I've been tagged

I've been tagged by Domi's World to say six wierd things about myself.

So - Here we go!!!

1 - I typically spell becuase wrong. See, I just screwed it up there. Why? Becuase my fingers don't typically work correctly. I know my boss is probably couting how many times I do it in my emails and I'm sure before I leave that job when the grant money is out he'll have a good count and come up with some kind of silly you owe me one penny for eact time you misspell it so he can buy himself a nice car.

Yes, I misspell it that much, along with a lot of other words.

Another wierd thing about my typing is that I use my left hand on the space bar. We were always taught to use the right hand whenever you wanted to space on the keyboard during keyboarding class but you know what, it just never worked out that way. So - here's to all of my typing teachers ..1.. I'm doing it MY way and you know what - it works, so leave it alone.

2- In the light of the astro-nut scandal that includes diapers, I'll let many of you who were never around me as a kid in on a little secret - I wanted to pilot the space shuttle as a kid.

That's right. I wanted to not only go into space, but I wanted to pilot the damn machinery. I still want to be a pilot and had I had good vision and decent math skills I would have done whatever it took to fly in the Navy or Air Force in a fighter jet. My walls were covered in posters of jets as a kid, along with the appropriate shuttle items. My parents took us to the Grissom AFB open house every year and we got to see the demonstrations and I still secretly want to go up in one.

But, I don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars or really good KGB connections in Russia who can put me in a MiG for a short flight so I guess I'll still have to just dream about being a pilot of a fast plane.

3 - I never carried a purse on a daily basis until I was a senior in college. What did I carry you ask? A men's trifold leather wallet (I still have it and was using it in my purse as my billfold until my husband got me a nice Coach card carrier for Christmas). I could keep everything I needed- cash, the one emergency credit card, my insurance card and a couple of spare keys in my wallet in my back pocket. Why carry a purse?

The only reason I started carrying a purse was becuase (see I did it again!) I had purchased a cell phone for my job as a newspaper reporter and didn't want to always stick it in my pocket for fear of losing it. So I bought a small purse that fit well in my bookbag (see, I still really didn't CARRY it even then) and went on with life.

I've since become a purse whore, but, I still only purchase medium size bags (the only big bag you'll probably see me carry is the diaper bag and even then most of the time my purse has to fit into that bag! I'm still anal, aren't I?) and only when there is a good sale. I hate paying full price for purses or shoes. I wish my husband would take a lesson on that.

4 - I used to do gymnastics as a kid. I was never really good at any apparatus but I was very good and diving rolls for some reason. I was also fairly flexible and was either first or second in the contest to do back arches starting from the floor. But, I was too scared of heights and was horribly coordinated for the balance beam and couldn't do a simple handstand so really, much of that was out, so I danced instead. I took jazz dancing lessons. I quit shortly before my fifth year becuase the studio upped their prices and my parents couldn't afford it anymore. I wasn't that great and I couldn't even do splits, but, it was fun, I think, while it lasted.

5 - I can't wear fingernail polish. As soon as I get polish on my fingers my hands start drying out and cracking something awful. I've never figured out why and we've tried many different types of polish, but it always ends up that way. And it seems like no amount of lotion will fix the drying process so, I avoid it like nasty germs but, lavish the loving on my toes. For some reason, my feet don't react the same way, which is good for me becuase for some reason I don't really like the look of 90 percent of fingernail polish on women in person (in mags it looks great, but in person there's just something about it that bugs me) but I think it's awesome on toes. It's like her little secret for the world to see and it's almost impowering.

But, maybe that's because I was never able to wear polish growing up, not even for prom due to my mom's bias against polish, and there's just something amazingly womanly about getting a sweetass pedi and topcoat. Grrrr baby.

6 - I hate to have my facial hair plucked. I do on occassion need to get my brows done and I cannot stand the insanity of plucking. Just do one strip of wax, hurt for 2 seconds and be done. Why prolong the pain?

So - there you go. Six wierd things about me that most of you probably didn't know.

I hope it was enjoyable, or it allowed you to be unbored for more than 30 seconds.

Chao!!

La. Sra.