rules: Tell your followers 11 random facts about yourself and tag 11 people. Tag backs are allowed but if you do get tagged again you must not repeat any of the facts you mentioned in the previous round. The facts can be absolutely anything, whatever comes to mind first.
1. I dropped a lamp on my foot when I was 11. I was trying to get a duffel bag out of my parents closet to pack for vacation and the l lamp was on top of it. I really needed stitches but refused to get them. I had a butterfly bandage instead and couldn’t get in the hot tub or go ice skating the whole time we were in Gatlinburg (which, for anyone that doesn’t know, is a touristy town in the mountains of Tennessee that was recently devastated by forest fires).
2. I have two dogs -- a chihuahua (Lucy) and a corgi/spaniel mix (Tucker). Lucy is technically my sister’s dog and Tucker is technically my brother’s. But ask both dogs, and I assure you, if they could talk, they would tell you they’re mine. They’re the neediest little beasts (and are currently both lying on my bed under my covers). I love them though.
3. I’m currently working on a challenge for myself and my nephew of reading 1000 children’s books before he starts Kindergarten in the fall. We’re currently at 574/1000. I feel like I’ve successfully made him love books.
4. When I was in the 8th grade, I watched Bonkers and part of The Lion King every night before I went to bed.
5. I once hit a bullseye on a dartboard in a bar with my eyes closed -- there were two witnesses to this, my friend Emily and my Greek professor.
I spent quite a bit of time trying to do it again, but, well, eyes open, eyes closed, I never even got close.
6. I won a Halloween costume contest in the 2nd grade for “Most Creative Costume.” I was dressed as Cotton Candy.
7. I once climbed on the roof of an ancient ruin in Egypt with my friend Emily after we had explicitly been told not to.
8. I never drink, really, mostly because I don’t like alcohol.... so, because I had one once before and liked the taste of it, I once ordered a Long Island Iced Tea for dinner; I was eating with classmates and professors -- not thinking that the previous time I went back to my dorm and like instantly fell asleep. I barely drank any of it, but I’m still embarrassed.
9. While watching Lord of the Rings in theatres, I dropped my own ring under the seat and spent a fair amount of the movie looking for it.
During the same viewing, of the third movie, a woman in front of me asked her date “What’s the deal with the ring?”
10. I stayed up until 5 a.m. watching The Muppet Show because I couldn’t sleep before my final exam of the year/I was also supposed to leave on vacation the next day.
But, anyway, I was deeply offended to learn, after receiving The Muppet Christmas Carol for Christmas this year, that the rest of my family hates the Muppets.
11. I want to write a YA novel.
