walked under them. Seriously. Nothing on me bright that was reflecting and causing them to shut off. Marty can attest to this. I would walk down the street and as I reached each street lamp it would shut off and then when I’d passed it would come back on. “How are you doing that?” people would ask. I know people will say, “Coincidence!” but it’s true.
7.) I never liked the music of The Ramones. Not that this was a secret or anything.
8.) I’m really pitiful at most card games, know nothing about odds or strategy, and I am terrible terrible terrible at Poker. I used to really want to learn to play, especially being on the road and bands many times playing Poker late after gigs. This was way back in my early 20s when I would try to play (I was still drinking and usually I’d have had too much) and I would always lose. Terribly. (At least that’s how Marty phrases it, that I lost terribly.) We didn’t have much money so I never could lose very much but we could ill afford to lose any of it. But I’m not a gambler type so I would play very rarely anyway. Still, as mentioned, whenever I did play I always lost. And then I’d hit that point where it would be my last hand because I would have no more money to bet afterwards. Each time, on that last hand, I always won back every cent I’d lost. So I never lost any money at Poker, but I never won any either. I only needed this to happen a few times before I said enough was enough and never played Poker again.
I’m now supposed to tag 8 people to send along the meme to but I can’t think of any who might not say, “I don’t think so.”
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