Tagged with a Meme.
I normally don't participate in memes. Ever. But since my dear friend Mapi tagged me with one on her blog I have relented and agreed to participate. ( that, and my lingering "hot teacher" fantasy I have of her. "Yes Ma'am, I know the answer!" ) I know, so piggish and typical of me. I should be kept after school to clean the blackboard. Really...
So anyhow, Ahem... The meme requirements are as follows:
Once you’ve been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 weird, random, facts, habits or goals about yourself.
There was also a request that you tag 6 other humans after finishing yours. But, I leave that up to the 2 or 3 people that read this bathroom wall of mine.
So here we go:
1.) I want to hike the Appalachian Trail from start to finish, non-stop sometime in the next 10 years. I'm not exactly sure how I found out about the people that do exactly this every year. But , it absolutely got into my blood when I read about it. I found a website called http://www.trailjournals.com/ where hikers blog an online journal of the day to day feelings and experiences while hiking not only the AT but many other long distance trails. It just blew me away (and still does). I guess the thought of just planning, and then dropping everything in my life just to go and hike 2150 miles non stop just really pulls at the very roots of my soul.
I actually almost did this hike in early 2005 right after my divorce was finalized. I had the money, and was ready for the challenge. But I just didn't do it. I was too concerned about my job, and what my family would think about it. If I could turn back the hands of time I would do it in a millisecond. Screw the consequences. I'm thinking that I may do it when I leave here and head back to Texas.
2.) While I can be a very charming, outgoing person, I feel the most at home and "in my element" out in the wilderness. Life makes complete sense to me there. In the behaviour of the animals, the patterns of foliage, and the elements there is a very subtle rhythm and truth that very few ever see, or even realizes exists. I know that a few do. Like my friend Merriwether over at http://intotheborderlands.blogspot.com/. He gets it. I've also been a life ling student of woodsmanship and survival.
There is no lying in nature. Just brutal honestly. That's something I have never been able to say about the human race unfortunately.
3.) I want to move home to San Antonio, Texas and be among my family once more. I've been gone from there for almost 12 years. I feel like I've missed out on so much of every one's lives. Time I can never get back, or make up for when its all said and done.
I want to be there for my Mother and Father. I want to do things with Dad, like fishing, or going to a ball game, or just watching the sunset. I want to take my Mom antique shopping in the Hill Country just north of San Antonio, or go sit and have tea with her at some quaint little place.
My biggest regret in my life would be standing at the side of a casket without ever having done these things.
4.) I can consume more alcohol than 95% of the population and show absolutely no signs of intoxication. It's very bizarre. I'm like the woman from the first Indiana Jones movie. Drinking you under the table isn't a challenge, it's a comedy event. I highly recommend that you visit the ATM, or have a platinum card in your wallet if you say that you are picking up the tab.
But the truth be known; If I weren't drug tested, I'd smoke pot over drinking booze HANDS DOWN..... I've also believed for years that marijuana should be legalized for a myriad of reasons besides the effects of smoking it.
5.) I've only truly been head over heels in love one time in my life. I was an idiot and let her get away. (and no, it wasn't my ex-wife.. How bizarre is that? )
I know where she is, her address, phone number, and where she works. But I'll never contact her. The past is the past, and is best left alone 99% of the time.
6.) I have a quasi-photographic memory. I can remember smells, textures, and exactly what was said by people decades ago. My Mother and Father say I have the memory of an Elephant.I also have an IQ above 140 but have always been an big underachiever scholastically, especially in mathematics.
7.) If I could make one wish and have it come true it would be to win the lottery. I would be perfectly happy with just a cool million. I would invest it into an annuity that would pay me a fixed amount every month until I die. I would quit my job via the telephone, wrap up my loose ends and travel the world for a year. I'm not talking five star hotels either. I'd want to see each place as it really is. After seeing the world, I'd buy a house on my parents street and just enjoy life.
