....So I decided to make up my own meme. I need a break from planning lessons for preschoolers. Incidentally, I've probably come up with more uses for a coffee filter than anyone could possibly ever imagine.....
1.) Favorite piece of jewelry??
That would have to be the diamond solitaire pendant that my mom gave me for Christmas a few years ago. This thing will Never. Come. Off. I want to be buried (well, cremated) in it, unless I have a daughter someday in which case she can have it (unless, of course, she does something wacky like join a religious cult and/or bomb an abortion clinic or marry a polygamist and add "Sister" to her first name. Then she most definitely can't have it.).
However, before the diamond solitaire pendant I would have to say that my favorite piece of jewelry was a guitar string. A boy that I had a crush on in high school played an amazing song for me (no, it wasn't written about me....it was an unrequited crush....), and almost immediate afterward his guitar string broke. I kept it and my friend made a bracelet out of it for me. The crush didn't last long, but this bracelet became sort of a trademark, along with my pink shoes. The bracelet fell off right before I started college, which was all for the best because I was beginning a distinctly different phase of my life at that point, and the bracelet falling off became slightly symbolic.
2.) Song that is stuck in your head right now?
"I'll Be Home for Christmas." I've been listening to Christmas music all morning. I wish I could hit the fast forward button and have it be December.
3.) Strange fact about you?
This isn't really a strange fact about ME.....but......my great-grandmother's ashes rode around in the trunk of my dad's car for several years. If he ever made a sharp turn, we would hear a THUD resonate from the back, which was immediately followed by a "sorry, Grandma" that my dad would utter under his breath. I got freaked out once when, at the impressionable age of ten, after filling up the trunk with my back to school supplies, my dad informed me that the white box I had just moved to make room for my shiny pink Trapper Keeper was in fact full of "Grandma Apple" (as we called her). Grandma Apple was moved to the garage, then to the basement, then to my aunt's house where we finally--FINALLY!!--scattered her ashes at the base of an apple tree that we planted in her honor. I will probably not be invited back for Christmas after telling this story now.........
4.) Ever had a near-death experience??
I almost drowned after falling off a dock....I was about two or three, and I STILL remember it.....my grandfather saved me. Other than that, well, I was hospitalized once for severe alcohol poisoning in 9th grade. That was not my finest hour, believe me..........
5.) Embarrassing moment? (Did I mention that I'm the one writing this???? WHY am I subjecting myself to this question?????)
There was one time when, on a trip to my friend's hometown in beautiful Northern Arizona, I got SEVERELY wasted and regaled my friends with my "parts of a friendly letter dance," my "print directionality song," and my "r-controlled vowels song." A little while later I gave them step-by-step, detailed instructions on how to clean a male horse's, y'know, boy parts so that they don't get infected. I was also apparently convinced that the wheelchair my friend was sitting in (which had belonged to his grandfather) was going to spring to life and break all of our legs. The icing on this fabulous cake?? When my poor, patient friends would tell me to lower the decibel level of my voice to a dull roar so as not to wake the sleeping Mormons next door, I would put hand on hip and slur at the top of my voice YOU'RE, YOU, YOU'RE JUSSSSSSS TRYIN' TO OPPPPPRESSSSS MY FREEEEEEDOM......YOU ARE A REPUBBBBLICANNN.....ALL OF YOU.....YOU'RE ALL BUSH-LOVING REPUBBBBLICANNNSSSSSSS.....which, if you know my friends, is a rather amusing and highly inaccurate statement to make.
Yeah, so, luckily my friends all still love me (though I shall never live that night down). And I no longer drink heavily :)
6.) Strangest compliment you've ever received?
"Wow. You're so sweet, just like my mom." (A guy with whom I went on exactly one date)
"You don't look as chubby in those pants as you usually do." (An ex-boyfriend. He was a jerk)
"My dad say you pretty. Will you be my mom?" (A student)
".....Are you on drugs? No, I mean, the poem is great.....but are you on drugs?" (My mom's response to one of the first poems I ever read to her)
"Has anyone ever told you that you bear a striking resemblance to that boy from Hanson?" (Several people, back when Hanson was big, my face was much more round, and I had a slightly boyish haircut....and this compliment was usually followed immediately by, "But he's the CUTE one!!").
7.) Any random obsessions that people don't usually know about??
-Bats
-Astronomy
-America's Next Top Model
-imdb.com
-David Sedaris
-Skin care products
-handicrafts
-new vocabulary words
8.) What fictional character would you choose to be for a day?
That's a toss up....Wonder Woman, She-Ra, Hermione Granger, or Catwoman. I would love to kick some ass and take some names. And I would love to wear a cute little outfit while I'm at it :)
Alrighty. It's time to get crackin' once again. If anyone else would like to tackle this (very short and sweet!) meme, have at it!
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Oh man, I totally forgot you were convinced that Traci was a republican and the wheelchair was going to break all of our legs -- although, it is a slightly spooky apparatus. That's what drinking with Andrew and Kasey will get you. Ah -- Cheese -- I miss you all so much. I wish I had friends that possesed even a fraction of the intellegence you commanded even while performing 1st grade song lessons to us.
Much Love -- Alison
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