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We've been busted.  I thought we had flown under the radar of the 5 Things Meme careening around Houseblogs.net, but Enon Hall called us out and I don't have time to write about what I was going to so here goes (Aaron will have to write his own five things):

Five Things That You Don't Yet Know About Me Even Though I Seem to Talk About Everything on This Weblog to the Embarrassment of Many, Especially My Mother

Bonus thing.  Aaron and I had only been dating for a couple of weeks when this picture was taken (even though we had known each other for a year).  It was his birthday.  After we all had cake, I gave him a gift.  It was a little rock.  It was kind of heart shaped.  Hey, I had no idea what to get him and it seemed like a good idea at the time. 

1.  Having spent a terrible month as an underpaid waitress at a Shoney's restaurant in Evansville, Indiana, I was looking for a new job.  A better paying job that would allow me to ditch the brown polyester uniform and crepe-soled shoes.  I answered an ad in the local paper and got a job delivering singing telegrams.  Even when I went back to college that fall, I got another job doing singing telegrams closer to campus and made a nice bit of money until I eventually graduated from college and got a "real" job which paid much, much less per hour.

Blythe and I rock Jenna's birthday party, to Chunman's amusement.  Yes, there I am, jamming on the thumb piano. 

2.  For most of my life, I was miserably, ridiculously shy and more than awkward.  I took up acting when I was sixteen in order to do battle with my discomfort around strangers.  It didn't change me inside...I still was painfully self-concious about how I looked, how I sounded, what I said and how I moved through a room.  But I was able to act differently by pretending that I was someone else.  I still walk away from conversations, especially phone conversations, hitting myself in the forehead and talking to myself, "Why did I say that?!  Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!"  But I do it less frequently.  And I feel pretty comfortable going out in public now with no makeup on because the advantage of growing older is that I care about these things a LOT less.

Here I am, shooting up heroin, in our high school production of Go Ask Alice.  My family was so proud.

3.   I rarely ate any vegetables, except for carrots and corn, until I was well into my twenties.  The only fruits I would eat were plums, berries and grapes.  I ate four things as a child:  steak, spaghetti with butter, grilled cheese sandwiches, and french fries with blue cheese dressing.  It's amazing that I never contracted scurvy.

I look reasonably healthy for a kid who never ate any vitamins.  Or fiber. 

4.   I am absolutely terrible at team sports or anything involving things that are flying through the air.  I once hyperventilated before an intramural volleyball game where I had agreed to sub for a friend.  Instead, I used to throw myself into horseback riding, spending hundreds of hours in the saddle.  Now, I'm hoping to get back into running or, at the very least, walking really fast.

OMG!!! PONIES!!1! 

5.   When I was twelve, I thought that God was calling me to be a nun.  Seriously.  I can't remember when He called me back to tell me that He was kidding.  But I never became a nun so there must have been another revelation in there somewhere.

This is a picture from our wedding.  I'm serious.  I'm related to these people.  Only one of them is an actual nun.  The other one is a lawyer.

That's it.  The few things that I haven't yet talked about in this weblog.  Everything else is already in there somewhere.  Well, almost everything.  Every girl is entitled to some secrets, yes?

These meme had died out but it took me so blinking long to respond that I'm afraid I'm going to have to resurrect it again.  I'll pick on some of the houseblogs.net new kids and I'll tag the following folks:

-Cayman Driftwood

-Eyepulp

-Big Purple House

-The Devils of Loudon

-Txblond in Germany

Tag!  You're it! 

Posted by jeanne on February 28, 2007 at 5:13 PM (3)

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