8.) When I was in kindergarten and 1st grade my family lived in Tehran, Iran. (this was just before the Shah was ousted ) We lived just down the street from the Chinese Embassy. One month a phone bill came in the mail that was for 25,000 dollars. As it turns out, it was sent to our house by mistake instead of the Chinese embassy. There was no way that the gate guards (Chinese soldiers carrying AK47s) would EVER let a grown American into the Embassy in a million years. So my mother got the idea of sending little ol' Windrider down the block ( she was watching me like a hawk of course ) to get our bill and give them theirs. The guards were pretty scary at first, and wanted the phone bill but I told them that I needed ours and they couldn't have theirs until they gave ours to me. I was promptly escorted through the gate an into the actual embassy much to my mothers shock. I guess I was in there a while and after getting our phone bill and being given tea and cookies, I emerged and headed back down the block to my mother who practically collapsed from relief. ( she was freaking out, and thought they had somehow decided to keep me. )
Well, the next month the same thing happened. So, I walked back down and the same thing occurred. This went on for months and months. I was also learning to ride a bicycle at the time and was in the stage where the training wheels are off but a parent had to run behind the bike holding onto the seat. Well this happened to be my mother almost all the time. She would run behind me down the street and then we'd turn around and go back towards our house. Eventually, I got to the point where she could let go and just sort of only hold onto it until I was sort of stabilized. Well, the Chinese Guards that had come to know me took great interest in all this. The started coming out in the street and cheering me on, holding their rifles up with one hand and waving their green military caps with the other. Soon after my mother would push me off from one end of the street and the guards would "catch" me, get me turned around, and run behind me holding the seat as I headed back to my mother. So I guess you could say I owe my ability to ride a bike partly to the Communists.
9. ) I can pretty much fart at will. In almost melodic tones.
10.) To no suprise to anyone at all. I can honestly say I have never hated where I've lived any more than I do living and working in Miami. Not even the Middle East, and that says something in and of itself.
So there you have it. Anyone who wants to try it is welcome to.
So anyhow, Ahem... The meme requirements are as follows:
Once you’ve been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 weird, random, facts, habits or goals about yourself.
There was also a request that you tag 6 other humans after finishing yours. But, I leave that up to the 2 or 3 people that read this bathroom wall of mine.
So here we go:
1.) I want to hike the Appalachian Trail from start to finish, non-stop sometime in the next 10 years. I'm not exactly sure how I found out about the people that do exactly this every year. But , it absolutely got into my blood when I read about it. I found a website called http://www.trailjournals.com/ where hikers blog an online journal of the day to day feelings and experiences while hiking not only the AT but many other long distance trails. It just blew me away (and still does). I guess the thought of just planning, and then dropping everything in my life just to go and hike 2150 miles non stop just really pulls at the very roots of my soul.
I actually almost did this hike in early 2005 right after my divorce was finalized. I had the money, and was ready for the challenge. But I just didn't do it. I was too concerned about my job, and what my family would think about it. If I could turn back the hands of time I would do it in a millisecond. Screw the consequences. I'm thinking that I may do it when I leave here and head back to Texas.
2.) While I can be a very charming, outgoing person, I feel the most at home and "in my element" out in the wilderness. Life makes complete sense to me there. In the behaviour of the animals, the patterns of foliage, and the elements there is a very subtle rhythm and truth that very few ever see, or even realizes exists. I know that a few do. Like my friend Merriwether over at http://intotheborderlands.blogspot.com/. He gets it. I've also been a life ling student of woodsmanship and survival.
There is no lying in nature. Just brutal honestly. That's something I have never been able to say about the human race unfortunately.
3.) I want to move home to San Antonio, Texas and be among my family once more. I've been gone from there for almost 12 years. I feel like I've missed out on so much of every one's lives. Time I can never get back, or make up for when its all said and done.
I want to be there for my Mother and Father. I want to do things with Dad, like fishing, or going to a ball game, or just watching the sunset. I want to take my Mom antique shopping in the Hill Country just north of San Antonio, or go sit and have tea with her at some quaint little place.
My biggest regret in my life would be standing at the side of a casket without ever having done these things.
4.) I can consume more alcohol than 95% of the population and show absolutely no signs of intoxication. It's very bizarre. I'm like the woman from the first Indiana Jones movie. Drinking you under the table isn't a challenge, it's a comedy event. I highly recommend that you visit the ATM, or have a platinum card in your wallet if you say that you are picking up the tab.
But the truth be known; If I weren't drug tested, I'd smoke pot over drinking booze HANDS DOWN..... I've also believed for years that marijuana should be legalized for a myriad of reasons besides the effects of smoking it.
5.) I've only truly been head over heels in love one time in my life. I was an idiot and let her get away. (and no, it wasn't my ex-wife.. How bizarre is that? )
I know where she is, her address, phone number, and where she works. But I'll never contact her. The past is the past, and is best left alone 99% of the time.
6.) I have a quasi-photographic memory. I can remember smells, textures, and exactly what was said by people decades ago. My Mother and Father say I have the memory of an Elephant.I also have an IQ above 140 but have always been an big underachiever scholastically, especially in mathematics.
7.) If I could make one wish and have it come true it would be to win the lottery. I would be perfectly happy with just a cool million. I would invest it into an annuity that would pay me a fixed amount every month until I die. I would quit my job via the telephone, wrap up my loose ends and travel the world for a year. I'm not talking five star hotels either. I'd want to see each place as it really is. After seeing the world, I'd buy a house on my parents street and just enjoy life.
8.) When I was in kindergarten and 1st grade my family lived in Tehran, Iran. (this was just before the Shah was ousted ) We lived just down the street from the Chinese Embassy. One month a phone bill came in the mail that was for 25,000 dollars. As it turns out, it was sent to our house by mistake instead of the Chinese embassy. There was no way that the gate guards (Chinese soldiers carrying AK47s) would EVER let a grown American into the Embassy in a million years. So my mother got the idea of sending little ol' Windrider down the block ( she was watching me like a hawk of course ) to get our bill and give them theirs. The guards were pretty scary at first, and wanted the phone bill but I told them that I needed ours and they couldn't have theirs until they gave ours to me. I was promptly escorted through the gate an into the actual embassy much to my mothers shock. I guess I was in there a while and after getting our phone bill and being given tea and cookies, I emerged and headed back down the block to my mother who practically collapsed from relief. ( she was freaking out, and thought they had somehow decided to keep me. )
Well, the next month the same thing happened. So, I walked back down and the same thing occurred. This went on for months and months. I was also learning to ride a bicycle at the time and was in the stage where the training wheels are off but a parent had to run behind the bike holding onto the seat. Well this happened to be my mother almost all the time. She would run behind me down the street and then we'd turn around and go back towards our house. Eventually, I got to the point where she could let go and just sort of only hold onto it until I was sort of stabilized. Well, the Chinese Guards that had come to know me took great interest in all this. The started coming out in the street and cheering me on, holding their rifles up with one hand and waving their green military caps with the other. Soon after my mother would push me off from one end of the street and the guards would "catch" me, get me turned around, and run behind me holding the seat as I headed back to my mother. So I guess you could say I owe my ability to ride a bike partly to the Communists.
9. ) I can pretty much fart at will. In almost melodic tones.
10.) To no suprise to anyone at all. I can honestly say I have never hated where I've lived any more than I do living and working in Miami. Not even the Middle East, and that says something in and of itself.
So there you have it. Anyone who wants to try it is welcome to.
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And, um...I'm just gonna have to slap some extra homework on you--we'll have to follow that up with some exams... (wink)
Thanks for playing. I hate tagging and never expect anyone will ever actually answer!
Be well.
I'll post a sweet little ditty for ya ASAP Mrs.Mapiprincessa.
(giggle)